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Top Fuel points leader Steve Torrence piloted to victory for the eighth time this season Sunday afternoon at the sixth annual AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park.
Ron Capps (Funny Car), Greg Anderson (Pro Stock), and LE Tonglet (Pro Stock Motorcycle) were also victorious in their respective categories at the third of six playoff events during the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship.
Torrence powered to victory with a 3.684-second pass at 329.34 in his Capco Contractors / Torrence Racing dragster to take down Doug Kalitta's 3.698 at 331.28 in his Mac Tools dragster in the final found. Torrence has doubled his career victories this season with a total of 16 Wally trophies with today's victory.
"We got here by doing what we do all year long and doing it ourselves," Torrence stated. "We went out and we just took those guys out and put them back in the trailer. We're leaving here with a bigger points lead and a trophy. You're going to have to come in here and do everything you can to get every possible point because this thing could come down to one or two points at the end of the season."
Torrence qualified seventh and took down Shawn Langdon, Leah Pritchett and defending world champion Antron Brown on the way to his 11th final round this season. Kalitta qualified in the No. 2 position and defeated Scott Palmer, Brittany Force and Dom Lagana and as he reached his third finals round of the season.
Capps took down rookie Jonnie Lindberg with a 3.879 pass at 331.53 in his NAPA Auto Parts Dodge Charger R/T to secure his category-best eighth victory of the season and 58th of his career. He maintains the points lead and continues to pursue back-to-back world championships.
"The toughest cars in the Countdown are the ones that didn't make the Countdown," said Capps. "We saw that today with Lindberg and Alexis' (DeJoria) car. We fear them more so than we do a lot of the Countdown cars because you're trying to race smart. We're just trying to get as many points as we can get."
Capps entered Sunday as the No. 3 qualifier before defeating Jim Campbell, teammate Jack Beckman and 16-time world champion John Force on his way to his 11th final round of the year. Lindberg qualified fifth and was victorious against Tim Wilkerson, Alexis DeJoria and No. 1 qualifier Robert Hight.
In Pro Stock, Anderson drove to victory with a run of 6.571 at 210.73 in his Summit Racing Equipment Chevy Camaro to defeat teammate and defending world champion Jason Line's 6.545 at 211.26 in the final round. He locked down his third victory of the season and 89th of his career. Anderson took the points lead in the Countdown to the Championship with the victory.
"It's hard to win out here," stated Anderson. "I knew I was in deep in the final and knew it was going to take a stroke of luck, to be honest with you, to win it. I'd had a great race car, but didn't have the total package. It's been an up and down kind of year, but you have to peak going into the playoffs and obviously I have."
Anderson was the No. 1 qualifier and continued his strong weekend with victories over Dave River, Larry Morgan, and Brian Self before reaching his 10th final round of 2017. Line earned the third spot in qualifying and defeated Alan Prusiensky, Deric Kramer and Bo Butner on the way to his second final round of the season.
Tonglet rode to the Pro Stock Motorcycle victory with a 6.792 at 197.91 on his Nitro Fish Racing Suzuki to better No. 1 qualifier Andrew Hines on his Screamin' Eagle Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson in the finals. He earned his sixth Wally of the season and 16th of his career.
"You've just got to stay calm and go rounds," Tonglet said. "This is make or break for us. We felt that if we lost this race that our Championship hunt was over. We just haven't been qualifying that great, but Tim (Kulungian, crew chief) figures it out by Sunday and it just hauls butt and we're able to get round wins."
Tonglet qualified seventh before taking down Joey Gladstone, Eddie Krawiec, and Matt Smith en route to the finals. Hines bested Andrew Rawlings, Kate Stoffer and Scotty Pollacheck as he finished as the runner-up for only his third final round appearance of the season.
The 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season continues with the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex in Dallas, Texas on Oct. 12 – Oct. 15.
Robert Hight powered to a track record to secure the Funny Car No. 1 qualifying position Saturday at the sixth annual AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park.
Clay Millican (Top Fuel), Greg Anderson (Pro Stock) and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) were also No. 1 qualifiers in their respective categories at the third of six events in the NHRA Mello Yello Series Countdown to the Championship.
Hight's track elapsed-time record 3.830-second pass at 333.91 mph in his AAA Missouri Chevrolet Camaro SS held up from Friday to earn him his seventh No. 1 of the season, 56th of his career and second at Gateway Motorsports Park. He'll race Dale Creasy Jr. in the first round of eliminations on Sunday.
"Today was getting ready for Sunday. We pushed a little hard today. It was the first time we smoked the tires two runs in a row in a long time," Hight said. "It shows you (crew chief) Jimmy Prock was out there pushing. The conditions were out there. I'm honesty surprised nobody ran better than our .83 and that we're still No. 1 qualifier. We were pushing hard. Sometimes you gotta know your threshold. Going into Sunday if you've gone down the track every time you don't know how close you are to the edge. We definitely know where we're at."
John Force, a 16-time world champion and Hight's team owner, is qualified in the second position with his 3.832 pass at 334.65 in his Peak Antifreeze Chevrolet Camaro SS and will lineup against Brian Stewart. In third is reigning world champion and points leader Ron Capps whose first-round opponent will be Jim Campbell.
Millican piloted his Parts Plus / Great Clips dragster to the quickest pass in NHRA history on Friday with a 3.631 at 330.39 for his fifth Top Fuel No. 1 qualifier of the season and 10th of his career. He'll face-off against Kyle Wurtzel in the opening round of eliminations.
"We felt pretty certain we were going to stay No. 1. The conditions weren't there to run that kind of number there again," Millican said. "Today we were thinking about those bonus points and we were scuffing some tires to get ready for tomorrow. We feel like we have a pretty good handle on this car. Whether it's hot or cold it just continues to be really quick going down the race track. It's going to be a fun day tomorrow. We want to see four win-lights tomorrow. Where we are at in points we need to make a move."
Qualified in the No. 2 spot is Leah Pritchett with her 3.670 pass at 329.10 in her Papa John's dragster from the final qualifying session. She will see rookie Ashley Sanford in round one and Tony Schumacher, who qualified third, will race Troy Buff. Points leader Steve Torrence is qualified seventh and will face Shawn Langdon in the opening round.
Anderson is the Pro Stock No. 1 qualifier after running 6.507 at 212.33 in his Summit Racing Equipment Chevrolet Camaro during the third qualifying session. This is the fourth time this season and 91st time in his career that Anderson will begin eliminations from the No. 1 spot. His opponent will be David River.
"It's a ball to drive in conditions like this. It's fun," Anderson said. "You just hope you can set some kind of track record or world record and go fast. That's what I love about driving these racecars is to go fast. I just want to go fast. It's neat. All races pay the same amount of points and trophies are the same when you win and it feels just as good at the end of it, but it's so much more fun to run in conditions like this as a driver because this is why we do it. We do it to go fast and these are the conditions you can go fast in."
Anderson is followed by KB Racing teammates Bo Butner and Jason Line in the No. 2 and No. 3 spots, respectively. Butner, who is the category points leader, ran a 6.510 at 212.03 in his Jim Butner's Auto Chevrolet Camaro to race Mark Hogan in the first round while Line, the defending world champion, will lineup with Alan Prusiensky.
Hines also improved upon his Friday qualifying with a 6.781 pass at 196.19 on his Screamin' Eagle Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson during the final qualifying session to secure his second Pro Stock Motorcycle No. 1 of the season and 40th of his career. He'll matchup with Andie Rawlings in the first round.
"Our guys have these bikes dialed in right now like they haven't been all season. I've been putting up my best 60-foots of the year this weekend. That just equates to good numbers all the way down the race track," Hines said. "Tomorrow we're looking for consistency. We have the street rods under us right now that are the best I've had all season long. I'm really excited about tomorrow."
Hines' teammate and points leader Eddie Krawiec landed in the No. 2 spot with his 6.783 run at 195.59 in the final qualifying round. He'll see David Hope in round one and qualified third is Matt Smith whose opponent will be Steve Johnson.
Eliminations at the sixth annual AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals will begin Sunday at 11 a.m. Catch the action live on FOX Sports 1 (FS1) at 2 p.m. ET.
Sunday's first-round pairings for eliminations for the sixth annual AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park, the 21st of 24 events in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. Pairings based on results in qualifying, which ended Saturday. DNQs listed below pairings.
Top Fuel -- 1. Clay Millican, 3.631 seconds, 330.39 mph vs. 16. Kyle Wurtzel, 3.867, 303.91; 2. Leah Pritchett, 3.670, 329.83 vs. 15. Ashley Sanford, 3.842, 299.86; 3. Tony Schumacher, 3.680, 330.72 vs. 14. Troy Buff, 3.839, 314.17; 4. Doug Kalitta, 3.681, 332.18 vs. 13. Scott Palmer, 3.785, 326.24; 5. Brittany Force, 3.690, 329.58 vs. 12. Pat Dakin, 3.768, 323.27; 6. Antron Brown, 3.693, 330.55 vs. 11. Terry McMillen, 3.749, 321.27; 7. Steve Torrence, 3.696, 329.58 vs. 10. Shawn Langdon, 3.726, 324.28; 8. Dom Lagana, 3.713, 326.24 vs. 9. Richie Crampton, 3.714, 326.87.
Did Not Qualify: 17. Luigi Novelli, 3.941, 295.27; 18. Terry Haddock, 3.993, 295.21; 19. Chris Karamesines, 5.211, 135.92; 20. Rob Passey, 23.573, 29.31.
Funny Car -- 1. Robert Hight, Chevy Camaro, 3.830, 338.60 vs. 16. Dale Creasy Jr., Dodge Charger, 4.037, 303.64; 2. John Force, Camaro, 3.832, 335.32 vs. 15. Brian Stewart, Ford Mustang, 4.014, 285.11; 3. Ron Capps, Charger, 3.849, 332.51 vs. 14. Jim Campbell, Charger, 4.003, 314.46; 4. Alexis DeJoria, Toyota Camry, 3.863, 333.16 vs. 13. Cruz Pedregon, Camry, 3.978, 323.27; 5. Jonnie Lindberg, Camry, 3.871, 330.96 vs. 12. Tim Wilkerson, Mustang, 3.923, 325.37; 6. Jack Beckman, Charger, 3.873, 331.77 vs. 11. Del Worsham, Camry, 3.910, 327.27; 7. Courtney Force, Camaro, 3.877, 329.50 vs. 10. J.R. Todd, Camry, 3.904, 332.02; 8. Matt Hagan, Charger, 3.894, 330.96 vs. 9. Tommy Johnson Jr., Charger, 3.897, 325.30.
Did Not Qualify: 17. Cory Lee, 4.135, 309.91; 18. Jeff Diehl, 4.153, 306.26; 19. Bob Bode, 4.397, 227.92.
Pro Stock -- 1. Greg Anderson, Chevy Camaro, 6.507, 212.33 vs. 16. Dave River, Chevy Cobalt, 6.906, 191.51; 2. Bo Butner, Camaro, 6.510, 212.03 vs. 15. Mark Hogan, Pontiac GXP, 6.738, 203.92; 3. Jason Line, Camaro, 6.512, 213.30 vs. 14. Alan Prusiensky, Dodge Dart, 6.623, 208.68; 4. Drew Skillman, Camaro, 6.517, 212.29 vs. 13. Brian Self, Camaro, 6.594, 209.92; 5. Chris McGaha, Camaro, 6.523, 211.36 vs. 12. Jeg Coughlin, Camaro, 6.579, 209.98; 6. Tanner Gray, Camaro, 6.525, 211.23 vs. 11. Deric Kramer, Dart, 6.577, 210.18; 7. Erica Enders, Camaro, 6.550, 211.13 vs. 10. Allen Johnson, Dart, 6.560, 209.72; 8. Alex Laughlin, Camaro, 6.551, 210.83 vs. 9. Larry Morgan, Camaro, 6.556, 211.10.
Pro Stock Motorcycle -- 1. Andrew Hines, Harley-Davidson, 6.781, 196.85 vs. 16. Andie Rawlings, Suzuki, 7.657, 174.14; 2. Eddie Krawiec, Harley-Davidson, 6.783, 196.64 vs. 15. David Hope, Buell, 7.084, 186.25; 3. Matt Smith, Victory, 6.792, 197.22 vs. 14. Steve Johnson, Suzuki, 7.026, 191.51; 4. Scotty Pollacheck, Suzuki, 6.809, 196.42 vs. 13. Ryan Oehler, Buell, 6.998, 191.05; 5. Jerry Savoie, Suzuki, 6.817, 197.28 vs. 12. Marc Ingwersen, Buell, 6.982, 190.22; 6. Angie Smith, Buell, 6.820, 195.56 vs. 11. Mike Berry, Buell, 6.921, 192.03; 7. LE Tonglet, Suzuki, 6.831, 195.87 vs. 10. Joey Gladstone, Suzuki, 6.880, 194.18; 8. Hector Arana Jr, Buell, 6.833, 195.87 vs. 9. Karen Stoffer, Suzuki, 6.850, 195.22.
Top Fuel pilot Clay Millican set the national elapsed time record for the category under the lights at the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park.
Robert Hight (Funny Car) Greg Anderson (Pro Stock) and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) are also current No. 1 qualifiers in their respective categories at the third of six playoff events during the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship.
Millican raced his Parts Plus / Great Clips dragster to a 3.631-second pass at 330.39 mph at the home race for Stringer Performance during the second round of qualifying. He is chasing his fifth No. 1 qualifier of the season and 10th of his career.
"That run is 100-percent is David Grubnick doing his thing," Millican stated. "He is the baddest dude out here right now and I don't think anybody can argue that. He does it his way, there's no shared information and it's done with group of young guys. That's Doug Stringer's car that I get to go out and stomp on that loud pedal in."
Tony Schumacher an eight-time world champion, ran a 3.680 pass at 327.66 in his U.S. Army dragster to put him in the second spot and Doug Kalitta is currently third in his Mac Tools dragster after a 3.681 at 331.85 run.
Hight set the track elapsed time record with his pass of 3.830 at 333.91 in his AAA Missouri Chevrolet Camaro SS Funny Car. Hight also set the track speed record at 338.60 during his first qualifying session. He is in pursuit of his seventh No. 1 qualifier of the season and 56th of his career.
"It's more fun to sit back and watch my team work and you know what they're up against when the conditions are like this," Hight said. "No one is really talking but they're focused on what they're doing because they're trying to make record run. We got six more points today, we were low each session. Forget records or anything else that's what we're here for."
Teammate John Force follows in the No. 2 position in his PEAK Coolant & Motor Oil Chevrolet Camaro SS with a pass of 3.832 at 334.65 and points leader Ron Capps drove his NAPA Auto Parts Dodge Charger R/T to a pass of 3.849 at 332.51.
In Pro Stock, Anderson currently holds the top spot after driving to a 6.525 at 211.03 in his Summit Racing Equipment Chevrolet Camaro during his second pass of the day. He is in pursuit of his fourth No. 1 qualifier of the season.
"The conditions, weather and atmosphere didn't change that much between the first run and second run," Anderson stated. "The race track is maxing out the track gripper and it's as good of a race track you'll ever ever get and when you get conditions like that you need to just throw everything at it."
Teammate and reigning world champion Jason Line is in the No. 2 position with a pass of 6.553 at 211.66 in his Summit Racing Equipment Chevrolet Camaro and Drew Skillman follows in this third after a run of 6.535 at 211.56 in his Ray Skillman Chevrolet Camaro.
Hines took the lead in the Pro Stock Motorcycle class with a 6.802 at 196.19 in his Screamin' Eagle Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson during his first pass on Friday. He is seeking his second No. 1 qualifier of the season and 40th of his career.
"This sets the tone for the last three (races)," Hines said. "We need to come out of here strong and if we can maintain the No. 1 spot and get some more bonus points that would be awesome. We just need to do some damage on Sunday. It's always good for team morale when you come out of the box and go Q1 to low and hopefully it will stick."
Current reigning world champion Jerry Savoie currently sits second in his White Alligator Racing Suzuki after a pass of 6.817 at 197.28 and Scott Pollacheck is third in his Extended Protection Suzuki with a run of 6.820 at 195.28.
Qualifying resumes of the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at 1:15 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. Saturday afternoon at Gateway Motorsports Park.
Friday's results after the first two of four rounds of qualifying for the sixth annual AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park, 21st of 24 events in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. Qualifying will continue Saturday for Sunday's final eliminations.
Top Fuel -- 1. Clay Millican, 3.631 seconds, 330.39 mph; 2. Tony Schumacher, 3.680, 329.26; 3. Doug Kalitta, 3.681, 331.85; 4. Leah Pritchett, 3.697, 329.83; 5. Brittany Force, 3.714, 329.58; 6.
Richie Crampton, 3.714, 326.87; 7. Steve Torrence, 3.721, 325.37; 8. Dom Lagana, 3.729, 323.35; 9. Terry McMillen, 3.749, 321.27; 10. Antron Brown, 3.759, 325.45; 11. Pat Dakin, 3.768, 321.96; 12. Shawn Langdon, 3.768, 324.28; 13. Scott Palmer, 3.785, 320.97; 14. Troy Buff, 3.857, 314.17; 15. Terry Haddock, 3.993, 248.43; 16. Luigi Novelli, 4.263, 207.24.
Not Qualified: 17. Kyle Wurtzel, 4.563, 169.17; 18. Ashley Sanford, 4.740, 155.90; 19. Chris Karamesines, 5.533, 118.60.
Funny Car -- 1. Robert Hight, Chevy Camaro, 3.830, 338.60; 2. John Force, Camaro, 3.832, 335.32; 3. Ron Capps, Dodge Charger, 3.849, 332.51; 4. Alexis DeJoria, Toyota Camry, 3.863, 333.16; 5. Jack Beckman, Charger, 3.873, 331.77; 6. Courtney Force, Camaro, 3.877, 329.50; 7. Jonnie Lindberg, Camry, 3.885, 327.74; 8. Tommy Johnson Jr., Charger, 3.897, 325.30; 9. J.R. Todd, Camry, 3.907, 329.34; 10. Del Worsham, Camry, 3.910, 327.27; 11. Tim Wilkerson, Ford Mustang, 3.923, 325.37; 12. Matt Hagan, Charger, 3.930, 327.19; 13. Cruz Pedregon, Camry, 3.978, 323.27; 14. Brian Stewart, Mustang, 4.014, 285.11; 15. Jim Campbell, Charger, 4.053, 313.73; 16. Jeff Diehl, Toyota Solara, 4.153, 306.26.
Not Qualified: 17. Dale Creasy Jr., 4.623, 184.07; 18. Bob Bode, 9.029, 90.03.
Pro Stock -- 1. Greg Anderson, Chevy Camaro, 6.525, 211.06; 2. Jason Line, Camaro, 6.533, 211.79; 3. Drew Skillman, Camaro, 6.535, 211.56; 4. Bo Butner, Camaro, 6.542, 210.70; 5. Chris McGaha, Camaro, 6.548, 211.03; 6. Erica Enders, Camaro, 6.550, 210.87; 7. Tanner Gray, Camaro, 6.553, 210.34; 8. Allen Johnson, Dodge Dart, 6.575, 209.39; 9. Deric Kramer, Dart, 6.591, 208.49; 10. Larry Morgan, Camaro, 6.612, 208.46; 11. Alan Prusiensky, Dart, 6.886, 168.96; 12. Dave River, Chevy Cobalt, 6.906, 191.51; 13. Alex Laughlin, Camaro, 7.038, 155.01; 14. Mark Hogan, Pontiac GXP, 8.728, 113.16; 15. Brian Self, Camaro, 9.500, 98.77; 16. Jeg Coughlin, Camaro, 9.606, 95.73.
Pro Stock Motorcycle -- 1. Andrew Hines, Harley-Davidson, 6.802, 196.19; 2. Jerry Savoie, Suzuki, 6.817, 197.28; 3. Scotty Pollacheck, Suzuki, 6.820, 195.28; 4. Matt Smith, Victory, 6.837, 194.88; 5. LE Tonglet, Suzuki, 6.841, 194.41; 6. Eddie Krawiec, Harley-Davidson, 6.846, 194.74; 7. Karen Stoffer, Suzuki, 6.867, 194.07; 8. Angie Smith, Buell, 6.869, 192.82; 9. Hector Arana Jr, Buell, 6.894, 194.13; 10. Joey Gladstone, Suzuki, 6.921, 192.08; 11. Mike Berry, Buell, 6.960, 192.03; 12. Marc Ingwersen, Buell, 7.009, 188.28; 13. Ryan Oehler, Buell, 7.211, 169.42; 14. Steve Johnson, Suzuki, 7.218, 153.56; 15. Andie Rawlings, Suzuki, 7.657, 174.14; 16. David Hope, Buell, 7.845, 127.17.


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Student Nurses Attend ConventionNovember 6th, 2008
Pineville, LA… Nursing students from Louisiana College recently attended the 54th Annual State Convention for the Louisiana Association of Student Nurses held on October 17-18 in Alexandria, LA. The convention, sponsored by the state's professional organization for student nurses, annually hosts focus sessions, business meetings and social activities, as well as vendors from various hospitals and companies.
This year, two members of the LC nursing faculty, Renee Shamblin and Debra Migues, spoke at the convention, and three students: seniors, Jill Goodling and Desi McGehee, and junior, Marshal Simmons, represented LC as delegates. Senior, Krystal Kendrick, served as alternate.
Three LC nursing students were elected to the 2008-2009 Executive Board for the Louisiana Association of Student Nurses: senior, Edna Reichman was elected treasurer; Jill Goodling was elected Region II Director; and Marshal Simmons was elected Parliamentarian.
In additional convention activity, senior nursing student, Sophie Odenwald, submitted the LC SNA community service projects for 2007-2008, and seniors, Olivia Vasquez and Lindsey Powell, submitted the LC SNA scrapbook, which won 1st place for creativity, 1st place for representation of LC's SNA activities, and best overall scrapbook. The award included recognition and a $50 check.


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About two-thirds of female academic leaders are unhappy with their work-life balance, with 85 per cent regularly working beyond normal contracted hours each week, a major survey indicates.
Women in leadership positions in academia are also far more likely to suffer from stress than their male peers, according to results of the Higher Education Leadership and Management Survey, published by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education on 26 November.
Some 23 per cent of female academic leaders who responded to the poll said that they felt unable to cope with the pressure and stress caused by their jobs – roughly double the proportion of men who expressed this view.
Both male and female academic leaders report working long hours, with 90 per cent of men and 85 per cent of women saying that they worked more than 48 hours in a typical week.
But the results of the survey, which received 848 responses from mainly senior university staff, showed a "clearly evident gender difference" on satisfaction with work-life balance, says the Leadership and Work-life Balance report.
About 60 per cent of male academic leaders are happy with their work-life balance, but this fell to just under 40 per cent of female leaders, results show.
Access to flexible hours of working had little impact on whether staff felt less stressed or dissatisfied, the report adds.
"A culture of long working hours is clearly evident [which] translates to a significant number of academics and academic leaders reporting dissatisfaction with their current work-life balance," the report concludes.
Improving levels of satisfaction with work-life balance is likely to have positive results for institutions, it adds, stating that it helped to generate "greater institutional pride, a willingness to help contribute to institutional success, and a desire to continue working within the institution".
Introducing more family-friendly policies, such as flexible and part-time working, and increasing the monitoring of workloads could help to achieve these aims, it adds.
However, the report also states that many respondents considered having a good work-life balance to be an "active personal choice" and accepted that career aspirations might be limited if they prioritised their family over work commitments.
One respondent stated that with "two small children if I maintain my current work-life balance, which I feel is reasonable, I will not be promoted very quickly".
Another respondent stated they "would be potentially unwilling to progress to next level…with the associated increase in stress and adverse work-life balance implications this would bring".
One university administrator said they would be unlikely to seek a more senior role elsewhere because they had "four kids in local schools"; another stated they are "not willing to give more to gain more until the children are older".
A reluctance to engage with a "workaholic" culture that led to promotion was also cited by many respondents unwilling to sacrifice family life in pursuit of a promotion, the report stated.
Diversity and managing workloads 'not a big concern' for governors
Encouraging diversity in higher education leadership "barely registers" as a concern for university governors, a study says.
As part of the Leadership Foundation's Higher Education Leadership and Management Survey, responses were received from 63 governors at UK higher education institutions – of which only 3 per cent highlighted diversity as a key issue facing the sector.
According to an analysis of the results by David Greatbatch, from Durham University Business School, titled Governors' views of their institutions, leadership and governance, published on 26 November, the low level of interest in equality and diversity was "surprising" given drives to diversify student, staff and governing bodies.
Asked to identify the likely key challenges for governors over the next few years, financial sustainability of institutions was the most cited, mentioned by 48 per cent of respondents. Student recruitment, dealing with government policy and managing growth/change were also seen as priority areas.
Improving teaching and learning was cited as a concern by just 13 per cent of respondents, while only 3 per cent thought managing academics' workloads was a key consideration.
While the survey was just a snapshot of the views of an estimated 3,000 governors in the UK, it was "striking" that there was no mention of possible risks to an institution's reputation, offshore campuses or transnational education, Professor Greatbatch said.
The results suggest "governors might find it illuminating to gain a better sense of the reality of everyday practice in their institutions, and the day-to-day (as well as the strategic) activities that make up so much of the work of those employed within the institution", he added.


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You know that I prefer natural eco friendly ways. I am in good company.
Nancy Scanlan, DVM, Executive Director of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association and past president of the Veterinary Botanical Medical Association, said she has long been aware of the problems associated with the chemical and pesticide-based flea and tick products. "I prefer natural botanicals over pesticides for treating fleas and ticks and there are a number of good natural products that work without harsh side effects," said Dr. Scanlan.
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"Tick Key: Using natural forward leverage to remove the entire tick, this is the kind of product that pays for itself the first time you use it. (It is nicely priced for toting on a key ring, too.)
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Citrus or Peppermint: Use a gentle shampoo with a citrus base such as orange or lemon acts as a good flea deterrent. Peppermint oil, too, when safely diluted with water acts as a great in-home spray for areas where insects might enter (doors, windows).
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Herbal flea and tick products like Ark's Flea Flicker! Tick Kicker! tend to be safer than pharmaceutical flea/tick products. That being said, all products that are formulated to rid pets of fleas and ticks pose a % of risk.
The ingredients in Flea Flicker! Tick Kicker! are labeled as GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) ingredients by the EPA and FDA. Generally means generally. It doesn't mean it's a 100% safe solution for every dog and cat. It means the incidence of problems with the ingredients in Ark's product fall into a low range.
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Inspired by Dame Eleanor Hull's comment about revisiting things from our blogs, I have been reading through old posts and am finding a few things as the summer writing season gears up.
They'll be tagged as "From the archive" if you want to skip them. Here's one from http://notofgeneralinterest.blogspot.com/2008/10/conference-season.html.
Conference papers age, like ball dresses in a trunk, if you put them in a
file folder and don't get back to them. It's easy to see how that
happens. You'll get back from the conference. You'll be fired up about
working more with your paper and turning it into an article to send out.
But there are those 50 papers to grade, those recommendation letters
to write, those committee meetings--and all of a sudden it's six months
or a year later, and you need to do a lot more work using materials that
you now don't remember as well to get the thing into publishable shape.
Unless you have little birds to sew up your ball dress/paper, like the
ones in Disney's Cinderella,
you may end up with a trunk full of conference papers and a lot of good
intentions. Make sure that your research agenda is driving your
conference-going and not the other way around.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
From the archive: Conference papers are like ball dresses
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- Dame Eleanor Hull said...
You are so much more succinct than I was:
- undine said...
Dame Eleanor, you are so, so right: "For annual review, at most schools, conference papers don't mean squat. What counts is what's in print." I get flattered if I'm asked to do something, too, especially local talks (which take MORE time than a conference paper--go figure), but you're right: keep the focus on what will get published and count.
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On 2/4/2018 11:27 AM, moviePig wrote:
> On 2/4/2018 10:22 AM, Irish Ranger wrote:
>> Just saw an interview with movie critic Rex Reed. I thought the old
>> queen died
>> from AIDs a couple of decades ago. So I was surprised to see he was
>> still alive.
>> Turns out he is just as self-centered, arrogant, nasty and sarcastic
>> as ever.
>> In any case, based on how sad and pathetic he looks, I doubt any one
>> would be surprised
>> if he checked out tomorrow.
> He's pushing 80. What's *your* plan to avoid old age?
Only the good die young.


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by Charles Lyons
We hear a lot of talk these days about "our" values. We hear that Donald Trump doesn't represent "our" values. That immigration restriction is not one of "our" values. That the alt right does not represent "our" values. So I think it's about high time we had a talk about "our" values.
The talking heads and pundits talking about "our" values are talking about their values. They are talking about the values of post-modern, liberal, globalist, managerial elites. They are talking about the values of coastal cosmopolitans. They are talking about Beltway insiders. They are talking about the freaks and the fringes that make up the modern Democrat party. They are not talking about us.
Who is us? Let me tell you who we are. You liberals may know us as racist xenophobes. We are those rubes and rednecks in flyover country sometimes known as 'the silent majority'. We are those people who you disparage as ignorant white trash. We are the people you mock on your degenerate TV shows. That's how you may know us as.
We are the people who grow your food. We are the people who work in the coal mines and oil fields. We are the people who drive the semi trucks. We are the people who work in the steel mills and automobile factories… at least what's left of them. We are the heart and soul of this nation. We are White Christian America. When people think of Americans, they don't think of one of your purple-haired freaks or deracinated cosmopolitan mulattoes. They don't think about your coalition of the fringes. They think about us. They think about us because we are Americana. We are the backbone, the heart and the soul of this nation. You better believe it too.
So back to "our" values… "Our" values are not your values. "Our" values are that we are a White European-American Christian nation. "Our" values are the traditional family. "Our" values are heroic. "Our" values are not Aztec, Arab, or African or any other type of third worlder you import here to replace us. "Our" values are people, our people, over profits.
We don't want anything to do with your values. Your values are degenerate. They're individualistic, hedonistic and materialistic. Your values are nihilistic.
Also, let it be known that 2016 was not the year that White America in its death throes lashed out one last time just to disappear into the rising tide of color that is the browning multicultural America. Oh no. This was our first chance. This is the birth of a nation. A real nation, not some phony proposition nation. This is a nation of blood and of soil. Our ancestors shed blood, sweat and tears over every square inch of this continent and I'll be damned to Hell if we are going to give it up without a fight. This year was our coming out party. This was the year the traditional American nation took a stand for something greater than meaningless consumerism or Utopian bullshit ideals. This was the year we decided to fight back. Just remember, we are not trapped in here with you. No, it is you who is trapped in here with us.


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Have you made your 2016 Resolution? mine last year was to focus on the present moment and not live in the past or worry about the future. This year I am keeping the resolution again. Some people like to have a focus word for their year, I'm not sure I need one but 'Nurture' is a good one - being a wife and mum is a nurturing job so I will focus more on caring for everyone here and homemaking which , of course, is a creative thing, or it can be if I try. I am not a cook but have just ordered a student vegetarian cookbook - well you have to start somewhere.
There's nothing more lovely than the smell of home cooking, some fresh flowers on the table, fresh sheets on the beds and a home that feels welcoming - tidy but not so much you can't relax in the place . Homemaking has to give way to work of course, but I learned a long time ago that much as I love my job it isn't a career for me, it pays bills and enjoying what I do is a big bonus - I like having people around me and they are a mixed bunch of interesting folk. I have no trouble flicking the 'off switch' when I walk out the door - home is the most important thing and always will be....
|these are my favourite mugs for special at home days
I just made cinnabon - I forgot to take a pic for you - but I will be making some more tomorrow - this batch was for our neighbours who have lots of hungry people staying. Recipes feel like they are your own when you write them out yourself.
Without knowing it I have acquired a few snowmen, this one was from a little farm shop grotto. They had a wonderful display of reindeer, a postbox for the children positioned by the door, lots of very pretty decorations and ... some reductions! so snowman came home with me.
Over Christmas we had a lot more cards than I expected and they are crowding us out of our space! - I really appreciate my cards, especially as postage costs have gone up so much here in England - some of the cards are so pretty I want to keep them around right into January, and might do - why not - who says you can't?!
While parts of the UK are suffering devastating flood damage, this pocket of England is springing flower bulbs far too early and things that should be sleeping are not - birds are making nests - magpies in particular. I have seen catkins and little leafy unfurling buds on bushes .. if Winter arrives now will this false Spring hibernate and wait for its rightful time? I hope Nature will return to its normal seasonal routine in 2016.
There is an owl in the woods, he has been hooting every night for 2 weeks, maybe he's lonely. It gets light here at the moment around 7.15am so I plan to go out one morning over the weekend and look for him.
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I have been reading Susan Branch - I had her pocket diary and just ordered a new one for 2016-17 the last one changed me from someone who organised herself with scraps of paper and scribbled notes on the family calendar, to one who gets her diary out with a flourish and can't wait to write on its pretty pages ... a positive pleasure, with her lovely drawings and quotes to inspire. She has a trip to the UK planned for 2016 do you think she might make a stop near me? here's hoping.
The little library I visit is now run by volunteers, the local council cut the funding and so it doesn't open too much these days - but that's all the more reason to make a visit. It's such a beautiful Harry Potterish building, next to a church, full of history... the building is 13th century and has all it's original features - it's a listed building and its owners bequethed it to be used as a public library so I hope it continues to stay open to us. ...
(I showed you the pictures a million years ago but they are worth another look - such a beautiful old place)... no woodworm but lots of bookworms....
superb chairs in the childrens department - nice to sit on an antique chair whilst reading a lovely classic like Lorna Doone perhaps (that was my favourite as a girl).
I requested this from the library - I collected it New Year's Eve just before closing, lucky... and I can't wait to get started - have you read it? it looks promising:
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I said a few months back I would leave the door to my blog ajar. I don't want to be boring and so huge expanses of time pass in silence while I wonder if I have anything to say - less is more and all that.... I will pop in sometimes if there is some painting going well or a walk in the woods turns up something pretty. happy New Year to you blog reader and thank you for stopping by... leave a comment if you have time and I will visit you - definitely, yes.


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Many technological processes in industrial applications can only be modelled accurately by considering their time and spatial dependent dynamical behaviour. This leads to a system description in form of partial differential equations. The main research topics of the "Infinite-dimensional Systems Group" are the derivation of new modeling, analysis and control methods for infinite-dimensional systems as well as the application of state-of-the art techniques for infinite-dimensional systems in cooperations with the industry.
Also see our current research projects.
- Felix Antritter, 2007
- Bernhard Müller, 2009 (now professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany)
- Markus Bäuml, 2011 (now with Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach, Germany)
- Peter Maurer, 2012 (now with Oskar Frech GmbH + Co. KG, Schorndorf, Germany)
- Andreas Mohr, 2013 (now with Diehl BGT Defence GmbH & Co. KG, Röthenbach, Germany)
- Christian Harkort, 2013 (now with Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach, Germany)
- Simon Dirauf, 2015
- Johannes Popp, 2017 (now with Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany)
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Report: Pope Given Extreme Unction
UPDATE: It does not appear that things are improving.
I fear we're in for a very sad weekend.
Law student. Yankees fan. Massive fraggle. Just living the American dream.
A Gray Peace Corps could be established that deploys the senior citizens in our aging society to spend periods in Africa, where they would alleviate the enormous shortages of skills that cripple African development. The possibilities are limitless.I think this is a fascinating, brilliant idea, and one that captures nicely the central insight of, of all things, this book, which came so highly recommended by Instapundit and Professor Bainbridge: that, when one has rough and difficult work to do, the experience of a life long-lived is at least as valuable as the energy and durability of youth.
Seems clear enough to me -- I mean, just look at it. What other way COULD it be pronounced?What other way indeed? I think we've stumbled onto a serious debate here.
similar to Brodie, but with the "t" sound kicking off the second syllableAs I said, it's a serious debate!
[McNollgast's approach] is enormously information demanding. If McNollgast mean [sic] to suggest that legislative history is reliable only when it can be deployed in this sophisticated fashion (using Bayesian decision theory in the bargain), they may have offered judges and administrators a tool that they cannot use.Now, you may not find that idea interesting, but I found it fascinating, and would like to learn more. Except. I'm not going to read an entire book about it. I simply don't have the time. (And yet, I have the time to blog. What a world.) But if there were a condensed version of it (an extended abstract, if you will) I could easily see myself making the time (half an hour, tops) to read that. And if I still wanted to learn more, or to find references I could follow to other sources, I'd get the whole book.
No; it's not about Terri Schiavo. And it hasn't been for quite awhile.Read the whole thing. (via Amy Welborn)
It's about us.
It's about each of us who thinks "I wouldn't want to live if I were a vegetable." It's about each one of us who thinks, as one blogger wrote, that Michael Schiavo has been "chained to a drooling shitbag for 15 years."
But it's also about those of us who are those vegetables, those drooling shitbags. Those of us who want to live but know we're a burden to our families. Those of us who fear "do not resuscitate" orders. Those of us who use ventilators, and who use feeding tubes. And those of us who can communicate with clarity only through artificial means.
HOLIDAY ISLAND is a golf and lake resort community that sits on the shoreline of a 53-mile long lake with 800 miles of shoreline to explore. With 27 holes of challenging golf and many other amenities, this community is located in Northwest Arkansas, the 6th fastest growing region in the US. Forbes ranked Northwest Arkansas #23 for "Best Places For Business and Career". I think you will see that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity you will not want to miss!I immediately thought: Knotheads!
After all, hers is hardly the first "food and fluids" case to have bitterly divided a family, and it won't be the last. Nor is it at all uncommon in America for patients who are Terri's age and younger to be deprived of food and water so that they will die, even when there is doubt about what they would choose in such circumstances, and even though they are neither brain dead nor terminally ill.A couple websites with not enough money to pay their bandwidth fees; an enterprising, almost monomaniacal priest from a diocese 1,000 miles away; a diffuse network of Catholic and Evangelical bloggers: an unlikely cadre to force a national debate, to pull Congress out of recess, and, perhaps, to unsettle "end of life" issues the elite had thought settled.
Terri's putative husband (he started a new family in the mid-1990s) isn't the first spouse to fight in court with in-laws over the removal of a feeding tube. Two cases in the 1990s were strikingly similar, albeit the courts ruled in favor of life. Both Michael Martin of Michigan and Robert Wendland of California were unquestionably conscious when their wives fought nasty, protracted court battles through trial, appeal, and final decision by state supreme courts to see them die. Michael Martin had allegedly expressed a desire to live to an examining doctor using a facilitated communication device; Robert Wendland could roll a wheelchair down a hospital corridor. Both cases made the news, yet neither consumed the entire country or caused the deep societal divisions that Terri's case has generated.
This controversy hit the stratosphere, I believe, because of one simple but very powerful innovation: the Internet. When the Michael Martin and Robert Wendland families fought almost identical battles in the 1990s, the Internet, especially as a source of news, was still in its infancy. It was difficult to spread facts or perspectives that the mainstream media did not want to present--and the reporting of those cases was as skewed and one-sided in favor of death as has been the coverage of Terri Schiavo.
Moreover, and I think more important, the guardian-spouses maintained tight control over the images of their husbands. Almost every contemporary picture of Robert Wendland and Michael Martin that was made public was one that Mary Martin and Rose Wendland's lawyers wanted to be seen. While the parents were telling the world that their sons were responsive and aware, the approved photographs and videos generally depicted them as nonresponsive. Indeed, when despite this tight control a San Francisco television program managed to air an "unapproved" video that showed Wendland taking pegs from a board and replacing them during a therapy session, lawyers for Lodi Memorial Hospital--whose spokeswoman had claimed incorrectly that Robert was as good as comatose--sought (unsuccessfully) to have a gag order imposed in the case.
By the time the Schiavo litigation came along, the Internet was booming and becoming ever more sophisticated. Ordinary users had the technical means to view videos uploaded onto websites. Knowing that cases such as these are often won and lost in the sphere of public relations, Terri's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, and their supporters created a website, terrisfight.org, which carried news of the case, copies of court documents, the story of Terri's life, and most crucially, powerful videos of Terri Schiavo apparently reacting to the world around her.
In one scene, Terri is asked by a doctor to open her eyes. For a moment; nothing. Then, Terri's eyes flutter and she opens them. She seems to be so eager to please--and this really touched my heart when I first saw it--that she opens her eyes so wide her forehead wrinkles.
In another scene, Terri's mother comes into the room. She talks happily to her daughter, "Hi! Hi, it's Mommy. How are you?" As Mary Schindler adjusts Terri on the bed, it sure looks as if she recognizes her mother, and she smiles happily. In a third scene Terri appears to respond happily when music is turned on. And so it goes.
These videos made all of the difference. Rather than being an abstract "vegetable" (a truly loathsome word to describe any human being), Terri came to be seen as a real person, obviously alive, and fully human. Michael Schiavo's supporters and proponents of Terri's dehydration within the bioethics community stomped and fussed, insisting that the appearance of interactivity in the videos were actually just reflexes. But many viewers saw these complaints as being akin to the cheating husband who tells his wife after she has caught him in flagrante delicto: "Who are you going to believe--me, or your lying eyes?" The videos told a different story than that of a supposedly vegetative woman unable to interact with others. And for hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people, the real Terri came out of the shadows, a sub-human no more.
In the wake of the Terri Schiavo ordeal, we are now treated to published accounts of children recalling how they denied their own parents nutrition. "Defining deviancy down" was the phrase coined by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan to describe a society that had lost its moral compass and lowered its capacity for outrage. The phrase seems perfect to describe the middle- and upper-middle-class children who have surfaced to boast of how they ended their parents' lives--as if it had been somehow an act of valor. It is also a chillingly apt description of a society that, in the name of the law, forces a young woman to die of thirst and to starve even as we watch.The commonality of this practice simply makes it a more vicious and tenacious foe; it does not, and can never, make it right.
Compared to the responsibilities facing Congress -- a war, a budget deficit, Social Security reform, and more -- the Schiavo case isn't very important.You won't be surprised to discover that I disagree.
Opposition to the Florida court's ruling seems like a legitimate protest against what appears to be a disingenuous machinery of euthanasia lawyers are busy establishing under the guise of a "right to die" (a right Terry Schiavo can only be said to be exercising by an extremely suspect chain of reasoning). ... Our society is going to have to have this out at some point--why not now? And why isn't it a perfectly reasonable issue for the national legislature to address?Question of how we treat the dying and the severely disabled - should we allow euthanasia? Active or passive? Voluntary or involuntary? - ultimately implicate much deeper questions about what it means to be human, and a person, (and if those are separable things). Are we just our cerebral cortices? Does human freedom include the freedom to obliterate one's self? Is human dignity an inherent or an accidental characteristic? Is death preferable to a life full of suffering? To a life of severe, and perhaps humiliating disability? What duties do the strong owe the weak?
Humanitarian Workers at Risk
Last week, the United Nations was forced to withdraw its staff from parts of western Sudan after the Janjaweed militia declared that it would begin targeting foreigners and U.N. humanitarian convoys.
Yesterday, a 26 year-old USAID worker was shot in the face when the clearly-marked humanitarian convoy she was traveling in was ambushed in broad daylight.
It is still unknown just who carried out this ambush, but Sudan expert Eric Reeves reported yesterday that he had "received from multiple, highly authoritative sources intelligence indicating that Khartoum has ambitious plans for accelerating the obstruction of humanitarian access by means of orchestrated violence and insecurity, including the use of targeted violence against humanitarian aid workers."
If such a plan is truly in the works, it will have dire consequences for the people of Darfur. Last year, Jan Egeland, the UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, warned that as many as 100,000 people could die in Darfur every month if those providing humanitarian assistance were forced to withdraw due to insecurity.
Save the Children has already lost 4 of its aid workers in the last year, yet they continue to provide medical care, food, water, shelter, and protection to more than 200,000 children and families in Darfur each month.
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In addition to the rights all people enjoy, Ms. Schiavo has a statutory right under the Americans With Disabilities Act not to be treated differently because of her disability. Obviously, Florida law would not allow a husband to kill a nondisabled wife by starvation and dehydration; killing is not ordinarily considered a private family concern or a matter of choice. It is Ms. Schiavo's disability that makes her killing different in the eyes of the Florida courts. Because the state is overtly drawing lines based on disability, it has the burden under the ADA of justifying those lines.I'm not sure what the legal standard is for justifying treating disabled/non-disabled people differently in a non-accomodation situation under the ADA, but surely it's not nothing.
A new poll showing that Catholics are backing off support for the death penalty was no surprise to U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, an outspoken conservative Catholic, who says he has been re-examining his own view.(via the Corner)
He has not become an abolitionist, and he believes church teaching against the death penalty carries less weight than its longer-standing opposition to abortion. But he questions what he once unquestioningly supported.
Enthusiastic dissenters often make themselves blind to the sole remedy for the scrupulous, since strict following of a legitimate, trustworthy authority is tainted with "paternalism," slavish obedience to "the hierarchy," etc. etc. in their minds. Therefore, the best remedy for the scrupulous in their opinion is to just "get over" the small details in the moral law and "live & love" however seems best. Of course, this advice is at best useless for the scrupulous. Elsewhere Ciarrocchi mentions a study which demonstrates that the best way to reinforce obsessive patterns of behavior is to tell the OCD patient to try not to think about those behaviors for a while. He inevitably fails, and when his former ways of thinking return, they do so with a vengeance. So too then, when one tells a scrupulous person to just "live and love."Especially for those of use who lack wisdom, treading the line between being scrupulous and being dangerously cavalier about sin is a difficult one. In an age that laughs at the existence of sin, it's all too easy to say, "Eh, no big deal," at small sins; but it's also easy to swing too far in the opposite direction, and to assume that everything's a mortal sin.
The diametrical opposition of scrupulosity and dissent also explain why your typical liberal confessor accuses you of being scrupulous when you are merely obeying the letter of the law in small matters, such as the Eucharistic fast, or if you appear in confession "too frequently," which for many means more than once a month. To a profligate, chastity seems prudish. To a drunk, moderation in drink seems abstemtious. To a dissenter, obedience in small matters seems scrupulous.
(3) There is clear and convincing evidence that the incompetent person, when competent, gave express and informed consent to withdrawing or withholding nutrition or hydration in the applicable circumstances.That's a permanent solution to the problem, one that will, almost certainly, result in Terri continuing to receive food and water.
But the LORD is with me, like a mighty champion: my persecutors will stumble, they will not triumph. In their failure they will be put to utter shame, to lasting, unforgettable confusion. Jeremiah 20:11By the way, when they told her what was about to happen, Terri cried.
The implicit message this daughter learned growing up is that "when bad things happen, this family does not recover".
How would a daughter absorb this message?
It could be that the parent's marriage is not satisfying, and the parents individually and collectively feel a sense of hopelessness about this. The marriage sinks into torpor, or uglinesses. Grace seems to be absent.
It could be that some tragedies or unfortunate events befell the family when the daughter was growing up, and the family projects a sense of never having recovered from this tragedy. (The tragedy could be an illness of an older sibling, a divorce, sexual molestation somewhere in the family, bankruptcy, and many other unfortunate or tragic events.)
Sometimes when I hear about a family like this, the family sounds like a once-grand mansion that has gradually sunk into disrepair and unkemptness, with broken windows, weeds in the garden, and so on.
In a family like this, there is often a sense of a before and an after. There's a time when things felt golden in the family (at least relatively speaking) and after a specific event or series of events happened, things became gray and the golden age is a distant painful memory.
"In this job you've got a lot on your plate on a regular basis; you don't have much time to sit around and wander, lonely, in the Oval Office, kind of asking different portraits, 'How do you think my standing will be?'" — Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005Volokh's argument is basically that people make minor missteps in their off-the-cuff remarks all the time, and that the "Bushism" feature, if it were ever funny, is now pointless and cruel.
**Exclusive Fri Mar 18 2005 00:50:07 ET** The Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee, Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) has requested Terri Schiavo to testify before his congressional committee, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. In so doing it triggers legal or statutory protections for the witness, among those protections is that nothing can be done to cause harm or death to this individual.She's not just a human being, she's under subpoena!
Members of Congress went to the U.S. Attorney in DC to ask for a temporary restraining order to be issued by a judge, which protects Terri Schiavo from having her life support, including her feeding and hydration tubes, removed... Developing...


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2) Due to the aforementioned thing I learned today, I believe that my husband and I will be the ones to raise a gaggle of girls.
3) I think that it is completely appropriate to knit something pink for a boy. What do you think?
4) No matter whether I get another nephew or a niece, I am blessed and happy to be an aunt all over again!


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My daughter, twisting to show me a bright red angry blister on her heel one hot summer afternoon, paused, stared at me earnestly, shook her head slowly, and summed up my life: "You're going to fix it with duct tape, aren't you?"
I fix things – from broken toilets to damaged body parts – efficiently, I believe, and creatively, but often with un-traditional, unsophisticated, and sometimes unproven methods. It is called jerry-rigging, a phrase whose origins fit the crime: It comes from some lashing together of "jury rig" and "jerry built," two terms with their own clear, careful, comfortable histories. As an entry into our lexicon, it was, fittingly, jerry-rigged.
I've fixed exhaust pipes with tin cans, finger cuts with duct tape and tissue, eyeglasses with coffee-stirrer splints, and nail holes with not just toothpaste, but cream cheese. I enthusiastically appreciate the guy with the small refrigerator doors carefully bolted to the rear opening of a truck cap – the Frigidaire tag pried off and the word "Ford" unevenly printed with a felt-tip pen. I excitedly point out innovators like the person who had a porch chair that was missing a leg and "repaired" it by propping the corner on a small doghouse, resourcefully bringing the chair to level and keeping the fellow's four-legged companion close by.
I've had a plumber who, as he peered under my sink at a drainpipe system I'd patched together, let out a long, what-do-we-have-here "whoooaa," followed by a chuckle. A lawn mower repairman similarly chuckled, shook his head, then took a picture of the decorative plastic basket I'd used as a belt cover on my mower. (I don't think it was to train new employees.) I've grown accustomed to long, questioning looks from professional repairmen, and a slow shaking of the head from others who witness my handiwork, like someone walking away from the grave of a person who has died too young.
It hadn't occurred to me, however, that I might also be trying to patch up personal concerns like cracked feelings or leaky self-esteem with jerry-rigging, until one recent Saturday when two family members, a stranger, three dogs, and my spouse suggested it.
It began with my daughter, a teenager, who was facing a dilemma involving the way in which her group of friends might be splitting up. I offered some quick, multifaceted, unorthodox and, I thought, creative solutions. There was a brief pause, then a tongue-clicking sound. "These are people, Dad," she said, sounding like an old movie actress from a western trying to get her pig-headed father to change his stubborn thinking about native Americans or crop rotation. "This is my life."
I think I heard her mutter "Why do I bother?" as she trudged away. Or, "Oh brother." I'm not sure which. I don't think it was "Good idea, Father."
Later that morning, I spoke to my sister, and when I recommended a somewhat unconventional and complex but practical and thorough solution to a difficulty she was having with one of her adult children, she interrupted to stop me from further deliberation: "It's OK," she said. "You have enough to worry about."
I was thinking about this as I was walking our three dogs just after lunch, and passed a young woman with two children at the playground. Her son came running right up to our biggest dog, who is very friendly but looks threatening, and his mother warned him to be careful. "It's great he is so confident," I said. "Someday it will pay off. Maybe you can...." She cut me off with a look, and then a silence I'm sure she normally reserves for her meddling mother-in-law.
When I got home, I was breaking up a treat to give each dog a fair share, but the speediest of them got two pieces, another got a larger piece, and one got none. I began to explain to them how one was being selfish and one had eaten enough, and work out an equitable solution, when it occurred to me that they just wanted as many treats as possible as quickly as possible. None of them cared about my resolution; in fact, they looked a bit annoyed, and I think I heard a low growl.
Finally, my wonderfully patient wife, who has seen my handiwork too intimately and perhaps too often, made things clearer to me that day, though I'm not sure I got the point immediately.
We had a small disagreement where I'd come up with what I thought was a great solution, although she didn't seem entirely satisfied (I think I remember a tongue-clicking sound again). Then we were discussing two acquaintances with whom we didn't really care to socialize (they were self-involved). I asked her if my solution – a half-truthful but heartfelt note – seemed reasonable. She kept putting away the dishes for a minute, then stopped, sighed, and replied – sounding like one of those smart, wisecracking sitcom housewives who is fed up with her bumbling husband's nonsense: "Are you talking about the way you apply some whacky band-aid solution to life's serious problems?"
Sensing this might lead to another dispute, I began to dream up a solution. There was a problem here clearly, but fixing it might involve several steps....


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Seven Nation Army - Dance Theatrics from Vivi Dot on Vimeo.Since each dancer is in so many numbers we try to keep the costume costs down to a minimum (under $20). I headed to the Goodwill up the street hoping to piece together a bunch of red items that I could tie together to look like a rag tag uniform. I started browsing the mens jackets and instantly found some cargo pocketed vests made for construction workers, or so the tag suggested. They were black with a reversible red plaid on the other side and there were tons of them. I managed to find 6 smalls and I felt confident now that I had a base to build on. Oh! To top it off all of the items in their new/unused section were 50% off so they were a whopping $10 a piece.
After I scored with the vests I started wandering through the other unused aisles feeling like a contestant on my own Project Runway challenge. "Use only what the dancers already have, combined with what's in these three aisles to create a signature look for your own choreographed dance." I was up for the challenge and continued to get creative. I also purchased winter knit headbands in a fair isle print to put around the top hat (originally $2, only $1 that day) and red and black plaid 'cashmere feel' scarves (originally $3, only $1.50 that day). I wanted to find some socks to turn into fingerless gloves but nothing was quite right. I was able to fill that need by buying black and red striped kids tights elsewhere ($6 which was cheaper than the adult version) that i cut the legs off of and cut two holes in the foot (one for all 4 fingers and another for the thumb).
I made these super simple flower brooches with an extra scarf.All you have to do to recreate these is cut the scarf into a rectangle like this:
Then scrunch down the center and tie up the middle with some string, cutting off loose string ends. Next you can use fabric glue to connect the edges, turning the bow shape into a circle. Trim any uneven areas to create a nice round circle.Add a button to the center and a brooch pin to the back and you're ready to go!
I gave each girl a pair of Solid Red Vivi Dot Earrings and they wore black leggings, a top hat and converse style shoes they had from another number. I think they make a pretty good looking 'Red Team' for $18.50 (not counting the brooch or earrings which I didn't charge them for)!
Thanks, as always, to Duncan for editing the video together for me. Next I'll share a dance that I co-choreographed and danced in. Thanks for reading!


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