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Tyler and Kallie are 7 months old today! They are so stinking cute and soooo much fun! Can we have twins again? Seriously though, that would be so awesome if we have another set of twins.
They are doing so well eating baby food and it actually isn't much harder to feed two than it is to feed one.
Look at them all big and grown up sitting in a regular stroller.
Tyler is totally chewing on his foot. Love it!
Today he has been making his way to the corner of the crib to fall asleep. This kid is ALL OVER his crib. All the time.
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Tyler got his bottom right tooth maybe a week ago and Kallie got her bottom left the day we were at the zoo, Thursday, so both right around 7 months exactly.
They are both getting sooo close to crawling. Tyler moved from rolling all over the floor to scooting on his belly. Kallie gets up on her hands and knees all the time and rocks back and forth. It won't be long before they can both crawl and call me crazy, but I am so excited!
Three naps a day and sleeping 11 hours at night. They have 4 bottles a day and 2 baby food feedings.
Both of them have huge awesome smiles and they are both super smiley and they laugh all the time too.
Tyler always wants what Kallie is holding or playing with.
Tyler moves all around in his crib and cries for a while before he goes to sleep. Kallie snuggles right up to her blanket and stares at the ceiling till she falls asleep.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for pilotless planes of all sizes. They range in size from an airliner to a bee, believe it or not.
There are two types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's): Drones, which are automated planes pre-programmed to fly and UAV's that are remotely controlled by someone on the ground.
Some of the uses include Tornado research, monitoring pipelines, and search and rescue.
State police hope to send them up to capture images of speeding cars' license plates and tracking fleeing suspects. This is where UAV's could be easily abused by government.
Another concern is lost communication between unmanned aircraft and the operators who remotely control them.
Planes entering low flying areas are not required to have warning systems or transponders. It's done visually
UAV's are already being used for border patrol and can fly for 20 hours without refueling. Which begs the question, Why do we need a fence if we have UAV's. Something not quite right there?
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A large solar flare erupted from the Sun earlier today, launching a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. This plasma 'cloud' is expected to pass Earth in 2 to 3 days, potentially causing increased nighttime auroras. No major effects on Earth are expected.
The solar flare occurred at about 05:05 CET today, and the resulting CME was detected by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument on board the ESA/NASA Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission.
The solar flare was categorised by scientists as an 'X-class' flare; these are major events that can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms.
If a CME is associated with a flare, the arrival of the CME at Earth can trigger a geomagnetic storm. For the CME detected this morning, which is expected to arrive around 7 or 8 March, no major geomagnetic impacts are expected due to the angle of approach of the cloud of plasma particles toward the Earth.
"We had another significant solar event early this morning. While an X-flare is considered 'large,' the geomagnetic impact is expected to be only minor to moderate, as the travelling CME is expected to mostly miss the Earth," said Juha-Pekka Luntama, Head of Space Weather at ESA's Space Situational Awareness programme office.
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NEW WINDSOR — Seventy years ago Sunday, the World War II Army transport ship USAT Dorchester was gliding through the icy waters of the North Atlantic toward Greenland
NEW WINDSOR — Seventy years ago Sunday, the World War II Army transport ship USAT Dorchester was gliding through the icy waters of the North Atlantic toward Greenland
A little after midnight it was struck by a torpedo from a German U-boat.
On that ship carrying more than 900 men were four Army chaplains — Methodist minister the Rev. George Fox, Rabbi Alexander Goode, Roman Catholic priest the Rev. John Washington and Reformed Church in America minister the Rev. Clark Poling. The four gave their life vests to other men on the doomed ship before it went down. As the ship sank, survivors said the four chaplains were seen standing on deck, arms linked, calmly praying in Hebrew, English and Latin.
"They were this island of calm in this sea of chaos," said Purple Heart Hall of Honor Programs Assistant Peter Bedrossian.
The four men and their sacrifices were remembered Sunday at the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in New Windsor. It was the first time the ceremony, attended by about 60 people, has been at the state facility dedicated to preserve, collect and share stories of Purple Heart recipients.
"I think it's important that these sacrifices are remembered," said Korean War veteran Eugene Murphy of New Windsor. "It tells the average person that there's no greater love than to give up your life. We should have more love for each other. There's so much strife and hatred."
Murphy said he's attended the ceremony honoring the men every year for the last 15 years.
The afternoon ceremony was simple and solemn. After an interfaith prayer and some words on the importance of the day by the Rev. Dr. E. Robert Geehan, a small candle next to a photo of each chaplain was lit by a chaplain of a different faith.
U.S. Army Major and Rabbi Henry Soussan of West Point said as a chaplain he often deals with those of many faiths and subjects ranging from the meaning of life to marriage counseling.
"It's about cross-denominational understanding," Soussan said.
A simple cotton life vest, like the ones sacrificed by the four chaplains, sat on a chair in the front of the room, draped in the same deep purple color as the Purple Heart medal.
U.S. Army Sgt. Richard R. Gerbeth Jr. of Wappingers Falls, who was wounded Nov. 16, 2004 in Iraq while conducting a traffic control checkpoint, said the ceremony touched him because of the sacrifices he's seen his own friends make in combat.
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I'm mostly settled in our new home in Virginia. Boy, it's a lot different then living in Hawaii.... at least the weather is! But I love it! I've unpacked enough to function.... the rest can wait until I'm in the mood... I'm totally going to decorate for Christmas first! hee hee
Since I've been absent for a while due to not having my household goods for nearly 2 months, I thought I'd kick off again with a winter giveaway and some Black Friday/Weekend sales in the Etsy shop.
I've listed some winter/holiday cupcake wrappers in the shop at super low prices for the weekend, so get them before they are gone. And if you purchase something in the shop, enter the code: BLOG in the checkout message for FREE SHIPPING! You can wait for a revised invoice, or get credited back after payment!
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Now, how to enter...there are many ways, but be sure to always leave your email address so I can contact you are the lucky winner!!!
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MARTIN SCHRAM | Nunn-Lugar's reprieve aids global security
Little noticed amid the U.S.-Russian disagreement over Syria's civil war, Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin reached a last-minute agreement Monday that may prove more vital to long-term global security.
They salvaged the historic Nunn-Lugar threat reduction program that has been keeping us safe by keeping weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of would-be terrorists.
For months, a proud and resolute Putin had seemed willing to let the program expire this month. Indeed, it was Obama who announced the agreement in their joint news briefing. Putin, who spoke first, didn't mention it. The two leaders met for two hours in Northern Ireland at the annual summit of the Group of 8 industrialized nations.
At issue: the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, more widely known by the names of the two former U.S. senators — Sam Nunn, D-Ga., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind. — who sponsored it two decades ago. After the Soviet Union collapsed, Nunn and Lugar concluded its weapons of mass destruction were poorly secured and vulnerable to theft. The Nunn-Lugar program has funded the safeguarding and often the dismantling and destroying of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons around the world. Eventually, Nunn and Lugar worked to extend the program's reach to other nations.
So far, for about $500 million a year, Nunn-Lugar has: deactivated more than 7,600 nuclear warheads; destroyed 902 intercontinental ballistic missiles; destroyed 33 submarines capable of launching missiles; removed nuclear weapons from Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus; destroyed 2,900 metric tons of Russian and Albanian chemical weapons agents.
But last autumn, Putin began an aggressive effort to show the world Russia no longer needed or wanted to receive international aid. He expelled workers for the U.S. Agency for International Development, UNICEF and various nongovernmental organizations. Russia then announced it would not extend the Nunn-Lugar program. Russia said it wanted to secure its weapons arsenals, but didn't need foreign aid to do it. Also, Russia was concerned about sharing nuclear security information. Putin said any future cooperative program would require a new, unspecified framework.
Yet U.S. sources said that inside the Russian government, key atomic energy officials had strongly urged a continuation of the Nunn-Lugar effort.
On Monday, Putin sat silently, staring straight ahead as Obama announced, "We'll be signing here the continuation of the cooperation that was first established through the Nunn-Lugar program to counter potential threats of proliferation and to enhance nuclear security."
Obama chose his words carefully, because the program that is being extended with Russia will not have a number of the provisions of the original Nunn-Lugar program. Chemical and biological weapons will no longer be in the program, officials said, and the extensive defense cooperation will be vastly reduced.
Still, Nunn told me he was pleased by the extension — which he looks at as a new starting point. "Overall, I'm very positive on it," Nunn said. "But this has to be built on." Nunn said a number of influential Russians remain concerned about the need to safeguard chemical and biological weapons. He added that cybersecurity safeguards need to be included in the new framework.
Meanwhile, Nunn has been looking at a new generation of questions that go far beyond just an extension of his Nunn-Lugar safeguards and the comparatively minor squabbles that occupied Obama and Putin Monday. For the past two years, Nunn has worked with former Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and more than two dozen military, security and political experts from the United States, Russia and Europe on a report titled "Building Mutual Security in the Euro-Atlantic Region."
The report cuts through the usual geopolitical blather and warns:
''The blunt truth is that security policies in the Euro-Atlantic region remain largely on Cold War autopilot: large strategic nuclear forces are ready to be launched in minutes; thousands of tactical nuclear weapons remain in Europe; a decades-old missile defense debate remains stuck in neutral; and new security challenges associated with prompt-strike forces, cybersecurity, and space remain contentious and inadequately addressed. This legacy contributes to tensions and mistrust across the Euro-Atlantic region and needlessly drives up the risks and costs of national defense at a time of unprecedented austerity and tight national budgets."
That alone should convince our leaders to focus on the tomorrow they are creating today by their every action — and mainly, inaction.


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Former HPI Challenge racer Justin Griffiths has graduated from racing HPI model touring cars around RC tracks up and down the UK to running a full-size sideways drift machine in the British Drift Championship! As a dedicated and loyal HPI racer, Justin went with some sweet HPI Racing logos for his car, which is a 200SX (S13 Silvia for you Japanese car fans) which has been modified with plenty of high-power options, lowering kit and drift tyres.
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Some info you might be able to use: My car came standard with Michelin Energy MXV4 Plus tires. I just changed tires (after 63,000 mi., good tread remaining). I bought a competing brand, got bad mileage and returned them. I called Michelin, talked to an engineer. He recommended the following for best mileage: MXV4 S8. (These are new.) These tires are D### expensive. I see that they are supplied standard on the new Accord hybrid.
Well, I got a set. I think my mileage has increased about 2 mpg above the previous Michelin Energy tires.
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Thanks for the information. I was thinking about a tire change when I got mine. I didn't know there could be that much difference between designs. Every mpg helps.
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i'm a mechanical engineer, and know that tire issues like too heavy, too large a diameter take more energy to accelerate. i'm sure conscious design from people like Michelin has a positive affect on cars in general & hybrids in particular.
this points out for all of us to take this as a concern when we do get around to replacing our tires.
the tire salesman at the store very likely has no clew of what the moment of inertia is of any of his tires. the smallest moment of inertia would be what we want ~ i'm suspecting.
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First of all, keep your stock wheels. The aftermarket trend of huge rims almost always adds wheel weight, which as the previous poster said, is a very bad thing.
Secondly, you want the narrowest tires which will fit on the rim. I'm guessing the size which comes with the car is the narrowest, but check your manual.
Thirdly, make sure you always have the tires at the maximum pressure. Get a quality tire gauge to do this, the Accu-Gage brand is excellent.
Lastly, don't go too far. You already have a hybrid, so personally I would look for SAFETY, not economy, when it comes to the tires. This means go for wider, stickier rubber than OEM. You never know when you might need to swerve out of the way of one of those SUV monsters.
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Has anybody else spoken to tire engineers about this? I have sent e-mails to Firestone, Goodyear, Cooper and others regarding tire choices and air pressure.
They basically recommend: 1) using the original tires that the manufacturer installed and 2) using the same tire pressure as in the owner's manual.
This choice is based on the vehicle manufacturer's balancing of safety, driving comfort and tire drag (rolling resistance).
If the tire has a maximum pressure of e.g., 44 psi, then theoretically you can put that high of a pressure in them. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found information about how well a tire would perform on wet and snow-covered road conditions at higher pressures. Since I drive in Ohio, these are important points.
By the way: Most of the tire resistance comes from "pushing" the tire down the road. E.g., the weight of the car causes the tires to flatten out on the bottom. As the tire rolls, this flat spot becomes round as a new part of the tire becomes flat. This constant flattening of the tire is the bulk of the resistance (try flattening a tire by hand), and also what causes the tire to heat up. Think of bending a paperclip back an forth until is breaks--that's what is happening to your tires every revolution. This resistance depends on tire pressure and vehicle speed. Higher pressure = lower resistance; higher speed = higher resistance.
There is a coefficient of rolling resistance (CRF) that you can find on some tire manufacturer's websites. The lower the CRF, the better gas mileage you will get--all other things being equal. Unfortunately, the tires with the least rolling resistance may, or may not, be the best tires for wet pavement or snow.
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Good points Vince. The Ford Escape Hybrid will have pretty wide tires designed for on/off road capability and mud and snow. In Georgia, I won't need that capability and I feel like there could be something better for MPG. If you see ratings that might let us compare rolling resistance, please share. I'll keep looking also. I'd like to optomize - not compromise.
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Out of curiousity, just how much are those michelin's ??
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Cost of my new-type energy tires: Michelin Energy MXV4 S8, in 205/60 R16s cost $172 each, from Sears. Got my best-ever winter mileage on a trip yesterday (793 miles/ 13.4 gal = 59 mpg -- at 65 mph) I had just upped pressure to 40 psi. (Max is 44 psi.) I also increased tire diameter when I bought the new tires, which I think has helped mileage.
Size choices for these tires are very limited at this point. A 15-inch size you can get is 205/65 R15.
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Keep in mind that if you change tire diameter, by using different wheels and tires, or by just changing tire profile (i.e., the 2nd number in the 205/60 R15 size designation: 65 has a larger diameter than 60), your speedometer and odometer will not read accurately.
A bigger tire/wheel combination will make your speedometer read lower than your actual speed--so you can get a ticket when your speed readout is only 65 mph.
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Whats all the hype about? In 1993 I owned a 1992 Suzuki Swift, five speed, four cylinder. In hot summer I was able to get 51 mpg, in which how I drove resembled an old man. Winter was a different story, about 30 to 35 at best in snow. Now mfgers are raving about 35 to 37 with regular vehicles. I've been looking for a diesel bug or vetta for my next commuter car, I can deal with 50 mpg and $4.50 fuel.


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- He is EXTREMELY skilled at using scripts. Unless you know it's a script, you often won't know it's a script.
- When he is scripting, the actual meaning of the words is usually irrelevant. He is usually using his scripts to convey a feeling. The words themselves are empty place-holders.
- Bud's echolalia is mitigated. In other words, he swaps out words from the actual scripts and replaces them with words that reflect his current circumstance. HOWEVER, it's important to remember that it is still a script, and as such, it is meant to convey an emotion. Though, to the rest of us, the words may imply meaning, they are still just empty place-holders for him.
- I've written a brief social story (attached). I'll review it with him, and suggest that it might be a good idea to start his day at school with it and revisit it throughout the day as his dysregulation emerges.
- Predictability and structure can make all the difference in the world. I know he has a schedule for the day, but I suggest breaking it down into much smaller pieces. Break "reading" into a series of steps that let him know exactly what he can expect during reading time. It often helps to give him a checklist that he can physically check off as he completes each step – holding it in his hands and checking it off himself gives him a sense of control.
- If he is scripting – or if he's saying things that don't seem to make sense – ask "What is that from?" If he doesn't answer, just pick a show – "Bud, is that from Sesame Street?" He won't be able to resist the urge to correct you ("No, it's from Dragon Tales.") Once he has identified it as a script, it gives you a point of connection from which to build. Ask him who said it, what made them say it, and how they were feeling when they said it. It will help you help him talk about how he's feeling in the moment. It will also help pull him out of his inner scripted world and into your world.
- If he says anything disconcerting or unusual, please, please, please, stop what you're doing and write it down verbatim for me. It is not at all helpful for me to know "he said something about hurting people" and very, very helpful for me to know "he said 'poison them, drown them, bash them on the head'" (Cruella de Vil – which means he was feeling an excess of emotion and he didn't know what to do with it, but he knew he had to get it out.)
2/23/12 - Edited to add:
Several people have written to ask how Bud's team responded to this e-mail. I'm happy to report that their response was fast and enthusiastic - which is not surprising, since, as I've mentioned before, we work with an extraordinary team. Each team member responded to me individually. They wrote to thank me, to ask if they could share the e-mail with others who work with Bud, to offer new thoughts and suggestions, and to problem-solve. And through these responses, I got the most important message of all - the one that told me that every one of them is committed to helping my child succeed.
There are good people out there. Truly. Find them, and collaborate, collaborate, collaborate.
My thanks to Autism Speaks and Jess from Diary of a Mom for linking to this post and directing so much traffic here today. If this is your first time here, welcome - and please feel free to click here to follow Bud and me on Facebook.


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Deadly Tunnel Collapse in Japan Scares Commuters
Concrete roof panels collapsed in a tunnel on a major highway linking the Japanese cities of Nagoya and Tokyo, killing at least nine people. The WSJ's Chester Dawson talks about how the incident has sparked fear in commuters across the country.
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China Bets on U.S. Tech Companies
Chinese technology giant Tencent is contributing to a $150 million venture capital round for Manhattan-based company Fab. Chris DeAngelis of Alliance Development Group tells the WSJ's Jake Lee why Chinese companies are investing in U.S. startups.
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So I got some pretty interesting questions from my readers regarding anything and everything! Here goes nothing as I try to answer them!
Raciel asked if I had ever been stalked?
Actually, I haven't, thankfully! I have had people recognize me at a few races, which is fun and I love meeting some readers and I think it's so nice that they come up and say hi. :)
Heather asked me "What's the weirdest question I've been asked?"
I guess the weirdest questions that I get is if my hair is my real hair. I get that kind of a lot. I also get how do I curl my hair how I do a lot. Which I'm still planning on making a you tube video on it since I get so many questions about it. Other than that, not too many off the wall questions.
Amanda D asked me, "I know that you're going back to school, so,what are some of your professional goals that you hope to accomplish?" And Keri asked "What kind of writing do you want to do? Do you want to write a book one day? Fiction, nonfiction or both?"
Since these are similar, I decided to answer them together. It is a life goal of mine to write a book one day. At least one book. I have many different ideas for different books and they not related at all. I am going back to school with the intent to graduate with my MFA in Creative Writing. My emphasis in my masters program would be in creative non-fiction and I minored in Creative Writing in College, which is where I realized that I love writing and I wasn't as bad of a writer as I thought.
I would love to write a book on dealing with grief and helping others through grief. I actually wrote a huge paper for one of my capstone classes in college about grief and what I thought would be helpful to share with others. I would love to write more and work on that more for a book. I also think that I would love to write a book about running. No shock there, but I think that not giving up and giving the marathon another chance was one of the biggest things that I've done in my life thus far. I think I would call it from Cramps to Champ! HAHAHA. We'll see.
Professional goals, well right now I love my job and I got into the schools I really wanted to go too and everything 'professionally' is going great. I can see myself working here in the future for a long time and I really, really enjoy what I do. It's a lot of work and can be crazy, but I love it. I would like to see myself at some point having a family, so who knows what will happen then, or even when that will happen!
Hector asked What four people (dead/alive) would you invite to dinner and what would you serve?
Oreman asked, "Are you Danica Patrick, the famous racing driver, or am I getting something very wrong?" and he also asked "When are you going to visit Latvia?"
This is hilarious. I am NOT Danica Patrick, but we do share the same name and have the same hair color. I do get many, many pick up lines about her in a bar when a guy asks my name though. Let me tell you guys, that's not an orignial line, but being compared to her is a perk! :) I think she's adorable and would love to meet her one day. Hey, doesn't Go Daddy need 2 Danicas?! And about Latvia? Um. Not really on my list of places to visit, but hey, maybe one day!
Lily asked, "Ok how do I put this. you look great in booty shorts, how do you get a butt like that?! I am way too self conscious to wear them. Do you have any exercises to recommend or anything?"
Well, I think one of the main things to wear booty shorts is to be confident in them, no matter how you look. Just act like you own it and no one will question you. Also, here's a link to some random workouts I do for my butt. I do run stairs and donkey kicks will burn like no other the next day! Just focus strictly on the butt workouts and you'll be golden. :)
Mandy asked, "How'd you get started with the blogging – and get such a large group of followers!? I started a blog a few months ago and love doing it!" and ECA asked, "My question is kinda similar to Mandy's…did you "market" your blog or do you just know a lot of running people? Also, how do you get all of the cool free running things to review?"
I started blogging, surprisingly enough, when I missed writing after I graduated from college. I had taken a bulk of my writing classes at the end of my college career and was writing a ton. I wanted to blog about running too because it seemed that I had really no outlet to talk about running. None of my friends were runners at the time, and I was used to being in the team atmosphere where I could discuss my split times and mileage and how my run went. I started blogging and wrote just for myself, which is what is think is the most important thing when it comes to blogging.
WRITE FOR YOURSELF. If people read it, great, if you get a lot of followers, great, but you are blogging for yourself. Many people ask me all the time how I get so many readers and comments. I have no idea. I never really 'promoted' my blog and I don't talk about blogging in my real life. It took me about six months to even tell Shea, my BEST friend! I am very open on my blog and it scares me to think that people who might barely know me would read it and judge me. People commented on my blog and I commented on theirs and that is how I made my first blogging friends and had my first readers.
Since then, it's exploded for some reason. I still write for myself. Sometimes I go back through certain posts and I'm like, "I wrote that?!" I still read certain posts that mean a lot to me and cry, and I still love the fact that I have all these great memories for myself at the tips of my fingertips! I didn't know many running people when I started, but it seems like I have now made running friends!
As for reviews, I get contacted by all the companies that ask me to review their stuff. I try really hard to make sure that they are done in somewhat of a timely manner and I try to be as honest at possible when reviewing.
Stephanie asked, "Book recommendation time! Offer up a recommendation in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction (if you can, but you don't have to give one in all three genres) for the following categories: + changed your life + made you cry + would make every person read this for their own good."
Hmmm, I actually am not that good of reader in terms of being a consistent reader, but I do get sucked into books pretty easily when I pick one up. I wish I was better, but seems like with grad school I'll be doing some reading….
One book that changed my life is oddly enough David Sedaris', "Me Talk Pretty One Day." I read this book and this is the book that had me laughing so hard I was crying at moments and really showed me that I love writing. I love his style of writing and he is an amazing story teller!
A book that made me cry and that I hold truly close to my heart is "Letters from Motherless Daughters." I guess this was also a lifechanger as well. I try to read this at least once a year and it makes such a difference in my outlook in life and how I approach things with my mom. It's definitely a tear-jerker but it's amazing and I really relate to so many of the letters in there.
A book that I think every person should read is Blue Like Jazz. I really like that book and it made me think about my life in a new light. :)
Average A asked, "You mentioned before that since your mom passed, your relationship with your father has become very strained. Right now my mom more or less holds our family together, and I worry that when she leaves this world, my dad and I will never speak again. What happened with your relationship with your dad (if you want to share), and do you have any advise on how to avoid this when that time comes for my family? Or do you find it to not really be that bad?"
Well first, unless your mom has some kind of chronic illness I wouldn't look at it like that, ever. Cherish the moments you have with your family. Secondly, I guess to sum up my family life, my dad made some choices that hurt many members of my family and since then our relationship has crumbled.It is what it is.
If you think that something is going to happen and you won't ever speak to your dad again, maybe you should address those issues now with your mom and family. Open lines of communication never hurt anything and really ask yourself why you seemed to already have a strained relationship with your dad. It seems that if you think this will happen there is some cause for that.
Amy asked, "First off how do you always come up with so many different ideas for your blog? For the most part ideas come naturally for me from what I had done for running during the week, but sometimes I want to post but am lacking ideas. My second question comes from looking at your old posts to see some of the things you post about(aka see if I could answer for myself how you come up with all your topics haha) and found one about how to take a nice race picture lol. One picture is of you at the end of your first marathon, by any chance do you remember where that shirt you are wearing is from? It is in my favorite color and it seems like it is really long, which I always love in my running shirts because I'm tall and they are usually hard to find."
Coming up with Blog ideas can be challenging, especially if there is nothing going on in my life! I try to talk about running and sometimes I do random posts of things I find online and things that have helped me in running/life. I try not to get overwhelmed with writing and remember that I'm blogging for myself and because I love it. When I do look back on posts it's interesting to see my own perspective a few months down the line! I like to write so I write about whatever I want.
The shirt is a Nike Tank Top and it isn't made anymore, but I found them at Nordstrom Rack. They are very long and that's why I like them :)
Alicia asked, "Does your mom have any siblings and if so are you close to them? What is your favorite memory of your mom?"
My mom has one sister and I consider her and my cousins my closest family! Her daughters are like my sisters. I grew up very close with my mom's family and still talk to them all the time and I love them very much.
I don't have one specific memory of my mom that stands out as my favorite, but I do remember her always telling me how proud she was of me. I think she unconsciously made that a huge effort in her life when talking with me and she would always tell me that and that means so much to me now. :)
Liane asked, "What is the best piece of advice you've learned from your blogging experience that you would pass along to new bloggers?"Also, what are you looking forward to the most on your visit up to the Northern Tundra?"
I think the biggest piece of advice I would give someone who wanted to blog is to be open-minded, don't take things personally and write for yourself. Write and don't care what other people think, it's for yourself. Blogging is a way of journaling online. So many people want the most followers, want the most readers or whatever, but really, then why are you blogging? I blog so that I have something to look back on and enjoy reading about myself. I think that is the best thing that I have gotten out of it.
Canada! Well I am looking forward to hopefully seeing some whales and seeing Bushard Gardens and going to Canada in the first place! I have never been on a cruise or to Canada so it should be amazing!


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RIC Query - Pakistan (9 February 2004)
|Response to Information Request Number:
|February 09, 2004
|Pakistan: Information on Mohajir/Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Altaf (MQM-A)
|CIS Resource Information Center
|Pakistan / Armed conflicts / Disadvantaged groups / Extrajudicial execution / Internal strife / Political movements / Political parties / Repression methods
Provide information on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Altaf (MQM-A) in Pakistan.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Altaf (MQM-A) has been widely accused of human rights abuses since its founding two decades ago. It claims to represent Mohajirs¿ Urdu-speaking Muslims who fled to Pakistan from India after the 1947 partition of the subcontinent, and their descendants.
In the mid-1990s, the MQM-A was heavily involved in the widespread political violence that wracked Pakistan's southern Sindh province, particularly Karachi, the port city that is the country's commercial capital. MQM-A militants fought government forces, breakaway MQM factions, and militants from other ethnic-based movements. In the mid-1990s, the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, and others accused the MQM-A and a rival faction of summary killings, torture, and other abuses (see, e.g., AI 1 Feb 1996; U.S. DOS Feb 1996). The MQM-A routinely denied involvement in violence.
The current MQM-A is the successor to a group called the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) that was founded by Altaf Hussein in 1984 as a student movement to defend the rights of Mohajirs, who by some estimates make up 60 percent of Karachi's population of twelve million. At the time, Mohajirs were advancing in business, the professions, and the bureaucracy, but many resented the quotas that helped ethnic Sindhis win university slots and civil service jobs. Known in English as the National Movement for Refugees, the MQM soon turned to extortion and other types of racketeering to raise cash. Using both violence and efficient organizing, the MQM became the dominant political party in Karachi and Hyderabad, another major city in Sindh. Just three years after its founding, the MQM came to power in these and other Sindh cities in local elections in 1987 (AI 1 Feb 1996; U.S. DOS Feb 1997, Feb 1999; HRW Dec 1997).
The following year, the MQM joined a coalition government at the national level headed by Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which took power in elections following the death of military leader General Zia ul-Haq. This marked the first of several times in the 1980s and 1990s that the MQM joined coalition governments in Islamabad or in Sindh province. Meanwhile, violence between the MQM and Sindhi groups routinely broke out in Karachi and other Sindh cities (AI 1 Feb 1996; Jane's 14 Feb 2003).
In 1992, a breakway MQM faction, led by Afaq Ahmed and Aamir Khan, launched the MQM Haqiqi (MQM-H), literally the "real" MQM. Many Pakistani observers alleged that the MQM-H was supported by the government of Pakistan to weaken the main MQM led by Altaf Hussein, which became known as the MQM-A (Jane's 14 Feb 2003). Several smaller MQM factions also emerged, although most of the subsequent intra-group violence involved the MQM-A and the MQM-H (AI 1 Feb 1996; U.S. DOS Feb 1999; Jane's 14 Feb 2003).
Political violence in Sindh intensified in 1993 and 1994 (Jane's 14 Feb 2003). In 1994, fighting among MQM factions and between the MQM and Sindhi nationalist groups brought almost daily killings in Karachi (U.S. DOS Feb 1995). By July 1995, the rate of political killings in the port city reached an average of ten per day, and by the end of that year more than 1,800 had been killed (U.S. DOS Feb 1996).
The violence in Karachi and other cities began abating in 1996 as soldiers and police intensified their crackdowns on the MQM-A and other groups (Jane's 14 Feb 2003). Pakistani forces resorted to staged "encounter killings" in which they would shoot MQM activists and then allege that the killings took place during encounters with militants (U.S. DOS Feb 1996). Following a crackdown in 1997, the MQM-A adopted its present name, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, or United National Movement, which also has the initials MQM (HRW Dec 1997).
MQM-A leader Hussein fled in 1992 to Britain, where he received asylum in 1999 (Jane's 14 Feb 2003). The MQM-A is not on the U.S. State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations (U.S. DOS 23 May 2003).
While the multifaceted nature of the violence in Sindh province in the 1980s and 1990s at times made it difficult to pinpoint specific abuses by the MQM-A, the group routinely was implicated in rights abuses. In 1992 after the Sindh government called in the army to crack down on armed groups in the province, facilities were discovered that allegedly were used by the MQM-A to torture and at times kill dissident members and activists from rival groups. In 1996, Amnesty International said that the PPP and other parties were reporting that some of their activists had been tortured and killed by the MQM-A (AI 1 Feb 1996).
The MQM-A and other factions also have been accused of trying to intimidate journalists. In one of the most flagrant cases, in 1990 MQM leader Hussein publicly threatened the editor of the monthly NEWSLINE magazine after he published an article on the MQM's alleged use of torture against dissident members (U.S. DOS Feb 1991). The following year, a prominent journalist, Zafar Abbas, was severely beaten in Karachi in an attack that was widely blamed on MQM leaders angered over articles by Abbas describing the party's factionalization. The same year, MQM activists assaulted scores of vendors selling DAWN, Pakistan's largest English-language newspaper, and other periodicals owned by Herald Publications (U.S. DOS Feb 1992).
The MQM-A has also frequently called strikes in Karachi and other cities in Sindh province and used killings and other violence to keep shops closed and people off the streets. During strikes, MQM-A activists have ransacked businesses that remained open and attacked motorists and pedestrians who ventured outside (U.S. DOS Feb 1996; Jane's 14 Feb 2003).
The MQM-A allegedly raises funds through extortion, narcotics smuggling, and other criminal activities. In addition, Mohajirs in Pakistan and overseas provide funds to the MQM-A through charitable foundations (Jane's 14 Feb 2003).
Since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States, the MQM-A has been increasingly critical of Islamic militant groups in Pakistan. The MQM-A, which generally has not targeted Western interests, says that it supports the global campaign against terrorism (Jane's 14 Feb 2003).
This response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the RIC within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
Amnesty International (AI). HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS IN KARACHI (1 Feb 1996, ASA 33/01/96), http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA330011996?open&of=ENG-PAK [Accessed 6 Feb 2004]
Human Rights Watch (HRW). WORLD REPORT 1998, "Pakistan" (Dec 1997), http://www.hrw.org/worldreport/Asia-09.htm#P823_214912 [Accessed 6 Feb 2004]
Jane's Information Group (Jane's). JANE'S WORLD INSURGENCY AND TERRORISM-17, "Muthida [sic] Qaumi Movement (MQM-A)" (14 Feb 2003), http://www.janes.com [Accessed 6 Feb 2004]
U.S. Department of State (U.S. DOS). "Foreign Terrorist Organizations" (23 May 2003), http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/2003/12389.htm [Accessed 6 Feb 2004]
U.S. Department of State (U.S. DOS). COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES FOR 1998, "Pakistan" (Feb 1999), http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1998_hrp_report/pakistan.html [Accessed 6 Feb 2004]
U.S. Department of State (U.S. DOS). COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES FOR 1996, "Pakistan" (Feb 1997), http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1996_hrp_report/pakistan.html [Accessed 6 Feb 2004]
U.S. Department of State (U.S. DOS). COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES FOR 1995, "Pakistan" (Feb 1996), http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/democracy/1995_hrp_report/95hrp_report_sasia/Pakistan.html [Accessed 6 Feb 2004]
U.S. Department of State (U.S. DOS). COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES FOR 1994, "Pakistan" (Feb 1995), http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/democracy/1994_hrp_report/94hrp_report_sasia/Pakistan.html [Accessed 6 Feb 2004]
U.S. Department of State (U.S. DOS). COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES FOR 1991, "Pakistan" (Feb 1992).
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Capitol Cinema
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Located in Wembley, Middlesex, today a district in the north of Greater London. The British Empire Exhibition was held in Wembley in 1924, and as well as the famous Wembley Stadium being one of the buildings on the huge site, there were numerous other buildings containing exhibits from Commonwealth countries. 17-million people visited the Exhibition during the year it was open.
The Exhibition Conference Hall, Raglan Gardens, was converted into the Elite Cinema, seating 1,500 and opening on 21st March 1928. The building was so vast that it also included a dance hall and a restaurant.
It was re-built internally to the plans of architect James Martin Hatfield and re-opened in 1930, with a new seating capacity of 1,637, and a new name, Capitol Cinema.
Films were booked by Lou Morris and the cinema was owned by Capitol (Wembley) Ltd. In 1933, the Capitol Cinema was re-furbished and a Compton 2Manual/6Rank theatre organ was installed and the illuminated console was on a lift. It was opened by organist W.J. Hemsley. It was around this time that the Capitol Cinema was taken over by County Cinemas Ltd. and operated by an associate company known as Associated Theatres (Wembley) Ltd.
By 1937, Raglan Gardens had been re-named Empire Way and County Cinemas were taken over by Odeon Theatres Ltd., operated by Oscar Deutsch, but both companies were still operated independent of each other at this time.
In around 1942, the Capitol Cinema was leased to an independent operator Medway Cinemas Ltd. Stage shows were held on the 29 feet deep stage, adding to the film programmes. It seems that the cinema seating was removed in 1943 and the building used for billeting people dispersed from their housing during the war. This, despite the fact that cinema trade books still list it as operating until 1947! It was certainly closed in 1947, needing urgent repairs, which at the time were deemed unviable and eventually the building was demolished.
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Seaver And Mathewson
On his MLB Network program Studio 42, Bob Costas tonight referenced a blog post here from 2009, and asked Tom Seaver if he was aware that I'd found a game-action photograph of Christy Mathewson from the 1911 World Series that showed Mathewson using the exact of drop-and-drive delivery Seaver brought to perfection in the early years of his career in the late '60s.
Seaver said he'd seen the photo – I was pretty sure he had, since I'd sent a copy to him via a friend shortly after I found it in Cooperstown.
In blog years, a long time has passed since I posted the shots, so here they are again:
That's Seaver – coincidentally in action against at Shea Stadium the San Francisco Giants in 1975 – showing the "drop and drive" that usually left the front of his right knee dirty. There had been a lot of anecdotal evidence that Mathewson, who retired in 1916, had used a similar delivery. But until the kind curators at the Hall photo archive let me look at their collection of glass images from the 1911 World Series, I don't think anybody had actually seen a game-action image of Mathewson.
The resemblance, as you'll see, is startling:
It's the same delivery. In 1911.
Needless to say, I geeked out completely when I saw that photo. I literally thought "Why is there a picture of Tom Seaver pitching in the 1911 World Series?" After I posted the shot in August, 2009, I ran into Bob at Yankee Stadium and he had seen the post and he geeked out completely over it.
Just for the record, there are precious few game-action photos, particularly of pitchers, particularly in post-season action, from before the first World War. This was part of a series of 30 or 40 transparent glass slides, above three by five inches, that had been taken with a special camera for presentation as a slide show at the earlier movie theaters of the time. The Hall has what appears to be a complete set, and it constitutes a treasure trove for historians. You've heard of "Home Run" Baker? He got his name not for volume of homers, but for consecutive game-winning blasts off Mathewson and his fellow future Hall of Famer Rube Marquard in the '11 Series. The slides include images of Baker rounding third on one of the homers.
I'm not going to say there isn't another game-action photo of Mathewson anywhere else (and I'm not counting all the posed and/or warm-up shots that show Matty fully upright or just soft tossing). I'm just saying I'd never seen one before this image, and I don't recall anybody reporting having seen another.
The 1911 photo series had been lost to historians because when it was donated to the hall in the mid 1960's, the individual slides were divvied up and put, one by one, into the individual files of the players depicted. Only around 2009 was a search made for the whole set (you can imagine how long that took). This is what the Mathewson photo looked like – exactly as movie-goers would have seen it in October or November, 1911:
This is magnificent for several reasons – not the least of which is the extraordinarily low mound (which makes you appreciate Mathewson's 373 career wins (plus five more in World Series action). But principally because that which historians thought really hadn't become the standard for the "power pitcher" until the '40s or '50s, was in Mathewson's repertoire a century ago.
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I love that very last picture. Now we know where Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum got the ideas for their baseball field dimensions. 😉 There is a ton of foul ground in that picture.
I'm curious about the batter's stance with the bat down at that point in the pitcher's delivery.
Looks like it was a lot easier in 1911 to get tickets to a World Series game.
Was the height of the mound, if there is a mound, lower back then, or is it just an optical illusion due to the angle of the photo?
Fascinating photo..
Notice how the catcher is almost upright, and the batter almost looks to be in a Cricket stance.
I don't personally remember hearing anything about mound height other than that it was lowered following '68. Was it legislated in the rulebook pre-WW2? If not, when did that start?
Thank you for the pictures. Enjoy your columns, keep up the good work.
Wow! Those fans from back in the day appear to be stiff. Everybody was behaving…or maybe all had the nuns for teachers! I love the good old days…and yes! That drop and drive lives on! How cool is that! Also, I noticed on the close-up of that last picture, Gumby is in the bottom left hand corner throwing hand signals! I am not kidding. You can see him if you look closely in regular shot…but make it real big and Gumby will be clear. When the hell was he born? Thanks for sharing this with us! I like learning my baseball from the best! Happy Holidaze.
I just looked checked it out. Gumby was born (or formed) in the early fifties…so that has to be Gumby's Gumpaw. No one knew he existed back then, either! Cool.
Jeez, the fans are so far away, it's like they're in a different stadium. And those are truly eNORmous coacher's boxes.
….My next-born Son for an action shot of Ruth on the mound!
woo, wonderfull read.
Another HOF pitcher with Seaver's exact mechanics: Robin Roberts.
"Was the height of the mound, if there is a mound, lower back then, or is it just an optical illusion due to the angle of the photo?"
The former. Peter Morris, in his compulsively readable reference book A GAME OF INCHES, documents how inconsistent pitching mounds were in the late 1800s/early 1900s — there was no consensus then that pitching from a 10-15″ height helped the pitcherm and many turn-of-the-century ballparks didn't have any moundage (is that a word?) at all. I've seen newsreel footage of the 1910 Athletics-Cubs World Series, watching Chief Bender at Shibe Park take throws from the catcher and walking back to the pitcher's box to deliver his next pitch. At no point does Bender appear to walk uphill.
Great Photos! You can see some newly published vintage photos of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and more in "Walloping Wally and early New York Baseball" (Amazon.com)
What a pleasure it was to have been a Mets fan in the late 60s and early 70s and see Tom Seaver pitching on a regular basis. In my mind, he set the standard for pitchers – solid mechanics, great stuff and smarts on the mound.
I would be remiss if I didn't say something about his pitching partner (and any Mets fan from that era will tell you they were definitely a matched set), Jerry Koosman. On a Mets broadcast this past season, Gary Cohen called it right when he referred to Koosman as the most underappreciated great pitcher ever. He came up to the Mets the same season that Johnny Bench came up with the Reds, and narrowly lost out to him as Rookie of the Year. He was part of a pitching staff that had not one, but two 300-game winners on it, so it's a little understandable that people underrated him over the years. But Koosman was a great pitcher. Note the reception he gets any time he comes to a Mets' old-timers event. The fans remember.
Really appreciate your sharing this Hard to find a picture of Christy in action. Would love to see more like this.
Terrific photo, but… Matty looks more like "El Sid," Sid Fernandez of the 1986 Mets because, as is often the case in reproducing photos from any era, the negative is reversed and a right handed Matthewson appears to be left-handed. Perhaps this can be corrected and a true depiction of Christy Matthewson as the right-hander he was could be posted.
Regarding the mound, pitchers' mounds first start appearing in the late 19th century. They initially weren't put in to give the pitcher a height advantage, but for drainage. Without a mound, the pitcher's spikes will dig a hole, and in even modest rain he will end up standing in a puddle. Not all pitchers liked them, and into the 20th century they appeared and disappeared. Walter Johnson is said to have disliked pitching from a mound, so whenever he was scheduled to pitch at home the grounds crew would remove it.
Clearly there came a consensus in favor of mounds and they grew higher and higher. I don't know if anyone has written a history of the development of the mound. That would make a good SABR article. So far as I know, the lowering of the mound in 1968 was the first time it was regulated, and probably set a de facto standard, with everyone using the highest permitted.
Richard Hershberger>> I understand that when the mound was ostensibly 15″ high in the 1960s, the grounds crew at Dodger Stadium causally raised it a few inches more for the benefit of Mr. Koufax.
Tom Seaver? That stride length looks a lot more like Tim Lincecum to me.
Hopefully now we can lay to rest the "they just tossed the ball up" CRAP. I knew this way back in 1991 when most people stupidly acted as if these dead-ball pitchers were girls or something. Morons.
Good story, but it's either Rube Marquard or Hooks Wiltse, not Matty.


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Following along with the Metro UI guidelines for Windows Phone apps, Box allows you to upload, download, and move files around in the cloud. As you can see from their banner (above) and some screenshots (below), they like to tout Word, Excel, and PDF document storage. Quite clear they are still aiming for the enterprise crowd.
In order to keep up with their tradition of free storage (Box gave 50GB to Android users, as well as 50GB to new iOS users) Box has partnered with Qualcomm to give out the staple 50GB again, except now it's platform independent. Regardless if your new phone is running iOS, Android, or Windows Phone you're covered with storage AND will get 50GB with their promotion. When you purchase a Windows 8 device in the future, if it's powered by a Snapdragon SoC, you'll also get 50GB of free cloud storage for life. Of course this is for new accounts only. Your own personal 50GB cloud, always above your head and right in your pocket.
The app is completely free, the storage is completely free, and it's very cross-platform. Heck, you can even mount it right in Windows via WebDAV and get a seamless experience. So if you're sick of gaming or needing referrals for getting more free DropBox space or if you think DropBox a is security risk due to their breach, Box gives you 50GB right off the bat, and is used and trusted by over 100,000 large corporations. Of course with any cloud service, you're giving your data away and should understand the risks of doing so.


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On Sunday, Atlus will announce something Persona-related. They've been teasing it for a while now, and lots of fans are starting to get stoked that Atlus might finally—finally!—announce Persona 5, the in-development next entry in the wonderful RPG series.
Whatever they announce, it probably won't look like this:
This beautiful monstrosity was designed by Twitterer TobiichiK (via NeoGAF), and of course it's not real, but could you imagine? What if Atlus really wanted to appeal to the west? Terrifying.


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Back in December Arizona selected Brett Lorin from the Pirates in the Rule 5 draft. Lorin wasn't going to make the team, so on Saturday the Pirates worked out a deal with the Diamondbacks, sending them the rights to Brett Lorin in exchange for minor leaguer Robby Rowland. This gives me reason to revisit a trade tree for the first time since I started doing them. So, without further ado, here is your updated Jack Wilson Trade Tree.
Here's the original Jack Wilson Trade Tree, if you're interested in that.
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Campaigning in the Alaskan Tundra
Dems took aim at the traditionally Republican state, but then along came Palin.
Oct. 18, 2008 -- Alaskan resident Ryan Kopiasz, 27, is passionate about organizing for Barack Obama.
"I think the Obama campaign and their strategy -- that every vote matters, every voter matters, every community matters -- resonates really well with a lot of Alaskans," Kopiasz told ABC News.
But the young organizer is fighting an uphill battle; Alaska has not gone for a Democrat in a presidential election since Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater in 1964.
Back in the summer, when the nights were bright, the Obama team thought they might have a chance in the northernmost state. The FBI went after Republican lawmakers for corruption, while the state's senior GOP senator, Ted Stevens, was indicted for corruption.
"For the first time in years and years and years and years, the three Alaska electoral votes were in play for the Democrats against Republicans," Prof. Stephen Haycos of the University of Alaska told "Good Morning America." "That was the case for a little while."
But then, the political earth shifted under Alaska's feet when GOP presidential candidate John McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.
"A lot of Republicans might not have gone to the polls," Haycox said. "They didn't want to vote against Republicans, but they didn't particularly want to vote for a Democrat. So they might have stayed home. But now, everybody is going to come out for Sarah Palin."
The governor is extremely popular in her state, Alaska GOP chairman Randy Ruedich said.
"The governor has been overwhelmingly successful in maintaining a positive image here," Ruedich told "Good Morning America." "Popular is a soft understatement."
And though there are anti-Palin rallies in Alaska, polls are projecting a Republican victory in the state by double digits.
As the nights grow long again and winter looms closer, Obama supporters in Alaska have shifted their focus away from their own state. Instead, they write postcards to battleground states. Some Republicans are responding in kind, sending their own postcards to the same battleground states.
Welcome to Alaska -- bright summers, dark winters and political campaigns by proxy.


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Data collected by an expert studying historic pay differences between women and men in the brokerage business shows that, although the overall compensation gap has fluctuated over time, it has remained significant over the past 30 years.
The gap in 2010 was 41.6% for women classified as personal financial advisors by the U.S. Census and 37.3% for those classified as securities, commodities and financial-services sales agents. In other words, for every $100,000 earned by a male colleague, a women in these respective job categories earned $58,400 and $62,700, respectively.
Since 1988, the pay gap has ranged from a high of 46.9% that year, when the markets were down, to a low of about 17.1% in 2007, when the markets were booming.
In 1995, the pay differential in the securities-sales category was 45.9%. Women in the broader group—sales representatives for finance and business services—earned 30.8% less than men.
"The average difference for advisors with the same experience was about 20% [in the mid-'90s]," said Janice Madden (left), a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, in an interview with AdvisorOne. "Wage ratios by gender have not changed much in the occupation of securities sellers, based on the aggregate data."
Why the gender discrepancy? "There are lots of differences and factors at work," said Madden, who looked at the mid '90s when both Merrill Lynch (BAC) and Morgan Stanley (MS) faced high-profile discrimination lawsuits. (She examined the pay of about 2,000 women and 15,000 men, based on the fees and commissions they made on about 1 billion trades at the time.)
One influence on the pay differential may be that women are concentrated in the lower-paying brokerage firms, she says. In addition, women may get fewer and "worse" accounts.
Plus, client introductions may not be as frequent or advantageous for women in the business. "In other words, there are not the same opportunities," Madden said.
Her paper "Performance-Support Bias and the Gender Pay Gap Among Stockbrokers" will appear in the June issue of Gender & Society and is groundbreaking in that it show that bias can affect performance-based pay, according to the University of Pennsylvania.
Madden, the first researcher to gain access to this type of in-depth brokerage data, analyzed the data after being retained as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in their class-action lawsuits.
At both firms, men and women were paid entirely by commission, using an algorithm that was the same for everyone and could not be changed by managers. Madden found that the female stockbrokers were not paid—or given raises—based on subjective performance reviews by their managers.
Madden, however, found there was no difference in the ability of women to make sales compared with their male colleagues. Both lawsuits were eventually settled before trial on terms that the media regarded as "favorable to the plaintiffs."
"Stock brokerages are less hierarchical than most organizations in that they have a relatively small number of job levels," Madden said. "Stockbrokers, in particular, are all in the same job—there's no hierarchy—and their pay is based entirely on commissions generated from their sales of securities, not on supervisors' more subjective evaluations of their performance."
Since the '90s, firms have put in more policies and standards regarding account transfers. They're also paying more attention to the size of accounts being "churned" or transferred, the sociologist notes.
"By adjusting the algorithm, this could lead to changes in some of the discrimination," added Madden. Still, she concludes, pay figures simply "have not budged much" in the past two decades.


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A recent post by the Columnist mentioned carved coral and the threats to that natural resource. At the risk of seeming frivolous, I want to use that as a pretext to show these beautiful coral-coloured curtains at Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire.
They were installed in 1969 by John Fowler (1906-1977) who was then working for the National Trust as adviser on historic interiors. The house and the principal contents had been accepted by the Government from the tenth Lord Vernon in 1967 in lieu of inheritance tax and transferred to the National Trust.
As many of the furnishings had gone, the decision was taken to emphasize the magnificent carvings and plasterwork, and to use colour to bring the house alive – hence the shades of coral in the Great Hall. In some ways this use of colour to create an effect was a forerunner of the use of smells and sounds at some properties today.
In the Long Gallery the ceiling was repainted to tone in with the walls, and the dark polish was taken off the floorboards. Although the result looks very harmonious, it is perhaps not quite historical enough by today's standards. And that in itself shows how the way we see the past is always changing.


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Western Painters of the Orient, Orientalists in the East
While the American examines 19th-century Western painters of the Orient, the Egyptian challenges Western attacks on Islam by presenting citations from 32 Western scholars. Muhammad Immara also attempts to show that Islam represents the highest development of monotheistic religion.
In the introduction to his splendid illustrated book, Kristian Davies describes the Orientalist painters' rare gift of capturing wonderful motifs. These were artists who travelled to the east and preserved a record of the pre-modern era in their work.
Davies found their paintings in 60 institutions in ten countries. It is a pleasure to leaf through the book, especially as the paintings are so perfectly laid out and competently discussed.
The author has selected images of deserts and caravans, streets and markets, warriors and women, places of worship, people at prayer and people taking their pleasure. The title page shows "Pilgrims on their way to Mecca", a masterpiece by the Frenchman Léon Belly, and the book also contains works by – for example – the German Gustav Bauernfeind ("Market in Jaffa") and the American James Fairman ("A View of Jerusalem"). Davies introduces us to the life and work of these and other artists.
Arthur Rimbaud, Jean-Louis Burckhardt, Sir Richard F. Burton, Jean-Léon Gérôme, James Tissot and Jane Digby el-Mezrab also appear in this splendid volume. Davies captures a Golden Age that extended from 1800 to 1900; but, for him, the Orientalist painters are part of the Enlightenment.
Edward Said's critique of Orientalism
In the period under study, says Davies, the Orient – which stretched from Morocco to Persia and India – was seen as a place of great and colourful diversity; yet there was also a certain uniformity to this exotic attractiveness. Nonetheless, he maintains, the painters who travelled eastwards were innocent of any intention to warp the truth.
In 1978, Edward Said's "Orientalism" described the Western conception of the Orient as sheer invention. From linguists to archaeologists, Said argued, Westerners had presented a false and misleading image of the exotic East.
Kristian Davies sums up Said's argument (somewhat briefly) as the assertion that centuries of Orientalist studies had been nothing more than techniques of espionage and methods of oppression – in short, means of serving the West.
Certainly, Davies admits, Said made some fascinating discoveries in the field of literature; yet he admonishes Said for seeing Western guilt everywhere and for developing an extremely hostile attitude. Davies argues that a younger generation of authors extended Said's polemical critique to include Orentalist painting of the 19th century, in which they discovered a plethora of untruths.
In these paintings, Linda Nochlin and others believed they could discern sexism, racism, chauvinism and a host of other "isms". Davies argues that these writers had hastened to link the artworks to the process of colonial expansion.
The 80s were the decade of deconstruction, and Orientalist paintings were under attack from all sides. It was argued that the painters were merely a part of the imperialist project: inauthentic, lacking in any higher artistic ambition, and prejudiced against the East before they had even visited it.
There was also widespread adverse criticism of the representation of women. Davies sees the Saidian style as an intellectual defect. He opposes it by defending the high art of the Orientalist painters, insisting that a beautiful painting may also be called beautiful. Kristian Davies wishes to rehabilitate these painters, to rescue them from Said's disparagement.
The Superiority of Islam
Muhammad Immara wishes to rehabilitate other objects of Said's criticism: he praises the Orientalist writers of the West, using their texts as examples to support his belief in the superiority of Islam.
Immara has divided his book into three sections. In the first part, he sketches the "true" Islam; in the second, he castigates the anti-Muslim Crusade carried out by the West since September 11th 2001; in the third, he quotes 32 Western scholars who have written about Islam. These include William Montgomery Watt from Scotland, Arnold Joseph Toynbee from England, Sigrid Hunke from Germany, and Bernard Lewis from the USA.
Some of Immara's statements about and evaluations of these writers are false or dubious; he has not researched their lives carefully enough. His selection of texts is also problematical, for Toynbee and Hunke were never regarded as Orientalists. It is at times not even clear where certain quotations begin and end.
Immara takes passages that suit him and combines them to create a decidedly rosy picture of Islam. Nonetheless, his work deserves widespread attention. For one thing, he does not slander Orientalists in the Saidian style; he recognises their achievements. This unites him with Davies, whose work is distinguished by its conscientiousness and accuracy. And although Immara hopes his work will drum up support for Islam, widespread discussion will also temper the book's reception.
Wolfgang G. Schwanitz
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Translated from the German by Patrick Lanagan
Kristian Davies: The Orientalists. Western Artists in Arabia, The Sahara, Persia And India. New York: Laynfaroh 2005.
Muhammad Immara: Al-Islam fi 'uyun gharbiyya baina iftira' al-Djuhala' wa insaf al-'Ulama'. Cairo: Dar ash-Shuruq 2005.
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The Paradigm of Islamic Civilization
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Sand in the Bristles
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