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Your desk is your haven, your personal launch pad for brilliance and all the amazing gems you drop during the day.
It's also what everyone sees when they step into your cube or office, not to mention a representation of you when you're not there. People who walk by look at it and get a picture of who you are—for example, an immaculately clean worker with a thing for 90-degree angles, or a compulsive pack rat with a thing for making towers out of her empty gum and Altoids packages. (I have worked with that person, and before you judge, I have to say it looked kind of cool.)
So looking professional matters, but so do functionality and personality. Below is a guide to help you attain the awesome-desk trifecta:
Massive desk-pad calendars
In the age of Google Calendar and iCal and every other techy scheduling tool you can think of, it may seem silly to have one of these around, but it's great to have for a whole mess of reasons:
1. It's quite possibly free in your office supply room.
2. It allows you to do basic scheduling at the quickest glance. Some crazy business associate wants to meet you at 8:00 a.m. on March 2nd? "Sure," you might say, until you glance over and see that that means 8:00 a.m. on a SATURDAY. Oh, buddy, I don't even need to look at my Outlook calendar to tell you that we're rescheduling.
3. It's a socially acceptable way to have half of your desk covered with a doodle pad. This is important not only so that you can perfect your invisible cubes and cartoon Holsteins, but also for scratching down ideas, contact information, etc. that you get on the phone. And you won't lose it. If anything, you'll be forced to transfer all of that stuff to someplace more permanent (or scrap it) at the end of the month. Win win win.
There will come a day (for some people, every other day, or perhaps every five minutes) when you leave a long, pointless meeting or get off of a patience-taxing phone call and decide that you are going to slam your head in the cabinet drawer for a while or maybe just stand on your desk, calmly drop your monitor from eight feet up, and stride purposefully out of your coworkers' lives for good.
This is when you look at the photo of your child, sweetheart, pet, siblings, etc. and take a deep breath and realize that life doesn't quite suck that badly. (And if it does, go home and dust off your resume.)
Reusable water bottle
Hydration is important, and so is saving Mother Earth. Boom! Two birds, one stone. You're welcome. Moving on…
Disinfectant wipes
For counteracting scuzz (see below).
Anything that broadcasts your religious or political beliefs
Unless you're working at a church or for a political campaign, in which case, duh.
For those of you who really want to put up your old Perot bumper stickers or cross-stitched Bible verses: I hear you. I really do. I have some firm religious beliefs of my own (for example, on the D.C. Metro escalators, we walk on the LEFT and stand on the RIGHT, end of story). I also have some firm political beliefs (i.e., that elected officials should do stuff).
But still, it's all stuff I keep to myself. There are so many ways to alienate your coworkers. Don't scare those lovely people off prematurely by letting them know you're a die-hard believer in whatever they find abhorrent.
And while we're throwing things away…
As long as we're purging our desks of beliefs, here's a word about other messages we broadcast. I'm speaking of those coffee mugs with attitude that some people own that broadcast (generally gendered) messages about how "I love CHOCOLATE, amiright, ladies?" and sassy observations about menopause or about how "bald men do it better" and so on. Yeah, this is just my opinion, but while these might be funny to you, they project a lot more of something else—subtle discomfort about gender roles, bitterness over the inexorable decline of one's body, ennui about the human condition—than humor.
Also, they're annoying.
Your feet
Seriously—were you born in a barn?
Nail clippers
If you MUST have these at work, please, please, please write a note on them that says "DO NOT USE AT YOUR DESK." This goes for anything else that might make your coworkers retch if they catch you using it: floss, a hairbrush (shedding everywhere), etc.
Do you know what is in the dust that collects everywhere? GROSSNESS, that's what. Lint, yes, but also food crumbs, skin cells, decaying insect parts and so on. And if you clip your nails, floss, brush your hair at your desk, etc., you're only making it worse. The serious point here: wipe your desk down at least once a year, whether it needs it or not.
Danielle Kurtzleben (@titonka) is a journalist in Washington, D.C. She should really clean her morning oatmeal bowl before she lets it sit out on her desk all day.
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What is Gnomeaggedon's Theme Song?
Well, not so much the words, although "Your my only friend, and you don't even like me" is probably quite pertinent to most WoW friendships.
No, it's more about the feeling that the music invokes in me.
The initial strumming/picking of the guitar, feels like the tank pulling and starting to build threat, while I squirm with impatience, then throw the first few scorches out building up for the drums…
You know you are going to pull aggro any seconds now, but you just can't stop
Then it's all out chaos, fireballs flying, fireballs-to-the-wall action.
The music just sends that "you know you are going to pull aggro any seconds now, but you just can't stop" shiver up and down my spine.
I guess I have lived with this song in my head for a long time. I first saw this band a long time ago, in a now non-existent venue. They were around 16 years old, playing to maybe a dozen people in a large room (they were support to the support act). The thing that caught my attention was, they might as well have been playing to an area filled with a 100,000 people. They gave it their all.
I like to think I do the same thing, even if I am only in Kara. When I play, I like to play like it matters.
The band name was God.
They were called God, and at their last ever gig, which I was lucky enough to squeeze into, they said they were the greatest rock and roll band ever… and while many would disagree, there was something about them that would make you scream "Hell yeah!"
I like to think Gnomeaggedon is the God of DPS in our raid group.
They, like a Fire Mage, lived hard and died young.
Although the members of the band went on to build a huge reputation in the Australian music industry, many, if not most of them are long gone from this world. They lived hard, died young, they messed with the elements and paid the ultimate price
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I got an account on kuro5hin.org... another community news site. Doesn't look too interesting just yet... apart from H.R. 2987. (Okay, so I'm german... but when even the US treats freedom of speech this way, Germany will do even worse :-(
email email email... I'm swamped. But it gets better on weekends ;-) And the bulk of this I collected while I was at my grandma's and couldn't get at my mail.
There was a nice comparison of Athlon boards in the current c't. They mention that the ASUS K7V has sound on-board... but it's not a real sound-card in that the CPU has to do all the processing (a WinSoundCard if you will).
Of course there are drivers for Windoze... they mention drivers for Linux, but I fear they're binary-only. *sigh* If that is the case I'd have to go with a K7M... luckily they also say that the features the VIA Northbridge provides aren't really that necessary.
I just checked on www.asus.com, and it looks as if there are binary drivers for K7V sound. Damn. So K7M it will be (hopefully soon :-/) Is cheaper anyway ;-)
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Public Education is Not a Commodity to be Outsourced
By Dave Arnold
It began as a peaceful rally in Chicago's Haymarket Square. Industrial workers were on strike regarding the eight-hour workday. A broad coalition of labor organizations joined in support. Then someone threw a dynamite bomb at police, who responded by firing their weapons at protesters.
What became known as the Haymarket Massacre or Riot took place on May 4, 1886. The bomb blast and ensuing gun violence resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least a half dozen civilians. Many more were wounded.
Those workers fought for working conditions many of us take for granted.
Then there is the Battle of Blair Mountain, one of the largest civil uprisings in U.S. history. In 1921 in West Virginia, about 10,000 armed coal miners confronted 3,000 police officials and strikebreakers who were backed by coal mine operators. What did the miners want? To unionize.
The struggle for fair wages and working conditions continues. But instead of coal fields, industrial parks and warehouse grounds, today's labor disputes generally take place during school board meetings, in court rooms and lawyer's offices.
This might be one reason that the national media does not cover labor disputes like they use to: Less blood and guts. Still, labor wars are more stealthy and pervasive than most people realize and the movement to privatize public education is at the forefront.
One of the biggest labor disputes going on today is the outsourcing of ESP jobs. Just a few years ago, for example, subcontractors didn't want to do business with small schools. Outsourcing, or privatization, has been a threat to larger schools and school districts for decades. But as board members serving in small school districts suffer the effects of budget crunches, contract labor companies smell blood and move in. These privateers try to convince school boards and administrators that the district can save money by letting them manage their transportation, maintenance or food service operations.
Companies like First Student (transportation) and Sodexo (food) usually don't employ workers with anywhere near the experience, training and dedication of school district employees. Most contractors have a supervisor that has some experience while the rest of the crew are simply run-of-the-mill employees looking for an income. They are just punching a time clock until their next gig. Bottom line: You get what you pay for.
When ESP jobs are transferred to the private sector through the hiring of service companies, ESPs either lose those jobs or are hired back by a subcontractor, typically with lower pay and fewer benefits. After privatization, employees also can lose the benefits of union representation, such as a grievance procedure, health and safety protection, and security against arbitrary treatment on the job.
In my state, the Illinois Education Association was successful in getting legislation passed to help curb outsourcing of ESP jobs. The legislation cannot prevent outsourcing, but it does require contractors to prove they are competent, trustworthy, and pay a decent wage to their employees.
Nationwide, about 75 percent of ESPs live, vote, shop and worship in the same school district where they work. Even more impressive, many attended the school where they work. Essentially, they are known and trusted members of the community.
Whenever I walk into a grocery store or attend church, the people automatically think of me as their child's or their grandchild's custodian. I am their neighbor down the block. We have a relationship. I have lived in this community all my life. Do you think this level of familiarity would exist with a contactor? Private companies send strangers into schools to spend the day with the community's children.
I'm sure that was the same thinking of the people in Camden, Maine. According to an article in the Camden Herald (April 17, 2014), "a huge sigh of relief could be heard coming from the cafeteria at Camden-Rockport Middle School April 16 when the School Administrative District 28 School Board voted unanimously not to outsource custodial services in the district."
The article quotes Thomas Murphy of Rockport "who simply asked the board's permission to have the approximately 80 people in attendance stand if they did not support outsourcing at which time 95 percent of the room came to their feet. The board then voted unanimously not to outsource custodial services in SAD 28 and received a standing ovation."
Haymarket and Blair Mountain were fought to gain the rights that many working people now enjoy. The Haymarket affair is generally considered as the origin of May Day observances for workers across the world.
Today, the good folks in Camden had to prove to the world that public education is not a commodity to be outsourced, marketed or engaged in for profit. Camden showed us something else too: The struggle continues.
(Dave Arnold, a member of the Illinois Education Association, is a custodian at Brownstown Elementary School in southern Illinois. He can be contacted at email@example.com.)
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Let me encourage those of you who are interested in the American Revolution, historical memory, or the mountain South to pick up a copy of the Fall 2009 issue of Tennessee Historical Quarterly, which is just now off the press. The first article is by yours truly, based on some of the research I did for my master's thesis. I'm very honored to have some of my work in THQ.
In this piece, I examine some nineteenth-century accounts of the Battle of King's Mountain by historians, antiquarians, and orators to explain how some of the popular traditions about this event developed. The battle was undeniably significant for a number of reasons, but today it's especially important in the history of the Tennessee mountains. I argue that many of the popular notions we have about the battle's relationship to Appalachian Tennessee can be traced back to re-tellings of the late 1800's, a time when there was great interest in the region's Revolutionary-era past.
On a related note, check out the latest of Gordon Belt's series of posts on John Sevier. Before he became Tennessee's first governor, Sevier was one of the backcountry militia officers who planned and commanded the expedition that ended with the Whig victory at King's Mountain. Gordon looks at the movement of Sevier's remains from Alabama to Tennessee in the late 1880's, during the same wave of remembrance and regional pride I discuss in my article. I'm looking forward to his further posts on this fascinating historical figure.


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Auditor calls state's relationship with contractor 'highly peculiar'
State underpaid $33,000 by shredding company, auditor says
The state auditor says the Nebraska Department of Administrative Services took no action while it was being shortchanged by a shredding service contracted by the state.
Officials said since 2003, Shredding Solutions Inc. was to pay the state the value of its shredded paper each month. But the State Auditor's Office found that the monthly payments were far below the contractual price.
The monthly payments became increasingly late and sporadic before ultimately ceasing altogether, the auditor said. Meanwhile, the auditor said the Department of Administrative Services made no objection to the developments.
Prompted by the auditor's findings, the DAS conducted an internal audit and informed Shredding Solutions that it was in breach of contract. The company then made a partial corrective reimbursement of about $27,000 in late November.
Further investigation by the State Auditor's Office revealed that the market price of the paper was consistently between $55 and $100 per ton, but the state was only getting $25 per ton.
This resulted in the state being underpaid more than $33,000, even after the corrective reimbursement.
The DAS said that representatives from the shredding company claimed to have entered into a verbal agreement with the state allowing for a flat rate $25 per ton. The state's recycling coordinators said they had no knowledge of such agreement.
"I find the state's relationship with this contractor to be highly peculiar," State Auditor Mike Foley said. "First, DAS received insufficient payments from its contractor, then very late insufficient payments, and then no payments whatsoever -- all without DAS taking any action. Something is just not right here, and DAS and the contractor have replied with nothing but empty excuses."
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My backpack, which I've been using for quite some time now (think years) is about ready to give up the ghost. Ok. It already has, but I keep duct taping it back together. I've been keeping an eye out for a new bag for six months.. no joy. Can't find anything I like, want, is practical, etc. Then I saw the Lululemon bag. Love at first sight! Which is good, cuz I had a heart attack when I finally saw the price. It better last a LOOOOOONG time! LOL! It's totally wonderful, though! I can fit everything in there (pockets for EVERYTHING) and the way the shoulder strap is worked it doesn't weigh down my bad shoulder (which is my purse shoulder). I love it!! And, it'll double as my...... oops! Nearly spilled the beans! ;-) Soon, I'll share my fun news!
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The USS Nautilus (NCC-31910) was a 24th century Federation Miranda-class starship operated by Starfleet.
The Nautilus fought in the Dominion War. In late 2374 she saw action at the First Battle of Chin'toka where she, along with the USS Hood and USS Tian An Men, assisted the USS Defiant in destroying the orbital weapon platforms' shared power generator. (DS9: "Tears of the Prophets")
The Nautilus' appearance in "Tears of the Prophets" was confirmed by John Gross and Karen Sickles of Digital Muse in a 25 June 1998 post, by DS9 Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes, on the newsgroup alt.tv.star-trek.ds9.
One of the Miranda-class ships that appeared in this sequence quite clearly bore the registry of NCC-1864.
According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 68), the Nautilus was "named for the first submarine to reach the North Pole, as well as Captain Nemo's fictional vessel in Jules Verne's classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
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Nearly 200 enthusiasts hit Bowman's Beach on a cool Saturday morning to get a little exercise and do a lot for local children in need.
The Sanibel-Captiva Optimist Club's Jingle Bell 5K Walk brought out two- and four-legged walkers while raising money for children served by Friends in Service Here (F.I.S.H.) of Sanibel, as well as to fund Optimist college scholarships and its fishing program for kids.
The Jingle Bell Walk, which started as Wave of Hope walk, is in its fifth year and better than ever, said Stan Howard, Optimist president.
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"We're going to have about as many walkers as last year," Howard said. "We're going to provide kids with school supplies and food for Christmas."
Optimist does countless services for the area, according to Dani Howard of Optimist, from scholarships to filling the food pantry.
"We provide six scholarships of $5,000 each, we do the CHR backpack program, the Junior Anglers, the basketball program in August and free lunch Friday at the rec. center," said Howard. "We just help wherever we can."
Walkers, who paid $20 each to participate, hit the beach at 8 a.m. and walked about 1.5 miles down the beach to the midway point and returned to the starting point Tables were set up along the way for anyone who wanted bottled water to rehydrate.
Among the walkers was Santa Claus, who looked svelte and ready to deliver toys to the world's children on Dec. 25.
"I couldn't get in and out of my sleigh last year and got stuck in a few chimneys," Santa said. "The Optimist Club is a great club. I made time this year to be on Bowman's Beach with them."
Joyce and Gary Miller learned about the walk in the paper, and brought their dog, Kit, for the trip.
"We like walking the beach. It's dog friendly and for a good cause," Joyce said. "It's the first time we've been here, so we're trying to take advantage of the holiday thing."
Bill Fellows, president of F.I.S.H., walked with his wife, Virginia, and had fun while supporting his cause, which is trying to meet the needs of those less fortunate in the area.
"We're appreciative of the Optimist Club for having the event. It has always been supportive of F.I.S.H.," Fellows said. "Every city has been impacted by the difficult economy. We have over 800 clients we're serving and 150 families using the food pantry."
After the walk, the recreation center held a free block party to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the facility.
For more about F.I.S.H., visit www.fishofsanibel.com.
For info on the Optimist Club, visit www.sancapoptimist.com.


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Panel on "Transgender Legal Issues in Hawaii and the Pacific"
Sponsored by Lambda Law Student Association and Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Cultural FoundationUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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UH Mānoa's William S. Richardson School of Law Lambda Law Student Association and the Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Cultural Foundation present "Transgender Legal Issues in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific" on Monday, March 14, at 6 p.m. in Law School Classroom 2.
The evening will feature a panel discussion on transgender, transsexual, mahuwahine, and intersex legal issues in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. A light dinner will also be served along with a screening of the short film on f'a'afafine Samoan culture sponsored by the HGLCF Rainbow Film Festival.
Panel members include: Hinaleimoana Falemai, cultural director and advisor for Halau Lokahi Public Charter School, founding member and former president of Kulia Na Mamo Hinaleimoana; Amy Donahue, treasurer for Pride at Work (AFL-CIO), Honolulu; Professor Hazel Beh, who has written extensively on sex and gender and the law and will speak on the issue of consent and intersex persons; and Tracy Ryan, executive director for Harm Reduction Hawaiʻi and board member of Kulia Na Mamo, a nonprofit dedicated to the empowerment and service of transgender people/mahu-wahine in Hawaiʻi.
In attendance will be Justice Sabrina McKenna and State Representative Blake Oshiro, both graduates of the William S. Richardson School of Law. In their professional lives they have managed to promote and advance LGBTQ rights. Judge McKenna, is one of four openly gay state supreme court justices across the nation, and Blake Oshiro is one of 85 openly gay state legislators in the entire U.S (less than 2 percent of state legislators). The Lambda Law Student Association will honor them at this event for their contributions.
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It's been ten weeks (so outlasting the Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke feat from 1986 by a few days) since that disbelieving morning in Chicago. And what a roller coaster it has been! I thank my family, friends and foes – plus all the incredible volunteers from around the world – for making it possible. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" (Mahatma Gandhi).
I have watched shocking bridge videoes, many of them together with my wife, and for the first two weeks I pinched my arm numerous times each day. Is this for real? Adrenalin kept me going for the first two weeks despite my body protesting in so many ways. In the end my body gave in and I have felt at ease, like I did being with my grandparents in Moi playing my first hands of bridge at the age of eight.
Getting the federations and organizations to open their eyes has been a struggle. Over the weeks I have seen the Nordic NBOs becoming half awake, the EBL fully awakening and getting ready to fight the filth, and the ACBL slowly making progress. But first and foremost I have experienced people – fellow bridge players – standing up for what's right. Fighting the good fight without fear. "The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it" (Norman Schwarzkopf).
I have put in about 12 hours a day on average for the future of bridge. After 800 hours and 25.000 dollars (I will give a $10 discount on next year's subscription of my bridge magazine since I have to skip one issue this year) I believe it is time to get off the roller coaster for a while. I do have two children (1,5 and 10,5), a wife, a bridge magazine, a bridge column and a few bridge tournaments to attend. Was it worth it, you may wonder. Absolutely. This is not about me, and it's definitely not about the money – it's about saving the most wonderful game in the world.
It's been emotionally challenging, too. Turning in my friends – people I have known, respected and liked for many years. That is by no means an easy task, but I have tried to separate the cases from the persons involved. I have followed my gut feeling from the very start of this process and tried to be honest both with myself and the people I have interacted with. It would be devastating to learn that I have spread rumours or accused someone of wrongdoings who play a clean game. I would like to preempt with my sincerest apologies if it turns out that I have dragged anyone through the mud which didn't had it coming. I promise you that I did my very best in each and every case.
Am I afraid for what's going to happen next? Not really, because I have just done what I had to do based on my values and my love of the game. I would have done the same thing again – and I hope my children will do the same when they are called upon. None of us know what life has in store for us. Around the next corner it can be all over. It's all about being true to yourself and what you believe in. "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking" (Marcus Aurelius).
The main focus for me and my team the last ten weeks has been cheating. There are other issues too, though, which need to be addressed. How we treat our partner, how we treat our opponents, how we treat our teammates, our behavior and mannerisms at the table, not taking advantage of unauthorized information and so on. The true spirit of the game.
There are two incidents (three if one includes the wheel chair message) with regards to the Monaco/Zimmermann team which recently won the Transnationals in Chennai. As in all the other cases I prefer the players/people involved to come forward and do the right thing. Other wise I would need to jump back on the roller coaster for another ride. Since most readers probably don't know which incidents I am talking about, it's a 7 NT hand against Sasa in round three and various table actions against PD Times in round eight. It would be great if the Zimmermann team/Monegasque Bridge Federation could enlighten the bridge community about their stance on these incidents (including the wheel chair message).
I would also like to thank the Bridgewinners site and the Bridgewinners community which have been tremendously important in bringing information to the people. I encourage you to stand up both for bridge and for the freedom of speech in the future.
My fellow bridge players: Ask not what the game can do for you – ask what you can do for the game.
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The Z97N-WIFI is GIGABYTE's mini-ITX format from it's 9 Series Ultra Durable. In this review from Anantech, the Z97N-WIFI was compared side by side against ASROCK and MSI's priced between $130~$140. Here are a few lines of what Ian had to say about the GIGABYTE motherboard
"In the past, I criticized GIGABYTE for their component placement, but it would seem that the Z97N-WIFI gets a near perfect score. Along the top are the 4-pin CPU power connector, the COM header and the two fan headers, while on the right hand side (note, on the edge of the PCB) is the 24-pin ATX power connector, two of the SATA ports, the front panel header, a USB 2.0 header and a USB 3.0 header. Actually the only ports slightly away from the edge are the other four SATA ports, but given that two are on the outside that makes building a PC a lot easier.
The lack of a power delivery heatsink might give cause for concern for overclocking, however GIGABYTE is claiming to use high efficiency power delivery ICs and our overclock testing differs little from the other two motherboards."
"A motherboard that is easy to set up, in terms of cabling, is always good to have on the test bed. The Z97N-WIFI is one such example, and this becomes one of its major selling points. By placing more of the important headers around the edges of the motherboard PCB, adding in the power cables, fan cables, SATA cables and any other cables makes building and repairing an easier job. The position of the socket, alongside the lack of a power delivery heatsink, would suggest that any size air cooler would fit with appropriate memory."
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- For those of you who have experienced overclocking with the Z97N-WIFI, have you experience any overheating issues?
- What about the motherboard component placement? Was it easy to make your build with this motherboard?
- Did you appreciate and made full use of the 2-HDMI ports found in the back IO
- What do you use for mini-ITX system for? Is it overclocked?
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Hating another person is not a solution to anything. Finding a more practical means of resolving a problem is much more useful.
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My husband and I have a young daughter that I have been home-schooling for the past two years, with no success because she hates it.
She has been in about twenty schools already, and each time I took her out of the school because she was being abused and bullied. She sings beautifully but has never had a chance to prove herself, and I cannot send her to dance classes because of the expense.
My husband works long hours just to keep us all going and we cannot afford a tutor. I have no transport and spend most of my time at home with my daughter. Often my husband just comes home to change clothes before he goes out again, and we hardly ever talk. When he does have time to talk to me, he just tells me what I do wrong.
I am very concerned that I am becoming more and more miserable and that I am letting my daughter down. How can I change the situation?
I love my mother but I feel she does not love me. She has always expected me to agree with her and do as I get told, or else she would physically attack me.
I now spend most of my time at boarding school where I have to work very hard to keep up. I come home feeling exhausted and just want to relax and catch a breath. However, everything ends up in a fight with my mother – and I mean a physical fight where I have to defend myself and watch out so that I don't hurt her.
For example, today I accidentally stepped on her foot – I did not see her standing right behind me. I apologized, but she started screaming at me and grabbed my hair, and then started hitting me. I first started screaming as well, but I then started laughing to try and defuse the situation and also to restrain myself.
I have noticed that whenever I go home for a weekend, my hands start to shake. How can I deal with my mother without fighting and hating her?
When everything is wrong, you are very close to big changes where everything goes right.
I am getting married in two months, and that is about the only thing that I am not stressing about at the moment.
I have a dreadful job where I am getting bullied to the point where I have already had to take sick leave. I am facing redundancy – I am not sure when, but I have already heard on the grapevine that I am on the list. If I hang in there I will get a redundancy package but then I will be unemployed at the time when I need money for the wedding. If I sue the company for bullying, I will probably win the case but the company won't pay damages – they have done the same with two other people in the last two years.
My best friend is not supportive at all, and at the moment blames me for stuff in her life that has nothing to do with me. This is adding to my stress to the point where I just want to walk away from our friendship.


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Peregrine falcons have had a chequered history, and it is fortunate that they have survived so many threats to their very existence.
During World War Two they were regarded as a serious public enemy as their superb hunting skills took their toll of carrier pigeons being used to bear top secret messages from the resistance and from our spies on the continent. Peregrines around the channel coast killed so many returning pigeons that a special unit was set up to deal with the problem and the falcons were shot and trapped to reduce the toll.
As if this were not enough, the use of inappropriate insecticides and fertilizers for several years after the war had a devastating effect on the peregrine population as well as on numbers of other raptors like kestrels, buzzards and owls, for the chemicals they ingested with their prey caused serious reproduction problems, and many a brood of eggs failed to hatch.
Fortunately, however, the problem was identified in time to ban the worst of the insecticides, particularly DDT, and from the early 1970s on the position gradually changed, and the peregrine is now thriving again, its numbers increasing and its range spreading into town centres from tits usual habitat on coastal cliffs and inland rocks. Not that this pleases everyone, for pigeon fanciers still complain of losses of their prize racing birds.
For centuries the peregrine was much favoured by Kings as arguably the fiercest and most efficient falcon of them all. Henry 11, during a visit to Ramsey Island where he stopped off on his way to Ireland, loosed one of his prized Norway Goshawks at a peregrine, and the smaller but faster and more manouevrable falcon knocked his bird out of the sky at the king's feet. From then on Henry insisted on being supplied with Ramsey eyasses for his falconry.
Watching peregrines in flight is a thrilling experience. Their normal flight is swift and direct and when they stoop on their prey they can reach speeds of up to 240 mph in the dive from several hundred feet, to strike an unsuspecting pigeon or other bird in flight. They are undoubtedly the fastest creatures in the animal kingdom. They can even knock down a bird as large as a duck, a skill which earned them the alternative name of Duck Hawk in North America. Almost every stretch of cliff on the mainland and on the Pembrokeshire islands has its pair of peregrines, and they are often seen taking prey over town and city streets. Their breeding range includes land regions from the Arctic tundra to the tropics and they can be found nearly everywhere on earth, apart from the extreme polar regions, high mountains and tropical rainforests. The peregrine is a handsome bird about the size of a crow, with a blue-grey back, barred white underparts and a black head and distinctive 'moustache.' Its yellow beak and talons and its large, dark, yellow-circled eyes are fearsomely formidable features.


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NessieCullen wrote:Kate/Garrett, because I TOTALLY didn't see that one coming, although I kinda thought Jacob/Leah was gonna happen for a while.
I'm totally with u on the Kate/Garrett situation, i loved their lines and he was really funny at the end.
AND i also so totally thought Jacob was gonna get with Leah when she joined hes pack but then again they're relationship was more of a love/hate brother sister kinda relashionship, they're not into each other at all.


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Back in the prehistoric era — 2008 — Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser roamed the web like a diplodocus, eating everything in its path. As many as 90% of users saw the internet via Explorer.
Today, Explorer can't even command a simple majority of users. Google's Chrome browser is now the most popular web viewer, with 31.8% of the market. On mobile devices, probably the most important arena for browsers right now due to its growth, Explorer barely exists: only 1.8% of users see the mobile web via Explorer.
Explorer appears to be trapped on desktop, where it still holds a plurality, 43.3% to Chrome's 30.6%. Our data came from Adobe. Chart via Statista.
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Does anyone have any experience with digital voice recorders? The main use I would have for one is recording sermons and classes.
These are two of the ones I am currently considering:
Sony ICD-PX312 Digital Flash Voice Recorder
Olympus VN-8100PC Digital Voice Recorder 142600 (Silver and Black)
But by no means does that mean I'm only open to those two. Basically I'm interested in knowing if you have any experience with any.


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If you play a sport like racquetball, you understand the importance of good eye protection. Unfortunately, many people are unaware that they can injure their eyes while playing a variety of other, supposedly less dangerous sports.
The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) has designated April 2011 as Sports Eye Safety Month to help increase public awareness of wearing protective eyewear when participating in team sports. Protecting your eyes from injury will go a long way toward maintaining healthy vision throughout your life.
According to the AAO:
- An estimated 40,000 sports eye injuries occur every year. The majority of victims are children, many of whom suffer permanent visual impairment.
- Baseball and basketball account for the largest number of injuries among young athletes.
- Little League pitchers can achieve pitching speeds up to 70 mph. That's fast enough to seriously damage an eye.
- In basketball, serious eye injuries caused by flying fingers and elbows can be prevented by wearing appropriate protective eyewear.
- Many other popular sports, such as tennis, soccer, football, golf, water sports, and hockey, put unprotected players at risk for serious eye injury.
Many children's sports leagues, schools, and teams don't require children to wear eye protection during games. If you're a parent, be sure to set a good example by wearing eye protection whenever you play a sport, and make sure your kids wear their eye protection when they play.
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Bible study of Romans to begin May 9
Part 1 of a Kay Arthur in-and-out Bible study of Romans will take place beginning at 6:30 p.m. May 9 at Liberty Bible Church, 25825 U.S. Highway 160, Unit B.
The study is open to men and women.
To RSVP by Wednesday, call 749-3385.
Sacred Heart church to hold spaghetti supper
Sacred Heart Catholic Churchs 38th annual spaghetti supper will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Sacred Heart Parish Hall, 254 East Fifth Ave.
The cost is $10 for adults, $4 for children and free for children younger than 6. The menu will feature spaghetti and meatballs, salad, bread, pizzelle cookies and drinks.
Faith Community to welcome new pastor
Faith Community Church of the Nazarene, 1400 Colorado Highway 172, will welcome new the Rev. Paul and Sherry Ward at 10:30 a.m. May 6.
The Colorado district superintendent will officiate at an installation service and a reception will be afterward.
National Day of Prayer to be held Thursday
The 61st annual observance of the National Day of Prayer will take place from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday at the La Plata County Courthouse next to the flag pole, 1060 East Second Ave.
For more information, visit www.nationaldayofprayer.org.
Congregation Har Shalom to host fundraiser Friday
A First Friday Hollywood Havdallah Fundraiser will take place from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday at Congregation Har Shalom, 2537 County Road 203.
The fundraiser will raise money for Doris Bergal, wife of one of the congregations first congregational presidents, who has been undergoing surgeries with complications.
The family is in need of financial help. Free pizza, salad and dessert will be provided. A screening of The Infidel, a family-friendly comedy, also will take place.
San Juan Bible camp announces events
San Juan Bible Camp, a nondenominational camp at 14260 Road 39.9 in Mancos, will host these events:
Registration day will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. today. Attendees who register before Tuesday will save $20. Licensed medical personnel will be present to give physicals, parental consent forms will be available for off-site activities, and snacks will be served.
A work day will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 5. Projects will include limbing trees, chipping branches, cleaning cabins and fire mitigation. RSVP is needed because lunch will be provided.
The camp is accepting registrations for students in kindergarten to 12th grade. Scholarships are available.
For more information, visit www.SanJuanBibleCamp.org, call 533-7622 or email email@example.com.
Cuban missionary to speak Sunday
Willie Santiago, a Cuban missionary from Jovellanos, Cuba, in the province of Matanzas, will speak about current religious freedoms at 12:15 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church, 332 E. 11th Street.
Santiago has been working with various churches in the United States for several years that have sent work teams and aid through Cuba Connection Ministry. The public is welcome.
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After the 9/11 attacks, it at first seemed as if the film industry would respond in a major way, telling many stories related to that day.
In fact, exactly one year later, in the fall of 2002, a collaborative effort from 11 international filmmakers quietly arrived in arthouse cinemas in a few American cities. The movie was called, simply, "11. 09. 01 — September 11" and was a mix of short films, all of which addressed either directly or obliquely the events of that day. Some were bluntly painful, such as "Babel" director Alejandro González Iñarritu's news footage depicting falling bodies from the Twin Towers. Others, such as Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf's brief visit with elementary-school-aged children discussing the nature of divine punishment ("God hasn't got airplanes," says one little girl. "God builds humans.") were quietly and sadly wise.Story: In 9/11 movies, it's little moments that touch us
But after that small offering, it felt like Hollywood might be taking a hands-off policy. Two 2006 projects attracted reasonably large audiences: "World Trade Center," with its heartfelt, real-life story of two police officers trapped under the collapsed towers, and "United 93," a harrowing real-time account of the events that may have taken place aboard the flight that crashed in a Pennsylvania field. "United 93" earned two Academy Award nominations for direction and editing. Two other wide releases, the Adam Sandler drama "Reign Over Me" and Robert Pattinson's "Remember Me," failed to connect with audiences.
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Independent filmmaker Brian Sloan can count himself among the handful of writer-directors to explicitly address the events of 9/11. His movie, the 2005 indie "WTC View," about a New Yorker trying to rent out a room in his Twin Towers-adjacent apartment, is fictional but began with a true story. The New York-based director, who lives a short distance from what is now Ground Zero, placed an ad for a roommate on Sept. 10, 2001. His experiences talking to people who visited the apartment after the attacks, all of whom had stories to tell, eventually became a play and then a film. And the immediate nature of his experience felt like it needed to be told sooner rather than later.Story: Twin towers erased from some films after 9/11
"What inspired me," said Sloan, "was realizing that I was living in a remarkable period in history and I felt compelled to document that. There was the big story, of course. But there was also this story of how people in the city were living with this immense thing that happened and how they dealt with keeping their lives together afterward."
Another early entry, Spike Lee's "25th Hour," wasn't about the attacks, but featured memorable related images. The drama opens with the image of the twin floodlights that recreated the towers and later features Ground Zero excavation work. Aaron Hillis, curator of Brooklyn's reRun Gastropub Theater and journalist for The Village Voice, wasn't at first sure the images worked. "The film's evocation seemed timely but unjustifiably shoehorned for an adaptation of a novel published months before the towers fell," Hillis said. "And yet, over the years, those melancholic images have haunted me more than any other piece of post-9/11 cinema."Story: 10 years later, TV still has trouble capturing 9/11
Manohla Dargis, co-chief film critic for The New York Times, acknowledges that while there have been a limited number of mainstream Hollywood films that have dealt directly with the subject, it's actually the aftermath of 9/11 that has been ever-present at the movies.
"You could look at the 'Harry Potter' series through the veil of 9/11," Dargis explained. "It became very difficult not to, with the idea of Lord Voldemort as the evildoer of all evildoers who was going to try to take down [the world]. And the apocalyptic ending reaffirmed that for me."
The images and memories of that day are still raw. Ten years isn't a very long time. So when a mainstream multiplex-aimed film decides to take on the big moment and try to make sense of it, the results can wind up weighing too much. Audiences out on Saturday night at the movies are often in the mood to leave the ugly real world behind for vicarious thrills, not in-your-face catharsis. So indirect becomes the new direct.
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Not helping are failed movies such as "Remember Me" (which Dargis describes with words like "appalling" and "exploitation") which uses 9/11 as a surprise action twist, in Sloan's words, "a simple plot device." The filmmaker's not much of a "World Trade Center" fan himself, wondering aloud how it "add[ed] much to anyone's understanding of that moment."
War documentaries such as Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" and Charles Ferguson's "No End In Sight" aggressively tackled United States foreign policy after the attacks. But it was a fictional war movie that never once mentioned the reasons for the current U.S. military involvement in the Middle East, "The Hurt Locker," that won a best picture Oscar.Video: TODAY remembers the sights and sounds of 9/11 (on this page)
Dargis said that "Hurt Locker" is "absolutely a 9/11 movie ... it's indisputable. And I think that's part of why it won the Oscar that year. It was a way of dealing with it at somewhat of a remove."
And coming just in time for Christmas is "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock. Based on the Jonathan Safran Foer book, the film is a domestic drama about a young boy who loses his father in the tower attacks.
That film will bring the tally of movies that directly address the attacks to little more than a handful. But considering the 70-year history of World War II movies, we're not close to nearing the end of Hollywood's attempts to grasp That Moment and its ongoing shockwaves.
"We can't really deal with the central subject so we're gnawing at the margins," said Dargis. "This is not done. It's not going to be done for a long time."
Dave White is a critic for movies.com.
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The parallels between the BioMassacre industry and greedy corporations willing to lay waste to communities and the environment, such as Halliburton, are stunning. The tip of this lethal iceberg can be viewed in the following article and video clips:
By Michael Rubinkam and Ramit Plushnick-Masti, Associated Press
'Fracking' for natural gas also splits towns and families
Ron Hilliard came back from church one Sunday to find hundreds of plastic $5, $10, $20 and $100 bills hanging on his fence in Flower Mound, Texas — Ron Hilliard came back from church one Sunday to find hundreds of plastic $5, $10, $20 and $100 bills hanging on his fence in Flower Mound, Texas — another message from townsfolk angry at him for signing a lucrative natural gas drilling lease on his suburban Dallas property.
Across the country, in Damascus, Pa., drilling advocate Marian Schweighofer awoke one morning to the word "LORAX" — from the Dr. Seuss book about environmental destruction — spray-painted on the road near her family's 712-acre farm.
Hilliard and Schweighofer are both living with the rancor erupting in communities nationwide over the volatile issue of producing gas by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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This technique — used with horizontal drilling — allows rich stores of natural gas to be extracted from once out-of-reach, dense shale formations more than a mile underground. Intense drilling is under way in the Barnett Shale of Texas, the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania, and other shale regions around the country.
As tens of thousands of Americans become energy magnates in their own backyards, tens of thousands more worry about environmental dangers. The industry insists the process is safe, for people and the environment.
This energy boom has turned neighbor against neighbor, split towns and families in bitter disputes, and touched off sharp debates over the sudden emergence of gas companies and their 14-story drilling rigs, some rising in the middle of neighborhoods.
One side touts the jobs and prosperity drilling brings, allowing businesses to flourish and farmers to hang on to their land. Gas leases have made millionaires of some property owners. Regions long struggling economically are suddenly flush.
On the other side are those who either won't gain anything or fervently believe the wealth isn't worth the risk. Alarmed by toxic spills, scattered drill site explosions and tainted drinking water, they fear a decline in their property values and quality of life.
"Those who own their mineral rights are happier than a pig in mud," says Flower Mound resident Chris Tomlinson, who is making thousands of dollars a month from the gas wells on his land. "Those who don't, want it to go away."
Fracking opponents complain the industry has taken environmental and safety shortcuts in their zeal to reap the vast stores of gas once locked tight within the shale.
The acrimony is not likely to subside soon. Even with some 26,000 wells drilled in 16 states through the end of 2009 — more than half in Texas — the shale gas revolution is still relatively young .
Most wells have been drilled in the past decade, particularly in Pennsylvania's white-hot Marcellus Shale region and in the Barnett Shale of Texas, where the new extraction techniques were perfected and the boom began in earnest in 2006. Hundreds of thousands more wells could be drilled in coming decades, according to drilling companies and energy officials.
In Texas, a state so inextricably linked to drilling that an oil derrick adorns the license plate, the feuding in Flower Mound has been extraordinary.
A rural community about 30 miles northwest of Dallas, it had just over 15,000 residents in 1990 but exploded into an affluent and politically influential suburb of 70,000 by 2009. Relative newcomers drawn by its quality of life filled large brick homes in manicured subdivisions and send their children to highly ranked schools. By and large, they don't own their mineral rights — and many were outraged when gas wells began popping up near their neighborhoods, sometimes just a few hundred feet from schools and day care centers. Today, more than 40 wells are extracting gas in town.
On the other side are the longtime residents, farmers and ranchers who own their mineral rights and stand to make a lot of money on gas leases and royalties.
"It was pretty much neighbor against neighbor. People just turned on people … and it's left some pretty nasty divides here in town," says Tomlinson.
Ron Hilliard's decision to have two wells drilled on his land, a half-mile from a Starbucks, two schools and hundreds of homes, brought vandalism, anonymous phone calls and insulting blog posts and columns. He finally complained to police.
"I owned my mineral rights," Hilliard says defiantly. "So I'm not doing anything wrong." Hilliard, owner of a wholesale lumber business, would not disclose what he was paid for the lease or gas royalties.
Truck traffic on largely suburban roads in the Flower Mound area has increased significantly and the community has endured at least three major spills of thousands of gallons of production liquids.
The Environmental Protection Agency suspects fracking may have contributed to water well contamination in Denton County — where Flower Mound and another drilling town, Dish, are located— and other Barnett Shale drilling areas.
The issues in Flower Mound simmered for months, then boiled over at a January 2010 city council hearing on a proposed plant to treat toxic fracking wastewater. About 600 people showed up, many against the plant, but the council set the plan in motion anyway.
That galvanized anti-drilling forces. After a bitter campaign, the town's pro-drilling mayor, Jody Smith, was ousted and an anti-drilling slate swept into office.
Less than 15 miles away is the town of Dish, population about 200, where Mayor Calvin Tillman raised a national ruckus about gas drilling. The Dish area now has about 60 drilling wells, gas production pads and rigs, 12 pipelines, a treating facility and a compressor station.
Cancer-causing benzene, sometimes in levels considered dangerous to human health, were reported last year by Texas environmental regulators who took air tests in the Dish area. Residents believe at least one domestic water well was contaminated and that gas operations killed horses on a ranch not far from the compressor — a claim the gas companies dispute.
Tillman, whose home is about a quarter-mile from the compressor, was afraid for his two sons' health. Bad drilling odors coincided with nightly spikes in air emissions from the compression station, Tillman said on his blog, and were so bad that both of his youngsters were often awakened in the middle of the night with severe nosebleeds.
By February, Tillman decided to leave the community in which he had invested time, money and his heart. It was tough, he said.
"But it would be a whole lot tougher if my kids came down with some strange illness in five years," he said.
Slowing the tide in New York
New York, sitting atop the vast Marcellus Shale, has enacted a drilling moratorium that holds the wealth at bay while new regulations are drawn up. New Yorkers — some wary, some perhaps jealous — watch as landowners in Pennsylvania, Texas and other states get rich while regulators struggle with explosions, spills and tainted water.
"People that don't own the land are saying, 'Let's slow down and learn from the mistakes of other places,'" said Matthew Ryan, mayor of Binghamton, N.Y., in shale country about 70 miles northwest of Damascus. "Those that own land are anxious to 'drill, baby, drill.'"
Binghamton hosted the EPA last September for the last of four national hearings to get public input on the environmental and public health impacts of fracking as the agency prepares for a national study on drinking water impacts.
EPA said 3,500 people crowded its hearings in Denver, Fort Worth, Texas, Canonsburg, Pa., and Binghamton. In New York, opponents carried signs saying "Kids can't drink gas," while supporters, including union workers eager for jobs, chanted "Pass gas now!"
"If you get a gathering of people together, there's tension and raised voices," says Ryan, who favors a more cautious approach that he believes would ensure strong enough regulations to protect public health and the environment.
Division in Pennsylvania
In rural Pennsylvania, where nearly 3,000 gas wells have been drilled in the Marcellus Shale since 2005 and tens of thousands more are planned, the tension is leaving deep fissures in once tight-knit communities.
Schweighofer, a 54-year-old mother of five, founded the Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance, more than 1,300 landowners who negotiated a master lease with New York City-based Hess Corp. to drill for natural gas in Pennsylvania's scenic northeastern tip.
She got several death threats from anti-drilling residents or activists — one woman declared she was "gonna shoot you with my thirty-aught-six" and a man advocated in an online post that "one well-placed bullet" be put in Schweighofer's head. Schweighofer began sleeping with a gun at her bedside.
"We're farmers," she said. "I'm not used to standing out and having folks holler at me, and saying evil things. I'm just not used to that."
One member of her group, 70-year-old Mike Uretsky, says some neighbors don't talk to him since he signed the lease. Yet, the retired New York University professor says he understands where the other side is coming from.
"Everybody's interested in safety, aesthetics, community, quality of life," he said. "The interpretations of those things, and where the boundaries are, differ from one person to another. The frustrating thing is people can't sit down and talk and say, 'Hey, how do we work together?'"
The northeastern Pennsylvania village of Dimock, population 1,400, is another prime example of the split over drilling.
State regulators blame Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas for contaminating residential water wells with methane gas. Some Dimock residents were able to light their tap water on fire — just as Colorado homeowners did in a dramatic scene in the Academy Award-nominated HBO documentary "Gasland," about the effects of fracking.
Some homeowners with fouled water have become high-profile anti-drilling activists, suing Cabot and taking their case to media outlets worldwide.
Two years of negative publicity brought them a backlash.
When Pennsylvania regulators ordered Cabot to spend $12 million to provide municipal water to the 19 affected homes, pro-drilling residents and businesses banded together as "Enough Already" and circulated a petition that 1,600 water line opponents signed. State regulators relented and settled with Cabot for $4.1 million, enough to pay the homeowners twice the value of their ruined homes.
The homeowners feel sandbagged by the community.
"You want to feel like a really lonely, lonely person?" asked Scott Ely, one whose water well was ruined. "Move to Carter Road," the gravel lane in the rural, forested area where most of the contamination was found. He said people he's known his whole life have turned against him.
"They think we are money-hungry … we're chasing the almighty buck," he said of the settlement money. He and the other homeowners had not asked for money and were content with the plan to have clean water piped to them after nearly two years of bathing, washing, cooking and cleaning with trucked-in supplies. "We didn't want this."
Dimock attorney Bill Aileo, who helped lead the petition drive, believes the benefits of drilling have been lost in an isolated case of contamination.
"I don't think anybody's abandoned them. I think they've become somewhat detached from reality," he said.
About 60 miles away, across the New York state line, business at Grady Avant's Narrowsburg coffee shop plummeted after a false rumor circulated that he and his partner had signed a gas company lease. He opposes drilling.
His regulars — largely opposed to drilling — stopped coming. People shot him dirty looks and some called to complain.
"It took weeks for us to undo most of it," he said, but eventually, business returned to normal.
Since then, Avant, 39, has helped start FrackAlert, a group that seeks to shift the debate to the larger political arena "to ease local tensions," he said.
"People have to treat each other better," he said, "or otherwise there will be no community when everything is done."


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San Jose ranks number one in the study, with 64 percent of the roads in the city listed in poor conditon. San Francisco, Oakland and Concord aren't far behind.
Consider yourself lucky if you haven't popped a tire, blown a windshield or tweaked your alignment riding over unrepaired roads. The study says drivers in San Jose spend anywhere from $600 to $750 more per year on car repairs, thanks to dilapidated roads.
The study, from the national transportation research group TRIP was commissioned by Transportation California and spotlights the worst roads in U.S. cities based on the percentage of roads listed in poor condition. Here's how the rest of the top of the list looks:
- Los Angeles: 63 percent
- San Francisco/Oakland: 58 percent
- Concord: 58 percent
- San Diego: 50 percent
- Palm Springs: 47 percent
Hans Larsen, with the San Jose Department of Transportation, said 18 percent of the city's roads are actually in poor condition. The top five, according to Larson, are: Monterey Highway, Quimby Road, Santa Teresa Boulevard, Redmond Avenue and Los Gatos/Almaden Road.
The estimated cost to fix those streets is $250 million, Larsen said. But, he agrees, with six of California's cities in the nation's worst 10, for road conditions, more funding for road repairs is crucial.
"We built a massive amount of infrastructure in 50s, 60 and 70." Larsen said, "these roads are now 50 years old and need major work."
Bert Sandman is the executive director for Transportation California. He says the solution is simple -- more money, from gas taxes, tolls, and car fees.
"The longer you wait, the more expensive it becomes to fix." Sandman said.
Voters in Santa Clara County will decide in November if they want to pay $10 more in car registration fees to help improve roads.


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I invited interested readers to send their nominees for an end-of-year-list of "the book(s) you most enjoyed reading this year." Nominees did not have to be published this year, nor represent "the best" in a judgmental way.
To avoid the nip of the wind, I ducked into Top of the Hill Tavern last week. The radiant hostess Kathyln Egan seated me and right away told me that her favorite book this year was Sebastian Barry's "A Long Long Way" (2006). It's the story of a young man who leaves his native Dublin in 1914 to join the Allies on the Western Front – while Ireland was fighting for its own independence back home. "The characters are so engaging," she said, "they really draw you in. It was so beautiful, and sad."
I was soon joined at the table by Mt. Airy poet and writer Lynn Hoffman. We'd barely begun talking when a young man walked by and muttered at our table, "Mark Twain, 'Letters from the Earth.'"
You never know what kind of rough things are going to be said to you in a public house.
I called to his back, "You can't talk to me like that!" A minute later, I was shaking hands with Kevin Kelly, a bright and enthusiastic young man who teaches English at Frankford High School. Still young and already a fan of Twain's dark side – nice to know.
When I turned back to Lynn Hoffman, he told me that his most enjoyed book this year was actually a re-read: "The Tailor of Panama" by John Le Carre (1996). It is, he said, "a comic story told with a completely straight face."
"And the back story," he added, "is told in brilliant little digressions that don't interrupt the narrative."
Later, when I'd returned home, I called Eugene Okamoto, president of Harvest Books in Fort Washington, to finish up an interview we'd started. His favorite book this year was "Mr. Phillips," by John Lanchester (2000). Set in London, it's the story of a modest man who lives a modestly happy life until he unexpectedly gets sacked from his accounting job. He dresses and leaves for work the next day anyway and for the first time in his life walks around the city noticing everything he's never taken the time to see before. Okamoto said he picked it up while he was home sick with the flu and "it blew me away."
In the meanwhile, e-mail responses had begun coming in. The first was from Alex Bedrosian, of Chestnut Hill: "Hugh: While 3 inches thick and weighing approximately 5 pounds, "Gustav Mahler, Volume 4," by Henry-Louis De La Grange (2008), is a 1758-page tome that is the quintessential text on the famous composer/conductor, depicting the latter years of his life through his death in 1911. It was so good, I even read the bibliography! I especially enjoyed reading about his time in Philadelphia."
"Why Volume 4?" I wrote back.
He replied: "I am a former university educator from N.J., now retired (since 1989). We (my wife, Sally and I) moved to be near our son and his family in Glenside … or, to die!! I decided to read Vol. 4 of the Mahler, after reading Vol 1 … wanted to learn of the final years of his life … what he died from, etc. Have always enjoyed reading biographies … probably my favorite literary form. Being octogenarians, we have limited time remaining in this world … hence our interest in reading all we can … until Yahweh calls!!"
In a separate e-mail, Sally (Sara) Bedrosian had her own titles to nominate. She said: "I enjoyed finishing a book by Oliver Sacks recently: 'Uncle Tungsten, Memories of a Chemical Boyhood' (2001). Our son recommended it. I found it hard going at first, but then became fascinated with his family history, wartime experiences in England, and many experiments he performed, encouraged by his uncle. Also many interesting footnotes!"
Another early entry came in e-mail form from Joan Adler, M.D., of Mt. Airy. Her choice: the highly acclaimed "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese (2009). In this story, she said, "a devout young nun leaves the South Indian state in 1947 for a missionary post."
"Seven years later," she continues," she dies birthing twin boys: one of whom narrates his own and his brother's long, dramatic, biblical story. It's set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow up, and the love story of their adopted parents. Astounding story, characters. An epic."
Most people found it impossible to choose one favorite from among the many books they enjoyed. That was certainly the case for Carol Rauch ("You can describe me as a resident of Chestnut Hill and dog lover," said the author of "The Artful Bouvier.") She too nominated "Cutting for Stone," along with a half-dozen others, and told me to emphasize her list however I wanted. The one book she wrote the most about was "Ordinary Wolves," by Seth Kantner (2005).
"It's classified as a novel but is really a memoir of growing up in the Alaskan wilderness," she said. "The writing is exquisite, the environment astonishing and wonderful to discover. The difficulties of growing up against the pull of the cities and what happens in the city to those more comfortable hunting caribou and traveling by sled are poetically documented. It is a discovery of a piece of America few know."
Those of you with a Springside connection probably know Deborah Dempsey, a former English teacher there, who now describes herself as "retired and … spending the rest of my life reading."
"The blockbuster for me this year," she said, "was Janet Browne's careful, thoughtful, two-volume "Charles Darwin: A Biography" (1996/2003). I raced through it like a mystery and now have to re-read it.
Deborah Dempsey has become the peninsula's Johnny Appleseed of books. She wrote: "I'm giving 'Under Heaven' by Guy Gavriel Kay (2010) to anyone who doesn't know about this wonderful blend of historical and fantasy literature."
And sure enough, when I saw Ned and Joan Coale, of Chestnut Hill, last week, they both wanted to nominate "Under Heaven." If you guessed that it was pressed on them by Deborah Dempsey, you are quite correct.
(To be continued next week)


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