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Arvest Wealth Management (AWM) is pleased to recognize Dennis J. Whittaker's recent appointments involving the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and the Southern Municipal Finance Society.
Whittaker serves as senior vice president and fixed income portfolio manager for Arvest Bank Trust, a division of Arvest Bank. In that role, Whittaker manages the fixed income portfolios for a book of high-profile client accounts. Additionally, he directs the research function for securities that have credit risk for both client portfolios and the bank's investment portfolio.
Whittaker is based in Little Rock, but serves in a support role to AWM's investment management group, which serves the entire Arvest footprint. He was recently appointed as:
The Southern Municipal Finance Society is a constituent society of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts. The latter is a nonprofit industry association with the goals of:
"This is a testament to the knowledge, insight and expertise that Dennis brings to the municipal finance industry," Arvest Bank Trust president and CEO Donny Rogers said. "We are thrilled to congratulate him on these significant industry achievements."
Whittaker, a Chartered Financial Analyst®, earned a bachelor's degree in economics at the University of Arkansas. He also is a member of the Fixed Income Analysts Society.
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DURHAM — The Oyster River High School boys basketball team gave Pembroke Academy everything it could handle from the second quarter on during the Bobcats' regular-season finale on Tuesday night. Unfortunately for Oyster River, the undefeated Spartans did all the damage they needed to in the first.
It was a valiant comeback, but Pembroke held on for a 45-40 win after the Bobcats had whittled what was once a 13-point lead down to two with 91 seconds remaining.
"A couple missed shots here and there," Oyster River coach Stuart Mitchell said. "We missed some bunnies. It's anyone's game at that point. A five-point game is anyone's game and I thought we played pretty well."
The Bobcats will head into the D-II tournament with a 13-5 record and will host a first-round game next Wednesday (March 6). Pembroke improved to 17-0 with one game remaining, at home against Lebanon (14-3) on Thursday.
Junior Nick Lazar led Oyster River with 16 points, including three 3-pointers. Anthony Shea finished with five points, including two nifty steals that he converted into points. On one early in the fourth quarter, he poked the ball away from a Pembroke player at half court, then rushed to keep the ball in bounds, dropping it for a streaking Lazar who laid it in for an easy duece. That cut Pembroke's lead to 32-28 at the time.
"I heard him yell my name, but then I saw the backboard right under me," Shea said. "I knew I couldn't go up and score. I just hoped for the best."
Lazar nailed a 3-pointer with 2:11 remaining in the fourth quarter to cut the Pembroke lead to 41-37. On the same play, Oyster River's Jacob Smith drew a foul on the Spartans' Dominic Timbas, and went to the line for a one-and-one. He hit the first, missed the second, but Lazar came up with the rebound and went back to the line, again hitting 1 out of 2. With 1:31 to go, it was a 41-39 game.
"I thought we played an excellent defensive game," Mitchell said. "We came out and played well defensively and rotated well."
From there, it was all free throws. Pembroke was 4 for 4 from the line down the stretch while Oyster River only managed 1 out of 3. Lazar fouled out with 22.7 seconds to go.
It looked like Pembroke was going to run away with the game when it jumped out to a 14-4 lead at the end of the first quarter. Patrick Welch drained three 3-pointers in the frame and opened the second with a trey that upped the Spartans' lead to 17-4, their biggest lead of the night.
"We got together and coach told us to really dig down on defense and the shots will fall," Lazar said. "That really propelled us. We really took that to heart."
From there, the Bobcats worked their way back into the contest, closing the second quarter with an 11-3 run. Pembroke led 20-15 at halftime.
"I knew Oyster River would play hard," said Pembroke coach and former University of New Hampshire standout Matt Alosa. "I know they're gritty. They're an older team and it shows on the court. I'd say we played pretty good defense for the most part, but we didn't shoot well at all."
Lazar drained a 3-pointer in the final minute of the third to cut Pembroke's lead to 28-26, and the Spartans led 29-26 after three stops. Oyster River hit three consecutive 3-pointer in the fourth, one by Zach Jones and a pair from Lazar, the second of which cut the lead to 41-37 with just over two minutes to play.
It was not a good shooting night for either team. Pembroke made just 12 shots from the field, seven of which were 3-pointers.
Pembroke, 45-40
PEMBROKE (45) — Maher 0-4-4, Persons 3-0-9, Welch 4-5-17, Boucher 0-0-0, Timbas 2-1-5, Williams 3-4-10, Taylor 0-0-0. Totals: 12-14-45.
OYSTER RIVER (40) — Jones 2-0-5, Mullin 0-0-0, Shea 1-3-5, Runk 0-0-0, Lazar 5-3-16, Clancy 0-0-0, Park 0-0-0, Leslie 0-1-1, Klewicki 0-0-0, Lewis 1-0-2, Smith 3-3-9. Totals: 13-10-40.
Pembroke (17-0) 14 6 9 16 — 45
Oyster River (13-5) 4 11 11 14 — 40
3-pointers: P-7 (Persons 3, Welch 4); O-4 (Jones, Shea 3).


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Tech stocks show biggest signs of market strain
- Tech stocks are one of the hardest-hit sectors
- Former tech darling Apple continues to sink
- Investors looking at tech skeptically amid spending concern
Major cracks in tech stocks, including a further crash in Apple Wednesday, are turning into the first point of pain for investors wondering how much trouble the market is in.
Rather than giving stocks a lift as investors are accustomed, big tech stocks have been a drag all year as investors worry if companies and consumers might be looking to scale back their purchases.
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"Investors aren't convinced that technology spending will rise uniformly year over year," says Kim Caughey Forrest, portfolio manager at Fort Pitt Capital and one of the few to predict the crash in Apple (AAPL) stock. "They're probably right."
MARKETS:Volatility returns as stocks drop
The lagging nature of tech stocks has been eye-opening for investors who assume that if there's a bull market, tech is probably the leader. Techs have been disappointing in a number of regards, including:
• The cratering of tech darling Apple. Apple, the fad stock of 2012, is quickly souring. The latest bad news came from Cirrus Logic, supplier of audio chips to Apple, which said inventory is piling up amid weak demand. That comes just a week after tech tracker IDC reported Mac sales fell 8% in the first quarter. "With tech and consumer devices, what's in is in and what is out is out," says Caughey Forrest, adding smartphones and tablets are maturing in developed countries and Apple products aren't as popular as bulls thought they would be in emerging nations. Shares of Apple have since collapsed 40% from their high, falling $23.44, or $5.5%, Wednesday to close at $402.80. With a market value of $378 billion, Apple has lost its perch as the most valuable company to ExxonMobil at $385.3 billion.
• Overall tech sector hit. Apple's crash is the clearest sign of tech's troubles, but it's not alone. Technology stocks are up 1.3% over the past three months, making the sector the third-worst of the 10 tracked by S&P Capital IQ. Big bellwether stocks such as Google (GOOG), Oracle (ORCL), Netflix (NFLX) and Qualcomm (QCOM) are all down since the end of February. Meanwhile, investors are focusing on defensive sectors that tend to hold up better during downturns, such as telecom (up 14.5%), health care (up 14.5%) and consumer staples (up 12.8%).
• Earnings growth questions from tech. Rather than delivering solid earnings growth, tech is one of the drags. During the first quarter, analysts are expecting companies to report 2.0% lower earnings growth, says S&P Capital IQ, while overall Standard & Poor's 500 earnings are expected to rise 1.2%.
There are other factors complicating things, too. If investors are expecting the economy to slow, they're taking it out first on economically sensitive stocks like tech, says Jack Ablin of BMO Private Bank.
Investors start getting antsy to sell stocks in May, and tech stocks are especially susceptible to spring selling, says Robert Maltbie of Millennium Asset Management. "You don't want to own tech going into a summer slowdown," he says.


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He'll fit in with all of us shrimpy reporters, except for the fact that he can a 4.2-second 40-yard dash and a 10.00 100-meter dash. We only run fast if there is free pizza in the press box.
Holliday, according to team records, is the shortest player in Broncos history — by two inches. His next-shortest current teammate is safety Jim Leonhard, generously listed at 5-foot-8.
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The state Canvassing Board on Tuesday scheduled a Jan. 5 meeting and its chairman said the panel's work could spill into Jan. 6 — the day the next Congress convenes.
Franken leads Coleman with an increasingly small number of ballots yet to consider. A draft report by the secretary of state's office has Franken up by 48 votes. The board was meeting Tuesday to discuss that report, although corrections to it won't be done until next week.
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie said there is no way the board will certify a winner this year. Counties have until Dec. 31 to submit new vote totals to the board that includes the counting of absentee ballots under a court order.
"We are not in any way guided by any Washington consideration, timeline," said Ritchie, a Democrat. "These folks have people's lives in their hands."
Coleman's campaign is disputing the allocation of some challenged ballots, which would add up to a 49 vote swing in the incumbent's favor. Franken's campaign has also brought some potential errors to the board's attention, which it says amounts to 43 potential votes in the Democrat's favor.
What's more, the Coleman campaign was due to go before the state Supreme Court later Tuesday to argue for the disqualification of ballots it claims were double counted.
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File[] libs = DependencyResolvers.use(MavenDependencyResolver.class).loadEffectivePom("pom.xml").importAllDependencies().resolveAsFiles();WebArchive wa = ShrinkWrap.create(WebArchive.class,"foo.war").addClasses(BasicEntity.class,BasicEntityDAO.class).addAsLibraries(libs).addAsWebInfResource("web/weblogic.xml","weblogic.xml").addAsWebInfResource(EmptyAsset.INSTANCE, "beans.xml").addAsResource("META-INF/persistence.xml","META-INF/persistence.xml");
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Next photo: dude STILL down on one knee with another guy staring down at Verne like he's a f-cking circus side show!
A third with him being dwarfed by the photo wall at a strange angle, and a fourth with a reporter squatting down to interview him.
WE GET IT!!! HE'S JUST A SHADE UNDER TALL!!! Do we really need to keep drilling the fact home? I'm surprised they didn't have the photog get down on his stomach and then possibly do upside down snow angels to get a head-on shot of Verne. F-ck!
That being said, I'm sure Verne is used to it and happily takes his stature to the bank. Recall when he subjected himself to this ridiculous situation for Big Brother UK? If not brace yourself.
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Mike Goldberg returned to CBS 6 News in January 2013, having previously served as Chief Meteorologist for ten years (1998 through 2007). You can catch him on Saturday and Sunday evenings, as well as CBS 6 News at 7PM on Mondays.
Mike has extensive experience working as a forecaster across the state of Virginia, having worked not only in Richmond, but also at WAVY-TV 10/Fox 43 in Hampton Roads and WSET-ABC 13 in Lynchburg.
Besides WTVR, he has served as Chief Meteorologist for television stations in Rochester, NY and Binghamton, NY, and has made several appearances as a Guest Meteorologist on The Weather Channel.
Mike is a member of both the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association, recognized by the AMS as a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) and a holder of the NWA's Television Seal of Approval. He serves on the NWA Council, as well as the organization's Broadcast Meteorology Committee.
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Mike is always out in the community, promoting science education in the schools and presenting talks to various groups of all ages. He has served as a judge for the Virginia Science and Engineering Fair and the Metro Richmond Science Fair, and has been the Master of Ceremonies for various events held by the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Arthritis Foundation, American Diabetes Association, Commonwealth Catholic Charities, Richmond Vegetarian Society, Richmond SPCA, Richmond Animal League and Cat Adoption and Rescue Efforts.
Aside from weather, Mike holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Clarinet Performance from the world-renowned Eastman School of Music in Rochester, and remains active as a professional musician and teacher. He currently serves as a Classical Music Host and the Coordinator of Classical Music Initiatives for WCVE Music, 93.1 and 107.3 FM in Richmond. Highlights of his musical career include performing with the original Broadway production of "Into the Woods" and touring the major concert halls of the Northeastern U.S. and Canada with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the Eastman Wind Ensemble. He has also recorded for CBS Masterworks. Mike is the founder and Artistic Director for Crescendo, a professional chamber music ensemble, and has performed with the Richmond Symphony, Williamsburg Choral Guild Orchestra, University of Richmond Orchestra, Richmond Philharmonic Orchestra, Commonwealth Winds, Richmond Symphonic Winds, and the Richmond Chamber Players. Also an accomplished conductor, he is the Music Director of the Central Virginia Wind Symphony, a group of the most talented high school musicians in the region. Mike was appointed Adjunct Instructor of Clarinet and Instrumental Conducting at Randolph-Macon College in 2011, and maintains a private clarinet studio while serving on the band faculty at Colonial Forge (Stafford County) High Schools.
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Every time I discuss healthcare on this blog, I am truly surprised by the comments. I am surprised how agitated many Americans get with the thought of universal healthcare, and I am chagrined by the number of Canadians who want to complain about the care that they get. My theory is that any American who is against universal healthcare has healthcare provided by her employer or another source. Regarding Canadians, I am convinced that they have no concept of what healthcare would cost them and what it feels like to not be able to afford to pay for health insurance.
On the other hand, I think many of you would be surprised to learn that my politics are somewhat conservative. I am actually on the right side of the aisle on most issues. That frankly is the point. In other countries, universal healthcare is not exclusive to either liberal or conservative politics. Here in the U.S., I feel that it should be no different, the fight shouldn't be about whether every American deserves to have access to healthcare, it should focus on how to pay for it - that is what political candidates should be puffing their cheeks out about.
The baby boomers will prevail. The same people that came of age in the free love of the '60s are the ones who will finally force the decision in America regarding healthcare. It is a significant part of aging; people become concerned about their access to preventative medicine and care. My concern is that the Republican candidates are totally lost if they don't belly up to the bar in the next election and play their cards in favor of making healthcare available to all Americans. This will be a greater domestic issue than immigration.
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Veterinarians carried out a rare blood transfusion in an attempt to save a 7-month-old wild tiger that had been attacked and beaten by angry villagers in central India. The female cub received the emergency treatment late Sunday after blood taken from captive adults was airlifted to the zoo where the cub is being cared for, said Bimal Majumdar, the chief wildlife officer in the region.
He said it was the first time a transfusion had been given to a tiger in India.
The cub, which doctors named Juhi after a fragrant white flower native to India, was still in serious condition Monday at the zoo in the city of Nagpur, some 530 miles southeast of New Delhi, he said.
India's wild tiger population has plummeted to just some 1,500 — down from about 3,600 six years ago and an estimated 100,000 a century ago. Shrinking habitats have brought them into conflict with farmers and poachers have killed them for their pelts and body parts, which are highly prized in traditional Chinese medicine.
Juhi and her sister were rescued two weeks ago from villagers who tried to kill them, fearing they would go after their children and cattle. The cubs also appear to have been abandoned by their mother.
"The cubs were in bad shape at the time they were rescued. They were starving," said Majumdar. "The villagers had also beaten them with sticks so they were injured as well."
While the other cub Jai, or Victory, responded well after being brought to the zoo, Juhi's condition deteriorated.
On Sunday, veterinarians treating the cat discovered that her hemoglobin levels had suddenly dropped to a dangerously low level and decided the only way to save her was to carry out a blood transfusion.
They sent a request to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai, where doctors tranquilized two healthy adult tigers and drew three-fourths of a pint of blood from each of them. Four hours later the blood reached Nagpur, said Vinery Jangle, the park's head veterinarian.
Jangle, who oversaw the transfusion, said she remained uncertain whether it would prove successful because only rudimentary tests were done to determine whether the donor blood matched Juhi's type.
"The blood grouping procedure is critical, but in India there has been no work done on blood groups. There are no studies on blood types and wild tigers," she said, adding that she was unaware of a transfusion being performed on a tiger elsewhere.
Transfusions for rare animals can be difficult because blood types and antibodies vary from species to species, according to the Web site of Brown University's Division of Biology and Medicine.
While rare, transfusions have been done in the past on turtles, pandas and a baby elephant at Western zoos, which sometimes bank an animals own blood in case it needs a transfusion, the Web site said.
Pandurang Munde, the Mumbai park's director, said it was worth the risk.
"We needed to save the young one's life. If the hemoglobin was low, there was only one remedy: blood transfusion," he said.
The cub was on a saline drip and cameras had been installed in her enclosure so they could monitor her around the clock, said Majumdar.
"She is still not in good shape," he said. "So we have our fingers crossed."


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The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival from the interns' point of view
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tonight at our weekly FLEFF meeting, us interns got the amazing chance to hear electronic composer Robby Aceto share some information about the scores he has recently created and took some questions from the audience. You can get a chance to hear him as he will be improvising live music during the screening of the ninety-year-old documentary, Nanook of the North at Cinemapolis.
"We are so sophisticated in our technologies, and a hundred years ago these things were just fantasy." He begins by speaking about the way sound in film has evolved over the past hundred years from live music accompanying each screening to revolutionary technology that made synchronous sound possible. Does the Jazz Singer ring a bell for all you film scholars out there? After that, he took some questions from the audience:
7:12 PM - Aceto informs us that the electric guitar has become a ubiquitous instrument in today's musical world, but as a "color guitarist," he deviates from this typical sound and offers a truly unique sound.
7:14 PM - "It's not the easiest thing to do." Striking, but true. Aceto talks about being a freelance musician and the negatives that come with it when it comes to getting gigs and finding your niche. However, he gives some optimistic advice: "be available and try to make a name for yourself." And let's be honest because this is true despite what field you are working in.
7:22 PM - Working in a group is kind of like duking it out. The baseline is respectable material and there is a sense of collaboration that goes into perfecting the piece.
7:30 PM - We get to hear one of his pieces! As an outrageous and bizarre silent film appears onscreen (through an excessive use of vignetting), the music resonates with a sense of respectability and relevance. This proves that despite how ridiculous the visual may be, the power of sound in film is incredible and truly influential.
7:45 PM - Yet another piece comes on and the sound is remarkable. Through a myriad of instruments, including a toy piano, a cello, a mandolin and an open-air mic, a harmonious final result is achieved. No wonder the FLEFF co-directors Thomas Shevory & Patricia Zimmerman asked him to return to the festival for a fourth time.
7:52 PM - What is composing you may ask? "The idea is that you're not there to comment on what's going on. You're there to interpret and try to be a part of it."
I think leaving off on these last words is appropriate. Although in context he happened to be talking about scoring music for film, I believe his words have the ability to speak on a much stronger level. By integrating yourself with what is surrounding you rather than take note of it exemplifies the interactive nature of FLEFF. Do you agree that actions speak louder than words?


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Gaming Commission raises casino tax rate by 5 percent
UPDATE 1:15 P.M. | Gaming regulators voted to return the casino tax rate to fiscal 2011 levels, eliminating the 5 percent cut that the previous panel awarded the industry last May.
Commissioners noted today that Colorado's tax rate on the industry is "in the middle or below the middle" of rates charged on casinos nationwide.
Today's vote means the tax rate on Colorado casinos will top off at 20 percent beginning in July. It previously topped off at 19 percent after last year's tax cut, which led to the ouster of the previous Gaming Commission.
GOLDEN – Colorado gaming regulators are meeting today to set the casino tax rate for the fiscal year that starts in July.
A year ago, the casino industry won a 5 percent tax cut from the Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission, a controversial move that led Gov. John Hickenlooper to oust the entire five-member panel.
Among other things, Hickenlooper was concerned about the cut's potential impact on community colleges and local communities, two primary beneficiaries of gaming tax revenue.
The previous commission authorized the tax cut after determining that the industry needed relief because it was struggling financially amid the economic downturn.
Robert Webb, the sitting commission chairman, said late last year that regulators would wait to see the impact of the tax cut before making any changes.
The commission reviews and sets the casino tax rate annually in May.
The Division of Gaming, the commission's administrative arm, estimates that gaming taxes will drop by about 3 percent to $102 million for the fiscal year that ends in June. The industry's gross revenue is projected to increase by 1 percent to $761 million.
Colorado taxes casinos on a graduated scale, with gross revenue over $13 million generated by any individual casino taxed at the top rate of 19 percent. The top rate before last year's cut was 20 percent.
The three mountain gambling towns – Black Hawk, Central City and Cripple Creek – recommended today hat the tax rate remain unchanged for the coming fiscal year.
Teller County commissioner James Ignatius urged the regulators to leave the rate as is for at least another year.
The Colorado Gaming Association also asked regulators to maintain the existing tax rate. Last year, the group sought a bigger tax cut than the 5 percent that was granted.
"The tax structure as set last year by the commission had the desired effect," said Andy Hamblen, general manager of the Ameristar Casino in Black Hawk and president of the Gaming Association. "It reversed three years of losses by the industry."
Colorado casinos collectively posted net losses of $18 million in calendar year 2008, $1.8 million in 2009 and $12.5 million in 2010, according to the Gaming Association. Last year, with six months at the lower tax structure, the industry posted a net profit of $7.5 million.
The commission will issue a decision on the tax rate later today. It can raise, lower or maintain the tax structure. This blog post will be updated when that happens.
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Members and former members of the China Unification Promotion Party have been arrested over the past two years for direct involvement in organized crime-related incidents, showing that it may still have strong ties with local organized crime groups, police said.
Founded in 2005 by former leading Bamboo Union member Chang An-le (張安樂), commonly known as "White Wolf" (白狼), the party's main objective is unification with China.
Chang, who had been on the run in China for more than 17 years, returned to Taiwan in June.
Though it boasts a total membership of close to 20,000, it is not one of the more active political parties. Each party branch is named after a Chinese person of note from antiquity, such as Zilu (子路), one of Confucius' 72 most renowned disciples, and Yeh Shih (葉適), an official in the Southern Song Dynasty from Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province.
Taoyuan County police department's criminal investigation division raided the party's Yeh Shih party headquarters branch early on Wednesday and arrested Wang Huan-hua (王煥華) and four other party members.
The division said that Wang claimed to be the chief of the Yeh Shih branch office, which was located at a local car-washing lot, adding that while he seemed to just be a businessman on the surface, he had used Chang's support to secure his "turf," obtain illegal guns and used them to "settle" disputes, and engaged in racketeering across Taipei, Taoyuan and Greater Taichung.
Wang, who had also been on a government list of gang figures to be cracked down on, had met Chang in China in 2010, the division said, adding that Chang had tasked Wang to become the head of the Yeh Shih branch after learning that Wang's family originated in Wenzhou.
The division also said that Wang had ordered two gang members to rob an art collector surnamed Tseng (曾) in Taipei City after learning that Tseng had various valuable paintings in his house.
The gang members had not succeeded in the attempt, but the Vietnamese girlfriend of Tseng's son had been pushed from the fourth floor of the building as she was in the process of calling the police during the robbery, the division said.
The police said Wang had also hosted a drug party in June and raped a woman who went by the pseudonym "shuiling" (水靈) who worked at a bar and had also severely beaten her in the bar where she worked, as well as uploading audio files of the rape.
Wang was arrested on Wednesday and sent to Taoyuan District Prosecutor's Office on charges of organized crime, extortion, obstruction of liberty, obstruction of sexual autonomy and illegal ownership of guns and drugs.
Meanwhile, the China Unification Promotion Party said on Wednesday night that Wang had applied to leave the party in July, which had been approved following his breaking of party regulations.
The announcement, made on Facebook, included an image of Wang's party membership card with a corner cut off as a sign of its invalidation.
Hsinchu police said that during an anti-crime operation in February last year, one of the prime suspects, You Chia-how (游家豪) had been a deputy director of the China Unification Promotion Party's Zilu branch.
New Taipei City (新北市) police department said that during a raid on a local Bamboo Union branch they discovered that the union was using the party as a cover, and even handing out party membership cards to absorb students into the gang.


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TEXAS CITY, Texas - At a home in Texas City, post it notes on a bedroom wall formed a tribute to an 18-year-old who committed suicide on Tuesday.
"My heart's broken," said Raul Vela. "I lost my angel today."
Vela's daughter Brandy was a Texas City High School Senior who he claims cried out for help from the bullies who were tormenting her on social media.
According to Vela, the harassment began more than a year ago when someone began using her picture online.
"And continually posting nasty things about her," added Vela. "Set up an account saying she was actually soliciting sex."
Then came the harassing calls.
"Sometimes she wouldn't sleep. She'd call me at night. She'd say 'Dad, I can't sleep. My phone keeps ringing.'"
The bogus pages would be taken down only to re-emerge days later. Brandy and her family complained to the authorities and to anyone who would listen.
"And nobody was willing to help. The help never came." said Vela.
On Tuesday, Brandy sent out an email to her family members telling them she was going to kill herself. They rushed home and found her alive.
"And we tried to persuade her to put the gun down but she was determined. She said she'd come too far to turn back. It was very unfortunate that I had to see that. It's hard when your daughter tells you to turn around. You feel helpless."
Brandy committed suicide in front of her family moments later.
Texas City Police are investigating what happened as a cyber-bullying crime. So far, no one has been arrested.
We're told Brandy's organs have been donated to those in need.


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Adults, patrons age 18 and over, must present valid photo identification, as well as a current article of mail, such as a utility bill, bank mailing, or other business mail as proof of address.
A patron between ages 5-17 years old may register for a library card, but must have the signature of his or her parent or guardian on the registration form, and the parent or guardian must present the required identification as outlined above; the signature will satisfy the requirement for identification for the patron under age 18. No cards will be issued for patrons under the age of 5 years old. Restricted services may be requested by the parent or guardian on the juvenile's card application. The parent or guardian is responsible for any charges incurred on this card.
Temporary residents must provide both permanent and temporary or school addresses. Out-of-state students attending an institution of higher learning in Ohio must provide their permanent and their college addresses, as well as a student ID and current piece of mail.
Items on this card incur fines and the checkout time is based upon the item type. All materials checked out on the card are the responsibility of the cardholder. A printout of items will be given after every check out session or available upon request.
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I suppose it is rather a latecomer to the whole British-TV-comedy-writer-goes-Hollywood-and-ends-up-looking-a-bit-of-a-nob genre...I suppose it is rather a latecomer to the whole Hollywood-action-cop-thriller-set-in-a-West-Country-village genre...
I think that someone on here mentioned this before but I can't find it, anyway I watched Art School Confidential the other day and it was a complete and utter mess. At the end I had no idea what they were trying to do with it and I don't think that they did either. It started off with a few clunky shots at obvious targets (art-school students) which were mildly amusing (I liked the bare-foot girl arriving at school only to tread on some broken glass) and I settled in for what appeared to be a not especially good but watchable comedy. Then it went totally wrong, they were obviously trying to inject some kind of depth and meaning but they completely failed and all of the subplots were both boring and stupid, a real waste of a couple of hours (and it was particularly galling that to get it out I had to pay the FIFTY-TWO POUND FIFTY fine that my girlfriend had run up on the last film she forgot to take back).
Much better but also something I wouldn't necessarily recommend was the Apu trilogy which I watched this week. It's obviously brilliant but I found it very depressing at times, particularly every single second of the second movie.
It tells a tale of a (once wealthy?) family living in grinding poverty, their lives made bearable by the spirit of the mother and the liveliness of Durka, the daughter. By the end of the first film both an elderly relative and Durka have died and Apu has reached about eight years old. It finishes with them heading off to try and start a new life in the city.
The second film begins with them finally having established themselves and looking as though the weak but lovely father may be able to earn enough money as a priest. Sadly it doesn't last and he is soon carried off by disease. Apu's mother works hard and scrapes to save for him and manages to put him through school where he triumphantly wins a scholarship. Reluctantly his mother allows him to head off to Calcutta and the scenes of his happiness at his freedom and her sadness are really heartbreaking. Finally she becomes ill and dies with Apu arriving home just too late to comfort her.
I watched the third film last night safe in the knowledge that his whole family were dead and surely no more misery could be heaped on him (and me) but I reckoned without a marriage to a young and beautiful girl which lasts just long enough for you to revel in their happiness before the curse of Apu in the form of childbirth sends her off to join the rest of his family. By this point I'd just about given up the will to live.
Basically, it's fantastic and looks great and everything but I kind of wish I hadn't watched it.
i saw harmony korines new film mr lonely at the london film festival and it was shockingly awful in every single way, pretentious. just terrible, it was part funded by agnes b and all her cronies were there guffawing away, it was pathetic. i was disappointed as i liked gummo etc,
Flood. Don't go there.
Saw IV. Don't go there.
TMNT. Don't go there.
Resident Evil 3. Don't go there.
Waking Life.
Poorly-conceived, ostentatious trash which has the apparent main purpose of stroking the egos of misguided university students who have just taken their first philosophy course and now "get it."
Seriously this movie is basically a visual representation of the kind of conversations people have before they make a movie. That is not a good thing.
I maintain that there are very few films I regret seeing. Most films have at least one redeeming feature and it would take a great steaming shite of a movie for me to rather spend my 90minutes elsewhere.
The only thing that falls into that totally crap category that I've seen recently is Run Fat Boy Run. Awful. Even worse than Love Actually.
The Cottage.
Blatant stab at comedy horror a la Shaun of the Dead (which I liked) by the director of London to Brighton (which i liked). Reece Shearsmith (off League of gentlemen) is so irritating he should've been slashed in the 1st 5 mins and Jennifer Ellison's line in potty-mouthed aggression gets really boring.
Muddled and terrifically unfunny (though I did like the bit where psycho ripped someone's head off via the spinal cord)
Waking Life totally dire- walked out (a rarity for me) after 20 mins for exactly the reason stated above- pseudo philosophical nonsense.
which is why i ws totally blown away shocked by the quality of Scanner Darkly- if waking life was necessary to produce that then i guess i'm happy. As long as i dont actually have to see it.
Who's that guy- Dogma- Von Trier, right?
What a miserable self-indulgent miserable egotistical miserable lunatic. I have just about forgiven Bjork for even talking to him, never minding appearing in one of his hellish pain-fests.
Festen was the only decent movie from that 'movement'


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National Motorcycle Museum Press Release:
Dirt track racing is an exciting and uniquely American story, and now the story of the riders, the tuners, their bikes and the championships won is told at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa. Allstate Motorcycle Dirt Track Heroes opened June 8 to the crowd of enthusiasts attending Vintage Rally 2013.
Over 30 Class C and short track bikes plus a several road racers are on display, carefully selected, brought in from collectors all across America. They illustrate the machines built, tuned and ridden in Grand National Championship racing. But there's also careful attention to the stories behind the bikes. With over 25 individual champions in the GNC's nearly 60 year history, author and exhibit curator Greg Pearson had his work cut out for him. "It's very important to give these riders, and tuners, credit for the hard work, and the risks they took to try and earn the #1 plate. Judging from the smiles and positive comments at the opening this weekend, I think we pretty much nailed it."
Riders Jay Springsteen, Rich King, Bubba Shobert, Chris Carr, Bill Tuman, Bobby Hill, Bill Baird and Dick Klamfoth sign autographs for their fans. Don Miller, Metro Racing Photo
Pearson also worked with Mark Mederski at the National Motorcycle Museum to help dig up the bikes, leathers and some great art to illustrate the Grand National Championship history. "I thank guys like Chris Carter, Don Emde, Don Rosene, Jim Oldiges, Don Miller, Michael Lange and many more enthusiasts who are preserving these bikes in their collections, plus #1 plate riders like Chris Carr and Jay Springsteen who have kept their race bikes. They were confident enough in our project to let loose of their pride and joy dirt trackers and ship them to Iowa. And if you've ever wondered what's inside a production Harley-Davidson XR750 take a look at the full cutaway the Harley-Davidson Museum loaned for the project!"
Besides a good number of Harley-Davidsons, there are also Indian, Yamaha, Bultaco, Honda, Triumph, BSA, Rotax and Matchless motorcycles represented, and most are motorcycles with provenance, race bikes
with a story.
The exhibit also features over 20 sets of racing leathers, a dozen helmets, in a sense each a piece art. Mederski says, "Don Miller of Metro Racing came up with a really great artifact he found on eBay of all places. It's a one half inch thick, 20 pound steel number plate Bart Markel gave to Gary Nixon, when Nixon won his first championship. Handing the heavy weight number plate to Nixon, Markel quipped, "Get used to it! These #1 plates are heavy!"
Photographs are an important part of telling any racing story. Official Camel Pro photographer Bert Shepard plus Jim Grant, Dave Hoenig and Ray Ninness all offered up their images. There are also one-off paintings, plus prints from artists like Melva Murphy and Harry Miller. Win posters and track banners help complete the feel. Probably a "first" for such a project, the Dirt Track Racing Riders Memorial created by Bert Sumner, a tribute to riders who gave the ultimate sacrifice for dirt track racing, is also part of the story presented.
Since the Grand National Championship rules were instituted by the AMA in 1954, about 25 champions have been crowned. You can learn about the careers of each #1 rider through these detailed biographical panels.
To illustrate the nature of "go fast turn left," and what it means to tire wear, one display lets you play the "Quick Change Challenge." Curator Pearson says, "On a bench we set up a wheel with a Barnes hub, a dozen sprockets and a brake rotor plus a wrench for the big wing nuts. You can see how quickly you can swap the brake rotor for the sprocket, side for side, to start making use of the unworn side of the tire, just like a tuner needs to do."
Winning in all racing disciplines, and the last rider to win a true "Grand Slam," Bubba Shobert's 1983 Honda RS750 loaned by Chris Carter, Motion Pro, is on display. Don Miller, Metro Racing Photo.
This temporary exhibit, on display through April 2014 only occupies about five percent of the space in the National Motorcycle Museum. There are also over 400 more motorcycles and several thousand pieces of artwork, photos and memorabilia on display. Everything from the history of board track racing to how gasoline stations played a role in transportation are featured. Bikes from Von Dutch, Steve McQueen, the Easy Riders Captain America chopper plus a brace of Broughs and Vincents are featured. The Museum is open every day 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, year around.
For more information: www.nationalmcmuseum.org


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Ordinarily, when we send a photographer to a rod and custom show like the one the Goodguys held for the very first time at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, California, the guy is going to walk around to all the trucks and take as many pictures as possible. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case when we assigned our very own Associate Editor Dakota Wentz to cover the show. You see, exotic ethnic foods are very popular in Southern California, and when you throw in the diverse mix of cuisine available from strange foreign lands, sometimes a person can ingest something that might be just a little too rich for their intestines to metabolize in a non-gaseous manner.
As things turned out, this was what happened to young Cody after he located a funky little kiosk selling sweet-and-sour cabbage burritos and spent almost an entire week's pay loading up on the flour tortilla-wrapped mystery bags, ending up with an advanced case of acute gastrointestinal cramps.
Now if this had been your typical run-of-the mill location where everybody has to park their show vehicles and sit there in a chair all day, this could have meant it was all over for Custom Classic Trucks' coverage of the Goodguys' OC show. Fortunately, though, the Orange County Fairgrounds is one of those rare venues with a cruise route through the entire park that allows people to hop into their hot rods or customized classic trucks and cruise right past any magazine types who might be confined to sticking close to a restroom...yep, that's right, every one of these pictures was taken from the same spot. For more information about next year's Goodguys OC show, plus a complete list of approved restaurants in the Orange County area, please visit www.good-guys.com.


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Lake Tahoe's clarity improves for second year in a row
Lake Tahoe's clarity improved by more than 6 feet last year, according to data released Wednesday by the University of California, Davis, and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
The lake's average annual clarity in 2012 was 75.3 feet, a 6.4-foot improvement from 2011. It is the highest reading since 2002 when clarity was measured at 78 feet, according to a UC Davis press release.
Scientists measure the lake's clarity by the depth at which a 10-inch white Secchi disk remains visible when lowered beneath the water surface.
The annual clarity level is the average of 22 individual readings taken throughout the year.
While winter clarity has continued a long-term pattern of improvement, summer clarity has kept declining, according to the release.
The rate of decline for average annual clarity has slowed in the past decade, but even this year's value is 22 feet short of the 97.4-foot clarity restoration target set by federal and state regulators.
Urban stormwater runoff, most of which occurs during the winter and spring, contributes to reduced clarity. According to the release, researchers cited TRPA efforts to reduce urban stormwater runoff as a possible cause of this year's improved clarity.
More data is needed to make definitive conclusions though, according to the release.
"The improvement we see in both the summer and winter clarity during 2012 is very encouraging," Geoffrey Schladow, director of the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, said in the release. "The lake will continue to be subjected to a range of disturbances, each of which has the potential to impact clarity. There is now growing belief that managing for clarity is possible."
Clarity readings since 2000
* 2012: 75.3 feet (22.9 meters)
* 2011: 68.9 feet (21 meters)
* 2010: 64.4 feet (19.6 meters)
* 2009: 68.1 feet (20.8 meters)
* 2008: 69.6 feet (21.2 meters)
* 2007: 70.1 feet (21.4 meters)
* 2006: 67.7 feet (20.6 meters)
* 2005: 72.4 feet (22.1 meters)
* 2004: 73.6 feet (22.4 meters)
* 2003: 71 feet (21.6 meters)
* 2002: 78 feet (23.8 meters)
* 2001: 73.6 meters (22.4 meters)
* 2000: 67.3 feet (20.5 meters)
For a complete list of Annual Secchi Depth Data since 1968, visit http://terc.ucdavis.edu/research/SecchiData.pdf.


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Throughout the 2008 season, I heard Mike McCarthy laud the versatility of his players on many occasions – especially those guys on the O-Line. I can see the value, to some extent, of players being versatile and filling other roles when needed – especially because of injuries. But as this season played out, I really began to wonder if there may be too much emphasis on versatility – to the point where the over-emphasis damaged our team.
- The O-Line: over and over we've heard about how many of our O-Line guys were rotated in at different positions. I understand that injuries took their toll on the line and some of this was done out of desperation. And, I recognize that in some instances, poor play by certain players (like Moll) required certain changes. But I believe that basically, it makes the most sense to have back-ups for each position and insert them as needed instead of rotating everyone around. Colledge talked about this in an interview the other day – not blaming anyone really, but just saying that when you practice all week (or all season) at one position but then need to shift to another, the transition can be difficult.
- Linebacker: To me, it would have made the most sense to insert Desmond Bishop, THE back-up middle linebacker, into the line-up when Barnett went down. I don't think it's a stretch to say Hawk did not flourish at MLB like the team assumed he would. It is another example of needlessly imposing versatility when we had a seemingly competent back-up for that position who had practiced all year as the back-up for that position.
- Safety: Charles Woodson is very talented. I am not entirely sure transitioning him to safety someday is a bad idea. He could probably learn that position well. However, the experiment with him at safety this year didn't work out too well and again, I wonder if going with the true back-up safeties would have been smarter. I know Rouse/Bigby/Peprah have all been injured here and there but I don't think all at the same time (could be wrong there). But especially after Woodson's first game at safety didn't go well (I believe the New Orleans game), I would have quickly gone to someone who is designated as a back-up safety.


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- Log in to your IIS server using Remote Desktop. For more information, see Connect via Remote Desktop (RDC) to your Windows server.
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There is about three Minecraft characters going up today and I will start with this one on "how to draw a Minecraft wolf". The wolves in the game are as cool as they can be in their blocky form. The wolf is of traditional color which is a grayish tan shade with darker colors around the face and snout. It should be relatively easy drawing a Minecraft wolf because all the animal is made up of is blocks and squares. Have fun people and keep those requests rolling in.
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Today's busy executive has more things to do while they travel than ever before. Denon's line of Globe Cruiser Headphones creates peace and order in the midst of noise and chaos.
Slip on a pair of Denon Globe Cruiser headphones and escape the environment around you so you can better focus on what you need to do. Whether it's just relaxing and enjoying your favorite music, conducting a conference call, asking Siri® to check your departure gate, or using the voice recognition capability to dictate an email on your iPhone® 4S to your boss about closing that business deal, Denon's line of Globe Cruiser travel headphones provide exceptional sound quality and styling.
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Tired of your traditional wired travel headphones restricting your movement? The Globe Cruiser AH-W200 In-Ear headphones feature Bluetooth 3.0 wireless connectivity, so you can navigate thru busy terminals, train stations, or anywhere you need to go without getting yourself or your luggage tangled up in cable. Better yet, Denon Globe Cruiser Headphones include both aptX and AAC decoding to provide CD quality audio over the Bluetooth wireless connection, making them the perfect earphones for travel.
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"Like many traditional audio companies Denon is a relatively new player in the headphone market, but unlike its competitors it has acted aggressively within the category to keep pace with the fast moving changes that are happening within the world of personal audio."


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Is It Possible To Live With The Voices In Your Head?
When was the last time that you heard them?
ELEANOR LONGDEN: I still hear them very, very regularly usually, at least several times a day.
RAZ: This is Eleanor Longdon and ever since she was in college, she's heard voices. Do they sound as real as my voice sounds, you know, like in your headphones right now?
LONGDEN: Not always. It's very, very changeable actually. Sometimes, yes, it can feel an external so literally heard through the ears. Whereas at other times, I can hear them from within my head. Some of them are male. Some of them sound quite young. Some of them have different accents so they don't actually sound like my voice.
RAZ: What do they say?
LONGDEN: Anything and everything really.
RAZ: If Eleanor sounds remarkably calm about all this, it's because to get there to get that to that calm place, she had to go through a kind of hell about 15 years ago. Eleanor picks up the story from the TED stage.
LONGDEN: The day I left home for the first time to go to university was a bright day brimming with hope and optimism. I'd done well at school. Expectations for me were high, and I gleefully entered the student life of lectures, parties. Now appearances, of course, can be deceptive. And to an extent, this feisty, energetic persona was a veneer. Underneath, I was actually deeply unhappy, insecure and fundamentally frightened. But I was skilled at hiding it. And as the first semester ended and the second begun, there was no way that anyone could have predicted what was just about to happen. I was leaving a seminar when it started, humming to myself, fumbling with my bag just as I did a hundred times before.
When suddenly, I heard a voice calmly observe - she is leaving the room. I looked around and there was no one there. But the clarity and decisiveness of the comment was unmistakable. Shaken, I left my books on the stairs and hurried home and there it was again - she is opening the door. This was the beginning. The voice had arrived - she is going to the library. And the voice persisted - she is going to a lecture. On and on, narrating everything I did in the third person - she is leaving the room. It was neutral, impassive and even after a while, strangely companionate and reassuring. Although, I did notice that its calm exterior sometimes slipped and that it occasionally mirrored my own unexpressed emotion.
So, for example, if I was angry and had to hide it, which I often did, being a very adept at concealing how I really felt, than the voice would sound frustrated. Otherwise, it was neither sinister nor disturbing, although even at that point, it was clear that it had something to communicate to me about my emotions, particularly emotions which were remote and inaccessible.
LONGDEN: You know, I'd initially started off as certainly somebody who had a lot of things that I needed to deal with in my life. As a child, I'd experienced some very traumatic events, particularly sexual abuse. And that was something that, like many survivors of these kind of adversities, I'd worked very, very hard to try and bury the past, but to an extent, had virtually buried it alive. And what basically happened was what had initially started off as an experience - you know, this commentating voice had suddenly been turned into a symptom.
RAZ: And a few months after she first started hearing them, Eleanor decided to tell a friend about the voices, and her friend panicked. She insisted she go see a doctor, which led to referrals to see more doctors, which led to a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
LONGDEN: Because by this point, the voices had - what would have started off as one voice was now many. One of the voices actually saying, you know, in this very mocking way - you can't even spell schizophrenia so what are you going to do about having it? And I think that sort of really summarized it in a way, just a sense of complete disbelief, incomprehension, terror and helplessness.
LONGDEN: Helplessly and hopelessly I began to retreat into this nightmarish inner world in which the voices were destined to become both my persecutors and my only perceived companions. Two years later, and the deterioration was traumatic. By now I had the whole frenzied repertoire - terrifying voices, grotesque visions, bizarre intractable delusions. And I'd been told by my psychiatrist - Eleanor, you'd be better off with cancer because cancer is easier to cure than schizophrenia. I'd been diagnosed, drugged and discarded. And was by now, so tormented by the voices that I attempted to drill a hole in my head in order to get them out.
Now looking back on the wreckage and despair of those years, it seems to me now as if someone died in that place. And yet, someone else was saved. A broken and haunted person began that journey, but the person who emerged was a survivor, and would ultimately grow into the person I was destined to be.
RAZ: In a moment, we'll find out how Eleanor Longden essentially overcame her diagnosis of schizophrenia and moved on. I'm Guy Raz and you're listening to the TED Radio Hour from NPR.
It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR, I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, stories about people who overcame huge obstacles in their lives. And we're picking up the story of Eleanor Longden, who basically started to go crazy when she was a student at the University of Leeds in Britain. She was hearing these terrifying voices in her head and she was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia. Now, she could've spent the rest of her life in institutions, but slowly, very slowly she started to get help.
LONGDEN: My psychiatrist at that time gave me a leaflet for an organization in the UK called the Hearing Voices Network. And it was electrifying because what this leaflet was saying, firstly, was that many people hear voices as a response to stress or trauma and that voices can be seen as messages and metaphors for underlying difficulties in people's lives.
RAZ: Wow. And that process just began, that idea that maybe I just need to embrace those voices and work with them.
LONGDEN: Yeah. And what I began to realize is that I hadn't gone mad. I'd been driven mad by trauma, and rather than seeing the things like voices as symptoms, I began to try and see them in more, sort of, compassionate ways. So as survival strategies, as adaptations, as sane reactions to insane circumstances.
RAZ: But what do you think it was that enabled you to overcome that? I mean, to sort of say, you know, I'm a survivor. I'm going to make this work. I'm going to live with this. I mean, for a lot of people that would be impossible.
LONGDEN: The way I think at the beginning, that I negotiated that, was I'd read "Touching the Void," by Joe Simpson, who's a mountaineer, who basically was involved in a very bad accident and ended up at the bottom of a crevice with a broken knee. And he had to make his way back to base camp. And he describes this process of breaking that journey down into tiny stages because he felt that if he really acknowledged the enormity of the task ahead that he would simply sink to his knees in the snow and give up.
So he thought, in the next half-hour I'm going to get to the end of the crevice. And then when I get to the end of this crevice, then I'm going to get that rock. And really, that's what I had to do. So it might be simply, rather than lying in bed all day listening to the voices, I'm going to get up for 10 minutes and go and talk to my mom in the kitchen. And that might be the day's task.
LONGDEN: Ultimately, I was gathered together in my shattered itself, Each fragment represented by different voice. Gradually, withdrew from all of my medication and return to psychiatry only this time, from the other side. Ten years after the voice first came, I finally graduated. This time with the highest degree in psychology the university had ever given and one year later, the highest masters, which shall we say isn't bad for a mad woman. In fact, one of the voices actually dictated the answers during an exam, which technically possibly counts as cheating.
And I worked in mental health services. I spoke at conferences. I published book chapters and academic articles. And I argued, and continue to do so, the relevance of the following concept - that an important question in psychiatry, shouldn't be what's wrong with you, but rather what's happened to you? And all the while, I listened to my voices, with whom I'd finally learned to live with peace and respect, and which in turn reflected a growing sense of compassion, acceptance and respect towards myself.
RAZ: So how do you do that? How do you make space for them in your life?
LONGDEN: I mean, the way I understand my voices now is very much as parts of me, essentially. So say recently I had to submit a journal article to, sort of this quite prestigious journal and feeling very, very anxious about that. And was at that point, you know, where your finger's hovering over the button you're about to press submit. And one of the voices said, don't. And a few years ago, my reaction to that would probably have, either to become very angry with the voice or to become very fearful and take it, that word don't, completely at face value. Whereas now, what I would say to it first, was maybe something like, why?
And then the voice said, you know, something along the lines of, oh, you know, it won't be good enough and people might be critical of it. So how I would deal with that now is simply, you know, say, respond to the voice something like, you sound really anxious and fearful. You know, I'm sorry you feel like that. But don't worry because nobody's perfect, and if there are mistakes in it, it's fine. So do you see what I mean? It's sort of like using the content of the voices in quite a healing and restorative way.
RAZ: But, I mean, if someone were to say, OK, you're going to wake up tomorrow and you are never going to hear those voices again, what would you think?
LONGDEN: I sometimes feel I should insure my voices 'cause if they ever, do ever go, I'd be out of a job. So my professional livelihood depends on them. I would miss them if they went, which is an extraordinary admission in some ways because I am somebody, who at one point, would literally rather have died than live with my voices.
LONGDEN: The human animal is a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity to heal and the intellectual spirit to harness this innate capacity. We don't have to live our lives forever defined by the damaging things that have happened to us. We are unique. We are irreplaceable. What lies within us can never be truly colonized, contorted or taken away. The light never goes out. As a very wonderful doctor once said to me, don't tell me what other people have told you about yourself, tell me about you. Thank you.
RAZ: Eleanor Longden. She's planning to get her PhD in psychology from the University of Leeds next summer. Her talk's called, "The Voices in My Head." And you can hear the whole thing at TED.com.
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Temple Cup Results | Prince Albert Cup Results
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HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England—Harvard crews won each of their three races on the opening day of the Henley Royal Regatta Wednesday on the Thames River.
The Harvard lightweight varsity eight and heavyweight freshman eight both advanced to the second round of the Temple Challenge Cup, while the heavyweight four marched on to the Prince Albert Cup quarterfinals. All three boats will race Thursday, as will the Radcliffe heavyweight varsity eight in the Remenham Challenge Cup and lightweight sophomore Andrew Campbell in the Diamond Challenge Sculls.
Harvard's unbeaten, national-champion lightweights started their competition at Henley with a three-length win against fellow U.S. entry Drexel. The Crimson led throughout, pulling away as the race went on to post a winning time of 7:20 and set up a second-round meeting with Southampton University.
"We were up against a good crew, and we had to be strong and row well," said Charley Butt, the Friends of Harvard Lightweight Rowing Coach of Harvard Lightweight Crew. "It took a while to get to the point where were comfortable and we knew we could advance."
The Crimson heavyweight freshmen also led throughout their race, topping the University of York by 1.5 lengths in 7:04. They will next race Newcastle, a three-length winner against Oxford Brookes University B.
In the Prince Albert Cup student four event, the defending-champion Crimson easily defeated Durham University A in 7:49. The time was the day's fastest in the event by five seconds.
"It was a straightforward day of racing," said heavyweight associate head coach Bill Manning. "Our crews were strong today. The races are going to get tougher. When you're successful, you're going to face faster and faster opponents each day."
Former Harvard heavyweight coxswain Chris Kingston '11 raced Wednesday, guiding Star Club to a four-length win against Eton Vikings in the Britannia Challenge Cup club four event. It was another Harvard-Yale victory for Kingston, who defeated the Bulldogs varsity in the 2011 Harvard-Yale Regatta, as the opposing boat was steered by Yale coxswain Oliver Fletcher.
Other Harvard alumni racing at Henley include boatmates Steffen Buschbacher '00 and Justin Webb '04. Michael Bloomquist '03 will race in a pair in the Silver Goblets and Nickalls' Challenge Cup and in the Penn Athletic Club eight in the Ladies' Challenge Plate. Former Crimson lightweight captain Martin Eiermann '10 will also race in the Ladies' Plate, manning the five seat in the Sport Imperial entry that will face the Harvard heavyweight varsity in the quarterfinals.


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Good night! Some well-known S.A. symbols were left out of the book
Jennifer Drez, who spent a lot of her childhood in the Alamo City, took the classic children's bedtime book "Goodnight Moon," gave it a South Texas spin and came up with "Goodnight San Antonio," incorporating the city's most famous landmarks.
I think she forgot a few ...
- Goodnight crickets, who cover the sidewalks every July.
- Goodnight eternal construction on U.S. 281.
- Goodnight lines of 600 people waiting for turkey legs at NIOSA every year.
- Goodnight families camping out in Brackenridge Park every Easter weekend.
- Goodnight grackles "painting" any car parked under a tree.
- Goodnight guys firing off their pistols in the night sky at the stroke of midnight every New Year's Eve.
- Goodnight packs of stray dogs.
- Goodnight being able to order Big Red with dinner without fear of ridicule.
- Goodnight lawn sprinklers that don't get used.
- Goodnight cold breakfast tacos at the Cowboy Breakfast.
- Goodnight 18-wheelers slicing across five lanes of Interstate 35 from Rittiman Road in a one-mile stretch while trying to make it onto Northeast Loop 410.
- Goodnight only people in America who have been to a Budgie concert.
- Goodnight 95 degree weather in mid-March.
- Goodnight Fiesta royalty wearing funny shoes under dresses that cost tens of thousands of dollars.
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