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Edited by Marcia Talley. St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001.
$25.95 ISBN 0-312-25194-7 (Hardback); $6.99 ISBN 0-312-98019-1 (Paperback) (also available on audiocassette and in LARGE PRINT)
Edited by Marcia Talley with chapters by Nevada Barr, J. D. Robb, Nancy Pickard, Lisa Scottoline, Perri O'Shaughnessy, J.A. Jance, Faye Kellerman, Mary Jane Clark, Marcia Talley, Anne Perry, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid, Laurie R. King.
The promise of discretion and pampering --and a long-overdue reconciliation with her mother--draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly-elected Congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Health Spa. But after her first night in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, Caroline wakes to find the rich and famous guests in turmoil and under suspicion: the spa's flamboyant and ambitious owner has been murdered. As the secrets come out - and the body count rises, can Caroline keep herself from becoming the next victim?
In the tradition of such collaborative classics as NAKED CAME THE MANATEE and THE FLOATING ADMIRAL, each chapter in this serial novel is written by one of today's most talented mystery novelists.
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"An all-star lineup of 13 women mystery authors has produced one madcap, murderous tale in the same serial fashion as Naked Came the Manatee (1996). To some extent, position determines each contributor's role, but each author has ample opportunity to display her unique talents. Nevada Barr, who leads off, deserves credit for introducing heroine Caroline Blessing; her surprising mother, Hilda Finch; and several more of the zany inhabitants of Phoenix Spa, snuggled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. J.D. Robb, in the number two spot, wastes no time shifting the plot into gear with the murder of the spa's flamboyant owner, Claudia de Vries. Those who follow (Nancy Pickard, Lisa Scottoline, Perri O'Shaughnessy, J.A. Jance, Faye Kellerman, Mary Jane Clark, Marcia Talley, Anne Perry, Diana Gabaldon and Val McDermid) each get a crack at muddying the waters or putting a new spin on an already dizzy character--or in some cases, adding a new victim to the growing pile. Lucky 13 Laurie King dazzles by weaving a prettily finished quilt from the motley patches created by her comrades. Readers will relish the resulting comic soap-opera murder mystery, taking especial pleasure in watching these pros deftly recast a scene, a clue or a character to keep the story rollicking along. (Aug. 13)
"Forecast: Together these women command a huge fan base, and if enough of them are willing to promote, this collaborative effort could rack up strong sales."
PW Talks with Marcia Talley
PW: Naked Came the Manatee, a serial novel featuring 13 mystery writers with Florida roots, came out in 1996. Any connection with your new collaboration, Naked Came the Phoenix, besides the obvious one of title?
MT: No, the "naked came" is really from that 1969 book, Naked Came the Stranger, which was supposedly written by a Connecticut housewife named Penelope Ashe but was in reality written by 24 Newsday journalists. What I had in mind was The Floating Admiral, which came out in the '30s from the Detection Club and included Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, G.K. Chesterton and other mystery giants of that era.
PW: Whose idea was it?
MT: My agent called me one day and said he had just heard about a serial novel on golf. He asked if I'd ever considered writing a serial novel. I said no, but could think of an idea for one. I wrote a proposal, which included the spa setting and the cast of characters.
PW: How did you go about assembling your crew of 13 contributors?
MT: I knew Val [McDermid] and Laurie IKing], so I talked to them right away. And I had met a couple of others at mystery conventions,and so I looked them up in the Mystery Writers Directory or the Sisters in Crime directory. I had an initial list of about 30 people. It took about a year to get everybody to come on board. Everybody who said yes was really enthusiastic about the project.
PW: How did you determine the order and work out a schedule?
MT: I just made a list. Nevada [Barr] said she wanted to do the first chapter. And I was absolutely astonished when Laurie said she would only do it if she could do the final chapter. I thought I was going to have to beg someone to do the last chapter. I gave everybody a month to write her chapter. Then I just wrote September through September on a chart and asked everybody to mark the chart with their choices --1-2-3 -- and when I got them back it was a miracle. Only one person didn't get her first choice. And I kept the month nobody else wanted.
PW: Barr did a great setup job and King's conclusion is as clever as one would expect--did either get help because of her role?
MT: I was delighted when I got the first chapter back from Nevada and these cardboard characters that I had just made up off the top of my head had come to life. And Laurie--you realize she even figured out the significance of the itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, yellow polka-dot bikini? Her chapter's longer than everyone else's, but it's just such a pleasure to read. And I think everyone will appreciate how she meticulously tied up every loose end. I have to say that Laurie did put her head together with Val when it was Val's turn, with the result that Val actually put some things in motion for Laurie to hang hooks on later.
PW: Did any of the chapters surprise you?
MT: You know, all of them did. I had read most of the authors, but not all of them. I was really surprised in some cases because I didn't expect them to be so funny. When I got the chapter from Nora Roberts [writing as J.D. Robb], I fell out of bed laughing. Every chapter had a little twist or a surprise in it that just tickled me to death.
PW: What about marketing the book?
MT: St. Martin's called me the other day to say that the response from all of the major market areas--the independents, the chains and the mystery bookstores -- had been 50% over what they had expected. I think they said they had an initial printing of 44,000, which is wonderful. Almost all of us contributors have books that will be coming out this summer or all, and we're all promoting it on our Web sites. --R0RERT C. HAHN


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The unlikely venue for our event was the top floor of an NCP car park in Fitzrovia, with guests ascending to the space via a giant car lift before stepping out onto our black carpet.With giant mirrored starbursts, deco palm trees, amazing mirrored bar, jazz pianist and tables set for dinner, we transformed the venue into an illegal drinking den circa 1920, complete with classic gin cocktails created by the bartenders Jarrod and Richard with gorgeous Bloom gin. It was brilliant to see so many surprised faces as those lift doors opened!
We worked with pop-up restaurant experts The Clove Club (led by the dapper Dan Willis and Johnny Smith) to create a Juniper Sling scented supper for our guests to feast on. The menu, created by Chefs Jon Rotheram, Robin Holmgren, Dave and Shaun, was inspired by the notes within the fragrance. Kicking off with juniper smoked sea trout (spritzed at the table with an edible Juniper essence!), we then moved onto peppered lamb rump with roasted courgettes (roasted on a BBQ on the roof of the car park!) and finished with the utterly divine black cherry and brown sugar ice cream (which I could happily eat every day for the rest of my life if I had the opportunity).
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There surely cannot be anything more absurd than self-kidnap? While many spent the run up to Christmas shopping and preparing for the festivities, a man and woman in Spain, in unrelated incidents, were plotting to kidnap themselves. I'm not sure of the correct terminology but perhaps auto-kidnapping is nearer the mark.
In Gran Canaria a man who had secretly squandered €130,000 from his own company to gamble on slot machines took on an elaborate disguise in order to stage his own abduction and to hide his original crime. With the help of an accomplice he feigned his own kidnapping and demanding a ransom, raided the company's safe. However the €130,000 he appeared to steal was in fact just pieces of paper stashed into envelopes that he had previously placed there. Having gambled and lost the safe's original contents he hoped his earlier theft would go undetected. Unfortunately for him, his colleagues grew suspicious and the police were alerted. The false notes and items of his clumsy disguise were discovered and his seemingly ingenious plot came to nought.
Meanwhile in Gandía in the Valencia region a woman sent her husband images of herself bound and gagged, via a mobile phone. In a text message from her apparent abductors she demanded a ransom of €20,000. The husband dropped off the money at an agreed location and watched as an unknown woman drove off with the package. Unbeknown to his heavily disguised wife, the police had placed a tracking device in the bag. She was arrested striding into a shopping centre with the loot, seemingly in fine fettle. When arrested she claimed that she'd only feigned her own kidnapping to find out whether her husband would have coughed up the ransom.
It seems extraordinary what some people will do to dig themselves out of a hole or indeed to discover their sense of self worth. In hindsight, the company owner would probably have fared better confessing his gambling habit to his colleagues while the wife with low esteem might have been braver confronting her husband with her insecurities.
But then again, it could have all gone horribly wrong for both of them and besides we would have missed out on two of the best Christmas silly season tales.
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I tested the first beta version of Flash, when it was still called Future Splash. However, believe it or not, I never learned how to use Flash.
Please give us a brief bio of yourself.
My professional background is a sample of what has been going on since the beginning of the Internet in Brazil. I was one of the precursors of interactive media in this country, having begun my career in 1991.
Over the past 18 years I have been both copywriter and designer, both on and off-line. I was part of some of the strongest creative teams in Brazil in companies like ALMAP/BBDO, AgenciaClick, RMG Connect and others. Currently, at age 36, I lead the digital creative team at JWT Brazil, working with the offices in São Paulo, Rio and Curitiba, as well as with RMG Connect.
What do you do for inspiration?
I believe that our first great inspiration must come from real life. One must observe details of everything involving our daily lives, from the simplest and most obvious things that, nevertheless, hide an immense creative potential. These are the baselines for observation and creation.
It's obvious that artistic, scientific and technological works are equally great sources of inspiration. But in order to break away from plain vanilla, we need to learn how to reinvent, mix and twist things around.
Please list 3 of your favorite sites.
If I were to think in terms of the sites where I truly spend my time, I would say Flickr, FFFFOUND and YouTube. What a tough question! I would also have to include FWA, del.icio.us, and Twitter as major reference sources. May I? (Editor's note: Of course!)
What do you regard as being your biggest achievement?
I have received awards, and worked on important projects and helped build the internet in Brazil, especially in dealing with the development of the advertising industry.
Currently I believe that my important goals are to produce creative communication actions that provide some type of entertainment, information or usefulness to people; creating things for people to spend their time. Whether these actions are quick fun activities or profound and complex adventures.
What software could you not live without?
Photoshop and illustrator. Always. Then they have us use other things such as Keynote (or PowerPoint), Excel… oh my God!
What projects do you have in the pipeline?
New projects for Ford, HSBC, Johnson's & Johnson's and others.
Who do you rate as being the top 3 design companies?
I thought it would be a good idea to survey our team and choose the best. They each have their opinion...
However, currently I think the ones that quickly pop into our minds are: Tha Ltd., Your Majesty, North Kingdom. I love the careful work done by R/GA.
In Brazil, in addition to JWT (hehehehe), the good work by Gringo, of AgenciaClick and Cubo.cc deserve to be mentioned.
Who is your target audience?
Our agency has clients for all types of audiences. There is always a new challenge regarding a different target.
What area of web design lacks the most?
I believe we still have a lot to develop. Anyway, I am very proud of the work our team has been delivering, carefully caring to every little detail in our numerous projects, from choosing illustrations and font types to extremely elaborate animations.
What did your very first site look like? Is it still online?
I worked on redesigning the second site developed in Brazil in January 1995. It was the site for an education survey Institute in digital communication for the University of São Paulo, where I worked as a surveyor.
Recently I visited the site and found that it needs a lot of rework. (http://futuro.usp.br)
Have you written any books, if not do you plan to?
I write poetry books and compose songs. Does that help?
What was the toughest thing you ever did with Flash? How long did you spend on it? Is it still online?
I tested the first beta version of Flash, when it was still called Future Splash. However, believe it or not, I never learned how to use Flash. I am still not comfortable with its interface. I have people on my team who command this tool.
Do you think Flash is here to stay?
Definitely! But I think its use needs rethinking. Not every site must be done using Flash, especially entirely done in Flash.
What are your views on design/graphic school. Do you think someone can get into the field without educational experience in a school environment?
I think some schools are very good and teach important things such as history of arts, design... They teach students to conceptualize their creations.
The technical part is extremely important. I'm not talking only about software, but also knowing other techniques that are not unique or exclusively digital. Learning software can be achieved through any course and a few hours of training.
But schools must inspire, to gear students towards curiosity and the true "desire to learn". Additionally, the school environment is great for networking.
When your company was just getting started, what did you find was most effective for getting new clients?
I work in the oldest advertising agency in the world, JWT. There is a lot of history to cover from its beginning up to the time when it became one of the largest communication groups in the world.
And today there is still a lot of history to be made in this turnaround of the communication industry.
How have you learned so many Flash/design skills and techniques and can you offer any advice for newbies?
Whenever possible I try to teach something. Whether it is about being better professionals, or some technical aspect, but especially trying to teach how to think about being creative in problem solving.
What is the most expensive thing you have bought in the last week?
A Nespresso coffee machine and some PS3 games.
Any parting shots or pearls of wisdom?
Hummm... look at the world outside, around us and then draw great creative solutions.
It has been a privilege, thanks very much.
The pleasure was all mine!


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Kaye Schendel National President The National President provides overall guidance to the Sorority and gives directions for all endeavors; supervises the work of all officers. Kaye Schendel is a member of Gamma Phi chapter at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. She has served Tri Sigma most recently as the Coordinator of Programming and Assessment and is a Mabel Lee Walton Award recipient. She serves as the Vice President for the Center for the Study of the College Fraternity. Kaye lives in La Crosse, WI, with her husband, David. They share their home with their pug, Rocket. She is employed by Delta Upsilon Fraternity as the Director of Global Initiatives. Golf and reading are two of her favorite hobbies. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Bonnie Rainey
National Treasurer
The National Treasurer works closely with the National President, Executive Director and the National Vice Presidents to set the strategic direction of the entire organization, ensuring that the organization's operations are consistent with the mission, vision, and core values. Executive Council members are charged with having strategic conversations to position Sigma Sigma Sigma for success today and tomorrow. Bonnie was initiated as an Alpha Sigma at the University of Southern Mississippi where she majored in Spanish and Political Science. After obtaining her Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Mississippi College School of Law, Bonnie has spent the past 30 years as an estate planning and trust administration professional. She is Managing Director and Regional Trust Executive for U.S. Trust Company, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, and is responsible for the fiduciary practice for Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico Region. She has served Tri Sigma as Vice Chairman of the Foundation, Membership Development Coordinator and Risk Management Director. Bonnie currently resides in Dallas, Texas with husband, David O'Dell, MD, and her beloved Sheltie, Mickey.Email: email@example.com
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National Vice President Elizabeth Wakeman Hoffert previously served on Executive Council from 2004-2007 as Alumnae Vice President. Liz joined Tri Sigma at our Beta Xi chapter at Southeast Missouri State University. She is currently a member of the Phoenix Alumnae Chapter, but has belonged to the St. Louis, Chicago North Shore, and Northern New Jersey Alumnae Chapters. As she moved around the country for her job Tri Sigma sisters have always made her feel welcomed in her new city. She retired in 2010 after 41 ½ years with Insurance Services Office which included 13 different positions and 8 offices. Liz has served our sisterhood in a variety of positions, including serving twice on the Sigma Sigma Sigma Foundation board for a total of 11 years. She has also held several positions in the Alumnae department, served as Bylaws chairman in 2001 and Convention Secretary in 2004. Liz was awarded the Emily Gates Alumna Achievement Award in 1992 and was recognized as a Woman of Distinction at our 2010 convention. Liz currently lives in Phoenix with her husband Fred and they are enjoying being near their daughter Lynette and their 2 granddaughters. She volunteers several times a month at St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance which is the country's first food bank. Travel and cooking are other activities she enjoys.
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Allison Swick-Duttine
National Vice President Allison Swick-Duttine joined the Psi Chapter at Marshall University in 1991. Although currently serving as National Vice President for the third Triennium, she has also served Tri Sigma as Director of Programs and Collegiate Coordinator. She has been employed as the Director of Fraternity/Sorority Life at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh since 1998 where she works daily with fraternity men and sorority women on values and character development. Allison is the Past-President of HazingPrevention.Org and the SUNY Fraternity/Sorority Advisors Association, is a board member for the Northeast Greek Leadership Association and is a frequent volunteer for the Association of Fraternity Advisors. She is the recipient of a 2012 State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service and the 2007 Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors Sue Kraft Fussell Distinguished Service Award. Allison lives in Plattsburgh, NY, with her husband, Matt (a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity). She enjoys books and movies and loves cooking, crafting and antiquing in her spare time. She has spent time each year for the past 10+ years volunteering as a SUNY Plattsburgh Alternative Breaks site leader on a fraternity/sorority trip to The Shack Neighborhood House in her home state of West Virginia.
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Natalie began her lifelong commitment to Tri Sigma when she pledged the Gamma Beta chapter at East Carolina University in 1985. During her collegiate days, she was afforded the opportunity to serve in several leadership roles, including dual terms as chapter president. Natalie graduated from ECU in 1989 with a degree (BSBA) in Marketing. After ten years in the insurance industry, Natalie "retired" to a life of professional volunteerism for Sigma, while also raising two incredible boys. Through the years, she has served Tri Sigma in various facets such as Collegiate Extension Chairman, College Panhellenic Assistant, NPC Delegation member and NPC Area Advisor, Awards Director, Housing Corporation President and Chapter Advisor. She has received accolades for Outstanding Advisor (2005) and Outstanding National Officer Service (2007-2010 triennium). Natalie resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia with her husband, Brent and their two sons, Chandler and Carson. She volunteers at her children's school, really enjoys traveling, movies and Broadway shows and although a southern girl at heart, loves vacationing in New England.
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Tagline: There are 188 million 911 calls a year. This one made it personal.
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There's a certain sense of heightened and/or alternate reality pervading the theater releases this weekend. On the one hand, we have a film about magicians, professionals who create the illusion of having manipulated real world physics; plus, it takes place in Vegas, a city that, unto and of itself,...Read More »
Remember "Rescue 911"? In the era before the glut of reality shows, it was a precursor of sorts, a program that offered up re-enactments of real life situations and emergencies, all narrated and given gravitas by the show's host, William Shatner. And if you ever wondered what a big scr...Read More »
Okay, can we say that whatever good will Brad Anderson had from the (somewhat overrated) "The Machinist" has now officially evaporated? Since then, he's delivered "Transsiberian" and "Vanishing On 7th Street," but mostly worked in TV. And now he has teamed up ...Read More »
It was a quiet 2011 for Abigail Breslin, having lent her voice to "Rango" and pure name recognition to "New Years Eve," but recently the young actress has lined up high-profile projects left and right, and we can now add Brad Anderson's "The Hive" to the ...Read More »
So has Halle Berry been struck with the Oscar curse, or just been making mostly bad choices? Ever since winning for "Monster's Ball" a decade ago, she did the franchise thing in "Die Another Day" and the 'X-Men' trilogy of films and between those, she lined up a strin...Read More »


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and then I would like to create a new element in that node right under the root node with this code:
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The problem is that the node gets created and appended but the value isn't set. I don't know if I just can't see the value when I look at my xml if its hidden in some way but I don't think that's the case because I've tried to get the node value after the create node call and it returns
I'm new to xml and dom and I don't know where the value of the new node is stored. Is it like an attribute?
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or does it put value here:
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January's edition of Quadrant has an interesting article by a lapsed Catholic about the clerical abuse scandal: 'Father Scapegoat,' by Joe Dolce.
(That link will take you to the article in its entirety, which surprises me. I thought you'd have to buy the magazine! It's worth subscribing to Quadrant. It's good for the life of the mind — your own specifically, and Australia's more broadly.)
Anyway, Joe Dolce's missive teems with insights. His recollection of prurience in the confessional is mortifying, and thankfully alien to my own experience. His perception of the Catholic priesthood's "unique spiritual cul-de-sac" is enlightening. And his exposition of the sexual abuse of children in contemporary society is horrifying.
The article makes excellent reading, and I recommend it to everyone.
But I take issue with Dolce's critique of the Church's media response. I agree with him that the press has engaged in an irrational and dishonest campaign against the Church. I get what people mean when they suggest "the Church should thank the media." Without external pressure, internal reform seldom occurs. It's impossible to thank the media though, when its anti-Catholic prejudice blinds it to abuse occurring elsewhere, and hinders responsible debate about where popular culture has gone wrong.
The pedophile priest, Dolce writes, has become the scapegoat. All our guilt and blame is projected onto him (and the Catholic Church by association and implication), and everyone else is absolved. Dolce cites a slew of studies which demonstrate that the problem is much larger than the Church. And he wonders why more Catholics don't speak up and refute media distortions.
I think there are a few answers to that. I think some Catholics are so mortified by the scandal, that they now tune out of the media coverage, and hope for the day the storm passes. And I think many Catholics are mortified by the hierarchy's inadequate response to victims, and are loathe to defend the Church's record on this issue, even in the face of media mendacity.
And then there is Dolce's appeal to a martyr complex:
Unfortunately, there is also a historical proclivity amongst some Catholic clergy—an almost suicidal romantic yearning—for martyrdom, in the spirit of the martyrdom of Jesus. The contemporary Catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe once said that he looked forward to being sent to "heathen" Japan where if priests were fortunate they might be martyred for their beliefs. To me, that is passive and cowardly. Real martyrdom would be more along the path of the social activist, the path that Jesus actually walked, speaking out against the lie and taking whatever consequences.
Dolce's greatest strength is also his greatest weakness. His outside view affords him refreshing insights into the popular perception of the celibate priest. But it prevents him from understanding an authentically faithful response to the Gospel.
Just such an account is provided, however, by Fr Ron Rolheiser's 'On Carrying A Scandal Biblically.' (A survivor of sexual abuse read this article and recommended it to me. They quibbled over minor points, but from their perspective the sum of it is excellent.)
Rolheiser suggests that the Church's response to the sexual abuse scandal should be focused exclusively on healing:
To carry this scandal biblically means too that healing, not self-protection and security, must be our real preoccupation. Sometimes for bishops, provincials, religious superiors, and church officials there's a real (and understandable) danger of losing perspective in the face of accusations of sexual abuse. Many times, in fact, we have lost perspective.
In the vortex this crisis, what has to be our primary preoccupation? To protect the innocent and to bring about healing and reconciliation. Everything else (worries about security, lawsuits, and the like) must come afterwards.
Rolheiser echoes Dolce's claim that the pedophile priest, even the Church, has become a scapegoat. But where Dolce sees an outrageous injustice which must be put right, Rolheiser sees an outrageous injustice and prophetic opportunity:
Right now priests represent less than one per-cent of the overall problem of sexual abuse, but we're on the front pages of the newspapers and the issue is very much focused on us. Psychologically this is painful, but biblically this is not a bad thing: The fact that priests and the church have been scapegoated right now is not necessarily bad. If our being scapegoated helps society by bringing the issue of sexual abuse and its devastation of the human soul more into the open, than we are precisely offering ourselves as "food for the life of the world", and we, like Jesus in his crucifixion, are helping to "take away the sins of the world."
. . This is not a distraction to the life of the church, it's perhaps the major thing that we need to do right now for the world and our culture. There are very few things that we are doing as Christian communities today that are more important than helping the world deal with this issue. If the price tag is that we are humiliated on the front pages of the newspapers and that the Anglican, United, and Roman Catholic Churches of Canada end up financially bankrupt, so be it. Crucifixions are never easy and they exact real blood! It might well be worth it in the long run if we can help our world come to grips with this.
I can see why the world might call this a martyr complex. But it strikes me as profoundly supernatural in its outlook. Which is another way of saying that far from being passive and cowardly, it is good and true.
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I agree with your response. What I did not like about Joe Dolce's article is that it is essentially a longish variation on the theme "Hey, stop criticising us, we're not the only ones!"
It is precisely this species of defensiveness that is twisting the knife, figuratively speaking, into those who suffered directly from the betrayal and abuse and those who loved them, and which is impeding the very healing which Father Rolheiser mentions.
Of course it is a fact that sexual abuse and emotional abuse and the abuse of institutional power is to be found elsewhere than simply in the Catholic Church. But saying so – in defense or reaction – amounts to a retreat from or denial of that full-hearted compassion and passion for justice and the paramountcy of the victims which they need to hear and feel and be supported by.
It's a case of "don't let love get in the way of facts!". The Christian way, as you suggest in another way, is "don't let facts get in the way of love". (And I mean 'real' love, not superficially).
I like Father Rolheiser's focus on healing because he does not see that as a feint or blind or side-step from confronting the ugly truth of the matter, but as an essential condition for actually seeing the ugly truth as it is. And the ugly truth comprises, not just the crime of sexual and emotional abuse and rape etc, but even more, the failure of those who were in a position to do something about it and conceal or downplay the problem.
Like you, Father John, I do not see the robust acceptance of all the pent-up criticism of the Church over this as a "martyr complex". I see it as courage, honesty, responsible and necessary. Not attempting to deflect or counter the shame or criticisms would be better characterised as a "George Washington" complex (i.e. "I cannot tell lie; I chopped the cherry tree").
Joe Dolce's article is precisely the wrong article at the wrong time (if at any time). I have read the Whitlam report and Bishop Michael Kennedy's statement. The first is clarifying and enlightening and shows that with the emergence of the truth, the heat and confusion of alarm, prejudice and speculation can and will be softened. The second is hope-filling, because I think the new Bishop's statement is essentially unqualified.
We all know that there are good priests and brothers etc doing hard yards day in and day out, and they suffer the shame of the stigma; they have been effectively betrayed by some of their peers and higher-ups. The exposure of the extent of sexual abuse crimes and the exposure of past policies placing reputation before justice and protection will hopefully bring reparation and new responsible relationships and structures in the Church.
But only if the hurt, shame and pain of the people is embraced unflinchingly, like (dare I say it?) Jesus embraced his cup and cross.
I'll respond to your question, Fr John.
This crisis affords an opportunity for teaching someone something about the Gospel of Life and about the Church as hospital for sinners.
The acceptance of contraception logically ends up in perversion and even bestiality because sexual activity is separated from procreation and if pleasure is the sole aim, it gets more and more demanding and plunges into violence.
The vast failure of Church leaders to preach against contraception has led to an inability to discern that some men are unsuitable for the seminary and religious orders.
Try offering this to someone who sneers at you whilst jeering about paedophile priests: "Yes, it's appalling, I absolutely agree. But did you know this has all happened because of contraception? And furthermore, the vast majority of these blokes were actually homosexuals who went for pre-pubescent and pubescent boys? Awful, aint it?"
Still nobody preaches against contraception, so the abuse, I believe, will continue… it seems to be a kind of self-inflicted punishment.
I hasten to add this view is partly that of Dr Martin Brenner, an Orthodox Jew who converted to Catholicism in the 70s. He is a scriptural scholar, a father of nine and believes the sky is in pieces at our feet — because of contraception.
You can find his lectures on the subject on the internet.
Any loving and healing approach to this (or any) issue can only be one which is based on truth (i.e. reality). This includes both the truth about the crimes committed and their full evil, and (in principle) also the truth in defence against unjust claims made about the Church /clergy / hierarchy as a whole. How much this latter can realistically be achieved in given circumstances, and how much it is counterproductive, is a matter for prudent discernment. This particular article by Dolce seems to me helpful on balance.
Not all victims and their families think the same way, not all of them are helped to find peace by having this issue dragged up again and again, not all of them are happy to see the Church dragged through the mud to the maximum degree. Approaching this masochistically is not necessarily pro-victim. Those who have suffered from these crimes can still appreciate the distinction between those individuals responsible and those who are innocent.
One of the aggravating factors in abuse by clergy is precisely the robbing of the victim's spiritual heritage. In principle, we exacerbate this destruction of spiritual heritage by tacitly conceding the claim that the Church is somehow fundamentally flawed.
I am probably a believing Catholic today partly because years before I was born, a disillusioned teenager decided not to let her own suffering of abuse destroy her faith. For my own sake, I thank God that she became a great defender of the Church.
In our own minds at least, we should be clear about what we are doing in defending the Church. It is not 'self-protection', the Church is not some dodgy tobacco company that if we were decent we would actually abandon or wind up, it is not some 'club' we are selfishly ensconced in. Rather, the Catholic Church is God's way of salvation for every human being, and which every human being is ultimately called by God to be part of. Abandoning her defence would be immoral and anti-human.
As far as each of us personally is concerned, being the victim of unjust slurs on account of remaining faithful to Christ in his Church is actually occasion for great rejoicing (Lk 6:22-23). So our personal 'selfish' benefit is not the motivation for defending God's Church. We prudently defend the Church's reputation (avoiding, of course, illegitimate means e.g. cover-ups), for the sake of those who otherwise might, to their ruin, abandon her or never find her. The defence of the Church against unjust attacks is a work of mercy.
Thanks Fr Justin. This is an important elaboration. It reminds me of an exchange between Screwtape and Wormwood in C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters.
Screwtape advises his nephew to foster a false humility in his patient by encouraging him to value claims independently of their truth. To judge them instead by the humility they convey, or compassion, or some other good. Claims can be judged by these values of course, but if truth is not the ultimate measure, confusion is sown, black can be called white, and evil can be called good.
Thanks Fr John. Funny, I think I already had Screwtape in the back of my mind when I wrote the first comment, but on other grounds…
On Dolce's experience in the confessional, it's good to note that the type of questioning he mentions was expressly forbidden by the pre-1983 Code of Canon Law (Canon 888.2). (The 1983 Code takes it up in more general terms (Canon 979).) It would appear likely that the particular confessor had 'problems' of his own…
And on Rolheiser's hope that the scapegoating of priests may be redemptive for society in raising awareness of sexual abuse more generally…well, I believe that from every evil God always brings a greater good, but I'm a little sceptical that it is coming by this particular route.
Excellent blog you have here but I was curious about if you knew of any user discussion forums that cover the
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DeAndre Yedlin is back in Seattle. But nobody can promise how long.
The 20-year-old impressed many, even in a backup role, on the U.S. men's national team at the World Cup. The peak of that attention came in the Round of 16 match against Belgium, when Yedlin came in for injured Fabian Johnson and played most of the game. Soon after returning to the states, Yedlin appeared on "SportsCenter," "Good Morning America," the "Today" Show and other programs.
Yedlin's star power exploded. Now, according to a statement released by Sounders general manager Adrian Hanauer, there is "lots of interest for him from leagues around the world." La Gazzetta dello Sport, an Italian newspaper, reported that a deal had been virtually finalized to send Yedlin to AS Roma after the Sounders' season concluded.
Yedlin makes a base salary of $80,000 per year with guaranteed compensation of $92,000.
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But Yedlin said all the questions of where he'll end up aren't ones he's thinking about yet.
"I'm kind of letting my representatives take care of that right now, and they'll obviously get back to me on that information," he said at Monday's practice, his first since returning to the country. "Right now I'm just focused on Seattle, focused on hopefully winning the MLS Cup and just looking to come back and do well."
Yedlin, who grew up in Lake Forest Park and graduated from O'Dea High School, said playing in Europe had always been his goal. But his quick rise up the ranks, thanks to his World Cup performance, might have changed his trajectory. Where those changes might lead him is unknown.
"That's obviously been my goal since I was a little kid, so that was a big one," he said. "But now I think I almost have to make new goals and re-evaluate and see where I want to be in the next year, next six months."
That re-evaluation process will include his "big support system" here in the U.S., including Sounders coach Sigi Schmid.
Schmid said while watching the U.S.-Belgium Round of 16 match the thought crossed his mind that Seattle might not be able to keep Yedlin for long.
With potential international opportunities swirling, Schmid said Yedlin will have to use his maturity and his trusted network to make a decision.
"I told him, he's got to talk to people that he trusts, feels comfortable with, and get the information that he needs to make a decision," Schmid said. "But right now, his focus is on our game Wednesday and on our game Sunday."
Yedlin's agent, Chris Megaloudis, also noted that the player was still a Sounder, but there was a window for that to change in the future.
"There is plenty of interest in DeAndre from around the world at this time," he said in an email message. "Should an opportunity arise that makes sense for the league/club and DeAndre, we will explore it further."
Whether those explorations are now, or years in the future, Schmid said that once a player hits a certain talent level, sometimes opportunities overseas are simply better.
"It's like, why does Pau Gasol play in the NBA? Why does (Manu) Ginobili play in the NBA?" he said. "Because the league (NBA) is better than their leagues in their home countries. There's going to be certain players where it's the right thing to do, is to go overseas."


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What are you most proud of? I'm glad I didn't skip April's blocks just because I have no time... It's better to improvise than to be left out! Felt really weird putting the pretty side of the fabric down, and using the wrong-side-up for the hexes on that first block -- but I needed to do that to get a satisfying contrast between the floral and my hexagons... :) Oh! I also chose to make my stripe of "grass" (in my case, water)...a half-inch wider than the directions.
Both of your blocks are so beautiful and creative!! You picked the perfect fabric for the sun (and the water)! I would never have thought to flip the fabric around to the wrong side for contrast. They both get 10's in my book! :D
Awww, thank you mo.sews! I felt a bit like a cheater not doing everything by the directions...but I just don't have that kind of time right now with the resort getting busy and fishing tournaments going on, etc. :)
Hey, you DO know that there is no time limit on this right??? The BOM is here for you when you want it, or when you have time. That's a big selling point for me!
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CMD Pen India Pvt Ltd, an exclusive agency for Zee Network which takes care of their movie business, points out certain loop holes in this new venture and calls it an impractical affair.
Rs 500 crore is a huge sum amount when it comes to buying satellite rights for films. I dont think Rs500 crore would only be restricted to buying satellite rights, there is much more to the story than what is being revealed to the media, he says.
Though a difficult task, Saurabh Tiwari, ex-programming head of Colors and Imagine TV feels that it is possible for the deal to work out. I am sure recovering Rs 500 crore would be a difficult task for channels with single platform, but considering that Star Network has so many channels belonging to various genres, it should be easy for them , he says, adding, Today all the leading GECs are separated by only a few TRPs in terms of ranking, and one good weekend movie is a game changer. They have booked Salman Khans films for Rs 500 crore for five years and by showing this content on different channels of their network, I think they can easily recover the money and make a profit.
Personal agenda
Over the years producers have had personal tie-ups with television networks. For example YRF has always given the rights of their films to Sony TV, which recently telecast Ek Tha Tiger, starring Salman Khan.
Keeping these points in mind, Gada feels that each of the producers of a Salman Khan starrer, would have to sit and discuss with the star if they are okay with telecasting their film on Star Network.
That is not possible. The actor and our company is contractually bound. What the producers say is not our concern. We have done a deal with Salman, and we shall not tamper with our contract and change terms and conditions as and when required, affirms Jhaveri.
In that case, a time will come when even the channel (Star Network) would manipulate their decision of whether they want to telecast a Salman Khan film. What if in these five years Salmans films dont work? The channel will then have to decide if they want to bear the losses and air his films even if they flop, establishes Gada.
Earlier there have been many instances where TV channels have bought rights of the films which were yet to release.


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Sam Palmisano's 2012 commencement remarks
As prepared for Sam Palmisano, chairman of the board of IBM and chair of IBM's executive committee, for the university-wide commencement ceremony on May 24, 2012, at Homewood Field
Thank you, Luke. Also thank you, Ron … distinguished faculty members … and guests.
And congratulations to all of you who are graduating today, the Johns Hopkins class of 2012. Let me also congratulate—and thank—your families, who had a lot to do with why you are here.
Believe me, I know this from personal experience!
But you and I actually have a lot more in common than strong families and a great education. We are both entering a new stage of our lives. We're both "graduating," so to speak, from storied institutions—you from Hopkins, I from IBM.
Of course, as you look at this old guy up here, you may be thinking, "Say what? I don't see myself in Sam."
So, first … let's go back to 1973, when I sat in a chair in the front of Gilman Hall. An unpopular war was ending. A president had just been reelected for a second term—but that didn't end the political turmoil; in fact, it was about to ratchet up. Race riots and student unrest were fresh in our minds. The economy was tepid.
So what's the consensus today?
Unpopular wars are ending. We see protracted unemployment … a tepid economic environment … a political system paralyzed by partisanship … mounting debt and social costs … the prospect of a diminished future for the United States as new nations take their place as global powers.
Almost 40 years, then … but maybe some similarities.
Despite all that was going on back then, neither I nor my classmates were beset by grinding self-doubt or fear of failure. We did not believe that our worst days lay ahead … and I don't believe it now. I don't think you do, either—but just in case, I'm here to persuade you to take another view.
The fact is, you have a more exciting road ahead of you than any generation in recent times. I'm not just saying that because it's the polite sentiment for a commencement address. You are privileged to be entering your working life at one of the great inflection points of modern history.
Several years ago, The New York Times' Tom Friedman declared that the world is flat. He meant that globalization had arrived in full force—and it has.
We know how we got here. Open trade agreements … a striking increase in political stability—both of which would have seemed highly improbable if some other old guy had predicted them at my commencement in 1973.
And then, of course, there's technology.
The revolution in technology that we have seen … and that is still underway today … is not just about the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, smart phones and tablets. Those developments are wonderful, but they are just pieces of something much larger, something truly historic.
Let me give you an idea of its scope.
- There are a billion transistors today for every human being on the planet.
- Some two billion people are now on the Internet—but there are also upwards of a trillion interconnected and intelligent objects.
- We are putting computing into things nobody would think of as computers—every product in the world, the power grid, water systems, supply chains, healthcare systems, entire cities.
- The world is becoming instrumented, interconnected and intelligent.
All of this has generated more information than you can imagine. There will be 44 times more data generated over the next decade, reaching 35 zettabytes in 2020. A zettabyte is a 1 followed by 21 zeros.
If you don't buy it from me, listen to your professors, like Drs. Haine and Bagger, or to alums like Dr. Akabar. They are convinced that the future belongs to those who figure out what to do with all that data.
In effect, an enormous new natural resource has appeared on our planet—a gusher of data. And thanks to advanced computation and analytics, we can now tap into it. We can make sense of it in something like real time.
In so many spheres today, the way the world literally works is changing. For example:
- We used to fight crime with more police and better equipment. Now, we fight crime with data.
- We used to deal with traffic congestion by building more and bigger roads. Now, we use real-time information to manage pricing and schedules.
- We used to guess about things like consumer demand, supply chains and product inventory. Today, retailers and manufacturers adjust to changing consumer wishes in real time.
The same applies to food safety, to energy, to healthcare, to education—to all the systems by which our world works. Every field of science, business and society is being transformed before our eyes.
And the best news of all, ladies and gentlemen, is that the key to winning in this new arena—for a country, a company or an individual—is not technology or natural resources. It is skills and leadership. It has never been so possible for high-skilled, enterprising, imaginative individuals to have a direct impact on that. That's you!—the 2012 graduating class!
Today, every one of you can form communities … can re-imagine institutions and enterprises, even entire industries. It has never been so possible to collaborate across traditional boundaries. It has never been easier to dive in and act.
The opportunities are limitless. What will you do with them? Will you move to the future, or be comfortable complaining about what the past generation has bequeathed to you? Will you look to fit in somewhere … to learn about and adapt to established institutional rules and cultures—say, blue suits, white shirts, wingtip shoes?
In my day, you might have. You might have looked to settle in for a steady lifetime career.
However, for better or for worse—mostly, I believe, for better—that's not the world today. In the era ahead, as in all times of fundamental change, success will go to the bold. To those who see the opportunity to remake their world, rather than just fit into it.
Perhaps the most powerful asset you have—even more than the skills and expertise you have acquired at Hopkins—is a simple awareness of this moment in history, and the impulse to seize it.
I say that because I remember a time in my life when I could easily have followed the course of least resistance. It was a point in my career when I had to choose between taking the top position in one of IBM's U.S. divisions … or going to a largely unstructured job in IBM Japan.
The easier path was clear. But I chose to look at this as just one stage in a long-term journey—one from which I would learn more—and I took the leap.
It meant I was going to have to change. I would need to listen more than I talked. I would need to think in terms of "we," rather than "me." Not the least of it, I would have to function in an impossible language! And I would be asking my family to uproot and move overseas … with no guarantee of my success. I had no safety net!
That was a lesson for me—and not just about the value of exposure to other cultures. It taught me that the path of optimism is not the easy path. In the end, you can't move to the future without changing yourself.
So, what is my advice to you? Maybe the best decision for you is to run away and join the circus … but don't model yourself on one of the animals, performing tricks for the trainers who throw peanuts. Think independently … be passionate about something … and go where the learning will be most intense.
Thankfully, this perspective is on the rise today. I see it infusing a new generation of leaders we are working with—and hiring—in cities, companies and communities around the world … a generation whose ranks you are now joining.
These women and men have a bias toward action. They are impatient to seize the powerful new resources and technologies at our disposal and build smarter cities, businesses and nations. In contrast with the political food fights in our legislatures, these new leaders are refreshingly non-ideological. They are filled with a spirit of pragmatic optimism.
So, in ways that go far beyond this institution—and beyond you and me—today is truly a time of commencement … for the world.
Of my roommates at Hopkins, I was the only one who didn't pursue a graduate degree. Instead, I joined IBM. I am probably still viewed as the underachiever of my graduating class.
Well, if I thought I was escaping from academia, the joke was on me. IBM may be the corporation in the world most like a university. Let me tell you … a place where a PhD is your union card and Nobel Prize winners walk the halls can be a bit … intimidating, at times … for a mere liberal arts major.
But it has never been less than stimulating—and highly educational. I have learned an enormous amount over the course of my career at IBM. I'm a very different person from the immature kid who joined the company 39 years ago, straight out of Hopkins with a pile of student loans.
Now, like you, I'm heading into the next phase of my life. I'm still curious … still excited about what lies ahead … and grateful to be around for what promises to be a new golden age of economic growth, scientific discovery and societal progress.
Most of all, I'm excited for the chance to work toward that future alongside a new generation that is smarter, more clear-headed and more hopeful than any I've seen.
I hope you will keep that spirit—the spirit of this day of commencement … the spirit of seeking new opportunities, of embracing the future with pragmatic optimism—as you embark on your own life travels.
A remarkable new world is opening before all of us. Don't limit your options. Go out and grab it.
Thank you.


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Today, Wednesday January 18 2012, is Internet Blackout Day, a movement which has caught the attention of the world's media, that aims to raise awareness of legislation known as PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and how this legislation is a threat to online privacy, threatens freedom of speech, and hampers Internet innovation.
Scores of websites from personal blogs to big sites like Wikipedia, Mozilla, Reddit, Tucows, and BoingBoing have joined the campaingn to protest against SOPA and PIPA by blacking out their websites for 24 hours. Today's visitors to the English Wikipedia site will be presented with messages intended to raise awareness about the proposed legislation, and encouraging them to share their views with their elected representatives, and via social media.
So what is the problem? In a nutshell it is Hollywood versus people downloading films and music for free. These big media companies and their allies in Congress are billing the legislation as a new way to battle online copyright infringement. But it will do little to stop infringement online. What it will do is compromise online privacy and inhibit online expression.
Under the proposed legislation government and private parties would be granted unprecedented power to interfere with the Internet's underlying infrastructure. The government would be able to force ISPs and search engines to block users' attempts to reach certain websites. But the USA doesn't own the Internet, it is global. As Tucows wrote on their site "a 'Made in the USA' solution will no more work to stop the problems talked of than would one made in any other single nation state. Worse, the US has been at the forefront of ensuring that the Internet has remained free and a platform for innovation for the last fifteen years." Even the White House has stated that it "will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet."
First Amendment expert Marvin Ammori points out, "The language is pretty vague, but it appears all these companies must monitor their sites for anti-circumvention so they are not subject to court actions 'enjoining' them from continuing to provide 'such product or service." And according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF), venture capitalists have said en masse they won't invest in online startups if PIPA and SOPA pass.
Under PIPA the government will have the power to make US Internet providers block access to infringing domain names as well as have the ability to sue US-based search engines, directories, or even blogs and forums, to have links to these sites removed. To the wrong judge (one who probably hasn't even used the Internet), innovative sites like Tumblr, SoundCloud, even YouTube in its early days, could be seen as piracy heavens because mixed in with the self expression, art and calls for freedom of speech will be TV footage, movie clips and music.
The recent social uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya all used the Internet and social media to allow citizen to speak out against injustice. If the US passes laws like SOPA and PIPA then it looses any right to criticize freedom of speech in other countries and it provides a model for unscrupulous governments to adopt similar laws and hinder free expression.
Please take action by contacting Congress through the Electronic Frontier Foundation's action center. It only takes a moment and it can make a big difference.
Other sites of interest are: http://americancensorship.org/ and http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/.


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RENO -- The Washington State volleyball team (7-2) captured a quick 25-18, 25-22, 15-14 win over CSU Bakersfield (1-4) Saturday morning at the Nevada Wolf Pack Invitational tournament.
Jaicee Harris led the match with 18 kill, hitting .316 for the match while Rachel Todorovich has 11 kills and five blocks. The Cougars again dominated their opponent in blocking with Marcelina Glab and Ver'Leea Hardaway each reaching for five blocks as WSU had 11 for the match. Aiding the Cougar cause, Kate Sommer led the match with 16 digs, Camryn Irwin set 34 assists, and Maile Scarpino had a pair of aces.
The CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners were led by Debora Araujo's 11 kills and Mariah Alvidrez had 10 digs. Molly O'Hagan added five kills and four blocks. CSUB have five players with one ace each but hit .099 for the match.
"I'm proud of the team today," Cougar Head Coach Jen Greeny said. "We are doing great things and we're getting better. The outsides really carried us today and our middles struggled a little but that's what you work through in the preseason. People need to step up when we need them. Now we go back to gym and work."
WSU led from start to finish in the first set with Harris landing seven kills.
The second set was a tighter contest but again Harris led the Cougars with another seven kills. The roadrunners went ahead 20-19 on a Alvidrez ace but WSU outscored CSUB six to two to take the set 25-22.
The Cougars jumped out to an early lead in the third and ran off to the 25-14 win, hitting .467 for the set.
Next weekend Washington State volleyball is on the road again playing at the Air Force Academy Invitational in Colorado Springs. WSU plays Norfolk State, CSU Bakersfield for the second time in as many weekends, and Air Force Academy.


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We just hung with a top 10 team on the road. We also hung with missouri last game. We just have to steal a few on the road and protect home court
Nobody but HB knows for sure. You pretty much know nothing....like Knownothing would like to say.
I think we are good enough to beat anyone.
Don't get me wrong, this team is ******* good but we should of had the last two games.
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
We need a couple signature wins to make the tourney, as well as beat everybody we're supposed to. We let 2 signature wins slip away because of poor free throw shooting and stupid mental mistakes.
When Prepared, Fear No One.
Defense, ft shooting, refs, relying on 3 pointer, inexperience on court and coaching. These are all the reasons why no tourney. Future is bright, but wow. Lots of work to do Cyclones.
Originally Posted by Clones21
Don't get me wrong, this team is ******* good but we should of had the last two games.
Go breathe into a paper bag for a while.
I agree. The reason we lost the last two games was simply that the other teams have been together longer. NIT I think is more realistic.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
― Alan Wilson Watts
I think the biggest issue is lack of playing time together. It seemed like things broke down and guys just started trying to make plays on their own. With that being said, they looked pretty good against a top 10 team on their court.
Yes, this team has the ability to do it.
To make the tournament, you have to beat some tournament teams.
So far, that hasn't happened this season.
Originally Posted by Knownothing
We just hung with a top 10 team on the road. We also hung with missouri last game. We just have to steal a few on the road and protect home court
NIT it will be, hanging with teams gets you NIT, beating top 10 teams get you NCAA tournament
The last time we made the tourney we were much worse off at this point in the year than we are right now. We have the talent, but need to pick things up to have a shot.
We've got to rattle off a few wins in a row now. Would be great to get 3 in a row going in to the KU game
I think great things are in store for MBB. Everybody has to remember to be patient with the program and let it work out whatever kinks need be. We did so with Rhoads, I think Hoiberg deserves the same.
Cyclones | Vikings | Royals | Red Wings
Originally Posted by CyBer
Go breathe in a lake for a while.
OU made a bit of a statement today. We have to sweep OU, OSU, TT, and A&M and then beat a couple of real teams.
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"Mommy, are you going to come?" Lexi asked, her voice pleading. For weeks, my three-year-old daughter had been excited about the play she was in at her pre-school. "All of the mommies are going to be there. I don't just want Sally there." Sally is our babysitter. "Of course, love," I told Lexi, squeezing her, reassuringly. "I wouldn't miss it for the world."
The play was scheduled at the highly inconvenient time of 10 a.m. I commute into New York City from New Jersey, and I'd miss a half-day off work. Cramming a school event into the work day always makes me tense, but I promised Lexi I wouldn't miss the Seder and truthfully, nothing could stop me from being there.
The morning of the play, as Sally, Lexi and I walked into the Jewish Community Center where Lexi goes to school, the security guard warmly greeted my babysitter. "Hi Sally," he smiled, waving her in.
As I followed, the guard stopped me. "Do you have identification?" he demanded. "Who are you with?" "I'm with them," I said, pointing sheepishly, at Sally and Lexi, who had already scooted through the doorway.
It dawned on me – this was only the third time that I've taken my daughter to school all year. No one recognizes me as Lexi's mother. Everyone knows my sitter Sally; I'm the stranger. When I walked into Lexi's class, her teacher Amy seemed pleasantly surprised to see me. I've always felt that Amy sympathized with my working fulltime. I was a true rarity at the JCC pre-school, the only Stay-at-Work mom in the class.
The assistant teacher stared; clearly, she couldn't place me. Then she saw me helping my daughter with her backpack. "Lexi's mom is here," she enthusiastically announced to no one in particular. It was as if I was an exotic relative who suddenly arrived for show-and-tell.
It's hard to stay connected to school and teachers when you simply are not. I am not part of the coffee klatsch of mommies who meet after drop off. I am not looped into the summer plans, play dates or other activities they have scheduled for their kids. I was actually shocked to discover that morning that Lexi seemed to be the only one going to summer camp at her school – all of her other friends were being shipped off elsewhere. How could I have not known this? Lexi will have no friends at camp, I thought, the guilt seeping in.
As we walked out to the parking garage, I spotted the mother of a child who Lexi plays with. Sasha is a third child with siblings who are much older. Her mom, Andrea, is also not connected to the other mommies in this pre-school group. "Is Sasha going to the JCC this summer," I asked, hopefully.
"Yes," Andrea answered. She must have also not been on the receiving end of the mommy memo that no one was going to camp at the JCC.
I often pride myself in being the anti-Alpha Mom. I resist strategically planning and orchestrating every aspect of my children's lives. Frankly, I do this not based on principle, but because well, I'm just too lazy. But there are times when my Slacker Mom tendencies make me feel like "kid things" are falling through the cracks. I won't miss an event like my daughter's school Seder. But staying on top of the other children's summer plans is something I just don't think about. Thank goodness Sasha's mom is equally unaffiliated to the morning coffee klatsch.
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Tristan MacManus Talks Strictly Come Dancing: "It's a Lot More Relaxed and Offensive Here"
It's a big week for Dancing With the Stars — and at least one pro alumni. The DWTS Season 19 cast will be revealed tomorrow (Thursday, September 4) and this Sunday, September 7 also marks the launch show for the U.K.'s Strictly Come Dancing, which still features Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli as judges and now Tristan MacManus as one of the pro dancers.
Tristan talked to MacManiacs over the weekend, giving updates on his transition and rehearsals. "I have been really made feel at home straight away, and the pros I never met before have treated me like I've known them for years," Tristan said, "so I'm really happy to be here and already feel very much at home with the cast. It's just a very positive environment to be in, and everyone is very genuine and excited about the new season."
Tristan has danced with several of the show's pros before, and they've been able to catch up, but he added that they haven't been doing too much messing around yet because there's been a lot of work to do. Tristan said he's also made a conscious decision to not compare DWTS to Strictly, since they're so different, but he did share some first impressions. "It's very much about the celebs here so far which is the way it should be. We all learn a routine together before the pairs are even announced so it's great to get to meet everyone at the get go, and there is no motive of grabbing the one you want - haha. There are some great personalities here this year."
Tristan will learn his celeb partner during the launch show, which is a bit of a twist, and he shared more details on the overall process. "In Hollywood we have the studios where four to five couples rehearse together daily, or at least in the same building, where as here it is pretty separate — which isn't necessarily a bad thing but it's just the first major difference so it's nice I think for people at the start. As well with it being a launch 'show' and not just an unveiling it gives the celebs a look into how it will be once they actually start the show, because they have worked with the pros together to learn a routine and see how the live show works and going from studio to live studio and having an audience before the 'competition' starts. We have met a few people from each department already as well so wardrobe and hair/make-up seem like a great bunch, and I love the banter and humor here. It's a lot more relaxed and offensive here – hahaha! I love it!"
Awww — DWTS should be more relaxed and offensive too! (From what Erin Andrews and Tom Bergeron have said, it does get that way during rehearsals, they just give us the clean version on the live show. We want the dirty bits!)
Read more from Tristan here. Good luck on Strictly!
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Abolish the FDA?
Why not just abolish the U.S. Food and Drug Administration?
By Maureen Martin
That may sound radical, but the Wyeth v. Levine case, due to be heard in the U.S. Supreme Court next Monday, could destroy the agency's purpose. The issue in the case is whether the federal law establishing the FDA "preempts" state laws and shields makers of FDA-approved drugs from liability under state tort law.
Much more than that is at stake. The case could lead to a wholesale expansion of state regulation in other areas of law for any industry subject to intensive federal regulation. The case, therefore, is being closely watched.
The plaintiff is certainly sympathetic. She lost an arm to gangrene after the Wyeth anti-nausea drug Phenergan was improperly injected into an intravenous line she was hooked up to. Earlier in the day, she had received a shot in the arm, but it failed to relieve her pain, so the doctor decided on the IV.
The plaintiff claimed the drug label failed to adequately warn users about dangers of injecting the drug through IVs. But the FDA required the label to include four warnings telling providers to exercise "extreme care" in injections with IVs. Gangrene would "likely" result if done improperly, the label says.
The label also warned health care providers to stop the injection immediately if the patient complained of pain, which the plaintiff did. And it warned dosages shouldn't exceed 25 mg. The plaintiff got twice that much. It sounds like the assistant didn't read the label at all. That's understandable—the "label" is two pages long.
Seven states—Arizona, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Utah, and Texas—have statutes providing an FDA defense for drug manufacturers, according to Jim Beck and Mark Hermannn's Drug and Device Law blog.
Vermont doesn't have such a law, but Wyeth argued preemption could be implied from FDA approval of its label and that approval barred the plaintiff's claim of improper labeling under state law. But in closing arguments at the Vermont trial, the plaintiff's lawyer told the jury, "The FDA doesn't make the decision, you do." The jury awarded a $6.7 million verdict against Wyeth. The state Supreme Court affirmed it, and Wyeth filed for U.S. Supreme Court review.
So what use is the FDA, if states can impose additional warning requirements?
FDA approval is required by law before a drug may be sold in interstate commerce. The lengthy review process evaluates health and safety data about the drugs, weighing risks and benefits. The FDA was created more than 100 years ago to eliminate conflicts between state and federal law, replacing those conflicts with one uniform national law.
The Vermont Supreme Court found federal law imposed only minimum requirements and states are free to mandate stricter ones. If the plaintiff wins and each of the 50 states becomes free to impose drug safety laws in addition to federal laws, drug makers will have to monitor state law carefully and modify labels state-by-state. This is an unworkable system that would destroy any semblance of a national product market. It endangers drug marketing and new drug development, and therefore the public's health.
State attorneys general are clearly salivating at the prospect of preserving and expanding their authority—47 of them filed a joint amici brief supporting the plaintiff.
If the plaintiff wins, there are going to be 50 separate requirements for drug approvals, with the FDA as just the 51st. In that case, it should be abolished.
Maureen Martin (firstname.lastname@example.com) is senior fellow for legal affairs at The Heartland Institute.


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From the Leah Garchik column in the San Francisco Chronicle. Jan 17, 2007:
"Nedra Ruiz, who went to the sold-out "Prairie Home Companion" show at the Opera House last weekend, says harrumph over host Garrison Keillor's assertion (twice) that Giuseppe Verdi wrote "Tosca.'' It was Puccini."
Mark C.
San Francisco, CA
Verdi helped Puccini write "Tosca" that's what I meant to say. They were on tour in San Francisco with Verdi's opera "Fresca" and Caruso was demanding something new so Puccini wrote "Bosco" and Verdi changed it to "Tosca" and there you are. (Or maybe I'm thinking of Monteverdi.) Anyway, it's not worth you worrying about, Mark. Opera fanatics are always going to argue about these minor points. Let's you and I take the high road and focus on beauty and truth, and let the scholars niggle as they will.
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verdi/puccini, sure but who played the great bone solo in the otherwise unremarkable "st louis blues" performance?
No matter what, That was a great show. Thank you Garrison for comming to San Francisco. I can not wait until you return. Ive traveled all the way to Milwalkee to see your show during one of the worst storm season last February. Ive now seen you in San Francisco. Next stop....The Fitzgerald Theater. See you there.
In light of the Verdi / Puccini dispute, I thought you might be interested to read Wikipedia's comments on Verdi's actual involvement with Puccini and Tosca. I learned this because of your comment, so thanks!
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosca:
"The original play [Tosca] by Victorien Sardou was produced in Paris in 1887 and seen by Puccini in Milan, in 1887, with Sarah Bernhardt as Tosca. Puccini immediately asked his editor Giulio Ricordi to buy Sardou's rights, but these were finally bought only in 1893 to be given to Alberto Franchetti, another composer. Illica wrote his libretto, and in October 1894, Franchetti, Ricordi, Illica and Giuseppe Verdi met Sardou to present him the libretto. Verdi was particularly fascinated by this tragedy, but he refused to compose music for it unless Sardou could come up with another ending.
After a few months Franchetti finally admitted he was not able to compose music for the work, so Giulio Ricordi asked Puccini to do it. Puccini was still offended and only Verdi's intercession convinced him to accept. He started working on it in 1896, after the completion of La Bohčme..."
....so there you go.
Michael Swanson, Fresno, CA....
...but still a Minnesotan
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