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Karen makes an awe-eyed, 360-angle entrance to the rehearsal hall for her first real, live Broadway workshop. To paraphrase Pulp Fiction, some workshops get produced and become off-Broadway shows. Some don't, and become nothing. Hopefully Karen isn't performing in one of the ones that become nothing. The ensemble chorus/dancers eye-roll and tongue-cluck over Karen's "All-County Craft Fair and Gun Show Queen" resume – apparently "State Fair" is only de rigueur during a Rodgers & Hammerstein showcase. Michael is excited, too, and tells Julia he thinks things are going to be fine and she's quick to agree that yes, they're both adults and can be cool about this. A musical beat, and then Michael tells her he meant the workshop. Burn. Julia blinks rapidly and deflects that with enough "great, great, SO great" that she's only a bad perm and a gay best friend (oh, wait) away from vintage Grace Adler.
Ivy arrives to the workshop in a swathe of pink with oversized shades and what you just know are 'five drops of Chanel No. 5' because the girl's read her Marilyn footnotes. Derek reminds them that this is just a workshop, and it's a long, long way to the Great White Way, at least figuratively. Ivy knows every chorus member/dancer ever and Karen is literally shoved to the back of the chorus line on a wave of Ivy solidarity.
Eileen meets with her lawyer to free up some investment money for "Marilyn." She needs to $200k (a pittance in this city) but only has access to $8k. I realize I'm from the Midwest, but in New York, don't they call that…rent? Julia gives Eileen the 411 that the ensemble is terrific, Michael and Ivy are sublime. Eileen is more interested in having Julia utilize her moldering art history major and play Antiques Roadshow with Eileen's genuine Degas.
Back at the workshop, Karen's taking the "there are no small parts…only small ingénues who didn't bang the director" adage to the extreme, and gets told to bring it down a thousand. To further emphasize the point, Ivy calls cut and coquettishly eyes Derek and Tom while glaring lasers at Karen and saying that it appears some in the ensemble don't realize it means "as one."
Derek is throwing a party for former Broadway wunderkind and current TV star, Lyle West. Derek, Tom, and Julia are all very impressed with Lyle, and it's endearing. They might be Tony-winning composers and feature-film directors, but Lyle's on tee-vee – people actually know his name!
Having batted her eyes at Derek to make sure he sees that Karen is green enough to try to upstage her, Ivy takes advantage of her long working relationship with Tom to make sure he gets the words and music, too. Karen's enthusiastic Iowa bop is moved to the back of the chorus line, and then bumped from the chorus line all together, along with Ivy's friend Bobby who had the misfortune of being height compatible with Karen. Karen overhears ensemble scuttlebutt that Ivy and Derek are doing the dead, and is shocked, I say shocked, by this turn of events. Ivy uses her nascent star power to have Karen excused from the sing-a-long (I mean, seriously, the way Ivy reacted, you'd think Karen had her own backing chorus of Jordanaires and a Phil Spector Wall-of-Sound rather than just volume and excellent pitch). Karen cools her heels in the hallway, spinning angry jetés and incoherent with rage.
Eileen attempts to take her Degas to auction, where it should bring anywhere from $350 to $400k. When she queries selling it outright, she learns that, while it was a gift from Jerry that he didn't want back, the bill of sale is in his name and she'll need his approval to sell. Knowing his every attempt to cockblock her one-woman mission to produce "Marilyn," she knows that's a no-go.
Ivy's ensemble friend, Jessica, finds Karen crying into her playbills and graciously drags her away from the rehearsal hall doorway before Karen can torpedo her career before it starts. Karen tells Jessica that she might be green, but they were all in her Payless shoes at one point, and they're just being mean because she's from Iowa and didn't sleep with Derek to get the role – it's not like she's a freak with glasses and a ponytail, or something.
Jessica has a "Mother-Teresa-come-to-Jesus moment" and she and a couple of her ensemble entourage decide to take Karen under their wings and apron and stage an intervention. Give me some Oprah: we're going shoppppping! It's all very Pretty Woman.
Derek invites Ivy to his party for Lyle West and then, at Julia's behest, invites Tom. Julia invites Eileen, and shockingly, none of these New York power players has plans for an impromptu gathering that just happens to be…tonight, apparently. Julia informs Eileen that Lyle is a syndication zillionaire, and Eileen's eyes start sparkling cartoon dollar signs.
Karen's new backup dancers brave the Forever 21 horror that is her closet and then take her out to a club so she can demonstrate their training in not pulling focus and dancing in unison.
Ivy goes in her new-to-her Zac Posen to Derek's party where Disney's Nick Jonas is grooving Groban-style at the piano as Lyle. Derek introduces Ivy and Lyle, and Lyle would love to give Ivy a barely-legal tour of Derek's pad. Ivy's just happy to be there – she's tired of hand-washing character makeup out of her tap pants after a rendezvous with Derek – just seeing his 1500 thread count sheets would be a revelation.
Tom has turned down Derek's invitation because he's out on a date set up by…his mother. The date is a stuffy lawyer, but at least he's a self-aware stuffy lawyer, and, vis-à-vis Tom, very impressed with his Mom's Google-fu in finding his dating prospects.
Julia and Eileen – with the bubble-wrapped Degas in tow, everyone will be carrying them next season – arrive at the party, and Julia is shocked to see Ellis at the A-list (by Broadway standards) event. Evidently, Julia sat through The Help and didn't feel even a twinge of liberal guilt.
Eileen gives Lyle a private auction of the Degas and offers him a course in investing (art and gold bullion, and well, real estate goes without saying, but come on, this is New York and he's only a zillionaire). Lyle isn't the Oliver Twist they all remember and he tells her that he'll give $175 k for the Degas as collateral and the rest for points. He's quite the negotiator, though, and tells her a workshop does not a sell-out make. Eileen gets Julia to round up the gang, including Tom and Michael – we're gonna put on a show!
Lyle introduces the performance as a gift from Tom and Derek, and with Tom at the piano, Ivy begins the USO number "I Never Met a Wolf Who Didn't Love to Howl." Ivy's voice is stunning, Julia sings back-up and they even rope in some of the catering staff (they're all out-of-work performers; this is New York), and even Ellis gets a soft-shoe. Ivy tugs Lyle 'on stage' and he strums a guitar and suddenly knows the words. It's the power…of the music…of the night!
Meanwhile, Derek slips some British charm to a female party guest and Ivy gets an eyeful of it. Hurt, she takes Lyle up on his offer to give her the bedroom tour, birds-eye view of the dust ruffle optional. Unfortunately, the bedroom they choose is occupied by Eileen, who is having some wistful alone time with her soon-to-be shipping out Degas. Eileen tells Ivy that she's her happiness now. Touched despite his loftier perch atop the celebrity totem pole, Lyle tells Eileen he'll be by her office on Monday.
Ivy downs a glass of champers and then decides to take a powder (er, not literally Marilyn-style) and heads for Derek's velvet-roped door. Derek stops her and she tells him she saw him with his hand on another woman's ass. Derek informs her that everyone at the party is a potential investor and that there is no ass he won't squeeze, no appendage he won't kiss, no fanny he won't plow marathon-man style if it will get "Marilyn" off the ground – he's that committed. Ivy's charmed (and who wouldn't be?) but she asks why he didn't tell her he was casting Karen in the ensemble; Karen is a rival and Ivy finally has the starring role and wants to feel safe. Derek tells her if she wants to feel safe, she should go back to the ensemble; there's nothing safe about being a star. Moments later, Ivy is star-gazing out of Derek's bedroom's stunning Manhattan view, her 'vintage' Zac Posen around her ankles, in Derek's arms and anything but safe.
Karen and the ensemble dance on one of those apparently ubiquitous empty New York nightclub stages to Adele's "Rumor Has It." Thanks to her fellow thespians, her dancing has, indeed, developed in form to approaching synchronicity rather than cheer camp Spirit Stick competition. Yet, like Thespis emerging from the chorus, Karen is soon front and center, belting Britain's greatest gift in decades to the cheap seats. Let her be your star!!!


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Creating and posting video content on YouTube is a great way to boost the visibility and credibility of your business.
The reach and power of YouTube has been demonstrated by the many artists, celebrities and comedians who have begun their careers through the site. With its billions of active users, YouTube allows your company the chance to easily reach a large audience.
YouTube is a visually orientated site and would require your company to have engaging visual content to share. It has the potential to work effectively for any company, regardless of their industry.
Once you have created a channel, it is important that you customise it. By using your logo, colour palette, tone and slogans, you can reinforce your brand identity, encouraging viewers to associate the channel and videos with your business.
The YouTube accounts that generate the largest amount of popularity and engagements, are channels that post content regularly. If you want to use YouTube as a part of your social media marketing strategy, it is important that you have lots of video content to share.
Some ways to produce video content for your business are:
- Webcast and webinars that can be broken up and posted as a series of video
- Repurposing infographics into explainer videos
- Creating tutorials or product demonstrations
- Video creating a corporate profile or sharing the history of the company
- Interviewing owners, staff and customers.
Once you have uploaded a video, it is important that you use the right category and tags. There are 15 categories to choose from and dozens of relevant tags that you can use. It is best to use the tags that are suggested by YouTube as they are based on what people commonly search for.
Unlike other social media sites, YouTube requires a lot more time, commitment, planning and, potentially, money, in order to create visual content that will appeal to your audience. As video production is a service we are looking to introduce at Creativeminds, this is something that we could assist with, as well as managing your social media accounts.

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Savers in Britain face a difficult future in the wake of Britain's European Union referendum verdict, experts have warned, as monetary policy is likely to exacerbate schemes funding problems in the short term.
Earlier this week, Pensions Minister Ros Altmann admitted Britain faced a "delicate balancing act" to maintain the strength of pension schemes after the pro-Brexit vote plunged the country into financial turmoil.
Annuity rates have fallen following the vote, meaning investors converting their retirement savings into an income will enjoy a lower rate of income than would have been the case even a couple of weeks ago.
Retirement Advantage cut all its rates by an average of 3% on the day following the referendum, while Legal & General, LV, Just Retirement and Aviva slashed theirs by around 2% last week.
Meanwhile, the fall in gilt yields, which have been the underlying cause of the annuity rate falls, is also going to mean larger final salary scheme deficits.
"This is particularly worrying because it comes at a time when many employers are already losing any patience or goodwill they might once have harboured towards their employees' pension scheme," Tom McPhail, head of retirement policy at Hargreaves Lansdown, told IBTimes UK.
"What's more, we could now be heading for a recession so employers may find their corporate profits getting squeezed, thereby undermining their ability to pay into the pension schemes."
McPhail added it was no surprise Altmann spoke about the trade-offs of corporate interests against pension scheme demands as there was not "enough cash to go around" and working out how to share it out fairly is going to be a difficult challenge.
The pound's sharp decline did nothing to improve the mood of savers worried by the steep fall in annuity rates. The sterling tumbled to two new 31-year lows in as many days earlier this week and its ongoing weakness could spell trouble for savers, given the Bank of England is now widely expected to cut interest rates even further.
"Since 2010 after the banking crisis, there have been frequent predictions that interest rates would be rising 'imminently' yet not only has it still not happened, rates are actually going lower," explained McPhail.
He added people approaching retirement in post-Brexit Britain faced a difficult choice, given annuity rates could fall even further.
"If they still want to buy an annuity they should get on and do it as quickly as possible because the rates are still falling," he said.
"The alternative is to try and wait it out but there is no certainty over how long that wait will be. The alternative of using drawdown means taking on equity market risk and being willing to accept fluctuating income and capital values."
Richard Parkin, head of pensions at Fidelity International, agrees: "Many don't realise that most pensions allow you to leave the money invested until you need it," he said. "If you do need cash now, taking smaller withdrawals over a longer time period will often be less risky than taking a large withdrawal all at once."
Parkin, who urged retirees to avoid taking unnecessary risks given the uncertainty surrounding the pension landscape post-Brexit, stressed the importance of carefully selecting the right deal before purchasing an annuity.
"If you are looking to convert your savings to guaranteed income by buying an annuity then it's more important than ever that you shop around for the best deal," he advised.
"Annuity rates are based on long-term interest rates which are already low and could be adversely affected by market uncertainty."


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by Alan Sackrin – Florida Personal Injury Lawyer Since 1982 – Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer
The most often asked question of a personal injury lawyer by accident victims is what is there case worth. I understand the need to know this information because victims want to know if they are going to be made whole.
For this reason, below are my opinions of the average values of various legitimate Florida personal injury claims along with links to my website where you can see samples of settlements I obtained.
My opinion of value is based upon the large number of cases I have settled or won at trial, my 38+ years of experience as a personal injury lawyer, my review of jury verdict reporters and other trade publications, as well as talking with other personal injury lawyers whose opinion I respect.
Of course, there are multiple factors that impact the amount of a settlement, including, among other variables, the severity of the injuries, the age of the victim, is the victim employed or unable to work, is the injury to a dominant limb, and fault.
You can learn about Alan Sackrin's qualifications as an expert personal injury lawyer here.
- Average Grocery Store Slip and Fall Settlement: $35,000.00
My Publix Slip and Fall Settlements
My Wal-Mart Slip and Fall Settlements
- Average Car Accident Settlement: $30,000.00
My State Farm Car Accident Settlements
- Average Rear-End Car Accident Settlement: $20,000.00
My Rear-End Car Accident Settlements
- Average Ankle Injury Settlement (w/ surgery): $175,000.00
- Average City-Owned Property Slip and Fall Settlement: $25,000.00
- Average Cruise Ship Slip And Fall Settlement: $35,000.00
- Average Defamation Settlement: $35,000.00
- Average Dog Bite Settlement: $30,000.00
- Average Herniated Disc Settlement (w/ surgery): $200,000.00
- Average Herniated Disc Settlement (without surgery): $50,000.00
- Average Hospital Slip and Fall Settlement: $40,000.00
- Average Hotel Negligence Settlement: $40,000.00
- Average Non-Grocery Store Slip and Fall Settlement: $30,000.00
- Average Pedestrian Accident Settlement: $70,000.00
- Average Product Liability Settlement: $100,000.00
- Average Shoulder Injury Settlement (w/ surgery): $150,000.00
- Average Significant Sprain and/or Strain Settlement: $20,000.00
- Average Whiplash Settlement: $20,000.00
- Average Wrist Injury Settlement (w/ surgery): $125,000.00
- Average Wrongful Death Settlement: $750,000.00
Note: These numbers are an average, some cases will settle for a lot more and some for a lot less. Also, these numbers are for illustrative purposes and should not be relied upon as each case is unique and each case should be evaluated on its own merits. Settlements include pre-suit settlements, after the lawsuit is filed settlements, and jury awards.
Want To Know More?
If you would like to know more about Alan Sackrin and his credentials, please feel free to contact him by email or by calling him at our office. Our office telephone number is (954) 458-8655.
Related: How Much Money Can You Expect From Your Florida Car Crash Claim?
Sharing What I Know So You Don't Settle For Less


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Robert Goulet has canceled his upcoming engagement at Feinstein's at the Regency. Goulet had been scheduled to perform at the nightclub from Feb. 28 to March 11.
A production source said there was a scheduling conflict and that the popular singer was forced to pull out.
Meanwhile, as reported earlier, Lucie Arnaz and Steve March Torme continue at Feinstein's through Feb. 26.
For Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, this is her first appearance at Feinstein's. For Steve March Torme, the son of Mel Torme, it is a New York City cabaret debut. Arnaz and Torme have been friends for years, the latter being a boyhood pal of Arnaz' brother, Desi.
During their New York engagement, Arnaz has been performing one song from her upcoming London show, Cameron Mackintosh's production of The Witches of Eastwick, in which she stars along with Ian McShane. Written by Dana Rowe, the song is called "Loose Ends." Arnaz told Playbill On-Line she chose the song specifically because she felt it might have a life beyond the show. Thus far, the song has been favorably received. Arnaz and Torme play seven shows weekly, and there is a $60 cover charge. Tues.-Sat., shows start at 8:30 PM, with seating beginning at 6 PM. There is an a la carte menu and dinner is required. On Fri. and Sat. only, shows start at 11 PM with seating beginning at 10 PM. For these shows there is an a la carte supper menu with a $25 minimum.
For tickets, club information and schedules call (212) 339-4095
-- By Murdoch McBride


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New federal guidelines released Tuesday recommend that most adults spend two and a half hours each week engaged in moderate physical activity to be healthy. Children need more than that.
Moderate activity that works the heart and lungs can include brisk walking, water aerobics, ballroom dancing or gardening, according to the new Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.
Ramp it up to more intense exercise by running, jumping rope or swimming laps and you can accomplish the same thing in one hour and 15 minutes per week.
"The evidence is clear — regular physical activity over months and years produces long-term health benefits and reduces the risk of many diseases," said Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt. "The more physically active you are, the more health benefits you gain."
As for the kids, they need at least an hour a day of physical activity, and that should be vigorous exercise such as bike riding, jump rope, soccer or basketball at least three days a week.
The guidelines also address older adults, pregnant women, people with disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
— Don Finley


text: Ms. Catherine Bernardini and her children (Taryn Kelly Teutsch and Benjamin Rinder) informed A+E that by hiring Mike Rinder they were supporting an abusive father and husband who abandoned his son who was faced with life-threatening cancer. A+E has ignored this family's right to privacy and right to uphold truth. Read the full letter here.


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An inspiration for this post was recent conversation with one of my friends, who is brilliant internet marketer but blogging, using WordPress as platform of choice, is rather recent for him. It made me realize that what many of us bloggers accept as common knowledge might have the learning curve for him and many others.
In this post I want to describe – Why "MORE" tag is a must have on blog and how to implement it. And as always – this post is based on my personal opinion and something that I use and has proven beneficial to me.
Why You Should Use "More" tag?
Do you enjoy "Duplicate Content" penalties? Not sure?
Well, allow me to explain. By default WordPress is extremely Search Engine Un-Friendly! And by that I simply mean that SAME post you publish can be displayed in several different locations, accessed by search engines and indexed. Let's take for example a post written with name – Post Name, by default you can find it in several locations:
- www.domain.com – your home page has it initially
- www.domain.com/page/2 – as more posts published it will through pages and than last number will continue to change and be indexed by Google, showing duplicate content
- www.domain.com/category/ – your category page has it in its entirety
- www.domain.com/tag/tagname/ – each tag you assigned to the post will have its own page and your new post will be indexed from there
- www.domain.com/2008/11/ – your archives will display the post in full glory
- www.domain.com/?s=post – your search results pages have your post full content
- www.domain.com/feed – even your RSS feed, accessible by search engines will show you post
- www.domain.com/post-name – and finally you actual full post view page will have it
As I have just shown above search engines will see that SAME content published multiple times on your blog and to avoid it been indexed – they will place all but one page into what is known as "supplemental search results" (it used to be true couple month ago, and I hope it didn't change as I write it). Why is it bad? Read the Google definition:
A supplemental result is just like a regular web result, except that it's pulled from our supplemental index. We're able to place fewer restraints on sites that we crawl for this supplemental index than we do on sites that are crawled for our main index. For example, the number of parameters in a URL might exclude a site from being crawled for inclusion in our main index; however, it could still be crawled and added to our supplemental index.
Supplemental results will only be shown to searchers IF regular Google SERP's have very few pages to answer the search query and in currently competitive market chances of that happening are next to nothing. Problem you have now is that you can't control WHICH page is INDEXED to be shown for regular searches unless you take some measures.
Let's Discuss the Cure for The Dupes
What I will provide here is what I personally use and what works for me – your results can't be quite different. Improper implementation can be also quite destructive to your existing blog – by using guidelines I provide, you take full responsibility for your own actions.
1. Use MORE tag on ALL your posts.
Using more tag allows you to split the main post content into small part of the post that is shown in all the index, archive, search results, tag, etc pages and while it gives access to people to content they need – it is not showing it in its Entirety and will not be seen by search engine as duplicate to what is placed on your main Full Post view page, assuming you didn't split it in such a way that most of your content goes before the more tag.
Adding the more tag is very simple, just click the MORE icon on your visual editor, shown below or use MORE in html editor
That will effectively split your post in exact location this tag is placed.
2. Change your theme templates to display Excerpt
This is a more drastic measure as you loose control to great extent over what is shown on the pages that aggregate your posts, such as main home page, archives, etc. Excerpt will take predefined number of characters from your post and display it on those pages, after the theme is edited IF you don't provide other text in EXCERPT field in your post.
But first, edit your index.php, archive.php, archives.php and any other pages responcible for displaying content of multiple posts (don't do it on single.php – that is the file we need to display full content on) and replace:
<?php the_content('Read more'); ?> with
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
Doing the above mentioned will effectively replace full post content on all of the aggregation pages with an excerpt of the post instead of full content and will help you prevent the Duplicate Content penalties to some extent. You can still control what is shown on those pages by using this Advanced option while writing post:
Use this ONLY if you don't want to use MORE tag in each post.
3. Use a Plugin to Avoid Indexing Of Pages You Don't Want in SERP's
I personally use the All In One SEO plugin to exclude all categories, tags and other supplemental pages on my site from been indexed by search engines. What that plugin does is places the code into the HTML head section of those pages that tells Google to Not Index the page itself but Do Follow link to the posts shown on it:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
I have also seen people mention WordPress Duplicate Content Cure as good option to use for same effect. Its up to you which plugin you decide to use, as long as you find a way to NOINDEX on categories, tags, etc pages to avoid the duplicate content.
4. Use robots.txt to Exclude Certain Pages From Indexing
After some trial and error I have ended up with a robots.txt file that works quite nicely for me and helps me to exclude all the pages I don't want to be indexed, such as FEED and TRACKBACK among the few more important.
If you like – you can copy my robots.txt file and adjust for your own blog. Simply place it into your blog root folder and BE SURE to verify it using Google Webmaster Tools. try accessing some of the more important posts and pages on your blog using tool they provide to verify that robots.txt doesn't stop indexing those pages.
Using option have shown above, simply provide the url and check it, see image below:
That will verify you file is correct and will not break your blog.
All the options I have outlined above should help you avoid the duplicate content penalties and also help you display MORE of your content on main home page and other aggregation pages while keeping the page load speed down to normal.
MORE tag allows you to display same 10 (or however many you choose) posts on your main blog page while showing slightly less text, less images and help your page to load faster!
MORE tag is in this case allows you to keep MORE of your visitors on your page reading, instead of the leavign the page after waiting for several minutes. More Is Better!


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Hi, this is Ricky and our Daily Devotional today is found in Matthew 16:5-12. Feel free to read along in the show notes below.
Also, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this scripture so comment on this episode at http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/matthew-165-12/.
5 When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread.6 Jesus said to them, "Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." 7 And they began discussing it among themselves, saying, "We brought no bread." 8 But Jesus, aware of this, said, "O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread? 9 Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? 10 Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? 11 How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."12 Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
What do you think?
Comment on this episode at http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/matthew-165-12/.
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Photo Courtesy of Scott Hess
Truth Movement: Over a hundred women took their clothes off for peace in Occidental.
Naked Aggression
Sonoma County women bear witness for peace by baring ass
By Ellen C. Bicheler
I'm here because there's a lot of power. Women have a lot of power. To me, this is about women in the flesh embodying peace and truth. It's a wonderful way to make a statement," declared Jacqueline Hayward of Sebastopol on Feb. 23. One hundred and three women apparently agreed. On a green, grassy knoll at Ocean Song, the farm and wilderness center near Occidental, they stripped off their clothing to spell out the words "truth" and "compassion"--words they want the nation's leaders to notice, consider, and follow.
Motivations for participating were varied.
Elizabeth Fuller of Sebastopol said, "A lot of what's going on right now is about patterns--seeing patterns, really looking closely at what we're in the middle of. The idea of putting our own physical beings in the most vulnerable and beautiful and essential state as part of a pattern to be seen is to me a tremendously appropriate thing to do."
An older woman added, "We're little old women in tennis shoes. Nothing else we've done seems to have made a difference. This is not something you do every day. We're hoping it will be fruitful and useful--bearing witness by baring ass."
Kym Trippsmith, organizer of the Sonoma County event, explained further: "This is not just about the war; this is about the whole capitalist system that is basically bent on destroying our planet, making sure the resources are set aside for the elite. As [antinuclear activist] Helen Caldicott told us: 'It's the responsibility of all of us to make saving the planet your number one priority, every day.'"
For Trippsmith, a musician, writer, and producer, that means staging events like today's nude photo or her recent Truth and Justice concert or the upcoming May Day celebration at Stafford Lake in Novato, slated for May 3--which may host another Baring Witness event.
The naked pictures are part of an international movement conceived just three months ago by Donna Sheehan, founder of a group called Unreasonable Women Baring Witness. Sheehan was captivated by the actions of a group of about a hundred Nigerian women who stormed an oil terminal owned by ChevronTexaco. The women used "the curse of nakedness"--threatening to remove their clothes--to shame executives into meeting their demands. The company was forced to promise jobs, electricity, and other improvements to villages in the Niger Delta.
Sheehan's version of "the curse" was further motivated by a dream she had of people creating artistic shapes with their bodies. In November, she organized a group of women in Point Reyes for a spelling-out of the word "peace."
"Bush has his weapons," Sheehan says, "women have theirs. . . . The dynamic of nudity throws off the balance. In that moment, we are hoping our leaders will hear us."
There have been some negative responses to some of the nudity. Some people "think it's ridiculous," Sheehan says.
When the nude peace photo appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning, Charles Osgood exclaimed, "Talk about a body of work." Bob Schieffer responded, saying "I was hoping for a close-up." Their comments sparked a lot of anger and questioning about the strategy.
Sheehan's husband, Paul Reffell, says that this response "is the embarrassment most sober men feel when confronted by female nudity." What the women participating in Baring Witness are attempting to convey with their nakedness is "how exhausted and frustrated they are by the state of the world in men's hands. If that means standing naked and unprotected--unarmed in a violent world--they are ready to do so."
In response to accusations that the events are exploitative, Sheehan said "the original idea was to make a beautiful piece of figurative art for a good cause. The fact that the media has taken notice does not mean we are exploiting our women. . . . Exploitation of women occurs when their bodies are viewed as commodities. These women are glad to expose the flesh all humans share, especially since the proceeds, if any, from photo sales go to the peace movement."
The photo from Sonoma County will join the growing collection, part of a soon-to-be traveling exhibit and documentary. Sheehan hopes to elicit photos from every state in the union; currently, she has 14.
Sheehan and Trippsmith agree that women need to reclaim their power. "Women are feeling voiceless in the predominantly male push towards war," Sheehan noted.
"What a collective we can be!" Trippsmith added. "There are so many kinds of women here--ages two to 70--with all kinds of religious and spiritual backgrounds. Democrats, Republican, Greens, and Pagans. Part of the power is showing that we can come from different waves of life and come into alignment with each other."
The women at Ocean Song were greeted with warm cups of chai, held hands for prayer, were entertained by drumbeat and song, and were purified with sage before descending the hillside to form the letters, first in clothes, then without. An ocean breeze cooled the air and the ground was cold, but the camaraderie was warm as women linked bodies with friends, family, and strangers to form the letters. Women chanted "Om" while photographers snapped the shots. The group cheered upon completion.
Women mingled after the pictures were taken, exchanging e-mail addresses, passing out flyers on future events, and mulling over the experience of taking their clothes off.
Sheehan means to continue her efforts. One of her latest tactics is a vigorous letter-writing campaign to Laura Bush, Cherie Blair, Lynne Cheney, and Alma Powell, in which she implores them to talk with their husbands.
"If we cannot deter our men from violent acts, then we have failed as women, as nurturers, as guardians of our families and voices of reason. Baring Witness wants men to know they don't have to take sole responsibility for the war, that women want a greater partnership. Men's acts of war are linked to their biological urge to provide for what they think are women's needs. Women are ready to be equally responsible for their men's actions."
Trippsmith, too, is hopeful. "I believe the women coming here today baring their bodies to the earth is a drop in the proverbial bucket, planting a seed right here. That the light in our hearts, the love we shared, the care we brought individually for each other--for the earth, our children, parents, grandparents--will allow us to change our lives by taking less from the planet."
For further information and photos, visit www.baringwitness.org. Locally, International Women's Day on March 8 brings a number of events, including a women's forum at Subud Hall, March 8, 1-5pm. 234 Hutchins Ave., Sebastopol. 707.874.1744. A Wailing Wall peace action will take place March 8 at noon at the Santa Rosa Plaza. Coffee Catz (6761 Sebastopol Ave., Sebastopol) will host an evening on women, March 8, 7-10pm.
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From the March 6-12, 2003 issue of the North Bay Bohemian.


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The neo-Nazi terrorist death squad NSU (national socialist underground/ Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund) which was uncovered in 2011 in Germany after having killed ten people – nine of which were perceived foreigners – in execution manner, over a period of some twelve years, while also producing denigrating and cynical videos about their victims, consisted of two men and one woman. The NSU gang was part of a wider under-cover militant neo-Nazi network, encompassing approximately 20% females, with tendency to rise.
Contrary to general perception, girls and women have long proven capable of fierce physical attacks, from their teenage days on, and have engaged in various sorts of terrorism throughout Europe. Moreover, women in violent extremist movements seem to assist in preparing and committing crimes, provide ideological support, and strengthen the social cohesion within the movement. This is particularly true for the current development of mainstreaming in which rightwing extremist attitudes and lifestyles infiltrate the middle classes in certain parts and districts of Germany and firmly install xenophobic, hateful and anti human rights stance in general community discourses. Here women seem to play a crucial role.
We do not yet know enough about how and why quite a few young women move into violent extremism – while, in general, women, mothers, families are regarded powerful factors of prevention. Above all, however, we don't know much about what the gender aspect may mean methodologically for employing impactful interventions of deradicalisation and hate crime rehabilitation – be it in prison, probation or community, both with women and men.
Nevertheless, there appears to be many pockets of specialized experience on the part of first-line practitioners throughout Europe who work directly with violent and/or extremist girls and women in various work areas and milieus – be they afflicted by political, religious or any comparable form of violent extremism. These colleagues need to be brought together and exchange about their work experiences and principles.
Plus, existing best practice research in deradicalisation and hate crime work with men has in various instances given evidence indicating that issues of gender, family, biography, and social milieu may be of particular importance for processes of deradicalisation and rehabilitation. Especially in Germany there seems to have developed a rather solid tradition of gender methods in the prevention of hate crime and violent (rightwing) extremism.
Not coincidentally, the first movie about a young neo-Nazi women – "Die Kriegerin"/ "Combat Girl" – was released in February 2012 in Berlin, thus signaling a general readiness of both public and specialized practitioner discourse to more intensely investigate gender methods in deradicalisation.
The two-year ISEC national starter measure WomEx will
Drawing on CI's and affiliates' previous EU best practice research and interventions' development, cooperating with the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN, EU Home Affairs), liaising with the OSCE-ODIHR, consulting with specialized academicians (Prof. Michaela Köttig's "Net of Researchers on Women in Neo-Nazism") and practitioner experts, the WomEx-project will use methodologies from qualitative-empirical social, biographical, and action research.
Stakeholders/ participants are: deradicalisation practitioners/ trainees, law enforcement, (public) policy planers, NGOs, legal practitioners, university researchers/ experts, the media/ civil society – and the primary target group: young females and males in vulnerable sectors of European societies.
With the financial support of the Prevention of an Fight against Crime Programme
European Commission - Directorate-General Home Affairs
Silke Baer (project lead)
Anika Posselius (research assistant)
Brochure (2015): "Gender-Reflective Prevention and Intervention Concepts for Dealing with Right-Wing Extremism, Group-Focused Enmity and Militant Religious Fundamentalism"
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30.09.-02.10. Frankfurt/Main: WomEx-Final Conference "Why Gender? _ Aspects of gender in right wing extremism and religious militant fundamentalism _Women- and genderfocused approaches in prevention and intervention"
Conference folder (eng) (1,1 MB)
12./13.12.13 Berlin: WomEx - Midterm Conference "Women, Girls, Gender in Extremism _Gender Specific Approaches in Prevention/Intervention"
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Bioidentical Hormones May Help Prevent Alzheimer's
Bioidentical Hormones May Help Prevent Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's disease is on the rise in America, but new evidence reveals there is hope. The Shriver Report, published by Maria Shriver with the backing of the Alzheimer's Association, took an up close and disturbing look at the dreaded disease's impact on women--and estrogen's possible role in preventing it.
Orlando, FL (PRWEB) January 14, 2011
Alzheimer's disease is on the rise in America, but new evidence reveals there is hope. The Shriver Report, published by Maria Shriver with the backing of the Alzheimer's Association, took an up close and disturbing look at the dreaded disease's impact on women--and estrogen's possible role in preventing it.
BodyLogicMD bioidentical hormone physicians know that a woman's risk of Alzheimer's disease increases after menopause. As the largest national network of expert physicians who deal primarily in preventive medicine, they help tens of thousands of women (and men) prevent disease by balancing hormones using bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT).
Scientists report that research is showing some clear connections between declining estrogen and a number of diseases, including Alzheimer's.
The secret may lie in a protein called insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE). Discovered by Liqin Zhao, Ph.D. and her colleagues at the University of Southern California, IDE degrades beta-amyloid, a protein fragment strongly associated with Alzheimer's.
What's more, the researchers also discovered that a decreased level of estradiol, which happens during menopause, reduces the expression of IDE. That, in turn, may reduce the ability of the brain to dispose of beta-amyloid. Zhao and her colleagues have proposed further study on how estrogen regulation can influence Alzheimer's risk, but clear connections have already been proven.
"There is significant research into how effective estrogen therapy works to prevent Alzheimer's disease," says Dr. Jennifer Landa, Chief Medical Officer of BodyLogicMD. "Some studies have shown a decrease of Alzheimer's with estrogen therapy, and researchers are starting to realize that timing of the hormone therapy may have an impact."
Landa points to an article that reviews over a decade of findings from scientific research exploring the HRT (hormone replacement therapy) timing issue. The article, entitled, "Potential role of estrogen in the pathobiology and prevention of Alzheimer's disease," concludes that, when estrogen therapy begins at the onset of menopause, it benefits the brain and actually decreases a women's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life.
"When you start hormone therapy in your mid to late 40's--basically at the onset of estrogen decline--you have the most prevention of Alzheimer's disease in the long run," Landa says. "In women who started estrogen therapy at 60 or 65, there was not anywhere near the dramatic prevention effect that was demonstrated in women who were in the late 40s and early 50s."
The research shows that the dosage of HRT is also important. The key is to use naturally occurring estrogen rather than synthetic preparations. Estradiol, the hormone that is showing all this promise, is a potent, naturally occurring estrogen. Studies show that synthetic estrogens may not offer the same benefits as natural estradiol. In fact, Synthetic hormones act as toxins because their chemical makeup cannot be metabolized properly.
"Bioidentical estrogen applied through the skin gets much better results in the prevention of Alzheimer's than synthetic estrogen taken by mouth," Landa says. "There is also some strong evidence for bioidentical progesterone. Progesterone protects the brain. The natural form of progesterone has benefits for the brain whereas the synthetic progesterone is actually worse for the brain. In both cases, bioidentical hormones are the best approach."
The Shriver Report demonstrates why this research into Alzheimer's prevention is so important. According to the report, 10 million women either have Alzheimer's or are caring for someone with the disease. That number could triple in coming decades as 78 million Baby Boomers move into their golden years. The Shriver Report predicts Alzheimer's cost to society could reach a staggering $20 trillion by 2050.
Research is still ongoing. New studies are underway to back up previous studies that link bioidentical hormone replacement therapy to Alzheimer's prevention. Landa points to a trial study called KEEPS (Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study). KEEPS aims to increase the body of knowledge about menopausal hormone therapy by helping scientific research determine if hormone therapy prevents or delays the onset of certain diseases in women, including Alzheimer's.
"Shriver is bringing attention to the battle against Alzheimer's--and getting proactive about preventing this devastating disease before it arises," Landa says. "More and more studies are showing the positive relationship between bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and disease prevention. Bioidentical hormones are bringing hope today for a better life tomorrow."
More about Dr. Landa
Dr. Jennifer Landa earned her medical degree from Albany Medical College of Union University in Albany, NY in 1996. She completed her internship and residency at Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC, where she was distinguished as the Administrative Chief Resident in OB/GYN. Dr. Landa is Board Certified by the American Board of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine and serves as an Advanced Fellow in the Fellowship for Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine. In addition, Dr. Landa has made appearances on a number of nationally-syndicated television shows, and was featured in a cover story by Florida Trend magazine in December of 2009, as a leading expert in anti-aging medicine.
For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2011/01/prweb4969484.htm


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Veterans Day ceremony
Friday, November 10
The UVA Army ROTC cadets, the Buford Middle School band and Retired Colonel James O'Kelley will participate in a ceremony to salute our veterans, followed by a living timeline of veterans. Active duty military and veterans get in free; $8-$14 admission includes historic house tour, 1pm. James Monroe's Highland, 2050 James Monroe Pkwy. highland.org
A path of awakening workshop
Saturday, November 11
Janine Russell, a holistic medicine practitioner, leads a six-hour workshop to help you heal from past wounds and create a path for the life you want. $95, 10am-4:30pm. Polarity Barn, 6428 Dick Woods Rd. violetpath.us/workshops
Light House Studio shorts
Thursday, November 9
This compilation of Light House Studio students' work includes narrative, animation and documentary films. A discussion with the young filmmakers follows. Arrive 15 to 30 minutes early to find a seat. Free, 5:30pm. Violet Crown Cinema, 200 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. virginiafilmfestival.org
Annual truffle dinner
Saturday, November 11
After enjoying Brut and canapés in the Octagon Cellar, move into the Piedmont Arcades for a four-course truffle dinner and wine pairing. The dinner is prepared in conjunction with Dr. Jeff Long and his truffle dog, Este. $170, 7pm. Barboursville Vineyards, 17655 Winery Rd., Barboursville. RSVP required. (540) 832-7848.


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Olivia Salerno
Olivia has been performing on a stage since the age of 3 when she took her first dance class. Her passion has allowed her many years of performing on variety of platforms. She danced at the NBA Detroit Pistons games for 8 seasons as a member of Pistons Entertainment and now performs as a member of the United Shore Professional Baseball League's Dance Crew. Some of her other performances include dancing in Pharrell's "Happy" Music Video and Sia's "The Greatest" Music Video, touring with Macy's Glamorama with Jason Derulo in 2014, and being selected as background dancer for a Justin Bieber Purpose Tour concert in 2016. Most recently, she was cast as a Shorties Dance Crew Member on SpikeTV's Lip Sync Battle Shorties Special and again in the first season of Nickelodeon's Lip Sync Battle Shorties. Olivia is very excited to continue to pursue and fulfill her dreams in the Entertainment Industry!


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In this post we explain the importance of WiFi filtering and brand protection. It can take years of hard work for businesses to develop trust in their brand. That trust can easily be lost if customers are not protected while connected to business WiFi networks and come to harm or suffer losses.
If Trust is Lost in a Brand it Can Take Years to Recover
Trust is a cornerstone of all successful brands, but it is not something that can be developed overnight. Developing trust in a brand takes an extraordinary amount of time and money, but once established, companies will be rewarded by customer loyalty.
While trust can be difficult to earn, it is certainly not difficult to lose. One of the easiest ways for consumers to lose trust in a brand is through privacy breaches and cyberattacks. If the personal data of customers is exposed or stolen, customers will lose faith in the brand and are likely to take their business elsewhere.
A 2017 study by Gemalto revealed 70% of customers would stop doing business with a company that failed to protect their personal data and suffered a data breach. Regaining customers trust after a data breach can take years. Protecting customer data is therefore essential if a business is to succeed and continue to enjoy success.
Wi-Fi Security and Brand Protection
One aspect of security that is often overlooked is protecting customers who connect to Wi-Fi networks. Many businesses offer free Wi-Fi access to their customers yet fail to implement controls over what customers can do while connected. Consequently, customers may be exposed to malware, phishing, and other harmful content.
Even businesses that claim to be family friendly often do not always filter the Internet and block access to adult and other age-inappropriate web content. It was only relatively recently that McDonald's started filtering its WiFi networks to protect customers. Starbucks has also agreed to implement WiFi filters to block porn next year.
How are Wi-Fi filtering and brand protection related? Imagine someone uses your WiFi network to access pornography and a child views their screen? Or a parent finds out their child has been viewing adult content on the establishment's Wi-Fi network? It only takes one person to complain via a social media network for the story to go viral and for the company's reputation to be tarnished. The same goes for a malware infection as a result of an establishment failing to implement anti-malware controls on its WiFi network.
Implementing a WiFi filter shows customers that you are doing all you can to protect them from online threats and harmful content. WiFi security is therefore important for brand protection.
There have also been cases of businesses temporarily losing Internet access over illegal Internet activity – Employees who have used a corporate WiFi network to engage in illegal activities such as downloading pirated content. ISPs can terminate internet access if complaints are received and loss of Internet access can cripple a business. Legal action can also be taken by the copyright holder against the business.
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I believe in pre-audits, so I will tell you now that I'm sure this will be a fairly long post, so if you don't like to read on a computer screen, like myself, then I totally understand. Maybe you can take breaks and come back like you do a novel or something. I'm sure this is going to be like a short book wrapping up my 2011 season. I'm just going to type whatever comes to my mind like always, so I can't even estimate how long this may be hahahaha!
I know I have been gone away from the blog for a while. For what reason, not
even I know the answer to be honest.
I'm sitting in my hotel room in Newcastle, UK and I've just finished my last competition of the 2011 season. This was an AWESOME, AWESOME meet! I definitely want to add more of these to the list of meets I attend.
When I was chilling in my room before heading out to the track this morning, I thought to myself that writing a blog post would be a fitting end for me to wrap up my thoughts and give insight into my season.
To say that this is how I envisioned my 2011 season going would be a bold face lie, but I can honestly say that given all that has happened, I can not hang my head in utter disappointment. It is incredibly hard for me to ever become down or sadden by anything that happens to me in regards to the sport of track and field. I always feel that everything I do and accomplish is icing on the cake for me because I never envisioned this sport would take me this far in the first place.
People think I'm being funny when I tell them that I figure by this point in my life I would have been circulating my resume and working a 9-5 gig because when I graduated from Howard University, I still didn't have a real idea about "professional track and field". When I was exposed to my first experience of professional track at the Olympic Trials in '04, I saw all the people with Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Unattached next to their names, so I just equated that to what I knew and I knew when I went to meets, if you had Howard or Hampton or FAMU next to your name, that meant you were a team. I was always under the impression that Allen Johnson, Larry Wade and all the other Nike athletes trained together and that's why I figured they were so good.
It was going to be less than a year away from me making my professional debut at the Reebok meet in '05 and I was completely oblivious to what the sport really was. At the time of my appearance in the trials in '04, I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that these athletes trained for four years to try to make the Olympics. I figured they all worked regular jobs the other years and squeezed in training how they could, but if you became really good like Marion Jones then you probably didn't have to work. I figured that because she was the only one I ever saw on TV or mainstream magazines really. That was my train of thought when it came to elite level track and field. I guess I could have asked one of them what was involved, but I didn't care that much, I was ready for track to end so I could start getting ready for two-a-day football practice. I hurt my hamstring bad at the NCAA Regionals and it still wasn't fully healed, so I needed to get on it before football started.
About two weeks after the trials, late in the first week of two-a-days, I had a meeting with an agent by the name of Mark Pryor, who was representing my friend Joel Brown at the time. He's the one that I have to credit with basically schooling me to the basic ins and outs of the sport. He scheduled a meeting with me up at Howard during the break between morning and evening practices in the football offices at Cook Hall. He's one of the first people who ever told me that he saw in me, the talent to be great in the 110 hurdles. For the life of him, he couldn't figure out why I was playing football at the time when I could be getting a start to my track career.
He printed out the entire 2004 110m hurdles top time list. He flipped about three pages and had my name highlighted and my time of 13.55. He flipped to Joel's name and he might have been around 13.33 or something. He told me if I wanted to get paid in the sport, I needed to run faster than 13.35. He told me that no shoe company would be interested unless you could at least run that time. I thought that was out of the realm of possibilities for me to be honest. But he told me about the European Circuit and how the sport was so huge out there and how there was tons of meets to go to and you get paid for ever single one. It was a very informative and thought provoking meeting. He might have become my manager when I did decide to take up the sport on a professional level, but he kept talking about Joel. I didn't know managers had several athletes in every event, I thought they just had one in an event and my business mind was telling me that I would probably always get the short end of the stick if it came to myself and Joel. Once again, I clearly had no idea what was going on. A little while later, I remember surfing around the internet one day and I saw Joel lined up in lane 9 in Zurich looking all skinny and scared, I was like "man my boy made it".
At that time track was the farthest thing from my mind, I forgot the Olympics were going on until I came home one night from football practice and cut on the TV, the 110 hurdles happen to be on and Allen was about to race. I watched it and he fell during the race. I felt very bad for him, that was the only thing I saw from the Games. I didn't even know who Liu Xiang was or that he won the Olympics and ran the world record until sometime in 2005.
I'm getting WAY off base here, I guess that's what happens when I just get to typing.
Anyway, I say all that to say, I had no intentions on going to school and making a career out of this, it kind of just happened. I still find it amazing when I talk to other athletes and they tell me about how they had the whole thing planned out to be a professional track athlete. They had it planned out all the way down to how many years they were going to spend in college, who their list of managers were going to be, what shoe company they wanted to go with etc.
When I moved to Florida in late January of 2005, I lived and trained with 400 meter specialist Mitch Potter. He's easily one of the most talented and gifted runners I have ever had the pleasure to work with. In 2003 he had the track world in the palm of his hand. He won nearly every race for the University of Minnesota and won a gold medal at World Championships in Paris. He could have gone pro easily, but he was persuaded to go back to school for 2004 and that season saw him surpassed in the event by his college teammate. Now those sponsorship deals weren't looking so nice, he ended up in a decent situation, but a far cry from what could have been. We use to sit around the living room some nights and talk about getting this "bread" in track and field, but I got the sense that he could never let the what coulda/shoulda been in 2003 go. I use to tell him to forget about that and go get it again. I use to strive to live the kind of lifestyle he was living at the time. I use to wake up early and go punch the clock working at Nike from 8am-3:30pm, he use to get up around noon and play Halo on Xbox all day until practice time. To me he was living the life. I'm convinced that dwelling on that was one of the main issues that stopped him from reaching his full potential. I know he could have been a 43 guy. Again, I tell that story to emphasize he had a plan, we all do. Often what we plan to do/accomplish seldom, if ever, goes the way we want it.
I had big plans for my 2011 season, but it didn't go how I thought it would. Will I dwell on it? Of course not. People ask me am I sad because I thought I could win Worlds and didn't medal or because I was running so well and then I started running bad and the answer for me is always "no". I'm never the type that gets concerned with what I don't have or what I didn't do. I am much more grateful for what I have, what I did and what I continue to do.
As far as the season goes, it started out right on the track that my coach laid out for it to go. I had an incredibly successful indoor season where I bested my previous personal best four times in the five races I ran for the season. I got a late start than normal for me in regards to the outdoor season because I caught a calf injury in my last indoor meet that held me out of hurdling and heavy training from February 14 to March 13, but I still rebounded and had my fastest career opener when I ran 13.16 at Kim Collins' meet down in St. Kitts. I knew I was right on track, even though I didn't improve my performances in my next meets in Daegu and Shanghai, even losing the race in Shanghai.
I didn't really trip off those performances because my coach told me I would be a bit flat for those meets and he told me do not become short sighted in what we are trying to accomplish this year. He emphasized all season to me "you have won all these races before, now we have to put you in a position to win something you never have." Of course he was referring to the World Championships.
We ran there May 15th, I didn't do another training day until May 23rd. That's how we had training set up. Go very hard for five weeks, complete/active rest for one to bring the elasticity in the legs back, come back and get a week+ of good workouts in before the next competition which happened to be Prefontaine. It was hard for me because after suffering the defeat in Shanghai, I wanted to get back out and work on what I thought went wrong, but I have complete trust in how I am trained and what I am coached to do, so I followed the direction. At Pre, I dropped my 8th career Sub-13 performance, second most for a career all-time behind the indelible Allen Johnson.
I am never somebody who gets caught up in having confidence or not having confidence. I feel like that word is just an all encompassing term sort of like the word virus. You can feel confident as hell and execute poorly and be on the outside looking in, you can also have little confidence but execute your butt off and be right where you need to be.
I was just executing exactly what Brooks asked me to do and how he asked it.
The contract the we all have with Brooks is very simple, it reads like this "Do what I ask, when I ask and how I ask it to be done and I guarantee success". I've made it this far in my career following that basic contract since 2005.
I had three weeks until Nationals and everything was going great, I had no doubt in my mind that I would be on the team, I knew I didn't have to do anything fancy or re-invent the wheel, just don't do anything stupid and I'll be fine, but after the first round, that's the beginning of where my whole season started to unravel.
I got done running, felt great, got worked on lightly and hit the ice bath at the track. A couple minutes later a pain started shooting through the groin on my right side, my first thought was "oh no, this can't be happening! Not now!'. I got worked on that night until after midnight, I was tremendously scared warming up for the semi final, but like I said earlier, confidence is really overrated, it's about execution. I found in the warm up that it only hurt to fully extend off the front block, so I wouldn't do that and when I get into the blocks, I would just point my knee slightly to the right to take the pressure off my groin area, but I could hurdle perfectly fine. I ran a couple of good races and made the team running 13.04 for the win.
Things just got worse when we got home. We got back to training and the pain was radiating from my lower abs to my scrotum, I was really scared then, hoping it wasn't some sort of sports hernia or something. I had the Paris meet coming up, I tried to train at home and couldn't, so I hopped on the first thing smoking to Munich after a couple of days at home. You know that feeling after you finishing you scans and stuff, boy talk about being sick with anticipation! But it was good, no hernia or muscle damage. Only problem was with my back, so I go the regular treatment and when I got adjusted it helped a lot, flew out to Paris and had a good performance running 13.09, but the relief was only temporary.
The morning after the race, it was painful to walk. Same feeling. I remembered I felt good after getting adjusted, so when I went home I just would consistently get adjusted to keep the pain down, but that stopped working too. When I went to the doctors the fourth time and got all the tests and scans done, it was revealed that I had developed a stress reaction in my pubic bone on my right leg, which is my lead leg. They said it is fairly common due to the fact that it bears a lot of weight as well as me being a hurdler. It was creating incredible inflammation in my adductor, hip flexor attachment sites, as well as sciatic nerve compression on that side, but again no muscle damage. I was told flat out that basically no amount of massage, icing, ultra-sound etc was going to make this go away.
Fully extending off the right block pedal became increasingly painful and I couldn't raise my lead leg to a 90 degree angle without a lot of pain. It got to the point where trying to put on jeans or lace up my trainers became a chore, but I was just thankful that the problem wasn't debilitating to the point that I couldn't compete. I have a very high pain tolerance, I just blocked out any discomfort and took the necessary steps away from the track to keep me going.
I had to go back and forth to the doctors five times this year, checking to make sure things weren't getting worse and that I could continue to compete without making matters worse. People that know me know I refuse to ever drop out of races unless I actually can't run and I will never come with the injury excuse at a meet. I've always said that when you put your feet in the blocks and your hands behind that white line, then that means you're ready to compete and nobody wants to hear anything after the fact other than "hey I just got my ass kicked".
I know good and well that injuries are apart of sport, everyone goes through them, it's a part of life when in the sport you're training at world record intervals. The same demands I'm placing on my body as a consistent sub 13 second performer are much different than back in '06 when I was running 13.20s and things didn't need to be perfect for me to run to my level. That being the case, you'll never see me complain when I catch and injury or talk about it all day long and whine to anybody's ears who could hear. I suck it up and try to make it happen. To me 95% of life's issues are black and white and boil down to two options: you're either going to do something or you're not. I chose to keep going, so every sub par performance I had, I signed my name on that picture. Bringing up an injury would have dominated every interview or press conference I had all year. I'm not really in to talking about all that, I'd rather just talk about running hurdles.
I really wanted to make it to Worlds, call me the ultimate optimist when it comes to track, but I'm a firm believer that in the sport you never know what might happen until you go out there and compete. Before Worlds, I read that Blanka Vlasic had a press conference and was in tears because I believe her knee was hurting and she might have to undergo an operation, but she wasn't going to give up and fold the tents before she gave it a shot. It was weeks before the championships and she refused to give up, that's exactly how I felt. I saw people pulling out the meet because they were injured, but for me I could never do it. I honestly don't see how any American athlete could do it unless they were scheduled for or had surgery, couldn't walk or run etc. I know how hard it was for me to earn the right to wear the USA jersey and I refuse to give it up unless I just can not run. In pain, not at my best, scared to not succeed, none of that crosses my mind! They would have to rip my jersey and bib number off of me!
In 2007 at my first World Championships out in Osaka, in my last workout, I strained my right hamstring badly doing starts. I'm on Skype talking to my homies Aubrey Herring and Robby Hughes, they ask me if I am going to pull out. I told them straight up I'd rather DNF (did not finish) than do a DNS (did not start). I told them I never know when I might be able to wear the USA uniform again. I know this isn't my birthright and I may not be at my best but I will try and give it my all. I made it out of the first round barely but coming back the next day, I couldn't even warm up for the semi-finals it hurt so much. I took my butt out there anyway. I got taped up, went to the call room, sprayed on a whole bunch of Stop Pain and drank two 5 hour energies and by the next thing I knew, we were halfway through the race. I went in to that race knowing I had a snowballs chance in hell of making it to the finals, that was even solidified when I saw Liu Xiang, Dayron Robles and Andy Turner were in my semi, but I didn't care. I asked Brooks afterwards what he thought of the race, he told me he didn't have the stomach to watch it because he thought I was going to carted off the track.
I was disappointed that I didn't make it to the finals and subsequently being dropped from most of my remaining races for the season, but I was proud that I rocked the USA jersey and did the absolute best I could under the circumstances. I reiterate, my head never bows in sorrow because of this sport.
Anyway, I get to Daegu and my preparations are already stunted. My left leg is strapped onto the table while getting my right leg stretched and boom, the table collapses and exacerbates the problems in my right leg even more and I had to shut it down.
I did the best I could out there. I felt good in the first round, but it's never the first round that's the problem, it's always the subsequent rounds, coming back on very short rest. In the final, I was just going to let it rip, no need in saving it for the junior prom. Coming out the blocks, as soon as the leg got that extension, it grabbed on me and I panicked but I was going to finish the race. I "thugged" my way through the race and ended up fifth.
I really admire what other athletes like Allyson Felix, Carmelita Jeter, Veronica Cambell-Brown, Walter Dix, Usain Bolt etc for what they were able to accomplish because being in those ballistic type events where anything can go wrong with the muscles and going out there day after day after day on short rest and coming out relatively healthy is very commendable because it is extremely hard to do. I never hesitate to tell them how great I think they are.
I was in doping control after the race and I was asked by another athlete who was in there after a previously finished final if I was going to go to back to my room in the village and cry. They were not being funny or making jokes, it was an honest question because I think they were on the verge. I started laughing and told them, In my professional life, I've never felt that urge. I always remember track is just a part of life, it's not life. They just said "I don't know how you do it D.O."
I went out of the Championships with my head still high because I knew the reason for my underperforming. I think it's only a cause for concern when you are not performing and don't know why. I know exactly why. I don't go from running five consecutive races at 13.10 or better then all of a sudden wake up and forget how to hurdle.
I'm sure a lot of people were probably dumbfounded as to what was going on or reaching for straws to make some sort of rationalization of it. Some probably were light weight celebrating the fact. I only add that in because NOBODY has 100% support from everybody, no matter what you might think of yourself, people are not going to like you for whatever their reasoning is.
I know this sport is definitely one that everyone builds you up to tear you down. I just hear how people were talking about Bolt after the 100 meters where he false started, intimating all kinds of things. Now his playing around and not being serious is a problem, but that sure wasn't the case back in '08 and '09. That's why I never read my press clippings when everything was going right and I don't read them now when they are going not so great. People always ask me "did you read this" or "did you hear that", I never do because if it's an interview, I know the gist of what's there because I gave the interview, if it's someone making a statement, I don't care because I make statements and comments about all kinds of stuff too. We all know the good ole adage of what opinions are akin too, the dumbest thing you can do is engage someone in an argument over an opinion. Now if somebody brings to my attention someone making some sort of personal attack like I remember last year on Track and Field News in regards to a British article, then I'm gonna go see about 'em, anything else is water under the bridge.
I love this quote "if you're not in the huddle, you don't know the play". The flip side of it is, you can not be in the spotlight and not take the bad with the good. That's why I always rely on the outpouring of support from my fans when I read on the blog or twitter or facebook or when I happen to see them in person. I think it's so cool that people I don't even know have my back, I always appreciate that and when things aren't going the way I envisioned, I go back an read my messages. That's why I sign every autograph and take every picture I can.
After Worlds, I went back to the doctors to get updated scans on everything to check the progress and make sure nothing was damaged any further so that I could finish out the season. I committed myself to these competitions earlier and I wasn't going to not run unless I was advised to. I am a professional and this is my job. I don't feel you can only be professional when it suits your best interests, but you must at all times when it concerns your profession. I might have been in a bit of pain but as long as the doctor cleared me of causing major damage, guess what? I'm going to the meets. Another thing I always remember is that in sport and life, there is no bookmark to hold your place so you can come back and pick up where you left off when you're ready. Doesn't work like that. These meets extending invitations and giving these nice appearance fees etc does not go on for ever, so you better take advantage. I go out and give it everything I have in every race and never half-ass. Win, lose or draw.
I refuse to have pity parties for myself. It is tough when every person you see or every interview or press conference asks what happened to you? what went wrong? etc but I harken back to the whole being a professional, gotta take the bad with the good. It sure wasn't a problem answering the same questions over and over last year of why things were going so well was it?
2011 was a stark contrast to my 2010 season. In 2010, I didn't make one visit to the doctors, didn't miss a single day of training due to injury, every move we made came up smelling like roses. I am firmly rooted in the fact that the pendulum of life and sports never swings for you or against you forever. You've got to be able to hang on when it's going against you and never give in because it has to swing in your favor eventually. It's just when you see people give up too soon that they never get that swing back effect. When it's going for you, you've got to position yourself and make the decisions to keep it going for you as long as possible because soon enough your time to be tested will come up.
I can't name a single successful person/athlete who hasn't had to go through the trials and tribulations and have their mettle tested. Remember, there are always plenty of ways to be a winner, but only one way to be a loser and that's to fail but not look beyond the failure.
I've always been good at looking beyond every "failure" in my career and keep plugging away. Go back and check how things turned out for me the seasons after injuries basically shut me down in 2007 and 2009.
The hurdles is one of those events with a high turnover rate. The champion from 2007, wasn't in 2008, who wasn't in 2009, who wasn't in 2010, who wasn't in 2011. I don't panic either, I take solace in the fact that no one is doing anything performance wise that I haven't proven I can do and have done for the past four seasons. If a few people were out challenging the world record, then I would be a little concerned, but it just solidifies that I don't have to do anything much different than what I've been doing to get right back where I feel I need to be. I've been working with some great individuals this season that kept me pieced together and able to compete, I really appreciate their efforts. I've got a great rehab program that I will start after a few weeks of straight downtime. It will mainly address the muscles in my right leg that suffered about 2cm of atrophy in certain measurements due to the injury. Strengthening those areas back as well as addressing the direct cause of the issues are the main focus. Ill be ready come fall training, back at 100%. Looking forward to getting started.
It was great to see Liu Xiang back to full strength this year as well as Dayron Robles after his injury struggles, they produced some great performances this season. They are definitely two of my favorite guys to compete with. The emergence of Jason Richardson this year was also very cool to see. I have seen him run since 2005 and to see his progression from that time until now has been a pleasure, he's always been a cool guy and he's got a coach in John Smith that will have him on the right path for a long time. I hope the day will come when we all will race with each of us at or near our best.
On the track, 2011 didn't turn up how I hoped, but I still feel like I accomplished major things. Winning USA championships, to me, is as meaningful as winning Worlds and Olympics. It's just something I never envisioned myself doing back when I attended my first USA championships and saw how extremely fast they were running. Also winning the high hurdle title in the USA is incredibly hard, we have so much talent and depth it's crazy! I also ran under 13, which I think is so cool. Every time I do it, I still get the same feeling as when I did it the first time. I ran the fastest times over the hurdles indoor and outdoor in the world as well. I didn't win the gold medal or any medal for that case this year, but it was still a pretty decent year.
Away from the track, things really took off for me. Signing three major sponsorship deals aside from the ones I already possessed as well as putting the finishing touches on one more, I was even able to get my mom a nice little deal! I understand that the likelihood of becoming a superstar in the sport of track and field is slim to none, especially being American. If you joined this sport in the attempts to become some national hero, you're also sadly mistaken, but I know that I can do things that will put me in a better position for the remaining years of my life by using track as a vehicle.
For me, It's not always about what people can do for me, sometimes it's about how I can help other people. One of the proudest things I did this year was in conjunction with DC Speed Track Club in Washington, DC, I put on a track meet that attracted almost 800 metro area kids. Three of my sponsors, Nike, Coca-Cola and RivalUs got involved and supplied everything from t-shirts to bags to signage to water coolers and the water, it was a great event. We donated all the left over stuff to the Japan Relief efforts as well. I'm looking forward to doing my annual camp for kids out in Denver, CO this offseason as well and I'm starting the discussion with my financial sponsor about setting up two scholarships at my former high school, one for a senior boy and senior girl to use for college. I signed on for the Classroom Champions program as well, I have been paired with a group of students from Portland, Oregon and I'm really looking forward to that! My company Sub-13 Enterprises is doing great as well.
People wonder how I can handle all this in stride and never be down, here's why: I have a great career that has afforded me the opportunities to live an amazing lifestyle, see things I only saw in magazines, meet great people, make a lot of money, help others with my resources and most importantly be a great provider for my family. My family is THE most important thing to me. They have held me down before I ever stepped foot on a track and they will years after I am long forgotten by this sport. Bottom line, I feel like I'm living the dream! I know it will end someday but that's why I steadily make decisions to set myself up for my future endeavors.
Thanks to all of you who have found myself someone that you can root for. I didn't accomplish all of my goals this season but I will definitely be back making a strong push for the 2012 Olympic Games. Don't be surprised when you see me back and at the top of the podium in London!
For those of you who made it through this novel, I thank you too! Putting thoughts on paper always gives me a good feeling.
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I drew this for an issue of Martin Eden's Spandex a few years ago. At the top is one of Martin's characters, Neon, and at the bottom is Santa for no reason other than I felt like drawing him. I've always wanted to draw a comic-strip starring a no-nonsense Santa in a manga/Dark Knight Returns style but since then Santa Claus Vs The Nazis and Grant Morrison's upcoming Father Christmas: Year One have happened so, I suppose, that the moment has passed. Merry Christmas.
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Zobel, Rya W.
Born 1931 in Zwickau, Germany
Federal Judicial ServiceJudge, U. S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
Nominated by Jimmy Carter on January 25, 1979, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629; Confirmed by the Senate on March 21, 1979, and received commission on March 23, 1979.
EducationRadcliffe College, A.B., 1953
Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1956
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The original West German Federal Indemnification Law (known as the Bundesentschädigungsgesetz, or BEG) was enacted in 1952 by the government of West Germany as a result of agreements with the Claims Conference. This law encompasses three separate German laws that were adopted in 1953, 1956 and 1965 that provided for compensation to Holocaust survivors.
This form of compensation was referred to by the German government as Wiedergutmachung, which literally means "making good again." However, this term was not accepted by the Claims Conference and is generally no longer used in recognition of the fact that the suffering of Nazi victims cannot be "made up for" by any amount of material compensation.
Because the deadlines for filing claims under the BEG laws of the 1950s and 1960s have expired, it is no longer possible for new applicants to receive compensation under the BEG. Nor is it usually possible to reopen applications for BEG payments that have been denied.
However, in a small number of special cases, individuals who previously applied to the BEG but who were denied payment because they were not able to prove sufficient damage to health may possibly reopen their BEG claims.
It is sometimes possible for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution who receive ongoing BEG payments to obtain additional benefits. Under certain circumstances, recipients of ongoing BEG payments can apply for stays at a health spa (Kur), or for increases in ongoing BEG payments due to deterioration in health.
Widows and widowers of victims of Nazi persecution who were recipients of ongoing BEG payments may also be eligible to receive payments, under certain circumstances.
The information presented herein is intended for information purposes only and solely as a general guide. The information is not intended as legal advice. It is a summary of specific issues and does not represent a definitive or complete statement of the programs and policies of the agencies or governments mentioned. The information may not address the special needs, interests and circumstances of individual recipients. Individual situations differ and recipients are urged to seek individual advice. Individuals seeking specific information on a program are urged to contact the relevant program or to consult their social service agency or help center representative. To the best of our knowledge the information is correct as of the date of this document and this information may change subsequent to the said date: Updated January 2005


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Advance Auto Parts earnings per diluted share for the third quarter ended October 5, 2002 rose 45.3% to $US0.77 after integration expenses and an extraordinary item. Year-to-date earnings per diluted share, after integration expense and the extraordinary item, rose 35.3% to $1.57. The company incurred pre-tax integration expenses related to the Discount Auto Parts acquisition of $8.2 million during the third quarter and $26.4 million during the first three fiscal quarters. The company anticipates its total integration expenses to be approximately $3 million lower than originally announced at approximately $37 million for 2002.
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, often simply called Bartlett's, is an American reference work that is the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations. The book was first issued in 1855 and is currently in its eighteenth edition, published in 2012.
The book arranges its entries by author, rather than by subject, as many other quotation collections, and enters the authors chronologically by date of birth rather than alphabetically. Within years, authors are arranged alphabetically and quotations are arranged chronologically within each author's entry, followed by "attributed" remarks whose source in the author's writings has not been confirmed. The book contains a thorough keyword index and details the source of each quotation.
John Bartlett, who ran the University Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was frequently asked for information on quotations and he began a commonplace book of them for reference. John Bartlett is generally supposed to have drawn the quotations in his book from his own extensive reading and prodigious memory and a commonplace book he kept. But he acknowledged in the 1855 preface that "this Collection ... has been considerably enlarged by additions from an English work on a similar plan." That work, Hancher found, was named in some reviews of the time as the Handbook of Familiar Quotations from English Authors written by Isabella Rushton Preston (London, 1853). Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, we see, has a somewhat shadowy editorial provenance. In 1855, he privately printed his compilation as A Collection of Familiar Quotations. This first edition contained 258 pages of quotations by 169 authors, chiefly the Bible, William Shakespeare, and the great English poets.[1] Bartlett wrote in the fourth edition that "it is not easy to determine in all cases the degree of familiarity that may belong to phrases and sentences which present themselves for admission; for what is familiar to one class of readers may be quite new to another."
The book was a great success, and Bartlett issued three more editions before joining the Boston publishing firm of Little, Brown and Company. Bartlett rose to be the senior partner of the firm and supervised nine editions of the work before his death in 1905, the work selling over 300,000 copies. The seventh edition had appeared in 1875, the eighth edition in 1882, and the ninth in 1891. The tenth edition, however, would not appear for more than twenty years.
Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, the tenth edition (1914) was much like its predecessors. The book began with quotations originally in English, arranging them chronologically by author (Geoffrey Chaucer was the first entry, Mary Frances Butts the last). These quotes were chiefly from literary sources. A "miscellaneous" section follows of quotations in English from politicians and scientists (such as "fifty-four forty or fight!"). A section of "translations" follows, consisting mainly of lines from the ancient Greeks and Romans. The last section was devoted to the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. Quotations were arranged in a single column.
The eleventh edition (1937), edited by Christopher Morley (1890–1957) and Louella D. Everett, expanded the page size and created a two-column format, making it the first edition that is recognizable to users of the modern work. A twelfth edition (1948) was also edited by Morley and Everett.
The thirteenth edition (1955) was billed by the publisher as the "Centennial Edition". While the work was credited to the editors of Little, Brown, the preface gives special thanks to Morley and Everett as well as Emily Morison Beck (1915–2004). The volume continued to add more recent material, the two youngest authors being cartoonist Bill Mauldin and Queen Elizabeth II. Beck also edited the fourteenth edition (1968) and the fifteenth (1980). Aram Bakshian said Beck's work on the fifteenth edition was the start of the work's downfall: "Donning the intellectual bell-bottoms and platform shoes of its era, Bartlett's began spouting third-rate Third World, youth-culture, and feminist quotes", part of "a middle-aged obsession with staying trendy."[attribution needed]
Following Beck's retirement, Little, Brown entrusted the editorship to Justin Kaplan, whose life of Mark Twain, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, had won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize. Kaplan brought out the sixteenth edition (1993) to criticism in part because he included only three minor Ronald Reagan quotations and commented publicly he despised Reagan. (Franklin D. Roosevelt had 35 entries and John F. Kennedy had 28.) Jonathan Siegel, who edited the Macmillan Book of Political Quotations, said Kaplan was "an insult to the memory of John Bartlett and the ideologically inclusive spirit of the first fifteen editions."[attribution needed] Kaplan was also criticized for including pop culture material that was considered neither "familiar" nor durable. Similar criticisms were leveled against his editing of the seventeenth edition (2003) which included entries for the first time from J. K. Rowling, Jerry Seinfeld, and Larry David. Classics were cut: eleven quotations by Alexander Pope were dropped, as were what Kaplan considered high-sounding sentimental quotes. Kaplan did include six Reagan quotations, and he told USA Today "I admit I was carried away by prejudice. Mischievously I did him dirty."[2][3]
The eighteenth edition, which came out in 2012, was edited by poet, critic, and editor Geoffrey O'Brien, who is also the editor-in-chief of the Library of America.[4]
In addition to the prefaces of various editions of Bartlett's, the following sources were useful:


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