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Ever since I officially entered a relationship with Elaine on Facebook, I've gotten many in person and online questions of how I got a girlfriend. So since I'm such a private person I thought I'd write the story down. She doesn't remember it going quite the same way I did but of course that means she's wrong...
I've spent a whole lot of time and effort into being single. That's not entirely correct of course because there were people I went out with, some people would call that going on dates, others would call that dating, I fervently denied to anyone including and above all to myself. A messy end to a 10 year marriage left me gun shy. If there are places where my humor coping mechanism got me to avoid questions... that was it. People asked me if I was afraid of commitment so I'd wise crack with a simple answer, "No I'm not afraid of commitment, I'm just committed to being single." I'm not sure that I can make an argument why those girls were bad fits for me or good fits, possibility just was closed off and probably like anyone I've ever been attracted to, they could easily do better.
But anyone who knows me knows I'm not afraid of commitment, I'm afraid of breaking commitment. My divorce decree states that I'm against my divorce but that I respect people's right to walk away... It's a question of whether I'm stubborn, a man of my word, or just trying to always show my endurance that I stick with my commitments but I'd rather the motive be debated without the result ever falling into that.
How I ended up on a relationship on Facebook is actually a pretty simple story... in an age where many, myself included share probably a little too much on social media (I mean if so many of my friends care about my traffic situation or outfit every single day, we all probably need a bigger focus). But recently for no grand reason at all, like today on no particularly special date, I made a video of pictures Elaine and I had shared for the over a year we'd spent sharing adventure. Like sending someone flowers because it's Tuesday or accidentally wearing matching t-shirts, it was a moment that danced between being organic and being conscious and being affectionate... I'm too manly to be that sappy in person. Because she's more intelligent/introverted and doesn't share so much on social media (the girl bought a new car recently for crying out loud and told a few friends and her parents compared to me who you know thinks a car has cool license plates and wants Facebook likes over it), she heckled me asked when I was going to put that video up on Facebook and I joked that I would do so right after she put is on a relationship on it. That was over chat and a few minutes later, she had put us up and since this was unfamiliar territory for either of us we were not quite ready for the reaction it got... (I did put the video up on Facebook by the way but because of copyright music purposes it got taken down 30 seconds after I put it up).
But I digress, the question wasn't how it ended up social media but rather how I ended up getting a girlfriend. So back in April of 2015 when she and I were both dating other people I asked her to be my vice president as I started running for President of the Austin Runner's Club. She didn't quite understand why I'd be asking her, a 23 year old hardware engineer who had no event background to be 2nd in command and the race director for a club that was older than both of us. She accepted and we set on the adventure of taking the club to rhyme with the past while accommodating for the future. I would save her a spot at the Boston marathon bus and we'd sit pre-race and just chat. She'd hit her PR and made a joke about me in her race report which the coach would respond to that I was just trying to get myself on her radar. I was so hurt that he would disrespect me that way that it got me to make a couple of jokes out of it. She got a PR but I've still not received a thank you note that it was because she was bored enough on the bus to be able to sleep right before the race.
A couple of months later she would be turning 24 and invited a few of us to do a trail race to celebrate. It was a night trail race and with no spatial orientation, uneven footing, I was hesitant but I signed up just because if you celebrate your birthday by doing a race, how do you not say yes. It was my first trail race but I would sign up for the 10k with a few others while most were doing the 30k. Somehow the universe was kind enough to where I would win my first trail race. A while later, she came in and it was the first time ever she won a race taking the women's 30k title. I gave her medal and her trophy at the finish line because I'm a big fan of handing out happiness.
It was a series of races but I was at that time only doing the first one. She went back out to the second and between the two both of us had actually stopped dating other people. But at the second one someone who barely knew her came up and asked where her boyfriend was and she said, 'we broke up' but wondered how they knew about it to begin with since they'd never met him or had a conversation. At the 3rd race, where I was absent, someone came up and asked her where her husband was and when she replied she wasn't married she got the response that they thought the guy who handed her the medal and trophy was her husband. She laughed it off and would share the story with me and we'd chuckle together.
Two curious things had kept happening during that time because of our working together. The first was that she would watch the way I interacted with people more, in speeches, in one-on-one. She correctly diagnosed that I was somehow irreverent and reverent, that I'd sit there and make fun of people in a way while being completely serious, that I had a bluntness I hoped was effective even if uncouth. She said that the way I got along in the world was like watching a bumble bee fly; it didn't make sense that something could stay afloat so counterintuitively (even while were friends she was already calling me out for being fat). We were moving to tweaking some things at the Austin Runner's Club with some strong support and some opposition, minor but vocal for messing with somethings that had stood for longer than either of was old (and I have 11 years on her). It was and is still primarily working though it's ruffled some feather but somehow the bumble bee's wings are still there and I'm still hoping to get some things to bloom.
But the second thing was that while we were getting work done was often after workouts, chatting at one or the other's cars because there are conversations that are better in person than workout over long emails (or blogs for that matter). People kept asking if we were dating and we kept saying no because we weren't. It certainly wasn't on my radar because even with silly Jr High relationships and up (I didn't start any earlier than that) I had never sought to turn a friendship into a relationship other than friendship. Those type of relationships I was hitting on the girl on day one. In my book, if you didn't notice that immediate 'chemistry,' well they have a word for people who don't have type of chemistry, it's called friendship. We'd blow them off and get back to work talk.
At the very last race of the trail series, I would return with Kiana for her first 10k, her (and mine) first night race, her first trail race, her first time camping. We would get it done and we sat up by the camp fire till late making s'mores and not too late into the night, Elaine would come in and also win that race, another night 30k. After getting to bed, I woke up and Elaine was sitting outside the tents unable to go to sleep and we started chatting. Because our friends were camped all around us, I suggested we move a little further away not to wake anyone up and we sat and chatted as the sun was rising over a lake. My friend Chris came over and sat with us for a while and he would say, 'this is why everyone thinks you're dating.' A few moments after he walked away she turns to me to said in what I read as sarcasm, 'we should just go on a date and tell everyone it didn't work out so they stop bugging us.' I responded with a sarcasm of my own of 'oh are you asking me out' and she made it clear it would only be one date.
We'd go to a Russian restaurant she picked out that she'd never been to but had heard of; I was impressed she would do an adventure to a brand new place. I'd pick where we went and it was an improv festival because at that time and in college she had done improv; she was impressed I had thought of finding something so specific she was into. (By the way in case you're wondering when we saw the reaction that being in a relationship was getting to we couldn't figure out what date to set it to and it was decided to that first show).
Just by virtue of busy-ness and single parenthood and travel, our second date would not be for almost 2 months near the end of October when the James Bond movie came out. In my social media oversharing approach, and because this was the first time I was going to a Bond movie with a girl, I asked if this made her a bond girl on my Facebook status... and boy did I get lectured and reminded of what happens to most of the Bond girls. Somehow in Specter it works out that Bond's female companion Swann are still together at the end of the film. To this day, I still call her the Bond girl and I'm thankful for the different ways we've bonded... I own the song from Sam Smith there, Writing's on the Wall
I've been here before
But always hit the floor
I've spent a lifetime running
And I always get away
But with you I'm feeling something
That makes me want to stay
Perhaps there was something to be said for the song that headlined that movie.
I was heading to Brazil to head to Christmas that year to finally use my passport. I had invited a few friends and the Bond girl but somehow she was the only one available out of the ones who said they might be able to and if anyone thinks I wasn't like oh boy, all pressure with a girl you've only dated a short time to be taking her on both of your first international trip in a long long time... but it was a 'wonder'ful trip and seeing the statue of the Christ was nice too.
It would continue well. Despite all the races I've been fortunate enough to win, she was part of the weekend where I'd get my first breaking the tape moment at the Lucky Trail Marathon series. We'd win the half marathon relay together both wearing ARC shorts that might as well have said, do these make my butt look fast. People kept saying we looked good together but I think it was just the average of the two.
We kept working well together with ARC and each other and actually in all of those interactions there was never a backing each other up just because. There were times where we have disagreed and voted and both won and lost against what the other one was thinking. Some of those arguments ended with stating 'thank you for your opinion' when the tone really did have something else that ended in k and followed by you implied. Her retort to my humor was to say that the entire point of working with her was a 'long con.' The best wit I could reply was I'm a fan of being constructive, that's what con is short for there, right?
But despite races together, besides each other, where we were behind the scenes, I still had never to her, to me or to anyone called her my girlfriend. I'd made enough progress to where I'd at least acknowledge that I was dating her. What the distinction is between those is so clear that obviously I don't need to spell it out cause everyone knows (or I have no clue and can't possibly imagine being that creative). But last year when I got to be part of Coaches Vs Cancer at March Madness' Final Four, my teammates, some of the media as they interacted with her, Mike, a friend from Livestrong who was there, all without exception called me out on the fact that I wouldn't call her my girlfriend. I'm not a ceremonial guy which is why I've skipped the podium when placing and winning at races, I wanted to skip graduation even though he was the first in his family to get a degree. Because I'm not ceremonial or obviously official somehow since I was acknowledging or in my book getting a real girlfriend for the first time since high school, I actually sat her down and asked all cheesy like if she would be my girlfriend. She said yes and we celebrated with ice cream and donuts for dinner followed by wine then bourbon. That after all is what it means to be an adult.
Pick any aspect of our relationship before or since then and it's by no means conventional. This was the first relationship that grew out of friendship from me that came from working together and me doing an event I was afraid of. There are aspects of it like her sharing a story once about her grandmother's dementia that made me think she had the capacity to understand some of my approach to cancer but there's been moments where she's been there with me at the Livestrong challenge, at the Brain Power5k, at the UT medical school cancer institute kick off where she's seen and shared how comfortably uncomfortable I am being an advocate. I've joked in complete serious that she's the first girl to make it past 2 MRI' but at the last one she said she should actually come to the next one and the results. There was something really spicy in whatever we were eating that day. There's been times where she's had emotional days for various where I've been sympathetic and ones where I've shown zero sympathy because I say that there's a reason tears and anger are built into the system like pain during running, it almost always just shows your threshold but there's times its an indicator to stop or slow down and other times it's exactly how you build strength and one should avoid the avoidance not the pain. The imbalance of the fact that I come with so much baggage is something I'm not quite sure why she embraces but I am actually reconciled by a moment long before most people thought we were dating where at a house warming party a friend's roommate thought we must be together because of the way her and Kiana played games together since 'there was no way she'd spend time with or get along so well with my kid if we weren't together.'
A few months ago, literally a few months ago if how slowly I move towards relationship isn't evident, a conversation began about moving in together. For people who are old fashioned and traditional like say, my church members, my family and oh... me, this really is a step that should be reserved for marriage. We had conversations with friends and family about it and decided to move forward and she's moving in of all days on April 1st. There's been method decisions like she and Kiana went for their first run together ever recently (Kiana said she talks about more fun stuff than me). They are both children of immigrants (by the way because I have 11 years on her, there's been some heckling from long standing friend, 'well at least she's closer to your age than Kiana's' or 'oh so you never want to have a girlfriend than you find a cute 25 year old IBM engineer and suddenly you're open to a serious relationship.'). For Chinese New Year, they cooked together. There is an arguable defense that this step should be reserved for marriage and that this is a life of sin and well, I'm not going to argue much but just restated what I said to a church friend I thank God for this here life of sin.
I've started preparing for her moving in. I'm a pragmatic guy so that original just meant cleaning out the closet and garage, than it turned into building the closet to have more shelves and hanging space. The closet now has a barn door cause apparently my girlfriend is a hipster (she picked it out). That made me realize the hall closets needed some work which required new door knobs which should match others... This girl and I have been to 3 world wonders, to some great races but moving in we just realized that details matter even if almost no one is ever going to see them. I almost entitled this entry cleaning out my closet actually because of this but they weren't dirty, they just needed more room. I've done things like that in real life that were awkward but the right thing to do like tell Kiana, tell Kiana's mother and introduce Elaine and Kiana's mother officially. There is beauty in practically. The bumble bee's flight perhaps never quite makes sense but it's work amongst the flowers that makes life grow in a healthy direction.
You know I don't know what's next with us... never mind I do. We did both of our 1st race in 2017, I ran my first 8 mile run and she was out doing 16. We've won 3 relay races since then and we've both won other races and had other PR's since this all started. But somehow after the wine, cheese and chocolate celebration of us deciding to join places, it was the first joint race that night trail race, for both of us in a place and distance neither of us had ever run before.
She's moving in on April 1st but it's not a fool's errand. Between now and then we are headed to California where I went to college where I'll help with Huck Cancer. We are headed to Beaumont where I won the marathon and we're both doing the half marathon, a cycling time trial and a weight event. Elaine, Kiana and I are doing our first trip together to my last World Wonder and Kiana's first one, the Great Wall of China. Without exception on each of those trips we're all going to places one of the parties have been too but sometimes isn't a good relationship taking on new things together and other time getting acquainted with each other's previous life?
Just to not mess with karma to celebrate it I also took her to the same place we went on that first date, the Paramount Theater. But I also dreamed forward and we have medical appointments, social and races on each other's calendars as far down as October, well past the next MRI. I honestly don't quite know how this work, Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. So we will too... if you've gotten this far in reading about it you're probably much too nosy or like me a hopeful romantic... If that's the case and you want to watch the video that got all this moving on social media and this blog, check our our video here. So yeah I have a girlfriend and this bee has fallen under her spell but what do you know, it's up that I fell...
An Incredibly Raw and Uncensored Blog of how a Guy copes and hopes with brain cancer and life changes.
Monday, February 6, 2017
Fly like a bumble bee
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WOO!!! Lucky to find, and be found by, a person who makes you happy! Congratulations to you both and Kiana!!ReplyDelete
- Jocolby PhillipsFebruary 6, 2017 at 4:04 PM
I wish you nothing but happiness. One of life's greatest beauty's is to share it with someone special. God bless.ReplyDelete
Aw <3 congrats! Happy for all three of you!!ReplyDelete
Sending you much love, Iram. I hope to meet Elaine soon! I will be permanently in Tampa as of June 1 if you three can visit. We're close to some really beautiful beaches and I'll cook for you. Please plan a trip to see us! ~SusanReplyDelete
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The Maryland Appeals Court has stepped in to halt the trial against Officer Caesar Goodson on the day jury selection was scheduled to begin. In an earlier appellate court ruling the forced testimony of accused police officer William Porter was blocked. The State's cases are falling apart due to inept legal application and ideological motives to prosecute.
Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby is now claiming without Porter's testimony her cases against both Caesar Goodson and Alicia White will not stand:
[…] not being able to call Porter as a witness would "result in irreparable harm to the People of Maryland by effectively gutting their government's prosecution" of two of the officers. (link)
On its face this is an absolutely absurd position.
The case against William Porter ended in a mistrial, but even if the case against Porter had resulted in a successful conviction – Porter would still have the ability to evoke his fifth amendment right not to testify while his appeal was outstanding. Mosby should have never even contemplated the ability to use Porter as a witness against any officer.
Marilyn Mosby and the Baltimore prosecutors office are so blinded by politics they are showing a complete disconnect from law and/or the ability to legally prosecute their case.
Readers might remember the trial of George Zimmerman, a case with significant legal parallels to the malicious Baltimore Six prosecution in Baltimore. Zimmerman's defense team won three easy appeals court decisions against rulings of Orlando Judge Debra Nelson during trial. In addition there were at least two more easy-to-win appeals the defense never even filed because the prosecution case simply collapsed.
In the 2013 Zimmerman trial, similar to Baltimore Judge Barry Williams, Judge Nelson became ideologically disconnected from legal forethought. Nelson even demanded in open court, during the trial -before the prosecution team had finished their presentation- that George Zimmerman go on record publicly stating if he was going to take the stand in his own defense. Any appeals court in the country would have thrown out any subsequent negative outcome and allowed a retrial, on that basis alone.
This is what happens when severely malicious political prosecutions need to be propped up by sympathetic (to the prosecution) and activist judges.
Back to Baltimore – Last week Judge Barry Williams mandated that Officer William Porter, who has a re-trail date pending in July, forcibly testify against the other officers. Essentially denying Porter his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. This outlandish judicial ruling is what the Maryland appellate court immediately blocked.
Judge Williams was conducting his court in a similar fashion to Judge Nelson in Florida. Both activist judges trying to save the fraudulent prosecutorial cases against the accused, and bail out the states' weak case and lack of legal reasoning.
Yesterday, just before jury selection was set to begin, the Maryland appeals court, obviously understanding the snowball effect of what was happening, blocked the trial of Goodson from continuing.
By the time Mosby presented her own request to delay the trial, because she now views the case as impossible to continue without Porter's testimony, the entire issue became moot; recognized as such by Judge Barry Williams.
This halt effectively stops all prosecutions from going forward until the underlying legal issues surrounding Porter's constitutional rights are clarified. This process will likely take several months; and as Mosby has now admitted – if the state loses their appeal, they will simultaneously lose the case(s) against Officer Goodson and Officer White.
In short, without Porter, the state is claiming the entire construct of their prosecution map collapses. Millions spent, tens of thousands of legal hours wasted, multiple court dockets for other cases delayed, and for what? Nothing.
This is exactly what happens when political cases run into the rules of the judiciary.
[…] Prosecutors and the officers' defense attorneys are forbidden from discussing the case because of a gag order imposed by Williams.
Williams — who is presiding over the trials of all six officers — briefly took the bench Monday morning to note the stay by the appeals court and to place Goodson's trial in recess.
Williams noted the prosecution's request for a continuance but said that the request was "moot," given the stay ordered by the appeals court. Goodson's attorneys had objected to a continuance, asking for his trial to go forward this week, Williams said. (link)
*Note* The cases against officers' Rice, Nero and Miller are even weaker.

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In 2003, Israeli director Eytan Fox caused a stir with his military romance "Yossi and Jagger." The film's emotionally generous story of a clandestine love affair between two gay combat soldiers, one dashing and daring, one shy and introverted, stirred controversy in some quarters of Israeli society.
Ten years on, Fox returns to the surviving character of that piece, finding Yossi a decade older, sadder and deeper in the closet. Now he's Dr. Gutman, a Tel Aviv cardiologist woefully out of sync with his own heart. Still mourning the death of his beloved Jagger in a futile skirmish, Yossi has retreated into a joyless routine of work, sleep, greasy takeout Chinese dinners and laptop porn. He desperately needs to leave his shell, but he's spiritually paralyzed, marinating in misery as he listens to Mahler and reads "Death in Venice."
Ohad Knoller plays the depressive hero wonderfully, with doleful eyes and a slumping posture. Appearing in virtually every shot, he capably carries the film. He makes Yossi not simply a concept but a convincing human being. He keeps our sympathy even as he tests our patience. An accomplished minimalist, he can convey volumes with a fleeting smile or a half-beat hesitation.
Yossi is so private that a lonely female nurse has developed a crush on him, while a brash, newly divorced colleague (Lior Ashkenazi) arm-twists him into visiting a pickup club to celebrate. In each case the outcome is awkward in the extreme.
Think things can't get worse? An online hookup with a sleek, egocentric studmuffin ends with the man castigating Yossi for posting a younger, slimmer photo of himself. And a chance meeting with Jagger's mother at the hospital leads Yossi to reveal his relationship to Jagger's parents. Their uncomprehending surprise is a sort of last straw for Yossi, who heads to a resort for a long-deferred vacation.
En route he picks up four hitchhiking soldiers, one of whom (model-handsome Oz Zehavi) eyes him flirtatiously in the rear-view mirror. The carefree gay soldier's fellow recruits don't pay much attention to his sexuality: Israeli society has evolved, though Yossi hasn't. It seems Yossi's luck might change, if only he would let it.
The film's pacing sputters as Fox drags Yossi through dreary scenes of self-denying repression. Even when the dishy serviceman makes his intentions clear, Yossi drags his feet. When our hangdog hero finally makes his breakthrough, he emerges with stars in his eyes, expecting to settle into an unrealistic new fantasy life of sun, surf and sensuality.
On the surface it's a leave-'em-smiling happy ending. It doesn't take a heart specialist to wonder — a week, a month, a year beyond this blissful morning after, will Yossi's personal demons have the best of him once again?


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dont't we need a menu-ui.xml aditionally to base.xml? --Managementboy 13:39, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
- This documentation isn't done. That's not the only required file that hasn't been documented yet. Iamlindoro 15:52, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Missing documentation
What are and how to use:
- Textarea: draworder
- Draworder is not used in MythUI. Order is defined by definition order of widgets in the XML. Iamlindoro 15:52, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
- What are all the possible Mythfilled text types, aside from title, subtitle
- There are hundreds of these. As mentioned on this page, the name attributes are set by the code of the screen you're on. As you will see in each xml file's documentation, the filled text areas, images, etc. are documented. Iamlindoro 15:52, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
- I think I did not write my question correctly. Each screen has a bunch of data that could be displayed, like the title, subtitle, screen shot, description, date, time and I guess a lot more. I tried looking for a comprehensive list of what "variables" each screen provides, but did not find them. I think it would be really helpful to document these here, lets say each screen with a title and a brief description of what can be done there and what variables should be used. I'll help doing it. I also found out yesterday that one can "fuse" the variables by writing them together into the XML tag, like "titlesubtitle" will then be "LOST - Episode 1" (I used the common Wikipedia formatting, hope you don't mind) --Managementboy 07:54, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
- <position>60,y</position>, what does the "y" stand for (or is it just an unfinished theme? or is it a flexible thing?)?
- <value>%|"SUBTITLE|"% %STARS% %DESCRIPTION%</value> : Can I use these variables in any textarea, or just in one with the name "description"? I assume that | means that " will be printed not parsed? Are there more variables that can be used setting the percent sign?
- Inheritance: what xml files get loaded in what order? This boggled my mind yesterday until I realized, that base.xml would be first, therefore recordings-ui.xml would inherit everything from it. right?
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Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 3:33 PM
Subject: Book of Mormon Tucson Auditions
THE BOOK OF MORMON will be coming to Tucson to hold auditions January 13th by appointment only. We are looking to build our files for future replacements for all three companies (Broadway, 1st National Tour, Jumamosi Tour) for the roles of ARNOLD CUNNINGHAM, KEVIN PRICE, NABALUGI and ELDER MCKINLEY etc. (See role descriptions below.)
Anyone interested in auditioning for any or all of these companies should submit a picture and resume and any additional materials to firstname.lastname@example.com by 5PM Saturday, January 12th 2012. Please make sure you put the City Name of the audition in the subject line. Due to the amount of emails we receive, we may not be able to respond to every submission. Please note that submitting does not guarantee an appointment. Both Union and Non-Union should submit.
Producer: Anne Garefino & Scott Rudin
Director: Trey Parker & Casey Nicholaw
Book, Music & Lyrics: Robert Lopez, Matt Stone & Trey Parker
Music Supervisor: Stephen Oremus
Choreographer: Casey Nicholaw
Tucson Casting Director: Jeremy Rich
Casting Director: Carrie Gardner
ARNOLD CUNNINGHAM (Early 20's-Late 20's to play 18): Caucasian. Seeking a true character actor. Must be a physical contrast to the other good looking, All-American Mormons. Dweeby, dorky, nerdy, overweight, or all four combined. Arnold is a pathological liar but his heart is in the right place. He is a total screw-up but not for lack of trying, he always wants to do the right thing. Must be fantastic comedic actor who sings well. Tenor. We are also particularly interested in comics who sing.
KEVIN PRICE (Early 20's-Late 20's to play 18): Caucasian. All-American. Very handsome. Head of the class, always optimistic. Heroic Mormon. Must be a great comedic actor and a fantastic pop-rock high tenor to a B. Should be at least 5'10 or taller.
NABALUNGI (18- Late 20's to play 20): Black African. Pretty. Takes the hardships of her village very seriously and wants to help her people find a better life. Must have great comic timing. Strong Alto. Belt to an E.
ELDER MCKINLEY (early 20's to late 20's to play 18): Caucasian. District leader of the Mormon missionaries in Uganda. All- American, wide-eyed and hopeful. Often struggles to cover his flamboyant tendencies and adhere to his Mormon morals. Must be a fantastic comedic actor and great singer. High Baritone who can pop out high Bb's for comedic effect.
[MAFALA HATIMBI] (40's): Black African. Father of Nabalungi. Has come to accept the hardships in the village where they live but is a discerning community leader and tries to bring joy to their lives. Must be a great comedic actor and singer. Also interested in actors who sing.
PRICE'S DAD/MISSION PRESIDENT/VARIOUS ROLES) (40's): Caucasian. All-American good looks and physique. Plays several parts from the perfect picture of a head of a Mormon household, to the stern missionary president, to Joseph Smith, so must have the ability to be transformative. Must be a great comedic actor and good singer. High Baritone to an Ab.
[GENERAL] (Late 20's to Late 30's): Black African. The general is a warlord in Uganda who is terrorizing the local villagers. A physically threatening and intimidating figure who is a great comedic actor and singer. Baritone to an F.
[FEMALE AFRICAN VILLAGERS] Late 20's to late 30's. Black African. Seeking great comedic actresses with excellent singing voices. Seeking Altos, Gospel Sopranos and Gospel Belters of all physical types.
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Jerry Patterson: Alamo gun rally about basic freedoms
The last time hundreds of Texans showed up at the Alamo with rifles, they were hailed as heroes in their stand against a tyrannical government.
Texas — and Texans — have changed a lot since then. But the fundamental, constitutional right to keep and bear arms has not.
The main goal of Saturday's rally at the Alamo is simple: The peaceful exercise of a right we fear losing. It is legal, after all, to carry a long gun in Texas. Despite that fact, there are those who would claim otherwise under color of law. Saturday's demonstration is expression of that right, plain and simple.
It should be noted, San Antonio's City Council has declared it will not enforce the city's unconstitutional ordinance prohibiting any person other than police or security officers from carrying a firearm within the city limits at a public event. They know they would lose any challenge to an arrest made under such city ordinance in a court of law.
So in that respect, this Second Amendment exercise has already been successful.
But a more subtle goal of Saturday's gathering is one that has largely been lost in the media hype surrounding it, and that is the effect such a rally might have to help normalize the sight of an armed citizen.
The fact that many Texans feel comfortable with only police carrying guns isn't normal, historically speaking. Armed citizens shouldn't be alarming in a free society.
It wasn't always so. I can remember bringing an old Civil War-era muzzle-loader I had gotten for Christmas to Hartman Junior High School in Houston for show and tell. Instead of causing a lockdown and a SWAT response, it elicited the oohs and aahs of other kids who got an impromptu lesson in gun safety and history. Nothing, in my opinion, could be more normal than that.
By agreeing to speak to this rally at the Alamo, I am doing what I think is best to ease the fear that has gripped our state and our nation when it comes to guns. Texans — and Americans in general — shouldn't be defined by our fears but by our freedoms. We are stronger than that.


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Boehner's Big Gift to Obama
The House GOP's misplay on the payroll tax may cost Speaker John Boehner his job -- and help preserve the president's.
President Obama must have been a very good boy this year. How else to explain the huge present Santa Boehner left under the White House Christmas tree?
The House speaker's decision to block a temporary extension of the payroll tax break and then reverse himself days later will go down as the biggest misplay of the 2012 election cycle. Even with Boehner's reversal in the face of pressure from senators and others in his own party, Obama and his fellow Democrats have a major club with which to play Whack-an-Elephant from now until next November.
Who would have imagined that the party that wouldn't bend when it came to allowing the payroll tax cut to expire for those earning $1 million as part of a deficit cutting proposal would initially decide to allow the tax cut to expire for everyone? Not even Democrats, if writing a dream scenario, would have dared to imagine something so bold, especially after 89 senators -- including 39 Republicans -- voted for the extension.
How special is the gift Boehner and the House Republican caucus gave to Obama? The Wall Street Journal, no fan of Obama's on its conservative-tilting editorial page, warned the other day that Boehner's stand "might end up reelecting the president before the 2012 campaign begins in earnest."
Even now that Boehner has come to his senses and ordered his troops to support extending the tax break, the political damage is done.
Suddenly, it's not such a slam dunk for Republicans to win control of the Senate, and it just became more difficult for Republican House members to make a case for reelection, giving Democrats something few independent observers thought they had a reasonable shot at: winning back control of the House.
There's still time for most Republicans to recover, and plenty of time for Democrats to make missteps of their own to soften the sting of Boehner's handling of the tax matter.
But for one Republican -- Boehner -- the wound may prove to be mortal. He's been struggling all year to tamp down a civil war between the GOP's tea party and establishment wings. If he stood firm and allowed the payroll tax for Social Security to revert to 6.2% from 4.2%, he stood to lose the backing of many rank-and-file Republicans in the 2013 leadership elections -- provided, of course, that the GOP could win enough seats to stay in power. But by switching course and allowing the House to go along with extending the tax break, he is bound to tick off some of the tea partyers, whose votes he needs to win another term as speaker.
Bottom line: Don't be surprised if Boehner is a one-term House speaker and Obama is a two-term president. That's quite a turnabout from the earlier picture of 2012 that many folks were glimpsing from afar. It was, it seemed, the Republicans' race to lose. With Boehner's help, they just might manage that.
Boehner can still save his party.
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Daring Bakers: Candylicious Candyland!
Be sure to check out the link for Lisa above as she shows step by step how to make Hot Air (sponge candy) and how hers turned out and mine did not. It's interesting to see the differences.
I was so excited to find out that we were going to be making candy! We needed to create two forms of candy and one had to involve the tempering of chocolate. I have experience tempering as I make chocolate peanut butter buck eyes each Christmas that this family goes crazy over.
As a rather snobbish chocolate consumer I have only found a few truffles that I care for. I always claimed Godiva was my favorite, and yes, I still like Godiva, but with shopping over the internet I can find truffles all over the world and Godiva is no longer my number one.
I have never created a truffle so I was very excited to give it a whirl. Troy likes white chocolate (gag me). Each Valentines Day or Easter I buy a few pounds of Godiva White for him. He doesn't have to worry about me snatching any pieces from his stash!
I decided to try a combination of three different truffles: a white chocolate truffle using white ganache with white chocolate tempered coating, white chocolate ganache with milk chocolate tempered coating and semi sweet chocolate ganache with a dark chocolate tempered covering. Oh yeah.
They aren't beautiful, they aren't even perfectly round..I used a melon baller to scoop the ganache when firm, then rolled into the tempered chocolate to cover. In my next batch I'll add vanilla, maybe hazelnut praline, cinnamon. I used Guittard chocolate and it worked quite well. It doesn't hold a candle to the Belgian chocolate I can order, however.
For my second candy I tried what Canelakes of Virginia, MN (where I grew up) calls Hot Air. This is a boiling mass of sugar, corn syrup and water. After boiling for 10 minutes I removed it from the burner and added vinegar and baking soda for a volcanic effect! The mass created huge air bubbles which I poured into a baking sheet. After it hardened I broke it up to serve. This wasn't so great. It wasn't 'airy' enough and it was very crunchy. We ended up crushing it and using it for an ice cream dessert topping.
I really enjoyed this challenge. I will be making truffles quite frequently now. The combination of chocolates and additional flavorings is just endless. I have some chocolate in transit and can't wait to use it! Steve thought I should try a key lime ganache with bittersweet covering. I just might do it :)
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- SteveQ said...
I know Canelakes! Must be third generation by now - one of the last true candy shops up north.
Wish I'd known of the competition earlier; candymaking is my speciality.
- SteveQ said...
Julie, where'd you get the recipe for Hot Air? I found only one on the internet, which I think I could markedly improve. Texture is everything in candymaking and sometimes it takes a lot of trial and error to get it right.
- Julie B said...
Hey Steve, this is the recipe from Cushing's. Some said there was too much baking soda and it should have been cut in 1/2.
Sponge Candy (also called Honeycomb or Sea Foam candy)
Adapted from Christine Cushing's Sponge Toffee Recipe
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Pieces of the sponge candy / honeycomb dipped into tempered dark chocolate and the end result
2½ cups (20oz/560gm) Granulated White Sugar
2/3 cup (160 ml) Light corn syrup
6 tablespoons (90 ml) Water
1 tablespoon (0.5 oz/ 15g) Baking Soda
2 teaspoons (10 ml) Vanilla extract
Vegetable oil for greasing pan
1. Liberally grease a 10-inch round spring form cake pan with vegetable oil. Trace the bottom of the pan on a piece of parchment paper. Line the bottom of the pan with the parchment paper circle. Line the sides of the pan with a parchment paper so that the parchment paper creates a collar that sits 1 to 2-inches above the pan. Liberally grease the parchment paper.
2. In a deep medium saucepan add sugar, corn syrup, water, and vanilla. Over medium-high heat bring the mixture to a boil (without stirring) and cook until hard crack stage, i.e. until temperature reads 285°F / 140°C on a candy thermometer (if using light corn syrup, it will be light amber, if using dark corn syrup it will be the color of maple syrup). This should take about 10 minutes. If sugar crystals form on the sides of the pan during the cooking process, brush the sides of the pan with a clean pastry brush dipped in water.
3. Remove from heat. Working quickly, add the baking soda and quickly blend to incorporate the soda into the sugar mixture, about 5 seconds. The mixture will bubble up when you add the baking soda. Be very careful not to touch the hot mixture.
4. Immediately pour the hot toffee into the prepared pan. Let set completely before touching. Cut into pieces. It makes a huge mess. But the messy little crumbs can be saved to top ice cream. Leave candy as is and enjoy, or dip pieces in tempered chocolate and let set.
- SteveQ said...
I went to the trouble of formulating my own recipe, then found one almost identical to it:
The only change I make from hers is to line my baking dish with lightly buttered aluminum foil.
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Actually, I tell a lie. I once lost ALL my data. I was recklessly drinking some Becks beer while doing some file management and somehow managed to delete everything from a drive that didn't have the trash can activated. Thirty rather desperate (and suddenly sober) minutes later, I'd downloaded a good undelete utility and recovered it all. Phew.
Apart from that however, I've been something of a back-up freak over the years. It started when I got into home music production. All those hours of recording, arranging, mixing… to lose it all would have been devastating. This brings into sharp relief what we mean about the value of data. Sure, it has business value when you make it work for you. But it can also have immense personal value.
But as our data grows, and becomes more sensitive, backing up becomes more onerous. You forget. You can't be bothered. You get out of the habit. You need a 1TB hard drive to back up a 1TB hard drive. You need secure, off-site storage – and when you're working freelance from home, you might not have ready access to a nice, locked drawer somewhere else. And the more human intervention comes in, the more likely you are to screw it up. One day you will back up the wrong way, from the backup to the live. Or, your backup drive will corrupt and you'll only find out when you really need it. I shudder to think…
Enter cloud storage. Now, I can just hear the stifled laughter. You're thinking "Why is Brendan talking about cloud storage so late in the day? It's been around for ages." This is true enough and I suppose I'm a relatively late convert. But you never know, someone might be looking around for opinions on this, and if they find mine, then I'm telling them: go for it. In fact, if you're looking around for opinions on this, and you just found me, then I'm telling you: go for it.
Cloud storage is brilliant. I never realised how brilliant until I really started using it. Now, whenever I save a file, and that cute little icon on the systray spins around, I know that I'll never lose it, that in fact I can go back to a previous version if I need to, and that I can access it from any of my machines, anywhere in the world (mostly). And I don't have to do a single thing. In fact, I don't even have to spend one Bitcoin on it. It's free. This is absurdly amazing. If it didn't exist, someone would have to invent it. Which they already have, of course.
But cloud storage also opens up creative possibilities. For example, I've developed my own social media monitoring system, called 'Bob' until I think of a better name (although I'm starting to like it). Bob downloads data, aggregates it, cleans it, and then presents it in ways that I – and my clients – find useful. Where does Bob download the data? To cloud storage, of course. This means that I can query Bob at home, or in the client offices. It doesn't matter. It's entirely transparent to Bob. If I ever licensed Bob, I could have clients each with their own private cloud storage, all feeding data into their version of Bob. Marvellous.
Another possibility: your own personal music library. If you can get enough storage (or don't have too many songs), then just port it all across to a cloud drive and you can access that from any machine, anywhere, and you'll never need to back it up again.
Cloud storage is also a hugely useful facilitator for collaboration. I run the social media and programme editorial for the Kop Hill Climb, now a major international automotive event in Princes Risborough, Bucks. The entire organisational crew, comprising well over 20 people, uses cloud storage to share and store files. And, as Kop Hill Climb is a charity, generating around £50,000 each year to local causes, the fact that this storage is free is a welcome bonus.
So there you go. Cloud storage. It's ace. There are plenty of articles out there detailing the various offerings available so I won't bore you with the details, go and have a look (the PC Advisor cloud storage review seems comprehensive and up to date at the time of writing).
But if you really want to know, this is how I'm using it (note that I'm using several services because that means I get them for free within their storage limits because I'm a cheapskate):
- Microsoft OneDrive – for my personal work. I use this simply because it's baked into my Windows 8 installation. It seems a bit slow to upload but apart from that it chugs away nicely in the background.
- Dropbox – for Kop Hill, and for one client, because they both use it. I find Dropbox rock-solid, but it doesn't cope with concurrency very well (that is, when two people are accessing the same file). This can result in lost work or duplicate files, so watch out for that.
- Google Drive – for another client, again simply because they use it. Honestly? Don't touch it with a barge pole. I've had serious issues with Google Drive not syncing, resulting in lost productivity trying to figure out what the latest versions of files are. Really. Don't go there. Unless something radical has changed, this is, in my opinion and experience, not fit for purpose. Sorry Google.
- Mega – to store all my music, because you get a wopping 50GB free. OK, so it's run by Kim Dotcom. OK, so he's a controversial figure to some. But in a strange way I trust him more than I trust the likes of Google and Microsoft. At least there is a spotlight on him. And it just works.
I've also dabbled with Amazon Cloud but I found that a bit clunky. Just my own take on it.
There are other services too, so check them out as per that article. This just works for me. Between them, OneDrive and Mega ensure that when I save stuff, it remains saved. And, so long as I have strong passwords that I change, it remains safe too. Meanwhile Dropbox and Google Drive enable me to work with other people, albeit with more than a little frustration from Google Drive.
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Contact: Library of Congress contacts: Erin Allen (202) 707-7302, Joanne Rasi (202) 707-1733 | StoryCorps contact: Diana Velez-Griffen, 646-723-7020 x 65
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress will be of the repository for personal interviews with Latino Americans from across the United States as StoryCorps launches its "Historias" mobile booth. These contemporary personal narrative recordings of Latinos and Latinas—along with related manuscripts and photographs—will complement other Hispanic and Latin-American collections at the center such as the Juan B. Rael Collection, which includes recordings of Spanish-language folksongs and dramas; the California Gold collection, which contains Spanish-language songs and speech; and the Alan Lomax collection, which contains Spanish-language materials recorded in Spain and the Caribbean.
The national launch of StoryCorps Historias will be held on Thursday, Sept. 24, from 10 - 11 a.m., at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. Guest speakers will include members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, The United Farm Workers of America, The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
StoryCorps Historias aims to deliver to the Library the largest collection of Latino voices ever gathered. This project is made possible by funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and partnership with the Latino Public Radio Consortium, Latino USA, the U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project, and other historical and cultural institutions and membership organizations.
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The StoryCorps Collection at the American Folklife Center currently contains more than 20,000 interviews; another 7,000 have been recorded and await delivery to the center. "Historias," which means both "stories" and "histories" in Spanish, will deliver the StoryCorps experience to Latino communities, will honor these culturally significant voices and ensure that they are preserved for generations to come.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Nightmares of a six foot turkey
More than this, turkeys - being very familiar and common domestic birds (I'm referring to Meleagris gallopavo here) - are excellent for education. Tom Holtz wrote a superb guest post for Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings back in 2009, which included a handy diagram illustrating the dinosaurian traits of a turkey's skeleton. In addition, their often quite grotesque and fantastical facial protuberances (which Darren Naish has blogged about before) are a perfect demonstration of how sexual selection can produce some truly bizarre results, and also how a living animal can look very different from what its skeleton might imply. While pointing out how this can be applied to palaeoart is not remotely new (SV-POW did it ages ago, for example, and one can point to a lot of Luis Rey's work), there's no harm in delivering a timely reminder now and then.
Really, though, this whole post was just an excuse to publish photos of some freaky freaky turkeys. And here they are. These specimens are to be found roaming free in Tilgate Park Nature Centre. Enjoy! And try not to picture a man-sized turkey waving its gigantic snood in your face. It'll give you nightmares.
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The Turkey's reputation suffers due to the fact that most people only think of the domesticated version - the one so altered by selective breeding that it can no longer fly, or even mate due to the excessively oversized breast.ReplyDelete
Watching the flocks of two-dozen or so wild turkeys that wander across my back yard during the winter, I get a very different impression. They are big enough, and in a large enough flock, to handle anything small, and they can fly well enough to avoid anything large that comes along. The flock stays alert for ambushes. And watching the alpha male rear back, flap his wings, and assert himself is like peering back into the Mesozoic era.
Totally agree, Scott! I absolutely love chancing upon a flock of wild turkeys on misty mornings here.ReplyDelete
Also, for those who haven't seen it, Trish Arnold's got a piece in the new Art Evolved gallery that makes this same point. http://blogevolved.blogspot.com/2012/02/feathered-dinosaur-gallery.html
I'm surprised you didn't mention "My Life As A Turkey", especially given Trish Arnold's recent blog post ( http://babbletrish.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-life-as-turkey-sketches.html ). I wasn't expecting a doc about gallinaceous birds to be especially interesting, but it was. When learning about wild turkey ecology, I couldn't help but feel like I was watching primitive maniraptors (Maybe Avimimus?). Besides that, I got attached to Hutto's turkeys & felt for Hutto when he lost them 1 way or another.ReplyDelete
Marc probably hasn't seen it yet, since PBS doesn't make it available in the UK.ReplyDeleteReplies
I haven't seen it yet, no. Slipped under my radar (doesn't help that it's an American show).Delete
Aside from that great "My Life as a Turkey" Nature episode, I highly recommend the 2011 "Poultry Slam" from NPR's This American Life. It includes the most hard-to-believe, badass turkey story I've ever heard, complete with interviews from the very people who were terrorized by this turkey! Hopefully this link will work for everyone:ReplyDelete
My dad raised gamecocks because they are beautiful. Mean bastards, but very beautiful. They aren't much like chickens. Gamecocks (and gamehens too for that matter) aren't flock birds. They are VERY territorial and will do their very best to kill ANYTHING that intrudes on their territory. Size doen't intimidate them. When they would escape, they would terrorise the neighbors. They have quite a set of spurs and would tear your pants apart and leave bloody wounds on your legs.ReplyDelete
I still (I'm over 50) have nightmares about those roosters chasing me. It got so bad that I kept a hotshot (cattle prod) by the door when I went out just in case the gamecocks had escaped.
Complete tangent, but when you mentioned birds with better public image, it just occurred to me: has anyone attempted a restoration of a theropod with Bald Eagle colouring? 'Cause there's no way anyone would diss a Bald Tyrannosaurus or Bald Raptor. That would be UN-AMERICAN.ReplyDeleteReplies
There is this Deinonychus by Nobu Tamura: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deinonychus_BW-2.pngDelete


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I've been meaning to participate in Rebecca Foster's (Bookish Beck) Library Checkout meme for a couple of months now and I finally remembered and got my act together enough to put together a post before the end of the month! Yes! She's skipping this month due to travels but if you've never checked out her blog before please do so for some insightful and varied reviews (such a voracious reader.) Note: I'm only highlighting books checked out for me in this post. At any given time I have about 15 books checked out for my son in various states of being read!
- The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths (Ruth Galloway mystery #2) ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
- The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
- Just Cook It!: 145 Built-to-be-Easy Recipes That Are Totally Delicious by Justin Chapple
- The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson (I'm about 70 pages from finishing – boy, it's nuts!)
- The Book of Self-Care: Remedies For Healing Mind, Body, and Soul by Mary Beth Janssen (I'm pretty much skimming this one too.)
- An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
- The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael Twitty
- Shadowhouse Fall by Daniel Jodie Older (Shadowshaper series #2)
- Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
- There There by Tommy Orange
- Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer
- The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life And Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
- The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
- The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
- Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce
RETURNED UNREAD: None.
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For much of the past decade, the Iranian government has tolerated what it considers a particularly depraved and un-Islamic vice: the keeping of pet dogs.
During periodic crackdowns, police have confiscated dogs from their owners right off the street; and state media has lectured Iranians on the diseases spread by canines. The cleric Gholamreza Hassani, from the city of Urmia, has been satirized for his sermons railing against "short-legged" and "holdable" dogs. But as with the policing of many other practices (like imbibing alcoholic drinks) that are deemed impure by the mullahs but perfectly fine to many Iranians, the state has eventually relaxed and let dog lovers be.
Those days of tacit acceptance may soon be over, however. Lawmakers in Tehran have recently proposed a bill in parliament that would criminalize dog ownership, formally enshrining its punishment within the country's Islamic penal code.
It reminds me of the Xian hatred of cats, because many ancient religions worshiped cats. And they paid the price for it too, when scores of them died of the plague spread by rats which they would not have had nearly as many of if they hadn't slaughtered all the cats for being Satanic. You never know when a dog (or a cat) might come in handy.
How much do you want to bet Xians will be more up in arms about this than the mistreatment of women?
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In early ages, 79 A.D August 24 was not just another day for the earth. Something was happening inside the earth. The people of Pompeii had been busy with their usual day to day work. Suddenly the Mount Vesuvius was erupted. People cannot change the nature; they all were looking the sky to see the ashes because of the eruption.
City of Herculaneum was the best motel in Italy at that time. The lava of the volcano took few seconds to shut the city of Herculaneum. Pompeii is the nearest city of Herculaneum, after the Herculaneum the Lava flows to Pompeii with a few seconds of time. That was the end of Pompeii. The people try to run as fast as they can, but the Lava flows throughout the city of a speed of 50-100 MPH. The city covered from the ashes and the sun goes down for Pompeii for a few days. The death count was some thousand.
This city was shut from human another 700 years of time after the eruption. After 700 years an Engineer found a part of building in Pompeii then the Pompeii city becomes wide open to the world. In 1860 the regeneration process of Pompeii speeded rapidly and now the city became a museum for people. The city is still alive; Pompeii statue people do their day to day work.
I think he prays to God.
The sleeping people or the people in prison.
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University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), a national organization comprised of most of the nation's leading academic medical centers, has ranked Emory University Hospital (which includes Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital) eighth in the nation in the 2014 UHC Quality Leadership Awards. This is the fourth consecutive year that Emory University Hospital has ranked in the top 10 for demonstrating superior performance in delivering high-quality care and safety excellence.
Emory University Hospital Midtown, which is Emory Healthcare's second academic and eligible hospital, ranked in the top quartile as 22nd nationally.
The Quality Leadership Award honors top performers in UHC's Quality and Accountability Study, which ranks performance in the areas of: mortality, effectiveness, safety, equity, patient centeredness and efficiency. These rankings are the most rigorous in health care and look at how major teaching hospitals are doing in multiple dimensions of quality and safety. They are traditionally looked upon as providing the best, most non-biased national quality measurement system available for teaching hospitals.
Since 2006, we have been on a journey to have our two academic hospitals – Emory University Hospital and Emory University Hospital Midtown – rank highly by the UHC. In 2012, we met our goal as Emory University Hospital ranked number two and Emory University Hospital Midtown ranked number six. We have made outstanding progress, and ranked 2nd and 3rd last year. "We are proud of our successes, as our number one priority at Emory Healthcare is to provide safe, high-quality care for our patients," said John Fox, president and CEO of Emory Healthcare.
A top ranking by UHC means more than just great care. Since UHC ranks only academic medical centers that typically treat America's sickest, most complex patient cases, and a disproportionate number of patients who are uninsured, underinsured or indigent, ranking highly on the list of the 101 participants reflects the ultimate assessment of organizational performance in setting the standard in quality and safety.


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It is often said computers have a language all their own, with computer programmers being the interpreters for people. Students working towards their Computer Programming Specialist certification will learn the language of computers to better help an organization reach their customers. Computer programmers also write the language that creates a mobile application. More and more businesses are using mobile apps to not only get their message out but to also allow customers to purchase their products.
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1. An application including the student's certification that the student will not unlawfully possess, use, sell, purchase, manufacture, deliver or possess with the intent to sell, purchase, manufacture, or deliver any controlled substance while enrolled at St. Petersburg College.
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FAIRFIELD -- Julie Chu was becoming a blip on the women's hockey radar screen in the early days of 1998 when her father made an unusual promise.
"If you ever make the Olympic team," Wah Chu said, "I'll get a tattoo on my arm."
Julie was practically speechless.
"I looked at him like he was crazy," she said. "This is the same guy who said that we could never get tattoos in the first place and he's saying he'd get a tattoo."
Chu was just beginning a stellar career with Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford and had already won three USA Hockey Girls' National Championships with the Connecticut Polar Bears. Within a year, she would be playing with the USA National Under-22 team, and a year after that, she would win a silver medal in her first Four Nations Cup tournament.
Suddenly, Chu's dream of making the Olympic team was very real. So was Wah's tattoo promise.
"Now, 2002 rolls around (Chu had just been selected to the Olympic team) and he comes over and goes `Ow, Ow, Ow,' and I go `What's wrong?' And he goes, `I'm just getting ready for my tattoo,'" Julie Chu recalls. "And I was like, `You're actually going to follow through with it?'"
He did. But so did Julie, her mom, Miriam, her brother, Richard, and her sister, Christina. The guys got their tattoos -- the five-color Olympic rings with Chu's No. 13 underneath -- on their arms while the girls got theirs on their ankles.
"First of all, I'm a chicken. Anything with needles, usually I scream before it even touches me," Miriam said. "But no, it didn't hurt. Actually, it pinched. I couldn't look at it while they were doing it, though. But that was it. It wasn't bad and afterwards I was glad we did it."
The Chus have been doing this kind of family thing ever since Julie can remember. If Richard had practice for something, everyone went. If Christina was cheerleading or Julie was playing hockey with the Polar Bears, everyone went. It didn't matter. If someone was involved with something, the whole family went to watch.
"We had always made commitments with our kids, no matter what they do, we would be there for them. Whether it be soccer or hockey or whatever, we made it a family event," Wah Chu said. "It didn't just benefit the individual kid, it benefited the entire family, being close to each other."
Each family member even has a piece of engraved jewelry as a reminder of that family commitment. It reads: "Commitment -- do the best in everything we do. Honor -- do the right thing for ourselves and those that we touch. Unity -- support each other in fulfilling those commitments.
The first letters spell out CHU.
And in just over a month, the entire family will gather in Vancouver to see Julie compete for the United States in the Winter Olympics. It will be the third Olympic Games for Chu, 27, who won a silver medal in Salt Lake City in 2002 and a bronze in Torino, Italy, in 2006. (Yes, the Chus were there for those Games, too).
But they've also been to China, Finland, Germany, Sweden and all over Canada and the U.S. Hundreds of thousands of miles. But for the Chus, it's totally worth it, as it is for Julie.
"For me, I'm so fortunate to have my family there. I think that them being able to take the time and have the financial (means) to see me play in Finland or go to China or even Minneapolis, all these trips take a lot of time off their busy schedules," Julie said. "To have them there and have their support and knowing that if I play well or play poorly, they're going to come up and give me a big hug, I think that means more to me than anything."
Lots of planning
So far, in this 2009-10 national team schedule and "Quest Tour" -- it will stop at Quinnipiac's TD Bank Arena on Jan. 3 for a game against the ECAC All-Stars -- Wah and Miriam have been to St. Paul and St. Cloud, Minn.; Victoria, British Columbia; Spokane, Wash,; Finland (for the Four Nations Cup); Durham, N.H.; Denver; and Calgary, Alberta. There are stops still to come in St. Paul, Ottawa, Madison, Wisc., and Minneapolis before the trek to Vancouver's Olympics.
"It's all about planning. I started planning for this about a year ago," said Wah Chu. "We get advance notice on a lot of things, so it hasn't been a challenge from that point. But there's no special consideration (regarding tickets for player's parents) and it was a little nerve-wracking because the day the (Olympic) tickets went on sale, the system crashed. There were three of us (Wah, Christine and Miriam) working on our computers for two hours trying to get tickets. There was a quota because you could only get a certain number of tickets. We all got through eventually and got our quota of tickets."
One of the most memorable trips came last year when Wah and Miriam traveled to Harbin, China, to see Julie in the 2008 World Championships. Wah had been born and raised in Hong Kong before coming to the United States when he was 16 years old in 1968 and had never been back to his homeland. The couple spent three amazing days in Hong Kong, and as they were in the airport to fly to China, Miriam fell and hurt her wrist.
The two immediately flew home -- a 16-hour flight (8,065 miles) to Newark Airport -- landing at 5 p.m. on a Thursday. Miriam told Wah she was all right, so Wah watched the last half of Julie's semifinal game on TV, drove back to Newark and caught the midnight flight back to Shanghai, another 15 hours and 7,381 miles, landing on Friday and catching a three-hour connection to Harbin. He arrived in time to see Julie record two assists and Team USA defeat Canada 4-1 in the gold medal game.
What Wah didn't know was that Miriam's wrist was broken in the fall, and while he was watching Julie in Harbin, Miriam was having surgery to insert five screws in her wrist.
"We didn't know it was broken, we thought it was just a sprain. Miriam said she was OK, so I went back by myself," Wah said. "There was no time for jet lag."
Wah's professional life hasn't kept him from traveling. He is the vice president of professional services for Netkey, a software company in Branford, and credits his company for allowing him to take time off to travel to see Julie play. Miriam baby-sat three neighboring children over a decade to help financially.
A million miles
Just before the Winter Olympics in 2006, Wah Chu estimated that the family had traveled between 625,000 and 650,000 miles to watch Julie play hockey with the national team. With all the trips over the past three-plus years, including that whirlwind China trip, that mileage total is more than likely closing in on a million. That's almost 45 times around the entire earth.
"It's really incredible how many games they get to," Julie said. "I think my teammates know that my parents are in the hotel before I do. It's like, `There are the Chus,' and I'm like, `Where?' It's like my teammates have a bigger radar for my parents that I do.
"We always joke that my dad is going to be a travel agent one day because he loves this so much. He's always tinkering on things, giving us itineraries, telling us this is what we're going to do. When we were younger, it was cool because we didn't know any better, but now there are some times where we're like, `Dad, can't we just hang by the pool?' It's fun to see him take this and run with it."
Julie was first selected to the national team in 2000 when she was a high school senior-to-be at Choate, something that forced her to postpone her senior year. She had been elected to the class presidency, and she had to give that up, too. In 2006, she delayed her senior year at Harvard to train with Team USA. Now, at age 27 and heading into her third Olympics, the fire still burns, but admittedly, Chu is looking toward the future.
She served as an assistant coach for the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 2007-08, as the Bulldogs captured the 2008 NCAA Division I championship. She also continues to work at clinics all over the country, helping teach hockey to young women.
"It was awesome. I coached for a year after college at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and I can honestly say there were only a few days where I thought it was work. It was a lot of fun. It was a profession I can see myself getting back into," Julie said. "I'm not sure right now what I'm going to do after 2010, whether I'm going to continue playing or pack it up or whatever.
"I think I'd like to coach for a while. Be an assistant at D-1, and after a few years, I can decide if I want to move away from hockey or maybe take a different aspect of hockey, developmental or administrative. There are a lot of ways to still be involved and I want to give back to the younger girls as well. It's kind of in the blood so I want to stick around it."
And show off that Olympic tattoo.
"Mine's on the side of my foot. My sister can attest that I was a pretty big baby about it, too. I just kind of grabbed her hand and buried my face in her arm," Julie said. "When it was done, because it doesn't take very long to do rings, I was like, `OK, I can get another one,' because it wasn't so bad.
"Right now, there hasn't been any talk of additional tattoos, so ... it's funny, because my teammates keep asking me if I'd get another one. And I'm like, `Yeah, I'd get another one,' but I'd want to do something like that again with my family. I'd probably have to bribe them this time, though."
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Remember Prop 1A? It was the first of the five budget-balancing ballot measures that failed in the May 2009 special election.
But is it still dead?
Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman has tried to revive the ghost of 1A -- as a weapon against her Democratic opponent Jerry Brown. Politically, this makes sense. Whitman opposed 1A – putting her on the same side as the voters. Brown was for 1A. And the measure would have extended temporary tax increases (which expire in the middle of next year) for two additional years, into 2013). It also included a proposal for a rainy day fund.
Brown's own budget strategy includes a rainy day fund and the possibility of asking voters to approve taxes. (Brown won't raise taxes without voters going along, he promises). So he seems to be promising to revive 1A-style measures. But can the same approach work when it failed so recently?
Maybe. I was on the fence about 1A and wrote and spoke skeptically about it. So much so that Gov. Schwarzenegger pulled me aside at a Yes on 1A event and gave me a very forceful 15–minute case for 1A. It wasn't perfect, he said, but it was the best system could produce. "You know how bad the budget system is – you know that better than anyone," he told me (yes, smart politicians flatter journalists). "You need to write and write that this is the best we could do."
I didn't take his advice. I was too conflicted about 1A—I understood the difficulty of compromise, but didn't like the idea of raising taxes in a recession. I also worried about the design of the rainy day fund.
The more time passes, though, the more I think Schwarzenegger was right. At the very least, it sure would be nice to have the money coming in next year from 1A's proposed extension of those extra temporary tax increases. Next year's budget will be an even worse disaster than this year's without them. The decision by many on the left, including many unions, to oppose 1A looks even more risky in hindsight. There's no guarantee that they'll ever get that money back.
So here's an apology to the governor. And a resolution to be more open to 1A-style measures if and when they appear on future ballots.


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British doctors succesfully separated Sudanese twins who were joined at the top of their heads in a rare and risky operation that appears to have gone perfectly.
The four-stage procedure on 11-month-old Rital and Ritag Gaboura was funded by Facing the World, a charity which helps children from around the world. The girls' heads were cut apart and then each was sealed with tissue expanders in the surgeries, at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital. On Sunday, the smiling twins were displayed for news outlets, their heads still wrapped in bandages.
"Incidences of surviving twins with this condition is extremely rare," lead surgeon David Dunaway said in a statement released by the charity. "The task presented innumerable challenges and we were all very aware of our responsibilities to the family and these two little girls."
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Twins born joined at the head are called craniopagus twins, and the condition occurs in about one in 2.5 million births, according to The Associated Press. Because conjoined twins don't pump blood evenly, the strongest sibling strains his or her heart trying to make up the difference. Ritag's heart was already failing by the time her family arrived in Britain.
The operation appears to have gone as well as could be hoped. "
Within days the twins were back on the general ward interacting and playing as before," the charity said. Its executive coordinator, Sarah Driver-Jowitt, predicted that the girls' parents — who haven't been named — may soon return home "with two healthy, separate girls."


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On 5 April 2016 the JRC presented the interactive and collaborative online European Energy Efficiency Platform. This beta platform is conceived to fill the gap opened by scattered data and fragmented knowledge resulting from a rapidly growing energy efficiency market. It is expected to be both a one-stop shop for information retrieval and a meeting point for experts to exchange data and reduce redundant activities.
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A JRC workshop on split incentives organised in the framework of article 19(1)(a) of the Energy Efficiency Directive (Directive) has been organised in order to examine current solutions addressing split incentives in the building sector in Europe and beyond. The workshop focused on the social housing, private residential and commercial sectors.
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This report, conducted by the Joint Research Centre for DG ENERGY, during the last trimester of 2013 and the first trimester of 2014, identifies the status of the programmes promoting Energy Audits and Energy Management Systems in the Member States of the European Union in order to realize which of the requirements of Article 8 of the Energy Efficiency Directive were already met and to understand the level of additional...
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