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A sputnik moment? The Natural Sciences and Humanities. An interview with Edward L. Ayers
Peter Vale
Nelson Mandela Professor of Politics at Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Fifty years ago, the Natural Sciences and the Humanities were described (by C.P. Snow) as 'Two Cultures'. Are they still so? This interview conducted by Peter Vale suggests that they are complementary and are likely to be increasingly so. Edward Ayers is the President of the University of Richmond. Previously dean of arts and sciences at the University of Virginia, where he began teaching in 1980, Ayers was named the National Professor of the Year from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2003. A historian of the American South, Ayers has written and edited ten books.The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. In the Presence of Mine Enemies, War in the Heart of America 18591863 won the 2003 Bancroft Prize for distinguished writing in American history and the Beveridge Prize for the best book in English on the history of the Americas since 1492. Ayers is a former president of the US National Council on the Humanities, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.]]> PV: In an age of immense technological change, why should society attach importance to the humanities?
ELA: The humanities and modern technological society have always been co-dependent. The disciplines we associate with the study of human behavior are actually quite new. Most of them, even history in its current academic form, developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as part of a larger effort to comprehend and even control social life. As a result, there have always been two currents running through those disciplines. One celebrates the humanities' and social sciences' reflective, disinterested, and even radical disconnection from dominant forms of industrial life. Another current is charged by a determination to be engaged and useful. Sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics were designed to be accompaniments to a technological society, to provide a set of tools to channel change. Even the study of literature and art was intended to make sense of potentially disruptive forms of human expression, to comprehend, categorise, and foster them.
Thus, the humanities are not leftovers from some earlier stage of social life, some vestigial appendage that will atrophy in a more thoroughly technological and modern age. There is every reason to expect that the humanities and social sciences will grow ever more sophisticated and specialised as they fulfil the purposes they were designed to fulfil. That purpose is disguised by the language that both their defenders and their detractors employ, dwelling on the humanities' non-utilitarian nature. Those who celebrate the humanities for their own sake and those who criticise them as a useless adornment both ignore the larger and intrinsic social role of the humanities. Those disciplines will be with us in one form or another as long as we have a modern society.
PV: Do you think that the self-reflexiveness of the humanities could assist the natural sciences in being more concerned with the social dimensions of their work?
ELA: The sciences can indeed learn from the humanities; just as important, the humanities can learn from the sciences albeit not what scientists may think humanists can learn. For the humanities and social sciences, reflexiveness is a major part of their social work. They demonstrate the ways that everything is social, including themselves. One of the most important developments in making the pursuit of knowledge more self aware came from an exchange between the humanities and the natural sciences.
When Thomas Kuhn devised the term 'paradigm shift' he was writing the history of science. By showing us that even science is deeply related to the structures of its production, Kuhn made all disciplines reflexive in a way they had not been before. It is in the nature of the Natural Sciences to ignore, even to deny, this fact about themselves. But after Kuhn, scientists better understand that science is not merely a neutral search for truth but reflects a society's deepest structures of thought and practice. After Kuhn, scholars of all fields are much less likely to take any form of knowledge representation as natural or even as progress than they did before. As we see in the answer to the next question, moreover, other shared discoveries unite the disciplines.
PV: Given emerging global problemssay, climate change and even the financial crisis are we likely to see a greater convergence of the humanities and the natural sciences? If so, what form do you think this will take; if not, why can academic work not escape from the old trap that societies have problems while universities have departments?]]> ELA: As we have seen, the humanities and the natural sciences have woven together for the last century, continually converging and diverging, continually reinforcing each other and critiquing each other. This marriage means that similarities between the two have grown even when people have not noticed it. In one field of human understanding after another, cultural historian Stephen Kern has recently pointed out, causality has come to be understood in terms of 'increasing specificity, multiplicity, complexity, probability, and uncertainty.' Satisfying explanations of social phenomena increasingly emphasise the intricate interplay of the structural and the ephemeral, the enduring and the emergent. This is true for history and sociology as it is for physics and biology.
As a result of this tendency, which may have something to do with interdisciplinary borrowing but which also has something to do with the recognition that the world simply works in complicated and unpredictable way, the humanities and the natural sciences are indeed converging and seem likely to continue to do so.
PV: Should we view the global fall off in interest in the humanities a 'crisis'?
ELA: I am not sure there is a global fall off of interest. Surely, we have never had more students studying the humanities, never more scholars producing more scholarship. It feels like a crisis, though, because of new competition. We have seen what we might think of the 'academisation' of things that were not taught in the academy before. The clearest example of this trend is business, where people now hold 'seminars' on managerial techniques, where all facets of business behavior are turned into subdisciplines.
The academy is full of other examples, from hotel management to recreation science to dental hygiene to disaster response, that simply were not taught in institutions of higher education a few generations ago. The proliferation of these subjects means that a growing proportion of students are not in the humanitiesor in the natural sciences, for that matter.
The humanities do exactly what they say they do: prepare people to live lives with breadth of vision, suppleness of understanding, and the capacity to deal with change. These are the attributes and habits of mind needed by the leaders of complex, technological, and highly stressed modern societies. The crisis of the humanities comes in the self-perpetuating patterns of social inequality that dominates study of these fields. It is not apparent to many young people who are the first in their families to go to post-secondary school that the skills of the humanities are the skills they need to guarantee themselves a job, security, and a chance to advance. Those students flock to a more certain return in business or in more technical fields. They do so for perfectly logical reasons. But the result is that they limit themselves to relatively confined roles in later life, serving specific positions very well but not having the opportunity to lead enjoyed by those who have a broad humanities education, often topped off with a professional degree.
Those who study the humanities tend to be from families who are already comfortable and who go to schools that value and encourage the humanities. They are confident they will find no shortage of opportunities. They expect to get an MBA, a legal degree, a medical degree, or a Ph.D.; they understand that undergraduate humanities work is intended to be broadening and deepening, not vocational. And that expectation, that confidence, becomes self-fulfilling. They learn to write and speak well, to know something about the world.
Young people from poorer backgrounds would also benefit from the studying the humanities, but they do not feel they can take the chance. They may be right, but they will find their success delimited as a result.
PV: In your recent writing, you suggest that disciplines in the humanities are in the midst of a 'Sputnik' moment. Could you explain what you mean by this, and tell us what disciplines are involved and and suggest other areas that could possibly take off.
ELA: In the United States, the education system in the late 1950s was shocked into a recognition that it had neglected mathematics and science while the Soviets had not. With encouragement and investment from the highest levels, American schools and universities poured enormous energies into scientific teaching and research.]]> The most recent Sputnik moment came to the United States and other Western societies in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 2001. Suddenly, government officials and opinion makers realised that we had neglected the teaching of foreign languages, religions, cultures, and histories, that our declared enemies knew a lot more about us than we knew about them. As a result, everything associated with international study boomed. Students flock into courses not only in Arabic but also in Mandarin, Hindi, and Farsi. Religious studies grew increasingly popular. The federal government in the United States, neglectful of the world after the Cold War, now pours money into foreign language teaching. Whether the effect will be as powerful in the short-run, and as apparently evanescent in the long run, as Sputnik remains to be seen.
PV: If, as you have argued, the humanities are 'intrinsically inefficient' how might universities, research councilsand indeed, governmentsbetter fund them?
ELA: One of the most interesting and heartening developments of recent years is undergraduate research: original research, funded by small grants, overseen by faculty, performed by undergraduates themselves. Such research is a natural outgrowth in the sciences, where it is an extension of well established practices of collaboration and on-site learning. Undergraduate study in the humanities, by contrast, has too often taken the form of the empty exercise, of reflection that is never tested by audiences of peers, of isolated work that never connects with, builds upon, or contributes to the work of others. Relatively small investments in real undergraduate research in the Humanities, funding professors as well as students, could play a major role in broadening our conception of what the humanities are and can do.
PV: You have suggested that the new digital media are transforming the humanities. How is this happening, and will it alter both their form and content over the longer term?
ELA: A revolution has taken place that people have barely noticed. Over the last twenty years, much of the human record has been digitised. Though much more awaits that conversion, vast amounts of information that was once rare and isolated is now commonly shared. Documents, art, and data that were once sealed away in inaccessible archives are now available largely for free. Scholarly books that were, only five years ago, largely unknown and unavailable except to a tiny audience are now obtainable to anyone with access to a computer.
This revolution has been so quiet because we are not quite sure what to do with this sudden abundance. We have not developed the tools to deal with having far more information than we know how to process. Billions of words from newspapers from around the world for the last two centuries are now before us. Those billions of words are not unlike the immense amounts of data that pour into computers every day from telescopes, particle colliders, remote sensing devices, and magnetic resonance imaging machines. The challenge for all of usa thrilling challengeis to find patterns and meaning in those words and numbers that explain things more fully than we have been able to explain them before. And what task of explanation is more exciting, and challenging, than explaining humans to ourselves? The digital revolution in the humanities has barely begun.]]>


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Teixeira late scratch after feeling lightheaded
NEW YORK -- Mark Teixeira was removed from Monday's starting lineup minutes before the first pitch due to lightheadedness.
Manager Joe Girardi said after Monday's 2-1 victory over the Tigers that Teixeira got lightheaded about an hour before the game and indicated that arriving in New York on Monday morning at 4:30 a.m. ET may have been a culprit. Teixeira saw a doctor and rested for the majority of the series opener, but he should be available for the rest of the series.
"I felt fine all day, was getting ready for the game all day the way I usually get ready for the game, and all of a sudden, I started getting really dizzy, nauseous, the room started spinning, and I went into the trainers' room and said something's not right," said Teixeira, who didn't feel better until the last few innings of Monday's Yankees win.
"I got some IVs, they said I might have been a little dehydrated, I'm not sure what happened," Teixeira said. "It could be a little bug, could be food poisoning, could've been a lot of things, but it knocked me on my tail a little bit. I just got off the trainers' table, so it's been a fun day. It really just hit me all at once. Hopefully that's the last time I feel it."
Girardi moved third baseman Chase Headley to first base to replace Teixeira, brought in Martin Prado from right field to third base, and inserted Ichiro Suzuki into the lineup to play right. Prado made a few nice plays in the third inning but also was responsible for the Tigers' only run due to a throwing error in the fifth inning that eventually came around to score.
Teixeira has hit .263 with two home runs and three RBIs since returning from a lower lat strain July 28.

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Bazaar @ First Subang
Sep 11, 2012Do you want to know where to get cute tops, dresses, korean earrings and necklaces?
What about good food and coffee after a fruitfulnshopping?
Then also have your nails done up and facial and massage, to relax your hectic day?
All this at First Subang!
The first and last Thursday & Friday of every month, First Subang will have these bazaars shops. Lots of gems to choose, bling bling if what's you are looking for, or change your smartphones and tablets casing here! You can't complain for a RM50 new iPad rotating casing, can you ;p
For good brewing coffee and creative coffee art, stop by Coffee Chemistry and you will surprised :) Not only the coffee is great, looks good with it's creative drawing on your cuppa, the ambience is just wonderful to hangout with your friends. There are board games available for you to make many happy times with your family and friends. Also free wifi~
If you want gorgeous cakes and brownies for dessert, stop by Sherlyn's Little Dream. They are deliciously homemade, you definitely come back for more!
We got to stop for some beauty treatments, don't we? I chose 'the love nails' on 1st floor. My boring nails are transformed beautifully with OPI Espresso Your Style! I did had coffee and choc cakes, and it is also autumn fall season :)
Thanks to Tammy & Ashley for organising this event, most importantly, it is the great friends that hangout together :)
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My excuse: iPad
Sep 10, 2012Wow, me inactive for so longgg :(
My recent trip to Australia, wasn't a really happy one as my fil just passed away. He was a great man and I am very thankful to know him before he passed on. I am blessed to have him as one of my mentor and father all these years. He will always be remembered and never forgotten.
I also blame it on iPad that I couldn't blog that much these last few months >.< Why isn't there a blogger app for iPad??? Come on! Well, there are other paid apps but I'm a big scrooge when it comes to paying apps. No worries, today I did found an alternative app to blog from iPad, so more posts will be coming soon.
I also was trying to find a way to replace my digital scrapping of my photos. Although I still love doing it on my PC, but these days, mobile is the way to go! I love instagram and instaword on iPhone, but they are not available on iPad. Again I have to find alternative for me to blog entirely from iPad. I can't multitask between too many devices hehe
This post is also to remind myself to come back to blogging. So it is kind of welcoming myself back :) I want to thank my blogger friends, who have been encouraging me to continue blogging. Without all of your enthusiastic support, I may truly leave the blogersphere for good, but thanks to you, I am back to blogging babeh~
xoxo, ciao, elle
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Second Quarter 2012
Jun 27, 2012Time flies..sometimes fast, sometimes slow. This post is just a little snippet version of my second quarter of 2012. I have been neglecting the bloggersphere and I believed it has kinda created a tiny hole in my world. So now I will be slowly patching it up, with some coming reviews and pick up the fingers to do more typing and picture taking ^^
April 2012It was my birthday, and it was a really memorable and special day for me. They said, good things happen to good people; and that day was one of those days, and those two (hubby & I) are those people.
May 2012After my ROM, I kinda started a domino effect thingy. My youngest sister got married! And my second sister will follow suit in November 2012. Sigh, bliss .. The happiest I think, its our parents! After having 3 daughters for the last 20+ years, they now gain 3 new sons (in-law) all in one year!
June 2012I bought an iPad! So kinda busy playing with it and tweaking it and customizing it and bla bla bla lol There are so many weird apps in the market! The weirdest app got to be 'Sit & Squat' where it showed a picture of the toilets in surrounding restaurants and cafes, in case you really need to do job number one lol
I'll be flying off to Melbourne this weekend, so I'll showcase some pictures here and I will be putting up some reviews in the next couple of days. Ciao~
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Yamagoma Ramen @ Publika
May 13, 2012I was invited for food tasting at the newly opened Yamagoya Ramen @ Publika. There are plenty of sushi restaurants in KL but there aren't many good ramen restaurant in KL so I was excited to try this.
Above: I was there with stellarvixen ^^Above: Lots of yummy dishes in the menuAbove: You got to try their Mukashi Special Ramen!Above: Calpis Soda, Cucumber Juice, Asahi Draft BeerAbove: The wonderfully talented chef & staff of Yamagoya RamenYamagoya means "small mountain hut" but the taste is explosively yummy for the tummy. I'm usually a fan of dry noodle dishes, but I like this ramen alot and even finishes the soup in the entire bowl! Overall, I have a wonderful time there, and I will be going there for a few more rounds. Hope to see you there~
Yamagoya Ramen
No 1, Jalan Dutamas 1, 50480
Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-62062220
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About Us
I love the city. It's hard to argue with Samuel Johnson, when he said, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life".
But, every so often, I get the urge to escape the headlong scramble to do more, see more, squeeze a bit more out of the day and to spend some time somewhere calmer, more serene.
Which is where my garden comes in. It's only a roof terrace but it has pretty much everything you could want from a garden – somewhere shady to sit and while away hot summer afternoons, a barbie to feed the hungry friends and most importantly, lots and lots of plants.
There's something about gardening that gets under your skin – whether it's buying yet another plant that you know, strictly speaking, you don't have room for; getting out the hosepipe in your pyjamas because you've forgotten to do the watering; or breaking out in a cold sweat at an infestation of unidentified insects. Gardening can be challenging but it is also immensely satisfying and (this is going to sound nerdy) exciting. Just ask my friend Alice who has been known to wake up her husband at ungodly hours of the morning to report on the progress of her seedlings.
And gardens are not just good for the soul, they are also good for the city too. They help to lower the temperature, they provide vital food and shelter for wildlife (and maybe for us too!), they absorb potential flood water and increase oxygen levels.
So for all of these reasons, I wanted to launch The City Planter to share ideas and information about city gardening.
So whether you've got a garden, a roof terrace, a balcony or even just some room indoors to grow plants, hopefully you'll find all the gardening ideas and advice you need to create a beautiful and truly satisfying green space in the city.
I'd love to know what you think.
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Much of the media analysis of Iran at the moment dwells on the punitive economic sanctions targeting Iran's economy. An additional round of more restrictive sanctions took effect at the beginning of this month, drawing renewed attention from the press.
The clear message from that media coverage is this: If Iran were to come clean about its nuclear program, they could get relief from the sanctions that are starting to wreak serious havoc on the country's economy.
That is one of the primary assumptions in the coverage of the Iran crisis. But is it correct?
Mostly not.
Here's the New York Times (6/30/12):
U.S. Bets New Oil Sanctions Will Change Iran's TuneBy ANNIE LOWREY and DAVID E. SANGER
WASHINGTON — After three and a half years of attempting to halt Iran's nuclear program with diplomacy, sanctions and sabotage, the Obama administration and its allies are imposing sweeping new sanctions that are meant to cut the country off from the global oil market. Many experts regard it as the best hope for forcing Iran to change its course.
On Sunday, the European Union is putting in place a complete embargo of oil imports from Iran, which was the Continent's sixth-biggest supplier of crude in 2011.
The piece goes on:
Still, President Obama and his European allies–with little help from the Chinese, who actually increased their purchases of Iranian crude in May–are placing a bet that another big turn of the economic screws may change Iran's attitude.
"It is our assessment that the Iranians have not experienced deep enough sanctions, long enough to fully understand what their isolation means," a senior administration official closely involved in strategy said Friday in an interview.
The Washington Post had a piece, headlined (6/30/12) "Amid Standoff, More Sanctions for Iran," that included this:
"In short, sanctions are having a major adverse impact on Iran's economy, and things will only go from bad to worse unless Iran gets serious about addressing the international community's concerns about its nuclear program," said a senior administration official, who insisted on anonymity in discussing U.S. strategy on Iran.
But U.S. officials and Iran experts are divided on whether any amount of economic pain will yield concessions from Iran at the negotiating table. Iranian officials, during three rounds of talks with world powers this spring, rebuffed proposals to curtail production of enriched uranium in exchange for gradual relief from sanctions.
Amidst the creepy taunts from (predictably anonymous) U.S. officials, the message is clear: Iran must budge first, and then maybe they'll get what they want.
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But is that possible? Not necessarily. Take the sanctions levied by the United States, for instance. As Scott Peterson noted in the Christian Science Monitor (5/10/12):
In the U.S., the power to adjust American sanctions resides not with President Barack Obama but with Congress, which has voiced a hawkish stance on Iran in a U.S. election year.
Yousaf Butt of the Federation of American Scientists argued (Christian Science Monitor, 5/25/12) that most of the U.S. sanctions could be removed only if Congress chose to do so, and only after the president certified that
the government of Iran has ceased supporting acts of international terrorism and no longer satisfies certain requirements for designation as a state sponsor of terrorism; and [that] Iran has ceased the pursuit, acquisition, and development of nuclear, biological, chemical and ballistic weapons.
The likelihood of both of those things happening anytime soon is obviously incredibly slim. So from Iran's perspective, the U.S. sanctions are in place no matter what.
That would lend credence to the argument that the sanctions policy has basically nothing to do with a nuclear program. As Butt argued in his op-ed, "A careful reading of the legislative text of the sanctions shows that the sanctions have very little to do with Iran's nuclear program and everything to do with regime change."
And some sanctions proponents are at least honest about this fact. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof recently wrote a column (6/16/12) endorsing sanctions primarily as a means to change the Iranian government by causing hardship for the Iranian population. "I regret this suffering," Kristof wrote, "and let's be clear that sanctions are hurting ordinary Iranians more than senior officials."
Nonetheless, he added:
Yet, with apologies to the many wonderful Iranians who showered me with hospitality, I favor sanctions because I don't see any other way to pressure the regime on the nuclear issue or ease its grip on power. My takeaway is that sanctions are working pretty well.
This success makes talk of a military strike on Iranian nuclear sites unwise as well as irresponsible. Aside from the human toll, war would create a nationalist backlash that would cement this regime in place for years to come–just when economic sanctions are increasingly posing a challenge to its survival. No one can predict the timing, but Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen have shown that unpopular regimes that cannot last, don't.
"People putting bread on the table, bearing the pressure, they have a limit," said a businessman I chatted with on a beach of the Caspian Sea. "Sooner or later, the limit will come and things will change."
Insha'Allah. (God willing.)
Kristof is careful to talk about the Iranian nuclear program, but it's pretty clear that he sees the sanctions as the best hope for creating a different government in Iran. It would appear to be a more honest assessment of the sanctions than one is likely to get in straight news articles.


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"You've got to know when to hold them,
Know when to fold them,
Know when to walk away,
Know when to runâ€
-Kenny Rogers
My father was a professional gambler. I'm an entrepreneur. However, the biggest risk taken by my family came from my wife Karen, a Catholic school principal who grew up on a dairy farm.
She didn't win the lottery, but she won a professional jackpot. Starting in July, she will be president of the Ursuline Academy in New Orleans, one of the most prestigious private schools in the country.
Founded in 1727, the Ursuline Academy is the oldest Catholic School and also the oldest all-girls school in the United States. It has incredibly impressive alumni, with several nationally and internationally famous graduates.
Karen wasn't looking for a new job. When the headhunters first called, her reaction wasn't positive. We were just married in June, she loved her current job, never lived outside Kentucky and was finishing her doctorate.
Her biggest concern was me. My structured settlement business operates nationally and my writing internationally, thanks to my syndicated column and Huffington Post contributions, but I am as deeply rooted in the legal, business and media communities in Kentucky as anyone can be.
A fear was that moving from Kentucky would damage my career. I love New Orleans and have been there many times, but have few clients in the area.
I happen to love Louisiana history. My high school civics teacher, Dick Maile, was an All-American basketball player at LSU and started me on a fascination that continues 40 years later. My friend and former New York Times reporter Gary Rivlin (who wrote a must-read book about payday lending called "Broke USAâ€) is writing a book about post-Katrina New Orleans and told me I would love living there.
Being the son of a gambler and an entrepreneur taught me one thing: the biggest risk in life is not taking one.
We could stay in Kentucky and continue to be happy. Or she could try for a job that comes along once in a lifetime, and I could commute back and forth from Kentucky as I expanded my business to New Orleans and nationally.
Ultimately, we chose to roll the dice.
Karen read the description of what the Ursuline Academy was looking for and realized it was the position she had always wanted. It was also a position that would allow her to be a role model for a generation of Catholic girls and make a real difference.
I picked up a mid-life, second career as a writer in order to advocate social justice and to educate people about personal finance. The Ursuline commitment to social justice
is right up my alley.
The school took a big financial hit after Hurricane Katrina, but kept paying their teachers while the school was being repaired and no tuition was coming in.
That commitment was a big reason Karen applied for the position. She wanted to be in a culture that understood the long-term benefits of valuing their people.
As application time loomed, it was a time of prayer, intense conversations and gnashing of teeth. Love can conquer all, but developing a good plan really helps.
We developed a strategy with which I would keep up our house in Kentucky and commute back and forth to New Orleans as I developed business in both places. I caught a break that my son-in-law, Clay Bigler, who serves as president of McNay Settlement Group, grew up as the son of a New Orleans bank president and saw the opportunity for us to open a branch in New Orleans.
I figured out that my years of accumulating frequent flyer miles were about to come in handy.
One irritant is that several people kept asking Karen if I would go along with her going after her dream job. If it had been reversed, and she was asked to alter her career to follow my dreams, I doubt the question would have come up.
It also gave us a calling. To show the young women in her school that their president could be married to someone with similar professional accomplishments and
make it work.
When we spent time with the search committee and board of directors, it was an impressive group of people with big-time credentials, but what impressed me and Karen was their love and commitment to the school. She wanted to work with people like that.
Now she will.
I'm also proud that we both saw the opportunities and not the obstacles. My biggest fear was that my Kentucky clients would think I was abandoning them. I've been calling them in droves and the reaction has been enthusiastic. By keeping the house and office in Kentucky, they know I will be available when needed.
They also think it might be a good idea to visit me in the New Orleans office. Especially when Mardi Gras, the Super Bowl or the Jazz Festival are happening.
We don't hit New Orleans until July, but it looks like a trail of Kentuckians will be right behind us. Which means the risk of losing touch with our friends isn't much of a
risk after all.
Organisms need to grow or die. We are going to get a lot of change thrown at us at once, but out of change comes growth and opportunity.
Sometimes you get to fulfill your dreams. Sometimes you never knew they were your dreams until the opportunity knocks on your door.
Or a headhunter calls out of the blue.
Don McNay is a Kentucky resident and the bestselling author of "Life Lessons from The Lottery: Protecting Your Money in a Scary World.â€


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Introducing… Hater.
A powerful and mysterious supervillain has imprisoned the world's greatest superheroes, forcing them to fight to the death until there is but one victor. It's kill or be killed as we settle the score on all those hypothetical superhero match-ups in this new ongoing series by Paul Jenkins (SENTRY, INHUMANS) and artist Carlos Magno (PLANET OF THE APES) with covers by Whilce Portacio (WETWORKS, INCREDIBLE HULK). DEATHMATCH #1 is just $1 and will be in stores on December 26th!
Here's How It Works:
This month and next, Bleeding Cool will spotlight DEATHMATCH and each individual character, in conjunction with BOOM! Studios. Characters will be introduced through profile page entries detailing their histories, powers, origins and other key pieces of information. Prior to each new issue coming out, Bleeding Cool will reveal the primary deathmatch along with profiles of the two participating characters with their key characteristic and powers. Fans will be able to post their predictions for the winner of the deathmatch on our message boards. If you correctly predict the outcome of every deathmatch throughout the course of the series, you will be rewarded with a truly exclusive item at the end of the series (along with your favorite comic shop).
You can pre-order DEATHMATCH #1 at your local comic shop! Item code: OCT120874.
For all the details, and to see previous character profiles, visit our Deathmatch Death Draft Central.
Today's Character Profile
Bleeding Cool's Take
Okay, we are flying a little dark here, as his powers are "undefined." Sounds like an interesting character and would love to read "Allied Comics #68" to see how his origin played out. But, as for guessing on how far this ultimate special ops agent can go against super powered opponents without knowing what else he brings to the party, I'm going to have to wait and see. There is no reason to mock me. Don't be a…
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text: Early this morning in the rainy Chicago weather, Eli's Cheesecake was among a famous few Chicago brands to welcome The Today Show to Chicago! Hosts Natalie Morales and Willie Geist of the Today Show enjoyed a few slices of Chicago's favorite cheesecake, while hosting the Today Show from 8am- 9am in Millennium Park near the famous Chicago "Bean". Other brands that wished them a happy hello and welcome to Chicago included The Shedd Aquarium, the Chicago LuvaBulls & Benny the Bull, the Chicago White Sox, Garrett's Popcorn, and more. Thanks for visiting Today Show! To see more from the Today Show in Chicago, visit: https://storify.com/todayshow/hundreds-welcome-today-to-the-second-city-todayinc.


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- Designed to evolve visual assessment to pixel based quantification of tissue characteristics.
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Requerimientos Generales
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Welcome to The Athena Network at Farnham (West)
We invite you to visit us at Athena Farnham (West) group for our monthly business networking lunch, with like-minded business women, entrepreneurs and executives. We have a fabulous group of women from a wide range of industry sectors, who are passionate about their business and who are looking to connect with and build professional relationships with other local business women.
Not just a networking group, The Athena Network has three aims:
- to create strategic connections
- to deliver and develop business skills through our business talks and workshops
- to inspire, motivate and support the women in our network
About Athena Meetings
Athena meetings are structured, interactive, informative and professional whilst being fun and relaxed, providing the perfect combination for strong business partnerships as well as friendship. We aim to create a vibrant, thriving and dynamic community of women entrepreneurs and executives who not only collaborate and connect with like-minded women, they learn and grow in the process.
Regional Director Linda Huckle says:
"I am passionate about developing, supporting, inspiring local businesswomen to succeed and Athena provides a co-operative and supportive environment to do just this."
We have such a lovely location for our meetings, The Farnham House Hotel, which is easy to find and just a mile outside Farnham town centre, with plenty of free parking on site.
Athena Farnham (West) meetings are held every 2nd Tuesday of the month (excl August & December) from 12noon - 2pm. Tea/Coffee is available at 2pm, and most of our members and visitors continue informal networking and building relationships after the meeting until around 2:30pm.
You can be sure of a warm welcome, so why not come and experience the Athena Way for yourself?
Booking your Place
Early bookings are recommended to be assured of a place. Please book your place using either of the methods below:
- Book here in Eventbrite where payments can be made using your debit or credit card. There is a small handling charge made for debit/credit card payments (detailed on the ticket booking section).
- Book directly with Linda via email or phone to make payment by BACS. Linda will send you the information you need to make your BACS payment. No additional charge is made using this booking method.
We operate a one slot per profession policy, so please check before you book that your profession isn't represented. You can view our members and their professions on our Athena Farnham webpage.
What to Bring
Please bring plenty of business cards, flyers and your preparation notes, (preparation tips will be sent to you once your booking has been received).
To find out more about Athena Farnham (West) and our other groups, or if you have any questions please:
- call Linda on 07814 235824
- email firstname.lastname@example.com
- take a look at our website www.theathenanetwork.co.uk/lindahuckle
We look forward to welcoming you!
Linda Huckle
Regional Director, The Athena Network (Blackwater Valley region)
Athena Camberley, Athena Fleet, Athena Farnham West and Athena Farnham East are part of The Athena Network Blackwater Valley Region.
What are the parking arrangements?
There is plenty of free on site parking
Catering and Dietary Requirements
Lunch is a hot, served meal and you have a choice of three (one meat, one fish, one vegetarian.
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Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?
Call Linda on 07814 235824 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
What is the refund policy?
No refunds within 2 working days prior to the event.


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For the first time since Bradley in 2006, a 13-seed is going to the Sweet Sixteen. Ohio held off USF in the final minutes of a closely-fought game, and they'll take on top-seeded North Carolina in the St. Louis regional. Here's what the final moments looked like on TBS and sounded like as called by the Ohio IMG Sports Network's Russ Eisenstein.
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Clinic plot suspect hopes for dismissal
Man accused of planning shooting rampage
The defense team for a Wisconsin man accused of planning a shooting rampage at an abortion clinic is hoping to get the charge dismissed on a legal technicality.
Ralph Lang of Marshfield is accused of driving to Madison in May 2010 with the intent of killing abortion doctors at a Planned Parenthood clinic.
He was indicted last May with attempting to injure, intimidate and interfere with people participating in a federally funded program.
But his lawyers now say that since Planned Parenthood's federal funds can't be used to provide abortions, Lang can't be convicted of targeting someone who receives federal funds.
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Vaudreuil told the Marshfield News-Herald he's confident the government can prove Lang intended to interfere with clinic members who perform other federally funded services.


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Wyclef Jean
"The Carnival Begins"
Produced by Jill Newman Productions
At B.B. King Blues Club & Grill – Show at 8PM (Doors at 6PM)
Lead Fugees rapper and sometime guitarist Wyclef Jean was the first member of his group to embark on a solo career, and he proved even more ambitious and eclectic on his own. As the Fugees hung in limbo, Wyclef also became hip-hop's unofficial multicultural conscience; a seemingly omnipresent activist, he assembled or participated in numerous high-profile charity benefit shows for a variety of causes, including aid for his native Haiti. The utopian one-world sensibility that fueled Wyclef's political consciousness also informed his recordings, which fused hip-hop with as many different styles of music as he could get his hands on (though, given his Caribbean roots, reggae was a particular favorite). In addition to his niche as hip-hop's foremost global citizen, Clef was also a noted producer and remixer who worked with an impressive array of pop, R&B, and hip-hop talent, including Whitney Houston, Santana, and Destiny's Child, among many others.
The son of a minister, Nelust Wyclef Jean was born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, on October 17, 1972. When he was nine, his family moved to the Marlborough projects in Brooklyn, NY; by his teenage years, Jean had moved to New Jersey, taken up the guitar, and begun studying jazz through his high school's music department. In 1987, he also joined a rap group with his cousin Prakazrel Michel (aka Pras) and Michel's high-school classmate Lauryn Hill. Initially calling themselves the Tranzlator Crew, they evolved into the Fugees, a name taken from slang for Haitian refugees. The trio signed with Ruffhouse Records in 1993 and released their debut album, Blunted on Reality, the following year; it attracted little notice, thanks to an inappropriate hardcore stance that the group wore like an ill-fitting suit. But the Fugees hit their stride on the follow-up, The Score, ignoring popular trends and crafting an eclectic, bohemian masterpiece that sounded like nothing else on the hip-hop landscape in 1996. Thanks to hit singles like "Fu-Gee-La" and "Killing Me Softly," The Score became a chart-topping phenomenon; in fact, with sales of over six million copies, it still ranks as one of the biggest-selling rap albums of all time.
Wyclef Jean was the first Fugee to declare plans for a solo project, setting to work soon after the group completed its supporting tours. Released in the summer of 1997, The Carnival (full title: Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival Featuring the Refugee All-Stars) was even more musically ambitious than The Score. Its roster of guests included not only the remainder of the Fugees, but also Jean's siblings (who performed together in the duo Melky Sedeck), Cuban legend Celia Cruz, New Orleans funk mainstays the Neville Brothers, and Bob Marley's female backing vocalists the I Threes. The breadth of his ambition was further in evidence on the album's two hit singles; "We Trying to Stay Alive" recast the Bee Gees' signature disco tune as a ghetto empowerment anthem, and the Grammy-nominated "Gone Till November" was recorded with part of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Those two songs helped push The Carnival into a Top 20, triple-platinum showing, and most reviews were naturally quite positive.
In the wake of The Carnival, Wyclef stepped up his outside work for other artists; over the next few years, he collaborated as a producer, songwriter, and/or remixer with a typically diverse list of artists: Destiny's Child ("No No No"), Sublime, Simply Red, Whitney Houston (the title track of her My Love Is Your Love album), dancehall reggae star Bounty Killer, Cypress Hill, Michael Jackson, Eric Benet, Mya, Santana ("Maria Maria"), Tevin Campbell, the Black Eyed Peas, Kimberly Scott, Sinead O'Connor, Mick Jagger, and Canibus. Clef also served as Canibus' manager for a short time in 1998; prior to their split, a report surfaced that Wyclef had pulled a gun on Blaze editor Jesse Washington over a negative Canibus review the magazine was slated to run (Wyclef vehemently denied the accusation, and no charges were filed).
By the time Wyclef began work on his second solo album, rumors were flying about tension between individual Fugees, and despite their denials, the fact that no follow-up to The Score was in sight seemed to lend credence to all the speculation. Although Wyclef had previously announced he would put off his sophomore effort until after the next Fugees album, he was well into the project by early 2000, giving an early release the antipolice brutality track "Diallo" (with guest vocals from Senegalese superstar Youssou N'Dour) via the Internet. The full album, titled The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book, was released toward the end of the summer and entered the charts at number nine. Besides N'Dour, guests this time around included Mary J. Blige (on the Grammy-nominated duet "911"), Earth, Wind & Fire, Kenny Rogers, and even wrestling star the Rock ("It Doesn't Matter"); Clef also threw in a left-field cover of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here." This time around, some critics suggested that Wyclef's sprawling ambitions were growing messy, but the record went platinum nonetheless. Shortly after its release, he also started up his own record label, Yclef.
With no Fugees reunion in sight, Wyclef began preparing his third solo album, Masquerade, in 2001; he also appeared in the Jamaican gangster flick Shottas, and, sadly, suffered the death of his father in a home accident. Masquerade was released in the summer of 2002, and in addition to the usual worldbeat fusions, it found Wyclef reworking songs by Bob Dylan and Frankie Valli, and featured guest shots from Tom Jones and Israeli violinist Miri Ben-Ari. Masquerade entered the charts at number six, proving that Wyclef's freewheeling approach still held quite a bit of appeal. One year later, he returned with The Preacher's Son, and also released an album of traditional Haitian Creole music, Welcome to Haiti: Creole 101. His debut solo album got its sequel in 2007 when Carnival, Vol. 2: Memoirs of an Immigrant hit the shelves. The album had a diverse and lengthy guest list, with Akon, Mary J. Blige, Norah Jones, Shakira, Paul Simon, and Sizzla being just some of the names involved. Two years later he returned with Toussaint St. Jean: From the Hut, To the Projects, To the Mansion, a mixtape that found Wyclef rapping rather than singing.« Back to Events


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We have previously had two other recipes with cuttlefish (soopyes) - Cuttlefish with Potatoes and Cuttlefish with Spinach. This is a recipe that uses the ink from the fish in the rice. It gives it a delicious taste and a lot of people love this dish. Again, it's not difficult to prepare.
1 kg cuttlefish
1/3 kg pilaf rice
1 medium onion chopped
5 cloves crushed garlic
100 ml olive oil
1 litre warm water
Salt and pepper
Clean the cuttlefish well, keeping the fillet, tentacles and ink.
Cut the fish into pieces.
In a medium size pan gently fry the oil, add the onion and fry for 3 minutes.
Add the crushed garlic and fry for a further 1 minute.
Add the cuttlefish (not the ink) and fry for another 5 minutes.
Add the 1 litre of warm water and simmer for 45 minutes.
Remove the pan from the heat, remove the cuttlefish with a colander ladle and set aside on a plate.
Add the ink to the remaining liquid and stir well.
Add the rice, which should be ½ the volume of the liquid (it may not be exactly the ½ kg listed above).
Simmer at the lowest temperature for 15 minutes.
When the rice is ready add the pieces of cuttlefish and shake the pan so that it mixes with the rice.
Serve warm.
If you've tried this recipe please rate it!
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Michael D. Eaton ran up a tab for 17 beers plus other drinks before he left a Gaithersburg tavern, according to court records. Forty-five minutes later, behind the wheel of his Range Rover, he slammed into the back of a Jeep Cherokee at a speed estimated as high as 98 mph.
Ten-year-old Jazimen Warr had nestled on her sister's shoulder, the two children sleeping in the back of the family's Cherokee on the drive to a relative's home in Bowie. She was killed and the rest of her family sustained injuries in the crash.
That was Aug. 21, 2008.
Now, that crash on Interstate 270 could upend Maryland law and allow victims of drunken-driving crashes and their families to sue bars and restaurants if their inebriated patrons cause deaths and injuries.
Jazimen's grandparents are scheduled to ask Maryland's highest court Tuesday to revive their $3.25 million lawsuit against the Dogfish Head Alehouse, where they allege Eaton, of Fairfax, Va., ran up his tab, some of which may have included drinks for other patrons.
"If you're going to load up somebody with liquor, at least be responsible so they don't get behind the wheel," said the Rev. William Warr of Urbana , the child's disabled grandfather who, with his wife, Angela, were raising Jazimen and her sister Cortavia Harris. Cortavia suffered a broken hip in the wreck.
Dogfish Head Alehouse has fought back, urging the Court of Appeals to reject the Warrs' claim. An attorney representing the corporation that owns the tavern declined to comment on the pending case.
Bar and restaurant owners are among those watching the case closely.
Business operators say measures are already in place to cut off customers who appear intoxicated, and bartenders try not to let them drive. They say they can't control the actions of someone who leaves their premises. In addition, they say the prospect of being blamed for a customer's drunken-driving crash would raise insurance premiums for them, raise prices for customers and lead some businesses to shut their doors.
"It's very hard to be responsible for someone else's behavior," said Jack Milani, a partner in Monaghan's Pub in Woodlawn and chairman of the Legislative Committee for the Maryland State Licensed Beverage Association. A bartender wouldn't know if a patron drank elsewhere before or after coming to his business, or had used drugs, he said.
A generation ago, fewer than half of all states permitted lawsuits against taverns whose patrons drove drunk and caused serious crashes. Now, Maryland is in the minority of states that don't allow those lawsuits against the taverns under any circumstances.
During that period of change, Mothers Against Drunk Driving — which filed a brief supporting the Warrs — and similar organizations have exploded onto the scene, "designated driver" is a commonly understood term, and motorists commonly face sobriety checkpoints and harsh penalties for driving under the influence.
Attitudes have changed as drunken driving has come under increasing scrutiny nationwide, said the Warrs' attorney, Andrew E. Bederman of Silver Spring.
According to a state Department of Legislative Services review last year, 36 states and Washington, D.C., have those measures, and 43 states have them for underage customers.
Moves in the past two years by lawmakers from Montgomery County to create in Maryland what's known as a "dram shop liability" law — the term essentially relates to a bar or tavern selling alcohol, with "dram" being a small unit of measure — didn't make it out of the House Judiciary Committee.
Bar and restaurant operators opposed those measures. The Warrs have testified in favor, hoping to see "Jazimen's Law" adopted.
"One of our main purposes is that no other person goes through this," said Angela Warr, a special-education instructional assistant in a Frederick County school.
She said she and her husband — who took the girls as toddlers from a troubled home with the hope of giving them a better life — continue to suffer. So does Jazimen's sister, Cortavia, who is two years older than Jazimen and is now a teenager.
"They were each other's best friends," Angela Warr said. "They said when they got older, they were going to live together or were going to live down the road from each other and see each other every day."
Eaton, who according to court records left the site of the crash and surrendered to police the next day, pleaded guilty in 2009 to manslaughter in Jazimen's death and leaving the scene of an accident. He was sentenced to serve eight years in prison, with additional years suspended. A civil lawsuit against him on behalf of Cortavia was settled for $100,000, according to electronic court records. Bederman said any other agreement with the defendant's insurer was confidential.
In 2010, the Warrs sued the owners of Dogfish Head Alehouse, where police said Eaton had been drinking, and the tavern owners were successful in having the case dismissed before trial from the Montgomery County Circuit Court last year. The Warrs appealed.
In a legal brief to the Court of Appeals, tavern and restaurant operators are urging the state's top court not to tread where lawmakers have chosen not to.
"This court cannot reach all of the legal and policy issues related to the adoption of dram shop liability as the General Assembly can, and this will result in uncertainty," the beverage association and the Restaurant Association of Maryland wrote.
Attorneys for the company that owns Dogfish Head Alehouse told the court in written arguments that under current state laws and policies, sellers may face criminal charges for selling to obviously drunken people but not civil lawsuits.
For the court to create dram shop liability, they wrote, "it will require to leap beyond any established Maryland law" to decide that a tavern is legally obligated to "protect the public from actions committed by individuals who have been served alcoholic beverages."
Bederman said society is far different from the horse-and-buggy days of shops that sold alcohol by the dram — not the least being that a drunken driver holds the wheel of a fast-moving and powerful car, not the reins of a slower animal. He also said legal interpretations have changed in the 32 years since the Court of Appeals ruled against joining what was then an up-and-coming trend toward dram shop liability.
"Would a reasonable person foresee that a person who is served to the level of intoxication that [Eaton] was, is it foreseeable that this guy is going to get behind the wheel of a car and drive to Virginia or wherever he lives and injure someone or kill someone? It's as foreseeable as a mountain on a sunny day," Bederman said.
"If this becomes law, you know what's going to happen?" he said. "They [bars and restaurants] will be deterred. They will keep their eyes open. It will not lead to more litigation."
The Maryland Association for Justice, an organization of lawyers that represents people who sue for injuries and other harm, supports the Warrs' claim. In a brief filed with the court, it wrote that some costs borne by innocent victims of drunken drivers should be shifted to businesses that benefit from alcohol sales.
They point to a 2011 review in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that found alcohol-related traffic fatalities dropped by as much as 11 percent where taverns and restaurants faced the possibility of lawsuits, and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration calculations, based on 1999 data, that said alcohol was a factor in 22 percent of crash costs in Maryland.
Robert Lande, the Venable professor of law at the University of Baltimore's law school, said Maryland is conservative when it comes to providing financial relief for people who have suffered injuries. Still, he predicted that if the court decides to permit victims to sue bars, Maryland won't go dry.
"I'm sure that they haven't gone out of business in 40-plus states," he said.
"They may lose some revenue, they'll have to pay more for insurance. There will be an economic effect," he said. "But it is hard to believe it would be that severe an economic effect, because we aren't the first state to do it."


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Why I was so dumb to think that asthma in children had become an illness of the past much the same as polio and red measles would strike me as funny except that dealing with asthma is anything but fun. My older brother had asthma as a child but I was too little to remember anything about it except that my mother accused my father of being the cause of it because he smoked his pipe in the house.
As you can imagine, when my daughter starting presenting symptoms of asthma, the most noticeable being a persistent cough at night it came as a shock. Of course, that was before I did my homework and found that asthma in children was not only alive and well but very common in babies with allergies and eczema which made my infant a prime candidate for RAD (reactive airway disease which is a fancy, modern name for asthma) in spite of my diligent reading of vacuum cleaner reviews to see which models got the best consumer product ratings and reviews .
Her uncontrolled (and misdiagnosed) allergies early on made it impossible to manage her asthma symptoms and along with her MRSA and frequent upper respiratory infections kept me on edge to the point of exhaustion. I'm glad to report that as she has gotten older and her allergy triggers have been pinpointed, treatment has gotten more effective.
And the support network for parents with a child who suffers from this condition is fantastic! There are online screening quizzes to help parents identify the symptoms of asthma in children and information on asthma treatments for children so that you will be well educated and prepared to discuss whether or not your baby's allergies and asthma symptoms with your doctor during your next visit.


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NEWS- Publicist charged: 15 forgery counts continued
Tommy Garrett is the kind of person who's as comfortable raising chickens on a Buckingham County farm as hobnobbing with Hollywood star Ed Begley Jr. This much is clear from a recent section-front story in the Daily Progress. Omitted from the story, however, is the fact that Garrett is the man who once accused a Fluvanna County funeral home director of fondling corpses and that Garrett was due in court the day after the glowing article to face 15 felony counts of forgery.
The website for Garrett Associates and Icons Public Relations boasts 70 distinguished clients, including Tab Hunter, Glenn Ford, and Ruta Lee. And thanks to HGTV, which airs Begley's new reality television show, Living with Ed, hundreds of thousands of television viewers have now seen Garrett with their own eyes.
When he's not busy voicing the number one-rated radio show in Australia, Garrett has written a book about Joan Fontaine. And for about a year or so, he hosted Somewhere in Time, a documentary that aired on the Charlottesville CBS station.
This is a man who has sent out press releases about his appearance on the cover of a mysterious Senior Magazine as well as announcing that he was attending the funerals of both Aaron Spelling and Patsy Ramsey.
But there was no press release for his scheduled court appearance. According to documents in Buckingham General District Court, the forging and uttering charges cover incidents that happened April 22 and September 16, 2004, and August 30, 2005.
"It's absolutely outrageous these false accusations have been filed," says Garrett's attorney, Dana Slater. "This case never should have gotten out of the magistrate's office."
To the man bringing the charges, however, it's none too soon.
"Tommy stole money from me by intercepting balance transfer checks, the checks sent through the mail with credit card statements," says New Canton resident David Kimbell. "He forged my name. Obviously, this was done without my knowledge or permission. He did not have power of attorney or any legal instrument to justify what he did."
Slater says there's a perfectly good explanation.
"There was a time with Mr. Kimbell when people in the community were concerned about his ability to take care of himself and his aging grandmother," says Slater. "Mr. Garrett helped him."
Garrett and Kimbell have been in court before. Kimbell was charged with assault and battery and acquitted June 2.
The forgery charges against Garrett have been continued, and a special prosecutor will be assigned, Slater says.
And so continues the story of the man who first gained media attention in 1995 with a lawsuit against a funeral home owner. Garrett was suing Bremo Bluff funeral director Charles Colbert for $930,000 in back pay, for reneging on a promissory note, and for inflicting intentional emotional distress by calling him a racial epithet and for allegedly taking indecent liberties with corpses.
By the time the case went to trial the following year, budding publicist Garrett had switched lawyers and brought a publicist to court to gather material to market his story for a television movie.
Garrett was also suing for defamation, since Colbert accused him of theft. The jury disagreed about the necrophilia but agreed that Colbert defamed Garrett and awarded him back pay and punitive damages, a total of $41,000, according to archived stories by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
"You don't go around accusing people of stealing money unless you can prove it," Garrett's then-lawyer Richard Ryder told the jury.
"We submit it's just as horrible to accuse someone, to destroy their life, to destroy them financially, emotionally," said Colbert's lawyer, Richard Milnor. "It's just as evil."
Colbert concedes that he probably did call Garrett "boy"– "not because he was black, but because he was about 30 years younger than me."
As for the fondling allegations? "What kind of mind comes up with that accusation?" asks Colbert today. "If you want to destroy a funeral home, all you have to do is make an accusation that the funeral home director is a pervert."
Colbert says that he in turn sued Garrett and some television stations and newspapers, but that the settlement is sealed, and he can't say what it was. "I wish I could," he says. "I wish the world could know."
The funeral home director is not surprised that Garrett is facing forgery charges. "He'd take checks from me and write them to himself, even the last day he was there," Colbert says.
The two faced off in a subsequent court case in which the publicist accused Colbert of running him off the road in 1999. That case was dismissed.
After the Hook spoke with Garrett and his lawyer– who advised Garrett not to comment– this reporter received an anonymous voice message from a woman claiming to be 85 years old and making allegations about the mental health of Garrett's accuser in the current forgery case. The caller lambasted those who wanted to "ruin that poor little colored boy."
"Everyone is afraid of Tommy Garrett because of his penchant for suing, his lawyer, and his ability to get publicity," says Colbert. "A lot of people he represents are old or dead, and no one can dispute him."
Retired Bremo Bluff postal worker Margie Reardon remembers a run-in with Garrett. "He tried to go through the postal service to accuse me of things that weren't so, to try to get me to lose my job," she says. "I really don't know what's wrong with Tommy Garrett. In other words, I think he's a troublemaker."
But Garrett does have fans. For instance, TV Guide suggests that he should become a regular on the HGTV show, and Mrs. Ed Begley Jr.– Rachelle Carson– calls Garrett a "kindred spirit."
The recent Progress article by David Maurer asserts that Garrett has six agents, and Garrett's website mentions offices in Manhattan, Chicago, and Beverly Hills, with branches soon to open in London and Washington, DC. But it still lists a Buckingham phone number– and a Beverly Hills voice mail number.
"If he has three offices, why are the photos [of his clients, pictured in the Progress] displayed on his bed?" asks Colbert.
Publicist Tommy Garrett's picture in the Daily Progress includes a photo of Russell Crowe, who is not a client.


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I think LC is rather fond of Spidey.
I know Spidey's rather fond of her.
I know Spidey's rather fond of her.
So precious! Looks like she is getting bigger!
AWWWWW...So sweet.
Does she have red hair?
I love some redheads!!!!
Now I need a red-headed baby girl.
Love it!
I am pretty sure she and Hope have the SAME wardrobe! Hope has these pants and the bodysuits in the previous picture! :)
Gotta love sibling love! :) She is getting so big. Did you find that pause button yet?
Its like Colin is looking into a photograph of himself when he was that age. LoL
SOOO Sweet!
PS. My word verification to leave this comment is PIPIDE. LoL I don't know why I am sharing this...i guess its just a funny word. LoL


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The DISTRICT councillor for Ducklington Steve Hayward has resigned, officials say.
He has been criticised for claiming he could still represent the area on West Oxfordshire District Council, despite living in Thailand since June last year.
Mr Hayward initially said he would resign earlier this month but later changed his mind.
The district council has revealed that he has now resigned, but Mr Hayward has not responded to the Oxford Mail's request for a comment.


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3:15 in the morning is still dark. It's before the alarm, and I've only had about 3.5 hours of real sleep, interrupted once by people outside on the street.
Getting dressed, including the ritual of the "butt wax" (chamois butter), migrating laundry, eating, emptying the dishwasher, loading the dishwasher, feeding the cats, letting the cat out, trying to get the cat back in, packing the last minute things into my bag and doing the last minute check of the bike… somehow it all gets done by 4:20 and we're in the garage putting gear on our bikes. Rob cycles up to my house, having stayed at friend's house just a few blocks away. We leave our bags in the garage for Sharlyn to pick up (Thanks Sharlyn!), I run into the house for that inevitable "one last thing I forgot", I lock the garage and we're on our way.
The birds are chirping. The sky is lightening. Still the streets are dark and quiet.
We meet up with Bill at 25th and the Burke Gillman, he had gotten there just seconds before. We ride to the start – Stephen's new front and rear lights fall off as we go over some bumps as we enter Montlake and a car runs over his tail light.
We connected up with Anthony and Steve G "where the espresso stand used to be" – as Rob goes off to drop his bag on the truck. Anthony and his crew are in front of us, we figure out how to connect.
"Are you excited" says the guy over the loudspeaker? Yes, really, but mostly kind of chilly and nervous about my recently sprained ankle and just wanting to go. At least this is better than 2 years ago, I'm better trained and not riding on a bruise the size of a cell phone.
The start is slow, as usual. Someone bumps into the curb as we leave the Montlake parking lot. First bike down… not an auspicious start to the ride.
I get a phone call, there was an issue with some of the Portland crew Anthony knows, and they are behind us. We figure they're faster than us and will catch up at REI. I can't find Mitchel or Brad – I figure they're going to start later and will just zoom passed at some point (it turns out they were in front of us and we had NO chance of ever seeing them. Brad finished in just over 12 hours. Mitchel had a great ride speed wise, but also was a ride ref and had to stay with the 8 accidents he saw. He finished at around 6:45pm).
But even as we climb the tiny little hill on Brooklyn from Pacific to Campus Parkway, I'm noticing something. The hill doesn't bug me, I'm not winded and I don't have to downshift.
It gets bright over the Cascades as we are making our way along Lake Washington Blvd, but we don't see the full sunrise this time until we hit Rainier Blvd. Michael in his flannel shirt, cotton socks and gardening gloves catches up briefly to us as we are climbing up from Lake WA to Rainier, he hangs with Stephen and then we never see him again. Apparently he finished his first STP, in one day, in about 12 hours. Amazing.
I know we're about 1/2 way to REI… I eat half a bag of sharkies and hand the other half to Stephen.
In the Kent Valley we see two things: the skateboarders who started at 3:30 am and another accident – an unhappy guy who obviously had a broken shoulder/collar bone/something being tended to by medics.
One day riding is great for a few reasons but one of them is getting to the REI food stop early and getting your pick of the Odwalla and the semi fresh sanicans. Can't emphasize the importance of the latter. I eat a 1/2 banana, a whole odwalla chocolate protein, grab a bagel and throw it into my bento box. We hooked back up with Anthony (who had shed his coat and was now flying the PPTM jersey), Steve G & the Portland crew. Average speed to REI was 16.6mph, and we were at the rest stop about 10 minutes total.
We had a really nice pace/paceline going through the valley, through Puyallup. Steve's rear water bottle carrier shattered in front of me after hitting a bump and he lost a water bottle and half of the carrier, but no one got hit by the debris. We didn't go back for the bottle either. It was one of many things we saw on the road – bike lights, bottles, sunglasses… you could collect a bounty if you took the time.
I ate half a NuGo bar as we turn into Puyallup, and the other half as we pass the mini stop. I knew the hill was coming and I wanted to have something in the tank for that, plus we were about 1/2 the way from Kent to Spanaway. I feel like I did reasonably well on The Hill because I didn't make everyone wait as long as I thought they'd have to! It only took me a song and a half on my speakers to get up it… Not many people passed me either. So I was pretty happy about that. I ate the mini bagel at the top. (Average speed to Spanaway was 16.8mph).
At Spanaway we stacked our bikes against the fence with Stephen's remark "bike stacking is the corollary to bin packing." I grabbed some cookies and rice crispy treat packets and stuffed them into my jersey, ate an oreo, a few oranges, pretzels, and a yummy Jamba juice. The bathroom line was long but the sanicans – really, for sanicans I can't complain (and I hate sanicans). Unfortunately the lines were longer and we were here about 20 minutes though. I still think the better thing to do is to skip Spanaway and go 2 blocks to the Safeway around the corner to the bathrooms but I've never done it. Then again, had I done that I'd miss the Jamba juice…
The next section is back behind Ft Lewis and we didn't really have much trouble with it – just fast and flat, taking turns pulling. Anthony, Steve and crew pulled ahead, but we figured we'd catch up eventually. Average speed to McKenna was 18.1mph, where we stopped for just a few minutes to pick up some Vitamin I and hit the bathrooms (no lines!). We hooked back up with "Legs" Lamarca and crew again. I ate something here, one of the rice crispy treats I think, I'm not sure. I also remembered to start putting sunscreen on my lips…
The next section of the ride is that Yelm Tenino trail – people have really mixed feelings on this. On one hand, it's SO much nicer than years ago having to ride on the road next to it and dealing with the cars. On the other hand – 10,000 people on bikes going between 15-25mph on a skinny trail with "posts" in the middle (the posts were removed and this year they at least had some yellow cardboard or something covering the post holes – in past years it was either the post or the holes)…. it's kind of crazy. In past years I've seen at least one or two accidents along this spot. This year we saw a bad one – a guy lying perpendicular to the trail with a group of people around him. We had to really slow down and put our feet down to get by. I heard someone asking "do you know where you are" and someone else calling 911, so I felt like it was ok to keep going. Still it gets you shaken a little bit.
Average speed for the 17 miles from McKenna to Tenino (including the trail): 18.1mph.
At Tenino I pulled into our "usual" spot under the trees and yup, there was Anthony again. I love that we're creatures of habit. At least this time he wasn't asleep like a few years ago. I got three cookies from the bake sale folks (the cookies there are GREAT), I ate one, gave one away, and saved one for later. We filled up water bottles. Some used the rest rooms but the lines were long so I wanted to wait until Centralia. We stayed about 15 minutes. Longer than I wanted, but we were still making good time.
The next section was 13 miles, mostly down hill to Centralia and we averaged 17.5 mph – although our speed before hitting the stop lights in Centralia was 18.5. The photographers were in a slightly different place this year – not taking photos with the red barn behind us – I'm wondering what they'll turn out like. But we were in a nice paceline as they were firing away. I bet they got some good shots.
We arrived at the college around 11:30 with about 5:45 ride time under our belts. We at our creamsicles (YUM!), drank our chocolate milk, got our free one day food, got in the line for the one day sani-cans. In line for the bathrooms, someone says to Stephen "That's the nerdiest jersey I've ever seen!" I talked with Linda at this point who told me she had just supported Mitchel who had just left Centralia about 10 minutes ago, was in Chahalis, and she was still over by the highway. I told her we probably didn't need support until Oregon, but we would check in between now and then. Anthony, Steve G, Boyd and the Portland crew left and we said we'd catch up with them at least by St Helens. Rob left to use the bathrooms at the shorter lines in Chehalis and we'd catch up. We only stayed in Centralia 25 minutes total – down from the almost hour I stayed last time. If you're really trying to save time you don't get your support here – you grab the creamsicles and go find support other places. It just takes too long.
The tenor of the ride changes once you're passed Centralia or Chahalis on the one day ride. First off it's a LOT less crowded. Also it's getting hot. The winds get "squirrelly" even if you had a tail wind for most of the ride to this point because your cutting back and forth across the valley. Also on a two day ride it's about the social aspect, like the riders of the fat tire bikes we saw early on, stopping for longer at each stop, chatting more on the pacelines. If you're on a one day ride it's about making sure you're gear is good, eating at the right times, spinning your legs, metering your heart rate or watts, watching the pedals in front of you and keeping the sticky side down.
We caught up with Rob somewhere in the valley but before the Napavine hill. Actually of all the hills on STP, Napavine is my least favorite, particularly on one day. It's hot. It's exposed. It's just a long drag. One two days there's fresh baked bread for sale at the top. One day I guess there is but I missed it. We stopped so Stephen and Bill could get more water. I overheard some other guys talking about gu packets, and thought about eating something but I didn't because I was full from lunch and that was my mistake. Instead I drank some accelerade and stretched my leg to try to relieve the pinch point/numbness in my left ring toe which was already starting. Our average speed from Centralia to Napavine was 15.6mph and we were literally only there for 5 minutes.
Napavine to Winlock was pretty easy and I insisted that we needed a picture of Bill with the Egg (no STP is complete without your picture with the Egg!). It turns out a) we just missed the Winlock Egg Days and b) speedy Brad has gone through there countless times and had no clue there was a giant egg there. We stopped for coffee at the espresso stand. I was hungry (I needed the protein in the iced soy latte) and more than that I needed a caffeine boost. I was so desperate I even got a double. The extra ice went into my accelerade bottle – the heat from the road was starting to make that taste nasty. I also ate my other Tenino cookie. Bill didn't partake of the coffee but was apparently tempted by the smells of the BBQ. Average speed to Winlock was 18.2mph and we were there about 10 minutes, with the coffee stop. I also checked in with Linda at some point in here – she told me when she was going to be in Vader, I told her I'd look for her but not to wait if she didn't see us.
Winlock to Vader was surprisingly quick (it is only about 7 miles and it took us only 23 minutes (18.4mph average). I wanted to stop to stretch my foot out again, someone needed the bathroom, we put on sunscreen. We were here 10 minutes but it seemed much longer. Particularly when you immediately have to start up the "hill that no one tells you about" right away.
Up and over. Then up and over more rollers. Then into Castle Rock another 10 miles away. I did a quick scan to see if I saw Anthony & crew, or even Linda, or Joan and Paul (who were driving my van down and had texted they were just passing the Vader stop a bit before this). It took us 36 minutes to get there, averaging 16.6 miles an hour on the rollers and hills. We stayed at least 15 minutes here – eating (as an after thought I ate the rice crispy treat), refilling water bottles, using the REAL bathrooms, I reapplied chamois butter, stretching out to un-numb my toes, and then wet my buff down and put it back under my helmet. I checked in with Linda, who just decided she'd meet us at Goble – I was thankful for that.
St. Helens to Lexington was another 1/2 hour at an average of 16.2mph (I blame the rollers and the heat). Just before the turn into Lexington we were stopped by an ambulance pulling away and a bicycle on the side of the road. Only later did we find out that someone had a heart attack and they were taking him, eventually, to Harborview. Sad and scary to see a fellow cyclist taken off like that. It just gives me pause and I hope he is ok.
We turned into the park and there we see Sharlyn and Helen! Helen was even brave enough to hug her sweaty dad. Usually there's pretty good food at Lexington – it was a little light this time and there were no turkey wraps by the time we got there. I was bummed and had a PB&J but they still had roast beef. The trick, I told Stephen, is to take off your helmet and use it to carry all the food. He had a serious case of hat head under there… We stayed 20 minutes to eat (sandwich, fruit, and I saved the pretzels), relax, stretched the toes again (which were numb again), recharge my garmin… I kept dropping things on the ground at this point. I get so clutzy when I'm tired. I called and left a message for Anthony – just to let him know where we were. I figured we wouldn't see him again at this point. I called to let Linda know we were leaving Lexington.
I knew that last time I got into Oregon at 4:45 pm. I was on track to do better this time, but I had hoped to do even better than we were. Particularly with the tail wind I thought we could get across by 4pm. We hit a huge headwind going towards the bridge – which is a good sign, meaning we'd have a great tail wind once we got across into Oregon. But still Bill and Stephen were tired, and I had aerobars and they did not. I jumped out ahead before I knew it and waited for them at the light before the approach. The bridge was just a slow slog up and over because your single file (as opposed to two day riders who go up in waves). You're as fast as the person in front of you, for better or for worse. Spin and just get there. Our average speed from Lexington into Oregon was 14.3, to Goble was 15.9 mph. The 17 miles took us just over an hour… and somewhere in here we lost Rob…
Linda, true to her word, met us in Goble with oreos, potato chips and thankfully coke. Now I don't drink coke but I was totally craving it the last time I rode and it was no where to be found passed the gas station as you get off the bridge. But here I was, drinking, no chugging, this cold, black, sweet, salty liquid and loving it. We did stay here about 20 minutes, I used the bathroom (with no line!), stretched to reset the toes again, I ate 2 oreos and some chips. We refilled our water bottles. I charged my garmin again (every little bit helped). Even Stephen had a coke, and he doesn't drink coke. We thanked Linda and were back on our way.
Route 30 in Oregon is usually pretty nasty. Late in the day there is a lot of traffic, but at least it's cooler because the sun is behind most of the hills and trees. It makes it almost bearable – particularly when you're going down into some of the valleys near some water. It's cool, the air feels crisp, particularly on your skin that's been baking in the sun all day. I was fired up on caffeine and sugar. It took us 45 minutes to do the next 13 miles at 18.1 mph. We stopped at St. Helens, just briefly (10 minutes), I ate my pretzels (from Lexington), and someone used the bathroom. Bill went under the sprinklers and said it felt really nice. We couldn't figure out where Rob was. (Rob withdrew at St. Helens with stomach issues. He's fine; we saw him Sunday morning at breakfast and gave him a ride back to Seattle.)
We saw Mt. St. Helens, Mt Adams, Mt Hood, all covered in snow and looking gorgeous. Not a cloud in the sky. We did see many of the same riders over and over – for instance we kept leapfrogging a tandem team (and their support vehicle) with "Jolly Roger" pirate jerseys on them. Their support team kept passing us by and shaking their cowbells. Kind of the equivalent of your support team riding by and screaming "Nice butt" on Ragnar, it did feel good.
Shuffling off (13 miles) to Scapoose took us another 40 minutes at 18.7 mph. I was a little sad to think I wasn't going to be meeting up with Erik, Joanna, Rich and my usual PPTM gang to ride into Portland together. I was surprised to see there was a bit of support there – but very few people. Linda pulled in to a driveway a few blocks down and we got more support (a little more food and more water). We only stayed about 10 minutes and a few of those were just helping poor Pucker (Linda and Mitchel's dog) back in the truck after getting to stretch his legs. At this point we just wanted to be done. It was 18 more miles according to the cue book, including a new route over the St. Johns bridge. The end was in sight, so to speak.
This was the only time getting back on the bike and spinning took a little more effort. Once on and going, I was fine… not sore (except for the stupid numb toes), but the legs were just a little…reluctant. I was a little worried about the climb onto the St. John's bridge and how it would compare to what I affectionately call the F.U. Hill (by Montgomery park on the old route), particularly after *seeing* it as we approached. The climb was slow, but steady and not too steep, but really my legs were pretty tapped out.
The route on the other side of the river in NW Portland is MUCH nicer – the view is pretty, it's shaded.
There's a stretch with a 15mph sign that I got to blink at me for doing 18 (I found it in me to sprint, but couldn't catch the picture in time… next time I will). Then we hit all the untimed stop lights. That was annoying. I think the route may be 2 miles longer than last year too. But the finish is mostly downhill, which is nice. We averaged 15.1mph but the last 18 miles took us almost an 1:15. We arrived at the finish line to get our 1 day tags just before 8:20 to see Paul, Joan, Steve G, Helen and Sharlyn on the right side of the finish shoot.
After getting our bags from Sharlyn and checking in and that WONDERFUL shower, we had a great meal (and I had 2 drinks!) at Andina. MMMM. Thanks to Brad, who had been in since 4pm, for organizing that. Breakfast was at the J&M Cafe the next morning.
Many many thanks to Paul and Joan for driving my van down and being my Oreo Fairies, Sharlyn and Helen for bag transport (and smiling faces in Lexington), and Linda for the support in Oregon. Big thanks to Silvia, Mitchel, Anthony, Steve, Stephen, Bill, Rob (and the Portland Crew) for their many hours of ride support (aka, allowing me to suck their wheels). Thanks to Elias and Matthew for putting up with my crazy training schedule. Big thanks to Stacia for her fantastic coaching and Neal Goldberg (Footworks PT) for putting my sprained ankle back together enough so I could do this.
And thank you to everyone for all your words of encouragement and support. Riding STP in one day is not a solo experience by any stretch of the imagination… I could not have done this (yes that's the data) without you all. All the pictures are in my gallery.


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What a difference a year makes. Last summer, R&B songstress Kelis was pregnant, involved in a nasty public divorce with Nas and without a record label. It would have been no surprise if the singer had left the industry altogether.
Fast forward one year. Kelis delivers a fabulous electronic fifth studio album Flesh Tone. Kelis made her mark in R&B with the hypnotizing and ubiqutous call of "Milkshake" but the new album is strictly electronica. Flesh Tone collaborates with super-producers such as France's David Guetta and Italian electro-house synthesizers Benny and Alle Benassi to ramp up Euro-house disco aesthetic. The tracks are all up-tempo, from the hard-driving and techno "Emancipate" to the Kylie-inspired "Brave." And of course "4th of July (Fireworks)" is a club banger and the new music video is luxe and magical. The sound on Flesh Tone is a great new niche for Kelis and she literally lights up the dance floor with fireworks.
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I wrote back in May about my photo shoot with Sharon Miller of Erthtones. I don't even know where to begin when writing about Sharon. She is an incredible person + photographer. One of the kindest, most loving souls I've ever known.
Sharon and I met back in 2009 when she was photographing a massive breast cancer event that my husband was performing at. Back in those days they used to call him 'animal' because he was so insane on the drums. He played them standing on his stool. He played them standing in FRONT of them. He would periodically get up and RUN AROUND STAGE. It was wild! But eventually he calmed down and stayed a little more strapped in.
Anyway, one of their sponsors had mentioned to Sharon that John was getting married (to me *cough, cough*). She took the opportunity of slipping him her business card while he was running around wild which he later turned over to me.
And oh my word.
I fell in love.
One look at her style, eye and treatment... I knew we were a match made in heaven. She began shooting John and I for our engagement session, which someday I'll post pictures of, and eventually became the official photographer for my husband's band (which he is no longer part of, but she is still their photog!). We became friends and every now and then I have the pleasure of sitting for her to help bring her genius ideas to life.
This is one of those times. Now, I'm not the best ballerina... though I'm working hard to get better every day. So you'll have to excuse my form. This was the first time I've done a ballerina inspired shoot and oh my word... way harder than class. Holding my position for long periods of time was really difficult, so sometimes you can see that I cheated for the sake of stability.
So forget my form and check out how incredible Sharon is!