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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- A faded envelope discovered after 148 years sheds new light on Augusta's little-known role as a place where Union prisoners of war were held during the Civil War.
Its author, Sgt. William S. Marshall, was a young Indiana soldier captured near Rowe Gap, Tenn., on May 3, 1863, and shuffled from place to place for the remainder of the conflict.
An envelope he addressed to his family in Greencastle, Ind., on Nov. 26, 1864, however, places him in Augusta, where a county jail at Fourth and Watkins streets was anecdotally known to have housed Union prisoners.
The rare cover, signed "W.S. Marshall, Adjt 51st Ind. Vols, Prisoner of War Augusta Ga," was part of a collection sold recently by Siegel Auction Galleries in New York, where it fetched $1,900 as a possibly one-of-a-kind postal artifact.
Although the stamped and canceled document carried the appropriate notations from Confederate censors, the correspondence it once contained is long gone.
Georgia was home to Andersonville, one of the largest and most notorious camps for Union prisoners. More recently, the short-lived Camp Lawton in Jenkins County was re-examined as an archaeological project.
Camp Lawton was established in late 1864 to relieve overcrowding and deplorable health conditions at Andersonville, where more than 13,000 Union POWs died.
Augusta was never widely known as a venue for war prisoners, but it was not unusual for cities to use existing facilities to house captured soldiers, said Erick Montgomery, executive director of Historic Augusta Inc.
"I don't know a thing about a full-fledged prison camp in Augusta, but there were prisoners of war here from time to time during the Civil War," he said. "Certainly wounded prisoners were brought here after the Battle of Chickamauga late in 1863."
The date on the envelope would have placed Marshall in Augusta during the confusing period when Gen. Sherman's army was approaching the area.
"In November 1864 General Sherman was on his way through Georgia, and Augusta was full of refugees," Montgomery said. "If Adjutant Marshall were being held somewhere in the path of Sherman, it seems logical they may have brought him to Augusta to hunker-down until the bummers passed."
The number of Union prisoners who lived in Augusta during the war remains unknown, but records for Augusta's Magnolia Cemetery show that some of them died here.
According to the cemetery's database, about 90 of the nearly-300 Civil War soldiers interred there were federal prisoners, from places as far away as Maine, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, who succumbed to ailments ranging from "consumption" and "diarrhea" to bullet wounds.
The square brick building that served as the Richmond County Jail during the Civil War is long gone, Montgomery said, and the site is now occupied by the present-day law enforcement complex.


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The N-Strike Elite grey triggers are featured on Nerf gear destined for Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Brazil and China. China I hear you say? Well spotted on Baidu is the upcoming Triad EX-3, but unlike the previous photos, this one's got the grey trigger...
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Rumours: Triad with grey trigger
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Guess the Triad is true..ReplyDelete
Still not getting it. Ranges will probably be on par with the original Jolt.Replies
I dunno, the handle on the blaster is big enough for a decent direct plunger. Maybe it'll come with, maybe not, but I'm pretty sure Nerf would make the triad have good ranges.Delete
It's gotta be the production model. The trigger guard reminds me if the hypersight line.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 5, 2012 at 8:09 AM
Nerfhub has a photo of the Firestrike, new Jolt and Triad next to each other (along with Nite Finder, Clue Jolt and Element) so you can see the relative sizes. The Triad grip appears to be longer and slightly larger in diameter. If it's a single shot blaster there will be a lot more air behind the dart than the Jolt produces so performance should be better.ReplyDelete
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – In the series finale, the King University baseball team was locked in a pitcher's duel with the University of Mount Olive on Monday afternoon. The Tornado broke through to take a lead in the seventh inning, but the Trojans responded with seven runs in the eighth inning to take the contest 8-2.
Jay Gonzalez sparked the Trojan offense with a leadoff single to start the game in the top of the first inning. He then stole second and reached third when the throw sailed into center field. Gonzalez later scored on a one-out sacrifice fly to give Mount Olive (24-11, 10-2 CC) the early 1-0 lead.
The Tornado (12-24-1, 4-8 CC) threated with back-to-back one-out singles by Stephen Mullins and Tyler Raymond, but couldn't push any runs across.
Both pitchers settled in at that point, King's Alexander Gonzalez only allowed one hit and three base runners over the next five innings, and Mount Olive's Gunner Kines matched him pitch-for-pitch. However, Kines had to deal with more traffic on the base paths, stranding one in the third and two in the second before working around a pair of Tornado hits in the fifth inning.
The King offense finally broke through in the seventh inning when Garrett Cook ignited the offense with a leadoff single to force a Trojan pitching change. Tyler Gaby and Mullins followed with consecutive walks to load the bases with no outs. After another Mount Olive pitching change, Raymond ripped a single down the left field line to score two and give King a 2-1 lead. However, the Trojans escaped further damage, getting out of the inning with a pair of strikeouts and a groundout.
The Tornado lead was short lived however, and Gonzalez sparked the Trojan offense again in the eighth inning with a leadoff single. He later scored on a Bradon Reitano single to even the score at 2-2. Reitano then stole second before an intentional walk loaded the bases with one out. It appeared as though Gonzalez would escape the jam as he induced a pop out for the second out of the frame. Nevertheless, Justin Manning ripped a double to right field that cleared the bases, giving Mount Olive a 5-2 lead. The Trojans added three more runs in the frame to take a commanding 8-2 lead.
King was unable to muster any offense over the final two innings as they fell to Mount Olive 8-2. Gonzalez tossed eight innings and struck out nine on 134 pitches. He allowed eight runs, seven earned on nine hits. His counterpart, Kines threw 102 pitches in six innings of work while allowing one run on seven hits.
Offensively, the Tornado were led by Mullins and Raymond. Mullins went 4-for-4 with a walk while Raymond went 4-for-5 and drove in both of King's runs.
King will be in action again on Tuesday when they host Lenoir-Rhyne University at 3:00 p.m.


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New poll shows Shaheen, Hassan leading prospective GOP challengers
September 17. 2013 4:45PM
An early poll of potential 2014 matchups by a Democratic-leaning pollster shows Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Gov. Maggie Hassan leading prospective Republican challengers.
The poll, with a 3 percent margin of error, by Public Policy Polling of North Carolina showed Shaheen leading former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, 48-44 percent; former U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass, 51-44 percent; former state Sen. Jim Rubens 50-33 percent, activist Karen Testerman 50-31 percent and former U.S. Rep. Bob Smith 51-35 percent. Hassan leads Republicans Brad Cook 49 to 34 percent; state Senate President Chuck Morse 49 to 33 percent; state Sen. Andy Sanborn 49 to 32 percent; and state Rep. George Lambert 49 to 32 percent.
Forty-nine percent of those polled approved of Shaheen's job performance, while 42 percent disapproved. Hassan's job performance was approved by 51 percent, with 33 percent disapproving.


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Jesus Aguilar and Carlos Moncrief homered for the Akron Aeros in their 7-0 win over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats on Tuesday night at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium.
The start of the game was delayed 2 hours, 48 minutes minutes by rain, and ended just before midnight.
Aguilar hit a solo homer in the fourth and Moncrief a two-run shot in the fifth to stake Akron to a 3-0 lead.
Adam Abraham added a two-run double, Tyler Holt had an RBI double, and Ronny Rodriguez scored three runs for the Aeros in support of starter and winner Matt Packer (4-5), who allowed no runs and five hits in 6 2/3 innings. He walked three and struck out three.
Marcus Walden (4-7) took the loss for New Hampshire. He went six innings, allowing five runs (all earned) and nine hits. He walked two and struck out one.
Brad Glenn had two hits for the Fisher Cats, who amassed only five in the game.


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Florida softball used two wins over Loyola Marymount and Oklahoma State Thursday at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Palm Springs to improve its record this season to an undefeated 14-0. The Gators first downed LMU, 8-2, at the Big League Dreams Sports Complex's 'Wrigley Field' before topping OSU, 2-0, in the second and final contest of the day for the Orange and Blue.
Gator hurlers Hannah Rogers (Lake Wales, Fla.) and Lauren Haeger (Peoria, Ariz.) each earned wins for UF in the circle, Rogers against Loyola Marymount and Haeger against the Cowgirls in game two. Rogers moved to 6-0 on the season with a four strikeout, complete-game effort against the Lions (3-3), while Haeger (5-0) used a four-hit shutout and eight strikeouts to add her fifth victory of the season in the circle against Oklahoma State.
Senior Kelsey Horton (Valrico, Fla.) led UF at the plate Thursday, going 2-for-5 (.400) with a run, RBI, double and two walks, while nine other Gator bats connected for a hit. Freshman catcher Aubree Munro (Brea, Calif.) was 1-for-2 (.500) with a double and a walk against Loyola Marymount.
In the early game against the LMU Lions, the Gators rolled, putting up three runs each in the second and third innings before pushing two final runs across for extra insurance in the bottom of the sixth.
LMU jumped out of the gates aggressive against the Gators, scoring in the top of the first on a two-out Olivia Alvarez RBI single to right field.
The Gators found their rhythm in the second though, and back-to-back bombs by sophomores Briana Little (Middleburg, Fla.) and Katie Medina (Downey, Calif.) – her first career blast as a Gator – fueled UF's offensive efforts to put Florida up 3-1. A bases-loaded RBI walk from Horton, followed by a two-RBI single up the middle from sophomore Jessica Damico (Gray Summit, Mo.) in the third extended the Florida lead to 6-1.
Megan Harman and Sterling Shuster started the sixth hot for the Lions, Harman with a leadoff single, followed by Shuster's RBI double to put up LMU's second and final run of the afternoon.
The Gators added their final two runs in the bottom of the sixth, first on a Haeger bases-loaded RBI walk, followed by a freshman Taylor Schwarz (Palm Beach, Fla.) fielder's choice that plated classmate Kelsey Stewart (Wichita, Kan.) before Lion pitcher Molly Medeiros retired the side.
Florida faced four different LMU pitchers Thursday as Medeiros (2.1 IP) shouldered the loss (1-1), but was backed up in the circle by pitching staff members Dana Waldusky (3.0 IP), Erica Grady and Stephanie Crist (0.2 IP).
Game two between Oklahoma State (2-3) and Florida was a classic pitcher's duel: Haeger versus Cowgirl ace Kat Espinosa. Both pitchers had nearly identical stats, Haeger with four hits, no runs, two walks and eight strikeouts and Espinosa with three hits, no runs, two walks and seven strikeouts.
UF and OSU both connected for hits early – the Gators on a Horton double in the first inning and OSU on a Tamara Brown blooper to left center in the second, but neither team could capitalize. OSU struck again in the third on a Gessenia DeLaCruz leadoff hit, while UF sophomore Bailey Castro (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) led things off with a single in the fourth for the Gators, but OSU stranded one in the third, Florida two in the fourth to continue the shootout.
In the fifth, things got interesting – after Espinosa retired leadoff Medina, OSU opted to trade their starter for Simone Freeman in the circle to switch up the look the third time through the lineup. The change didn't faze Stewart, who connected for a one-out triple to the right-center fence. A strikeout and fly out retired the Gators, both teams still even with no runs.
Shannon Kaufman and Tarah Ettinger both hit one-out singles to left center in the top of the sixth, but Haeger added her sixth strikeout of the day and forced a groundout for the final out to prevent the Cowgirls from getting on the board.
The Gators made their move in the home half of the frame with bases loaded after a Castro walk, junior Stephanie Tofft (Lincoln, Calif.) hit and a freshman Taylore Fuller (Trenton, Fla.) hit-by-pitch. Espinosa inherited the juiced bags after OSU opted to re-enter their starting pitcher. An Ensley Gammel (Bakersfield, Calif.) attempted squeeze with one out on the board first forced an OSU defensive miscue that allowed the Gators to capitalize. After eliminating Castro at home, an overthrow down to first from the Oklahoma State catcher in attempt to get Gammel allowed Tofft to work her way to third and then home, while Fuller took third and Gammel scampered to second, resulting in a 1-0 Gator lead.
Next up, Schwarz poked a RBI single through the left side to give UF its second run of the day before Espinosa forced a Stewart fly out. Haeger added her seventh and eighth strikes in the top of the seventh to give UF its 14th straight win of the season.
Freeman (1-3) was tagged with the loss as her two base runners gave UF the winning advantage.
The Gators will be back at it again Friday in the second day of Mary Nutter competition at the Big League Dreams Sports Complex against Syracuse and No. 7 Missouri.
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"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." — statement to the court during the Rivonia trial, April, 20, 1964.
"I do not, however, deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation, and oppression of my people by whites." — statement to the court during the Rivonia trial, April, 20, 1964.
"I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands." — addressing a crowd after his release from prison on Feb. 11, 1990.
"Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates." — on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1993.
"The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us ... We enter into a covenant that we shall build a society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world." — at inauguration.
"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb." — from his autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom."
"This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying." — Mandela on AIDS.


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A lender, other than the issuer of a lender credit card or a lender of a student loan made on or after July 1, 1992, in accordance with the federal higher education act of 1965, as amended, who, with respect to a particular transaction, makes a consumer loan for the purpose of enabling a borrower to buy goods or services, other than primarily for an agricultural purpose, is subject to all claims and defenses of the borrower against the seller arising from that specific sale of goods or services if the lender participates in or is connected with the sales transaction. A lender is considered to be connected with such sales transaction if:
(i) The lender and the seller have arranged for a commission or brokerage or referral fee for the extension of credit by the lender;
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(vii) The lender was the issuer of a credit card other than a lender credit card which may be used by the borrower in the sales transaction as a result of a prior agreement between the issuer and the seller.
(b) The total of all claims and defenses which a borrower is permitted to assert against a lender under the provisions of this section shall not exceed that portion of the loan used for that sale, except (1) as to any claim or defense founded in fraud: Provided, That as to any claim or defense founded in fraud arising on or after July 1, 1990, the total sought shall not exceed the original amount of the sale and (2) for any excess charges and penalties recoverable under section one hundred one, article five of this chapter.
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(e) A claim or defense which a borrower may assert against a lender under the provisions of this section may be asserted only as a defense to or setoff against a claim by the lender: Provided, That if a borrower shall have a claim or defense which could be asserted under the provisions of this section as a matter of defense to or setoff against a claim by the lender were such lender to assert such claim against the borrower, then the borrower shall have the right to institute and maintain an action or proceeding seeking to obtain the cancellation, in whole or in part, of the indebtedness evidenced by a negotiable instrument or other instrument or the release, in whole or in part, of any lien upon real or personal property securing the payment thereof: Provided, however, That any claim or defense founded in fraud, lack or failure of consideration or a violation of the provisions of this chapter as specified in section one hundred one, article five of this chapter, may be asserted by a borrower at any time, subject to the provisions of this code relating to limitation of actions.
(f) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed in any manner as affecting any loan made prior to the operative date of this chapter.
(g) Notwithstanding any provisions of this section, a lender shall not be subject to any claim or defense arising from or growing out of personal injury or death resulting therefrom or damage to property.
(h) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as affecting any buyer's or lessee's right of action, claim or defense which is otherwise provided for in this code or at common law.


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Welcome to the 171 st edition of the Carnival of Ohio Politics! Unfortunately, I've allowed myself to become trapped into the cursed numerology surrounding these carnivals, and the need for a number related theme. Beyond observing that 171 is a palindrome, and that Wiki tells me that in the 2000 census Belmore Ohio had 171 residents, there's not a lot of stuff related to 171. Well, there probably is, but on this topic I'm facing the kind of writer's block that the Bad Hemingway Contest people would call "The White Bull that is a Monitor with No Words on It".
Had I given this a bit more advance thought, I'd have stipulated that all entries must contain a palindrome in the title. Would have cut down the editorial work substantially.
Next time up, I'm goin' off the reservation – probably something like an "As Seen on TV" edition. Don't say you weren't warned.
But now on to this week's jambalaya of Ohio bloggy goodness.
The Machiavellian from The Virtuous Republic is searching for one of those federal stimulus jobs in Ohio, and that's exactly what he found. Maybe Diogenes could do better, but I doubt it.
Daniel at Buckeye RINO wants to c lean up county government, and not just in Cuyahoga county by shifting the election cycle to odd years. It's probably better than my idea to clean up Cuyahoga county via tactical nukes, since there's an uncanny resemblance between many politicians and cockroaches.
On the larger issue of corruption, Daniel has a major point. When we're talking about how to restart growth, we often focus on taxes, regulations, education, incentives, etc., and rarely take into account the negative effect of having local government run by a bunch of self serving shakedown artists. Honest business people don't get along well with dishonest politicians.
In Strickland, Redfern, Dimora, Kasich, and Coughlin (Oh My!) Daniel takes on Strickland's "I was against gambling before I was for gambling" shedding of principle, Redfern's related flogging of Dimora, Kasich's silence, and Coughlin's response. Confused? Welcome to Ohio Politics. Read the whole thing, as they say.
John Michael Spinelli is On Assignment, noting that Cleveland has a neighborhood in the " Top 25" for violent crime, while Cincinnati has a neighborhood sporting the national championship. Not a title you want to bring home. He also notes that since Strickland has embraced gambling, why not create casinos on trains? (Well, technically only slots on trains, but since other states have casinos on "riverboats" that really can't go anywhere, why not a train? At least you would eventually get from Cleveland to Cincinnati.). He also makes some comparisons about our views on nuclear power (now that there's a proposal to actually build a new plant) with the French, much to the advantage of the French.
Tom Blumer of BizzyBlog starts out with one of his "positivity" pieces on Joe Nuxhall. And in these contentious days, who doesn't need some positivity? Unfortunately, it's all downhill with the inevitable descent into Kasich v Strickland (agreed that Kasich doesn't get the credit he should for balancing the Federal budget even noting that this wasn't entirely his own doing, but to imply the whole fiscal crisis is a Strickland problem is a bit of a stretch. I'll certainly sign up for the validity of describing Strickland as 'dithering', or perhaps given the slots issue, 'blithering'. And then there's the directionless Lee Fisher.
Conservative Culture notes that the ATF wants to know the serial numbers of NRA member's guns. Because, you know, the NRA is busy running guns to Mexico. Keep in mind that the unofficial ATF slogan is "You know us, we're the Waco people". In a continuing vein, CC notes that free speech on some Ohio campuses is now optional at the whim of local security. Apparently, evangelicals are the new Irish.
Neocon Panic Attacks notes that the costs of nuclear power are more than most people suppose, and risky as well. But at least the things are capable of producing power on a large scale, unlike, say, wind or solar.
The Ohio Republic provides an update on Stowers v OH Dept of Agriculture, where the Dept. sent a swat team out to raid the Stower's – wait for it – food co-op. Seems to be a pretty extreme measure for someone likely selling illicit gluten free flour. Ohio Republic also notes that people aren't as keen on holding the d ollar as a reserve currency anymore, because the international community is loosing faith in the ability of the Administration to turn the economy around.
Tim Higgins of Just Blowing Smoke provides a fractured fairy tail update on Little Ben Riding Hood, as well as noting that whenever we have a Democratic President, we've had a health care crisis that had to be solved RIGHT NOW!, but some how, some way, we've survived.
Ben of the Keeler Political Report also notes the proposal to build a new nuclear plant in southern Ohio, but doubts that it will ever get built. So do I; most of the Green movement seems to be dedicated to stopping all energy production however they can. He also notes Gov. Strickand's flop on slot machines.
Glass City Jungle's Lisa Renee notes that the proposed Ohio budget hits the libraries pretty hard, but it's a lot more than libraries facing cuts. Just wait till the pension funds for state employees can't be ignored anymore.
Finally, my own submissions from The Boring Made Dull: Related to Daniel's posts on Cuyahoga County corruption, Ted "Poor Tax" Strickland, and on to a new topic, the failed recall effort to oust Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic.
That's it for Carnival #171; a day late, and dollar short. Thanks to all who submitted pieces.


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We had to cancel our ladies Christmas support group lunch this year. Nobody had time. In the old days we would meet a few weeks before the holiday and whine about all the work we had to do to get ready for the holiday and drink ourselves under the table.
But now it's gotten out of control and it's our fault. That's right, girls. We do it to ourselves. If we stopped, Christmas might actually revert to a religious holiday.
There are plenty of atrocities perpetrated against women around the globe but this one – let's face it — is self-inflicted.
I am the writer, director, producer and star of our Christmas holiday. It's a miracle that my husband and I are still together after 40 years, considering that each one of those years has a Christmas in it.
When Ben and I got together I soon learned that Christmas was not his thing. I'm from Savannah. It was a big deal in our Southern family. He is from Boston. Yankees get socks, underwear and an orange in their stockings. On our first Christmas I went out and bought him, on my meager reporter's salary, a navy cashmere blazer, a cashmere monogrammed bathrobe and leather slippers, his first Turnbull and Asser shirt with a white collar and a burgundy cashmere turtleneck. He went down to the drugstore and bought me a TV stand. (Our TV sat on the dresser)
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The following year he did a little better but it became clear that he needed help. I started going to various stores and picking out what I wanted. Then I would have the store manager call Ben and say he ought to come in to buy me something. When he went in the manager would suggest what I had picked out which "looked like Sally". This turned out to be a huge success, and I recommend it. When I showed off my presents to other women, they would glare at their husbands and Ben would preen.
I began helping the husbands of my friends by taking them to jewelry stores to pick out presents for their wives. This too was a huge success. One year I picked out a pair of diamond earrings for a friend. She was ecstatic and her husband was duly rewarded. The next Christmas he went in and bought the exact same pair. It had registered somewhere in his brain that she might like them. When she took them back she said it was obvious that the jewelers, who knew he had gotten the same pair again, said nothing because they thought he was giving them to his mistress.
One year when I didn't have time to go pick out something for myself I told my daughter in law to tell him she would take care of it for him. I wrapped up a beautiful necklace Ben had given me several years before and put it under the tree. I was overwhelmed by his generous and thoughtful gift and he was extremely pleased and grateful. I recommend this too.
My father used to buy my mother presents but she finally suggested that he ask me to choose them for him. "If I get one more pink bathrobe I'm going to slit my wrists," she said. That year she got a diamond heart-shaped pin which she wore everywhere and which I wear to this day. Another success story.
I have never done Christmas cards, even though I love receiving them. So much planning ahead. All that addressing and stamping and mailing. But I have always done the tree.
The tree has been a huge issue for us. In our early years together we usually picked out our tree (6-7 feet) brought it home and decorated it. Ben grumbled but did it, encouraged by enough good single malt scotch. Then we moved into our current house, which has very high ceilings and I had to get the tree delivered. The first year we decorated it ourselves. That was also the last year we decorated it ourselves. Ben climbed a ladder to start putting the lights at the top and we ran out half way down. When I suggested he start all over again he made a suggestion to me that I cannot print in a family newspaper and left the room. Since that year, the guys who bring the tree also put the lights on.
Presents are the big nightmare. I love giving presents but not all at once. This is why I finally made a pact with my friends and distant family to stop giving presents at Christmas and give love presents throughout the year. I recommend this if you can get the family to go along with it. In my case, my sister Donna insists on Christmas presents. I tell her it's a hostile act but she doesn't care. Every year a huge box arrives from Donna with piles of fabulous gifts and it makes me crazy with guilt. One year I sent her a felt stocking with lumps of coal in it to discourage her but to no avail. My brother Bill, on the other hand, sent us a bag of pistachios and I sent him the fruit of the month. That was fine.
I used to have a huge seated Christmas dinner for about 24 and bought presents for everyone and they brought presents. This went on for nearly 30 years. I had one rule — no thank-you notes. One day I woke up and had an epiphany. No more presents for dinner. I thought my women friends were going to canonize me, they were so grateful.
Then I had another epiphany. No more Christmas dinners. I always got sick on Christmas day anyway and spent the whole week in bed. I think my body, if not my mind, was sending me a message.
We haven't even discussed cooking. I do not do Christmas cookies. That's another line I have never crossed. For years my mother, who was a great cook, did the turkey. After she had a stroke, I got somebody to help with the Christmas dinner. When I stopped having the dinner two years ago I cooked my first turkey by myself. It was a disaster – dry and overcooked with a mass of greasy, floury lumps for gravy. I actually sat in the kitchen and sobbed.
I decided to practice for this Christmas. At Thanksgiving I cooked a turkey. My good friend Nora Ephron, another fabulous cook, had just died. I cooked the perfect turkey, moist and golden with smooth, creamy, delicious gravy. I was clearly channeling Nora.
Long ago, shortly after we got married, I decided to forgo Christmas and Ben and I went to St. Maarten's for our honeymoon instead. It was horrible. Lying on the beach, listening to the waves and the swaying of the palm trees and Christmas carols just didn't cut it. Christmas dinner on the terrace was lobster salad. I would have killed for turkey and dressing and canned cranberry sauce with the little ridges in it.
This year, we're going to a hotel for Christmas dinner. I'm so happy I could expire.
For some years now we have been going to the Washington National Cathedral for the 6:30 pm Christmas Eve service. It is beautiful and magical, the lights are low, the candles flicker and the music is divine.
Oh, that's what it's all about, I say to myself. Not shopping or baking or mailing or roasting. Why didn't anyone tell me?
I pass this along to you so that next Christmas it will be your choice. As a famous shrink once said, "You get the Christmas you want." Own it.


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NEW YORK—An ex-convict whose violent history terrified his West Virginia hometown admitted Tuesday that he raped a septuagenarian bird-watcher in New York's Central Park in a case that prompted calls for tougher penalties for sex offenders.
David Albert Mitchell mumbled "yes" in response to a judge's questions as he pleaded guilty to rape and robbery in the September 2012 attack, one of three times he's been charged with sex crimes against women in their 70s and older. He was expected to get 30 years in prison at his Oct. 16 sentencing.
"David Mitchell is a predator who targets the elderly," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said in a statement.
Mitchell's lawyers declined to comment.
Mitchell was accused of raping the then 73-year-old birder, slamming her head on the ground and running off with her camera bag in a wooded area near Strawberry Fields, a spot that serves as a memorial to John Lennon and is one of Central Park's busiest sections.
Roughly a week earlier, he had demanded her camera after she used it to document his lewd behavior, she told police. On the day of the attack, he approached her asking whether she recognized him; she did but denied it, the DA's office said.
After fleeing the park, Mitchell groped two other women on the nearby Upper West Side, prosecutors said. He was charged with pulling a knife on a man and threatening to stab him during an August 2012 argument in the park.
He also pleaded guilty to a weapon-possession charge in the August 2012 argument. His plea also resolved the groping charges, although he didn't admit specifically to them.
Mitchell, 43, comes from tiny Jenkinjones, W.Va., where his felony arrest record began in his teens. It grew so ominous that when he was released from a Virginia prison in 2011, some of his neighbors bought guns to protect themselves.
At 18, he was charged with raping and killing an 86-year-old woman in Jenkinjones, a struggling coalfields community of fewer than 300 people. A few months after being acquitted in that case, he was charged with raping a woman in her 70s and stealing her gun. The sexual assault charge was dropped in a plea bargain, his then-attorney said. But Mitchell served time in the case—a prison term punctuated by a conviction for escaping—and was released, then imprisoned again for a time on a grand larceny charge, according to West Virginia prison officials.
Released in 2001, he came under suspicion about a year later in the death of a 54-year-old Jenkinjones woman, but he was never charged.
Mitchell went to prison in Virginia in 2003 in the abduction of his ex-girlfriend. Released after serving about eight years, he was soon locked up on probation violations. After incarceration on those violations, he was later freed and dropped out of sight.
With his New York arrest and the arrest of a convicted sex offender in a rape in New York's Hudson River Park about two weeks later, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and other local officials called for new measures to toughen sentences for sex offenders and make it easier to prosecute them.
Jonathan Stewart, 26, was sentenced Monday to 35 years in prison for the Hudson River Park rape. He pleaded guilty earlier last month.
After Mitchell's arrest, Mayor Michael Bloomberg found himself emphasizing that Central Park, the site of an infamous 1989 rape, had become safer in recent years.
On April 19, 1989, a 28-year-old investment banker was found after being sexually attacked while running in the park. She was in a coma for 12 days. Known worldwide for years only as "the Central Park jogger," Trisha Meili disclosed her identity in 2003 and published a memoir.
Concerns about park safety in the city were back at the forefront Tuesday, when an emotionally disturbed man wielding half a pair of scissors attacked a 1-year-old boy and four other people on a bike path in a busy, manicured area along the Hudson River, police said.
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State wants Local Government Center to increase workers' comp guarantyBy TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 24. 2013 8:10PM
CONCORD - The state Department of Labor has told the New Hampshire Local Government Center it must increase by almost $2 million a bank guaranty that ensures claims in LGC's troubled workers' compensation program will be paid.
The order coincides with the Labor Department examining an allegation that LGC is operating as an employee leasing company without a license, a violation that could carry a fine of $1,000 per day per employee.
Acting Labor Commissioner David Wihby said LGC will be required to increase the workers' compensation security guaranty from $12.4 million held in two accounts to a total of $14.3 million.
"Our main job is the protection of injured workers," Wihby said. "One way we make sure those workers are protected is having securities in place."
LGC interim Executive Director George Bald said LGC will comply with the order.
LGC's main competitor in the public workers' compensation field, Primex, has a larger coverage pool and has given the Department of Labor a guaranty of $36.5 million, Wihby said.
Wihby said the Labor Department is also examining whether LGC, which splits the time for many of its employees among its various risk pool operations, is doing so as an employee leasing company, which without a license would violate state law.
"There have been accusations made they are a leasing company and we are looking into it as we would any accusation," he said.
Bald said he believed the accusations had no merit, though he said he has asked LGC in-house attorney David Frydman to look into it.
According to state law, a leasing company is defined as an organization that provides employees to other companies under a lease agreement, though on an ongoing, rather than temporary, basis. It typically saves the buying company costs such as health insurance.
"I don't believe (LGC is) a leasing company," Bald said. He said most LGC employees work full time and have benefits.
According to LGC records, 46 of the organization's nearly 100 employees split their time among the organization's various entities.
However, Wihby said "nine times out of 10" such allegations turn out to be fruitless and that the fines "can be harsh, but they can also be waived.
"At first blush, I don't think we're going to find anything," he said. LGC "sounds like more of a corporation paying the subsidiaries."
The violation could come with a fine as high as $1,000 per day per employee, though Wihby said the fine is an extreme.
"Just because it could end up being a lot of money doesn't necessarily mean it would be," he said.
Since its inception in 2000, the LGC workers' compensation program has lost money annually and has been subsidized by contributions from LGC's health insurance risk pool and from members of the property and liability risk pool. The Secretary of State's Office in August ordered LGC to repay $17.1 million to towns and cities in the health insurance pool by Dec. 1. The LGC has appealed the order to the state Supreme Court.
LGC officials have said the workers' compensation program, which has no cash reserves, could collapse if the state order isn't modified or overturned. About 220 municipalities and 25,000 employees are covered by LGC's workers' compensation program. The workers' compensation program's parent organization, the Property and Liability Trust, has cash reserves, but not enough to pay the order and maintain enough to cover claims, LGC has said.
Property and Liability Trust and LGC's health insurance provider, HealthTrust, have additionally been ordered to repay $3 million and $33 million, respectively, from cash reserves that the state deemed to be too high.
No matter what happens to the workers' compensation program, worker claims would be paid because of the security guaranties, which LGC cannot touch without the blessing of the Department of Labor.


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Pasquale Foresi – more familiarly known as Chiaretto – the first focolarino priest and co-founder of the Focolare Movement, died on 14th June. Our memories of him are full of affection and gratitude. The funeral will be held on Thursday, 18 June at 3.30 pm (Italian time) at the Focolare Movement's International Centre in Rocca d Papa. It can be followed streaming.[more]


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NEW YORK (AP) — Marshall Berman, an author, philosopher and educator whose humanist writings on economics, art and culture were shaped by his early and lasting immersion in the works of Karl Marx, has died. He was 72.
Friend and fellow author Todd Gitlin says Berman died Wednesday of a heart attack.
Berman was on the editorial board of the leftist magazine Dissent and was a contributor to The New York Times, The Nation and many other publications. His best known book was "All That is Solid Melts Into Air," a history of modernism in which he passionately critiqued everything from Goethe's "Faust" to Jones Beach.
A native and longtime resident of New York City, he was a professor of political science at the City College of New York.


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Just when you thought the project was already pretty interesting....Joyce DeWitt, the actress best known for the '70s sitcom "Three's Comedy," will star in the new play by "The Simpsons" writer Mike Reiss which will receive its world premiere in December at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre on the UConn campus in Storrs.
DeWitt will play Polly in the comedy "It's Connecticut," which is a satire of all things associated with the state, or so I hear.
The comedy, which will play Dec. 1 to 10 at the Jorgensen Theatre, will be directed by Paul Mullins.
The play tells the story of a 30-something Connecticut native now living in New York trying to come to terms with his apparent lack of personality that he, and others, attribute to his upbringing in Simsbury.
The show is described: "This satirical comedy sets its sights squarely on all things Connecticut. From the origins of our nickname, The Nutmeg State, to our town names that he observes all sound like the names of English butlers (Simsbury, Litchfield and Old Saybrook) 'I'm Connecticut' is a love story. Its structure of dramatic action carried by a love story intermingled with direct commentary to the audience dates back to ancient Roman and Greek comedy styles.
"A secondary love story emerges as the protagonist's new girlfriend's mother develops a fondness for his grandfather. The combination of the older and younger couple's romantic engagements provide a rich, dual-layered narrative for the hysterically funny commentary on Connecticut culture."
The 51-year-old Reiss, who was born and raised in Bristol, is a Harvard graduate (and co-president of the Harvard Lampoon, and later the National Lampoon.) Reiss also co-created the animated series "The Critic." He also created Showtime's "Queer Duck."


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Homeless man accused of attempted homicide on 2 men
ORLANDO, Fla. —
A homeless man is accused of stabbing two men on Rosalind Avenue over the weekend, police said.
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HANG TIME, Texas — Nine months ago when Jeremy Lin was causing hysteria in New York, Raymond Felton was undergoing his own type of madness.
Things were intense, insufferable, intolerable for him in Portland as he chafed in coach Nate McMillan's offense, got out of shape, discontented, discombobulated and had the most unsatisfying season of his NBA career.
That's why it seemed hardly cause for celebration among Knicks fans last summer when the team surprised everyone by not matching Houston's free agent offer to Lin and instead brought Felton back home to Madison Square Garden.
But now three weeks into the 2012-13 season, the role played by Felton in the — dare we say it, insanity? — of the Knicks' blazing start cannot be underestimated.
While Carmelo Anthony deserves credit for be a ball-sharing leader, Jason Kidd for having a veteran's hand on the rudder and Tyson Chandler for anchoring a solid defense, Felton has lifted his reputation out of mud and run the New York offense efficiently and effectively.
Sure, it was a decision that was about money. To match the contract offer Lin received from the Rockets would have cost the Knicks $45 million in the final season of the three-year deal when you factor in the luxury tax. Felton came for a total of $11 million for three years. But according to Marc Berman of the New York Post, he also came with something extra:
"What I bring to the game is just toughness,'' Felton said. "That's all. Just a guy whose going to bring it every night. You know what you're going to get out of me every night. If I'm having a bad shooting night, you still know I'm going to play hard and get the job done in other ways.''
Few fans wear Felton's No. 2 jersey at the Garden, let alone in road cities, as was custom with Lin last winter. And Felton isn't looking to trademark his "Duck'' nickname — his whole family calls him that — anytime soon. In fact, Felton's so humble, he didn't have a Twitter account until this month. He has 11,112 followers — or 900,000 less than Lin.
"I think the first go-round he did in a Knick uniform has put him in a different light,'' coach Mike Woodson said. "It's a good feeling to come back and put it on again. He's everything we asked as a point guard. He won in college and he's had good years in the pros. We put the ball in his hands and trust [he] will make the right decisions."
After being sent to Denver as part of the deal that brought Anthony to N.Y., Felton moved on to Portland last season in a marriage that was rocky from the start. His weight reportedly went up as high as 230 pounds and he was in and out of the Trail Blazers lineup as the starter at point guard and quickly became an object of scorn after another unsatisfying rebuilding season in Portland.
Now back with Knicks, he's averaging 16.1 points and 6.3 assists per game, has his shooting back on track and is making a respectable 36.7 percent from behind the 3-point line. He's also dialed in a connection with Chandler, tossing lob passes for dunks that has brought the Garden fans out of their seats, even if they aren't experiencing a full-blown hysteria as they did over Lin. Just as important, he is a much better defender than Lin and that end of the court has been a calling card of the team's quick start.
What's more, Felton is back to being his old self, confident and willing to step up when needed. He popped in 25 points to go with his seven assists and outplayed Tony Parker in the fourth quarter in a statement win at San Antonio before the Knicks finally suffered their first loss of the season in seven games at Memphis on Friday night.
Never mind the old adage about not being able to go home again. Felton is way past that. Now he's looking forward to a day-after-Thanksgiving matchup in Houston with Lin.
While it's true that Felton's return to the Knicks may not have caused a recurrent case of insanity, neither has it been inconsequential.


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A river rat phoned to rave that a magnificent pocket ocean liner was towed up the Deep Water Channel. The grand vessel moored at Herman and Helen's Marina on Little Potato Slough.
A river rat phoned to rave that a magnificent pocket ocean liner was towed up the Deep Water Channel. The grand vessel moored at Herman and Helen's Marina on Little Potato Slough.
"It was just incredible," bubbled Jeff Justh. "There were two tugs pushing it."
I went out there. A 300-foot-long aging white beauty of a five-level boutique cruise ship is now moored to pylons just south of Herman and Helen's.
The comely old vessel, probably unique to the West Coast, rises several stories above the levee and is visible miles away. It is the Aurora.
The Aurora has a rich (I won't say checkered) history, like most old boats pastured out to the Delta. It may even have a future here, if its owner has his way.
A German shipyard launched the 293-foot boat from Hamburg in 1955. Its original name was Wappen von Hamburg: loosely translated, Hamburg Coat of Arms.
Three hundred feet and 2,496 gross tons seems puny beside today's cruise superships. But it was big for its time and its purpose, day cruises for 1,600 passengers.
As can be seen from its high bow, it was designed for rough sea. One of its runs was to Heligoland, a resort island 60 miles across the North Sea from mainland Germany's north coast.
It made those runs for five years.
For historical information, I am indebted to the current owner, his website and maritimematters.com, by the way.
In 1960, the Germans sold the Wappen von Hamburg to a Greek cruise line. Renamed Delos, it was refitted for the Mediterranean, with air conditioning, pool and 85 cabins.
Delos was a very ritzy ship. It boasted three lounges, a five-star restaurant and a "dramatic elliptical descending staircase." Picture ice sculptures, high-fashion passengers, white-jacketed waiters.
The luxurious Delos island-hopped for seven years.
The Greeks then sold it to Americans. Americans renamed it Polar Star. They routed it to Alaska in winter and to Mexico in summer.
The ship began to change hands at an accelerating rate. Gradually it lost its luster, stopped carrying passengers, became a workhorse, and finally a derelict.
The ship was the Polar Star 1967-70; Pacific Star, 1970-73; the Panamanian cruise liner Xanadu, 1973-77. When the Panamanians went broke, Xanadu was seized in Seattle.
For a while in the '80s it was an "exhibition and trade fair ship" out of Los Angeles but fell into disuse; a Christian relief ship renamed Faithful in 1991 but never deployed; sold for a hospital ship in 2003 but never repurposed; acquired for restoration as a private mega-yacht, and towed to Alameda but never refitted.
The current owner, Chris Willson found it on ... wait for it ... craigslist.
Willson said he runs a Santa Cruz-based online electronics sales business. He professes no grand business plan. First and foremost, he just wants to restore the Aurora, he said.
"You gotta have a hobby," Willson joked.
The Aurora is deserving because it is beautiful and historic. People from all over, including the boat's 95-year-old German designer, have contacted him with fond memories and encouragement.
"It's just interesting seeing all the people who have attachments to this thing," Willson said. "You begin to feel you're part of something bigger than slapping a coat of paint on."
Starting with the interior, Willson estimates he has restored 30 percent of the boat. He proceeds as funds allow.
"A lot of people think if you have a ship like that you must be rich," Willson said. "But you're not. But whatever you have, it'll eat it, and all you're going to have. This ship is kind of like the Golden Gate Bridge. Once you get to one end, you start at the other."
Still, the ship is sound, its engines ready to fire, and $150,000 would suffice to restore it, Willson said.
Dave and Chris Johnson, owners of Herman and Helen's Marina, drove the pylons and invited the Aurora. They hope the ship will become an events center like The Klamath, bookable for weddings, parties and meetings.
"We don't want a dead marina," Dave Johnson said. "We want something where people come out."
Willson said that would be acceptable. Or perhaps the Aurora could ornament the city of Stockton's waterfront. But first there is much work to do.
He invites qualified volunteers to contact him at email@example.com. Or through his website, aurorayacht.wordpress.com.
"If it winds up making money, great; if it doesn't, that's great, too," Willson said. "It's been the greatest experience of my life."
Contact columnist Michael Fitzgerald at (209) 546-8270 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/fitzgeraldblog.


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By Mitch Kramer
We just concluded our in-depth evaluation of Oracle Service Cloud Virtual Assistant. It's a relatively new branding (November 2013) for a product, originally known as Q-go, from a privately held, Amsterdam, NE-based supplier of the same name. Q-go was first commercially deployed in 2001. Now it's part of Oracle's Cloud-based Customer Service portfolio.
Neither RightNow, which acquired Q-go in 2011, nor Oracle, which acquired RightNow in 2013, has done very much to enhance the old Q-go other than to rebrand it. (RightNow branded it RightNow Intent Guide and Natural Language Search at the time of the 2011 Q-go acquisition. As we mentioned just above, Oracle branded it Virtual Assistant in November 2013.) Today, Oracle Service Cloud Virtual Assistant doesn't support voice. It deploys on web browsers in HTML. Its deployments are language-specific and only Western European languages are supported.
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Cakewalk announced SONAR 4 Producer Edition, adding powerful recording, editing, comping and navigation tools to optimize workflow. In addition, version 4 combines surround and AV capabilities along with engineering tools. A less feature-packed Studio Edition will also be available.
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Name: Dustin
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Location: San Francisco
I am a 35-year-old well-adjusted gay man. My husband of 6 years and I want to have a baby. Our best friend, a straight woman, also wants to get pregnant, but she wants to get pregnant the old-fashioned way, if ya know what I mean.
Unlike a lot of other gay men I know, I've never had sex with a woman. I'm like totally up for doin the deed, but let's just say I haven't a clue on how to begin. I feel like I'm in high school facing sex for the first time. Even though I'm gay, I don't think vaginas are scary. I just don't know what to do. You would think these things would come naturally to us all. I don't want to appear like a bumbling fool on our conception night. I don't have anyone else to ask about this. Can you give me a quick tutorial on how to proceed? Thanks.
This is so adorable; it's like a real life episode of Modern Family, don't cha know. And yeah, I do know what you mean when you say — "she wants to do it the old fashioned way." I wasn't born yesterday.
It's interesting to me that you make the analogy between your current situation and that of a guy in high school who is faced with, no pun intended, the prospect of gettin' lucky for the very first time. It's interesting, because it's basically the same situation. And no, I wouldn't agree with your assumption that this comes naturally to anyone. Just because the prevailing genders have complimentary parts, don't make the coming together of those people or those parts naturally easy.
And it's good to hear that you don't have an aversion to vaginas as some gay men do. However, not having an aversion to and being attracted to something is certainly not the same thing. Most first time heterosexual coupling is awkward. Neither person is particularly familiar with the intimate workings of their partner's parts. What they don't have in experience; they do often make up for in passion. And that can and does cover a multitude of sins, so to speak.
But even when there's passion, most straight women report that their first full-on fucking sexual encounter was a major disappointment. They report that their partner didn't take the time to warm them up properly; they didn't get off, like their male partners did; and the whole blasted thing ended much too quickly.
There's a lesson in this for you, Dustin. I'm glad that you are, as you say, "totally up for doin' the deed." But one would hope that there will be more to this conception than you just doing your duty. Wouldn't it be grand for both of you if you actually knew how to pleasure a woman before you jumped your best gal-pal's bones to plant your seed? The same is true for her. Wouldn't it be grand if she knew what buttons to push on you to raise the flag and get your juices flowing, so to speak, as it were.
I suggest you do some homework. Take all the time you need to educate yourself about the female anatomy before you take your ride. My I suggest that you spend a whole lot of time on one of my favorite sites that deals with female sexuality — Clitical.com. You will be amazed by how much you can learn by paying attention to what women tell each other about their sexuality.
And then, even though you may be all boned up, so to speak, on female sexuality in general; you're gonna need to spend some time with your gal-pal discussing her particular sexual response cycle. There is absolutely no substitution for first-hand knowledge. Why not ask her to take you for a little tactile tour of her pussy and all the truly amazing points of interest therein and around. Ask her how she likes her sex. I guarantee you that she does have a preference. This oughtn't be a whole lot different than if you were talking to a new prospective male partner. All the things you might ask him about what he likes and what he doesn't are much the same things you'll ask your gal-pal. By the way, this show of interest will surely take the edge off your first encounter.
Finally, I wish to add that you will probably find that your first attempt to get pregnant won't be successful. You may discover that it'll take several pokes to get the "job" done. To give yourselves the best shot at impregnation I suggest you guys turn your attention to: Gettingpregnant.com. This is your one-stop resource for everything you need to know about getting knocked up.
Good luck


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This week, the political community is buzzing about the new Pew Research Center poll which names Barack Obama as the most divisive president of modern times. After pondering poll numbers dating back 40 years, and measuring the various partisan gaps, Pew has concluded: "For all of his hopes about bipartisanship, (Obama) has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president."
Republicans, desperate these days for anything that might rescue them from the swirling waters (a log, a branch, a twig), have naturally latched onto this Pew report, somehow thinking that it serves to validate their brief against Obama. They're citing it as proof that Obama is already a failure, and that they were right about the guy all along. This morning, Karl Rove even cited the poll in his Wall Street Journal column, arguing that the polarized numbers are no surprise, given Obama's "petty attacks on his critics" - which is a bit rich, coming from Karl Rove.
Pew has assigned Obama a partisan gap of 61 percentage points. It's easy math. In the Pew poll, 88 percent of Democratic voters currently support Obama, while only 27 percent of Republican voters signal their support. That partisan gap is 10 points higher than George W. Bush's early gap; 15 points higher than Ronald Reagan's early gap; 16 points higher than Bill Clinton's; 23 points higher than the senior George Bush's; 32 points higher than Richard Nixon's; and 36 points higher than the contemporary president who was least polarizing in his early days, Jimmy Carter.
But before we join the GOP in suggesting that these findings are tantamount to a thumbs-down verdict on Obama's presidency, let's try for a bit of perspective:
1. A polarizing president is not necessarily a failed president. Some of the best chief executives were notorious polarizers. We'll never know how Franklin D. Roosevelt would have fared in a Pew poll, but we do know that he was thoroughly loathed by the Republicans and their business allies; in return, he virtually gave them the finger. In a speech on Oct. 31, 1936, Roosevelt declared, "They are unanimous in their hate for me, and I welcome their hatred." Even as war clouds gathered and Roosevelt made moves to aid western allies, his political enemies denounced him as a warmonger. But today, FDR's face is on the dime.
It's also a fair bet that Pew would have tagged Democrat Andrew Jackson with a huge partisan gap, given the Whigs' hatred of him. His biographer, Jon Meacham, writes that, even before Jackson took the oath of office, the Whigs were already convinced that he "seemed dangerous - so dangerous, in fact, that he was worth killing." Jackson's political foes were incensed by the president's ongoing popularity; late in his first term, an enemy congressman wrote, "His administration is absolutely odious, and yet there is adherence to the man...His continuance (in office) must be destructive of everything that is worthy to be cherished." Jackson, upon leaving office, said that his greatest regret was that he hadn't shot and hung his two most prominent political enemies. Did Jackson's polarizing tendencies doom his presidency? Today, his face is on a greenback.
2. A non-polarizing president, especially one who is perceived that way at the outset, does not necessarily turn out to be a successful president. According to the aforementioned Pew stats, the winner in the bipartisan sweepstakes is Jimmy Carter. During his first months in office, he was supported by 81 percent of Democratic voters and 56 percent of Republican voters - a paltry partisan gap of 25 points. But ultimately, of course, this initial good will got him nowhere. Today, he'd be lucky to get his face on Monopoly money.
3. Obama, far more than any of his immediate six predecessors, was virtually pressed into service long before he even took the oath, forced to signal in advance a number of drastic steps designed to quell the worst economic crisis in seven decades. Those moves alone were bound to exacerbate the partisan schisms that are permanent features of our contemporary politics.
4. One fundamental reason for Obama's partisan gap is the unprecedented support he gets from Democratic voters (88 percent). That's seven points higher than what Carter received in his early tenure - and a whopping 17 points higher than what Clinton got at the outset. Hence, the irony: Obama's partisan gap wouldn't be so huge if he wasn't the beneficiary of unprecedented party unity...at a time, moreover, when voters are increasingly identifying themselves as Democrats. Which brings us to the last, and arguably the most crucial, caveat.
5. Republican support for Obama (27 percent in the Pew poll) is so low precisely because those who still consider themselves Republicans tend to be hard-core conservatives. In recent years, moderate and liberal Republicans have fled the party in droves; in the Pennsylvania registration figures, this exodus has been well documented. Nationally, most of those GOP emigrees have moved to the independent camp; and it's noteworthy, in the Pew poll, that 57 percent of independents support Obama (which suggests that he currently holds the center - a fact that undercuts the verdict of Obama as the great polarizer).
Indeed, one Pew statistic is crucial: Only 24 percent of all voters now call themselves Republicans...whereas, five years ago, Pew reported that 33 percent of all voters identified with the GOP. So it shouldn't be a surprise that Obama scores so poorly among diehard members of a shrinking party that is disproportionately southern and tilting further rightward - thereby swelling the size Obama's partisan gap.
It's not even worth a guess as to whether Obama's polarizing tendencies will matter in the end; at this point, we can't know. But he certainly seems willing to risk further divisiveness, given the news this morning that he actually intends to tackle path-to-citizen immigration reform this year, braving the inevitable conservative howls about aliens competing with Americans for jobs in the midst of recession.
All we can really say for now is that partisanship has always been with us, a staple of human nature. As John Quincy Adams wrote to his son, more than 170 years ago, "Men have railed at each other in good set terms from (the ancient Greeks') day to this. They will still do so as long as there are prizes to contend for, which move their avarice and their ambitions."


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Destructoid - Did 343 Industries step comfortably into Bungie's big shoes? Was the story all you'd hoped for? Does the multiplayer still hold up? Does it actually matter that they didn't include iron-sights for the guns? Conversely, does it feel like it's too predictable? More of the same? Was it perhaps not quite the shining beacon of perfection you wanted?
It absolutely is
After playing through some of the single player experience, and extended up all nighter infinity multiplayer battles. It is safe to say that Halo 4 not only lives up to the hype, but has greatly surpassed my expectation with graphics, performance, great level design, and how fluid a shooter sporting all those traits can be. Even the voice acting turned out top notch, and brought to the table a higher quality of voice work, and emotion than past Halo experiences.
Outside of graphics, the greatest leap in successful implementation that I witnessed right away was the quality of sound. Everything from weapons, music, to the engines in the speeding vehicles has had a massive tune up. Anyone that hops into a ghost in single or multiplayer will likely notice the quality increase right away.
I salute 343 for doing a spectacular job in their first true outing into the gaming spectrum. Delivering what I believe is the greatest looking and playing first person shooter of this generation on console. Looking forward to what their next experience brings to the table.
Rated E For Everyone
It depends on how you view it and what your tastes are, I like it, I think it's amazing, especialy to be playing Chief again but the thing is it's still Halo at the end of the day. I mean it's not like that first time when you played on the very firt Halo and you were like "Oh my god, this...is...revolutionary" ; with your jaw basicaly on the floor.
What really bugs me about the game though in the campaign that there was a lot of talk about the relationship of the two characters and how since they've done motion capturing they would be more engaged with each other but with the voices recorded sepertely (maybe it's just Cortanas) they seem like their just reading their lines, like one has to fully finish untill the next line starts, it's hard for Chief and Cortana to be more emotional, especialy with her going through rampancy.
If you we're expecting a Halo game. then it's probably one of the best in the series.
If you were expecting something else, you should have known better. Halo 4 is part of a larger narrative of a new studio who has been given the keys to one of the biggest franchises in any media, with a community as venomous and stubborn as a barrel of kobra's in a bull parade.
I would compare Halo 4 to Street Fighter IV, it keeps the core intact but makes wise iterations. Both of these games are so mechanically pure yet nuanced, that one wrong step can kill their identities. That's one thing I feel some reviewers have failed to realize.
This is why COD needs a change, because at its core, it's a shallow shell of quake's nuance. Cod's dynamics boil down to a meat grinding "I saw you first, you die".


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Heat host Bucks in battle of division leaders
The Miami Heat hope to have guard Dwyane Wade back in action on Wednesday night when they try to match the best start in franchise history in a meeting with the Milwaukee Bucks.
The Heat return home following a six-game, nine-day trip that began in Atlanta and ended on Saturday against the Phoenix Suns. Wade did not play in the final two games of the swing because of a sprained left foot, but Miami won both to produce a 4-2 mark on the swing.
Wade, who also missed the first game of the trip due to illness, had just six points in 29 minutes of his most recent game on Nov. 14 versus the Los Angeles Clippers as he tries to get back into a groove.
"It's a part of it. It's not ideal, but you figure out how to deal with it," Wade said of being in and out of the lineup.
There seems to stand a good chance that the 30-year-old will return to action in this game after making it through practice on Monday and Tuesday without a setback. Head coach Erik Spoelstra wouldn't commit to his guard returning to action, but Wade has been showing good signs over the past few days.
"He went through the whole practice today," Spoelstra said on Tuesday, "and it was much better, even than yesterday. He was going hard and quick. I'm encouraged by it, but we'll have to see how he feels (Wednesday)."
The Heat, and especially reigning Eastern Conference Player of the Week LeBron James, responded well without Wade on Saturday. James shook off an illness of his own to net 21 points in a 97-88 victory over the Suns.
James has scored at least 20 points in each of his first 11 games this season, a new career-best, while Chris Bosh added 24 points. Udonis Haslem had six rebounds, leaving him one shy of matching Alonzo Mourning (4,807) for the most in franchise history.
"This was another game where we had to deal with a little bit of adversity," said Spoelstra. "Dwyane was still out and LeBron was clearly under the weather. We appreciate him even going and playing tonight and give us his presence. It's another gutty win and we showed some character."
Miami is now set to play four straight and 10 of its next 11 at home. It is 4-0 as the host to start the season for the first time in club history and a victory over the Bucks would match the squad's best start in franchise annals, duplicating the 1995-96 and 1999-00 teams.
The Bucks will be looking to rebound from Monday's 102-98 loss to the Charlotte Bobcats. The defeat snapped Milwaukee's three-game win streak and was the first in four road games this season.
Milwaukee led by 11 with just over seven minutes to play, but made only two of its final 11 shots, turned the ball over three times in that span and did not score over the final 3:17 of the game. It missed a chance to steal a game that featured 15 ties and nine lead changes.
The Bucks committed 27 fouls to 14 by the Bobcats.
"They made the plays and we had several silly fouls," Bucks head coach Scott Skiles said. "We just weren't into the game tonight for the most part."
Monta Ellis dropped a game-high 31 points and Mike Dunleavy chipped in with 16 and four blocks for the Bucks, who have won three of their last four over the Heat and four of their past five trips to Miami.


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The esophagus is a muscular tube in the chest. It's about 10 inches (25 centimeters) long. This organ is part of the digestive tract. Food moves from the mouth through the esophagus to the stomach.
The buildup of extra cells often forms a mass of tissue called a growth or tumor. A tumor in the esophagus can be "benign" or "malignant":
The two most common types are named for how the cancer cells look under a microscope:
AC: In the United States, AC - or "adenocarcinoma" is the most common type of esophageal cancer. Usually, AC tumors are found in the lower part of the esophagus, near the stomach. AC of the esophagus may be related to:
SCC: In other parts of the world, SCC - or "squamous cell carcinoma" - is the most common type of esophageal cancer. Usually, SCC tumors are found in the upper part of the esophagus. SCC of the esophagus may be related to being a heavy drinker of alcohol or smoking tobacco.
If you smoke, talk with an expert about quitting. It is never too late to quit. Quitting can help cancer treatments work better. It may also reduce the chance of getting another cancer.
To get help with quitting smoking...
Cancer research has led to advances that have helped people with esophageal cancer live longer, and doctors continue to search for new and better ways to treat this disease.
All over the world, doctors are conducting many types of cancer treatment research studies (clinical trials). In the United States, NCI sponsors studies with people who have esophageal cancer, including studies of the combination of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and targeted therapy.
Even if people taking part in a clinical trial don't benefit directly from the treatment under study, they may still make an important contribution by helping doctors learn more about esophageal cancer and how to control it. Although clinical trials may pose some risks, researchers do all they can to protect their patients.
If you are interested in being part of a clinical trial, talk with your doctor. You may want to read the NCI booklet Taking Part in Cancer Treatment Research Studies. It describes how treatment studies are carried out and explains their possible benefits and risks.
NCI's website has a section on clinical trials at http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials. You can learn about...
Also, you can get detailed information about specific ongoing studies of esophageal cancer on NCI's website.
In addition, NCI's Cancer Information Service can answer your questions and provide information about clinical trials. Contact CIS at 1-800-4-CANCER (https://livehelp.cancer.gov) or at LiveHelp(https://livehelp.cancer.gov).
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Governor's executive budget proposal gives UH students hopeUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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University of Hawai'i students in the thick of finals week said the state's executive budget proposal unveiled Monday is an early Christmas gift that gives them hope for their future and the future of their university.
The proposed budget supports the Board of Regents' requests for $14 million to restore the salaries of UH faculty to pre-recession levels and $19.5 million for the modest negotiated three percent faculty pay raises in the current biennium. If approved, the funds would enable the university to free up student tuition to invest in improvement projects at UH campuses across the state. The proposed budget would also allow the university to address the urgent need to reduce a $487 million backlog of deferred maintenance across the system.
Students at Kuykendall Hall said the shabby building has been their home for years and they would welcome much needed renovations.
"It kind of brings the mood down, you don't really want to be around the facilities. It just dampens the learning environment for us as students," said UH Mānoa nursing student Shonaline Domingo.
"The new ones (buildings) are nice, but a lot of them still need fixing and a lot of the elevators break or the bathrooms. So it would be better to make everything nicer," said UH Mānoa senior Jessica Kim.
Governor Neil Abercrombie's budget proposal is a giant step toward financial sustainability for the university. If supported by the State Legislature, students will see restoration of their classrooms, labs and infrastructure that will provide them with 21st century educational facilities and programs.
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Shonaline Domingo/UH Mānoa Nursing Student
I would say please approve it because I'm a nursing student so our tuition is an extra thousand dollars a semester. So if the money can come back to us as students, that would help us and our families a lot. (:09 seconds)
It kind of brings the mood down, you don't really want to be around the facilities. I don't know, it just kind of dampens the learning environment for us as students, I think. (:12 seconds)
Jessica Kim/UH Mānoa Senior
The new ones are nice, but a lot of them still need fixing and a lot of the elevators break, or the bathrooms. So it would be better to make everything nicer. (:11 seconds)