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Written by Duana
Oh why Hello. The show opens with some math, so you know about how I'm going to feel. The kids are going to sell Salt Water Taffy to raise money to get to Nationals. Kids are not jazzed about this because people still hate them. Quinn's disaffected lazy delivery is basically going to be retermed 'punch her in the face' delivery.
Mike Chang gets all mad that people complain instead of working hard for something. Welcome to the world, Mike Chang. Apparently, somehow this relates to Artie, Tina, Brittany and Mike being on the Braniac Team. In a nice move, it's Schue who's like "Please explain the Brittany part". Also, assume there are Asian jokes.
Then we get a Braniac flashback, and it looks completely as you think, with a cheap set and a cheesy host. Okay so anyway, they need to get to their finals also, so Schue is upping the amount they need to sell.
But I don't WANNA write about a show about maaaaaath.
Sue Sylvester (shudder) has assembled three people in a dark classroom. It's that molest-y teacher Schue took over for, a spy-assassin type I don't recognize, and Schue's ex Terri. The Spy Assassin is the coach of Vocal Adrenaline. Sandy Ryerson (the old molesty one) shocks me to my core by explaining that he's what's called "predatory gay". What is with the schizophrenia on this show?? Is it for kids this week? Anyway, I know you'll be stunned that Sue wants to take Schue down. I saw your look of surprise. She's targeting their self-esteem. Jessalyn Gilsig, who is talented but just irritating on this show, wishes there were bagels at this meeting. Sue hands out beepers.
Will's. A date with Gwynnie. Fire, pizza. The meta comes early, as Gwyn tells him she's very busy – "I am both awesome and unavailable at the same time". There it is. Then she tells him he thinks small and he needs to hold a benefit to raise money for everyone.
And since the theme for this episode has apparently been decreed to be 'Neglect', they're only doing songs by neglected artists. Kids are skeptical.
School. Sue and Vocal Adrenaline. She wants him to break up Sue and Schue. She wants Sandy Ryerson to sponsor a student club. I mean, sure, fine. He's sponsoring the Heckling club, containing that guy who wanted Rachel's panties, Becky, and a football player looking for homework help. Becky says she's confused.
UGH TEENAGERS BEING AWARE - Tina is doing Lykke Li. Mike is doing Dance Dance Revolution, as though that's a thing. Mercedes thinks Aretha has been neglected, because stereotype stereotype stereotype. Rachel is singing Celine, because she herself is neglected. Not Celine, Rachel. Finn saves me from getting angry by rushing in to inform us all that Sunshine Corazon is back.
Glee club yells at her in a theatre. No, I don't know why. She wants to perform with them at their benefit because she wants to raise money for Academic Decathlon too. She is a humblebragger, which gives me temporary seconds of amusement as she says she has six hundred Twitter followers and is 'so much better singer than all of you'. The 'no' in all this is that she sings for Vocal Adrenaline.
OK, now Sunshine sings "All By Myself". Melissa Manchester? Right? Didn't she play Blossom's mom? Okay, actually it's Eric Carmen and the previous sentence is wrong, but I need to amuse myself because this girl in her matching beret-and-mini are not doing it for me.
Let's talk about the forgotten band members on this show one of these days, huh?
It's worth noting that Puck jumps up to applaud Sunshine. Back in the choir room, it's gang up on Rachel day, so it must be a day that ends in 'y'. Rachel spits that she's a spy, Quinn says so was Jonathan Groff. God, remember that? Anyway, Rachel is all "Well, is Mercedes going to suck it up and take the middle spot in the show?" I'm not sure what's happening here, but there's a push in and heavy music. When she says yes, everyone cheers.
Library. Lauren tells Mercedes she has no backbone, and that she's got to demand respect rather than ask for it. That it's the mark of a true diva. Also, Mercedes says she won't because she's "tired of fighting with Rachel all the time". You guys, Rachel is a bitch, in case you missed that. Then she announces she's Mercedes' manager and will take 10 percent of…"whatever we can think of to ask for". I mean, this is coming out of nowhere but it's new, so I'll take it.
Emma. Emma! Man, you know I'm hard up when I'm happy to see her. She's cleaning a counter obsessively using an electric toothbrush. Will is concerned and she confesses that Uncle Jesse left her, because they never had sex. She regrets her whole life. Will pulls out her lunch, wipes grapes for her, and says he's not judging her. They eat grapes. Gwyneth watches, with jealousy.
Quinn and Finn snowjob Rachel into being "head of talent relations" because she's so talented. Cut to Mercedes snarling that she wants a 'small barrel' of green M and Ms. There is certainly no stereotyping here, not at all. She also needs lots of humidifiers, and she wants to dry her hands on fresh puppies. Rachel, however, sympathizes. Says stars can't help it, that they've neglected Mercedes' talent, and should help her.
Gwynnie is dressed up in front of her history class as Wallis Simpson. God help me, I'm enjoying her doing this. What's wrong with me? She explains that she was large handed, prompting speculation she was a hermaphrodite – and a Nazi sympathizer. Anyway, Chord Overstreet was in that scene, in case you cared.
Gwynnie talks to Vocal Adrenaline coach, who wants her to think about how many years she has left to procreate. Refers to her eggs as "rare exotic pearls". Gross. I can hear Lainey recoiling. Anyway, he comes on super, super strong. "I'm gorgeous, handsome, and good looking". She says she's dating Will, he says Will has baby hands.
Will is bitching that Gwyn didn't show up for lunch, but she says she did – they both get jealous, and when he tries to defuse the fight by asking to rehearse (you romantic, romantic man, Will) she says she's not in the mood. Good, he can't storm in and bitch and then get to sing. Good for you!
You guys, what is this world where I'm defending her?
It's a world where Rachel is wearing Lainey's favourite sweater. Honestly, Lainey wears this one all the time. She's followed Mercedes' exact specifications, except for a puppy, which is en route. Rachel explains that Mercedes will still be on during mid show, and Lauren explains Mercedes isn't happy and will need to be carried the entire day of the benefit.
Kurt and Blaine walk through the high school. I kind of wish they were a spinoff. Artie and Brittany pop by. Oh, then it's that one that beat Kurt to a pulp. He threatens them super-super aggressively. He shoves Blaine a bit, they taunt him all "We all know what's the truth", then Santana shows up and Meathead says "It's none of your business, J Lo". I'm going to give the writers credit that to a Meathead like this, calling someone vaguely Latina "J-Lo" would seem like an insult, even though he himself knows it isn't. She threatens to "crack one of his balls" and says she has razor blades in her hair. Then gets a text and runs off.
She runs into the choir room to tell them Sunshine's tweet says she isn't' coming, and nor are her followers. They decide, after Finn can't speak English for a while, that the show must go on. Tina runs out there. Before we get to the annoying heckling, I will say that this song and this outfit are exactly Tina as she was introduced to us in the pilot. Anyway, the Heckling gets the best of her, and she cries backstage in the choir room. The kids want to cancel, but Will says they must buck up.
Quinn hands out Salt Water Taffy as she trills "Vote Quinn For Prom Queen!" I'm supposed to hate her, right? Mike Chang dances to Jack Johnson's "Bubbletoes". I just…don't' like dancing in a choir show. But I like his shoes and he always looks like he's having a good time when he performs.
OK so about there being six people in the audience – we're just ignoring the fact that these people have parents and family who love them, this week, right?
Backstage. Mike did well, Will needs Mercedes now. But Lauren says she's left, because she's mad. Gwyneth is going to 'go deal with the haters'.
Gwyneth has the three hecklers in the library. She compliments them on their heckling skills, which they say they learned in Television chat rooms. OK, fine…fine. That's pretty funny. Curly guy says he helped bring down Mubarak, which is also chucklesome. But then it becomes another meta statement, where Gwyn tells us that "We're constantly surrounded by people who are richer than us and better than us and are having more interesting sex than us" - So there! She and Chris are just freaky, that's all, and they don't want you to know! That's why he runs from cameras! She lectures that 'we think because it's done anonymously that it doesn't have an impact'. Thanks, celebrities. You have taught us yet again!
Then Gwyn says that though "some of those insults were rad", they should try to do what is good. They bail, instead.
Mercedes mopes in a car. Rachel runs out there to talk to her, and proceeds to tell the parable of how Aretha Franklin became the Queen of Soul because some guy gave her a tiara one day. Not because she made demands.
Then we get to the meat of it, where Mercedes asks plaintively why Rachel is a bigger star than her. Why does she get the bigger solos, the credit – why is it never her? And Rachel has that pained look on her face where, when you're the one who's on top, you don't know why, and you can't help it, and you know it's hurting the other people who don't get what you both want, but how can you do anything about it?
I've been both these girls. And it's worth mentioning that I think the actresses are being authentic about this. As much as this show frustrates me, this is a real situation. It would have real impact if other people, instead of Rachel, were saying Rachel had to close out the show, etc.
Anyway, then Rachel says that the only difference between them is that Rachel wants to be onstage and in the spotlight more than she wants to be liked. And Mercedes doesn't. That if she wants that ending slot, she needs to go ahead and take it from Rachel. This is what this show should be about. How do you deal with the fact that sometimes people are more talented than you are? Or more beloved and celebrated? What do you do when you know you're not being treated the same way but there's ephemera that 'explains' it?
Sandy Ryerson heckles; Sue pulls him out of the aud., which is what we called the auditorium at my school. Will sort of casually acknowledges that she's behind it, and then settles to watch Gwyn sing Adele in a long black one shoulder gown. You know what? I love Adele. This song, "Turning Tables" isn't done badly at all, and there are lots of strings behind it.
Gwyneth's not doing a bad job, but it's like if I were singing it at karaoke (and I'm good.) It's a good song, it's just not got that haunting quality, that rich Adele timbre that gets in under your skin and makes you shiver with every sustained note. This is why songs aren't given to artists other than who they were written for – because some just can't make an impact, no matter how good the artist.
The lyrics are "I won't let you close enough to hurt me" which makes Will close his eyes in pain. In case you were worried.
Men's room? Sue quietly berates Sandy Ryerson for having lost his hecklers. Sue wants him to continue to ruin things, but isn't it that they've already made no money?
Choir room, and as Quinn needles Lauren, Mercedes is back, after some false jeopardy. She demands they all go out and hear her sing. In the audience, Sandy Ryerson gets excited because he loves this song. She sings "Ain't No Way For Me To Love You". She has a full gospel choir full of adults behind her. Also, she's wearing a fascinator.
In the wings, Rachel is proud of her – particularly at the lyric "Stop trying to be someone you're not". Everyone gives her a standing ovation, and Amber Riley is just beautiful as she beams. Mercedes runs backstage, tells Rachel to go 'bring the house down', but Rachel says that was the closing number.
Gwyneth was just on the phone, and then comes out and tells Will the kids were 'amazeballs'. I better stop saying that. She got offered a job in Cleveland, teaching French for four months. He wishes she had mixed feelings about leaving, but she doesn't, she's a rolling stone. He wants her to settle down, but she declares not with him, he's in love with someone else. "And thanks to my counseling, she's available now." EW. I don't like Will or want him to succeed romantically, but this character was the closest thing to an adult woman he's ever had on this show. Then, to wrap the meta around to a close, Will asks if she'll 'come back and visit' and says she thought he'd never ask.
Choir room – Sandy Ryerson is going to pay for the academic kids' trip. They're happy, Will holds his head. Sue is furious. She gets her three henchmen in front of her, and barks at them. The only one who hasn't let her down is Terry.
Suddenly we're at the academic decathlon final. It's the finale. The category is "Hermaphrodite Nazi Sympathizers". Artie and Brittany beam.
(Lainey: so Madonna makes a movie about Wallis Simpson, presumably idolising her, and then Gwyneth and her bff Ryan Murphy rag on Wallis Simpson on their popular little show? Oh this means war.)
Attached – Matthew Morrison shopping in LA on Monday.
Photos from Bauergriffonline.com
The Neglected
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Graffiti Problem … So Call in the SWAT Team!?
From today's Washington Post:
Hethmon had an up‐close and unpleasant experience with the same kind of local police he had done so much to empower.The problem began with graffiti on a highway overpass in Bowie. Police there suspected that Hethmon's teenage son might be involved and obtained a search warrant. They arrived at 7 a.m. on March 9 with a heavily armed team of county officers.
"Come in with masks, guns, screaming. You know, knocking everybody down," Hethmon recalled. "I tried to explain to them, you know: 'Look, I'm a lawyer, this is outrageous.' [The reply was:] 'Shut up and lie down on the floor.' "
Police said they found 2.5 grams of marijuana in the house. They filed charges against Hethmon, his son and his wife — all for the same drugs. The charges against Hethmon will be dropped, prosecutors said last week.
Hethmon said the experience has not changed his work.
"The fact that a law is legitimate and serving a purpose doesn't mean that it can't be abused," he said. "Human beings are flawed people."
And so, for the lesser‐known of this duo, there has been a personal test. After he did so much to place greater trust in local police officers nationwide, police in Prince George's County sent a SWAT team to his house to look for . . . spray paint.
It would be comical if it were not so serious. Once the paramilitary unit arrives, heavy‐handed methods are often employed to ensure 'officer safety,' i.e. break windows to distract occupants from the doorway and flashbang grenades. The militarization of police tactics is out of control, but policymakers do nothing focus on expanding the power of the government.
More background here, here and here.


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Trunk or Treat!
Posted by Unknown | | Posted On Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 4:43 PM
Here is my trunk or treat crew.
We really enjoy this particular trunk or treat, really our favorite. We have gone here since Hezekiah was a itty bitty one!
The games are sweet and remind me of the lawn fates that were at my elementary school as a kid.
Especially the cake walk.
Oh CAKE WALK, how I love thee!!!
I got to play again this year, but was out quickly.
Eli cried when he was out, but Hezekiah told Eli, "Eli, if I win then our whole family wins," trying to cheer him up.
Guess what? Hezekiah won. Oh boy, was that kid excited. You would have thought he played the lottery or something.
I have such fond memories of the cake walks when I was a kid.
So thanks to Central Baptist who puts this on every year. We appreciate it! It is super family friendly and not at all overwhelming.


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US Launches Novel Clinical Trial to Rapidly Screen Promising Drugs for Breast Cancer Patients
Laura Esserman, MD, MBA, principal investigator and director of the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center, spoke at a press conference launching a novel clinical trial for breast cancer patients with Janet Woodcock, MD, director of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
By Elizabeth Fernandez
A unique national clinical trial for breast cancer — novel in its design, collaborative scope, and ability to serve as a prototype for many other diseases — gets underway this week at UCSF.
Called I-SPY 2, (an acronym for "Investigation of Serial Studies to Predict Your Therapeutic Response with Imaging and Molecular Analysis") the trial is designed to rapidly screen promising new drugs and match the therapy to specific biomarkers.
Under the trial's innovative path toward personalized medicine, scientists for the first time will be able to eliminate — at an early point in the trial — experimental drugs that show poor efficacy, dramatically shortening the time it takes to get the right medication to the right patient. In the process, drug development will be accelerated and the cost of testing medications reduced.
In collaboration with scientists from the National Cancer Institute, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and nearly 20 major cancer research centers across the country, the trial will involve about 800 women with high-risk, fast-growing breast cancers.
"I'm so excited that we are finally here,'' said Laura Esserman, MD, MBA, principal investigator and director of the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center, noting the contribution of hundreds of physicians and scientists who championed the pioneering project and helped usher it to fruition.
"Over the last 20 years, I have sat across from probably thousands of women and had to tell them that they have breast cancer," said Esserman, a UCSF breast cancer surgeon and researcher. "While it is true we have had many innovations and improvements in breast cancer treatment, the unfortunate reality is that for those women with the most aggressive cancers, they still face the stark reality that there's a significant chance they will die from the disease. We want to change that reality. I-SPY 2 is designed to change the way that we learn.''
Senator Arlen Specter, a two-time survivor of Hodgkin's lymphoma, spoke on Wednesday at a press conference in Washington DC while UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, who participated in the briefing via satellite from San Francisco listens.
Formally launched on Wednesday at a press conference in Washington D.C., the clinical trial is sponsored by the Biomarkers Consortium, a public-private partnership including the FDA, the National Institutes of Health, and major pharmaceutical companies led by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH).
"We have to ask and answer questions in cancer development more effectively,'' said UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, who participated in the briefing via satellite from San Francisco. Drawing upon her previous experience ushering the advancement of life-saving cancer medications as president of Product Development at Genentech, Desmond-Hellmann said that I-SPY 2 provides a shift in paradigm for clinical trials.
"All of us have a shared sense of urgency,'' she said. "This is a great opportunity for us to see something that has never happened before.''
Also participating in the press conference were Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA), a two-time survivor of Hodgkin's lymphoma; Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo); Charles Sanders, MD, chairman of the Board of the FNIH and chairman of the Biomarkers Consortium Executive Committee; and Janet Woodcock, MD, director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA.
Another speaker was UCSF patient Jessica Galloway, a young mother diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer when she was 39. She participated in I-SPY 1 and, five years after diagnosis, is cancer-free.
"I-SPY 2 promises to leverage convergence of progress on a number of research fronts to speed the evaluation of promising new breast cancer drugs using molecular cancer biomarkers to identify those agents that are effective in specific subpopulations of breast cancer patients,'' said Anna D. Barker, PhD., deputy director of the National Cancer Institute and co-chair of the Biomarkers Consortium Cancer Steering Committee. She also was a speaker at the press conference. "This will allow us to finally design advanced, smaller and less expensive Phase III trials that test the right drugs in the right patients.''
Moving Safe Drugs to Market
While significant inroads have been made in cancer treatment in recent years, the toll remains severe: 1.4 million Americans will receive a cancer diagnosis this year, and more than 560,000 Americans will die from it. This year, an estimated 192,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and more than 40,000 women will likely die from it.
Current drug development, said the scientists at the press conference, is far too slow and pricey — up to $1 billion and 15 to 20 years to develop a new drug for a complex disease like breast cancer.
I-SPY 2 is intended to change that with the goal of bringing safe and effective new drugs to market more efficiently, shaving several years and hundreds of millions off the current process. Under I-SPY 2's adaptive design model, scientists will assess over the course of weeks or months, instead of years, a drug's effectiveness and then either discard it or "graduate'' it.
Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo) also participated in Wednesday's launch of the novel clinical trial.
In another highly innovative aspect, I-SPY 2 will focus on treatment in the neoadjuvant therapy setting. A patient's cancerous tumors will be left in place for six months, rather than being surgically removed immediately. During those six months, the patient will undergo chemotherapy to reduce tumor size. All patients will receive the current standard of care and most will receive one investigational drug. The trial will screen multiple drugs from multiple companies — up to a dozen different cancer drugs during the course of the trial.
Two principal investigators will conduct the trial: Esserman and Donald Berry, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics, head of the Division of Quantitative Sciences at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
I-SPY 2 is expected to cost approximately $26 million over five years. Safeway, Inc. is a significant seed funder, contributing a sizeable portion of proceeds from the Safeway Foundation's annual October Breast Cancer Awareness fundraising initiative. Johnson & Johnson is providing a major foundational investment. The project also is being developed in part with funds from Genentech and Lilly.
The FNIH is seeking to raise remaining funds from pharmaceutical and other companies, non-profit cancer organizations and philanthropic foundations as well as individual donors.
Photos by B. Vartan Boyajian
Related Links:
Press Conference and Q&A
The Biomarkers Consortium
Media Coverage
UCSF News Office
I-SPY trial offers key insights into locally advanced breast cancer
News Release, June 1, 2009
Revolutionary statewide UC collaboration targets breast cancer
News Release, September 29, 2009
UCSF Breast Cancer Specialists Lead the Way Translating Research
UCSF Today, August 21, 2009
Pioneer Personalizes Breast Cancer Treatment
Science Café, August 21, 2009
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center


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(a) The driver of a motor vehicle overtaking a bicycle
proceeding in the same direction on a roadway shall
exercise due care and pass to the left at a safe distance of
not less than three (3) feet and shall not again drive to the
right side of the roadway until safely clear of the overtaken
(b)(1) A person who violates this section shall be
subject to a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100).
(2) A person who violates this section with the
violation resulting in a collision causing death or
serious physical injury to the person operating the
overtaken bicycle shall be subject to a fine not to
exceed one thousand dollars ($1000) in addition to
any other penalties prescribed by law
Every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway shall
ride as near as to the right-hand side of the roadway as
practicable, exercising due care when passing a standing
vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction. Persons
riding bicycles upon a roadway shall not ride more than two
(2) abreast except on paths or parts of roadways set aside
for the exclusive use of bicycles. Whenever a usable path
for bicycles has been provided adjacent to a roadway
bicycle riders shall use such path and shall not use the
(Code 1961, § 39-117)
Given the usual condition of the bike lane on Resamen Park Road, I'm curious as to what standard was applied to determine how far right is "practicable". I hope for some follow-up on this incident. I did find that a police report was filed but have not elected to spend 12.50 in order to satisfy my curiosity.
The bypass trail west of the BDB has been patched. This temporary trail will not meet the same standards as permanent construction, but thanks to the folks at Pulaski County for responding to the need for repairs.


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Don't forget to check my blog every Monday morning for my New/Updated Websites, Blogs, and Newspaper Articles.
To give you a hint, there will be newspaper articles Monday about the Family Day history event slated for South Peace Archives, genealogy group eyeing new home in a library basement, and a web site posting about the Alberta Genealogical Society Conference 2013 to be held in April.
And two new/improved FaceBook entries have been added to this post.
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The Berlin-born, New York–based designer Karl Springer brought a chic, high-fashion sensibility to furnishings. During his heyday in the 1970s, Springer's work was a favorite of the glamour set, who enjoyed the novelty of pieces finished in rich and striking materials that ranged from exotic hides and skins to lacquer and chromed metal. In a sense, Springer was a pre-postmodernist. Much as the dull, safe, corporate sameness of late 20th-century modernism prompted Ettore Sottsass, Michael Graves and others to explore new and provocative structures and materials in design and architecture, so, too, was Springer driven to enliven his creations with fresh and alluring energy and sleekness.
Springer came to New York in the late 1950s and found work arranging window displays at the department store Lord & Taylor. He had studied bookbinding in Germany, and, using his meticulous skills, he began crafting desk accessories wrapped in leather as a sideline. These pieces were sold in luxury stores like Bergdorf Goodman, and drew a sophisticated clientele that included the Duchess of Windsor. By 1965, he had established his own Manhattan atelier, and at his death he had showrooms as far afield as Los Angeles, Tokyo and Munich.
The chairs, tables, credenzas and other furniture forms Springer created are generally simple, but substantial, and often have robust, rounded lines. The attraction of Springer's work lies in his insistence on exacting construction and, above all, his eye for unusual materials and finishes. He employed Lucite, brass, and gunmetal along with chromed and polished steel, and revived exquisite finishes rarely seen since the days of Art Deco masters such as Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and Jean-Michel Frank: shagreen (a type of sharkskin), python, goatskin, bone, horn, and lacquered parchment, as well as fabrics that include batik prints. Made of such materials, Springer's work is by its very nature flamboyant and eye-catching: a suite of pieces will astonish, and an artfully placed side table in exotic hide will add a surprising spark.
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Florida Law
An Outlet in Namibia
His quest to do something good leads attorney Stephen Snively to Africa.
A lack of land surveyors threatened to doom Namibia's effort to resettle urban poor to open lands outside the cities. Attorney Stephen Snively (below) made it his cause to help solve the problem.
Then he read a newspaper article about Namibia, a country on the southwest coast of Africa. Plagued by poverty, HIV/AIDS and a legacy of colonialism and apartheid, the country was struggling to reinvent itself. One major initiative called for resettling many of the country's urban poor to open lands outside the cities, where residents could establish farms, grow their own food and pull themselves out of poverty. The resettlement effort was floundering because of a shortage of land surveyors. There were only 20 in a country more than twice the size of California. "You have to have surveyors because if you can't describe the land, you can't own the land," Snively says. "And if you can't own it, you can't pledge it to a bank for a bank loan and buy goats and seed and fertilizer and all the things that people who wish to homestead in Namibia need."
He finally had his cause. Initially, Snively considered paying for teams of American surveyors to go to Namibia, but he quickly determined that would cost too much. Then he came up with the idea of creating a scholarship program to enable Namibians to earn land-surveying degrees at Polytechnic of Namibia, one of the country's top colleges. The program's first class has four students, each of whom has agreed to work in Namibia for at least three years after earning the proper credentials. The first class alone will boost Namibia's total number of land surveyors by 20%.
Consul Privileges As Namibia's "honorary consul," Stephen W. Snively has diplomatic privileges and is an official representative of Namibia. His responsibilities include promoting tourism, investment, trade, educational opportunities and cultural exchanges between Florida and Namibia. Namibia has one other honorary consul in the United States: Jean-Michel Malek, a Houston attorney.
Snively, who named his non-profit program Scholarships for Namibia, is involved in all the details. He travels to Namibia on vacations to meet with government and college officials. He does his Namibian work "off the clock" at home. For months, many of his colleagues didn't even know he was so involved in the cause. "This was something I was very surprised at, yet it's kind of indicative of his personality," says A. Guy Neff, a Holland & Knight partner and leader of the Orlando office's real estate section. "Steve is one of the most creative people that I know. While he's a very methodical and meticulous and focused person, he also really has these very innovative ways of approaching things."
Snively's efforts quickly drew the attention of the Namibian government. Last August, he was named Namibia's honorary consul for Florida, a position he'll use to focus attention to his scholarship program and increase awareness of Namibia in the United States. "He's really quite a hardworking man," says Morven M. Luswenyo, Namibia's minister counsellor and deputy chief of mission at Namibia's embassy in Washington D.C. "He has done quite a lot for our country already in less than a year."
At home in Florida, some people wonder why Snively works so hard for a country whose name he couldn't even pronounce a little more than a year ago. "Originally, there was always a question of what I expected to get out of this," he says. "But I don't want anything out of it other than to see the program succeed and see students graduate and help the country. I was trying to take my professional skills and use them where I saw there was a unique need not being fulfilled. This has been just the right fit for me."
Neff, who has worked with Snively since 1980, understands completely. "It's important for those of us who are so focused on the things that we do in our everyday work, trying to help our clients accomplish their objectives, that we have some kind of outlet. This is an outlet for Steve."
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Kathy's Violets (Chatelaine freebie)
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Monday, September 08, 2008
Kathy's Violets.........
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Fairy Flora.....
I've been wanting to start a Mirabilia chart for ages and have had the hardest time deciding which one. I finally settled on Fairy Flora and here's the first WIP. Of course, I changed the beads to delicas (they are so dainty and perfect) and I changed the recommended colors too. As this piece has such a bright background around her pale dress and wings, I decided on a plain fabric to compliment the colors and how they blend. She's stitched over 1 so finished size wil be 4/12" wide by 10" in length.
We've had rain (from Gustav) since around 8am yesterday. It's been a good steady rain and much needed in this area. It's helped cool the temps. off a little but it sure is wrecking havoc on my walking routine. I'll have to try and make it up this weekend.
Thanks for stoping by and have a wonderful week
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Paul Ryan says he has no regrets
Former VP candidate doesn't want to talk about 2016
Nearly a week after the election, Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan sat down with WISN 12 News political reporter Kent Wainscott.
When asked about election night, Ryan said he and Mitt Romney were genuinely surprised by the results.
Contrary to reports, Ryan said that the GOP candidates felt they had a good chance to win, even as they headed to Boston for their election-night gathering.
As they saw the states fall one-by-one, reality began to settle in, and by the time Ohio was called for President Barack Obama, they knew the race was over.
"Once we realized that we probably weren't going to win Ohio, that's when we realized that it probably wasn't going to turn out for us," Ryan said.
Ryan said he had no regrets in the campaign and felt it was a wonderful experience.
He said that the Romneys were wonderful to his family, and he would not change a thing in the campaign.
" It was a well-run campaign. We made this campaign about big ideas and big issues, which is the kind of campaign we wanted to run, so we ran the kind of campaign we wanted to run. It just wasn't enough at the end of the day, and we just have to accept that," Ryan said.
When asked if he was a changed man, Ryan said that the campaign experience didn't necessarily change him, but it gave him a new appreciation of what people around the country are going through.
When asked about the looming fiscal cliff and potential economic crisis, Ryan said that the two sides have got to figure out a way to work together to solve the problem.
And when asked about a run in 2016, Ryan quipped, "Aren't you done talking about elections?"
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The Sweet Taste Of Uncertainty
You've just won a prize. Would you like to find out what it is right away, or wait until later? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says most people are happier waiting.via ScienceDaily
People who know they've won a prize enjoy the anticipation of wondering what they will win, especially if they have clues about what it might be, explain authors Yih Hwai Lee (National University of Singapore) and Cheng Qiu (University of Hong Kong). Prize winners spend time imagining using the potential prizes, and such "virtual consumption" prolongs positive feelings, making them receptive to marketing messages.
The authors conducted two studies where participants played and won simulated lucky-draw games. Some learned what their prizes were immediately; others were told they had won something from a pool of prizes. "We find that consumers will be more delighted after winning a lucky draw when they do not know immediately the exact prize they will receive than when they do," the authors write.
Participants who got clues about the nature of the possible prizes (such as knowing it was an electronic product) responded even more favorably. They also favored prizes that were capable of eliciting mental imagery, like sensory-stimulating products such as chocolates or aromatherapy candles. (Apparently, functional items like cutlery and digital clocks failed to stimulate.)


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Which raises the question in my mind: How many Ecumenical Councils does the RCC church believe took place?
(In the same way, a Catholic is free to believe that the 1854 declaration on the Immaculate Conception was not an ex cathedra statement, but must agree with the IC dogma.)
So a Roman Catholic is free to believe that people don't have to believe in the 1854 declaration so long as he believes in it himself?What then is the point in being permitted to believe that people don't have to believe in it if one is required to believe it?This seems somewhat contradictory to me Did not Rome originally acknowledge the Eastern Orthodox Church's so-called Eighth Ecumenical Counsel as well?Would love to meet a Roman Catholic who only acknowledges three!
So a Roman Catholic is free to believe that people don't have to believe in the 1854 declaration so long as he believes in it himself?What then is the point in being permitted to believe that people don't have to believe in it if one is required to believe it?This seems somewhat contradictory to me
That makes sense..but...I've never seen anything list other than the 21 councils as Ecumenical according to the Roman Catholic Church (Vatican I & II included.) As I understood it, Rome has considered every council it has held since Lateran I on as being 'Ecumenical' due to their dogmas on Papal universal and immediate jurisdiction? Are there Roman sources with an alternate view?
8 How many Ecumenical Councils were held? a. Seven Ecumenical Councils 9 Was the Vatican council an ecumenical council? Why?, why not? a. The Vatican council was not an ecumenical council – no participation from the Orthodox
it really wouldn't even make sense to speak of "the list" of ex cathedra statements, because even conservative Roman-rite Roman Catholics don't agree among themselves about how many there have been.
This can be seen as a problem. But it must be understood that Catholics must believe everything that the Church has proposed for belief whether it has been infallibly defined or not. That being said, the Church has always had a general sense and assumption that there are 21 ecumenical councils and thus we should believe that there are 21 ecumenical councils.
So are Melkites not Catholic, then?
Good question. I don't really have a good answer either. It is my understanding that in order to really be Catholic, communion with the Pope is not enough. One must have right teaching. I don't want to draw any dangerous conclusions but I think that the Vatican should address this problem and do so soon.
So, is the proper response then:"The Melkites are Catholics because they are in communion with the Pope as well as have the right teaching that there are not 21 Ecumenical Councils in Catholicism, despite past statements by the Catholics that they have 21 Councils"; or"The Melkites are not Catholic despite being in communion with the Pope because they do not have the right teaching regarding the number of Ecumenical Councils as well as the potential contents of these Councils".How do the Melkites not know if they are Catholic or not? Don't Melkites bishops show up at the Vatican occaisonally and receive the Eucharist while there from time to time? If they are not considered to be Catholic, then why are they allowed to receive while there?The interesting thing is that I often hear from Catholic apologists that a strength of their system is that they have one person to rally around as a visible head of their church. However, it is clear that this alleged strength is illusory, since a possibility exists for one to be in communion with the visible head of their church and yet apparently not be fully Catholic.Or, sufficiently Catholic to receive the Eucharist, but not sufficiently Catholic to be considered Catholic by others?
We'll accept the Melkites back
You'd like to think that, wouldn't you?
Oops! Didn't mean to kill the discussion.{insert emoticon with red cheeks}
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Figure A: Planning a DIY Micro Irrigation System
Start by making a sketch of your garden so you can map out the tubing route and the watering devices you decide to use.
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Whether you're growing roses to win prizes or just trying to keep a few flowerbeds looking good, you know what a chore watering is, lugging hoses around the yard and moving them every half hour or so. Micro irrigation—a network of plastic tubing and low-volume drippers and sprinklers that reach every part of the garden you want to water—takes the hassle out of watering.
The materials are inexpensive and easy to install using nothing more than a pruning shears and a special hole punch tool. Once you lay out the tubing and connect the drippers, sprinklers or sprayers, you'll be able to water your plants by simply turning on the water and letting it run for an hour or two. Add a battery-operated controller and you won't even have to remember to turn on the water. It'll turn the water on and off automatically at the times you select.
Micro irrigation saves more than time and energy; it saves water by distributing it more efficiently. Because you use dozens of watering devices to replace one regular sprinkler, you have much greater control over where the water goes and how much is supplied to each plant. Instead of flooding the ground all at once, micro irrigation lets you apply a small amount over longer periods, allowing the watert to soak into the plants' root zone for maximum benefit. And since runoff and evaporation are kept to a minimum, micro irrigation uses less water.
In this article, we'll introduce you to the basics of micro irrigation, including planning tips and step-by-step installation instructions. For more details, especially in the planning phase, we recommend that you also read through one of the manufacturers' free planning guides or browse relevant internet sites.
Start by making a sketch of your garden so you can map out the tubing route and the watering devices you decide to use.
You can find kits and individual components online and at home centers, garden centers and plumbing suppliers. A basic kit that waters up to 20 containers or a 75-sq.-ft. area costs $25 to $50 and comes with everything you need except the timer. Higher quality kits may cost $70 or more.
If this is your first venture into micro irrigation, start small and experiment to get a feel for how the system works. Choose one or two flowerbeds or a garden and install a simple one-zone garden drip system.
The basic planning strategy is to pick the best watering device to serve each type of plant. Then determine a flow rate that supplies adequate water to every plant in the watering zone. Set up the system to run between one and two hours at a time, two or three times a week.
Start by measuring your garden and making a simple sketch. Choose the type and flow rate of the watering devices based on your soil and the plants' water needs. Mark these on the drip irrigation system plan and draw in the tubing route to connect them. This will involve a little guesswork. See "Step 6: Drippers, Bubblers, Sprinklers and Sprayers" below for information that will help you choose the right watering device. Try to cover all the root zones of your plants. Don't worry about getting everything perfect at first. Add a few extra of each type of watering device and buy the watering devices, tubing and the basic parts shown in Figure B for the faucet hookup. Once you see how the drip irrigation system works, you'll find it's easy to relocate or add emitters to get a more balanced water flow or better coverage.
DIY irrigation system planning rules of thumb:
As you add to the system, it's best to divide your yard into groups of plants that have similar watering requirements. With this strategy, you add a separate system (zone), starting at the water source, for each group of plants or area of the yard. For help with planning a large, more complicated system (and for the best prices), work with a retailer that specializes in micro irrigation.
Battery-operated timer. One 9-volt battery will last an entire season. $30 to $50 depending on the model.
Backflow preventer. Prevents dirty garden water from flowing back into your household water lines.
Screen filter. Traps particles that could clog the emitters. May be separate or part of the backflow device.
Pressure regulator. Lowers the incoming water pressure to a level the drip system can tolerate; 25 to 30 psi is standard.
Hose adapter Connects. water source to the main line.
1/2-in. main line. Don't exceed 200 ft. of tubing in a single circuit.
Elbow fitting. Connects sections of hose to one another or other components.
Preinstalled emitter. Spaced every 6 to 12 in.; good for straight rows of plants and for shrubs.
Hole punch. Makes ports in the main line to connect watering devices and 1/4-in. tubing.
1/2-gph pressure-compensating dripper. Ideal for flat and hillside terrain and heavy clay soil.
Hose end clamps. Closes off the end of the main line.
1/4-in. barbed tee. Allows branching to 1/4-in. from 1/2-in. lines.
Tubing stakes and adjustable sprayer. You can mix and match watering devices, but don't use more than 150 gallons per hour (gph) on a single circuit.
1/4-in. micro tubing. Good for containers, zoned areas and customizing your system. Comes in a variety of colors to help hide it. Don't exceed 50 ft. of 1/4-in. tubing in a single circuit.
1/4-in. barbed connector. Connects 1/4-in. micro tubing to the main line.
Goof plugs. Plug unneeded holes when you change the placement of your tubing, watering devices or landscaping.
Assorted emitters. Adjustable emitters, also called shrubblers and drippers, can apply as little as 1/2 gph or as much as 10 gph. The right number, type and size of emitters depend on plant type, soil and weather conditions. The yellow flag dripper shown can be taken apart and cleaned.
Tee fitting. Creates branch lines to expand and customize the system.
1/2-in. universal coupler. Allows you to cut out damaged tubing and install new line.
Hose end clamps. Closes off the end of the main line.
Drip irrigation systems have been around for years, but the early versions were clunky to install and prone to clogging and leaking. Newer systems are affordable, customizable and leak-proof, and they go together easily. System components vary slightly among manufacturers, but generally, you hook up the faucet assembly at the hose bib and run the 1/2-in. main line around your landscape. You can buy main line with prepunched emitter holes or punch your own holes and install in-line emitters. Or you can use leak-proof connectors to run 1/4-in. tubing to where you need it and attach the watering device of your choice. A basic system goes together in just an hour or two and is easy to expand. There are many excellent videos and other resources online to help you plan your system.
These drip systems are pressure compensated, so the water flow is even throughout the length of the tubing. The different emitters and adjustable spray heads let you vary the amount of water based on the weather and plant needs. There are drip watering systems for all sorts of different landscape elements including trees, vegetable gardens, containers and hanging baskets. You can even convert underground sprinklers to drip water systems. The primary differences among them are the kinds of emitters/watering devices they use.
Figure B and Photo 1 show the parts you'll need and the order in which to install them. The Y-splitter with shutoffs allows you to keep the drip system on all the time (and operated by a controller) and still use your regular garden hose (Photo 1). You don't have to use a controller, but you must use a backflow preventer. Some of these components are available with hose thread or pipe thread, so make sure to match the thread type when you buy parts. Joining hose thread to pipe thread will result in leaks.
Connect the 1/2-in. poly tubing to the faucet end. Then lay the tubing through the garden according to your plan. Stake it down about every 5 or 6 ft.
Next, run the 1/2-in. tubing to the garden bed (Photo 2) and position it according to your plan. The tubing will be more flexible and easier to work with if you let it sit in the sun for a while to warm up. Remember, you can cover the tubing with decorative mulch later to hide it. Cut the tubing with a pruning shears. Use T-fittings to create branches and elbows to make 90-degree bends (Photo 3). Be aware that there are a few different sizes of what's called "1/2-in." tubing, depending on which brand you use. Buy fittings to match the brand of tubing you're using. If you need to join two different brands of tubing or you're not sure which you have, you can buy universal fittings that will work on all diameters of tubing. Use special plastic tubing clamps to nail the tubing to the house or deck.
You can bury 1/2-in. poly tubing in a shallow trench to conceal it as it crosses a path or small section of lawn, but for longer lengths, especially in high-traffic areas, we recommend substituting 1/2-in. PVC pipe instead. Buy adapters to connect the 1/2-in. poly tubing to the ends of the PVC pipe. Check with your local plumbing inspector before burying any pipe to see whether special backflow prevention is required.
Punch holes in the tubing wherever you want to install a watering device. Push and twist until the tip of the punch creates a clean hole.
Press a barbed connector into the hole in the 1/2-in. tubing. If the 1/4-in. tubing isn't already attached, add a length of 1/4-in. tubing to reach your dripper, sprayer or sprinkler location.
Press pressure-compensating (PC) drippers, sprinklers or sprayers onto the end of the 1/4-in. tubing. Use a stake to support the dripper and anchor it in the root zone of the plant.
Now add the various types of emitters for the particular plants— drippers, sprayers, sprinklers or drip line. The technique is simple. Use a hole punch tool to poke a hole in the tubing wherever you want to add a watering device (Photo 4). You can insert a dripper directly into the hole in the 1/2-in. tubing or use a barbed connector and connect a length of 1/4-in. vinyl tubing. Then connect a watering device to the end of the 1/4-in. tube (Photo 6).
You can buy sprinklers and sprayers as assemblies that include a barbed connector, a short length of 1/4-in. tubing and a plastic stake (Photo 5), or buy the parts separately and assemble them yourself. Remember to buy a selection of 1/4-in. barbed fittings, including T-fittings, elbows, connectors and hole plugs. You can press any of these fittings into a punched hole in the 1/2- in. line and connect 1/4-in. tubes to feed the emitters. T-fittings allow you to run 1/4-in. tubing in opposite directions from the main line or to branch off a 1/4-in. tube. Use connectors to extend a 1/4-in. tube that's too short. If you punch a hole in the wrong spot or want to remove a fitting, push a hole plug into the hole to seal it.
When your DIY irrigation system installation is complete, run water through the tubing to flush out any dirt. Then cap the ends (Photo 7). Now you're ready to turn on the water and see how your new micro irrigation system works. Let the water run for an hour. Then check around your plants to make sure the root zone has been thoroughly wetted. Fine-tune the system by adjusting the length of time you water or by adding or relocating watering devices.
Use these to water individual plants, or buy 'inline' drippers and use them in a series with a 1/4-in. tube. Drippers work great for container plants too. They're color-coded for different flow rates between 1/2 gph (gallons per hour) and 4 gph. In general, use lower flow rates for less porous soil, like clay, to allow more time for the water to soak in. Buy pressure-compensating (PC) drippers to maintain a steady flow despite the water pressure.
A cross between drippers and sprayers, many bubblers are adjustable for flows up to 35 gph and diameters to 18 in. Since they put out more water than drippers, they're good for larger plants like roses, tomatoes and shrubs.
These are miniature versions of sprinklers you might use in the yard. Most have flow rates between 14 and 40 gph and cover a radius of 3 to 30 ft. Since most sprinklers have a relatively high flow rate, you can't use more than about 15 or 20 in one zone of 1/2-in. tubing.
These are like sprinklers without moving parts. You can choose a spray pattern from a quarter circle up to a full circle, or buy sprayers with adjustable spray patterns. They spray from 4 to 34 gph and up to a radius of about 12 ft. Use sprayers to water ground cover or densely planted flowerbeds.
Also called emitter tubing, drip line consists of 1/2-in. or 1/4-in. tubing with built-in drippers. It's available with emitters spaced different distances apart for different flow rates. Drip line is great for vegetable gardens or rows of plants. You can use it to encircle shrubs and large plants, or lay it out in a grid pattern as a substitute for sprinklers in a densely planted flowerbed. Use 1/4-in. drip line for maximum flexibility.
One of the first things you'll notice when you're browsing the brochures or Web sites is a wide variety of watering devices. Here are the basic types and a few things you need to know about each one. While the ones shown here are the most common, there are many other, more specialized emitters. See the micro irrigation catalogs for the other types and their uses.
Container gardening expert Rosalind Creasy is a writer, lecturer and landscape designer. She is the author of the 10-book 'Edible Gardening' series. She also wrote 'Edible Landscaping,' for which she won the American Horticulture Society Book Award.
Creasy says automatic drip irrigation is perfect for containers because they dry out so quickly and require daily watering in hot weather. She's been using drip irrigation for more than a decade to grow an extensive selection of flowers and edible plants in containers at her northern California home. She says these online retailers, harmonyfarm.com and gardeners.com, are also good sources of information on installation, watering schedules and equipment options.
Here are some of Creasy's tips for using drip irrigation for containers:
The only tools you need are pruning shears and a special hole punch tool.
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Heartland Community College appoints Becky Ropp as newest trustee
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[March 03, 2014]
Trustees at
Heartland Community College appointed Becky Ropp to the District 540
board Monday night. Ropp will fill the vacancy left by Terry
Baggett, who resigned from the position in January after four years
of service.
Ropp's letter of
interest recognized Heartland Community College as an important
educational entity in the community, and goes on to say she'd be
honored to have the opportunity to help shape the future of the
"I truly have a
passion for giving back to the community," Ropp stated in her
letter. "[This community] has access to more programs and activities
than I ever dreamed…I want to make sure these opportunities are
available for the future and do my part to ensure they continue."
"The College was
pleased to have so many qualified candidates show interest in the
trustee position," said board chair Gregg Chadwick. "We feel that
Becky's commitment to lifelong education, coupled with her knowledge
of business and collaborative approach to community leadership, make
her an ideal trustee. We look forward to her insight and feedback as
the College continues to grow alongside the communities it serves."
Ropp was born and
raised in west-central Illinois. She is an alumnus of the University
of Illinois, where she earned an undergraduate degree (1995), and of
Illinois State University, where she earned an MBA (2000).
During college,
Ropp secured an internship at GROWMARK, Inc. in Bloomington, which
ultimately has led to a 19-year career with the company. She has
held various positions within the organization, but was most
recently promoted to the Human Resources leadership team as director
of the Talent Management Division for the entire GROWMARK System.
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her escalating roles within GROWMARK, Inc., Ropp also cited her
leadership skills and other meaningful credentials as a
qualification for the board appointment. Those include:
SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources) Certification in
from the Illinois Agricultural Leadership program (2008), which
included a learning tour through Eastern Europe
from the Leadership McLean County program through the McLean
County Chamber of Commerce (2002), where she's spent the last
three years serving as Day Chair and Leadership Curriculum
Ropp and husband
Ken have an 11-year-old daughter, and jointly operate a hog farm
called "Whey Awesome Pork." Additionally, her in-laws are Ray and
Carol Ropp, most notably affiliated with Ropp Jersey Cheese.
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A persuasive literature has argued that the course of Latin American history from the arrival of Europeans to the present has been shaped to a large extent by a small but expanding group of literate bureaucrats, church officials, lawyers, and intellectuals, known as letrados, who made their lives in urban centers. Those marked by this combination of power, urban living, and the written word, an assemblage that Angel Rama has dubbed "the lettered city," utilized literature, history, the law, politics, and higher education to imagine the country into existence textually and to justify the hierarchies and inequalities that characterized their rule. Yet in Mexico, as elsewhere in Latin America, writing has a long history in nonelite settings, a venue that, in recognition of this fact, has now been referred to as "the lettered countryside." Moreover, as understandings of a single literacy are giving way to a concern with "literacies," defined in the plural and operating in relationship rather than opposed to such things as orality and visuality, traces of literacy practices are being discovered in many locations. Foregrounding the conjunction of the lettered city and the lettered countryside is an attempt to bring these venues into conversation while doing away with the binary that associates literary with the city and orality with the rural.
Over the course of the 19th century in Mexico, although the written word was still pressed into the service of national imagining, a number of other characteristics shaped the conjunction of the lettered city and the lettered countryside. A struggle over secularization was one new development, as authority came increasingly to be invested in the written word itself rather than justified in religious terms. New forms of literacies emerged, especially those associated with the novel and other forms of publications, including newspapers, periodicals for and by women, and the penny press, creating new publics with distinct senses of themselves as communities of readers and listeners; oratory, public discussion of politics and other issues in various venues, and the phenomenon of indirect readers also brought together these two locations. As early as the 1840s, rural residents in some parts of the country had made writing their own, drafting political proclamations in which they defined such things as federalism in their own terms and asserted themselves in national politics. While elite diarists, both men and women, left traces of their emotional lives in various forms of life writing over the course of the entire period, ordinary people, including mine workers, agricultural laborers, and women who carried out household duties, wrote love letters to each other by the last third of the century, if not before. Composed and exchanged by means of cooperation, the use of intermediaries known as evangelistas, or by individuals with various degrees of facility in reading and writing, love letters served as privileged means of communicating the emotions they brought into being while often ending up as evidence in legal proceedings that continued to assert the prerogatives of the lettered city even as it came ever more intimately conjoined with the lettered countryside.
Keywords: lettered city, lettered countryside, literacies, love letters, print culture, novel, oratory, proclamations, penny press, women's publications
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In general, I ignore the spate of market predictions that experts issue at the start of each year. There are exceptions, and after reading Jason Hsu's outlook for this year, I am pleased to recommend it to readers. Dr. Hsu is the Chief Investment Officer at global money management firm, Research Affiliates. I found his article both insightful and appropriately skeptical of all forecasts. How can you not appreciate a money manager who starts his prediction for the year ahead with John Galbraith's quip that "the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable"?
I am going to mention a few of the elements of Hsu's outlooks and add some thoughts. Hsu first examines the drivers for bonds and then equities. I will follow this structure. Continue reading


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(Note: if you are unfamiliar with scalers, better read old topics on scalers like this one: http://www.imvu.com/catalog/modules.php ... p=10519256 before they got deleted. Plus, more generalised info about how Scalers and Debug panel editing work: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=262). First use I came with is "repositioning" accessoires or bones without visually scaling them. Since scaler affects relative offset between its bone and the next bone in hierarchy, we can then write the second scaler for this next bone, which will neutralise scaling, but keep the changes in offset.
I'll use the pet product made from repurposed Kitsune avatar as an example
As you can see, it has a bone inserted between root (Female03MasterRoot since originally it was an avatar) and the rest of the bones, called RotationExtra. RotationExtra was moved to the right creating an offset. In order to create scalers for accessoires you'll have to know their bone names. You can contact the original creator of the accessory, or try to guess the names yourself if the first option isnt available. Some tips on the possible naming: accessoires made in 3ds Max usually contain "AttachmentRoot" bone as the root of their hierarchy, and the next bone called "AttachmentNode" (though AttachmentNode may not have anything meaningful connected to it. The default bone name in 3ds max is "Bone", and the naming convention for te new bones will be "Bone01","Bone02" and following. Provided the creator is lazy, they may not rename them at all. In Blender, there is no AttachmentRoot (usually), the default bone name is the same as in Max, and additional bone numbering will start from "Bone.001" (take note of the dot and two zeroes).
Lets try to change the position first, and write two scalers, for Female03MasterRoot and RotationExtra accordingly
Assume we'll need to move it half of the distance closer. So we scale Female03MasterRoot to 0.5,0.5,0.5
As expected, even with distance decreased, the character shrank too. We'll fix it in the next step
by scaling the next bone (RotationExtra) to 2 by all axes and neutralising the scaling from the parent. This effect, obviously, only work if the bones in question have nonzero distance between them. If the offset on one of the axes is 0, then result of any scaling will be 0 as well. If the accessory has some animations that require precise distance between it and avatar, they will be broken, but for simple accessoires it hould be just fine
The next use Scalers can have is mirroring objects. From the 3d program's standpoint, mirroring amounts to scaling to negative value against one of the axes. However in IMVU it is little trickier than that. If we'd need to mirror the accessory in question, first we'll need to determine the correct mirroring axis
Ouch! for some reason X is incorrect. After few tests, Z proven to be needed one
Still looks painful but we're on the right track. What happened is the animation file trying to put joints back to their correct places. Another negative scaler on RotationExtra will fix it
Almost there, but the surface normals are flipped since mirroring only affects vertices position but doensnt recalculate normals
Setting materials to 2-sided fixes that.
Proof of concept product: www.imvu.com/shop/product.php?products_id=39305563 Can be seen as self promotion but I think its better than datamining someone else's mesh
Unconventional uses of Scalers: repositioning and flipping
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9 Sneaky Ways to Add More Fruits & Vegetables to Your Diet
By Michael A. Smith, MDpolyphenols to your system.
It's well-established that fruits and vegetables can help you maintain healthy blood pressure and cholesterol, protect your bones, enhance your brain function, and promote healthy cell growth and repair. However, many of us have trouble putting that knowledge into practice and getting five or more (emphasis on the "more") servings a day.
One reason you may not be tapping into the "power of produce" is that you think fruits and vegetables are too expensive. That's not necessarily so. You can buy three servings of fruits and four servings of vegetables for well under $2 a day, according to a survey by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Preparation time, unfamiliarity, and old habits are other common obstacles to eating more fruits and vegetables. So here are some simple tips to help make adding fruits and veggies to your daily diet a little bit easier.
1. Soups & SaucesFruits and vegetables are perfect for making soups and sauces. You can easily meet and even exceed your daily vegetable requirements by adding a side vegetable soup or sauce for your favorite protein.
Berries, pomegranates and purple grapes can be used to enhance the flavor of just about any sauce. Throw in some fresh herbs and tomatoes to your standard spaghetti sauce for a splash of "wow factor." And don't forget, a little acid from lemons and limes can enhance flavor while providing important antioxidants.
2. Think Beyond LettuceSalads can be more than just lettuce and dressing. First, there are over 50 varieties of greens that can be used in salads. From there, the limit is your own imagination. Add peppers, spices, onions, dried fruits and fresh herbs. Right there alone, you just met your veggie intake for the day with one meal.
Also consider adding grilled meats, like your favorite steak, to your salad for a complete meal. Or, try this — grill some watermelon and add it in for texture and sweetness that will take your tastes buds on a roller coaster ride of flavor.
Another one of my favorites is grilled figs brushed with olive oil. They're so amazing that they can make even boring, old iceberg lettuce exciting.
3. Disguise ThemJazz up your vegetables with spices, chopped nuts, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, or a specialty oil like walnut or sesame. Even a dash of grated Parmesan cheese can liven up the blandest green beans.
Now, this is one just about everyone will like. Try dipping any type of fruit in dark chocolate. Of course, only do this once in a while because even dark chocolate contains plenty of fat and sugar. Also, make sure that the chocolate you use is at least 70% cacao.
4. Fruit Smoothies & JuicingSmoothies rock! They're versatile and totally delicious. With today's commercial juicers and blenders, just about any fruit can be used. What's really cool is that you can add vegetables to your favorite smoothie as well. The sweetness from the yogurt and fruit will pretty much mask any taste of the veggies.
Try this as well: Add some parsley to your favorite smoothie. The color may turn green, but the nutritional value will skyrocket without jeopardizing the taste at all.
5. Seaweed Flakes as a Salt SubstituteAre you a salt craver? Well, here's some good news. You can put down that salt shaker and pick up the seaweed flakes. That's right. Seaweed flakes add salty flavor without the health consequences associated with eating too much salt. Not only that, seaweed contains compounds like fucoidan, which is considered a longevity factor and is a staple of the Japanese diet.
6. Spread it OnYogurt plus grated vegetables and fruits makes a great spread for whole grain and sprouted breads. The more veggies or fruits that you grate and add to the yogurt, the more easily it spreads and binds to the bread. Try it. It's actually delicious.
7. Use Fruit as SugarThis is one of my favorites. A friend of mine bakes low fat, high fiber multigrain muffins and uses apple pieces as the sweetener. She says pears or any white fruit work perfectly. Oh, by the way, the flesh of white fruit also cuts stroke risk by half.1
8. Use Vegetables as FillersDo you like meatballs or meatloaf? Try this: Use grated root vegetables as the binder instead of bread crumbs.
9. Give them the HeatCut up onions, carrots, zucchini, asparagus, turnips — whatever you have on hand — coat with olive oil, add a dash of balsamic vinegar, and roast at 350° until done. Grilling is another way to bring out the taste of vegetables. Use roasted or grilled veggies as a side dish, put them on sandwiches, or add them to salads.
Don't forget: You can grill fruits as well. Again, I promise you that you'll fall in love with grilled watermelon and figs. Try them now.
A Simple Recipe: Fruit SmoothieThis is a great way to use bananas that are beginning to get too ripe. (You can always cut ripe bananas into thick slices, freeze in a plastic bag, and thaw when you're ready to make another smoothie.)
Makes 1 serving:
- ¾ cup plain yogurt
- ½ cup berries (fresh or frozen strawberries, blueberries, or other berry of your choice)
- ½ ripe banana
- ½ cup pineapple juice
- Optional: 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed (for healthy omega-3 fats)
So what do you think? Sound easy enough? Bottom line is that we know we need to eat better, and that means eating more fruits and vegetables. If you follow just a couple of these tips, you can easily increase your intake to much "healthier" levels.
Good luck and bon appétit!
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Dracula: Dignity, doctor.
Dracula: I don't drink... coffee.
[Simon brandishes a Bible before the advancing Dracula]
Dracula: Propaganda.
Dracula: You made the world in your image. Now I make it in mine.
Marcus: [Simon produces a cross] Sorry sport. I'm an atheist.
Simon Sheppard: [a dagger pops out of the cross' base] God loves you anyway.
Dracula: You cannot imagine what I've had to endure. I have borne the very wrath of God, chosen to suffer like no man before.
Dracula: We're all so much more complicated than our names.
Dracula: Everything I am is yours.
Simon Sheppard: [trying to find her] Mary! Mary!
Dracula: And all you are is mine.
Dracula: Blood has always been the coin of our realm.
Dracula: [to the neon cross] You knew all this would come to pass.
Dracula: [to Mary] It was my last sunset on this earth that made me who I am.
Abraham Van Helsing: You-you can't have her... ever!
Dracula: Can't I?
Abraham Van Helsing: If you harm my daughter, I swear to the Lord Christ...
Dracula: Shh! He doesn't care. In that you can trust. You stole life from my blood and past it to another. She's my Mary now.
Abraham Van Helsing: No. Never! You want revenge? Take it! Right here, right now!
Dracula: You know not the depths of my vengeance.
Solina: You don't build this kind of security without a gold mine to hide.
Dracula: Let me show you what I have shown no other.
Dracula: Mary, you're afraid. Don't be.
Valerie Sharp: I don't want to die.
Dracula: Then you never will.
Detective Gautreaux: Solina, Dr. Seward here tells me you believe yourself to be a vampire. Now how does one become a vampire, Solina?
Solina: No, how does one become... a lover?
Detective Gautreaux: Well, I-I don't know.
Solina: [Groans] One is chosen.
Detective Gautreaux: You see that?
Dr. Seward: See what?
Solina: [sighs; Sultry voice] Would you like to be chosen, Mr. Detective? Are you waiting for a woman to choose you as a lover?
Detective Gautreaux: You getting this on tape?
Solina: [Yells] Look at me when I'm talking to you!
Detective Gautreaux: Now, Solina, you... you can't see me.
Solina: Of course I can.
[walks toward the one-way mirror as Solina can see through it; long, sultry sigh]
Solina: I can even see the outline of your cock through your pants. Don't pretend we're not interested. You know, it's a special thing to be chosen. Feels like...
[breathes heavily]
Solina: ... being born.
Dracula: You haven't been feeding her.
Simon Sheppard: What just happened in there?
Abraham Van Helsing: I told you to kill her! They can be killed by silver, by sunlight or by stakes. You must pierce their heart or behead them. They are nosferatu, vampires.
Simon Sheppard: And you knew this? And-and-and you're all right with this?
Abraham Van Helsing: I had them destroyed, eradicated. All but one: my secret in the abbey. He is what they stole.
Simon Sheppard: Who?
Abraham Van Helsing: Dracula. Dracula: not myth, nor ravings of a mad Irish novelist, oh no. He's real, I assure you.
Simon Sheppard: This is the fucking Twilight Zone!
[Mary escapes from the vampiric Lucy and enters an eerie velvet hallway only to quickly encounter Valerie, also a vampire. Valerie screeches at a frightened Mary, who corners her]
Valerie Sharp: [demonic] So what makes you the one? What do you have that we don't have?
Solina: [distorted] Oh, I know.
[Solina crawls on the wall from the left]
Solina: I know your secret. Oh, yes.
Mary: [sobs] No.
Solina: Yeah, I can still taste it on your daddy's blood.
Valerie Sharp: Oh, yes. The essence.
[Solina hisses]
Valerie Sharp: What he took from Dracula, he passed on to you.
Solina: Born with his blood, but not like the rest of us.
Lucy: [appears from the right;sultry] Daddy's little prodigal.
Valerie Sharp: Sorry about your old man. We sucked him dry.
Solina: [to Simon about to kill her] Go ahead. Cut me. Won't you have a lot to explain.
Solina: [to Simon] You Brits like to sweet-talk and you Brits like to romance, and all I wanna do is suck.
Lucy: You had him every night in your dreams and you never even shared!
Lucy: It *is* better than chocolate.
Lucy: I was named after the "Peanuts" character.
Nightshade: I said I was sorry...
Valerie Sharp: You gettin' the crash? You gettin' the sunset? You gettin' the tits?
J.T.: Yeah, well, it's the talent that matters, Val.
Valerie Sharp: And don't you forget it.
Marcus: Better than money!
Solina: You know, it's a special thing to be chosen. Feels like being born.
[last lines]
Mary: I am Mary Van Helsing. I am my father's daughter. And nothing can ever take that away.
Abraham Van Helsing: If anything down here moves, shoot it. You understand? Shoot it in the heart or cut off its head. You understand? They are the undead.
Simon Sheppard: The undead... UNDEAD!
Simon Sheppard: [Translating Slavic text on a crossbow] "All fear he who walks beneath the crown of Eternal Night."
Abraham Van Helsing: No, no, no, no, it's not crown, it's halo; beneath the Halo of Eternal Night
Simon Sheppard: Oh, well, you see why the design never survived. And look how heavy it is compared to what they were using in England at the time.
Abraham Van Helsing: [talking about the crossbow in his hands] Ah, while the English made them for firing arrow shafts of wood, this was made for firing metal... silver.
Mary: [seeing Dracula outside of her bedroom] Wake up... wake up... it's the dream... you know it's the dream. Wake up!
Mary: [confessing to her pastor] I've had these dreams my whole life. Trapped in darkness with this man. I used to think they were just... nightmares.
Solina: Does English charm work on English women?
Simon Sheppard: Why not, Solina? One reason.
Solina: I don't date men that I work with.
Abraham Van Helsing: [about Dracula] He is, quite simply, beyond the reach of death.
Solina: [after turning into a vampire] Oh, Mr. Van Helsing. Haven't you been selfish.
[Solina, a vampire, throws herself on Simon, but freezes when he holds a set of garden shears to her neck]
Solina: [seductive] Simon...
Simon Sheppard: Better make it good.
Solina: You and I, we could...
Simon Sheppard: [cuts her head off] No!


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Martha Stewart Applies Decorating Skills to Her New X3
Martha Stewart accepted BMW's invitation to design her dream BMW X3 Sports Activity Vehicle using BMW's "Dream It. Build It. Drive It." program. Martha used the "Build Your Own" online tool on bmwusa.com to customize her own BMW X3.
Customization is a specialty for the new BMW X3, the vehicle has more than 70 million unique configurations. Martha Stewart designed her X3xDrive35i to have a Sparkling Bronze Metallic exterior, one of three special exterior colors that are only available for BMW X3 custom orders. Martha's BMW X3 has a Sand Beige Nevada Leather interior and Fineline Wave Wood Interior Trim.
Recently, Martha and "The Martha Stewart Show" crew went to Spartanburg, South Carolina to watch the production of her BMW X3. Martha experienced firsthand where BMW makes all BMW X3, X5 and X6 vehicles for customers around the world and interviewed the people who make them. The last stop of the day was the BMW Performance Center where Martha tested out the Ultimate Driving Machine on BMW's own track.
Viewers can watch Martha's visit to BMW on Tuesday, December 14 at 10 am ET/9 c on "The Martha Stewart Show" on Hallmark Channel. During the show, Martha will get the keys to her very own BMW and viewers will be encouraged to keep watching the show to find out how to enter for a chance to win their own BMW X3.
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