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"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four? You'll be older too."
That Beatles song turns 50 this year and its writer, Paul McCartney, turns 75 in June. George Harrison, former Beatle, died in 2001 at age 58 of lung cancer and a brain tumor. Italian Emma Morano, the oldest known living person, had her 117th birthday in November.
Cancer is one of many maladies that plague us as we age: Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, atherosclerosis, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis and hypertension. Eric Verdin, newly appointed CEO at Novato-based Buck Institute for Research on Aging, aims to curb some of these diseases.
"The aging field has been heavy on promise" but delivered scant results, said Verdin, who worked as associate director at San Francisco-based Gladstone Institute for Virology and Immunology. There he studied the role of diet in aging, along with Alzheimer's.
Verdin, a physician and professor at University of California, San Francisco, replaces former CEO Brian Kennedy, who served about six years and resigned in October. A month later, the board announced Verdin's appointment along with pledges from a few board members totaling $11 million to shore up Buck's strained budget, which totals about $35 million a year.
Raising money is essential, Verdin said. He pointed to the recent home run by Unity Biotechnology, a Buck spinoff co-founded by Nathaniel "Ned" David. Unity raised $116 million from six investors in a funding round reported in October. David served as Unity CEO until he became president in October, and Keith Leonard took the CEO role. Leonard and David had co-founded Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, acquired in 2015 by Allergan for $2.1 billion.
Leonard will steer Unity's push for clinical trials on two drugs, Verdin said. Unity's science takes aim at arthritis and glaucoma by killing off senescent cells that foster inflammation and disease. The company, founded in 2011 and with offices in San Francisco and at The Buck, has raised a total of $128 million.
Unity has powerhouse funding backers, including ARCH Venture Partners; Fidelity Investments; Mayo Clinic Ventures; Bezos Expeditions, led by Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder; and Venrock and Founders Fund, headed by Peter Thiel, a 49-year-old San Francisco billionaire, Stanford Law graduate and PayPal co-founder.
"Leading this place, I want to push us into medically relevant aging research," Verdin said. That would go beyond research on C. elegans roundworms and mice studied by numerous faculty members at The Buck. Verdin suggests aligning the institute with organizations that could conduct human clinical trials or use human samples.
Verdin serves as a consultant to Calico, the Google-backed aging-research company founded by Google and headed by CEO Art Levinson.
"I haven't interacted with them since I've been here," Verdin said after three weeks on the job. "We have a bunch of tenants here. I would love to get them more involved in the scientific community, not just renting space but intricately woven into our fabric."
Calico has been notoriously secretive since its 2013 founding.
"They can be secretive about key issues," Verdin said, "but they can still collaborate. We are a lot more than a building. There are incredible people here."
He intends to promote more sponsorship agreements between the Buck and corporations such as Calico. Funding is difficult to find because anti-aging science is "radically new," Verdin said.


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Have you ever found a book with an interesting cover?
The blurb on the back got your attention, the first few pages of the book snagged your imagination and you just had to have it?
Most of us have run across those and in fact, that's what all authors want. It ensures you'll buy their book.
All too often however, after you get the book home and settle down to read, you discover that the author put most of the effort into the first few chapters. Long before you reached the end of the book you found other things to do.
The book sat, unfinished, on your bookshelf for a while and then probably made its way to a second-hand bookstore.
The author never noticed, since you already paid for that book, but did you buy another by the same person? Or did you start to, then think 'oh that first one was horrible, I think I'll pass.'
It's very important for an author to capture new readers, but even more important to retain existing ones. There are many ways to do this, from marketing hype to cliffhangers at the end of every chapter.
The best way to accomplish this however, is to give your readers a story so engrossing that they lose themselves in it. For a while, as long as the book lasts, they step into your world and become a participant.
Transporting your reader somewhere else is easy. All you need is a good description of a few trees, a building or crowd of people.
The hard part is getting the reader emotionally involved. For that, you need a character.
The character might be anything. A magical bird, a crazy monkey, the poor milkman, a battered robot or a brave little toaster.
That character is what gets your reader out of their chair, off the couch, and into your world. That character is also what's going to keep them there and make them want to come back.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that the only character you can use as a transporter is the hero of the story. Different readers have different personalities, and not everyone likes the hero. Some prefer the villan.
Don't fall into the trap of believing that your story can only have one main character either. Every character who has more than a minor part in the story can become the transporter for the reader, if you do your job correctly.
I read a story recently which was published many years ago. A sci-fi story and obviously in the category of pulp-fiction. It started off wonderfully with a nicely detailed setting, believable characters and action, which immediately sucked me in.
However just as I got attached to the main character and started particpating in the story, the author removed him from play. He came back much later in the story, but by that time I didn't care about him any more.
The author repeated this travesty several times.
A character would be introduced as the main character, I'd get interested in it, I'd start to identify with it and want to see what happened to it, and then the author would remove it from the action and introduce a new main character.
I made it half-way through a 200 page paperback then threw the book in the trash.
It's fine to have a number of important characters. It's fine to bounce your reader back and forth between them, allowing them to share the posistion of main character between themselves, but don't completely remove them from the action.
An example of a story with several characters sharing the hero's posistion is star wars. At one time or another, Luke, Han, Leia, Obi-Wan and Vader all are the focus. They swap the role back and forth continually for all three of the original movies. The audience is invited to use any of them, or even all of them, as a transport vehicle to become involved in the action.
Yet even when one of the characters isn't activly on the screen, we still feel his or her presence. Instead of becoming bored because our transporter has vanished and we now need to find a new one, we sit on the edge of our seats, watching the action and waiting for our hero to reappear.
George Lucas, being the brilliant story teller that he is, makes sure we never have to wait too long. He swirls the scenes of the story between places, and characters, with rapid precision. We never get the chance to stop participating.
Cardboard characters are another problem which can prevent your readers from participating. Too many writers make the mistake of painting a wonderful picture of their character, then forgetting to give them a personality.
The poor character turns into one of those life-sized cardboard cutouts you see in movie theaters. From the front they almost look real. Walk around to the back though and you can see there's no substance.
Regardless of what shape they are, race they are or substance they are made from, the character(s) must be people and people have personalities.
They must live in the world that your reader is visiting, not just exist.
They must act, think and behave like people, otherwise they are simply a decoration.
Every character, even the ones that just have bit parts for a page or two, or maybe just a paragraph, should be a real person.
As you introduce new characters to your story, stop what you are doing and write a character sketch.
Put down what the character looks like.
Give it a name.
List what he/she/it likes and doesn't like.
Write out its history so you know where it came from and why its there.
Put as much detail into it as you can.
Then when you use the character in the book, you'll know how to use it correctly.
You won't have the street-smart detective walking into a trap that a first-grader can see. You might WANT to have him do that for plot reasons, but he's quite likely to look at you, cross his arms and say something like 'Are you crazy? I'm not going in there!' Which is exactly what he should do. You might have to change your plot, but the story will be stronger for it.
One of the most devastating mistakes a writer can make is not to do research.
If you are going to write a story about an ocean voyage, and you've never traveled over the ocean, you're going to make some mistakes.
You won't realize you've made mistakes but those readers who have traveled over the ocean will. And they will tell you about it. For the rest of your life.
A classic example of lack of research can be found in the original Star Wars movie. When Han Solo is first introduced, he has to brag about his ship. He expresses surprise that Obi-Wan's never heard of his ship and states 'It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs."
Obviously the script writer didn't have a clue about astronomy. Neither did anyone else apparently. A parsec isn't a measure of speed or time, it's distance.
Han was supposed to be saying something like 'It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less that 12 seconds'. What he actually said was 'It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 feet.' Convoluted arguments can be made that perhaps Lucas was hinting at hyperspace travel, however I sat there on opening night and heard all of the dialog. Han was boasting about how fast his ship was, not how far it could hyperjump.
I remember sitting in the audience on opening night, hearing Solo say that and bursting out laughing. Of all the stupid, idiotic things... I lost contact with the movie for the rest of the Cantina scene and I never completely reconnected.
My respect for Lucas and his story telling ability has never recovered to the point it was when the movie started. Go out to Google and search on "it's the ship" "Kessel run" . You'll find a lot of other people still laughing at him for that mistake, and that was 30 years ago.
Research is important.
Your readers must suspend their belief in order to enter your world. If you make a blunder like Han did, they will suddenly remember that they're just reading a story, not living another life.
You don't want that.
Once that happens, your transport vehicle is damaged and may never recover.
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I eat veggies, well, asparagus
I ate something other than meat, actually, dinner consisted completely of grilled asparagus. I found some very good looking asparagus with large diameter spears, which work best on a grill. I cleaned, trimmed, washed them, then coated with olive oil, kosher salt and Phu Quoc black and white pepper mix. Here is the raw stuff.
These were grilled direct over the hot coals of the kettle as the pork butt was cooking. They cooked up very nicely on the lower heat of the kettle that I normally use for smoking. Here is the end result.
I basically ate this plate for lunch, a little mayo was added for some of the asparagus. although it didn't really need it. I really like what the incredibly aromatic Phu Quoc black/white pepper mix does for grilled foods.
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I remember when I was little the adults used to play poker and the kids would play monopoly until we collapsed from boredom and L-tryptophan. Sometimes we would all play Pokeno Card Game, but that was only while my grandparents were alive.
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Feminism is the real F-word these days. Despite an rise in journalism about gender equality, feminism and television, film and other culture pertaining to these issues, to personally identify as a feminist still seems problematic and difficult for many women as well as men. There are many myths surrounding the idea of feminism and what it really means, but when we open our eyes to the true meaning of feminism and what it means to both men and women, we can begin to work toward a more equal and productive society that benefits everyone.
Put simply, feminism is the belief that equality should exist between the genders. Feminism celebrates the inherent differences between men and women as well as questioning the needless inequalities between them, such as pay gaps, slut-shaming of women, sexualised bodies in advertising and lack of female representation in a variety of sectors, such as technology, science, education and the arts. Feminism asks why there are barely any female CEOs in the Fortune 500 companies. It asks why you need a woman in a bikini to advertise the latest chocolate bar. It is furious that rapists and other sexual criminals are not brought to justice properly in this country. It wonders why some people feel the need to steal photos of women in bikinis and underwear and paste them all over the internet. Feminism wants the world to be equal, so that we can build a better future based around people being judged for their hard work and ability, not their gender.
Simply put, there is a feminism for everyone. White, middle-class feminism is of course the most obviously publicised feminism, but there are writings on black feminism, Latin feminism, disabled feminism, trans feminism, conservative feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminism, male feminism etc. The internet is a brilliant resource for searching writings out because people are writing and blogging about women's issues from countless perspectives daily.
The most common myth is the most pervasive. Feminism is not centred around a culture of despising men. Misandry, the correct term for a hatred of men, is certainly a facet of a certain type of feminism, but the key of understanding feminism is realising that it means different things to different people. Feminism is an overarching term that encompasses many different experiences and thoughts. For example, radical feminists, including noted feminist academic Germaine Greer, feel that transgender women do not have a place in feminist discourse, stating in the manifesto for the RadFem 2012 conference (which has since been cancelled amid much controversy) that attendance should be restricted to "women born women and living as women".
While these women self-identify as feminists, as I do myself, I feel their views on transgender individuals and gender as a whole are archaic and anti-feminist. My personal brand of feminism believes that we must all, women and men, work together toward a more equal future that benefits all of us. I also disagree with the 'Reclaim the Night' marches, which are designed to protest the prevalance of rape and sexual assault and a society that makes it very difficult for women to feel safe walking home alone at night. While I am very much in favour of marches like these, men are excluded from these official marches, to create a safe marching space for women. The mistake these feminists make is ignoring the fact that men can and will be feminist allies on issues such as these. In addition, by ignoring a male voice against rape and sexual assault, feminists run the risk of ignoring the very real and stigmatised issue of male rape.
The problem with the correct understanding of feminism is that it is often seen by many people as an academic theory that is centred around the furthering of white, middle-class women, excluding problems faced by women of colour, disabled women and other marginalised groups. These issues have been raised in recent online critiques of mainstream feminist journalist Caitlin Moran, who when questioned if she had asked HBO's Girls writer Lena Dunham about the lack of women of colour in her programme, replied (via Twitter, of course) "Nope. I literally couldn't give a shit about it". The truth is that we cannot look towards one person for feminist rhetoric. Yes, Moran did herself no favours in excluding women of colour in such a dismissive way, but she speaks to a very personal type of narrative. Hers is a personal feminism, built around her own experience as a white cisgender woman in the United Kingdom. Her feminism is not applicable to everyone and nor should it be.
Feminism does not need to be an academic construct that fits into all perspectives and versions of womanhood. While my studying of academic feminism helped me enormously in realising my own beliefs, feminism is as political as it is academic. When you're campaigning to close the gender pay gap, no one will care if you've read Simone de Beauvoir and knowledge of Julia Kristeva isn't essential for being outraged at the way in which sexual criminals are sentenced in this country.
Academia can be intimidating when you feel like feminism belongs only to those who are able to read and understand difficult texts pertaining to it. The truth is that there are several accessible books about feminism and gender issues that will allow anyone to learn more about feminism. I highly recommend Jessica Valenti's Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters, bell hooks's Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics and Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein. Bornstein writes excellently on gender and trans issues, hooks is an incredible writer about black feminism (see also: Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism) and Valenti is great for an introduction into general feminist issues from a white perspective. She has also written recently about feminism and parenthood, after the birth of her first child. These books are for men and women alike and offer great perspective into the different facets that feminism can offer.
Next time you walk through the concourse and see a poster for "Stockbrokers and Secretaries" night, or a woman in a bikini advertising the "Porn Debate", question it. Why do these posters have a place in a centre of education? Why are naked women necessary to promote clubs and societies? Little things like this add up to a feminist consciousness. Caitlin Moran notes in How to be a Woman "I have one rule of thumb that allows me to judge […] whether some sexist bullshit is afoot […] are the men doing it? Are the men worrying about this as well? Is this taking up the men's time? Are the men told not to do this, as it's 'letting our side down?'" Obviously, this is not applicable in every single case, but it highlights feminism's true cause: equality. I don't wish to be better than men, I just wish to live in a world where men and women co-exist and work together without being limited by their gender.
Bridget Fitzsimons is a graduate of UCD's MA in Film Studies and Editor Emeritus of Volume XVII of the University Observer. You can follow her on Twitter @BridgetFitz.
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is not an autobiography, it is a novel.
It is like a book for people in on the inside joke. Norm's great, I can't give an unbiased review of this book. I laughed. I'd recommend listening to the audio version of it.
While I'm huge fan or Norm, an imagined memoir is not something I want to read. I don't want to waste my time reading about the time Norm didn't actually do drugs with Lorne Michaels to get the job at Saturday night live or the time he wasn't actually molested as a child. Why not tell us about the time you got into a knife fight with Johnny Carson or that time that you found a bomb wired to the ignition of Jay Leno's car? Why am I reading this again?
An easy and entertaining read but as others have pointed out, it can be difficult to know what is real and what is not.
He seems to keep personal information at a minimum but still has an interesting story to tell but don't look for a "diary" type of book. It's more disjointed and even a little jarring at times.
Absolutely loved this book. Bring no agenda when reading it, and you will be taken on a wild, wonderful ride.
I was hoping for an actual autobiography but this book turned out even weirder than that comedy central roast where he told the 1940s style old fashioned jokes! It does have some shoutouts to his former YukYuk's bosses and stuff, but they're buried in tonnes of bizarro fiction stories about farming, SNL, morphine abuse, a fake ghostwriter, gambling (who knows how much of that is true), etc. The mention about Artie Lange is very brief. Even Norm's son is shown with a fake name.
It really helps if you've seen Norm doing standup as I've done a couple of times. The stream of consciousness and absurdity is even better than shrooms. Combined, it could be mind blowing. Before you get the book see some of his stuff on YouTube (especially the Moth joke). If you don't like what you see too bad for you. As my Pappy used to say : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
Actually he never taught me anything useful. I survive on my own and it's a daily struggle fighting off all those wolverines, badgers and Wild Turkeys 101. Enter the book at your own risk.
This was probably the strangest and sometimes absurd biography I've ever read. It was hard to decipher between what really happened and what Norm made up. Yet still, it had its funny moments. I'm certain the audio version would get more laughs than print.
This is a very funny and clever memoir. That's because it's mostly fiction mixed with real life anecdotes. It's hard to write a compelling memoir, and a funny one is even harder. Most comic memoirs are not classics-only a small number of comedians have succeeded with that. This book stands out and captures the great Norm MacDonald.
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- To situate Spanish musics in relation to their historical, social and political contexts
- To examine critically the relationship between music, nationalism and politics in Spain, both historically and today
- To explore how wider theoretical issues in ethnomusicology such as identity, ethnicity, representation, diaspora and ethnography might apply to Spanish musics
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This course will focus on the relationship between music, nationalism and politics in Spain, where students will examine divergent musical representations of Spanish-ness. In the popular imagination, Spain invokes a number of alluring stereotypes: sun, sand, passion, dark-haired gypsies and flamenco. In the musical domain flamenco has come to represent the country, leading to the perpetuation of stereotypes of Spanish musical culture that are based on southern Spanish customs. Students will be encouraged to look beyond these dominant stereotypes, exploring how music can unravel deep-seated tensions regarding national identity, regional identity and representation in Spain. Since the nineteenth century, Spanish music has been caught up in wider debates concerning national versus regional identity politics. Today, Spain is divided into seventeen autonomous communities with each regional government having powers over the representation of its own regional culture and identity. Music has become an important factor in the expression of regional identity in some regions, as autonomous communities continue to balance regional and national interests. However, a number of external factors have complicated musical production and representation in Spain such as globalisation, immigration and European politics.
A large portion of the course will be devoted to the study of flamenco, but students will also be introduced to a range of other key musical genres in Spain including: art music, copla, popular music and hybrid genres especially amongst migrant communities. Tracing a historical trajectory from the late-nineteenth century until the present day, the course will demonstrate the role of music in Spanish identity politics. This will encourage students to challenge conventional understandings of musical nationalism. Students will also be introduced to a number of theoretical perspectives in ethnomusicology regarding nationalism/regionalism, identity, ethnicity, representation and diaspora. Topics will include:
- Nineteenth/twentieth century Spanish art music: orientalism, folklore, nationalism and regionalism in the works of national composers (e.g., Manuel de Falla);
- Music during the Franco regime: nationalism, tourism and folk music;
- Popular music and the Spanish transition to democracy (1970s/80s): 'la movida', politics and globalisation after Franco's Spain;
- Flamenco – past and present: historical narratives, ethnicity vs regional identity and cultural policy in Andalusia;
- Music in multicultural Spain: diaspora and hybridity amongst migrant communities in Spanish popular music.
The course will be taught as eight 90-minute seminars, alongside four small-group supervisions where students will be expected to read set texts and prepare essays or presentation tasks. As well as drawing upon a range of relevant literature in Spanish music studies and (ethno)musicology, lectures will also include a number of audio-visual examples to illustrate the genres covered in the course.
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Broward`s voters should decide this fall whether to spend $114.1 million to build a sheriff`s headquarters and expand court facilities, the County Commission agreed Tuesday.
By going forward with the issue, the commission majority ignored the recommendation of County Administrator Floyd Johnson, who urged that any referendum be put off until 1988.
It also ignored the pleas of the two commissioners who voted against the referendum, Howard Forman and Ed Kennedy, who argued that the county should go to the Legislature next spring and ask for the right to increase the sales tax to finance criminal justice needs.
``I think 1986 is exactly the right time to make those improvements,`` countered Commissioner Nicki Grossman.
The commission did stop short of formally putting the question on the ballot. It can`t do that until it agrees to the wording and whether voters should vote separately on each project or vote on the entire package, Grossman said.
But she said, ``The intent is to put a bond issue related to criminal justice facilities on the ballot.``
Kennedy at one point called it ``insane`` to go ahead with the referendum before the Legislature meets next spring or before the commission reviews Sheriff Nick Navarro`s budget this summer.
Commissioner Scott Cowan, however, suggested that the county go ahead with the referendum. If it passes, commissioners can still push the Legislature to increase the sales tax.
How the $114.1 million program would be financed remains unclear. Commission Chairman Gerald Thompson suggested it be done over a four- or five-year period, either through a bond issue, a property tax increase or a combination of the two.
Another question is whether to conduct the referendum in September, during the primary election, or wait until the November general election. Grossman said she would prefer that the referendum be conducted in November.


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Sleekmaus (Brent Mosley) – Photographic DJ – one who mixes and blends images much like a DJ mixes music. Always having been interested in sharing the surreal beauty with others through art and digital manipulation, I began doing this via a mobile device a little over 3 years ago with the vast array of apps on the iPhone. Using the device to creatively weave and mix images with the latest apps to deliver images that are truly out of this world.Brent's Commentary
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How will football cope without the spiteful rants of this humourless, angry little man
21:35 GMT, 26 March 2012
Some joyous news from Queens Park Rangers this week, amid the gloom of a relegation battle.
After being booed off by his own fans before his team-mates staged a remarkable comeback against Liverpool, then dropped for the 3-1 defeat by Sunderland on Saturday, Joey Barton has decided to take a 'little Twitter sabbatical'.
The midfielder tells us he is anxious to avoid saying something he'll 'end up regretting'. Presumably he didn't intend this to be a joke, but it is very funny. After 4,598 tweets it's a bit late for that, Joseph.
Shouting his mouth off: Joey Barton has earned a reputation for making his voice heard on Twitter
We shall miss him, of course. We will pine for the incessant, sanctimonious musings of Twitter's self-appointed sage. As Lent draws to a close, it is we who will be cast out into the wilderness without football's unofficial spokesman and resident philosopher to show us the light.
Will the game be able to cope without born-again Barton taking a sip from his cappuccino and casting judgment on the burning issues of the day, trampling over those who disagree and basking in the unashamedly ego-stroking nonsense of it all We may not function properly without our all-seeing overlord.
In his attack on the media, published in The Times this year, a comically oblivious Barton wrote: 'This is the medium of Generation Y, the kids today that will become tomorrow's leaders. These are my people… I want to be one of them.'
It was a statement of such misguided arrogance it would have been amusing if it wasn't so scary. Joey Barton, a convicted thug, the spokesman for my generation What a depressing thought. This is a man who wants desperately to be a football thinker, a voice of authority who speaks and people listen. But, instead of replicating the enigmatic brilliance of Eric Cantona, another footballer with a violent past, he is often just Vinnie Jones with Wi-Fi.
Benched: Barton has struggled for form in recent weeks and was booed by QPR fans against Liverpool
Barton has tried hard, too hard, to shed the skin of the man who stabbed a lit cigar into a team-mate's face at a Christmas party, served 74 days in Manchester's Strangeways prison for assault and left another team-mate unconscious after a training-ground attack. The fact we still give his opinions credence is itself remarkable, but also a testament to his intelligence, determination and sheer gall. But, even today, it still takes more than a username, a password and a BlackBerry to change the world — and the world's perception of you.
He wrote in The Times: 'Last year I realised no journalist was going to tell my tale truthfully. So I'm doing it myself. Anything I said, anything I did, was given an angle to fit in with the bad-boy image.
'They projected someone who was not the real me: it was the "me" that the press wanted to project. People are now beginning to see the man I am.'
Are we, though Is anyone capable of reflecting the 'real me' in 140 characters It is doubtful. The 'virtual' Barton is a different beast to the one described by those who know him well.
'Generous', 'thoughtful' and 'good fun' were just some of the words associated with a man capable of committing little acts of kindness — a round of golf here, a bottle of champagne there — without ego or ceremony. This is so far removed from the angry, humourless little man behind @Joey7Barton that it was hard to imagine we were talking about the same person.
Yet he is a Premier League footballer
who contributes a column to The Big Issue and a Liverpool-born athlete
who has used his 1.3million Twitter followers to campaign passionately
for justice for the victims of the Hillsborough disaster. He is the
capitalist with a conscience: the man who swapped a 170,000 Aston
Martin DBS for a Toyota Prius, a moped and an Oyster card, allowing him
to travel on London's Underground network concealed by a pair of Harry
Potter glasses and a hat. He wears a 6 plastic watch instead of
500,000 of designer bling.
In action: Barton was named QPR captain after his move from Newcastle last summer
But, just as the newspaper interviews to which Barton now seems to object reflected journalists' interpretations of the man, his Tweets project their own self-portrait.
He may decry the 'bad-boy image' he considers a media fabrication, but he repeatedly enhances that negative persona. If you do not like what you read in the papers it will always be somebody else's fault, but you have no excuse if you actively celebrate the fact it is you, unfiltered, behind the Twitter avatar.
The result is certainly not pleasant. Barton comes across as a mean, dislikeable individual; the classic playground bully who revels in snide ripostes and stamping on those with a lower profile — simply because he can.
His tweets come like bullets, one after the other. He doesn't interact; he just spews vitriol on the screen whenever he feels like it. 'He tweets when he wants,' sang the QPR fans. Don't we just know it.
Barton's behaviour was particularly
despicable when he insulted Neil Warnock earlier this year. The former
QPR boss said owner Tony Fernandes had been 'slowly poisoned from
outside the club and no doubt from within the club as well'. Barton
responded by telling Warnock to 'shut it', calling him 'embarrassing'
and comparing him to Mike Bassett, a fictional football manager and a
figure of fun.
Court dates: Barton was in trouble with the law during his spells with Manchester City and Newcastle
'If I talked about Neil, he'd do well to get another job,' added the player Warnock made captain of QPR after Newcastle United were so desperate to get rid of him they let him leave for free.
It was unprofessional and smacked of ingratitude, but it was typical of the way Barton responds to those who hit back. He simply dismisses them with utter contempt.
'I don't want or need ur advice, praise, negativity…or any other thing that u offer,' he wrote. 'U will never effect me. I am far to driven for u.' Barton isn't interested in dialogue. Monologues will do nicely, thank you very much.
'Spineless maggots' was the phrase he used to describe two journalists who dared to criticise him. 'Numpty' was another example. The fans who have paid good money to watch a string of average performances at Loftus Road from QPR's No 17 this season are 'bells' and 'trolls'.
As Barton himself has noted, form is temporary but class — or lack of it — is permanent. For all his highfalutin talk about freedom of speech and his undoubted intelligence, his responses are consistently shallow and insulting.
The anonymity of a Twitter account
encourages people to pour bile on you, unacceptably so, but ignore them
or argue coherently — do not retreat into a shell of abuse. We had just
begun to hope you might be better than that.
Never far from trouble: Barton (right) has hit the headlines both on and off the field this season
What do most other players think of his constant vitriol 'I thought you journos liked honesty' was one footballer's response. The question jarred because, of course, we do. There is nothing more disconcerting than being presented with a series of prettily arranged clichs tied up in a ribbon of disinterest at 5pm on a Saturday.
The footballer was right — in theory, we should celebrate Barton's decision to wax lyrical about whatever takes his fancy. In the increasingly sanitised world of top-flight football, it should be a refreshing and welcome injection of personality.
But it is not. His depressing diatribes came so thick and fast they rendered themselves almost irrelevant. It was just all too much; a bitter stream of consciousness laced with spite.
The direct channel Twitter gives Barton to talk to the outside world makes it a dangerous tool for him. QPR manager Mark Hughes has deep concerns about the midfielder's incessant tweeting and rightly so: a description that came up frequently when talking to those close to Barton was 'impetuous'; another was 'instinctive'.
'He does things without thinking,' proved a common theme. @Joey7Barton will be back, all right. He won't be able to resist it.
'Some guys like a game of golf, some play snooker, Joey seems to Twitter all day,' said Hughes.
Now, can somebody please pass him a seven iron


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Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR) will file its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q on Wednesday, October 31, 2012, after the close of the stock market.
The Form 10-Q will be available on the SEC website at www.sec.gov and the Ruger website at www.ruger.com/corporate as soon as practicable after the filing. Concurrent with the filing of the Form 10-Q, an earnings release containing the third quarter 2012 financial statements will be issued. We urge investors to read our complete Form 10-Q in order to have adequate information to make informed investment decisions.
Due to Hurricane Sandy, the earnings conference call scheduled for Thursday, November 1, 2012 has been cancelled.
About Sturm, Ruger
Sturm, Ruger was founded in 1949 and is one of the nation's leading manufacturers of high-quality firearms for the commercial sporting market. Sturm, Ruger is headquartered in Southport, CT, with manufacturing facilities located in Newport, NH and Prescott, AZ.
The Company may, from time to time, make forward-looking statements and projections concerning future expectations. Such statements are based on current expectations and are subject to certain qualifying risks and uncertainties, such as market demand, sales levels of firearms, anticipated castings sales and earnings, the need for external financing for operations or capital expenditures, the results of pending litigation against the Company, the impact of future firearms control and environmental legislation, and accounting estimates, any one or more of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to publish revised forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date such forward-looking statements are made or to reflect the occurrence of subsequent unanticipated events.
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I believe that I can change my destiny. Given my family history, I am predisposed to anger issues, bi-polar tendencies, and self-pity. My mother is a narcissist and a defeatist. My father is bull headed, though he is warm and loving. My stepmother is opinionated, but only because she has been hurt so many times. Yet I believe that I can change my destiny.
I am married with two children, and I believe that neither my future nor theirs is pre-determined. Their future is a product, at least in part, of how bad I want to change.
My stepmother opened my eyes to personal freedom. She welcomed my questions and my thoughts, often standing with me for hours at night in the living room, chatting about my fears and dreams. She encouraged me to talk about my anger with my mother, and helped me to work through my issues with my mom. My dad always teased her about being a liberal, though in hindsight it was his misunderstood blanket conservatism that so sharply contrasted her relatively moderate views. This political banter contributed greatly to my appreciation for disagreement, and led me to better understand my own political beliefs.
My wife helped to truly free me. Because of her, I am comfortable trying new things, knowing that I will sometimes fail and that failure is acceptable. I am free to learn everyday and I tend to fail less. Calculated risk is still risk, but the benefits of taking that risk are tangible and rewarding.
Perhaps most significantly, I am free from guilt and the painful bonds of silent, seething judgment. Because I am free, I no longer feel the urge to compete with my family for love or affection or support-I simply live my life with my wife and kids and let our decisions and our actions stand for themselves.
I realize the importance of taking responsibility for my own actions, regardless of the consequences. If I do not, my children will fall prey to the vicious cycle of self-entitlement and indignation that plagues my beloved Generation Y. Only by accepting responsibility for my actions and misgivings can I affect the change in my life that my children deserve, providing them with a good example.
My job requires us to live 2000 miles away from our families. Perhaps it is easier to free yourself from the pressures of family stereotypes when you are not within easy driving distance. Or perhaps my sense of personal freedom is a result of the trials and tribulations I face in my marriage, the ones only a husband and wife can resolve. Regardless of reason, I am blessed with an opportunity to change who I am, what I stand for, and what I will become. I am grateful for that chance.
I believe that I have changed my destiny, and that fact gives me hope for my kids and their future.
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This video, by Bert Rogers, is so appropriate for the song - the air plane, the birds flying in formation, the animals in the wild...just beautiful.
It also reminds me of a book my Mother had us all read, using birds as a metaphor, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach, Russell Munson
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Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene believes that Australia can be beaten in the World Cup final here on Saturday because they are human, not supermen.
"Obviously they are a very good side, but they are also humans and in 100 overs people do make mistakes and we need to capitalise on them," Jayawardene said on the eve of the match.
"I think to play them you need to be competitive from the first ball itself. We have to make sure we play really good cricket because they come hard at you in the first hour or so, whether you bat or bowl."
Australia have been on a roll since losing a league match to Pakistan in the 1999 World Cup in England. They are unbeaten in their last 28 matches in the tournament, with 21 wins coming under Ricky Ponting's captaincy.
Australia are now on the verge of making history as they are aiming to become the first team to complete a hat-trick of titles, having emerged champions in 1999 and 2003.
Aussies can be beaten, says Jayawardene
Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene believes that Australia can be beaten in the World Cup final here on Saturday because they are human, not supermen.
Sri Lanka have already suffered defeat against Australia in a Super Eights game of the ongoing tournament, but Jayawardene said he did not believe that the opposition had any psychological advantage going into the final.
"We made a lot of mistakes in that game, and against Australia you can't do that. I think we have learned our lessons. The guys know exactly what we need to do now," said Jayawardene.
"The important thing for us is to play the brand of cricket we have been playing in the tournament. If we do that we can beat any side in the world. They have not been pushed, but anything can happen on Saturday."
Sri Lanka were the last team to stop Australia in the final when they beat Mark Taylor's side by seven wickets at Lahore in 1996.
"Sri Lankan cricket has come a long way. Before 1996, we were like amateurs," said Jayawardene.
"The guys who then played the game went through a lot of hard times and that's why I say the 1996 group changed the whole concept of Sri Lankan cricket. We are reaping rewards for that and have moved forward.
"Now we need to work harder so that in future we can achieve more success because all those guys worked hard at that time. We are heading in the right direction but still need to work harder."
Jayawardene conceded that Australian coach Tom Moody played a key role in the team's recent successes, including eight victories in 10 matches of the ongoing tournament.
"Tom has been brilliant. As a group, we always had the talent but Tom has brought soemthing different on the table for us. We all had the talent, but we never expected us to push ourselves thus far," he said.
"He is a World Cup winner and knows how important it is to be mentally tougher going into a game like this. He has made a big difference to this bunch and a lot of guys have improved a lot."
Jayawardene also defended the team's decision to rest spinner Muttiah Muralitharan and paceman Chaminda Vaas against Australia in the last game, saying they had wanted to keep the bowlers fresh for big contests.
"It served the purpose. They looked fresh in the semi-final and are now raring to go against Australia," he said.
"A lot of people said that we did not want to show what we got, but the Australians have played Vaas and Murali before, so there was nothing to hide."


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Ambode tasks traditional rulers on Badoo killings, kidnapping
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode oyesterday charged traditional rulers in the state to rise to their responsibilities and ensure that the menace of ritual killings and kidnappings happening within their communities is quickly stamped out of the state.
Ambode, who spoke while commissioning the rehabilitated Fire Station in Itamarun, Epe, said he was deeply concerned about the spate of kidnappings and the recent cases of killings perpetrated by a faceless cult group, popularly known as Badoo, assuring that he would leave no stone unturned to rid the State of their activities.
Speaking specifically on the recent killings by the Badoo group, the governor said there was intelligence reports that their activities had the backing of some persons, saying that it was the responsibility of the traditional rulers to speak up against such happenings within their vicinity, as members of the group were not spirit but human beings.
Ambode said: "This is a good opportunity for me to say this, since the majority of our traditional rulers are here. We just want to pass a message to say that we need to come together and ensure that we speak to all our Baales in the communities that we are having issues and also in Ikorodu to say that we must speak to ourselves.
"We have intelligence here that some of these things are coming from within and our Kabiyesis and Obas need to do something as quickly as possible to arrest this decadence that we have here.
"As far as the Badoo case is concerned, I don't believe that it has anything to do with a disappearing ghost. I don't also believe that the rituals can be taking place, without some people not being behind it.
"So, I challenge all our Kabiyesis and all our traditional rulers and Baales, we must arrest this situation as quickly as possible and show that traditional value that we have always been known for and then we would continue to support you."
Assuring that his administration was not relenting in its commitment to ensure the safety of lives and properties of all residents, the Governor said that there would be no stone left unturned towards ensuring that the nefarious activities of kidnappers and ritual killings have no place in the State.
Giving an update on the six abducted Igbonla Model College students, the Governor said that efforts have been stepped up to secure their release and reunite them with their families, assuring that government would spare nothing to ensure their safe return.
"We know that no amount of expenditure is enough to keep the city safe. I just want to assure Lagosians that we are doing everything possible. "We don't run the government on the pages of the newspapers, and that's why you see that we do not make comments on the newspapers, but we are trying as much as possible to make sure that we get these children back safely which is more important for us," he said.
Besides, Governor Ambode said that the State Government would tighten security in all the waterways and continue to provide adequate support to security agencies towards ensuring that the State remains safe and secured for residents and investors.


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Hi, I'm Trish, I'm in the North East and have an eight year old daughter diagnosed last year with ASD, SPD and anxiety. I'm also have high anxiety and often find things overwhelming, wondering if I may be on the spectrum myself or if it's just high anxiety, I don't know. Still getting my head around what ASD is and means for my daughter. Filling in DLA form this morning and feeling like a fraud because I imagine that most people would think I was just making a fuss. Glad to have found this forum.
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Posted 18 April 2016 - 12:25 PM
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Posted 18 April 2016 - 01:35 PM
Hi And welcome to the forum.
I am Mum to 6 4 nt and 1 with global developmental delay and my youngest has a dx of Autism.
The dla forms are horrid hugs for doing them.
Look forward to chatting to you.
Posted 18 April 2016 - 10:35 PM
I think the problem with those awful forms is the fact that we are so used to our life we don't realise how removed from 'normal' life it is.
I have recently had to fill in the PIP form for my son and found it very difficult, the reason is that I suddenly realised how different my life is from the norm?
Posted 19 April 2016 - 07:10 AM
Hi and welcome,
We didn't fill in a DLA form for long enough. I think not realising how different life is, is correct, and in our case not helped by grandparents telling us everyone has trouble with x, y or z (making me feel a bit inadequate). Someone outside the family quite recently prompted us to fill it in the end.
Good luck
Posted 19 April 2016 - 09:50 AM
Hello and welcome
I know what you mean about the DLA form. I didn't apply until the situation at school had got so bad for our then 9 year old, that I had to give up my job to cope with the number of days he was unable to get to school at all.
Somehow filling in a DLA form makes everything seem very real, and you realise just how different your lives are to 'normal'
Good luck
Posted 19 April 2016 - 10:33 AM
Even after doing the DLA form and renewal I still delayed the PIP so long we had an assessment visit which was great as the assessor was brilliant. i would be kicking myself if she hadn't been, but it turned out well for us; we got the PIP without the distress of completing the paperwork and feeling a fraud.
Paperwork is the bane of our lives.
Posted 19 April 2016 - 07:43 PM
It's always hard when you get a diagnosis and then have to complete a DLA form. Parents with Asd children never make a fuss so please don't ever think that. Us parents are an awesome lot.
Look forward to chatting with you.
Posted 19 April 2016 - 08:15 PM
The dreaded DLA form!! We get so used to our 'normal' that we don't realise just how much we are often doing to support our children!
My son is 13 and our beginning on this journey was because of his severe anxiety. Getting help for that led us to an ASD diagnosis.
Look forward to seeing you on here xx
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Who Spilled the Beans?
Child I don't have: Mom, Timmy and all the other kids are doing crack.
Me: Hmm. (Sigh.) Okay, I'll see what I can do. Where are they getting their crack, do you suppose?
I decided that if I was going to be handing out the crack (aka "extra credit") I could do my best to make it interesting. In chapter 9, we discuss not just the sexual positions best known to man (like the Flying Mango), but all kinds of sexual behavior, including (dare I say it? Joycelyn Elders said it and lost her job) masturbation. I often share a little anecdote with the class about the sin of Onan (I learned this from one of my favorite books - Don't Know Much About the Bible - slightly humiliating to buy as a former Catholic school student, but totally worth it. Great for keeping inappropriate sister on her toes, if nothing else). For those of you who were never Sunday school teachers, here's the short version:
Onan is the middle son of Judah (who is just one of the sons of Leah and Jacob - as in "Jacob, Jacob and Soooooons!" for you Broadway musical junkies). Er (nice name, no?) is Onan's older brother who marries Tamar. At some point in their Old Testament lives, Er does something bad (mixing plaids and stripes?) and God "strikes him dead." Judah (dear old Dad) then orders his next son, Onan, to sleep with his brother's widow (Tamar) because that's considered the nice brotherly thing to do at the time. Onan does NOT want to have to raise kids who are technically his brother's heirs (don't ask me - I don't get it either) so he "spills his seed" every time he goes to um, visit, his dead brother's wife. God is very displeased with him and strikes him dead. Kind of a high body count for that family.
Apparently, this little known story has served as justification for tormenting teenage boys for hundreds of years. But, according to Kenneth C. Davis, the author of the Don't Know Much . . . book, Onan's sin was actually coitus interruptus, not "self-abuse" as the little old Sunday school teachers liked to call it.
This story shocks and amazes students (esp. IBAS, since they believe their Biblical knowledge to far surpass mine and they have never heard this little tale) and it's a good opening for a conversation about many of society's "rules" about what is considered appropriate sexuality and what is considered inappropriate sexuality and the origins of these rules.
All this for a two-second bit about extra credit. Still with me? I decided that the extra credit question would be, "Who was Onan, and what was his sin?" A little "shout-out" as the kids would say, to the students who actually show up to class. So, I'm spending spring break like the rock star I am, doing Tequila shots and grading exams. Yesterday, I come across an exam of one of my favorite (yes, teachers have favorites - sorry to break it to you) female students and her response to "Who was Onan and what was his sin?"
Onan was some guy from the Bible and he spilled the beans.
Well, kind of. I gave her partial credit.


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During the holidays, the fireplace often serves as a natural gathering spot for family and guests. Festive decorations capturing the joyful spirit of Christmas can make the hearth, the traditional symbol of home, especially welcoming.
Whether a mantel arrangement is centered around an array of glittering crystal or a country still life of cherished family objects, it takes only a few greens and a bit of imagination to suggest the warmth and splendor of the season.
In gathering natural materials for decoration, one has many types of holiday greens to choose from, including boxwood, ivy, mountain laurel, yew, spruce, and balsam. The key to making greens last indoors is to set them in a bucket of water overnight in the garage or basement before bringing them into the house.
Winterberries, magnolia seedpods, holly, and clusters of orange or yellow berries make cheerful accents among the larger greens. To help prevent the berries from dropping off and damaging rugs or carpeting, dip the clusters of berries in clear liquid floor wax and let it dry. This helps secure the berries to the stems.
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The football machine that is Borussia Dortmund might have its glitches, but up to this point, no one has been playing better football than them in Europe this season, as Marco Reus continues to prove he might be the best attacking midfielder in the world today, while Robert Lewandowski is showing no signs of slowing down, even if this is his final season with the team. More
Their first Champions League match since losing in the 2013 final didn't turn out so well for Borussia Dortmund, and not just because of the loss – Roman Weidenfeller and Jurgen Klopp got sent off, while a too tactical approach, leaving someone like Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on the bench cost them a chance to make an impression early on. More
It's still way too early in the season to declare a team as the best in Europe, but Borussia Dortmund, once again, should be mentioned as one of the top sides, with the combination that includes Marco Reus, Robert Lewandowski, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan providing the best football we've seen from anyone so far this season. More
Are Borussia Dortmund the favorites to win the Bundesliga this season? Probably not, despite their impressive start. But by being able to keep Robert Lewandowski and Marco Rues while making the probably right additions of Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, there's a good chance that this team is actually better than it was last season. More
While the performance may not have been brilliant, the execution and the end result couldn't have gone better, as Marcu Reus and Ilkay Gundogan made the most of a defense that found it very hard to handle Robert Lewandowski, back in motivated form, as Borussia Dortmund opened the 2013-2014 season with a German Supercup title. More
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