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Perri: When I went into labor with my first child, I called my mother. This may be the most old-fashioned thing I've ever done. On some level, I suppose, I wanted someone in the room who had been through what I was going through. And maybe my impulses were partly generous -- I wanted her to be there to see her first grandchild born. But mostly, I think, I just wanted my mother. I was scared of the pain, scared of something going wrong, scared of the way my life was about to change. So I did the obvious thing. "I'm in labor," I said.
"Can you come?" I was in Massachusetts; she was in New Jersey. "I'll come as fast as I can," she said.
My mother had her babies quickly. In her first labor, with me, they never got her into the delivery room. My brother was similarly speedy. Only my sister, who was born breech, took a little time. I felt somewhat entitled to the same quick delivery, but my own first labor went on all evening, all night, and well into the following day. We walked, endlessly, up and down the hospital corridors. I'd stop for a contraction, hanging on to Larry or my mother or a door frame, and making appropriate noises. Then we'd keep walking. My mother and Larry spelled each other -- they took turns taking naps. I resented this deeply, but in spite of my completely reasonable irritability, I was glad to have my mother there. She was cheerful and encouraging and happy to walk and talk. The only thing that made her a somewhat less-than-ideal delivery-room attendant was that every so often she would look at the clock in perplexity and say, "Perri, I just don't remember it taking this long to give birth! Are you sure you're doing it right?"
Sheila: If becoming a grandmother was easy, getting to Massachusetts in midwinter to attend the actual event was really hard. My husband, Mort, drove me over icy roads to the airport, where I shamelessly crashed a line of standbys boarding the last and only Boston-bound plane of the night.
"Sold out," I was told, but I pleaded Perri's belly so eloquently, the airline people found me a seat. On the flight, my thoughts drifted. Perri will be a mother... Larry will be a father... The kids are having a baby!... How will she manage medical school?...
A young woman across the aisle was knitting a pink bootie. She made me feel guilty. I'd tried, but I'd never learned to knit. I'll take lessons, the airborne, heroic me resolved. A grandmother should be able to knit. But in my heart I knew I would never learn. My fingers are twigs in the presence of wool and needles. Okay, so instead, I'll read to the baby! I made a list in my head of all the wonderful authors whose books I would buy: A.A. Milne, Dr. Seuss, Maurice Sendak, Beatrix Potter.
At the hospital
I arrived just as Perri and Larry were leaving for the hospital, and insisted on carrying the overnight bag. It was unexpectedly heavy. "I thought you were only going to stay overnight," I said. Perri hates to stay in hospitals as a patient.
"I am," Perri said. "Those are just my nightclothes and some stuff the childbirth course recommended."
At the hospital I was impelled to snoop. Their childbirth course had been a mystery to me: I sought clues. I found a large bottle of champagne, copies of Little Women and Pride and Prejudice, a Crock-Pot and various soft cloths to be warmed in it, a cassette player and homemade tapes, potato chips, lingerie, toiletries, and a small stuffed bear -- all the crucial assists needed at childbirth.
I'd arrived in excessively good time. Turned out we had the next seven hours to talk and walk nonstop. "Ah, Perri," I comforted her repeatedly. "Soon, soon!"
Exhilarated by the whole experience, I thought back on Perri's own precipitous entry into the world, on a spread of old newspapers during a tropical downpour in rural Trinidad. I'd ridden out the cramps in an old broken-down car on terrible back-country roads. I was excited and astonished and scared. Oddly, the whole scene distracted me from my pain -- there were too many other things to think about.
How I would have liked to help Perri now! She needed an exotic setting, or a broken car to worry about. But her labor just went on and on. Vainly, I sought to distract her with bad jokes and feeble puns. It was okay because no one was listening to me anyway. Benjamin was born without anesthesia or complications and was incomparably beautiful. And tiny -- I'd forgotten how small new babies were. The nurse standing next to me said, "Congratulations, Grandma."
"Thank you. Easiest thing in the world," I replied. And it was.
I had a grandson! First I felt incredulous, then relieved, and then euphoric. With difficulty, I controlled my excitement and behaved decorously, befitting my new rank. Mort, who'd driven up from New Jersey, and I were dispatched to buy the birthday dinner, glorious burgers from a favorite local restaurant, Perri's medium-rare with mozzarella and mushrooms. We sloshed through the snowy streets. Look who's a grandmother! I told him.
The next time
Perri: When I got pregnant again five years later, I thought the obvious thing to do was to put that same team back together. I had high hopes for a more rapid second labor, one that wouldn't allow time for spur-of-the moment 200-mile journeys, so I asked my parents to come when the baby was due. My mother would assume her delivery-room duties, I figured, and my father would take charge of Benjamin.
This time, we needed to schedule an induction, so we all went to the hospital together. Larry and my mother were the delivery-room team, while my father and Benjamin wandered in and out. I got an IV; I hated the IV. I was convinced someone was going to put the wrong thing into it. I got an internal monitor; I hated the monitor. I was convinced the doctor and the nurses weren't paying any attention to me at all because they were too busy looking at the damn tracing. I was a model of the unselfishness of motherhood!
Benjamin spent some time in the delivery room making an endless array of geometric crayon drawings. We hung some of them up, and thanked him profusely. We all watched a peculiarly compelling episode of Divorce Court in which the man claimed he was divorcing his wife because she was a transsexual. Understandably, Benjamin lost interest, and he and my father headed out to explore the cafeteria and the gift shop. And that was just as well, because after a rather long hanging-around-nothing-doing-okay-let's-up-the-dose period, the pitocin kicked in and labor began in earnest.
I have, it turns out, a reasonably high threshold for pain -- and I combine that with an intense paranoia about all medical interventions. I was trying to do this without anesthesia again, though I had been warned that the pitocin would make the contractions more intense. And as they got more and more intense, I thought back on the endless first labor.
"I don't think I can do this for another ten hours," I confessed between contractions, remembering that long, long night.
"I have news for you," my ob said. "You're going to have the baby in about ten minutes."The conversation paused while I ululated through a contraction. "Ten minutes I can do," I said.
And that's how my daughter, Josephine, was born, and as she was making it clear that she regarded nursing as serious business, in came my father and Benjamin, to share the moment. And once again we had those favorite ritual hamburgers.
Sheila: Being a grandmother is a strange and wonderful avocation. I can enjoy the kids without feeling responsible for them. I am once removed from all the crises and decisions. My job is mostly to admire, to sit in the second row and hope, and cheer, and celebrate. I am shameless about claiming genetic credit for my grandchildren's talents and achievements except in athletics, music, and mathematics -- because I'd be laughed out of town.
The third time around
Perri: The third time around, Larry and I made an elaborate plan. When I went into labor, we'd page the sitter to take the kids, now 11 and 5½ or pick them up from school, as the case might be. We'd call my parents, but after Josephine, we were out of the business of scheduling deliveries.
Well, I got my wish -- I got my mother's labor. I'm going to have this baby really soon, I kept saying to Larry. It was about five p.m. The children were at after school and would need to be picked up, so we paged the babysitter -- she was stuck in rush-hour traffic. I called my parents, now in New York, and told them to start driving. We grabbed our hospital bag and Larry drove madly to the school. I added to the madness by remarking at intervals, "I think I'm going to have this baby really soon!"
We collected the children, who squabbled in the backseat. We drove to the hospital. "Do I have time to park?" Larry asked. "No," I said, "let me out first." So I went in alone and took the elevator up to the maternity floor. I remember leaning against the wall during a contraction, wondering if anyone had ever had a baby in there.
It wasn't quite as quick as that, though it was pretty quick. Larry parked and brought the children up to maternity, where we explained that no, we weren't one of those let-the-children-deliver-the-placenta families, our sitter was stuck in traffic. The nurses set the children up to watch TV and read in the next room.
We also had time to set up our cassette player, and Larry put on an Elvis tape. When one of the nurses came in, he apologized for the loud music and asked if we should shut the door. No, said the nurse, we like it -- it's so much better than those whale songs that people keep playing!
But there was time for only a couple of numbers. Anatol Elvis (it could so easily have been Anatol Elevator) was born quickly and relatively easily. My parents arrived soon after. I was sorry my mother had missed the birth, though greatly relieved to have finally experienced her brand of quick-and-easy labor. And my father, of course, knew exactly what to do -- he'd barely admired the baby before people were handing over their hamburger orders. "Medium-rare," I said, "with mozzarella and mushrooms."
From Every Mother Is a Daughter: The Never-ending Quest for Success, Inner Peace, and a Really Clean Kitchen, by Perri Klass and Sheila Solomon Klass. Copyright ©2006, by Perri Klass and Sheila Solomon Klass. Published by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc.


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New Smyrna Beach resident Nathan Rogut said he understands all the hoopla surrounding Lance Armstrong's well-publicized confession to using performance-enhancing drugs, but he is hardly surprised by it.
DAYTONA BEACH – New Smyrna Beach resident Nathan Rogut said he understands all the hoopla surrounding Lance Armstrong's well-publicized confession to using performance-enhancing drugs, but he is hardly surprised by it.
Rogut, a former U.S. National Team cyclist (1998-2001), said the only thing he's surprised by is that it has taken this long to come out.
"Everybody in the sport knew what was going on," said Rogut, 34, who was a professional cyclist for 11 years. "It was understood. I would estimate that 70 to 85 percent of the top riders were riding dirty back then.
"I've ridden in races against Armstrong, but I don't really know him. I roomed with some guys who ended up being his teammates when I was on the national team and riding professionally. It's not something we talked about a lot, but we all knew."
In a text message to The Associated Press before his previously recorded interview with Oprah Winfrey was scheduled to air Thursday night, Armstrong said, "I left it all on the table with her and when it airs the people can decide."
The first part of the interview is scheduled for 9 p.m. Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey Network, and the second part is scheduled for 9 p.m. Friday.
"I have no idea what the future holds other than me holding my kids," Armstrong said in the text.
Armstrong has held conversations with officials from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, including a reportedly contentious face-to-face meeting with USADA chief executive Travis Tygart near the Denver airport. It was USADA's 1,000-page report last year, including testimony from nearly a dozen former teammates, that portrayed Armstrong as the leader of a sophisticated doping ring that propelled the U.S. Postal Service team to title after title at the Tour de France. In addition to the lifetime ban, Armstrong was stripped of all seven wins and his Olympic bronze medal, lost nearly all of his endorsements and was forced to cut ties with Livestrong.
Rogut retired as a professional in 2008, because he said it was getting more and more frustrating to accept the rampant cheating.
"I never used, because I was stubborn and I was trying to prove a point," Rogut said. "I wanted to show them I could win without cheating. I finally decided to retire after I got in the best shape of my life and was still finishing three seconds behind guys that previously couldn't keep up with me."
Rogut moved to this area three years ago and is now the co-owner and co-operator of GG Speed Shop in Daytona Beach, a cycling shop that focuses on developing the sport through training, staging local cycling events and selling customized merchandise. Rogut's partner is Shannon Koch, who is also a former U.S. National Team member and former national champion competitor.
Rogut said he doesn't think any good can come from the Armstrong situation.
"It will hurt cycling from a financial standpoint," Rogut said. "A lot of sponsors are going to be reluctant to get involved right now.
"The most interesting part of this whole thing is to see how it turns out financially for everyone involved. Companies and races are coming after Armstrong to get money back. Of course, you don't see them offering to give anything back from the money they made off the products he endorsed and help them sell."
Rogut said he's also not surprised at the backlash of ill feelings toward Armstrong despite all the money Armstrong has helped raise for cancer research over the years.
"He could be pretty arrogant, and he basically crushed anybody who got in his way," Rogut said. "Before I retired – I think it was 2006 – I was sitting in a hotel room with a teammate who used to ride with Armstrong. Armstrong was calling him to ask about another former teammate that had been contacted by the people who were trying to build a case against Armstrong. He wanted to know what he had told them.
"If Armstrong suspected one of his former teammates wasn't loyal to him, he basically tried to destroy them and he had the money to do it."
Rogut said that while it was readily apparent for those involved in the sport that Armstrong was using PEDs, it didn't surprise him that it took so long for the governing agencies to build their case against Armstrong.
"I rode with a lot of guys who ended up testing positive and got suspended," Rogut said. "It was our dirty little secret. We didn't talk about it with each other.
"I had coaches that hinted that I should consider it when I was riding. They would recommend I should go see a certain doctor about helping if I felt fatigued and I thought I needed it. I knew what they were getting at, and I never went.
"Armstrong had the money to get away with it."
Rogut said that he thinks the sport's drug testing eventually caught up with the riders' and handlers' ploys to circumvent the tests. He also said Armstrong's shoddy treatment of former teammates led to the teammates testifying against Armstrong.
"While a lot of riders resent the money Armstrong took out of their pocket by beating them and getting the top sponsors, they also realize that he brought a huge amount of money into the sport that wouldn't have been there otherwise,'' Rogut said. "There are companies that are in cycling only because of Armstrong.
"What happens with all that money is the big question mark. Will he have to give a lot of that money back? Will the sanctioning bodies of some of these races be forced to give money back? We're talking about millions of dollars."

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Love To Ride
As much as I gripe and get jaded at times about the politics surrounding cycling and transportation issues, I really do just love to ride my bike, and don't want to lose sight of that. I always bike to work, but less often mentioned is I often ride during my lunch break too, usually just for the fun. I rode down to the pier today on my track bike and just walked around a bit and did some people watching, before pedaling back to work and am now typing this as I eat some veggie stir fry I prepared this morning. It's a beautiful day to ride bike in Santa Monica.
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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) – A student who witnessed last week's bow-and-arrow killing of a Wyoming community college instructor says she thought at first that the assailant brought the weapon into the classroom only to try to scare the victim.
Casper College student Alexus Knight tells KTWO-AM (bit.ly/VqC19M) that slain computer science instructor James Krumm was like a second father to many students.
Police say the instructor's son, 25-year-old Christopher Krumm of Vernon, Conn., killed his father Friday and then stabbed himself to death in front of a handful of students. They say the younger man earlier had killed his father's girlfriend, 42-year-old Heidi Arnold, at the couple's home about two miles from campus.
Knight says she got the impression that James Krumm was trying to get away from his son after the arrow hit him. She says she ran from the classroom and hid in a bathroom until police arrived.
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Sweep a Girl Off her Feet with these Flirting over Text Techniques
Make the Right Use of your Phone
Ever since the advent of mobile phones, staying in touch with your loved ones at any hour of the day has become a cakewalk. But, putting this technology to its right use is equally important. And what would be better than using it to sweep a girl off her feet. Flirting with a girl over text messages is the safest bet. It will let the girl stay in her comfort zone and will give you the liberty to stretch the conversation as much as you want. But, there are always some etiquettes that you must follow when trying to approach a girl. These tips will help you.
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Don't Be Boring
Using cheesy lines on her will surely make you lose your chances of becoming her dream guy. Start your conservation with something which she would have never heard. There may be many men who would have approached her before you so, to be different amongst all you must think of something innovative.
Example: Instead of simply saying `Hey, how are you doing?', start your conversation with `I am sure you can't stop thinking about me?'.
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Keep it More Personalized
The biggest shortcoming of having a conversation over texts is that you cannot know what expressions the other person is making on receiving each text and therefore, it makes matters slightly impersonal sometimes. To give some thrill, use her name in the texts as much as possible. Or, you can pick a nick name for her by which you can address her while having the conversation. Use terms like `us' and `we' as these will build the trust between you two.
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Give her Compliments
Complimenting her can work wonders for you at any point of time. You don't necessarily have to be unconventional while complimenting her. A classic and conventional compliment will also leave her flattered. But, make sure you remain as realistic as possible.
Example: `I just cannot stop imagining you in that dress.'
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Create Suspense
In order to keep her interest in the conversation, don't write lengthy and descriptive texts. When she asks you about your day, you don't have to give her all the details. Instead, give her a brief and make her long for more information.
Example: When she asks `how was your day?' reply `the day was pretty amusing. People around me are bizarre'.
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Create Intimacy
You must create a little intimacy to show her that you are different from other men in her life. You can tease her by calling her by cute nick names or by just reminding her of some funny incidents which you both shared together.
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Get Naughty
Flirting over texts will lead you to nowhere if you are not able to get naughty and catch her off guard. To keep your conversations interesting you must introduce some double-meaning sex talks. Like, tell her that you loved her in that dress, but you would have loved to see what was beneath'. However, if you don't find it comfortable to send such messages, you can just use simple texts like `just took shower' and wait for her reaction.
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Your Messages should be Short and Crisp
Long messages may make you look boring and desperate. Keep your messages short and simple. Try to be witty and funny but in not more than 2-3 sentences.
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Be Careful with your Spellings and Grammar
Remember spelling errors and grammatical mistakes are for teenagers. You must not write `lyk dis'. Quickly run through your entire text message before pressing the send button.
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Don't Stop Texting Abruptly
Send equal number of messages and don't just disappear from the conversation. There should not be one person sending texts in large quantities. If you find her not responding properly, don't bombard her with your messages.
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Don't Drag the Conversation
You must learn the ability to keep the conversation alive and if you drag it for too long it will soon run out of interesting things. You must end the conversation when you find it losing the zing.
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I think the original big "o" was in 1990, or 91. We used Prarie Center and Oregon Trail parks. Oregon Trail had a temp 9 hole course put in for the tourney, and at least one year we had drunken dubs after the tourney there.
I thought the tourney went well except for the 2 Pro players that played Advanced and kept me from taking 1st place. I tried my best but they still got me by 10 or 12 strokes..........talk about sandbagging.


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PowerColor Radeon HD 5870 PCS+ Review
PowerColor has a full lineup of all the ATI GPU's available, in stock and overclocked variants. The card here is the PowerColor HD 5870 PCS+ - an overclocked 5870 Cypress core and memory, packing in 1600 stream processors at 875 MHz and 1GB of GDDR5 at 1225 MHz. The move of AMD/ATI to 40nm allowed more transistor count to be packed into similar area on the silicon substrate – translating (generally speaking) to increased efficiency on both cost, power, and productivity. The PCB is made for the 256-bit bus. Adding in the GDDR5 along with the smaller bus, allows AMD/ATI to produce the card cheaper since GDDR5 costs less than GDDR3 and smaller buses are cheaper and bandwidth isn't sacrificed because the high speed GDDR5 makes up for the smaller bus to put it most simply. Combine that with the die shrink from 55nm on 4-series AMD/ATI cards to 40nm on 5-series and this card should be budget friendly for manufacturers and make room for price cuts. The heat sink on the PowerColor HD 5870 PCS+ is a custom job with four heat pipes and massive core cooling while offering no active RAM cooling. The card also supports native Microsoft DirectX 11, as do the rest of the 5-series cards. ATI Eyefinity and PowerPlay are more supported technologies for multiple monitor spanning and power adjustments.
Overclocking will be a surprise – if the graphics card can have the voltage raised with software and if the heat sink can handle the heat it should do great. The memory probably won't fare as well, but the airflow across the chips might be enough to give a decent boost.
Closer Look:
The box and box art or the PowerColor HD 5870 PCS+ is the same as the other PCS+ 5-series cards thus far, except larger than the 5770 PCS+ reviewed prior, in order to fit the larger 5870 graphics card. The center of the box art is a car with tire tread marks left around it, and wispy particles/wind floating around it. The car itself has a giant impeller in the roof and the back and fan both resemble the shroud/fan assembly on the PCS+ cards. PowerColor heads the top of the box and is angled on the rear trunk area of the car, PCS+ Radeon HD 5870 sitting bold nearby underneath. The bottom right has the ATI Radeon graphics card sticker and a Colin McRae: Dirt 2 sticker indicating that this box also contains a certificate to get a free copy of Dirt 2 online. The top right corner of the box displays the supported memory and video outputs - 1GB GDDR5 memory and dual DVI, HDMI, and a DisplayPort for output. The side of the box has Radeon HD 5870 boldly placed along the majority of the length of the side. Underneath, some basic system requirements that are needed to enjoy this graphics card are listed: PCI Express based PC with one x16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard, 500 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express power connections recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode), certified power supplies are recommended, minimum 1GB of system memory, installation software requires DVD drive, DVD playback requires DVD drive, Blu Ray playback requires a Blu Ray drive, and for an ATI CrossFireX system, a second ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable are required. Underneath these requirements is another PowerColor branding. The whole box has a general background that looks similar to carbon fiber weaving.
Switching to the back, we find some generic specifications and features in eight languages. Most important is the explanation of the PCS acronym - Professional Cooling System. "With unique cooling technology and attractive cover design, this fantastic cooling solution can decrease operating environment temperature effectively, and enhance headroom for overclocking capabilities. All of these advantages will provide more flexibility for all gamers to take control and tune their rig for maximum performance." This graphics card should be equipped with a heat sink that leaves plenty of overclocking headroom past the factory overclock. The general specifications lay underneath the PowerColor name and are: Powered by ATI Radeon HD 5870, 256-bit memory interface, PCI Express 2.1 support, 40nm process technology, DirectX 11 / Shader Model 5.0 support, ATI Stream technology, ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance, ATI Avivo HD video and display technology, Enhanced Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD2) for Blu Ray and HD content, and built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound. Five snippets underneath explain some of these features in further detail, followed by a chart with three categories and five stars to rank the graphics card capabilities in gaming, video, and office use. The 5870 got all five stars in the three categories meaning that it is proficient at gaming, video content, and office usage. The other side just has a serial and model number. Opening the box shows that a folding corrugated cardboard box encases around the video card. The card is protected by a standard anti-static bag. Underneath all of this are the accessories!
With the PowerColor HD 5870 PCS+ out of the box we can sneak a peek at it through the anti-static bag, a large fan and two large copper heat pipes can be readily seen in the center and top. The right-side looks similar to the trunk of the car on the box art. The accessories included are an installation manual, Colin McRae Dirt 2 game voucher, driver disk, DVI to VGA adapter, and CrossFireX ribbon cable.
With the PowerColor HD 5870 PCS+ out of the box, it's time to get some shots of it!


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Program Description
The Associate in Science Transfer (AS-T) degree is designed to prepare students for entrance into a bachelor degree program in the sciences. The primary focus of the AS-T degree is completion of the necessary math and science requirements for junior standing at Washington state baccalaureate institutions. Students are required to take additional general education courses after transfer to fulfill university requirements. In addition, specific courses are designated within the AS-T degree to prepare students for Veterinary Medicine. While a bachelor's degree is not required for admissions into all Veterinary Medicine programs, most applicants have a B.A. or B.S. degree.
Veterinary Medicine — What is it?
Veterinary Medicine is a branch of medicine involving the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of illness and disease in animals to include household pets, livestock and wildlife.
Areas of study in Veterinary Medicine:
Animal anatomy and physiology, animal pathology, pharmacology and toxicology, epidemiology, parasitology, radiology, reproductive medicine, surgery, animal behavior, public health, professional ethics, clinical practice and management.
Career Opportunities — What can I do with a Graduate Degree in Veterinary Medicine?
The majority of veterinarians work in a private medical practice treating household
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The AS-T makes it possible for students to transfer to a number of public and private colleges and universities in the U.S. with junior standing. Students can transfer to any college/university to pursue a bachelor's degree. Washington State University is the only university in Washington State offering a Veterinary Medicine program.


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LRCS: Collection Development Toolkit
Collection Development Toolkit
Librarians today face unique challenges in the collection development process for communication studies. These challenges include limited collection budgets, an interdisciplinary subject area, the rapid progression and metamorphosis of the disciplines within communication studies and the increasing significance of additional media formats. To assist the collection development needs of librarians in this area, we have created the Library Resources for Communication Studies web page. It provides resources for librarians providing collection development in the area of communication studies. The Book Reviews/Book Lists section contains general information on acquisitions/book lists and book review sources. The Publishers and Vendors section is an international directory of commercial and academic book publishers as well as vendors of documentary videos. It includes links to relevant web sites and email addresses. The Bibliography section includes a select list of journal articles and books devoted to the collection development process. The Library Resources for Communication Studies web page is a starting point in the collection development process for library staff working in an academic, public or private library or information center. We hope the resources it takes you to will help you to do your job and in so doing, improve librarianship among communication studies librarians everywhere.
These pages are produced by the Electronic Resources in Communication Studies Committee of EBSS (http://www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl/directoryofleadership/sections/ebss/ebsswebsite/ebsscommittees/electronicresourcesincommunicationstudies/electcomm). Please contact the committee chair if you are interested in contributing or editing.
Section I:
Library Acquisition/Book Lists
Communication Studies Publications Devoted to Book Reviews
Communication Studies Publications that Include Book Reviews
Library Publications that Include General Book Reviews
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Print Publishers: Commercial Publishers
Print Publishers: Domestic University Publishers
Print Publishers: British University Publishers
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Bibliography of Sources Related to Collection Development & Assessment
Content by: Lisa Romero & Vicky Lebbin
Created: January 2004
Last modified: Wednesday January 30, 2008
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Bronte Capital notes that since Zion can claim that it is making its decisions based on constitutionally protected religious belief, that may be a defense against accusations of stock fraud.
Zion's stock trades on the American Exchange under stock symbol ZN. It has a market capitalization of $85.17 million, and closed last week at $8.00/share, near the bottom of its 52-week range ($5.07-$17.68). The company formed in 2000 and has offices in Texas and Israel.
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Step 1: Planning and tools
Front walk site
Stick to sidewalk projects in flat or gently sloping areas. Adding steps is much more complicated.
If the thought of pouring concrete scares the bejeebers out of you, don't feel like the Lone Ranger. This story will teach you the basics so you'll be confident and ready to go when the concrete truck pulls up to the curb. And you'll save to cost of hiring concrete pros to boot.
You may need a building permit—check to be sure
At this site, we didn't need a building permit for a residential sidewalk on private property. But take five minutes and call your local building inspector to make sure that's true in your area. You'll save some embarrassment and possibly a fine.
A giant ready-mix truck driving up to your house can be intimidating. I always get butterflies when I hear the diesel roaring a half mile away. But being prepared with solid forms, good equipment, a couple of strong helpers and a well-planned wheelbarrow route will help calm the nerves. Once you dump the first few wheelbarrow loads and get the hang of moving the wet mud around, you'll feel in complete control.
You're going to need a couple of heavy-duty wheelbarrows, shovels, rakes and a variety of professional-grade concrete finishing tools. We describe the tools in detail below. The hand tools may be worth buying if you intend to pour more concrete down the road. For a modest price you can own a set of high-quality tools (minus the wheelbarrows) for life and not have to hassle with rentals. Take heed. Concrete is heavy and time is short. Once the ready-mix truck (the concrete is premixed and ready to pour) shows up, you and your helpers will be muscling around 200-lb. wheelbarrows over gravel. This work is intense—you won't be taking any coffee breaks for a while.
After pouring and screeding (Photo 11), you may see things slow down a bit, but they can get a little frantic again when the concrete begins to firm up. Follow the tips and advice in this article, get ahold of the right professional-grade tools, line up at least two reliable, beefy helpers and pick a good weather day, and you'll end up with a long-lasting, attractive sidewalk you'll be proud to carve your initials into.
Concrete might be the cheapest building material on the planet
It's hard to imagine a material that gives more bang for the buck than concrete. What other material yields a permanent, finished, durable, maintenance-free outside surface at a low cost and a day's work? Around these parts, many contractors won't put down a gravel base or even use steel reinforcing. Bonus: Your sidewalk will be stronger and last longer than many professionally poured sidewalks. In addition to the cost of concrete, suppliers usually add a 'short load' charge for small orders (generally under 3 yds.). This 4-ft. wide by 60-ft. long and 4-in.-thick walk required just over 4 yds of concrete.
Two Heavy-Duty Wheelbarrows Can Save the Day
Secure your tools a day ahead of time or at least contact the rental store to reserve them for the pour day to make sure they're at the site when the truck comes. Rent each of these tools:
- Contractor-grade wheelbarrows with leak-free tires. Even on small pours, you'll be in big trouble if your sole wheelbarrow gets a flat tire or a broken handle, so get two! It'll also speed up the pour. A full ready-mix truck at the curb with no way to unload it is expensive. Concrete is heavy. The neighbor's garden-grade petunia hauler will collapse under a load of concrete, and the hard, narrow tires make for tough wheeling in soft ground or gravel.
- Bull float with an extension handle (Photo 12).
- Concrete broom (Photo 16; use the handle from the bull float).
- A groover that cuts control joints 1 in. deep. If the rental store only has groovers for shallow cuts, use it to shape the joints and deepen them with the corner of a trowel or a stiff putty knife. Unless the grooves are at least one-fourth the thickness of the concrete, they're of little value.
- Two magnesium hand floats.
- Two edgers.
- Iron rake to move around wet concrete (Photo 10). In addition to the earth-moving equipment for the excavation work, you'll need:
- Hand maul for pounding in stakes.
- Bolt cutters (Photo 8) for cutting mesh.
- Sod cutter (Photo 2) if you have lots of grass to cut through.
- Screw gun for anchoring forms to stakes.
- Circular saw for cutting forms.
- Marking paint for outlining the walkway.
TIP: Fill a wheelbarrow with water, and brush and rinse off your tools every time you use them.
Step 2: Excavate the walk
Photo 1: Lay out the walk
Rip 12-in. hardboard siding to 6-in. widths, flex it to the desired shape of your sidewalk and stake it down. Use marking paint (upsidedown spray paint) to mark the ground next to the form. To outline the sidewalk for digging, mark the unformed side using a spacer block.
Photo 2: Dig out the sidewalk path
Slice off sod with a sod cutter (rents for $16 a day), then dig out the rest of the sidewalk path to a depth of 6 in. Dig out about 3 in. wider on both sides of the paint marks to leave room for forms. Set aside some topsoil to fill against the forms (see Photo 7) and sidewalk later.
Digging out the path is 80 percent of the job
Lay out the path with 6-in. ripped strips of hardboard siding tacked to temporary stakes (Photo 1). That'll not only give you the overall shape but also provide the forms to mark the outline for digging. You'll also find out if curves are too sharp for the bending qualities of the siding.
It took two of us a whole day to cut off the sod (Photo 2) and dig out the path to prepare the base for this sidewalk. Believe it or not, pouring and finishing the sidewalk was easier, faster and a lot more fun than excavating. Tree roots, stones and heavy clay made for tough digging. Renting a sod cutter to remove sod, and using axes for cutting out roots and pickaxes to loosen soil make the job a little less blister-producing.
Start thinking about drainage issues at this point. If water tends to collect in the yard in spots, you may want to elevate the walk in those areas, so don't dig as deeply there. Long, flat areas should have one side of the sidewalk lower so water can drain off the side.
In most cases, make the top of the finished walk even with the (freshly cut) top of the grass for easy mowing and a neat, clean appearance. The bottom of the trench will be about 6 in. below grade to allow for 4 in. of gravel below the 4-in. thick slab of concrete. If your sidewalk abuts another sidewalk or driveway, keep the top of the sidewalk at the same level or build in a 4- to 7-in. step at the transition. Don't make a step that's shorter than 4 in. You'll trip every dinner guest who comes over.
Tip: If you don't have a place to dump excess soil and sod, rent a trash container for a couple of days. We ordered a 10-yard unit for $225 that handled everything we dug out.
Step 3: Build the forms
Photo 3: Drive stakes every 3 feet
Pound in two stakes about 1 ft. from the ends of the form positions. Screw the forms to the inside of the stakes with a couple of 1-1/4 in. drywall screws. Bend the forms to make smooth curves, anchoring them with more stakes every 3 ft. Keep the tops of the forms about 1 in. above the cut grass height for easy mowing and a nice appearance.
Photo 4: Reinforce form joints
Cut 18-in. lengths of form material and screw them to the backside of the ends of the forms with 1-1/4 in. drywall screws. The splice will smooth out the curves at butt joints.
Photo 5: Space and form the second side
Space and level in the opposite form sides using a homemade gauge board-just a 1×4 that's a few inches longer than the width of the sidewalk. Screw short blocks onto the bottom spaced the same width as the sidewalk. Use this gauge board to position the forms and stakes to keep a consistent width the entire length of the sidewalk. Rest a 4-ft. level on top of the gauge board to keep forms level from side to side. For better drainage in long, level areas, drop this side about 1 in.
Photo 6: Pack the soil
Pack the underlying soil with a plate compactor (rental). It's important to uniformly pack the entire base (including the sides near the forms).
Photo 7: Spread gravel
Spread gravel 4 in. deep between the forms. Pack dirt against the outside and gravel against the inside of forms to add support when pouring and to achieve smooth curves. It's not necessary to compact the gravel.
Photo 8: Cut concrete mesh to fit
Cut off the stakes flush with the tops of the forms. Park a helper on the end of the reinforcing mesh for ballast and unroll the mesh, holding it down with your feet. Cut it to length with a pair of bolt cutters. Flip the mesh over and pull one end toward the other to back-bend it slightly to eliminate the natural curl. Cut the edges of the mesh at least 3 in. back from the forms.
Photo 9: Wrap mesh ends
Overlap mesh layers at least 6 in. and join them by either twisting cut ends around the next sheet or wrapping wires on each 6-in. square.
Use cheap hardboard siding to form even the tightest curves
Straight concrete forms are generally made with sturdy 2-by lumber, but curves call for a more flexible material. Concrete pros use 12-in. hardboard siding ripped down to 6-in. strips in 16-ft. lengths. Full-service lumberyards and home centers carry all this forming material as well as reinforcing mesh and expansion strips (Photos 1, 8 and 17) you'll need. Roughly measure the length of the walk and divide it by 16 to get the number of siding pieces needed. Hardboard siding's cheap, so buy an extra length to make sure you have enough. Also, pick up enough wood stakes to anchor each side of the form every 3 ft., a 1-lb. box of 1-1/4 in. drywall screws for anchoring the forms to the stakes and enough 6-in. (the size of the grid openings) steel reinforcing mesh to lay in the whole sidewalk trench.
Tip: Getting the long, flimsy strips of siding home from the lumberyard is tricky, even in a pickup truck. Buy a 16-ft. 2×4 to stiffen the stack of siding and wrap packaging tape around the whole works for the ride home. Don't forget to staple a red flag to the end of the load for safety. Later on, you'll use the 2×4 for making temporary forms called bulkheads (see Photo 17).
Keep your finished sidewalk dry—slope the forms
Photos 3, 4 and 5 show the details of how to install the forms. Our sidewalk path's consistent, natural slope away from the house toward the street provided good drainage. So we made the forms level from side to side (Photo 5). If your grade has dips or level sections, slope the sidewalk in those areas by dropping one side of the forms 1/4 in. for each foot of sidewalk width. A 4-ft. wide sidewalk should have one edge about 1 in. lower than the other in level areas to prevent ponding or ice accumulation during the winter.
For a long-lasting sidewalk, plan on a 4-in. base of gravel under 4 in. of concrete (Photo 7). If you live in a frost-free climate with a natural sand base with good drainage, you can pour right on top of the sand. But other soil types will expand and contract with weather conditions and can crack overlying concrete. Gravel protects concrete from these shifting conditions. Just about any gravel works well, but 3/4-in. crushed rock is easy to shovel and packs well so you can run heavy wheelbarrows on it without the wheels bogging down. Look for a supplier under "Sand and Gravel&rdquo in the Yellow Pages. Gravel is ordered by weight, not volume like concrete. Divide the gravel volume by 1.4 to calculate the tonnage to order (see "Order the Right Concrete Mix" for help).
Steel mesh and expansion strip prevent heaving, cracking and buckling
Mesh comes in 5-ft. wide, 25- or 50-ft. long rolls. Some lumberyards also carry 5 x 8-ft. flat sheets of mesh that are easier to handle but cost more per square foot. If a roll is a little too short for the job, finish up the rest with these sheets rather than buying a second roll.
CAUTION: DON'T LOSE AN EYE! Mesh is wound like a spring. After you cut a length, it can leap back at you with steel fangs. Wear safety glasses and make sure you and your partner understand that neither of you steps off an end without warning the other.
Expansion strips are asphalt-impregnated fiber strips that compress when concrete expands to prevent heaving, cracking and buckling. Pick up 4-ft. expansion strips (Photo 17) for each 30 ft. of sidewalk and for ends where the sidewalk abuts other unyielding masonry surfaces such as driveways, other sidewalks, house foundations and steps.
Order the Right Concrete Mix
Order the concrete a few days ahead. If rain threatens, you can usually cancel up to two hours before delivery. Although dispatchers are quite helpful, you should at least know the basics before you call:
- Calculate the right volume. Concrete is always ordered in cubic yards. First figure out the cubic footage, then convert to yards by dividing by 27. Here's how: Multiply the length of your sidewalk times the width times the depth (4 in. = . 33 ft.) and divide the total by 27. Using our sidewalk as an example: 60 ft. (long) x 4 ft. (wide) x .33 ft. (deep) = 79.2 cu. ft. ÷ 27 = 2.93 cu. yds. Concrete is cheap and nothing's worse than coming up short (except rain). A good rule of thumb is to order an extra 5 percent rounded up to the next 1/4 yd. to handle spillage and uneven bases.
- Order from the nearest supplier. Get fresh concrete mixed near the site, not mixed across town by some company with a lower price.
- Ask for 5 percent "air entrainment" in the mix. Suppliers add a chemical that traps microscopic air bubbles to help the concrete handle the expansion and shrinkage caused by climatic changes such as freezing.
- Get the right strength. Tell them you're pouring an exterior sidewalk and they'll recommend the correct "bag mix" (ratio of cement to gravel and sand). In cold climates, they'll probably suggest at least a 3,000-lb. mix. That means concrete that'll handle a 3,000-lb. load per square inch without failing.
- Have your checkbook ready. You'll have to pay on delivery after the concrete's unloaded.
The truck comes with the concrete premixed with the correct water content. But the driver may send a little concrete down the chute and ask if you'd like more water added. Unless the mix is too dry to get down the chute, forget it. The mix should be thick—not runny. Wetter mud may be easier to place (fill the forms), but the wetter the mix, the weaker the concrete.
Video: How to Pour a Concrete Slab
Step 4: Pour the concrete
Photo 10: Pour the concrete
Hold the mesh 2 in. above the gravel with small globs of concrete while pouring the sidewalk. Pour a few feet of concrete, heaping it slightly higher than the forms. Don't shovel concrete; pull it back or push it forward with a steel rake.
Photo 11: Level and flatten with a screed board
Level concrete as you pour with a screed board (a straight 2×4 about 1 ft. longer than the width of the sidewalk). Rest the screed board on the forms and use a sawing motion while pulling the board toward the end of the pour. Fill lower areas with fresh concrete and repeat screeding over the same area.
Photo 12: Flatten the surface with a bull float
Draw a bull float over the fresh concrete immediately after screeding to force down aggregate and raise cream (gravel-free concrete) near the surface for finishing. Work in the opposite direction of screeding and push the bull float away from you, slightly lifting the leading edge, then pull it back while lifting the back edge.
Watch the weather channel; dry, cool weather is the best for pouring
The quickest route to disaster is an unexpected rainstorm, either in the middle of your pour or during the finishing process. If there's a chance of rain on the pour day, cancel the order and set it up for a different day. During normal summer weather (60 to 80 degrees F), you'll need three to five hours to pour and finish. Don't order concrete for delivery too late in the day or you'll be finishing in the dark. To ensure a strong sidewalk, avoid very hot days and days that are followed by freezing nights.
Have three helpers ready to haul and level the concrete
Dump the concrete into the forms. Then screed (level the concrete even with the top of the forms; see Photo 11) every few feet of pouring. With three people, have one person screeding and directing wheelbarrow dumps while the other two haul concrete to keep the project moving along. The person who's screeding can usually also go back and do large sections of bull floating (Photo 12) over freshly screeded areas.
Tip: For smooth sides, tap the sides of the form every couple of feet with a hammer to work out air bubbles. Wear safety glasses; concrete will splash.
Use the bull float right after screeding (Photo 12) if there's no bleed water present. Bleed water is water that migrates to the surface from the fresh concrete in small pools. Look carefully; bleed water can be hard to spot. Don't work concrete with bleed water present; wait until it reabsorbs or evaporates. It'll seriously weaken the surface, which may flake off later. Wait until it disappears before using the bull float or hand float.
Working with Concrete Safely
Concrete is a fabulous, inexpensive paving material. But as any emergency room doctor can attest, its benign appearance belies a caustic, highly alkaline nature. Wet concrete on skin can cause everything from mild redness to third-degree, permanently disfiguring chemical burns. A few drops of concrete isn't dangerous, but avoid practices like working in concrete-sodden clothes, concrete-filled boots or gloves wet with concrete juice. It'll keep you out of the hospital waiting for skin grafts. Take these steps to protect you and your helpers.
- Wear eye protection. Sandy concrete splashes can wreak havoc with your eyes.
- Wear long pants and long sleeves to protect your skin. (We didn't only because it was very warm and humid. But we did rinse off any skin that got splashed.)
- Wear tall rubber boots if you have to wade in wet concrete.
- Wear gloves (rubber gloves are the safest bet).
- If your clothes get saturated with wet cement, remove them, thoroughly rinse your skin and change into clean clothes before going back to work.
Step 5: Finish the concrete
Photo 13: Smooth with a mag float
Wait until any bleed water disappears and hand float the surface with a magnesium float, starting at the beginning of the pour. Use sweeping motions, lifting the leading edge of the float slightly.
Photo 14: Round over edges
Round over the outside corners with an edging tool. Use a back-and-forth motion in a 1- to 2-ft. area, lifting the leading edge on each pass and working your way down the sidewalk edge.
Photo 15: Cut control joints
Cut in control joints every 5 to 6 ft. with a groover. Plan your cuts by measuring the length of the pour and evenly dividing it so all the segments are about the same length. During the first pass, use a straight board held perpendicular to the forms for guiding the groover.
Photo 16: Texture the surface
Gently rest the broom on the far side of the sidewalk and slowly pull it toward you and off the edge of the form. Work your way down to the end of the sidewalk, overlapping previous sweeps about 6 in. If clumps of concrete start gathering or you feel the texture is too rough, the concrete is still too wet to broom. Go over broomed areas with the mag float to smooth out marks, and try again in 15 minutes.
Photo 17: Add an expansion strip
Pull off the temporary bulkhead after brooming and lay in expansion strips before continuing the next section if you're pouring two separate segments. Keep the top of the strip even with the bottom of the rounded edge of the concrete. If you're doing the sidewalk in one pour, slip the expansion strip into the wet concrete every 30 ft. and use the edger to round concrete edges.
Photo 18: Mottling eventually disappears
The grayish-blue mottling on this concrete surface is caused by the plastic contacting the concrete unevenly, especially in direct sunlight. The mottling disappears eventually.
Here's what you need to know to shape and smooth fresh concrete
Start hand tooling (floating, edging and grooving) when you can't push your thumb into the surface more than 1/4 in. The series of step-by-step photos may give the impression that each tool is used only once for a specific task. While that's true of the bull float and broom (Photo 16), you'll need to switch between the hand tools throughout the finishing process as the concrete firms up. Use the mag (magnesium hand float; see Photo 13) to resmooth areas and to work out holes as they appear. You'll also use it to soften transitions between edges, corners and control joints after they're cut in, and to smooth ridges you produce with the groover and edger ('Two Heavy Wheelbarrows Can Save the Day,' p. 108). The first time is easy; light pressure will even out the surface. As the mud continues to set up, you'll have to work harder and harder to smooth out imperfections. Toward the end, you'll have to put both hands on the mag's handle and scrub to smooth problem areas.
Make the first pass with the edger and groover when the concrete is just beginning to firm up to form the rough shape. Use them to push the aggregate (gravel in the concrete mix) away from the rounded edges (Photo 14). The next pass gives a more finished shape as the concrete begins to harden. One last time polishes the final shape and smoothes out inconsistencies. Always work the concrete from where you poured first. Avoid overworking the concrete. Your goal is to create a flat, ridge-free surface for the broom finish. If you tool the surface too much, you'll weaken it.
Tip: If the concrete "gets away from you" (sets up faster than you can finish it), just concentrate on getting the hand floating, edging and brooming done and forget the control joints for now. You can always rent a diamond masonry saw and cut in the 1-in. deep control joints another day. Focus first on getting a good-looking surface.
If you can't pour it all at once, separate the pours with bulkheads
To make sure we had enough time to work the concrete, we had half the load of concrete delivered in the morning for the first 30 ft., and the other half in the afternoon. That way, we knew exactly how much to order for the second load. After the truck emptied, we installed a temporary bulkhead (Photo 17) while we finished the first half. With two helpers, don't be afraid to pour 30 ft. of sidewalk a day. After that, you'll know exactly what you can handle. A bulkhead is also a way to end a pour if you come up short on the order. You can throw in a bulkhead and order the rest later.
Tip: If you need a little stoop or pad somewhere out in the yard, having it formed up ahead of time gives you a place to put excess concrete to good use!
After finishing, cover the sidewalk with 4-mil plastic to get maximum strength
Although you can walk on concrete the day after finishing, it takes about a month for it to reach most of its full strength. Concrete needs water to cure (harden) properly. In order to have a strong sidewalk that won't scale, spall or crack, cover the sidewalk with plastic sheeting after brooming. (Cover the concrete once your fingertip no longer leaves an impression.) Anchor the sides of the plastic with boards, bricks or stones to keep it from blowing off. Leave the plastic on for a day, then keep the concrete wet for a few days by occasionally running a sprinkler or soaker hose to slow down the curing process. After removing the plastic, you may see grayish-blue mottling on the concrete surface (Photo 18) where the plastic contacted the concrete unevenly. These marks will eventually fade (ours took two months to disappear) and cause no lasting damage. To prevent them, pour on a cool, overcast day or plan your pour so it's finished late in the day. That way, the plastic won't have any direct sunlight baking the surface under it.
Resist the temptation to remove the forms; wait until the next day
The day after you pour, pull the forms by jamming the tip of a shovel into the stakes and prying against the ground to lift the whole works out of the ground. You'll crack sidewalk corners or edges if you pull the forms the same day as pouring.
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Have the necessary tools for this DIY project lined up before you start—you'll save time and frustration.
- Circular saw
- Drill/driver - cordless
- Garden rake
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- Utility knife
- Wheelbarrows (2 minimum)
2-lb. maul,
Plate compactor,
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Bull float,
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Push broom, stiff bristled,
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- 1 2-in.wide Wood stakes
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"Hock" for "hawk" is in the Eggcorn Database, but the reverse has apparently only been mentioned in passing once or twice on this site, in discussions of other eggcorns. Here's the example that got my attention:
"...he is not an incompetent corporatist like his predecessor nor is he in hawk to religious fanatics like his Republican opponents" (from an online political discussion). Googling "in hawk to" yields around 60 unique hits that are this eggcorn.
Hawk is linked to republicans via the Dove and Hawk eco-political philosophies, with republicans typically being "Hawkish", thus establishing the word association shown in the quote above.
My first thought is that it is simple word substitution, but I'm working on some angles….
Chief concern is that I think the core meaning is changed through the substitution.
I tried to get creative with google, looking for:
hawkish about being in debt pawn shop
and variations, but not getting anything golden….
Next I'm thinking of a hawk taking advantage of a situation like unattentive prey – so a pawn shop could be taking advantage of a Hock-er similar to how a Hawk would…
But I'm not seeing anything…
Something to think about, event though "hawking goods on the street" type of meaning for "to hawk" is a bit antiquated…. but this link from 11 may 2012 shows it in the first sentence: http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/its-free-blog … ild-abuse/
"The Republicans have been hawking a doozy of a lie for several years now,..."
Maybe it is related to "hawking goods" – to pitching your wares. Hawking is selling, which means getting money for some item – While hocking is borrowing, where by you are getting money for some item… ??
So while it could be a spelling type of substitution, maybe there is also a slight shift of meaning, making it related/similar but having a distinction?BUT the problem is I can't find supporting evidence via google. Any thoughts?
czearfoss, I never really figured out any likely meaning-similarity that would justify calling "hawk" for "hock" an eggcorn rather than just a substitution. I'm calling it an eggcorn simply because its converse, "hock" for "hawk", is listed as an eggcorn in the "Browse Eggcorns" list, and I assume that such meaning-confusions work equally well in either direction. But I don't know what the reasoning was for including that pair in the eggcorn list in the first place. I do know that a page associated with "hock" for "hawk" ( specifically, the page at http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/329/hock/ ) classifies it as "English – cot/caught merger", which makes sense but tells us nothing of any meaning connection between the two words. When I originally posted in this thread, I read most or all of the Eggcorn Database links on the subject, but don't recall whether there was any info thereat that would answer your question. If you want to read those links, google-searching "hawk hock" from the Eggcorn Database search page will get you the list.
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Thanks for the comments! I would have to agree with the "English – cot/caught merger" assessment explains the vast majority of usage examples. I guess I was just going "stream of consciousness" trying come up with some alternate connection. Just not finding anything, but have a nagging feeling that there is something out there…I'll just have to hope for a random encounter. Of course some single instance isn't going to prove anything either.
Perhaps Ben Zimmer, who authored the "hock" for "hawk" listing in the Eggcorn Database several years ago, could enlighten us as to the reasoning behind its inclusion in the list, if he still remembers. Ben, are you out there?
In today's Daily Mail
Welcome to Cramlington, a town in hoc to landlords and leaseholders.
but also
the specter of a minority Labour government in hoc to Nicola Sturgeon
Does "in hoc" mean "in this" in the ablative? "In hoc signo" for example. I am dredging up Latin learnt 45 years ago.
So, some confusion between "in hock" and "ad hoc". A move away from the more conventional spelling. Why I couldn't say. Just a typo?
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
Yes, "hoc" is indeed the neuter nominative of the Latin near demonstrative pronoun "hic." Compare to English "this." The complex spellings of the many forms of "hic" were used to shred the minds of generations of Latin learners. to scale this mnemonic mountain with music and rhythm.
I agree, "hoc" for "hock" seems to be a spelling mistake.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
The "hoc" after Latin "in" in "in hoc" though is ablative. The "hoc" after "ad" in "ad hoc" is neuter accusative (to this (thing))
For example "In hoc signo" fromsignus/signus/signum/signi/signo/signo.
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Soils and shallow groundwater at the former dry cleaning site were contaminated with perchloroethylene (PCE), a solvent commonly used in the dry cleaning business. PCE was found 44 feet below the ground surface and was a threat to West Fargo's drinking water. Long-term exposure to the chemical can cause liver and kidney damage.
EPA contracted with Current Environmental Solutions to clean up the property. They used electric resistance heating, a process that uses heat to turn the solvents into vapors. An underground piping system then carried the vapors to a treatment unit where filters removed the solvents. CES reported that more than 5,000 pounds of PCE and its breakdown products were removed from the soil and shallow groundwater.
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The Lady Bisons defeated the Redhawks of Southeast Missouri State 5-4, 7-3 on Tuesday afternoon in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Allison Tyree and Danielle Catalano each earned their second wins of the season as the Lady Bisons improved their record to 7-7.
In game one Julia Davidson hit a two out game winning double down the left field line to score pinch runner Lindsay Larson from second base. Shay Sullivan reached first base on a walk and Larson pinch ran for her. Candice McWherter advanced Larson to second base on a ground ball to second base and was out on the play.
Right-handed pitcher Sara Meek started on the mound for the Lady Bisons and pitched 5 innings of work and gave up seven hits and four earned runs. Meek now has an earned run average of 4.04 for the season.
Tyree relieved Meek in the 6th inning with the scored tied at 4-4 and pitched 2 innings and gave up only one hit and zero runs while fanning three batters. Tyree is now has an earned run average of 4.26.
Offensively the Lady Bisons scored their five runs off of five hits and committed one error. The Redhawks scored four runs on eight hits and committed two errors. The Lady Bisons only left four runners on base, the Redhawks left eight.
In game two the Lady Bisons scored seven runs on eight hits and committed four errors. The Redhawks scored three runs off of six hits and committed two errors.
Starting right-handed pitcher Danielle Catalano pitched her second complete game of the season and is now 2-0 on the season with team leading earned run average 2.45.
Three Lady Bisons had two hits in game two, Jessica Wilson, Leigh Little, and McWherter each went 2-for-4 at the plate. Little leads the team in batting average with a .391 and a slugging percentage of .609.
Wilson hit her fifth double of the season and is tied with Little who also has five doubles for the season. Wilson also knocked in four runs in game two and now leads the team in runs batted in with nine.
Lipscomb Coach Andy Lane was proud of the teams effort.
"Today was a good day for our program. Our players were committed and focused throughout the day. The biggest thing for our team today is that we had players get up to the plate and get the job done. On defense we had several players make really really big plays for us. There was a lot of balance up and down the line-up and I can't say enough good things about our freshman class on how they came through today. In the first game our young players were the difference makers and in the second game our upper classmen had a great game. I was really proud of Danielle's performance and she continues to pitch really well for us. We just need to keep working hard and getting better by doing the little things,"Lane said.
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The FCC has put together a list of actual broadband speeds, averaged over 30 days of testing, in cities across America and overall, it's not a pretty picture. Even the top ranked city falls far short of places like Seoul, South Korea and Helsinki, Finland. But if you're looking for fast broadband domestically, here are the ten best places to find it.
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DICE announced today that the highly acclaimed and award-winning first-person action adventure title, Mirror's Edge, has gone gold. Mirror's Edge has been praised by top industry media saying it is 'the most exciting first-person adventure of the year' (EGM) and 'poetry in motion' (Official Xbox Magazine). The game also won this year's Game Critics Award for "Best Original Game" at E3.
Gamers can experience first-hand what life is like as a runner with the recently released Mirror's Edge demo that is available via PlayStation Store and Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Players who pre-order the game* will also receive an unlock code for exclusive access to the Time Trial mode. Time Trial is an addictive mode that challenges players to use their speed and best moves to find the fastest routes throughout the city. Gamers can upload their best time to the Mirror's Edge online leaderboards for their friends to download and compete against. Players can see their friend's 'ghost' run as they race to the top of the leaderboards.
For those unfamiliar with the game, Mirror's Edge is a unique first-person action adventure where players are introduced to Faith, a 'runner' in a world where communication channels are highly monitored and the movement of information is closely watched. When Faith's sister gets framed for murder, Faith finds herself on the edge of the city, on the wrong side of the law.
Shipping to retail outlets worldwide on November 11th for the PLAYSTATION 3 and the Xbox 360, Mirror's Edge was developed at EA Digital Illusions CE AB (DICE) in Stockholm, Sweden. The game is rated "T" by the ESRB and "16+" by PEGI. For more information on Mirror's Edge please visit www.mirrorsedge.com.


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magiciangirl06 wrote:S_Brat, Do you`ve AIverson and MJordan CF.?
Cadden wrote:2016/2017 Draft Rookies
S_Brat wrote:alrighty guys i have released the bulls team update. unless i am mistaken that is the only other team update i have not released yet. im in the process of fine tuning the wizards team update. The preview for that should be out soon.
Andrew wrote:Thanks for that release, too.
Cadden, S_Brat has made his plans and the situation regarding his other (somewhat more important) commitments very clear. I've warned you on more than one occasion not to be pushy about requests, yet you persist in doing so. Pestering patchers who've said no to a request is rude, and it's highly unlikely to get them to change their mind; more likely, it's going to make them feel like stepping away from the hobby. Please stop doing it, it's tiresome and it's not helping anyone.
Dc311 wrote:WHAT IS UP MY HOMIE S_Brat!!!
You have a child now!!! That is great man. It is also great that you are still doing the cf's.
Manni Live wrote: Dc311, What the fuck! You're still alive! Hows your health man, its been awhile
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Other ancestors were on both sides of the Civil War and at least one hung after Bacon's Rebellion. Some followed the Santa Fe Trail and others were part of the Oklahoma Land Rush.
A speaker at a genealogical conference opened her talk with making bread. Just like our ancestors did. Those daily tasks and understanding how they lived is what makes them come to life. How did your fourth great grandmother card wool, spin it, make her family clothes. Have you tried spinning?
Not only does this type of information bring your ancestors to life but how much more interesting would characters be with those details? Historical fiction author James Alexander Thom has an excellent writers' manual: The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction.
Thom discusses going to re-enactments, living in the woods and canoeing rivers just like Lewis and Clark. He suggests that if your character (or ancestor) needs to use a certain tool that you learn how to use that tool.
So how can you do this? Local historical museums, reproduction towns with people "living" the life and those re-enactment groups. There are groups for the Civil War, the Renaissance era and the Wild West. History is all around us if we just open our eyes.
Old postcard of a lady with her spinning wheel.
My spinning wheel.
Re-enactment of the funeral procession following the Gunfight and the O.K. Corral,
Tombstone, Arizona.
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Is the cryptic handwriting in the 1940 US census making your eyes get fuzzy? How about using this "fillable" and printable extraction form to make things a little easier for you? Thanks to NARA for providing these resources.
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1940 Census FormsSource: http://www.archives.gov/research/census/1940/general-info.html#guideThe 1940 census questionnaire was printed on 23 3/4" x 12 1/2" paper. These double sided forms provided space for 40 entries on each side plus two additional lines for the 5% sample questions. The reverse side was identical except that lines were numbered 41 to 80, and the sample-line numbers were different.
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Facebook users are already voting against the proposed changes that it set out in its revised privacy and security policies.
After receiving questions from its users, Facebook posted an 'Explanation of Changes' update on its Site Governance page, which provides some further details to the proposed changes, under its Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, that were of most concern to users.
One of the main concerns is Facebook sharing user data with its affiliated companies such as Instagram.
"Some of you asked us to clarify new language that we proposed, which explains that we share information with our family of companies. This provision is standard in the industry and promotes the efficient and effective use of the services Facebook and its affiliates provide – for example, permitting information to be shared with our affiliates allows our users in the United States (whose services are provided by Facebook Inc.) to interact with our users in Europe (whose services are provided by Facebook Ireland Ltd.)," Facebook wrote in its update.
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Recently, I am using MOD06_L2 (MODIS Cloud Products). I would like to know:
(1) if it is possible to define a geo-location (latitude, longitude) boundary matrix of irregular shape (e.g., boundary of any country or state) to obtain all the enclosed dataset indices. If so, can anyone give an example of implementing the same using MATLAB.
(2) if two geo-location (latitude, longitude) points are available, which is the accurate and exact method to find the distance between the two points in terms of Kilometers?
Can anyone address these issues?
Thanking you,