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Stab of brilliance decides thriller
THERE was always a chance this grand final was going to come down to one moment, one act that would finally separate two magnificent teams. And so it ended up being the case in Geelong's gripping, dramatic premiership win.
Barry Breen had won St Kilda its first premiership 43 years ago with a wobbly punt kick. Matthew Scarlett might have won Geelong its eighth yesterday with a toe-poke. A split-second of invention on a day when no kick, mark or handball was easy, let alone, as the Saints will painfully testify, shooting at goal.
It happened with the scores level, just one goal having been scored in the final quarter, less than five minutes left on the clock, and only the third grand final tie in history a distinct possibility.
Gary Ablett had momentarily broken free in the middle of the ground. But St Kilda defender Zac Dawson made a desperate lunge, which for a split-second, seemed to have stemmed the danger. Until Scarlett deftly flicked the ball back to Ablett. That led to the match-winning play - Ablett to the goal square, a contest, a Travis Varcoe handball to Paul Chapman, snap: Cats ahead by six points.
In the context of this gruelling struggle, that was the body blow. Max Rooke's soccer off the ground for another point, leaving the Saints having to score twice to win in the final three minutes, was the final nail in the coffin.
St Kilda will long rue its wastefulness in front of the sticks, 9.14 the ever-lasting reminder. The Saints had three more scores, 16 more inside 50s, more clearances, more tackles. But this wasn't simply a case of one team blowing it. Geelong 12 months ago had suffered a similar fate.
Ultimately, it was the grit of the likes of Chapman, Ablett, Joel Corey (beaten badly by Lenny Hayes early but bouncing back with a big last quarter), and the smarts of men like Rooke and Darren Milburn - notwithstanding the latter's brain-fade right on half-time, gifting St Kilda a critical goal - that saw Geelong home. But the Cats had to swim firmly against the tide. One which, at stages, was pretty fierce.
The Saints had overcome their early nervousness to completely dominate the early going in terms of general play, if not the scoreboard, led, yet again, by Hayes, his 11 disposals and five clearances in the first quarter proof of his importance. Jason Gram played a corker for the Saints, finding it and using it efficiently where others couldn't. Similarly, Brendon Goddard.
At one stage in the first term, St Kilda had 14 inside 50s to the Cats' two. By half-time, that stat was 37-15, the sort of advantage that normally dictates a thrashing. But the Saints simply couldn't nail their chances, right from Adam Schneider's sprayed left-foot snap from 12 metres out in the first term.
He'd end up the Saints' only multiple goalkicker, but that miss, another in the second quarter, and one, clear and on the run 10 minutes into the last, were critical, and so costly. As was one by Andrew McQualter. And a couple from Stephen Milne. The Saints kicked three goals in the space of a couple of minutes on half-time, yet thanks to their earlier inaccuracy, and the Cats' 7.1, scores were level.
Geelong's resolve hardened. Jimmy Bartel took on Hayes and reduced an early Norm Smith Medal favourite to merely very good.
Scarlett was magnificent on Justin Koschitzke and Harry Taylor more than matched it with Nick Riewoldt, who at least, in enormously difficult conditions, never stopped throwing his body on the line.
The rain continued, as did the collisions, the non-stop pressure, tackling, chasing, harassing, spoiling, knocking-on and every other conceivable physical action that, on a day like yesterday, had some sort of impact and importance every single time.
Cameron Mooney put the Cats in front seven minutes into the third quarter, then Riewoldt answered. Chapman goaled, Leigh Montagna, another trooper for the Saints all afternoon, hit back. By three-quarter-time, the Saints ahead by just seven points, we knew the sort of epic struggle the last quarter of the season was going to serve up. And we weren't disappointed.
Tom Hawkins steeled himself after marking another inside 50 from Chapman, and jagged the goal that ensured we'd be hanging on the edge of our seats for the next 30-odd minutes. Twenty-five of those remained goalless, but seldom has so little scoreboard action been so engrossing.
The Saints snuck ahead by three points. With just under six minutes left, Rooke's snap looked to be going through until little Steven Baker, a superb stopper on an unusually subdued Steve Johnson, launched himself to rush it through. Joel Selwood, another great player in a match littered with them, levelled the scores.
Until, with Mike Williamson's immortal commentary line: ''We could be back here next week'' reverberating around 100,000-odd minds, one little deft touch by Scarlett set up a match-winning thrust that will be replayed over and over.
Grand finals have been won with huge marks and long goals before. This one might well have been won with a three-metre stab in the middle of the ground.
LENNY HAYES (St Kilda) v JOEL COREY-JIMMY BARTEL (Geel)The St Kilda centreman was a clear best on ground early with 11 disposals and five clearances in the first quarter alone, too good even for the steady experience of Corey. Geelong was being beaten badly around the stoppages with Hayes leading the charge. Late in the first term, coach Mark Thompson pulled the switch, Bartel heading to Hayes and immediately quelling his impact, the Saint with only two second-quarter touches. Hayes was still close to his side's best, but Bartel at least stopped the runaway train he was shaping as, and finished with a staggering 16 tackles in a fine defensive effort.
MATTHEW SCARLETT (Geelong) v JUSTIN KOSCHITZKE (St Kilda)While conditions were difficult for marking targets, the St Kilda key forward was completely taken out of the equation by the masterful Cat full-back, who, despite his defensive responsibilities to his side, still finished with more disposals and more marks than his opponent, and a pivotal role in what ended up being the match-winning play for Geelong. Scarlett was superb in the Cats' 2007 premiership win. His capacity to both negate and create was no less critical in achieving their second flag success in three years yesterday.
HARRY TAYLOR (Geelong) v NICK RIEWOLDT (St Kilda)The St Kilda skipper and superstar was by no means a poor player, with, in impossible conditions for key forwards, 13 disposals, five marks and an important third-quarter goal. But, given Riewoldt's match-winning capabilities, Taylor did everything that could possibly be asked of him, and then some. He was sure with his ball-handling, spoiled and supported when he had to, and, in the final seconds, took a Leo Barry-esque defensive grab that stymied St Kilda's final hopes.
GARY ABLETT (Geelong) v CLINT JONES (St Kilda)Jones had managed to curb Ablett's output in the Saints' round-14 win over the Cats. He was determined again yesterday, and made the little master's life suitably difficult, but while hardly tearing his tagger to shreds, Ablett ultimately took the points, with 25 disposals, six clearances, half-a-dozen tackles, and a second-quarter goal as Geelong went on its most dominant period of the match.
GOALS Geelong: Chapman 3, Mooney 2, Rooke 2, Hawkins 2, Ablett, Selwood, Byrnes. St Kilda: Schneider 2, Goddard, Jones, Koschitzke, Hayes, Montagna, Riewoldt, Dempster.
BEST Geelong: Chapman, Milburn, Ablett, Selwood, Bartel, Taylor, Corey. St Kilda: Gram, Hayes, Goddard, Baker, Montagna, Ball.
INJURIES Geelong: Chapman (hamstring), Harley (soreness). St Kilda: Goddard (broken nose, shoulder).
REPORTS Nil.
UMPIRES Shaun Ryan, Stephen McBurney, Brett Rosebury.
CROWD 99,251 at the MCG.
Paul Chapman: Tough, cool, smart, and given the low scoring and with three goals including the matchwinner, decisive. Always made the right decisions. A deserving Norm Smith medallist.
Jason Gram: The St Kilda wingman really dug his heels in yesterday with not only 30 touches, more than anyone else on the ground, but some gutsy running and a huge 11-possession third quarter.
Darren Milburn: The Geelong veteran defender is playing on and so he should after a crucial role in this win, running hard and creating plenty off half-back.
Gary Ablett: Has had plenty more dominant performances than this one in 2009, but his steady output, clean hands and 25 touches were crucial to the Cats, particularly early when the Saints were more dominant.
Lenny Hayes: Had his output quelled by a fine defensive effort from Jimmy Bartel, but the Saints' hard-working midfield star was handy for four quarters, and superb early, getting his side going when nerves were present.


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Experts say college remains valuable investment
Story by Christina Condreay | NewsNetNebraska
With graduate school applications due, resume writing workshops to attend and December graduation approaching, a new class of college graduates is preparing to enter a tough workforce. National unemployment is hovering at 7.9 percent. Politicians warn that going over the "fiscal cliff" could spark another recession.
Many of those future graduates, and their families, are asking if college was worth it.
"I've had to work throughout college," Doane College senior Jenna Alswager said.
The psychology major and December graduate plans to attend graduate school, another investment she hopes will pay off.
"Once I graduate, I will have to search for something that may not be as enjoyable but pays more … just to pay back my loans and continue to feed myself."
The cost of college is not limited to those who attend a private institution. University of Nebraska – Lincoln senior global studies major Aaron Tharp said his major wouldn't be worth much if it weren't for the Army.
"I'm just glad I have ROTC to pay for my tuition, otherwise I'd be $30,000 in debt and not have a decent job," Tharp said.
Student debt
Like Tharp, 44 percent of UNL students are able to pay for college using scholarships and awards, according to UNL Institutional Research and Planning. About 53 percent of UNL students pay for college with loans. These are a combination of need-based, parent and private student loans.
The average UNL student graduates with about $20,000 in student loans, according to UNL's Career Services and Scholarships and Financial Aid.
Including students from private schools, a Pew Research Center report states the number jumps to more than $24,000 statewide. The average American college graduate will leave school with more than $26,000 in debt, according to the same study.
For UNL senior Christian Habib, the value of a degree comes from more than the paper it's printed on.
"I feel like I know what I want to do, and as long as I push myself, I'll be successful," the senior history and philosophy major said.
He is likely to. A report released by Georgetown University's Center on Workforce and Education states that over a lifetime, people with a college diploma will make 84 percent more than those with only a high school one. While there is a difference for men and women, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development states the benefit of going to college is greater than the cost at about four times for men and two and half times for women.
UNL professor of economics Carlos Asarta said a significant difference in salary is apparent even the lowest 1 percent of wage earners.
"According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, average weekly earnings increase in every range with increased education," Asarta said.
The cost of college includes more than just the price tag. Opportunity cost, or the value lost by not working in addition to the value of the education, is also included in many of these figures. Students may give up four years in the full-time workforce to attend a college, which adds to the burden of schooling.
How quickly it pays off is likely to depend on the degree.
According the Georgetown University report, recent graduates with degrees in education and health are tied at 5.4 percent unemployment, the lowest rate of all degree-holders. The most unemployed are those with architecture degrees at 13.9 percent unemployed.
Art degree-holders don't have it much better. Their unemployment rate is about 11 percent.
UNL alum Zach Janky graduated with degrees in film and new media and advertising. He works at an advertising agency editing commercials and designing motion graphics, though it wasn't easy to get there.
"I graduated in December 2010 and received my first full-time job offer in August 2011," Janky wrote in an email. "Finding a job that relates to the arts can be difficult.
Janky worked every day to find a relevant career, whether it was sending out resumes or improving his skills.
"Between graduating and getting hired, I continued tweaking my demo reel and created new projects just to add to my portfolio."
Salary potential
It is unlikely that arts and humanities majors like Janky and Habib will out-earn their engineering classmates. Engineering degree-holders will earn a little less than double, $55,000 a year compared to $30,000, what arts and humanities majors will make. Architects may have a harder time entering the workforce, but their average salaries of $36,000 tend to be greater than the $33,000 earned by educators.
A bachelor's degree will pay off, though. Even the lowest-paid degree recipient will make $5,000 more every year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Economists estimate that every extra year of education adds about 8 percent to yearly earnings.
Earning a higher salary isn't the only reason to go to college, according to Habib.
"If I just went to school, I don't think my education would be worth it," Habib said. "(It's in my) activities where I learned about myself and the real world.
"If it weren't for my involvement, I don't think I'd be happy with my degree from UNL."
The real value of college, according to UNL junior accounting and German major Kristen Wittmuss, comes outside the classroom in the form of growing up and experiencing the world.
"Though the reason we go college is to get an education, you get more when you're there, and it's worth the cost," she said.


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Game 24
9 vs.
August 22, 2007
How the West Won
Chandler, Ariz. earns spot in U.S. semifinals with 9-2 triumph over
Coon Rapids, Minn.
By Allie Weinberger
Special Correspondent
The field is finally set.
Backed by a seven-run fifth inning and a lights-out performance by
starting pitcher Seth Fretheim, the champs from the West trampled
their Midwest rivals, 9-2, in Pool B action Wednesday night in front
of 9,600 in and around Howard J. Lamade Stadium.
With Lubbock, Texas already set to advance out of the pool, the
stakes were high: it was win-and-you're-in, and both teams knew it.
The scoring got going early, and after four innings the game was all
knotted up at 2-2. And that's when the West champs made their move –
a couple of them.
But not before Minnesota made a move on the mound. With starter Adam
Recksiedler sitting at 75 pitches through four innings, the Midwest
champs passed the ball to hurler Tanner Lowe to start the fifth.
With a new and unfamiliar pitcher on the mound, Fretheim worked a
leadoff walk before Cody Bellinger hit a bloop single into shallow
left field. A wild pitch two batters later moved the runners into
scoring position, threatening to break the 2-2 deadlock.
"Our game plan is offense," said Arizona coach Clay Bellinger.
"There's not a whole lot of defense to our offense. We don't bunt a
lot, if a guy's on second base, we try to move him over, but it's
not a big thing – we don't preach that. If a guy's on base, we want
these kids swinging.
"Let the kids play," he echoed. "Let him swing his bat and good
things will happen."
And they did.
A walk to Matthew Haggerty loaded the bases for Kyle Pechloff with
just one out in the inning, and Pechloff came through with a sharp
line drive down the left field line. The single scored two runs to
make it 4-2. Pechloff took second on the throw home.
But the inning was far from over for Lowe and his teammates. Pinch
hitter Boston Whitlow's groundout scored Haggerty from third, moving
Pechloff to third with two outs for Connor Woods.
Woods slapped an RBI double to bring in his teammate and make the
score 6-2, while the next batter, Scott Wojnar, singled Woods in
before getting himself into – and safely out of – a rundown between
first and second.
No. 9 hitter Jake McCann kept the rally alive, drawing a two-out
walk before Fretheim came around again to bring both Wojnar and
McCann home with a two-run double to the warning track, making the
score a whopping 9-2.
And that would be all for Lowe, who was relieved by Anthony Mrosla.
"Tanner took it hard today," said Minnesota manager and dad Mark
Lowe. "I've never seen that with Tanner before. We'll spend some
time tonight, but it's tough. He had a great series and he'll
understand in the near future that he should be very proud of
Mrosla got Cody Bellinger to pop up for the final out of the fifth
inning, which was detrimental to the Midwest champs.
"You never know [when the bats will come alive]," said Fretheim. "We
might strike out the side the first inning and the next inning come
back and everybody gets a base hit."
"I knew once we got on base we'd put some pressure on them, and
that's exactly what happened," said Arizona coach Clay Bellinger.
All-in-all, the top of the fifth saw the Chandler National Little
Leaguers bat around the order, scoring seven runs on five hits to go
up 9-2 – a score that would stick.
"For one reason or another we didn't have quality at bats," said
Lowe. "But like I told the kids, we are in Little League Baseball
But it was Minnesota who drew first blood in the game. A Lowe single
in the top of the first brought home Dominique Reff, who had doubled
two batters earlier. The Midwest champs would strand one in the
bottom of the first and score again in the second to go up 2-0, when
starter Recksiedler turned his double into a run (thanks to a
fielder's choice and a wild pitch in subsequent batters) before
Fretheim was able to strike out the side.
Recksiedler made fairly easy work of the West in the first two
innings, allowing a hit and a walk with four strikeouts to preserve
his side's 2-0 shutout.
"That kid, he was lights out," said Bellinger.
But Arizona would come back to tie it in the top of the third, when
Fretheim took Recksiedler deep with Jake McCann already on second.
"I got up to the plate confident, got two strikes on me early," said
Fretheim. "[But] he gave me a fastball and I was looking for
fastball low and inside.
"If I get a good swing," he said, "I know if I tell myself I can,
I'll be confident."
And there was defense, to compliment the potent offense, from the
West champs on the field as well.
In the bottom of the fourth, Pechloff – in his third position of the
game – made the top play of the night, diving backward toward second
base to field a line drive off the bat of Coon Rapids pinch hitter
Peter Anderson to close out the inning.
"I haven't played second base throughout my career," said Pechloff.
"So I just saw the ball coming to me, dove for it and got it, and
threw it to first base."
The Coon Rapids Little Leaguers went down in order in the bottom of
the fifth inning. Msosla finished off the heart of Arizona's order
in the top of the sixth without any further damage, but Minnesota
was down to its last three outs.
Just three little outs kept the Chandler boys from their dreams and
the boys from Coon Rapids clutching onto theirs for dear life.
And the closing job fell to who else, but Kyle Pechloff – the man
who got the scoring rally going an inning earlier and made the
(likely) top-10 nominee grab at second – to finish the gem his
teammate Fretheim had started.
And the inning went like this:
Dominique Reff: down on strikes. Cody Herrmann: hit by a pitch.
And while a Lowe single skipped under the glove of shortstop Luke
Parrish and a passed ball moved the runners into scoring position,
Pechloff finished off his Pool B rivals with cool confidence,
getting Nathan LaBrant to go down on three straight strikes.
"They're champions," Lowe told his team after the loss. "Guys, hold
your heads high, walk around this place for the rest of the week.
You are champions."
Fretheim finished the game 2-for-3 with four RBI. He threw five
innings, allowing just a trio of hits and a pair of runs with one
walk and eight strikeouts.
Recksiedler threw four innings, giving up three hits, two runs and
two walks with six strikeouts.
Now, the West champs go on to face the Southeast champs for Georgia
in Thursday's x p.m. United States semifinal.
"We didn't come here to come in fourth, we came here to win it,"
said Bellinger. "We're happy to be where we are, but we still got
three more games to go, hopefully.
"We feel we're as good as anybody, so we'll see what happens
tomorrow," he added. "If we play the way we can – it'll be a good


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Yes, not only did my children and I play Pokemon, and DDO together for years, but we also enjoyed RuneScape, along with my brother.
If you think Poke-mon, Runescape, or DDO is evil click here.
We confess, that we benefit greatly from using the guides at the wonderful fan sites at www.runehq.com, www.rsbandb.com or www.runevillage.com which we all highly recommend for tips and assistance. There are other great fan sites, which you can find by using www.google.com or other search engines and typing in "runescape fan" in the search box. (You'll get www.tip.it/runescape, www.runescapecommunity.com, and www.runescaperealm.com, among others, for example.) There's also www.zybez.net which is another great fan site.
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Fraud on eBay!
On February 21st, 2005, I was contacted by the winner of an eBay auction, for ebay item number 8172198746, by eBay member sirscotty6, who was claiming to be selling his Runescape account. Unfortunately, he was using my characters' statistics in his claims and images. Fortunately, the winner was able to hold on to his money, and I hope he has learned his lesson. I am working with the staff at eBay to ban the fraud, sirscotty6. My account is not for sale, never has been for sale, and won't be for sale, ever. If you want to see the item, please go to www.ebay.com and and enter the item number 8172198746 in the search. Then you can look at his statistics graphic, and realize it is mine.
Below are our family's characters. We used to have dynamic graphics showing their stats, but based on the fraud on eBay mentioned above, and the problems we had with keeping them updated, I have taken them down. If you want our stats, simply use the "high scores" feature at the runescape website, and you can see easily them. If you use "Swiftswitch" from www.zybez.com then you can also use their "lookup" feature as well.
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While we have met many neat people (and some very self-centered people) playing the game, here's a list of the characters of people we knew before runescape! There is not room here to list all the great friends we have made through runescape . . . sorry!
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Tiny Tech
I am a sucker for anything miniature. It's a real problem. Everything from food to decor — if it comes in size tiny, I want it. The good news is there is a great selection of diminutive tech products to satisfy my obsession.
I've rounded up some of my favorite miniature gadgets for My Life Scoop this week. You can check out the full list right here and share some of your favorite mini tech, too! You heard it here first: tiny tech is coming back in a BIG way! Enjoy! — Stephanie


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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment,
which constitutes poetic faith -Coleridge
I wrote this in response to a question about why some denounce the existence of a deity, but then ascribe to even more outlandish conspiracy theories, alien intervention tales, and other implausible scenarios and belief systems. It got me thinking about the nature of belief, and the art of storytelling and movie making. As storytellers, are we actually "suspending disbelief" as Coleridge suggests, or now, as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology inform us called upon to master the art of misbelief?
Dr. Richard Carrier points out he is more often attacked by atheists for his scholarly reexamination of the Jesus story than by true believers. I've experienced it as well. I'm sure you most of us have in one form or another. When Sigmund Freud dared to turn his mythopoeic analysis to the Moses story, he was denounced as a self-hating Jew. When Joseph Campbell deconstructed the historical context of the Old Testament, he was viciously labeled an anti-Semite. One only needs to consider the intense rivalry between Jesus historist, Bart Ehrman, and mythicist, Carrier, to see how two atheists can disagree so vehemently.
As Carl Sagan wrote, "You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe."
The truth is we are all, non-believer and believer alike, subject to misbelief. We form false narratives about ourselves, family, ancestry, politics, history and the world at large. It is not a function of ignorance or brainwashing, as some will claim, but more of the result of "the side-effects of a suite of cognitive mechanisms adapted for other purposes. (Dennett and Mckay) In other words, human beings are neurologically and genetically predisposed to misbelief.
As Samuel Taylor Coleridge suggests in his wonderful essay "Suspension of Disbelief", what we call belief or faith is neither belief nor faith, but promiscuous and prolific teleology and misbelief. Humans detect patterns and make shit up about them. Every storyteller, filmmaker, shaman, theologian, or priest throughout history knows their job is to "suspend disbelief", or perhaps more correctly to master the art of misbelief.
Prof. Matt McCormick details this at length in his Biases and Heuristics of Religious Thinking. The psychiatrist Dr. Andy Thomson delves deeply into this phenomenon in "Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith" So, no, just because one atheist has cast off a belief in a Supreme Creator, does not holus bolus relieve them of that evolutionary mandate. As we all have experienced, many atheists and theists, are equally prone to transfer the impulse to believe in one thing, but then readily and irrationally choose to misbelieve another. As theists typically claim that proof of god exists, because humans have always believed in some form of god, it is no doubt, they will be disappointed to learn that neurologically, as far as the evolution of the human nervous system, the exact opposite is true.


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The Unicorn is majestic in its matchless beauty, wearing white and wielding one horn.
The white unicorn is of majestic beauty. At daybreak, when it grazes on the clearing in front of Yasira's tree-house, the morning dew glistens on his coat like a thousand diamonds. Only few elves are lucky enough to be able to see this wondrous creature. Even fewer have a unicorn as a friend. And only princesses or sorceresses can ride on them.


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The Amazing Handkerchief:
Chronicler of Romance, Heroism, History, Fashion and Art through the Ages
The ubiquitous handkerchief is with us in large and small moments of life–wrapping a child's cut finger, catching a bride's tears of joy, worn over a soldier's heart into battle. Handkerchiefs date back to the Chou dynasty (1000 BCE) and possibly earlier. Once considered a sign of nobility, they later transitioned into a coveted accessory for both fashion and flirting.
Their size and versatility made handkerchiefs the perfect souvenir. From the Paris Exposition of 1900 to the 1939 New York World's Fair, handkerchiefs carried images of architecture, amusements and adventures to share and remember. Many were saved and passed to future generations, along with the stories and memories they carried.
In times of sacrifice - the Great Depression, World War II - handkerchiefs were often the lone adornment a woman could afford, costing between five and fifty cents. Vogue magazine carried ads for "Handkerchief of the Month". After the war, Balmain, Dior, Rochas, and others continued to feature handkerchiefs as a final touch to their haute couture.
These couriers of history carried images that recorded our progression from steamship to railway to flight, from women's suffrage to the birth of television, and from children's nursery rhymes to Shakespearean sonnets. "Hankies" chronicled adventure, travel, romance, history, politics, sports and more, with style, wit and enchanting graphics. Come discover the stories hidden in their evanescent folds. Your mind will engage and your heart will connect with these heroes of history. Also, you'll have a chance to win your very own vintage handkerchief in our "Hankie in a Hankie" drawing! (see the Art, Music & Recreation reference desk for details)
This private collection has been curated and shared by Ann Mahony, a historian of vintage artifacts and handkerchief collector (over 5,000+ pieces including several over a century old!). Her blogs include www.TheAccidentalCollector.com and www.HandkerchiefHeroes.com. She is a member of the Textile Arts Council, deYoung Museum, The Vintage Fashion Guild, The Costume Society of America and the National Speakers Association. Ann is a handwriting and forgery expert by trade (www.forgerysleuth.com) and is thus habituated to searching for the obscure and interesting.
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A challenger to the longest-serving incumbent on the D.C. Council has dropped out of the race.
Fiona Greig said in a statement Wednesday morning that she is ending her Democratic primary campaign for the Ward 2 Council seat.
Councilmember Jack Evans has represented Ward 2, which includes downtown and Georgetown, since 1991. He now has no declared opponents in the April Democratic primary, although the filing deadline is not until Jan. 4.
In her statement, Greig said she was the target of an "intimidation campaign" by Evans and his supporters. Evans deferred comment to campaign consultant Tom Lindenfeld, who denied that any intimidation took place.
Greig also said in her statement that she decided she "just wasn't ready to mount the kind of campaign it would take to win."


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We don't always get knocks on the door during church finance meetings, but when we do I'm quick to answer. I figure I'll leave all the finance fun to everyone else.
Last night was one of those nights. I answered the knock and the woman at the door said she lived behind our church. Last night someone brazenly walked up to their back porch and stole their generator. She and her husband, who stood at the foot of the steps, were glad to notice our church has security cameras.
Long story short, unfortunately, our cameras hadn't been recording.
Yes, we looked like a place to find help, but it was superficial.
I'm hopeful our churches are filled with people who pray for others as much as they say they do. You know what I mean. Someone posts a situation they're facing or something they're going through. Almost immediately someone else responds with, "Praying."
At our church, we give people a time to voice their prayers during our time of worship, and tell the rest of the church to continue to pray for them. Have you ever told someone, "I'll pray for you"?
Lord, in your mercy, please help us be praying as much as we say we do.
If not, we're an empty promise to people who have trusted us with the concerns of their life. We're all security camera and no recording. We say we'll something, but never get around to doing it. I wonder if the Bible has anything to say about that.
Stay blessed…john


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Mon Dieu! Will Newfound Popularity Spoil the Dainty Macaron?
Parisian Treat Goes Mainstream; McDonald's Recipe Has Provenance
Like the cupcake before it, the macaron, a French confection that resembles a pastel-colored sandwich cookie, is ready for its close-up.
It has been featured on film and television, in magazine articles and a new book called "I Love Macarons" by a Japanese pastry chef. Once the preserve of high-end French patisseries such as Ladurée and Pierre Hermé, macarons are showing up at retailers like Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and Starbucks. Even McDonald's is selling a scaled-down version in its McCafés in France, backed by ads showing two hands holding the tiny treat like a hamburger.
Instead of celebrating, however, fans of the meringue-like pastry have been whipped into a frenzy.
"Macarons are not meant to be mainstream," sniffs Laetitia Brock, a native of Paris who has been blogging about French culture from Washington for the past six years. When she got wind that Starbucks was offering macarons over the holidays, she ran out and purchased a boxed set. "Very mushy," she concluded, after a few bites.
Her negative blog post about the trend elicited a tempest over the tea cake.
"I saw them at the McCafé on the Champs-Élysées—just down the street from Ladurée! What is the world coming to?!?" commented Allison Lightwine, using the screen name La Mom.
"It was so weird to see these delicate, very French pastries in something that's so American. It's kind of like if you showed up in a tuxedo to a baseball game, it was so out of place," Ms. Lightwine, who writes a blog about being an American mom in Paris, said in an interview.
The word macaron comes from "the Italian maccherone and the Venetian macarone (meaning fine paste), from which macaroni is also derived," says Larousse Gastronomique, the encyclopedia of French cooking. Various sources trace the roots of the pastry to an Italian recipe from the Renaissance or a group of French monks who modeled the dessert after the shape of their own belly buttons.
More recently, the macaron has been a hallmark of Ladurée, a small, 148-year-old chain of Parisian tea salons and pastry shops that packs its macarons in small pastel-colored boxes.
Macarons are made with egg whites, ground almonds and sugar. Their hard outer shells are sandwiched together with a soft creamy center that can consist of anything from fruit purée to chocolate ganache. Macarons, pronounced mack-ah-rohn, typically come in fruit flavors, pistachio, chocolate and sometimes more exotic varieties such as violet, foie gras and white truffle. The English spelling is "macaroon," but the French confection is not to be confused with the dense chewy treat made with sweetened coconut.
Macarons for the Masses
The once-aristocratic French pastries are finding their way to McDonald's and households, perhaps becoming as ubiquitous as cupcakes. Here's a recipe for "Macarons Classiques" for your enjoyment.
- Line a baking tray with rice paper or buttered greaseproof (waxed) paper.
- Mix 350 g (12 oz, 1 ½ cups) caster (superfine) sugar with 250 g (9 oz, 3 cups) ground almonds.
- Lightly whisk 4 egg whites with a pinch of salt and mix thoroughly with the sugar and almond mixture.
- If liked, a little finely chopped candied orange peel or cocoa powder can be added to the mixture before cooking.
- Pipe or spoon small heaps of this mixture onto the baking tray, spacing them so that they do not run into one another during cooking.
- Cook in the oven at 200 C (400 F) for about 12 minutes.
- Lift the macaroons off the baking tray with a spatula, transfer to a wire rack, and leave to cool completely.
- Macaroons can be stored in an airtight container for several days in the refrigerator, or for several months in the freezer.
Reprinted from "Larousse Gastronomique" by Librairie Larousse. Copyright 2009. Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc.
Note: Fill the macaron halves with preferred filling, such as jam or chocolate.
"People think of them like cookies, but they are much more delicate and exciting than a cookie—so crunchy on the outside and so soft in the center, like a little pastry," says François Payard, a third-generation pastry chef from France who owns an eponymous patisserie in a loft-like space in Manhattan.
The perfect macaron takes time, but has a short shelf life, he says. After whipping, baking and stuffing the macarons, he pops them into the refrigerator for 24 hours to achieve the right consistency. He then lets them sit out for at least an hour, so the filling isn't too cold. He tosses any that don't sell in a few days.
"They're sort of weightless, with an airy density. When you take a bite into a macaron, it should be like a meringue, with a soft ending," says Susannah Chen, who writes about food trends for online magazine YumSugar.com and is a self-described macaron snob. "They're meant to be eaten fresh, and I don't see how that's possible with large-scale chains or corporations where they have to go through so many channels before they hit shelves."
Clémence Trancart, a press-relations manager in Paris, stopped by the original Ladurée on Rue Royale recently to pick up a box of rose, lemon and chocolate macarons for an afternoon snack with friends. The dessert "is very refined and elegant. That's why I wouldn't go to McDo for it," she said, using the French nickname for McDonald's. "It's the little French treat."
McDonald's started selling macarons in its McCafés—the coffee and pastry bars located inside regular McDonald's restaurants—in France in 2007. The burger chain's macarons are shipped frozen to the restaurants from Château Blanc, a subsidiary of Groupe Holder, Ladurée's parent company. Despite the common corporate parentage, the two versions use different recipes.
McDonald's recently plastered the Paris metro with ads for its macarons. Some Parisians bit.
On a recent day, Olivier Cartier, a French salesman, ordered a pistachio macaron and a cappuccino at a Parisian McDonald's. "It's the trend," he says, explaining that he's tried macarons from mainstream supermarkets and bakeries and that McDonald's version compares well.
High-end macarons leave him cold. "I'm not sure if there's a big difference," he says. "And then some of their flavors like foie gras are bizarre."
McDonald's says its macarons are selling well. At roughly $1.25 each, they are about half the price of the comparably sized upscale version and are aimed at a different audience, McDonald's says. "Our McCafé offer is made for everyday small breaks," says McDonald's France spokeswoman Caroline Deleuze.
Pierre Hermé, France's pre-eminent macaron chef, says he's neither for nor against macarons' newfound popularity but says he hasn't tried the McDonald's version. "There's macaron, and then there's macaron."
In Sofia Coppola's 2006 film "Marie Antoinette," the young queen offered macarons to the Austrian ambassador. Macarons have since appeared in Oprah Winfrey's "O" magazine, on cooking shows, in an episode of "Gossip Girl" and in wedding magazines. "I Love Macarons," the new book written by Japanese pastry chef Hisako Ogita, provides detailed instructions on how to make the treat at home. Adour restaurants, located in the St. Regis hotels in New York and Washington, are offering macaron-making classes in March and recently began selling the treats.
"Macarons are gaining traction in the States because they possess all the attributes of a cupcake: They come in different colors and flavors, and they're indulgent, but they won't wreck your calorie count for the day," YumSugar's Ms. Chen says, explaining that she doesn't want to see macarons proliferate unless they're done right.
She sampled the boxed macarons Starbucks was selling in some stores in December and was unimpressed. They were dry, she said, and the pistachio-flavored kind tasted like Froot Loops.
"It's hard to do something mass-produced because they're so delicate," Starbucks spokeswoman Lisa Passé said, adding that the company hasn't yet decided whether to bring back the offering, which was supplied by Château Blanc.
Some macaron devotees see a silver lining to the popularization of the French delicacies. Joe Mallozzi, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based producer for a science-fiction television show, says he fell in love with macarons during a trip to Paris several years ago. His fondest hope: "Maybe people will stop calling them 'macaroons.' "
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The Complete Guide to Sleeper Picks
There is no greater feeling in being a spectator than when you get to tell your friends that you told them so. "I told you this scrub was going to have a breakout game!" "See! I told you this dark horse underdog was going to pull it off." Whatever it may be, it always feels great for the ego to identify the sleeper. But, not only is picking out sleepers great for the ego, but it can also do wonders for our wallet and bottom line.
In this guide, we're going to talk about the basics of sleeper picks, what drives us to want to pick them, why we should look to pick them, and some strategic tips for identifying sleepers and protecting ourselves from sleepers.
What is a Sleeper Pick?
A sleeper pick is a player, team, or competitor that is not expected to do great by the general public but you feel is going to have an above average or great game. For example, let's say Freddy Football is a rookie in the NFL starting his first game at wide receiver. The public thinks he might have an ok game, maybe get a pass or two. You, on the other hand, watched Freddy Football in college and you know that people are underestimating him. You're convinced he's going to have an insane game and catch 10+ passes and score at least one or two touchdowns. If you selected Freddy Football for one of your fantasy leagues or for a bet, he would be a sleeper pick.
The idea of the phrase is that you are selecting someone that the rest of the world is "sleeping on". They're effectively missing the opportunity. "You snooze you lose!"
is one part of the equation we will cover in full shortly. The second part of sleeper picks is figuring out how to take advantage of them. Typically, sleeper picks are talked about in regards to fantasy sports. You might use a sleeper pick in your season long fantasy league or in your daily fantasy sports league. You may also use them in specific bets to get a nice quick payoff on your prediction.
We'll go into more detail about WHY you should always be on the lookout for sleeper picks in the sections below.
Why We Love to Pick Them
We think it's important to understand why we love to pick sleeper picks so much. Understanding this can help to protect us from going sleeper pick crazy. The main reason that we love picking sleepers is because of ego. It just feels so good to be able to tell our friends that we knew this player was going to blow up and go off. It makes us feel like the supreme experts that knew something and saw something that no one else did.
For some of us, we understand the financial implications and benefits that can be had from identifying sleepers. Unfortunately, this group seems to be the minority and most people seek out sleepers to stroke their ego. There really isn't anything wrong with this unless you allow it to permeate your betting strategy too heavily and cause issues. We call this going sleeper crazy.
Beware of Going Sleeper Crazy
We aren't going to deny that it does feel great to pick a sleeper that no one else saw correctly. The problem, though, is that it's easy to get carried away with chasing that feeling and trying to pick way too many sleepers. We can start to abandon our basic strategy and start to throw logic out the window because we want to be the sleeper expert.
Even if you're not betting on your sleeper picks, you may start to miss out on your "ego benefits" if you go sleeper crazy. If you're constantly saying that several players every game are going to be sleepers, you're going to be wrong a lot. And the more you are wrong, the fewer people are going to listen to you and give you credit for picking a correct sleeper. You'll turn into the boy or girl who cried wolf.
It's easy for anyone to list off all the second and third tier players that have the potential to go off every single game. Eventually, you're going to get one right. If you throw enough darts at a dartboard, you're bound to hit the bull's-eye at some point. The real key to showing that you mean what you say is putting your money where your mouth is or as we put it, going from couch commander to trigger puller.
The Couch Commander Versus The Trigger Puller
It's easy to rattle off predictions and sleeper picks from the comfort of your couch when you have no skin in the game. It's a whole other ball game, though, when you actually put your sleeper pick into action. When you actually use the sleeper you predicted in a bet or in your fantasy lineup, the game changes. You're now responsible for the losses associated with that pick when it doesn't work out.
When you rattle off your feelings from the couch and you're wrong, nothing happens. You never bring it up again and just wait for your friends to forget your incorrect prediction. This is the no risk, easy life. The problem is that no risk equals no potential reward.
If you really want to prove your expertise and start to see some financial gains from your expert sleeper knowledge, you have to step up to the plate and put your money where your mouth is. Take your sleeper pick in your daily fantasy lineup. Draft that sleeper and put them in the lineup of your season long fantasy league. Make the prop or straight up bet for that player to explode.
Two things will happen if you are actually good at picking sleepers and step up to the plate. One, you will have physical proof to show your friends that you really believe in your picks and are willing to put your weight behind it. Two, you will make some serious cash because picking sleepers can be very profitable. Whether it's your friends, the other players in the daily fantasy league, or the sportsbook sleeping on the pick, it doesn't matter. These are all golden opportunities for you to make money.
Why We SHOULD Pick Them
If you're new to the idea of sleeper picks, you may not fully understand why it's important to be able to identify these players flying under the radar. Depending on where you are looking to utilize these sleepers, the benefits will vary. Ultimately, though, a correct sleeper pick mixed with a decent all around strategy is a recipe for making some big bucks.
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Daily fantasy sports (DFS) are fantasy sports leagues that are usually only a day or a week in duration. They are much faster than your season long leagues but can have much bigger payouts. The biggest difference between DFS and your traditional season long fantasy leagues is that every entrant is allowed to select any player they want; players are not off limits once they are selected by someone for their team.
In traditional fantasy leagues, once a player is drafted to a team, they are off limits to everyone else. They can only be used by one team in the entire league. With DFS, though, you are given a salary cap and are able to select anyone you want on your team as long as you stay under the salary cap.
Players are given dollar amounts based on how well they are expected to perform. The better they are expected to perform, the more expensive they will be. This also logically means that the players that are expected to do worse are a lot cheaper. This is where sleepers come in.
This will leave you lots of extra money to spend on your other positions where you can draft players that are expected to do well.
DFS experts look at players in terms of points per thousand spent. If your salary cap is $50,000 (which is standard for a lot of leagues), you may be looking to get players that get you about 3 points for every thousand you spend. This means that if a player is expected to get you 21 points, they should cost about $7,000. If they end up scoring, say, 30 points, you made a great purchase as that player "should" have cost about $10,000.
Let's say a player is projected by the site to get only 9 points and they like to charge about $1,000 for every 3 points like in the above example. This player would cost you about $3,000 to pick up. Now, let's say you think this player is going to have a huge game and score 24 points. Technically, that player should cost you $8,000, but you're getting them for $3,000.
The obvious downside is the risk that the player is a dud and you get not much of anything for your pick up. Even if you're able to spend that money elsewhere on another player, you're not getting any of the extra value you were looking for.
The other major benefit of picking sleepers has to do with ownership percentage. Since everyone has the ability to own any player, you get more benefit when a player you have does well that is not owned by a lot of other people. For example, if everyone owns Sammy Watkins and he has a huge game, you see no benefit from this. Why? The 30 or 40 points that you got... everyone else got them too.
Let's say, though, no one thinks Watkins is going to have a big game, but you do. You pick him up for cheap, and then he goes off and scores 40 points. This is 40 points that very few of your competitors picked up and are worth so much more.
Season Long Fantasy Leagues
In season long leagues, there definitely are benefits of sleeper picks as well. You may end up drafting a player early in the season that you think is a sleeper for later in the season. This means, you may not feel like they're going to be big early in the season, but you think they're going to develop, grow, get good, and explode as the season goes on. This is an example of a long term sleeper, and they can be huge in season long contests.
Picking these sleepers up does a few things. One, it prevents your opponent's from being able to get them and capitalize on them. Two, you will get a ton of points from them while they are hot. Three, even if you are deep in that position, it will give you someone with a lot of trade value later in the season. There's a lot of merit to drafting potential sleepers just with the goal of using them to trade later after they blow up.
Straight Bets/Prop Bets
A sleeper is a sleeper because the world does not think they are going to do well. This means that the betting odds on that particular player or team are going to be extremely advantageous. Whether you're making a prop bet or a straight win bet, you are going to get paid handsomely if the sportsbook doesn't think someone is going to do well.
This really is the definition of finding value in sports betting. You look for players and teams that are more likely to win or do well than is reflected in the betting odds.
Identifying Sleeper Picks
So this all begs the big question...how do you spot sleepers? Sadly, there is no magical solution, but we can give you some ideas and tips to help get your head moving in the right direction. First, look for players and teams that have a lot of strong skills, but might be getting downplayed only because of the media. For example, if the media is down on a player because of something going on in their personal life that you don't think will affect them on the field, this could be a good spot to start.
You should also look for players and teams that may have excelled on a lower level that you think the media and the world aren't giving enough credit to. For example, if you're looking for sleepers for the NFL, you should start to look at how players performed in college.
For example, look for running backs that excelled against bigger than average college defensive lines. There is SO much information out there that not everyone has the time to look at everything in detail. This is a great opportunity for you to spot a sleeper.
Really it comes down to doing your homework and spotting something that other people aren't seeing. We describe it sometimes as the perfect storm. For example, let's keep looking at the running back example. We know that the guy excelled in college against bigger line ups which is a good sign for how well he will do in the NFL. Let's also say that we see there are some injuries on the defensive side of the ball. We could also see that he's now running with a team with a lot of receiving threats which is going to open up the box for him to rip off some big runs.
All of this together could create conditions for this new running back to have a big and unexpected game.
Don't Chase the Gains
Be careful of chasing sleepers that blew up the week before. Two things are going to be against you here. First, the player is going to be more expensive if you're picking them in a DFS lineup. They'll also pay out worse odds in a betting format. Second, the other teams aren't going to be as caught off guard. They're going to have defensive measures in place to accommodate for this newly discovered threat.
Can the player still blow up the next game? Of course, they can. All we are saying is that it's less likely and you're most likely going to have to pay for their past game accomplishments.
Decision Sleepers
Not every sleeper is going to be someone under the radar. Sometimes, sleepers will be a matter of choice of how you think a big story is going to affect someone. For example, let's say that a player is injured but is still going to try and play through it. The books and DFS sites may have this player listed cheaply and paying off big because they think the injury is going to limit them severely.
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Reasons I Don't Believe in God #5: Old Testament God Versus New Testament God
One trouble I have accepting Christianity as truth-based is the stark differences between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament. These differences seem peculiar to me. I would not have imagined an omniscient God would experience dramatic shifts in expressed personality over a span of a mere few thousand years. Our human personalities evolve greatly over our short lifespans because we acquire knowledge, we come to understand that knowledge, and we struggle with hormonal fluctuations that accompany the delicate process of growing and dying. God would have seemed immune to those issues, being both omniscient and omnipotent. And yet He seems to change.
This Old Testament God did a lot of punishing. For their disobedience Adam & Eve were cast out of Eden with all of us now suffering decay and death as a result. For man's growing wickedness all but Noah and his kin were killed in the flood. For their impenitent sin, everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah was killed except Lot and his two daughters. And for their enslavement of the Jews, all the first born males in Egypt were killed. And beyond all the punishment there is an awful lot of testing of men, including the horrible tale of Job and Abraham's near sacrifice of Isaac. And there are ever so many rules laid down in the Old Testament about the behavior we adherents are required to keep lest be kept out of heaven or deserve to be stoned to death. And of course there is the curious fact that Old Testament God is not described as a trinity.
The New Testament God is markedly different. God does not engage in widespread punishment, does not kill those who transgress upon Him or His son, Jesus. And God seems little interested in testing people's faith, except perhaps that of His son. And the New Testament seems to relay a doctrine primarily about love, tolerance, and the need to focus on the core Biblical principles (e.g., love thy neighbor) and less on the minutiae (e.g., don't eat shellfish). And somewhat surprisingly, God also revealed Himself to be a trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
How can these two very different experiences of God be reconciled, without either admitting God Himself radically changed over a period of a few thousand years, or if God is the same then admitting that man's account of God must be wildly inaccurate? Both possibilities strongly discourage my belief.
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I personally don't believe in the Old Testament. Since the Bible is old and has been in so many hands, I don't think God radically changed, but rather man's account of God must be wildly inaccurate (in the OT, I'm not talking about the NT). The Bible is like putting two different books together in this day and era, and then having people more than 2000 years from now believe that they are one whole book (even when it doesn't make any sense). I think the OT and the NT are not one book, but actually two different books. Of course there is a lot of debate that can be done on this subject (wasn't Jesus supposed to fulfill the law? etc.).
Again, I don't know the absolute truths of the universe; but I think for myself. Since the NT is the real book that talks about Jesus and his teachings, and I follow Jesus (not the OT), I feel good about my faith. I feel good believing that God loves us, that we should love our enemies, that we should not judge others, etc. Jesus was ahead of his time, even the way he treated Mary Magdalene shows that he also respected women and loved them. Jesus commanded his disciples to spread out and teach his Gospel (not the OT). You are a free thinker yourself, so it's up to you what you want to believe. I believe in what feels right in my heart. At the end of the day, you are the one who chooses what to believe (look into science, other religions, atheism, etc; and nowhere will you find absolute explanations about the many questions we have, so you rely on what you ultimately believe is true or makes more sense).
Just want to add that taking history into context (not only during Jesus's time, but the few following centuries), maybe it was a "good move" at the time for some people to package the OT and NT together to get more followers (which now is backfiring). This is only an idea, but would be interesting to try and find out more about the history of early Christianity and the history of the regions to where early Christianity spread.
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Trump: Israel and Arab states have 'common cause over Iranian threat'
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On the eve of Mr Trump's visit, an Israeli official said Mr Netanyahu's cabinet has approved confidence building measures with the Palestinians, including allowing building in a West Bank area.
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Alexander Sotelo Eastman (Dartmouth College)
Alexander is Postdoctoral Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College with a specialization on the diaspora in Latin American and the Caribbean. He is interested in how public opinion is formulated, expressed and circulated, in particular among marginalized communities that have not historically had full access to citizenship and print media. His dissertation, titled "Binding Freedom: Cuba's Black Public Sphere, 1868-1912," examines the evolution and legacy of the discourse of colorblindness from the struggle for national independence through the abolition of slavery and the early civil rights movement. He maps the alliances Caribbean people of African descent forged and the networks of communication that existed across the Atlantic and between freed and enslaved peoples.
His interest in print culture and the formation of collective identities bridges his scholarship on surfing where he focuses on travel writing and the social history of international surf tourism. Alex is currently working on an article about the organization of surf tourism within the Guantanamo Naval Base and its links with larger processes of globalization and US intervention in Cuba.
His research has received support from the Fulbright Commission, the U.S. Department of State, the California Teachers Association, the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami and the CLIR Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources. He has published articles on the black press, antislavery narratives and black veterans in Cuba's wars of independence.
"Paving the Way to Pavones: Property Wars, Narratives of Discovery and the Fantasy of Surfing Paradise." (under review)
"Breaches in the Public Sphere: Racialized Terms of Inclusion in a Text of Transition, Francisco Calcagno's Aponte." Bulletin of Spanish Studies (February 2016): 1-18.
"Binding Consumption: Cuba's Early Black Press and the Struggle for Legitimacy, 1879-1886." Siglo diecinueve (literatura hispánica) 21 (2015): 29-46.
"Between Racism and Patriotism in fin de siècle Cuba: Ricardo Batrell's Creative Resistance." Afro-Hispanic Review 32.1 (Spring 2013): 15-30.
Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee (University of California, Berkeley)
Dexter is a Ph.D candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. When he's not theorizing surfing, his research focuses on colonial Latin American satire and Early Modern economic thought, with secondary interests in illustration, print production, and costumbrismo. Analyzing the transatlantic publication and circulation of colonial Latin American literary and visual satire, his dissertation research focuses on the intersections of satirical production (1598-1797), Early Modern globalization, and economic thought.
His research has been supported by the Fulbright Commission, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Education, the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Bancroft Library, the Teagle Foundation, and the University of California. His recent academic articles focus on surfing's relationship to nationalism and decolonization in Peru and Latin America; satire, book illustration, and political critique; satire and the colonial economy; and the conquest campaigns of Diego de Vargas Zapata Luján Ponce de León. He is the editor of a recent volume on satire in colonial Latin America (Iberoamericana/Vervuert 2015) and the translator of several scholarly articles.
"Barcos y cuerpos en un 'mar de miserias': Economía colonial y sustitución semántica en Mateo Rosas de Oquendo." in III Jornadas Coloniales (título provisional). Eds. Ángela Helmer, Claudia Parodia y Jimena Rodríguez. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, in process 2015.
"You Have the Right to Surf: Riding Waves of Decolonization, Modernity, and Nationalism in Peru" in Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America. Eds. Robert McKee Irwin, Hector L'Hoeste Fernández, and Juan Poblete. New York: Palgrave, 2015.
"Ilustrando la república a través de la sátira colonial: Ignacio Merino y la reconfiguración de Lima por dentro y fuera." in Estudios de sátira hispanoamericana colonial & Estudos da sátira do Brasil-Colônia:"de estranhos casos que jamais pintaram" a "despoblados extensos." Eds. Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee and Eduardo Viana da Silva. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert. 2015.
Estudios de sátira hispanoamericana colonial & Estudos da sátira do Brasil-Colônia:"de estranhos casos que jamais pintaram" a "despoblados extensos." Eds. Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee and Eduardo Viana da Silva. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2015.


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I created a custom powershell cmdlet that i have registered in powershell. Of course everytime i close my specific powershell instance i have to execute the following to have access to the command again:
add-pssnapin MyCustomSnapIn
I've tried to google for the answer and the only thing i'm finding is to do the following:
export-console MyCustomCmdletPowerShell
But nothing i found tell you to reimport this into powershell or how to automatically reimport it into powershell (which i prefer). Apparently it doesn't happen automatically.


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