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Another season, another fashion-focused reality television series—not that we're complaining, of course.
This time, however, things are different. The upcoming show, Fashion Star, is launching on NBC this fall, with supermodel-turned-fashion-business-tycoon Elle Macpherson as host. According to an NBC press release, Fashion Show takes a slight departure from shows like Project Runway, which focuses primarily on high fashion, with a more approach, bringing in buyers to judge a wide range of garments from swimwear to denim.
So accessible, in fact, that viewers will have the chance to go online immediately following the show, and purchase the featured designs from all contestants, winners and losers alike. Even the participating buyers-as-judges will be making real-time purchases, along with their decisions. According to the press release:
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It sounds like the sartorial version of Glee's post-show iTunes offerings—that is, if Glee also had record-company scouts visiting the fictional high school during the show.


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In light of some high-profile automobile accidents involving older drivers Massachusetts has begun the policy discussion regarding enforcing more stringent licensing requirements for those individuals. State legislators and DOT officials are contemplating a range of requirements to protect the elderly as well as other drivers and pedestrians.
I support measures that require older drivers (i.e. drivers over 65 or 75) to renew licenses more frequently than other drivers and ensure that the renewal involves a driving test and vision test. This is not age-based discrimination, but rather steps necessary to protect all people on the road. However, such restrictions which may limit and indeed deny many older individuals access to the driver's wheel need to be coupled with increased access to public transportation and paratransit services.
I researched precisely these issues this semester in an independent study. Here is a selection from my research:
While not all elderly individuals are disabled, age significantly affects the ability of people to drive, forcing them to rely on means of public transportation. Cognitive and physical abilities decline as people age, and elderly drivers are the drivers most likely to be in a crash except those under 25. The aging of the body affects drivers in many ways: declining vision affects the ability to judge distance and speed, metabolism changes slow reaction times, and withering muscle mass increases the difficulty of making rapid movements like sudden braking. Elderly drivers are also more likely to be injured in a car crash than other drivers.
More to the point, older drivers are more likely than younger drivers to be killed in car crashes relative to miles traveled; drivers 85 and older have a fatality rate in crashes nine times higher than drivers 25 to 69 for each mile driven. Many states are taking proactive measures to protect the elderly and other passengers and pedestrians by requiring older drivers to renew their drivers' licenses. Illinois and New Hampshire already require drivers over 75 applying to renew their drivers' licenses to take a driving test and a vision test. While New Hampshire and Illinois have the most restrictive regulations, other state have taken precautions, such as Iowa, which requires drivers over 70 to renew their licenses every two years in person with a vision test, rather than every five years for younger drivers.
Elderly Americans without cars are severely restricted in their ability to be active members of society. Regardless of the reasons why elderly people do not drive, for the 21% of Americans over 65 who do not experience 15% fewer trips to the doctor, 59% fewer shopping trips and outings to restaurants and 65% fewer trips for social, family and religious activities than their driving peers. These issues are already becoming particularly pressing in certain areas of the country, such as Florida where 19.6% of the driving population is over 65 and older; the national average is 14.9% of the driving population is 65 and older.
Some states, such as Arkansas, where drivers over 65 account for 29% of all accidents, may be compelled to deal with these issues sooner than later. There is also an ethnic justice component to the need for improved public transportation for the elderly, because minorities are disproportionately affected by the lack of transit options. In the population of Americans over 65 just 16% of white people do not drive, but 42% of African Americans, 39% of Latinos and 45% of Asian Americans do not drive.
Unfortunately, all the transportation safety news tends to focus on airlines, especially given the attempted terrorist detonation last week. However, America's roads are still the most deadly form of transportation. The elderly desire, deserve and need transportation as much as anyone else, but not at the expense of others' safety.
As the baby boomers age and the elderly population grows (The United States Census Bureau estimates that in 2010 there will be 5,751,000 people over 85 and by 2050 there will be 19,041,000 people over 85, accounting for 4.3% of the projected overall American population of 439 million.) the needs of this population will only become more apparent. We need to develop alternative means that are coherent with general transportation, especially public transportation, priorities. Or else our grandparents and us will all be in unnecessary danger every day.

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The Story So Far?
I've recently had a number of interesting and informative conversations in my attempts to pin down the nature of the Learning Registry (LR) and its potential significance within and beyond its US origins. I thought it might be interesting to summarise some of the headline 'findings' ahead of the Mimas JLeRN workshop on 22nd October, all of which are of course subject to learning more on the day. These are best presented as a sort of historical narrative …
1) The LR project originated in response to particular needs identified in US education and training, particularly relating to surfacing, characterizing and sharing / reusing learning resources.
2) Whilst those challenges may have had particular priority in the minds of DoD and DoE stakeholders, they were symptomatic of the much-discussed difficulties of describing learning resources in manners that will be enable potential uses and users (from course designers to learners) elsewhere; to put it bluntly there is no consensus after all these years that enables us to homogenize / harmonize learning resource metadata – it's like a muddy pond containing fish, plant life, shopping trolleys, industrial byproducts, children swimming, others fishing … it feels like a random 'mess' not an ecosystem.
3) Paradata (i.e. usage data with context) may be a vital part of the jigsaw – allowing resources to become increasingly 'well-described' on the basis of their utilization (Who, Where, When, How, etc…); however it is only a format that is subject to the quality of the data itself, particularly re- the use (or not of) consistent and persistent identifiers to 'link' paradata.
4) Paradata has the potential to be more powerful at scale (introducing statistical reliability and exposing the long tail of resources and of usage) and may therefore benefit from the ability to network datasets across the community (subject, national, international).
5) The LR project developed an 'approach' (model, architecture…) that addresses the key issues of mess (see 2), context (see 3) and scale (see 4). In my simple terms, the LR approach proposes that the mess is addressed by a flexible approach to data attributes (anything goes), context is evidenced by paradata, and scale is enabled by orchestration between networked nodes.
6) In organizational and temporal terms, LR is only a project and therefore the potential has yet to be realized; however, it is already valuable that practitioners intuitively recognise both the relevance of this response and the possibilities it may open up.
7) In solution terms, LR is only a configuration of plumbing, of machines talking to machines (that's all it set out to be) and therefore it is emphatically down to the community (who's that?) to build both local and larger scale services, interfaces and applications on top.
8) In technology terms, LR made some choices at a moment in time (e.g. to use the Couch noSQL database); whilst these are far from out-dated, it may be that it is the approach that is more significant going forward than the architecture or the code.
9) The potential of learning paradata raises issues about the divergence (or is it convergence, glass half full?) of approaches to usage data / activity streams; in one dimension this data represents part of the personal learning record ("I did this"), whilst 'at the other end of the triple' (thanks, Phil) it is about the resource ("It was used in this way"); that sounds exciting till we dig deeper in to issues of storage / retrieval, privacy / access and more.
10) At this point in the history (Is that an end point? I think it was Simon Schama who asserted that the French Revolution is still ongoing), we are faced with a familiar dilemma concerning the investment relationship between rapid innovation (technology and tools are always moving on), embedding in the community and reliable productisation … Is the target audience too narrow and the governance too uncertain to deliver the power of the LR approach? Is there a wider value in the LR approach that would bring critical mass and a sustainable trajectory?


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Today, I am pleased to introduce and showcase one of our highly celebrated authors, Mrs. Patty Wiseman. This talented Romantic Suspense novelist, a native of Tacoma, Washington, currently resides with her husband Ron, and loveable crème lab Cutter, in Marshall, Texas.
Mrs. Wiseman graduated from Bethel High School, in Spanaway, Washington, and proceeded on to study at Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
In December of 2011, Patty retired after serving 24 years with Ernie Marshall Investments. Now, this spirited lady dedicates the vast majority of her time to a revered passion … writing.
Hello Patty, it is indeed a pleasure to host this one-on-one chat with you and hope our modest interview will shed a beacon of light on your life and career, past and future.
BTM: Do you recall how your interest in writing originated? Was there a particular person who influenced this path, such as a teacher, friend, or associate?
PW: First of all, thank you Bernadette for such a warm welcome. It's easy to pinpoint when the writing spark first appeared. My 1st grade teacher in Colby, Kansas, Mrs. Bell nurtured my desire to read and to write. She was an exceptional teacher. I'll never forget her. We moved there for a year to recuperate from my chronic bronchitis. I believe it was destiny, otherwise I would never have met her. She had us putting together little poems even at that early age, and the magic of words turned a light on in my brain. There are other teachers throughout my educational career that were inspiring, but she is definitely at the top of the list. I believe capturing the magic in a child at a very early age will assure a love of reading and writing. Teaching is an absolute gift.
BTM: Outside of your family members, is there one entity who supported you above all others?
PW: There have been so many, but probably the most influential entity was the NETWO association. North East Texas Writers Organization. It was the first group I joined to better learn the craft of writing. The first conference I attended many years ago really turned on the switch for me. I am still a member of that group today and rely on the many friendships I developed there.
BTM: I understand you penned the first novel in your series, An Unlikely Arrangement, after becoming awestruck by a bit of your family history. Can you explain the story behind this discovery?
PW: As a child, I would hide under the stairs at my grandmother's old farm house and listen to the stories the adults told about her. She was a rebellious young woman, and her parents came up with the solution to arrange a marriage for her. My father was the product of that marriage. Unfortunately, my grandfather was killed when daddy was only 10 months old, so he never really knew him. The stories always haunted me, and I finally put together the series. This was at the height of the gangster era in the 'Roaring Twenties' in Detroit, Michigan, and I incorporated that into the series. Doing the research uncovered more information I'd never known before about my family. It totally consumed me. I loved writing this series, and I hope I did justice to my grandfather who was completely swept under the rug and out of sight after his death.
BTM: Could you expound a little on one of your main characters, Ruth Squire. Do you feel connected to Ruth and her circumstances in any way? Would you say a quantity of her indomitable qualities relate to the 'modern day' women?
PW: Ruth Squire is absolutely relatable to strong 'modern day' women, and yes, I do feel the connection. I know my strong, independent personality comes from her. She wasn't afraid of anything, a force to be reckoned with, if you will. You've heard the expression, 'ahead of her time'. She definitely fit the description. Yes, she was a spoiled 17 year old girl as the series begins, but I tried to show her evolution into womanhood. I had a healthy respect for her when I was a child, and some of the things I didn't understand as a small child, I certainly relate to now. She raised my father after her husband's death until she married again, 6 years later. I found myself raising two teenage boys by myself for over 10 years. I thought of her often.
BTM: Research is the key to bring forth the soul of a character into a novel. How did you go about gathering the fundamental facts necessary to cultivate your characters? Did you find travel was required to obtain some crucial facts?
PW: Of course, I spoke with the closest family member I had at the time I began the series, my mother. My dad has been gone for more than 20 years. I did travel to Cheyenne, Wyoming to dig through old pictures, documents, etc. to get more of a feel for what she was like as a young woman in that era. My mother knew her very well, so she had a lot of information, especially when she and my father first married. I've always wanted to travel to Detroit to lay flowers on my grandfather's grave, but it hasn't happened yet. Fortunately, I have many online friends who live up there. My own publisher grew up in that area. When I got stuck on something related to the area or the time frame, they were always there to set me straight. I did a lot of fact checking with them. I used ancestry.com for a lot of research, also. There is a wealth of information to be had on that site and many others! We are fortunate to live in an internet world. Research is made easier because we have that at our finger tips. I will go to Detroit one day soon, just to visit grandfather's grave.
BTM: How much of the story is realistic vs. fictional?
PW: I'd say 60% is realistic and 40% fictional. Her story was a perfect basis for a great mystery series, and laid the groundwork. I was able to use actual facts to perpetuate the story, and use poetic license, so to speak, to weave the mystery throughout.
BTM: Is there an underlying message in your novels you want readers to grasp?
PW: I have an affinity for strong, independent women. Women have as much drive as men do. Unfortunately, in a lot of cases, it's still a man's world. Imagining the struggle some women still face today with the proverbial 'glass ceiling', it is shocking to look back at what women went through in the 1920's. It was the era when women began to break out, follow their dreams, and try to compete in a man's world. There were a lot of trailblazers back then. I consider my grandmother one of them.
BTM: If you had it to do all over again, would you change anything in your latest book, An Unlikely Beginning?
PW: I enjoyed writing the 2nd book almost more than the first, because I had uncovered so much more information. My imagination became married to the facts, and together, the story unfolded almost by itself. No, I wouldn't change anything.
BTM: I understand you plan to release a third novel in this series sometime in the early spring of this year. Can you share a little of this current work with us? Has the title been set and the cover designed?
PW: Do to some unforeseen events; the book should be released by the end of July of this year. The title is 'An Unlikely Conclusion' and the end of the series. The cover has been designed and is the best one yet, in my opinion. I love to read a book that keeps me guessing at every turn, and I try to write that way, so this book follows that style. You've watched Ruth evolve in the first two books, now she really has some unbelievable obstacles to overcome. I like an advertisement that one of my friends did for me once. She said, "Face the Unlikely with Patty Wiseman's Velvet Shoe Collection." I think that hits the nail on the head.
BTM: You also co-authored another novel prior to the release of your current series, Scent of Double Deception, under the pen name Ann Alan. What was the inspiration for this book?
PW: Yes, I did. Actually 'Scent' came out a few weeks after "An Unlikely Arrangement". My co-author and I 'cut our teeth' on that book. The book was many years in the making while we learned the craft, and boy did we have a lot to learn! As we progressed, we discovered we had very different writing styles. I believe that is why it took so long to get right.
The inspiration came from a time in our lives when we found ourselves single mothers at the same time, and the escapades we both experienced together. It's a fun, rollicking book with a lot of intense characters. I used a pen name under the advice of my marketing agent who was concerned about branding. We both have gone on to write our own novels where we can celebrate our unique styles. It was an eye-opening experience.
BTM: We all have goals, some obtainable and some not. What are your future aspirations, both long and short term?
PW: Long term, to sit home in my 'jammies' and pen stories my followers want to read. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to sit in my office and create stories. I'm up at 5:30 every morning getting my day organized so I can spend the rest of it writing.
Short term, I am heeding the advice of my marketing agent in order to get my name out there and known. I had an experience in Dallas at an event where a woman walked up and told me she was looking for the next Patty Wiseman novel. What a thrill for my books to be known as Patty Wiseman Novels. I've had two wonderful marketing agents, one of whom I am still working with. She's phenomenal, and I hang on every word she tells me. Branding is the single most important thing you can do to achieve success. Branding is what they explain as your name or 'store front'. It's not your book, necessarily, but your product as a whole. I look at it like this... there are many phone companies, all of them sell phones and service. What does one have different than the other? You know their brand or logo, can identify it on sight. Even if you didn't see the words, you know the logo. What will the customer get when they walk into your store that is different from anyone else? The same goes for authors and writers. What will you get when you walk into my store you can't anywhere else? My style, my voice. I am humbly following her advice.
BTM: What caused you to leave the "Twilight" state of Washington, and move to the great "Lone Star" state of Texas?
PW: A couple of reasons. One, my health. The dampness played havoc on my respiratory system. I was always ill. I chose college in Oklahoma to escape the wet state. A job brought us to Texas and here I have remained, healthy and happy.
BTM: I understand you are an avid bowler. What is your highest game? What is the type and color ball you use?
PW: I've been a league bowler for over 35 years. My highest game was a 228, although I've had many over 200 games. My average is 150. I use a green 12 lb. Hammer. I bowl on a ladies league and a mixed league. I love the camaraderie of the women and the competitiveness of the men.
BTM: We often hear about the authors novels, but what about the 'real' down-to-earth person who is behind the pages. What can you tell us about yourself? For example, your favorite food, your favorite color, favorite song, do you like to dance, what is it you do for fun? Allow us to see inside the woman who is Patty Wiseman.
PW: I suppose my favorite food is salmon, probably because I grew up on Puget Sound and it was readily available. Every time I went back to visit, my dad would head straight for a seafood restaurant on the waterfront and treat me to a salmon steak. Red is my favorite color and probably depicts my personality the best. Right now, my favorite song is Hilly Billy Bone, by Blake Shelton. Growing up, I never heard much country music. When I came to Texas that's all I heard! In Washington, I took Arthur Murray dance classes. In Texas, I was taught to dance country at a popular club. I fell in love with it. I actually met my husband at that club. He's pure cowboy and a superb two-stepper! I teased him when we got married, I hoped he could live it down that he married a Northern girl. He's never complained. LOL! It's been 20 years now; I love every minute of it.
For fun, we like to take the RV camping, fish, attend Texas Rangers baseball games, travel, cook together, spend time with our family, and in the summer sit out by the pool sipping margarita's.
BTM: Tell us how you balance everyday life between that of a writer and that of a wife, mother, and grandmother.
PW: For 24 years I worked as an administrative assistant to a financial advisor. It was a career that suited my disciplined personality. Since retiring, I adhere to the same schedule. I am up at 5:30, eat a bite, take my mile walk with my dog, and am back in to write most of the day. My children are grown, and we have recently sent off the grandchild we cared for the last 7 years to basic training in the navy. We are free to think of ourselves more now, and we are really enjoying it.
BTM: Thank you so much for your time Patty. I'm sure our followers will now have bit of insight into your vivacious life and extraordinary literary works.
PW: Thank you so much, Bernadette, for a fun interview!
Patty Wiseman's books are available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kindle and Nook. In addition to Twitter, Goodreads, LinkedIn, and Facebook, you can visit Patty on her website at www.pattywiseman.net.


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Praying the Beatitudes as a Spiritual Exercise
The Sermon on the Mount (detail), Heinrich Hofmann; German, 1824–1911; date unknown.
By William Pryse
THE Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3−10) are literally and thematically at the center of the Sermon on the Mount. They mark successive steps of the upward course of the spiritual life to its full and final perfection. Each beatitude grows out of all that precede it, and occupies a necessary place in the progressive series. There is not a grace, excellence, experience or duty of the moral life which does not find its place within this series.
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Poverty of spirit refers to those who have awakened from their self-righteousness to the fact of their self-poverty. Without this conscious and heartfelt awareness of ones limitations and shortcomings, there can be no start, much less progress, in the spiritual life. And it is gloriously significant that with the first step is promised the end: namely, attainment to the grace-led and blessed manner of life which the Gospels call the Kingdom of Heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Poverty of spirit leads directly to mourning for sin. One who has become sensible of spiritual destitution soon recognizes the cause of ones inward need. One perceives that it is egoism and selfish attachments which deprive one of happiness and spiritual good. Thus one becomes increasingly sensible of the evil of sin, and sensitive to the miseries resulting from it, in ones own life and in the world at large. In other words, one becomes a penitent mourner for sin in oneself, and a sincere mourner over the dreadful reality and destructive work of sin in human life and society.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Out of conscious poverty and penitent mourning grows the meekness of the third beatitude. This meekness is the modest, self-denying and self-restrained spirit which evinces itself in gentleness and forbearance toward others in one emptied of pride and self-sufficiency.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
These three experiences naturally lead to a supreme valuation of and desire for righteousness — that is, to think, act and live rightly, in right accord with ones own true physical and moral nature, with the Cosmos and Eternal Order, with God, and with ones fellow human beings. And to desire this good above all things else.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
As the next stage of spiritual progress, the heir of the heavenly kingdom becomes merciful toward ones fellow men. All ones previous experiences conspire to awaken in one a clear sense of their lost condition, their trials and sorrows, their need of sympathy and help. Ones consciousness of ones own infirmities teaches one charity toward the infirmities of others. Ones sense of the supreme importance of salvation from unwisdom and unvirtue prompts one to efforts for their spiritual and eternal good. A realization of ones own imperative need of the divine mercy quickens in one the same spirit of mercy toward all others.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Purity is a composite of all the previous graces, freedom from all their opposites. Each of the five contributes to it. In it is the love of all things good, the abhorrence of all things evil. As such it carries with it the vision of the true Good. It is the clearing away of the mists from the soul, and the cleansing of the films from the spiritual eyes.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
It is easy to see how such qualities as humility, penitence, meekness, desire after righteousness, mercifulness and purity become elements of peace in the soul and influences for peace in the life. They invest the character with an effective power to prevent strife and allay discord. They are the very elements and conditions of peace, whether internal or external. There can be no peace where they are absent; there can be no strife where they prevail. Their opposite qualities are the direct causes of all strife and dissension, and they who are swayed by them are necessarily strifemakers. But the graces of the beatitudes are, each and all, potent solvents of discord, and they who possess them are necessarily also peacemakers, both through conscious effort and unconscious influence. To seek and promote this peace, inward and outward — peace within oneself, peace with God and Nature and peace among men — becomes a free impulse, urge and ordering principle of their lives.
Based on the writings of Rev. William Stratton Pryse (1849−1928).


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Bacon's Crusade Ain't Kosher (Limerick)
Here's a headline I could have done without: "Bill would define abortion as murder."
State Rep. Rob Bacon believes abortion is murder and he wants the Iowa Code to reflect that.
Bacon, R-Slater, and eight other Republicans introduced such a bill in the Iowa House Wednesday. It would alter the definition of a person in murder cases to "an individual human being, without regard to age of development, from the moment of conception, when a zygote is formed, until natural death."
Those charged with murder, under the bill, would include a mother who takes abortion-inducing drugs or a doctor who performs an abortion. It also grants no exceptions for rape, incest or to protect the life of the mother.
Bacon's Crusade Ain't Kosher (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
If an Iowa Rep has his way
Women's rights will yet further decay.
Zygote-rights will be greater
Than gals', as pols cater
To nuts. Will he fail? Let us pray.
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Pine River Revitalization
Staff Writer of Lake Country Echo and Pine River Journal-News
Projects headed by the group Pine River Revitalization (PRR) began to bear fruit the week of July 15 when on Wednesday the city streets were decked out with new plaid flags and on Friday a cake was cut by none other than Paul Bunyan and shared to officially celebrate Pine River's new colors.
Residents at Friday's first Pine River Plaid kickoff event seemed enthusiastic and supportive of PRR's efforts.
"I think the flags warmed up the downtown. I noticed them right away. I thought it looked just inviting. Any little extra thing you can do to make it look warm and friendly," said resident Bev Laposky at the kickoff
The flags and celebration were done as a part of an ongoing project undertaken by PRR to market the city of Pine River to excite locals and draw in visitors from the Paul Bunyan Trail and Minnesota Highway 371.
In another victory, PRR has also been meeting with the Pine River City Council, which approved a resolution July 9 to offer its support for PRR's efforts to have Barclay Avenue redesigned to include bicycle lanes. The city made no monetary commitment, but PRR member Quinn Swanson said that without the support of the city, the Minnesota Department of Transportation was unwilling to truly discuss the development of bicycle lanes.
"I see people trying to get down here and they don't know where to go exactly. I think it's really a good safety issue (bike trails) to try to get people down here. It also gets people to the local businesses," said Laposky.
"I think it's a great idea, I think the bike trail is a wonderful safety thing, and just a good way to get people to see the rest of our town and our park, and I like the plaid idea," said Shirley Hovey, also at the kickoff. "It perks up downtown and it represents what our community is really about."
PRR and groups sharing many of its members have had a hand in various other city improvement projects. These include a playground installed near the Pine River Dam Park, work to have the park reconstructed for both safety and appeal, and the effort to repaint the bathrooms at the city park and the trash cans along Barclay Avenue with help from Teens Leading the Way.
Future projects could include the installation of a much taller flag pole for a flag similar in size to those often seen near car dealerships or Perkins restaurant chains. A bigger flag could attract attention from the highway and trail.
At its July 16 meeting, PRR also began discussing replacement of banners along Barclay Avenue and Highway 371 to match the city's new plaid theme. The current banners are blue with the names of businesses that helped to sponsor them. The new banners could also feature business sponsorship.
Johnny Inkslinger note: CSAH 1 connects to Barclay Avenue making Pine River one of four 'Gateway' connection points between the Paul Bunyan Scenic Byway, Highway 371 (a.k.a. the Paul Bunyan Expressway) and the Paul Bunyan State Trail. To learn more about Pine River see the CSAH 1 Byway Photo Tour pages or vist Pine River Chamber site.


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Songs To Spin To, From A Fitness Guru
Songs To Spin To, From A Fitness Guru
For the latest installment of The Ultimate NPR Workout Mix, Morning Edition reached out to someone who makes workout mixes for a living.
Justin Rubin teaches spin classes at Equinox Fitness in Los Angeles, where dozens of riders fill a dark room, pedaling against varying resistance levels on stationary bikes. Riders reserve their bikes online 26 hours before a class, and the bikes for Rubin's class are gone within minutes. The key to his popularity: People love his music.
"It's extremely important to have music that moves you — and I mean that in both ways," Rubin says. "If you're trapped on this bike and you're spinning, and you're visualizing your hill and going up, you need something that's going to take you away."
Rubin's first pick for our ultimate work out mix is "Heartless (In A Bottle)" by the San Francisco mashup artist DJ Earworm, which he says evokes "riding through the middle of the desert in the middle of the night, with just this rhythm and the person next to you."
Rubin teaches all over Los Angeles, and he says his playlist varies by location and by the time of day.
"I have a morning playlist; I call it my soccer-mom spin," Rubin explains. "I take less chances — I'll play more like Britney Spears, Flo Rida — whereas at nighttime, I'm not afraid to play [N.W.A.'s] 'Straight Outta Compton.' "
Still, every Rubin-led spin class ends the same way: You're told to pedal as fast and as hard as you can, because the finish line is right around the corner. The soundtrack for this epic finale? "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga.
"It's cheesy," Rubin says, "but especially at the end of cycling class, the endorphins are going so big that you're allowed to be a little cheesy."


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This is the outfit that I put on Thursday morning. It includes a pair of funny high waisted pleated trouser pants with tapered legs that I found at an estate sale for $2 that I've been wearing around lately, despite the fact that they make my butt look big:
I came out of the bedroom in this ensemble, and Derek told me I looked nice and asked what I was dressing up for (he asks that pretty much any time I wear heels). I told him that I had a meeting this afternoon. Then I turned to the side, and I could see him examining the back of the pants, since from the front they are deceivingly normal looking but from the back the mom-jean-ness really comes across. I suspected he was re-evaluating his complement that I looked nice today.
"Do you think my butt looks big in these?" I asked. He looked at me like I was asking one of those questions that women ask to trick men into saying something that they will regret.
"I promise, people are wearing pleated trousers again," I told him. "Granted, I think the style right now is usually a little looser than these, but I liked them anyway because of the double buttons on the waist band, and the cropped leg ..." I trailed off because his eyes were glazing over, and I could tell that despite me trying to lecture him on current fashion trends, the only thing he could knew was that I was wearing a pair of pants outside the house that made my butt look weird. And that I was wearing them to an important meeting.
We finally agreed that this probably was the kind of outfit that I should wear when having a meeting with fashionable girls, because a dude is just going to think I'm wearing mom jeans. Which I kind of am.
(I wore this to my meeting anyway)
Friday, September 16, 2011
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Labels: fashion, life is funny
6 comments:
- HV3 Youth said...
I think they're awesome. But more importantly, is this your apartment? I want a tour!
- September 19, 2011 at 12:43 PM
- robin marie said...
oh my gosh! that is awesome. i love the part where his eyes glaze over! classic.
- September 19, 2011 at 1:29 PM
- bex said...
Kim, come over any time! I will make you tell me if the pants I am wearing make my butt look weird, though.
robin - i'll let you borrow the pants and see what christian says.
- September 19, 2011 at 2:17 PM
- scuz said...
i think you look super hot in these. If I could pull them off like you do, i would wear them all the time.
- September 24, 2011 at 9:28 PM
- Janan said...
I am just laughing. I love it all!
- October 5, 2011 at 8:28 AM
Let me smash, I'll treat you right. 😏😘😋💕
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The Onion recently tackled Paul McCartney's much-publicized health woes, pounding away with the not-so-subtle finality of a certain silver hammer in a story headlined: "Excitement Growing Among Beatles Fans for Paul McCartney's Funeral."
The video report even contained a faux upbeat McCartney quote: "I am very excited about my upcoming death. The mourning period should really be fantastic. I wish I could be there."
The satire, while not appreciated by some Beatles fans, proved less a knock at McCartney than at the hoopla and handwringing surrounding his postponement of concerts in Asia and the U.S. due to his bout with a virus.
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The media storm, the outpouring of fan concern and even The Onion's parody are all signs of the hold McCartney and Beatles maintain on the popular imagination more than a half-century after "Love Me Do" hit the UK charts. But the responses also speak to the tremendous expectations placed on McCartney, who turns 72 Wednesday. His illness offers a reminder that even if he has no plans to stop making music anytime soon, we need to be prepared to eventually just let him be.
The Onion report provided an irreverent twist on the "Paul is dead" rumors from 45 years ago – and belied McCartney's phenomenal productivity over his last decade of recording and touring. Those of us lucky enough to have seen his solo concerts over the years marvel that his performances seem to be growing longer and getting better all the time. As New York "Breakfast with the Beatles" radio host Ken Dashow is fond of noting, McCartney doesn't so much as take a sip of water during shows that approach three hours.
McCartney, who certainly doesn't need any more money, appears driven by the joy of playing for appreciative crowds and by a duty to help keep the Beatles' legacy alive. The same can be said for his surviving band mate, Ringo Starr, whose latest All-Starr Band tour hits New York City this week, just weeks before his 74th birthday.
It's been a busy year for McCartney and Starr, who reunited in February for a TV special marking the 50th anniversary of their arrival – along with John Lennon and George Harrison – in the U.S.
The latest wave of Beatlemania, though, isn't propelled nostalgia as much as by the group's constant rediscovery by new generations of fans. The wave also isn't subsiding anytime soon: NBC reportedly is developing an eight-episode Beatles "series event," and July 4th brings the golden anniversary theatrical re-release of the band's first film, "A Hard Day's Night." The next night, McCartney is due to resume his "Out There" tour in Albany, N.Y., with plans to play through October.
McCartney's birthday provides an opportunity to wish him the best as he recovers, thank him for the gift of his music – and to treasure his long and winding road for as long as he's willing share his journey with us.
Jere Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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If you use Spring to develop Java applications, you may have heard of a recent server initiative undertaken by the same company that backs the Spring framework: the tc Server. In this post, Rod Biresch illustrates how to Cluster the SpringSource tc Server -- a platform based on the Apache Tomcat web container. Read Rod Biresch's post 'How To Cluster SpringSource tc Server': http://soatechlab.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-cluster-springsource-tc-server.html
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Managed relocationthe act of purposely relocating a threatened species, population, or genotype to an area that is foreign to its natural historyis a controversial response to the threat of extinction resulting from climate change. An article in the August 2012 issue of BioScience by Mark W. Schwartz and his colleagues reports on the findings of the Managed Relocation Working Group, an interdisciplinary group of scientists, researchers, and policymakers whose goals were to examine the conditions that might justify the use of managed relocation and to assess the research being conducted on the topic. The authors note that although traditional management strategies are not likely to address the effects of climate change adequately, guidelines and protocols for managed relocation are poorly developed. "Developing a functional policy framework for managed relocation is a grand challenge for conservation," they assert.
Moving a species to a higher elevation, for instance, may allow it to survive rising temperatures or an elevated sea level, but doing do in an ethically acceptable way is fraught with both legal and political complications. Unforeseen environmental consequences of such an action may be severethe species might become invasive in its new location, for example. Some question the appropriateness of conserving a single species at the expense of possibly disrupting an entire ecosystem. What is more, lax regulation of managed relocation may open the door to exploitative movement of species. Regulation is often dispersed among states, the federal government, and various agencies, which may have conflicting agendas, and most relevant policies and laws were not written with climate change in mind.
The current state of ecological knowledge is such that predicting accurately the effects of any particular proposed relocation is difficult and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. This makes it hard to know which species are most likely to benefit from managed relocation. Even so, ad hoc managed relocation projects are already under way in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Schwartz and colleagues recommend action by government agencies to develop and adopt best practices for managed relocation. They urge a transparent approach, with integrated research and international involvement of scientists, policymakers, resource managers, and other stakeholders. The BioScience authors provide a list of key questions that identify the main areas of possible contention. What is needed, they write, is more research to make better predictions; clearly written policies to define the responsibilities of various parties, to enable management and to limit abuse; and stakeholder involvement to minimize social conflict.
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Five Fingers Climber's Log
gimpilator - Dec 20, 2017 3:09 pm Date Climbed: Nov 15, 2017Owens and Five Fingers
Hiked up Owens and the true summit of Five Fingers the day after Scodie.
SCHO - Jun 27, 2017 9:41 am Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2017Fifth Finger
Slog up slope on east side then scramble up fifth finger.
IronHiker - Aug 2, 2015 10:15 pm Date Climbed: Dec 19, 2014HPS route
Just had time for the 5th finger main tower. Lots of good climbing available here.
wordlessnature - Oct 5, 2014 6:25 pm Date Climbed: Oct 5, 2014Great start to a day!
We headed up from the parking/camping area just a bit further than Powers Well. Stepped up the sand and scree, crossed the saddle between fingers 4 and 5, and walked down and around to the NE approach. Mellow class 3, and thankfully back to the car before noon on a 103 degree day!
irrationalist - Jan 31, 2014 11:28 am Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2013Fun and Easy
I've done this more than once using the HPS route. Good views and a great conditioning hike followed by a fun scramble. I've seen other class 3-4 routes I'd like to attempt.
Luke Swanson - Jun 4, 2012 8:55 pm Date Climbed: Mar 24, 2012Five Fingers
Climbed the 1, 4, and 5. Have to come back for 2 and 3. Really cool rock formations.
hightinerary - Aug 9, 2011 7:59 am Date Climbed: Jan 11, 2020The Finger
I climbed the highest finger in November 2007, April 2008 and January 2020. It's one way to work up a thirst before visiting the nearby Indian Wells Brewery.
cab - Jan 24, 2011 3:31 pm Date Climbed: Jan 22, 2011Fifth Finger
Tiring sand slog up to the base of the rocks, but fun after that.
Princess Buttercup - Oct 25, 2010 11:28 pm Date Climbed: Oct 23, 2010Meh...
Walked up the carved steps on the north face of the 5th finger w/ James Barnett (sayyestocrack). We looked at the other fingers, got annoyed with the decomposing granite, heard the band warming up down at the brewery, and headed down to Octoberfest.
KVHiker - Aug 13, 2009 6:34 pm Date Climbed: Apr 7, 2009A Fun Climb
I went on a hike to Five Fingers on Tuesday, April 7th 2009. The hike started at 1:00PM in the Indian Wells Valley where the desert environment was warm, windy, and not too hot. We parked on a dirt road, and started our ascent.
Heading East from our parking area we crossed a wash, and then started uphill. While it is only 1.1 miles to the summit the elevation gain is 1725 feet. Looking up at the Five Fingers we made our way up angling through the scree toward the saddle between the fourth and the fifth finger which took 1 hour and 25 minutes.
We started making our way around the rocks until we located two ravines leading up. We decided to ascend one of the class 4 chutes which fortunately led us to a point where a summit approach was possible. We reached the windy perch, signed the register, and took some pictures. I was able to take pictures of the ridge where we had done the Decapeak Hike ( 4 were necessary).
We started working our way down. Author Ruby Jenkins (Exploring the Southern Sierra: East Side) had made the approach to the peak another way so we decided to check it out. Somebody had cut small "steps" down a class 3 chute which made it much easier to descend.
It took us about 30 minutes to scree ski down the slope to our vehicle. The hike took 3 hours to go 2 miles with an elevation gain of 1725 feet.
Steve Larson - Nov 2, 2008 5:37 pm Date Climbed: Nov 2, 2008Short but sweet
A cool breezy day after a rainstorm--you could see for about 100 miles. The dog tried to do it, but couldn't.
Augie Medina - May 5, 2008 2:12 pm Date Climbed: May 4, 2008All Five
Climbed all five with Tom Becht and Gordon approaching from the north side. A beautiful day. Did one 4th class route and the rest were class 3. We noted the class 3 route up #5 with steps cut in the rock. But as you look south towards #5 from its base, there is a far more interesting class 3 chute just to the left of the chute with the steps.
Dave S - Mar 16, 2008 10:47 pm Date Climbed: Mar 15, 2008Fifth Finger
Nice late afternoon scramble (despite the wind!) with TT up the Fifth Finger.
Brad Mastros - Apr 17, 2007 9:59 pm Date Climbed: Apr 14, 2007South Face
Miguel had a nice lead that seemed a little stiffer than 5.6 (like he said). Fun route despite the wind
forjan - Apr 15, 2007 11:14 pm Date Climbed: Apr 14, 20075th, 4th and 1st finger
Climbed the 5th, 4th and 1st finger with Brad Mastros on a windy and cool day. On the 5th finger, we took a more direct route on the south face that felt like 5.7. Too windy and cold to try the 3rd and 2nd finger! Now I have to go back sometime and finish those off!
bechtt - Jan 8, 2007 9:11 pm Date Climbed: Jan 2, 2007IWV Road
Part 2 of our southern Sierra day trip. Climbed 5th and then 4th Finger with Ryan (crescentstrife) but let him do the false peak on his own.
RSN473 - Oct 24, 2005 7:26 pmRoute Climbed: Various Date Climbed: October 23, 2005
Climbed all five plus the 2 "bonus fingers" SE of the ridge. Plenty of suspect holds and grit, but all in all a great day.
ExploreABitMore - Mar 4, 2005 10:35 pmRoute Climbed: Various Date Climbed: ManyTimes
Live near the five fingers and like to hike up there often. Fun place to hike/climb.


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The department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at Lisie Hospital, Ernakulam is comparable with the best in the world. The Out-Patient department functions on all working days and has an adjoining full-fledged procedure room equipped with otologic microscope, nasal endoscopes and a video-laryngoscope to aid in comprehensive and accurate diagnosis. Minor surgical procedures can also be carried out here with the help of the dedicated staff to give prompt relief to the patient.
The OPD also enjoys the support of auxiliary departments providing speech voice and swallowing therapy in addition to audiological assessment and dispensing of digital programmable hearing aids. Voice, Vertigo, Allergy and Headache clinics also function within the OPD.
Inpatient care is provided in private rooms or in separate male and female wards manned by well trained nurses. Daily dressing and ENT procedures for the inpatients are carried out at the attached procedure room.
Two state of art operating rooms in the impressive Theatre complex are allotted to the department and allows for round the clock major elective and emergency operative procedures of the Ear Nose and Throat including phonosurgery and surgery for snoring and sleep apnoea. The Theatre is also equipped with Xenon and LED light sources, technologically advanced cameras and recording systems in addition to the operating microscope, endoscopes, microdebriders and the Coblator.
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Audiometry tympanometry and other audiology evaluation
Dispensing Star key digital programmable hearing aids
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Happy New Year! Throughout 2012, Lexington Medical Center will continue to implement Electronic Health Records throughout our hospital and physician practices. We believe this transformation will help to enhance and optimize patient care.
Electronic Health Records, known as EHR, move medical documentation into the 21st century by putting patient information at our fingertips with the simple touch of a button.
Health care providers will now access patient charts and securely exchange clinical information using computers, instead of paper patient charts. .
Doctors will be able to order and manage lab work electronically, reducing the time patients wait for tests and results. Results are added to the patient's electronic chart allowing the clinicians and physicians greater opportunity to trend patient progress.
Staff can enter actions in the computer for a provider to complete such as reviewing results or signing notes. These processes can allow more time to be spent administering direct patient care.
Referrering doctors will have improved access to the patient record which will help enhance continuity of care.
EHR shows potentially dangerous drug interactions and keeps up-to-date lists of diagnoses, medications and allergies. The system also allows providers to send e-prescriptions to pharmacies so that your medications are ready when you get there.
Importantly, the system will maintain a secure place for health information, as both processes and system controls are in place to ensure access is based on need to know.
Some of Lexington Medical Center's physician practices are already using EHR. Many more will be added this year. The transformation to EHR is required by federal law as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. We believe this change is good and consistent with Lexington Medical Center's mission of providing quality health services to our community.


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MIAMI, July 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanomedics International Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: SIMH) ("Sanomedics"), a medical technology company that focuses on market expanding products and services announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire its 2nd sleep services based company in Duke Medical LLC, of Baytown, Texas ("Duke") for an aggregate purchase price of $7,000,000, which includes cash, the issuance of common shares of Sanomedics and debt consideration (subject to certain adjustments as set forth in the agreement). The transaction is expected to close during Sanomedics' fiscal third quarter ending September 30, 2013, and is subject to customary closing conditions as set forth in the agreement. Duke generated approximately $4 million in annual revenue with EBITDA of $1.5 million in 2012, and is on target to increase EBITDA close to $2 million this year based upon representations.
Duke Medical LLC, is a leading respiratory and sleep disorder provider of treatment equipment and services. It provides medical supplies to patients with sleep apnea with products such as CPAP/BiPAP, respiratory equipment, nasal and oral masks, and pulse oximeters, Duke Medical services patients throughout the Houston and Galveston, Texas and aggressively expanding throughout the state. The Texas Medical Center is home to 50 institutions including 14 hospitals and two specialty institutions. Since its inception, Duke has maintained the requisite licensure as a qualified Medical Equipment provider from the State of Texas.
The management team of Duke will continue to operate the day-to-day business as a wholly owned subsidiary of Anovent, Inc. ("Anovent"), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sanomedics.
Duke's leadership team has combined industry experience of over 34 years. Duke is led by Vann Duke, President, who has over 22 years of industry experience in the healthcare and medical equipment field. Mr. Vann Duke is a former US Western Division Sales Manager for Rotech Healthcare, Multiple Location Branch Manager for Apria Healthcare, and Houston Branch Manager for Lincare Inc. Mr. Duke has a MS in Industrial Organizational Psychology from The University of Houston and a BS in Psychology from Sam Houston State University.
"This transaction opens an exciting new chapter for Duke and our customers," stated Mr. Duke. "We are committed to continued growth, and I believe our efforts will be better supported by partnering with Sanomedics in our shared vision of the expansive sleep apnea marketplace. While we remain focused on the execution of our long-term strategy, we believe that we will deliver immediate value to shareholders. I believe this transaction will generate a tremendous boost for Duke Medical and Sanomedics. With an aging population and vast needs for home medical equipment in the future, Duke Medical and Sanomedics are on the cusp of an incredible growth potential in healthcare."
Keith Houlihan, Co-founder and President of Sanomedics, stated, "This acquisition will take Sanomedics into new geographic markets and expand our efforts to build out a national platform of our sleep apnea service and product offerings. I am extremely pleased to have the opportunity to work with Mr. Duke and continue building upon his tradition of success. This is truly an exciting chapter in both companies history".
About Sanomedics International Holdings, Inc.
Sanomedics International Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: SIMH) is a medical technology company that focuses on game changing products, services and ideas – a place where physicians, entrepreneurs, and medical companies can work together to drive innovative technologies through concept, development, and ultimately commercialization. We plan to grow our existing business organically and through strategic acquisitions specifically relating to sleep disorder diagnosis treatments. Sanomedics seeks to acquire sleep therapy operating businesses and our strategy is to integrate a portfolio of world-class products and service providers in the growing Sleep Apnea market. Our goal is to provide Sleep Apnea patients with a reliable and integrated "end-to-end" service platform.
About Duke Medical, LLC.
Duke Medical LLC, is a leading respiratory and sleep provider of equipment, services and medical supplies to home patients with products such as CPAP/BiPAP, respiratory equipment, nasal and oral masks, pulse oximeters, nebulizer compressors, hospital beds, bariatric equipment and support surface products for wound care management, servicing patients throughout the Houston and Galveston, Texas and aggressively expanding throughout the state. The Texas Medical Center is home to 50 institutions including 14 hospitals and two specialty institutions. Since its inception, Duke has maintained the requisite licensure as a qualified Medical Equipment provider from the State of Texas.
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A Guide to the Jacob Routh Papers, 1852-1951
Biographical Note
Following the death of his father John Routh, Jacob Routh (1818-1879) moved with his mother Elizabeth and other family members from Jefferson County, Tennessee, to Plano, Texas, in 1850. He soon married Lodemia Ann Campbell and raised nine children, including Clara E. Routh. Ordained in the Baptist Church, Routh eventually moved to Richardson, where he helped establish a church and school.
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Composed of correspondence, a bill of lading, and newspaper clippings, the Jacob Routh Papers, 1852-1964, document Routh's agricultural activities, events and military life in the Civil War, and the history of the Routh-Campbell families. Correspondence to Routh in Plano, Texas, from family and friends, 1852-1876, discusses their experiences as soldiers in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, including descriptions of camp life, battles, and battlefields. Letters also relate to farming, prices of commodities in the reconstruction period, and the sale of Routh's cotton in 1876. Newspaper clippings, 1929-1964, pertain to Routh's involvement in the development of Richardson, Texas, and his former slave, Thomas Routh. Furthermore, the collection includes an 1852 bill of lading and biographical sketches and notes written by Jacob Routh's daughter Clara about the Routh-Campbell family.
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We elaborate a cultural framing theory of legal cynicism—previously used to account for neighborhood variation in Chicago homicides—to explain Arab Sunni victimization and insurgent attacks during the U.S. post-invasion occupation of Iraq. Legal cynicism theory has an unrecognized power to explain collective and interpersonal violence in international as well as U.S. settings. We expand on how "double and linked" roles of state and non-state actors can be used to analyze violence against Arab Sunni civilians.
Lawyers keep the gates of public justice institutions, particularly through their roles in formal procedures like hearings and trials. Yet, it is not clear what lawyers do in such quintessentially legal settings: conclusions from past research are bedeviled by a lack of clear theory and inconsistencies in research design. Conceptualizing litigation work in terms of professional expertise, I conduct a theoretically grounded synthesis of the findings of extant studies of lawyers' impact on civil case outcomes.
As work regimes become global, social communication increasingly occurs across locations far apart. In the absence of a common national, ethnic, or organizational culture across continents, what makes communication possible among social worlds technologically integrated in real time? Taking India's global call centers as the focus of analysis, this article attempts to solve the riddle of communication by showing how transnational business practices rely on the transmutation of cultural communication into global communication through the processes of neutralization and mimesis.
Americans love crime. The criminal justice system is fetishized in popular culture and news media. We watch the news and scour the Internet to assess our own moral compass, take cues from others' digressions, and bear witness to justice and punishment. Historically, we learned about crime through news media and fiction. The Internet has dramatically changed this landscape: for the first time, mug shots and jailhouse rosters are available with a click.
After September 11, issues of immigration and terrorism merged, heightening surveillance and racializing Latino immigrants as a threat to national security, according to sociologists at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin).
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We Became Friends
>> Sunday, September 25, 2011
I am from NY where we don't have to drive if we do not want to. NYrkers have a choice of public transportation and I know that place like the back of my hand.. (wait what's that spot...) Besides the stressful atmosphere, who wants to drive? I sure didn't need it. Not my husband, he is a true cruzer. Every now and then he would give me a lift to work in "Blue Car". Then came motherhood and we got "black car". Black car served our family well until one day; the big 40 came. My husband was turning 40 and his birthday request was to get a car his grandfather had and then his father owned and now he reached a point in his life when he wanted an Audi.
Was he out of his mind! We are parents! Then I remembered how wonderful of a spouse he has been and provider and father and assistant house cleaner.....the evidence was overwhelming. Plus he had never asked for anything for his birthday in the last 8 years. So I said yes. And he was a very happy camper. We went to the dealership he wanted and we saw an A4 and an A6. They also had an A8 but we were not going there. He was not sure which to get so I sat in the back of the car where my children would be and it was clear the A4 had no room for my children's legs. The A6 would do.
We drove it to Virginia, upon our move last year. We have had it for 4 years now and it has always been his car. Well now that we both need to drive he is happy as he was driving the car himself, all this time. I have to say I was not sensitive in the least to him driving, as this was his car and I had my subway. Who would have known this would become a source of marital stress? And when it came to driving, I was out of practice. I wouldn't drive as I avoided stress of the streets and highways, now the same stress crept into my home. Of course I wanted to avoid the stress of resentment for me not driving. I didn't have a choice anymore and that made me angry. And I had no right to be. I knew he had won this one but I needed time.
6 months later and I surprised him for new years and drove him around. But the first time I got in the car, I opened the door and the seat slid forward by itself. I interpreted this as "She did not want me in the driver's seat as it was reserved for "Him". It has a lot of cool gadgets so I eventually arrived at this conclusion. My husband later told me that has never happened to him and found my reasoning humorous. Now I drive her all the time and have become good friends. Parking is always a work in progress and I joke with other drivers how terrible I am at parking and how they may never get out or into their car.
The other day my husband mentioned trading the Audi in and I was surprised at my reaction. "No way!" I said. "You can get a new car. This one is mine". Then I realized the car and I had became friends. At this point there was not resentment from my husband for not driving. As I became friends with his car, he became friends with me. Men can be strange in that way.....


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