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The Vendetta Defense (Rosato & Associates Series #6) (Mass Market)
HarperTorch, 9780061031427, 528pp.
Publication Date: March 5, 2002
Judy Carrier takes the case of her career to defend Anthony Lucia, fondly known as "Pigeon Tony," who freely admits to killing his lifelong enemy in order to settle a personal vendetta. Her client's guilt, however, is only the beginning of Judy's problems. The victim's family wants revenge and is determined to finish off Pigeon Tony and Judy before the case goes to trial. Then there's Pigeon Tony's hunky grandson, who makes Judy think about everything but the law. In a case steeped in blood and memory, it will take brains and a lot of luck to save Pigeon Tony. But if anyone will see justice done, it's this gutsy girl who'll risk everything to win -- including her life.
About the Author
Lisa Scottoline is a New York Times bestselling author and serves as president of the Mystery Writers of America. She has won the Edgar Award, as well as many other writing awards. She also writes a Sunday humor column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, titled "Chick Wit," with her daughter, Francesca Serritella. There are thirty million copies of Lisa's books in print, and she has been published in thirty-two countries. She lives in Pennsylvania with an array of disobedient but adorable pets.


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Halo 4: Spartan Ops Episode 8 Trailer
Halo 4 fans, were you waiting intently for the next episode of Spartan Ops? Check out the new trailer and commence your drooling.
The Halo Waypoint was updated with this trailer, which features what's coming up next in the narrative. The Infinity is still under attack and Fireteam Majestic is reunited, but what will happen with the hunt for the Librarian and what kind of scrapes has Doctor Halsey gotten herself into?
The trailer is below, so watch it, love it, live it, and get to playing once Episode Eight is released on Xbox Live on February 4th, 2013.
Tell us whether or not you're totally excited for this new episode in the co-op adventure!

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President Obama is shopping for ideas on how to improve the pay of U.S. workers – and the giant warehouse retailer Costco appears to be his brand of choice.
A Costco store in Maryland will host the president on Wednesday the morning after his State of the Union speech. Obama is likely to tout Costco's /quotes/zigman/67728/delayed /quotes/nls/cost COST generous wages as one of the antidotes to what the president views as a growing disparity in America between the rich and less well off.
Costco is unusual by industry standards. The company pays an average of just under $21 an hour, offers health benefits to most employees and some of its workforce is unionized. Executives back an increase in the minimum wage, supported Obamacare and have been big contributors to Obama's two presidential campaigns. Read about "cheapest, happiest' company in the world.
Not surprisingly, Costco has become a darling of the political left for its progressive style of management. The company is seen as a sort of Luke Skywalker of the retail industry – if perhaps less handsome and dashing with its concrete floors and stacked palettes of oversized consumer goods.
The president, who's praised Costco before, is unlikely to make any mention of the company viewed by liberals as the Darth Vader of retail: Wal-Mart /quotes/zigman/245476/delayed /quotes/nls/wmt WMT . Yet the implication will be clear.
The nation's largest chain store pays its employees an average of under $13 a hour, health-care benefits are less generous and the company vociferously fights unionization. Many on the left view Wal-Mart's huge influence on the economy as pernicious.
Could more "enlightened" leadership at Walmart do like Costco? After all, Costco's stock has surged along with its profits, showing that companies in the cutthroat and low-margin retail trade can still flourish even when paying workers well.
Yet any analysis of the companies' pay scales needs to take into account the two very different business models, some of which explains the large gap in how they compensate employees.
Wal-Mart is a traditional retailer that stocks a vast array of goods at its nearly 4,000 full-service stores in the U.S., many of based in rural or lower-income parts of the country. Their customers flock to the stores for the wide selection and low prices.
The much smaller Costco, with just 450 U.S. stores, is a specialty retailer that builds warehouses in higher-income suburban areas. The company charges an annual fee of $55 to regular store-goers, offers a more limited but often-upscale selection of goods, and good luck finding a salesperson to help you in a busy aisle. Read Megan McArdle on why WalMart can never be Costco.
Costco is great at what it does – the company beats the pants off Wal-Mart's own version of a warehouse store known as Sam's Club. Although Sam's Clubs outnumber Costco stores by 175 in the U.S., Costco generates one-third more annual revenue. Indeed, Sam's Club announced just last week that it would cut 2,300 jobs – the sort of thing that never happens at Costco.
If Wal-Mart can't even duplicate Costco's success in the warehouse niche, there's virtually no chance it can run its main stores in the same pro-worker manner. Indeed, Costco's unique approach to business probably is not a model that most retail chains can emulate, especially with online competition getting fiercer by the day.
-Jeffry Bartash
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Sad news: Legendary comedy writer/producer Sherwood Schwartz, best known for creating and producing Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch has died in Los Angeles at the age of 94.
Schwartz began his career as a radio writer for Bob Hope in the 1940s, and soon transitioned to television as a writer for I Married Joan (where he worked with Jim Backus, who he would later cast as Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island), The Red Skelton Show (where he had a volatile relationship with Skelton), My Favorite Martian, and other early comedy series. In 1967, he created the first of his signature series Gilligan's Island, and in 1969 premiered The Brady Bunch. The two series spawned a array of TV movies, animated series, and in the case of The Brady Bunch, two reunion series. He also created Dusty's Trail and developed Harper Valley PTA for television. Schwartz was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2008.
In 1997, he graciously gave the Archive of American Television a wonderful "five hour tour" of his life and career. At the interview's conclusion, when asked how he'd like to be remembered, he replied:
"As a man who tried to explain in his own way that people have to learn to get along with each other. I did it with comedy because that's what I'm familiar with, and I think it's more acceptable to tell it in comedy form. But that's how I'd like to be remembered."
Here are some video excerpts from the interview:
On working with Bob Hope early in his career
On working as script supervisor on My Favorite Martian
On the concept of Gilligan's Island
On casting The Brady Bunch
On the impact of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch
See his full Archive of American Television interview here.


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Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America
It was hard to persuade old Dolly that Cassidy's story was true. She could by no means realize it to herself that she was the heiress-apparent to so much wealth. The mention of it, however, in connection with her lost son, brought torrents of tears from her eyes Suddenly a new notion entered her head, and hastily drying up her tears she said, axing her eyes on Paul:
" Well ! wouldn't it be a funny thing if it was true, after all! An' sure enough, I was dreamin' of my father last night -- God rest his soul ! an' he never comes to me but for good luck, -- eh, Paul ! what do you think?"
"Why, then, didn't I tell you, Mrs. Sheehan, ma'am ! that it's as true as the Gospel! The money is there, sure enough, if you can only get it !"
" Oh ! if that's all, there'll be no trouble about it -- we can borrow what'll take us from Ned Finigan, and we'll start tomorrow, please God!"
When told that it was not at all necessary for her to go to Cincinnati, but only to her own priest in New York, the old woman's joy knew no bounds. Still there was grief in her very joy, and a gush of tears would come in the midst of her rejoicing.
" Oh Philip ! Philip !" she sobbed out, "are you doin' for your old mother, an' you in your grave -- ma gra gal you wor!"
"The sorra grave he's in," said Paul in an under tone to Cassidy, "if the creature only knew it!"
In order to direct her thoughts from this fatal remembrance Cassidy asked with great apparent interest:
"But, granny, what are you going to do with all your money, then you get it?"
At this Dolly's old face lightened up like a wintry sunbeam. " What will I do with it! -- oh, then, it's myself knows that well."
"An' what is it?" said Paul by way of humoring her.
"It's none of your business, Paul Brannigan!" with a toss of her old head that was quite comical to see.
"See that now, Mister Cassidy!" said the dwarf pleasantly, " see what it is to have money!Ńbut that's true," and rising he took down his measure from a shelf hard by, "that's true, Mister Cassidy, I want to take your measure for a pair of boots?'
"Well! I declare, Mr. Brannigan!" said Cassidy with some embarrassment, "I'd be willin' to give you the job -- and, indeed I'm not out of the need of it at the present time" -- he looked ruefully down at his feet -- " but thenŃ then -- "
" Bad cess to you, why don't you speak out at onst?" said Paul testily; "why shouldn't I make you the boots?"
"Well! for a very good reason," said the smut-faced artisan, " because the money isn't to spare at home. Though I have good steady work all the year round, somehow we're hardly ever able to make both ends meet. Money is always the scarcest thing with us!"
"Still you can find some for Ned Finigan," said Paul with a caustic smile. " But that's no business of mine. Who said you'd hare to pay for the boots -- hold up your foot here!" One would think he meant to cut off the limb he seized it so roughly. Cassidy submitted very quietly to the operation and when it was completed Paul straightened himself up.
"Now, go home!" said he, "like a decent man, an' if you'll take a friend's advice you'll spend your evenings there. I'd tell you the same if Ned Finigan was to the fore this present
minute -- indeed he's not without knowin' my opinion before now in regard to the business he's in. If you want ever to have anything by you, or to keep your head above water you'll keep away from such places altogether."
"Well, I declare, Mister Brannigan, I don't spend much when I do go, and it isn't often I go, at all."
"That says nothing -- the habit will grow on you before you know where you are. Go an odd time into a tavern taking a cup with this one and a sup with that one, and you'll soon be that you can't stay a whole evenin' quietly at home. But stay at home for a week or so, an' read a book or something that way, an' you'll see you'll not care for goin' anywhere, an' you'll wonder at how much money it'll save you."
"Now that's as true as if the priest said it," chimed in Dolly; "it takes Paul to give a good advice!"
Cassidy put it off with a laugh, but there was a voice within him that bore testimony to the truth of Paul's words, and an be walked home through the darkness and the storm, that inward monitor kept saying: " Is it not true every word he said? -- have you not spent many a dollar in the gin shop in the lapse of years -- ay! as much as would clothe yourself and your family decently and comfortably, if you had it by you now!"
On the following Sunday old Dolly's claim was laid in due form before Father B and the good priest was only too happy to take the necessary steps on her behalf. After some weeks of anxious suspense, during which more than one communication passed between Father P of Cincinnati and Father B of New York, the latter had the satisfaction of obtaining the whole sum left by Philip Sheehan, amounting to three hundred and fifty dollars. It was the end of the week when the auspicious letter reached him, and he sent immediately to ask Mrs. Sheehan and Paul Brannigan to go to his house on Sunday afternoon.
" I suppose his reverence has got another letter," said Paul;
"now wouldn't it be a queer thing all out, Mrs. Sheehan, ma'am ! if all ended in smoke."
But Dolly would not let such a thought near her, and although she had no expectation of immediate success, still she put a little extra starch in her best high.cauled cap, and otherwise prepared herself to make "a dacent appearance" on the important occasion.
"It is the morning of the hallow'd day," and Dolly is off to an early Mass at St. James's, while Paul, intending to go to High Mass, strolls away towards the Park in search of "a mouthful of fresh air," as he said to himself. But Paul had another motive for taking his morning walk in that direction. The Park was then more deserving of the name than it now is, for its miniature charms were highly praised by people who had never seen the lawns, and glades, and groves, and avenues of a Regent's or a Phoenix Park. No rural resort had yet been provided for the good citizens of New York, and as the only place of shade to be had in that part of the city, the City Hall Park was the favorite haunt of all the dwellers "down town" who loved the verdure and the shade The place was then in its palmy days, and had many a pleasant nook
"With seats beneath the shade," which if not exactly "For talking age and whispering lovers made,"
like those immortalized in Goldsmith's verse, were none the less most excellent restingplaces for the sons and daughters of toil when on "the Sabbath, the poor man's day," they could sit and listen to the plash of the fountain and think of things past, present, and future. The Park had been Paul's favorite resort on Sundays ever since he came to New York, and although the leaves, and flowers, and verdure were all gone with the summer, and the fountain's pleasant song was heard no more, yet still might Paul be seen either sitting like a
grotesque statue on one of the benches, or sauntering leisurely along the walks every Sunday morning, unless when the weather was such as to keep the whole city indoors.
On that particular Sunday the skies were clear and bright, and the ground hard frozen, and our queer little friend took up his position on a bench in front of the City Hall, in the avenue leading to Chambers street, then as now one of the busiest thoroughfares in New York City. And what brought Paul there that cold frosty morning '.' surely it was not pleasure, for Paul's garments were not over well suited to the state of the atmosphere, and he must have felt the cold keenly, for he got up every few minutes and took a turn or two backwards and forwards, stamping his feet on the ground, and slapping his hands against his sides after the old approved mode of keeping the blood in circulation. No, no, it was not for pleas sure that Paul was there, but from a purer and higher motive that warmed his heart and tingled on his veins, and lifted him altogether beyond his own comfort or convenience. That motive was charity, the lambent flame whose fount is in heaven. One might have wondered to see the little stunted creature waiting there, as he evidently was, his thin old.fashioned face pinched and his hands red and blue with the cold, but the wonder would soon cease, for Paul had not waited very long when up with a race came a little ragged urchin with a bundle of newspapers under his arm, and him Paul greeted as a familiar acquaintance, if not an old one, telling him, at the same time, that he had been waiting for him.
"By golly, you had a cold sit of it, then," said the boy, with a shiver. "Haven't none of the others come along yet?"
"Not one, not one; did you tell them?"
"Yes, I did; they'll be around, never fear! They wanted dreadful bad to know what you had got to say to them."
"And you didn't tell them, did you'."'
" I guess not !" said the precocious youngster, who rejoiced in the name of Mike Milligan, " 'cause why, I didn't know my
self. Here they come, anyhow. Hurry up, will you?" -- raising his voice -- "here's the man I told you of."
Paul was speedily surrounded by some six or eight lads in the same "fantastic livery bedight," not one of them all having a single garment free from rents or patches. It needed not the bundle of papers carried by each to point them out as members of that noisy community whose cries are amongst the first to wake the echoes of the city after "the rosy dawn appears."
"Here they are now for you," said Mike laughing, " here's the Sunday papers," and then he introduced all the gaping youngsters, some as the Sunday Times, others the Sunday Gerald, and so on.
"Yes, yes," said Paul, "but you have other names than them, haven't you? "
"Well yes, there's Terry Smith, and Pat Boyle, and Sam Hooks, and Limping Jo, and Bumpy Peter'? -- at this last name the boys, except Peter himself, all laughed and looked up slily at Paul, as if to see how he took it. Paul laid his hand kindly on little Peter's head, but appeared to take no other notice of that the astute urchins enjoyed as a capital joke.
"So you're all Irish?" said he.
"No, no !" none of them would give in to that.
"What religion do you belong to?"
The boys shook their heads.
"Are you Catholics or Protestants, I mean?"
Yes, most of them were Catholics, but a few were Protestants, and amongst them were Sam Hooks and Limping Jo.
"Do you ever go to Church, then, any of you?"
"Why, no !" said Mike Milligan, speaking for the others, "folks don't buy papers there, do they?"
"What difference is there, then, between the Catholics and Protestants among you? How do you know one from the other?"
Hearing this the boys all laughed and winked knowingly at
each other, evidently setting down "the old coon" in their own minds as particularly "green!"
"Why, golly! that's plain enough," said Terry Smith, a thinfaced, old-fashioned lad, whose ago might be ten or sixteen, for his size was of the former, his face of the latter age. "The Catholics go in for the bishop and the priests, and the Protestants run dead against them -- they vote one ticket, you see, and we vote the other."
Although this brief colloquy occupied but a few moments, the youngsters began to show signs of impatience, and guessed they couldn't wait any longer in the cold. They must sell their papers.
"I'll not keep you many minutes," said Paul, "for myself hasn't much time to spare more than you. I jist want to ask you a few questions, and then you can go for this time. Peter!" -- to his little brother in deformity -- "Peter ! can you tell me who is God?"
Peter shook his head. The same question being put to the others in turn, some said they did not know, others had heard of God, but they couldn't tell who He was; one guessed He v. as higher than the President and lived a great ways off where nobody ever could see Him. Some of the boys laughed at this and said: An't you ashamed, not to know who God is?"
Sam Hooks had often heard of God, but he guessed it was all makebelieve. Mike Milligan rebuked the young heathen sharply and answered at once:
"I guess I know: God is the Maker of heaven and earth and all things."
"Right," said Paul, "quite right. God is the Creator of the worlds and the Judge of all mankind. He has a heaven of joy and beauty to reward the good, and a fiery hell to punish the wicked. He is a great and mighty God, and it is a dreadful thing to offend Him."
The youngsters listened with gaping wonder, differently affected by the announcement of these awful truths. Some here deeply impressed while others only laughed.
"Guess he won't come it on me!" said Sam Hooks, putting on a very determined face; "I know what he's up to -- I do!"
"Shut up there, Hooks !" cried Terry Smith, "let the man speak, will you!"
"Which of you can tell me how many Gods there are?" said Paul. Some said three, some two, and a very few answered correctly -- of this number again was Paul's first acquaintance, Mike Milligan.
"Good!" said Paul, "there is only one God, but now tell me, if you can, how many persons in God?"
This was a puzzler, and after thinking for some time and making various guesses on the subject, it was left for Mike to solve as before. Mike knew the number of persons in the Blessed Trinity, and the names by which they were distinguished life could also make the sign of the Cross.
Wondering eyes were turned on Mike, and Paul laid his hand kindly on the lad's shoulder. "Why, who taught you this, my little man? You say you never go to Church?"
"Well ! I guess it was Nancy Leary."
"And who is Nancy Leary?"
The boy looked up at Paul with intent to speak, but the tears gushed from his eyes, his head sunk on his breast, and he said nothing. Some of the others hastened to explain. Nancy Leary was an old apple-woman who had found Mike, when two or three years old, sitting on a cellar-door crying for his "mammy," which individual, whether living or dead, never answered to the call. So Nancy Leary adopted Mike, and shared her bit and her sup, and her straw couch with him while she lived, ay! and begged clothes for him, too, which her rough, weather-hardened bands kept in repair; but Nancy died and the child could hardly be torn from the white deal coffin in which public charity encased the poor applewoman's mortal remains; no wonder, the boy added, for Mike never had any friend but old Nancy, and she kept him firstrate comfortable,
"I guess I'd know many things I don't know," sobbed out Mike, "if Nancy hadn't died that time. She knew all about Gods and the Blessed Virgin, and a sight of things that I don't remember now."
"God rest her soul!" ejaculated Paul with simple fervor, recognizing in the poor street-seller a departed sister in the Lord.
The little instruction which had fallen to Mike Milligan's share was unhappily confined to himself. Most of the others were quite willing to learn, however, and appeared much interested in the marvelous things told them of God and the world's redemption, and the sublime destiny of man, as coheir with Christ in the kingdom of His Father.
But Sam Hooks was still skeptical, and made a mockery of the whole thing. Bearing the kingdom mentioned, he broke in with an oath:
"Stop there, old fellow! I guess you've gone about far enough. You don't take us for fools, do you?"
" 'Deed no, Sam ! but I take you for Christians redeemed by the blood of a God, and I'd wish to put you in the way of savin' your souls and growin' up decent, creditable men."
"Bosh! we an't ever going to be much better off than we are now. If you can tell us how to make money and get fine clothes, and good eating and drinking, and have good times an the year round, then I'll call you a blamed smart old chap; but I guess that an't in your way."
"Why so, Sam!"
"Well, it a'nt hard to ten that, anyhow," said Sam, with a knowing glance at Paul's shabby apparel. " Don't any fool know that nobody wears a bad coat or a bad hat if he can anywhere's get a good one, and for the eating and drinking -- gosh!" -- and he laughed in Paul's face -- " you look as though you didn't know what it was ! don't he, now!"
Some of the youngsters laughed at this sally, out most of them rebuked Hooks for his want of reverence. Sam only laughed the more
"Don't mind him, sir," then said Terry Smith, " I guess he'd talk so to his mother -- if he had one -- nobody minds him!"
"I'll make you mind me, anyhow !" said Sam, and suiting the action to the word, he applied his fist to Terry's ear with a force that would have knocked him down had not Paul caught him by the arm. Terry seemed disposed to resent the insult, and the other boys would have taken his part, for Sam was no favorite amongst them, but Paul interposed and with no small difficulty succeeded in restoring peace.
"As for you," said he to Sam, "I think you'd best go your ways."
"I guess that's about the truest word you've said yet, my old coon," Sam answered quickly; "when Mike Milligan or you catch me again listening to confounded old yarns when I ought to be selling my papers, you may send me up on a kite's back in search of that kingdom you spoke of -- you may!"
Away he went and Paul made no effort to detain him. "You don't change your hand, my good fellow," he said to himself, looking after him, " you'll go up in a rope some day -- though not to heaven!"
"Let him go !" said Mike, "it's a small loss!"
"Well! it an't much matter, Mike," said he of the Gerald, very much in earnest; " Sam's a hard case, anyhow. I guess he might run for office any day, if he was only big enough."
"Run for office!" inquired Paul opening his eyes very wide. " Why, what does that mean?"
The boys all laughed. "Ha! ha! old dad, you don't know thatŃguess you'll never get a nomination, anyhow !"
"Except for scavenger!" suggested Limping Jo; "there an't much pickings in that, you know, and I guess an honest so man might slip in there."
"Lord! Lord!" said Paul to himself, "isn't it the quare country all out! but I suppose we must only take our turn out of it, let it be as it may."
"Well, boys," said he. "It's time I was movin' home for I
have my breakfast to get before Mass time. I'm sorry I can't stop longer with you now, but next Sunday morning, God willing, you'll all meet me here if the weather is good, and try to bring some more with you, an' we'll have a little while to talk. "
They all promised cheerfully. "Well now! let us see, before you go," said Paul, " if you remember what I told you. "
Yes, yes! they remembered: one God, in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
"And the heaven that's to reward the good, and the fiery hell to punish the wicked. You'll keep all that in mind, will you?"
All right, they'd remember that, too, but after a brief consultation amongst themselves they detained Paul to ask another question: "Who is the Blessed Virgin!"
"Lord bless me!" said Paul, oblivious for the moment of the gross darkness that enveloped the minds of his hearers, " Lord bless me ! don't you know that ? Why, sure, the Blessed Virgin is the Mother of Our Lord. I'll tell you all about Him and her next Sunday, please God."
"Well!" said Pat Boyle musingly, "if the Virgin Mary is the Mother of Our Lord, I guess her Son must be real angry with some folks" -- and he looked significantly at Jo -- " I've heard awful bad things said of her -- I have!"
"Never mind, my little fellow," said Paul, " there was everything bad said of Christ himself when He was here on earth, but depend on it, He'll one day settle accounts with them that blaspheme His mother's name. We must leave it all in His hands."
"Yes, I guess it's His own business," said Larry Rooney, " I know what Ed do to any one that called holy mother names -- for all she's dead now. "
"Why, what would you do, my boy!"
"I gues-s-I'd-give them Jessy!" the lad replied speaking through his closed teeth, accompanying his words with an
emphatic shake of his tiny fist which came alarmingly near Jo's proboscis, whether by accident or design. "Well ! the Blessed Virgin is your mother and my mother," said Paul quickly, "and the mother of all mankind -- so you see what it is for any one to disrespect her!"
"Gosh ! what a family she's got !" put in Limping Jo, some what irreverently.
"There! I told you," said Mike exultingly; "Nancy always called her mother, and she said she was real good to her, for all I never could get sight of her when she came along. Many a time I tried hard to keep my eyes open when Nancy was at her prayers at night, to see who she was talking to, but I always fell asleep as soon as she knelt down and began to pray to God and the Blessed Virgin and somebody she called Saint Joseph. Guess I wouldn't mind that name so well, only for Limping Jo' there, 'cause why, we call him Joseph once in awhile."
"Blessed mother!" said Paul, half aloud, "are these the Children of fathers that suffered, and died for the faith?" The tears gushed from his eyes, seeing which, the youngsters were much astonished, and looked up curiously in his face. Paul laid his hand kindly on the head of each, and told them not to mind him, but go home and be good boys.
"God be with you till I see you again!" said he, "and mind what I told you in regard to bringin' some more of the boys next Sunday."
Away scampered the ragged company, all except Mike Milligan, who was detained a moment by Paul.
"You'll not forget the other affair -- eh, Mike?"
"See if I do," Mike answered with a sagacious nod.
"You're sure you know the house?"
"I guess I do!" and he grinned significantly.
"Very well, you may go now."
Mike ran off with a hop, step and a jump, and overtook the others just as they reached the gate. The last Paul saw of
him he was mounted on the shoulders of the Times' representative, which position he had gained with a spring, as the terminus of his race.
Paul stood a moment looking after his promising pupils, and once or twice he shook his head.
"Well, God help us !" said he to himself, " I'm afeard it's a poor chanceŃhowsomever, we can only try. We'll do our best, and leave the rest to God."
He looked up at the clock in the cupola and found to his great surprise that it was already half-past nine.
"By the laws," said he to himself, " I'll have hard work to get my breakfast and be away in time -- who'd think it was so late?"
Hurrying home as fast as he could, he found Dolly fretting and talking to herself at a great rate about the breakfast being spoiled, and people " goin' stravagin' about, when they ought to be in the house to get a comfortable bit an' sup of a Sunday morning It was purty work, so it was!" Dolly said as she placed the meal on the small table before Paul.
The little man laughed and hummed in Irish in a not unmelodious voice:
"O Woman of Three Cows, agragh! don't let your tongue thus rattle! O don't be saucy, don't be proud, altho' you may have cattle!"
This allusion to her good luck restored Dolly's good humor. " Wisha, that I mayn't sin, Paul, but you'd make a body laugh if they were dyin' ! -- hurry with your breakfast like a dacent man as you are, till I get the things cleared away!"
"Oh to be sure!" said Paul, "to be sure, we're like a hen on a hot griddle till we see the priest the day. Sure enough! this money beats the world wide!"
Paul's frugal meal was soon despatched and away he went to St. James's, well pleased to find that Mass was not yet commenced. It so happened that the sermon that day was on the text "Faith without works is dead" and as the Preacher
proceeded to enumerate the works which are most available for salvation, Paul's heart swelled with joy as his ears drank in the glorious promise: "They who instruct the ignorant shall shine as the stars in heaven."
"Well! that's worth a workin' for, anyhow," said he to himself as he paced along on his homeward way. "Isn't it a great thing for the likes of me to think that I can gain that high place in heaven as well as if I was rich or handsome, or well-dressed, or could read Latin like the priest ! Isn't it now? So, Paul Brannigan! keep up your heart, and do what you can to make the name of God known and honored! It isn't much you can do, poor man ! and do your best, but every little helps, you know, and when God didn' t give you the ability to do much, he'll not expect it from you, blessed be His name! But you know well that what you con do, you must do, so now, stir yourself, -- if you want to get the reward, you must do something for it!"
It was late that afternoon when Vespers were over and Father B at liberty to attend to Dolly Sheehan, who, with Paul, sat waiting in the hall of the presbytery.
"Well, do you know, Paul aroon !" said the old woman as a rind at the door-bell made her start, "do you know, I'm gettin' mighty timorous about it!"
"About what?"
"Why, then, about this money. Now see what trouble we're givin' his reverence, an' maybe for nothing at all."
"I tell you, Mrs. Sheehan ! you're nothing else but a fool !" said Paul peevishly -- " I ask your pardon for sayin' it, ma'am! an' I wouldn't say it only it's the truth!"
With all Dolly's habitual respect for Paul she was going to make him a sharp answer when the entrance of the priest gave a turn to her thoughts. Taking them into the back parlor, Father B went to a secretary and took out a letter which he handed to Dolly with a smile.
The old woman's hand trembled so that she could not take
it. "Won't you read it for me, your reverence?" she said in a faint voice; I'm afeard "
"Don't be afraid, then," said Father B -- , after glancing over the letter, "here's a draft for three hundred and fifty dollars! Do you hear?"
"I do, your reverence, I do!" said Dolly, falling back in her chair, as pale as death; the next moment she started up with sudden energy and a kind of hysterical laugh, and snatching the paper from the priest's hand, thrust it into Paul's.
"What are you about, woman?" said the hunchback sharply. "Keep your money when you have it."
"I won't keep it, then, nor I can't keep it. If I'm a fool, as you say I am, I'm not fit to keep it. You'll keep it for me, for I tell you it's yours as much as it's mine."
It was no use trying to reason her out of this notion, and all the priest could get her persuaded to do was to allow Paul to put the money in the bank -- but even that in his own name
It is hard to say which was the happiest on that occasion, Father B, Paul, or old Dolly Sheehan.
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- Budget wisely—In a nationwide Rent.com survey, 61% of renters said they spend more money than they make each month. Also, 56% of surveyed renters said that rent payments are their biggest required monthly expenses. Rent.com advises that your rent should not exceed 30% of your income, and to protect your credit score pay on time. Explains Schreck: "Having good credit is important because some landlords will perform a credit check."
- List your priorities—It's important to make a list of your priorities, ranked by what you would be willing to give up and what you're not. In previous years where there was a bigger rental supply, renters may have been able to get a great deal or concessions, but those deals are very few and far between today. "Start the search online and look in different neighborhoods to see what's available in a specific price range in terms of space and amenities and take it from there," says Schreck.
- Read and understand your lease—You need to understand your financial obligations for situations such as needing to move out early or the rules around customizing your apartment. Likewise, should issues arise you'll have the facts and can seek resolution in a productive and professional manner.
- Do a walkthrough—The goal is to identify all potential issues before signing the lease so that you can address these issues with the landlord. Says Schreck: "Best case scenario, the landlord is amenable to addressing your concerns and you are able to get modifications and improvements written into your lease agreement. Worst case, you discover that the landlord won't resolve your concerns and you have the option to walk away from an apartment."
- Get renters insurance—A recent Rent.com survey found that 60% of renters do not have an insurance policy even though, on average, it costs just $15.75 per month according to the National Association of Insurance Companies. "Even if you don't think your personal belongings are worth enough money to warrant the purchase of renters insurance, it's something to seriously consider. If some unforeseen disaster befalls you, like an apartment fire or roof collapse, you'll be glad you have it," Schreck advises. Just make sure you don't over-insure! "Estimate the cost of replacing your personal property if it were damaged or stolen, and think about what you could financially withstand if something unexpected happened," she adds.


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It wasn't too long ago that my friend Pattie and I visited the Wolf Sanctuary here in St. Louis. I was shocked to learn there that wolves were considered extinct, and not many of them were left. Or so we were told. We were told that just about every wolf was tagged and known, and that at the sanctuary, they CONTROLLED the breeding of the few they had left on the premises. Somebody somewhere, I thought, thinks wolves are dangerous…and we are better off with less. (The lady there told us…it was the government orders to keep strict control of the wolves.)
Not that I agreed. because, they told us there that no wolf has ever attacked a man. Ever. These people acted like they were ALREADY extinct.
In fact, we were told that many wolves are on the endangered species. Since every year, we hear people complaining about the over population of deer (And baseball players have a habit of hitting them with their SUV's) I could not for the life of me figure out why we shouldn't be bringing BACK the wolf.
Now…imagine my surprise when I saw THIS video.
I'm not sure whose telling the truth. We are either sorely deprived of wolves, OR we have so many, that the UN elite morons are really excited because they can grab the land the wolves are on and declare it off-limits to people. So therefore, the people at the Wolf Sanctuary were keeping a deep dark government secret. They don't want the public to know how the wolves are going to be used to take their land, and push them into little city apartments.
Coyote's on the other hand…have moved into Chicago, and Nobody much cares about them. Maybe it's because they are Cubs fans, and if you have ever MET a Cubs fan, you would understand why they would love coyotes roaming around Wrigley Field.
On a good note (and since it's a full moon) I saw a real live wild turkey, a really BIG guy, walking along beside a very crowded highway on my way to Thanksgiving dinner with my son. He walked just a few hundred yards away from the highway, as though he did it every day…and it was Thanksgiving.
Now THAT's bold. No wolves around here.
We were going about 50mph, surrounded by other fast-moving cars… and there I was yelling …. "LOOK!! A Turkey! A Wild Turkey! OMG!"
You can tell I don't get out much.
It was either a sign from God (I love signs) that even turkeys like me won't get shot while getting fat and sassy, or the Wolf sanctuary is right…otherwise…how did that turkey get so big?
So, let me know. If you have seen a wolf in your neighborhood, please tell me. I really have no clue. The only wolf I have seen is the little red fox down the street from me, and the ones I write about every day in Washington…
Maybe I should get a few chickens….
I know…and YOU thought I was going to talk about Susan Rice.
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Wolves are magnificent animals. The destruction of the North American Wolf was a huge shame and distorted the food chain. I am glad to see them being returned to the wild and protected. There is plenty of room for them.
Now, not many people know this but…. the 'Alpha male' was a term coined by one biologist chappie. It was based on his observations of wolves and he 'saw' the 'dominant' male at work. The term was widely adopted and applied to many species, including the Human. But it became almost a rude word in our femninist age and even men's rights men adopted it as a 'macho' thing. BUT, that biologist reversed his thinking on further analysis based on far more observation. Instead of seeing a 'bully', 'controlling' animal 'dominating' a pack, he saw that it was a Father and most of the pack were his children. He taught them; he guided them; he sacrificed himself for them. Yes, he disciplined them too. He delineated their territory and protected it – and them. Most of his time was spent providing for them. The 'Alpha' female was just as 'dominant' and providing as he was. They were an adult team.
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Del Shannon was one of the handful of American Rock 'n' Rollers of the 1960s to survive the crashing tide of the British Invasion. Among the few were Elvis, Dion, Roy Orbison, and Del Shannon.
Del Shannon was born Charles Weedon Westover on December 30, 1934 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The son of Bert and Leone, his family lived in nearby Coopersville, a small and rural farming community just outside Grand Rapids. There, he would learn to play ukulele from his mother and grow up the oldest of three children. He had two sisters, Blanche and Ruth Anne.
Young Westover grew up listening to country and western music. His favorite artists included Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Lefty Frizzell. The Ink Spots were also among his favorites, and he claims he learned falsetto from songs like We Three. Charles Westover bought his first acoustic guitar for $5.00. His fingers bled from it. He had no pick, just pieces of cardboard and dreams. At the age of 14, he walked to the Coopersville train station to await the arrival of his first new Sears and Roebuck guitar. He was proud of it, played it everywhere. "His guitar was his crutch," explained Russell Conran, his former high school principal. "Charles played his guitar everywhere he went, at football games, in class, in the hallways, at noon hour, everywhere. I finally had to allow him time to play in the boy's locker room, so that he wouldn't distract his fellow classmates."
"That's where I learned all about 'bathroom acoustics'," Westover (by then Del Shannon) recalled in an interview with Dick Clark on 'Rock, Roll, and Remember.' "I would get this great echo sound. Later, when I bought an electric guitar and amp, I would set the amp on the toilet seat and play in bathrooms for hours and hours, just to get a great sound. You know, from bouncing off the bathroom tile."
Westover was a small man, about 5-foot-six and 140 pounds. In high school, he was too small to play football, and if you couldn't play football in Coopersville, you didn't amount to much. Westover was the waterboy, who brought his guitar to the games to entertain. Young Charles was never quite popular with the girls in school. One day he asked a girl named Karen if she would go to the senior prom with him. She said yes. Two weeks later, as the prom drew nearer, she dumped Westover for another boy, one of Charles' rivals. This put Westover in a huge depression he seemingly never recovered from, for many of the songs he would write later in his adult life would result from his feelings of early loss, hurt, and betrayal.
One day Charles Westover met Shirley Nash, a local Michigan girl. She came from a big family, six brothers and six sisters. Shirley first met Charles at the Coopersville theatre, where they were all catching a film with his friend Sonny Marshall. In 1954, he was drafted into the U.S. Army. "Jobs were hard to come by anyway," Shirley remembers. "Chuck picked strawberries in the fields of Coopersville, and later drove a delivery truck selling flowers. We met at the theatre on Main Street in Coopersville. We spent a stint in Fort Knox, Kentucky, followed by a three year tour in Stuttgart, Germany." In Germany, Westover joined the Army's 'Get Up and Go' radio program, and played guitar in a band called the Cool Flames. Standards of the day were the usual set list. Westover won a best musician award, not for his singing ability, but for his guitar playing. At Christmas time, the Westovers attended a holiday party at the Stuttgart orphanage, where they sponsored orphan children. This was an early sign of Westover's compassionate side.
When his army service ended, Charles returned to Michigan with Shirley, settling down in Battle Creek, a town best known for its production of cereals, including Kellogg's and Post. Westover worked at Brunswick Furniture hammering feet onto chairs as a production line worker. It bored the hell out of him. He soon graduated to lift truck driver but that bored him too. In 1958, he found a job by day selling carpets, working at the Carpet Outlet for a man named Peter Vice. By night, he found a part-time job moonlighting at a dumpy bar called the Hi-Lo Club. He was hired as a guitar player by then front-man Doug DeMott, who had organized a group called the Midnight Ramblers. DeMott was a heavy drinker who had managed to release two failing singles, I'm Stepping Out Tonight b/w My Lonely Prayer in 1956 for Excellent Records, followed by Fingers On Fire/Upside Down Boogie. Neither made a dent in sales or airplay.
The Midnight Ramblers consisted of DeMott as lead singer and lead guitarist, Charles Westover as rhythm guitarist, and Loren Dugger as bass player. DeMott was a good mentor for young Westover. He gave him the chance to sing a few songs on stage, play lead, and encouraged him to write songs. DeMott was soon fired by the Hi-Lo Club's manager, Larry Gilbert, who hired Westover as the new front man of the club band. Westover gave himself the stage name Charlie Johnson and dubbed the new band the Big Little Show Band.
Westover made many friends as a guitarist and drinker at the Hi-Lo Club. Wes Kilbourne was a club regular and worked with Westover at Brunswick. He played guitar but wasn't part of the band. He was part of the crowd however, and they would sing, play, and drink into the wee hours. Charlie Marsh, Battle Creek disc jockey extraordinaire, attended nights at the Hi-Lo frequently looking for talent. Marsh became Westover's first manager. "I'm forgotten in the Del Shannon history," says Marsh, "basically because I never did anything for him. I shopped demo tapes for him just like Ollie (McLaughlin) did, but Ollie was the one that got him the recording contract."
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Wednesday, 14 November 2012
BBC Releases First Promotional Picture of Matt Smith in 2012 Christmas Special
By PCJ at 15:27
Labels: 2012 , Doctor Who , matt smith , Promotional Images
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That's a rather odd photo to put up... the Doctor doesn't look very happy at all. The coat is totally different (didn't we see this in the Christmas filming?)... hummm
- 14 November 2012 at 16:14
The Ponds have just left, I'm sure we'll see a miserable Doctor that only springs to life when he meets Jenna Louise Coleman.
- 14 November 2012 at 19:54
- Guy Lambert said...
What happened to the other pic you had up?
- 16 November 2012 at 12:41
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Driving down the 1700 block of Kenwood Place in Costa Mesa, it's not easy to miss Terrell "Terry" Koken's house.
On a street lined with well-manicured lawns, budding palm trees and flower beds, Koken's yard — with its pine tree, brush, untamed flower patches and lack of grass — fits in only with the faded green 1968 Volkswagen bus in the driveway.
On the van's rear is an old bumper sticker for The Planetary Society.
"It's been to the moon and back," Koken says. "More than 500,000 miles."
Standing at his porch, with a doorbell that doesn't work and a steel barred gate, one can hear the twang of a banjo emanating from inside the house.
"That was 'Salt Creek,' a bluegrass song," Koken says.
Though he was born in music-rich St. Louis, the Kokens bounced around the Midwest; he, the oldest of five, spent his formative years in Illinois.
"Well, Illinois is right next to Kentucky, and not too far from Nashville," the 70-year-old says, explaining his taste for original American music. "When you turn the music on, you had old-timey music, hillbilly music, bluegrass music. The trigger for the whole thing was the Kingston Trio, believe it or not."
It's those bluegrass roots that explain the City Council crooner's penchant for singing his comments to Costa Mesa's leaders, a cappella-style.
He sings during the public comments period, a time when residents can address the council about any issue they like.
"It's like scratching an itch," he says. "With the former councils, we were not only heard, but listened to … I don't expect the [current] council to hear them."
Koken's lyrics are clever — imagine a folksy"Weird Al" Yankovic— and based on tunes Koken already knows.
They don't so much address a particular issue, as much as mock the council's four-member majority, which is considering an outsourcing plan.
A little more than a year ago, Koken sang part of Richard Thompson's "Hard Luck Stories":
"Running into you is like running into trouble
you bend my ear and I see double.
You're everybody's idea of a waste of time.
You still come around because I used to listen.
But I run a steam ship I don't run a mission.
Don't be mistaken in thinking you're a friend of mine.
It's those hard luck stories, that's all I ever get from you.
Hard luck stories, you're going to drive me out of my mind."
Those on the other side of the critiques say they don't really mind, though they take issue with the level of sarcasm.
"You know, the singing is cute, but I think sometimes he goes a little far in his satire," says Councilman Gary Monahan. "I think he definitely brings some humor to it; I think that's good. It lightens up the mood a little bit, but again, sometimes I think it goes a little far."
Koken says it takes him about a week to write his songs, which he has to squeeze into a three-minute period — the period allotted for public comments — at council meetings.
Koken lives with his wife, Debby, whom he met at the Summer Solstice Festival in Los Angeles County in 1992.
"I had a banjo in one hand, a guitar in the other, and then I met Debby," he says.
The two have nestled into a comfortable routine on Kenwood, just down the street from Lions Park. They were married 11 years ago in his backyard, a potluck event that drew in the whole neighborhood and family from as far away as Pennsylvania. They have a cat — a male, Koken notes, named Buttercup.
Debby is his fourth wife.
So does he ever run the lyrics past his wife for approval?
"Occasionally, but she doesn't approve," he says sheepishly in his living room.
The house is littered with the sorts of things that you'd expect from a family who finds joy out of exercising the mind.
Stacks of books are spread around the living room. Some on politics, many on folk music, others on Jewish art and civilization. Debby has dual citizenship from the United States and Israel.
There's three acoustic guitars, a banjo, a piano and a nearly 3-foot-long shofar bought in Jerusalem.
Most of the instruments are used during the couple's monthly music gatherings, the fourth Sunday of every month, when up to 15 people crowd into their home to jam.
Though Koken's mother was a classical pianist — "I woke up to Bach every morning," he says — he leaves the ivories to his guests.
He took more after his father, career-wise. He said the senior Koken was a mathematician who created the Koken Cycle Generator, or Koken stages, a code-encryption tool used by the military. The only mention of it online appears to be a few sentences of it in a Wikipedia page that mentions its use by the National Security Agency in the 1960s.
"When the sun is eclipsed, you can see the corona around it," Koken says, discussing his father's work. "There's enough ancillary stuff out there about the Koken Cycle Generator. I've gotten some insight into it."
By the time Koken was 15, the family was in New York, where his father took a job with General Electric. He started college at Cornell, then transferred to Syracuse University.
He did not earn a degree but found work based on his technical prowess, he said.
He worked as a software engineer, and said he was part of the graphics team on "Futureworld," a movie starring Peter Fonda and Yul Brynner in 1976.
Koken says his brother, Walt Koken, has the true musical talent.
He's released several CDs, a majority with a group called Orpheus Supertones. His family is scattered across Pennsylvania, Florida and Colorado.
He raised five daughters and has 10 grandchildren. His wife works in Costa Mesa, and he works in his garage.
His latest project: building customized telescope mounts.Koken has a metal lathe and two metal-milling machines to do the work. The workshop is a maze of boxes, tools and metal shavings. He built his own telescope as a kid, and taught himself the guitar when he was 17.
He said he earned his black belt in Judo when he was 50. It only took him 40 years of on-and-off work to get there.
"As soon as you stop working, you start dying," he said.
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The best-case scenario for consumers if the proposed Google-Motorola deal goes through might be that cable TV gets a whole lot better.
Earlier, we touched on Motorola's sizable patent portfolio and its position as a leading maker of TV set-top boxes. Now, let's put the two together, add Google TV's promising software interface and utter failure of its hardware, and cook up a brand new go-to-market strategy for Google TV.
Steve Jobs (who knows a thing or two about a thing or two) laid this problem out very clearly a year ago, explaining why Google TV would fail and why Apple TV is still just "a hobby":
The problem with innovation in the television industry is the go-to-market strategy. The television industry has a subsidized model that gives everyone a set-top box for free, or for $10 per month. That pretty much squashes any opportunity for innovation, because nobody's willing to buy a set top box. Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us. Ask Google in a few months.
The only way that's ever going to change is if you can really go back to square one, tear up the set top box, redesign it from scratch with a consistent UI across all these different functions, and get it to consumers in a way that they're willing to pay for it. And right now there's no way to do that.
The TV is going to lose until there's a viable–go to market strategy. Otherwise you're just making another TiVo. It's not a problem with technology, not a problem with vision, it's a fundamental go to market problem... And then it not like there's a GSM standard where you build a phone for the US and it also works in all these other countries. No, every single country has different standards, different government approvals, it's very… Tower of Babelish. It's very balkanized. I'm sure smarter people than us will figure this out, but that's why when we say Apple TV a hobby; that's why we use that phrase.
With Motorola, Google now has a way into the living room that not only solves this go-to-market problem, but solves it in a way that's quintessentially Google: consumers get the box for free, they pay the cable and satellite companies for the content, and Google makes its money on the back end.
Now Google doesn't have to make all-new deals with content owners or cable providers; it can leverage Motorola's existing relationships. It doesn't have to convince consumers to buy a smart TV or smart Blu-Ray player or anything else. All it has to get them to do is use a new box or, like TiVo, put a new card in the box that's already attached to their television set.
"There is great convergence between the mobile world and content that comes to the home through set-top boxes," Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha said on a call announcing the acquisition. "Working with the carriers, we'll be able to accelerate that convergence which will excite customers."
Cable customers could use some excitement. Motorola never made great software, and cable companies for the most part make terrible software. TiVo and Apple both make good software, but couldn't get over that problem of buying another box. Google makes very good software, and will soon be making set-top boxes too. And since Motorola holds at least a few patents on DVR technology, they can't be ignored.
At GigaOM, Ryan Lawler and Ryan Kim point out that cable companies could still freeze Google out and keep their stranglehold on TV. But if you're placing bets on who will be the first to truly open up internet TV, the smart money now has to be on Google.
Update: There's some confusion in the comments, so let's be clear: Motorola Mobility Holdings, the company being acquired by Google, does include the cable box, DVR, cable modem and IPTV divisions of Motorola. You can verify this here. Google's Larry Page and Motorola Mobility's Sanjay Jha also both mentioned television and set-top boxes as a prime area of future development for Google and Motorola. Motorola Solutions, which was spun off in January, doesn't sell consumer products. Motorola Mobility does.
See Also:
- TiVo Redesigns Search Function, Wants to be the 'Google of TV ...
- Long-Running TiVo Patent Battle Settled For $500 Million ...
- Ouch! Google TV Returns Outnumber Sales
- Google TV Revealed: One Screen to Rule Them All
- Can Cable Block the Google TV Revolution?
- How Google Instant Could Reinvent Channel Flipping
- Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility
- Google + Motorola = Android Patent Troll Repellant


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Remembering a Great HIV Advocate
By Terri Wilder
February 12, 2008
Decatur/Atlanta, GA
eulogia, (Greek): meaning praise or blessing. This is the time to give thanks for a person's life and to honor his or her memory. This is not the time to bring up painful or difficult memories but to emphasize the good we can find in all people.
This is how it all happened: My friend Saul called me. He called while I was in my qualitative research class and left me a message. When I called him back, he asked me if I had talked to Dan. I asked him why and he told me that Dan's mother had been calling everyone, asking if they had heard from Dan, because she could not get in touch with him. I told Saul that I would swing by Dan's apartment on the way to pick up some Mexican food. If he was home, I was going to tell him that I thought it was mean to make his mommy worry and that he should call her back ASAP.
When I got to Dan's apartment complex, I knew something was wrong because an ambulance pulled up right behind me. Because Dan lived in a gated community, one of his neighbors had to let me in. Once inside the complex, I saw Dan's car in the parking lot. Dan's ex-boyfriend and one of our mutual friends were standing on the sidewalk in front of Dan's apartment. I got out of the car and immediately asked, "What the f** is going on?" I was informed that Dan's ex (Jon) and close friend (Butch) had knocked on the door of Dan's apartment for several minutes. When they received no answer, they immediately called the police.
The police arrived first. Once they realized that they had no way of opening Dan's door, they called the fire department for help. The fire department arrived within minutes and broke open the door. The police told all of us to wait outside of Dan's apartment. A few minutes later, a policewoman came out and told us, "I'm sorry, he is gone." I asked her to clarify what she meant and she told us that Dan was dead. I began to cry and thought about the fact that my friend was no longer alive, and that someone was going to have to tell his mom that her child was no longer living. Jon called Dan's brother in Washington, D.C., and he called his mom to tell her that Dan was dead.
After Jon called Dan's brother, the medical examiner arrived to investigate Dan's death. The medical examiner says that Dan died from a stroke. The medical examiner said he had not been dead that long. I guess it doesn't matter how he died, but yet ... it does. It doesn't matter because Dan is dead and I will never see him again. It does matter because Dan's T-cell count was good, he was adherent to his meds, he went to the doctor, and he exercised ... so I don't understand why he is dead. Did he die because of his HIV, because of the medications ... or was it something else? I don't know.
Dan was an HIV treatment advocate. He had a wealth of HIV knowledge. It was absolutely amazing. He was probably one of the most knowledgeable people I knew. Keep in mind that this man had NO medical background. He worked at Macy's for years as one of the top salesmen in the company. He was a self-educated HIV treatment expert. He taught himself everything he knew about HIV by becoming involved: attending conferences, searching the Internet and talking to "experts" in the field. He was amazingly humble and could explain anything to you about HIV. He was not arrogant or cocky. He would shy away from praise.
Because of his dedication to HIV knowledge, he became "the" Atlanta resource for HIV treatment information. Due to his expertise, he was asked to be a member of several local advisory boards and gave input and treatment recommendations to pharmaceutical companies. He advocated for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, attended local, national and international AIDS conferences. He wrote articles for several publications. He was a valuable resource to our community. He was a role model. He was not simply a patient or a person with an "illness." He was self-empowered and involved in his healthcare. He understood that he was primarily responsible for his healthcare, and that everyone else was simply a resource in the journey towards optimal health. He embraced this ideology and lived a long time because of it.
While Dan was employed at Atlanta's AIDS Survival Project's Treatment Resource Center, it became the most influential and respected resource of its kind in the Southeast. He helped lots of people ... he probably helped save lots of people's lives. Unfortunately, the Treatment Resource Center doesn't really exist anymore. The main newsletter that he wrote for doesn't come out in its original format ... and I wonder ... what would Dan think about that?
I think becoming actively involved in the pursuit of knowledge is essential to staying alive with HIV. As the old ACT-UP slogan reminds us, Knowledge=Power and Action=Life. For the newly diagnosed ... and for those who have been living long with HIV ... learning everything you can about HIV is the only way to make sure that the meds you are taking are appropriate for YOUR body. Learning everything you can about HIV is the only way to make sure that you are taking the BEST combination for your body and your life circumstance. It is OK to question ... because you have a right to know what is being "done" to your body.
Furthermore, learning everything you can about these drugs and this virus allows for your voice to be heard on a local, state and federal level ... because when you are knowledgeable, you can articulate your needs to the gatekeepers.
These are all important questions ... and questions that Dan could answer if he were alive. His death took away a great resource and I will miss him for the rest of my life. His resource in this fight needs to be replenished ... so it is up to you to become involved so that you can live ... so that others can benefit from your knowledge ... and so that the fight for better HIV treatment can continue.
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The twilight zone is a realm of imagination that seems impossible but is difficult to falsify. It typically challenges an ordinary view of reality.
The concept originated in 1949 and became the basis for an immensely successful television series called The Twilight Zone. One of its most famous episodes concerns the possible role that conformity plays in shaping perceptions of human beauty.
The Merriam-Webster definition for the term is inadequate: "a word of fantasy, illusion or unreality."


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NTCCC professor discovers revolutionary formula for better grades in college
A Northeast Texas Community College professor made a startling discovery this week that has the potential to change the lives of millions of college students around the world. Dr. Shirley Clay, NTCC Professor of Psychology, recently completed a 25-year study of reading comprehension scores in a general psychology course and found that students' reading abilities have declined over the years. Her findings revealed two factors that drastically improve student success rates in the classroom: showing up for class and studying.
"I'm really surprised that researchers haven't figured this out sooner. The results are very mind blowing," Dr. Clay said.
The study confirmed that students who attended class regularly and who studied the assigned material for at least three hours per week were more successful than 99.9% of their peers. Students who practiced both behaviors on a consistent basis not only scored higher on tests, but were also more involved in student activities and were more likely to stay in school.
"The concept of showing up for class and studying the course material may seem simple, but we tend to see a sharp decline in both behaviors after spring break," Dr. Clay said.
Dr. Clay will present her research before a panel of faculty members from colleges and universities across the nation next month at the National Convention for Obvious Psychological Studies (NCOPS). Her work has already been accepted to be published in several journals.
"There are many strategies out there for success in college, but it really boils down to two simple concepts. Just show up for class prepared to learn and do the assigned work that the teacher gives you. This is an almost fool-proof way to make better grades and be more engaged in college," Dr. Clay said.
Dr. Clay did point out that her study is completely fictional and that this story is an April Fools Day joke. However, her tips remain valid: GO TO CLASS AND STUDY TO MAKE BETTER GRADES. If you need additional information about how to study, contact Dr. Clay at firstname.lastname@example.com or sign up for Psychology 1300 (Effective Learning: Strategies for College Success). This course is no April Fools joke – it is really very valuable for many students who want to be more successful in college.


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Reception for 'Selected works from the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art'
Savannah, GA
601 Turner Blvd.
SCAD presents "The Modern Era: Selected works from the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art" highlighting more than 25 works from the SCAD Museum of Art's Walter O. Evans Collection. Created from 1927 to 1966, the featured paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints illustrate major artistic and cultural developments explored during this pivotal period in modern art. Works represent the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Social Realism and Regionalism of the Works Progress Administration, Surrealism, Folk Art, Abstract Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction and the Washington Color School.
Dr. Evans began collecting art in the late 1970s, with early acquisitions including "Card Game" (1953) by Jacob Lawrence and "Figure Sitting" (1939) by Marion Perkins, both of which are featured in the exhibition. The presentation is drawn from a collection of more than 60 works donated by Dr. Walter O. and Linda J. Evans in 2005 that span more than 150 years, bringing to greater light the remarkable contributions of African American artists throughout the modern era.
This exhibition is curated by SCAD chief curator Tim Peterson.
Museum hours:
- Sunday: Noon to 5 p.m.
- Monday: Closed
- Tuesday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Wednesday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Thursday: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Saturday: Noon to 5 p.m.
The reception is free and open to the public. The exhibition is free for all SCAD students, faculty, staff and museum members and open to the public with the cost of museum admission.


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Google is back with its latest smartphone. With a little help from LG, the Nexus 4 is the flagship Android phone. See also our in-depth Nexus 4 review
The Nexus 4 feels great in the hand, a true premium smartphone. There's a silver bezel around the screen and, if you flip the phone over, you'll find unique finish consisting of a matrix of tiny silver dots, each reflect light at different angles. It's a love it or hate it finish. Group test: what's the best Android phone?
We were initially a bit worried about the glossy finish of the Nexus 4, making it quite a slippery handset. However, between the front and back of the phone is a grippy rubbery finish. There's no removable cover and the phone feels sturdy and well-built.
See also: Google LG Nexus 4 vs Apple iPhone 5 comparison review.
The Nexus 4 has easily the best build quality for an Android smartphone we've seen in a long time. The starting price of £239 is simply astonishing and a game changer. You get a high-end handset for the price of a mid-range phone.
Inside the Nexus 4 is a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro, a quad-core chip clocked at a healthy 1.5GHz and 2GB of RAM. It set a new record for a phone of 2009 points in the GeekBench 2 test. It also matched the iPhone 5 in terms of graphics with 39fps in GLBenchmark.
The 4.7in IPS screen looks stunning with a detailed 768x1280 resolution, excellent contrast and rich colours. We found it performed particularly well outdoors. Check out our Google Nexus 10 review.
Storage is the Nexus 4's biggest downfall with only 8GB and 16GB models to choose from and no microSD card slot.
Connectivity includes dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC. However, there's no support for 4G in the UK. The 8Mp rear and 1.3Mp front facing cameras provided us with decent results. The easy to use camera app includes an HDR mode and Photo Sphere for 360 degree panoramas.
The Nexus 4 comes with the latest version of Android, 4.2 Jelly Bean. This incremental update brings a few new features such as widgets on the lock screen, quick settings, additional cards in Google Now and Daydream. The best improvement and our favourite is gesture typing on the keyboard.
We got comfortably through a day using the Nexus 4 with enough battery life left over for the next day. Wireless charging is a convenient way to keep the phone topped up.
The Nexus 4 is a top-end smartphone for a bargain price. It easily deserves our Gold award.
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by John Calvin (compiled by John H. Kromminga)
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And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me.... —Ezekiel 2:3a
He threatens them, therefore, and that not only once, because such was the hardheartedness of the people that it was not enough to utter the threatenings of God three or four times, unless he should continually impress them.
But, at the same time, he shows the causes why God determined to treat his people so severely; namely, because they were contaminated with many superstitions, because they were perfidious, greedy, cruel, and full of rapine, given up to luxury and depraved by lust; all these things are united by our Prophet, that he may show that the vengeance of God is not too severe, since the people had arrived at the very last pitch of impiety and all wickedness.
At the same time, he gives them, here and there, some taste of the mercy of God. For all threats are vain, unless some promise of favor is held out. Nay, the vengeance of God, as soon as it is displayed, drives men to despair, and despair casts them headlong into madness; for as soon as anyone apprehends the anger of God, he is necessarily agitated, and then, like a raging beast, he wages war with God himself.
For this reason I said that all threats are vain without a taste of the mercy of God. The prophets always argue with men with no other intention than that of stirring them up to penitence, which they could never effect unless God could be reconciled to those who had been alienated from him.
This then is the reason why our prophet, as well as Jeremiah, when they reprove the people, temper their sharpness by the interposition of promises. —Commentaries
John Calvin was the premier theologian of the Reformation, but also a pious and godly Christian pastor who endeavored throughout his life to point men and women to Christ. We are grateful to Reformation Heritage Books for permission to use John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart as our daily devotional for 2013 on the OPC Web site. You can currently obtain a printed copy of that book from Reformation Heritage Books.
Dr. Joel Beeke, who is editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, has this to say:
"Calvin shows us the piety of a Reformed theologian who speaks from the heart. Having tasted the goodness and grace of God in Jesus Christ, he pursued piety by seeking to know and do God's will every day. He communed with Christ, practicing repentance, self-denial, and cross-bearing. Moreover, his theology worked itself out in heart-felt, Christ-honoring piety. The selections of this devotional bear this out, and hopefully will be used by God to direct pious hearts in our own day."
These devotional readings from John Calvin were compiled by John H. Kromminga. Be sure to read his "Introduction" to John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart.


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Friday, 1 February 2008
Blueberry and Almond Muffins
It's Friday and what better way to begin the weekend than making up a batch of baked treats to have for breakfast on Saturday and Sunday (if they last that long!) I think there is nothing more welcoming than home-made blueberry muffins; they are a light and healthy treat for breakfast, lunch or snack time. I had some lovely organic blueberries in the fridge and decided to try out a new recipe I've had my eye on from Rachel Allen's Food For Living cookbook. The recipe has a lovely combination of ground almonds in the mixture and chopped almonds scattered on the top, a delicious alternative to your average blueberry muffins. Have a great weekend everyone ;o)
5 comments:
- Rosie said...
I'd be round yours like a shot for one of those Blueberry & almond muffins!! ;) They look very delicious and a lovely bake Maria!
Rosie x
- 1 February 2008 at 14:50
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
I can't say I've ever really 'got' the muffin thing - but these look very tempting indeed!
- 1 February 2008 at 22:54
- Maria said...
Thanks for the lovely comment and dropping by my blog ;o)
- 2 February 2008 at 09:33
- MrsB said...
Your muffins look great, there is nothing better than waking up on a lazy saturday morning to home baked muffins, i love blueberries in muffins they are the perfect partner! Hope you enjoy them!
- 2 February 2008 at 13:28
- Maria said...
Hi Mrs B
Thanks for your lovely comment and dropping by my blog. These muffins have gone down a treat and not many left now ;o)
- 2 February 2008 at 21:09
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West Papua is home to over 300 tribes. They have inhabited the island for more than 40,000 years. Many of the last remaining tribal cultures on our planet can be found in West Papua. An astounding 15% of the world's languages are spoken there, by just 0.01% of the global population.
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Phenocyanine by Durand & Huguenin, Basle in Switzerland. One of a collection of colour dyes in bottles from the Colour Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, c.1900.
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LOS ANGELES - Commercial Real Estate Women-Los Angeles (CREW-LA) has partnered with UCLA Anderson School of Management and The Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA to present a fun filled evening of wine tasting and networking with leading professionals in commercial real estate. This elegant evening on Thursday, October 25, will include a live and silent auction to help CREW-LA reach its $100,000 goal for the CREW-LA Ziman Center Fellowship Endowment Fund. The fund will provide financial support to commercial real estate students. The online auction will go live on September 25th.
Location: Covel Commons, UCLA campus
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007
Time: 6:00 to 9:00p.m.
Click HERE to sign up online
Members $75
Non-members $85
Price at the door $100
Individuals and businesses are invited to provide support in the following ways:
- Event Sponsorship: Sponsors receive wide exposure through pre-event publicity as well as recognition on the night of the event.
- Auction Donations: Donors will receive recognition at the event as well as the satisfaction of knowing they made the auction a success. This year there will be a new online auction in addition to the silent and live auctions.
- Event Attendance: Attend an entertaining evening of networking with leading professionals in commercial real estate.
- Partnerships: Invite your vendors and customers to attend the event.
For more than 70 years, UCLA Anderson has attracted and taught some of the world's top MBA students. Steady cutbacks in state resources have reduced the accessibility of public higher education. UCLA Anderson is committed to making first-rate management education accessible to qualified students. The CREW-LA Ziman Center Fellowship Endowment Fund will help UCLA Anderson fulfill this commitment. Sponsorship and donation details are available at www.crewla.org. Please contact Jennifer Hafner with any questions.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the very best business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty are ranked #1 in "Intellectual Capital" by BusinessWeek and are renowned for their teaching excellence and research that advances management thinking and practice. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,600 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 35,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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The sleek, 130-foot yacht dwarfed the wooden replica tied up alongside.
Five hundred years of maritime progress was on display. During a brief stay in Frankfort Harbor, the Niña drew the curious to this small northern Michigan town, providing a unique opportunity to step back in time and envision the daring of those who braved the open ocean in such apparently unseaworthy craft.
At 67 feet long, the Niña was constructed in 1991 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage to the new world. No power tools were used, only hand tools. Paintings, coins, contracts and journals were the source of the replica's design. Written ship construction plans were forbidden in 15th century Spain as a matter of state secrecy.
Departing Spain in 1492, Columbus could not anticipate the impact his voyage would have on the world at large and the native societies he encountered. The Spanish caravel design was equipped with 15th century nautical innovations: A stern rudder-tiller allowed the ships to sail close to the wind, an extra mast and square-rigged and lateen sails enabled it to sail into the wind.
Crude compasses and an astrolabe, a precursor of the sextant, assisted in determining latitude. Longitude was a guessing game, so navigators used sightings of the North Star to sail as close as possible to a specific line of latitude.
With favorable winds and an ideal sea, the ships could make 11 knots. A crew of 20 men was accompanied by chickens, pigs and horses.
Five to seven sailors crew the Niña replica. A 130 -horsepower motor, required by the U.S. Coast Guard, is the only semblance of livestock aboard. A 19th-century compass and display of the American flag while underway also are required.
This floating museum annually sails up the Eastern seaboard through the St. Lawrence Seaway, into the Great Lakes, then down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. The ship has visited 500 different ports.
We were taught to view Columbus as heroic, with no mention of the unfortunate consequences of his discoveries. Columbus' struggle to refute the Flat Earth Theory was part of the story. In fact, most educated 15th century Europeans believed Earth was round.
Columbus believed it to be pear-shaped. Textbooks claimed that Columbus was worshipped for his discoveries. In fact, he struggled the rest of his life to gain support for future voyages and to justify the importance of his explorations.
In 1500, he was returned to Spain in chains after failing to control a revolt in Hispaniola. He died embittered and frustrated that his efforts went largely unrecognized.
It is difficult to accept the revisionist historical view that now portrays Columbus as a genocidal murderer. His four voyages undoubtedly exported deadly European diseases to North America. But Columbus and his men were among the first to reach the new world and given the state of medical knowledge, cannot be blamed for the biological effects of their interactions on the native population, or for the impact of the thousands of adventurers who followed.
Ultimately, native American populations were wiped out on a scale never before experienced in human history. The age of discovery, colonization and conquest was the brutal product of ambitious kings.
But the exchange between Europe and the Americas was not all bad. New crops, such as potatoes, were imported to Europe. These nutritious foods could be grown in farming areas where other crops would not survive and probably saved millions from starvation.
As value systems change, our view of historical events and individuals evolve. Each generation takes its turn researching and reinterpreting the past. In the case of Columbus, there is general agreement even among his most ardent detractors that his vision, courage and seamanship skills were exemplary for his age.
The working replica of the Niña serves to educate us regarding the challenges he faced. It is a testament to his strengths, not the unanticipated consequences he set in motion.
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Gavin DeGraw Returns to 'DWTS' Stage to Perform 'Sweeter'
Gavin DeGraw was booted from 'Dancing With the Stars' as a contestant earlier this season, but he returned to the show last night (May 1) to perform his song 'Sweeter.'
With his black cap and cool dance moves (where he twisted his arms and made the gun sign with his hands and fired repeatedly), DeGraw was comfortable and smiling while performing. He only sang and did not reprise his role as a dancer — no double duty or dancing for DeGraw last night. Sorry if you were disappointed, 'DWTS' diehards!
Clearly there are no hard feelings for Mr. DeGraw, since he came back to sing even though he was eliminated fairly early on, in the fifth week of competition.
The camera switched back and forth, focusing on DeGraw as he sang while his former partner Karina Smirnoff danced with Louis Van Amstel. Those two were having a good time and gliding all over the stage as the former castmate sang his heart out.
A big smile and hearty "Thank you" closed out the 'DWTS' perf.
Watch Gavin DeGraw Perform 'Sweeter' on 'DWTS'