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Nets coach P.J. Carlesimo discusses the beginning of his career in basketball.
Go behind the scenes with Nets' General Manager Billy King during the trade deadline.
Brook Lopez finally getting the news many said he deserved with a nod to join the NBA All-Star Game.
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brett_firth needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 45 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
We need a clean, simple and high readable logo. It will be used on our company vehicles, jackets, shirts, etc...
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We need a nice, two color logo designed for use on our company assests (Chevy Colorado trucks, jackets, shirts, pens, notepads, business cards)
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We are a truck shuttle company. Our clients call us to pick up their transport trucks, we drive over in our company trucks then hitch them to the back of the transport truck and deliver it to our client.
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- we like the soho.ca logo, so something similar would be nice
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Saturday, February 6, 2010
Vowels and consonants
One reason people cling to the belief that syllables must have vowels is doubtless English orthography. Except for "rhythm", I can't off the top of my head think of any words that orthographically have a supposedly syllabic consonant (unless you want to count words like "icicle" that end with an orthographic vowel; feel free to post other examples in the comments if you find them). So in words like "butter", "bottle", and "button", where the second syllables contain a syllabic consonant, we still see a vowel in the written form (and presumably there was a vowel in the historical pronunciation).
Another reason is that we are taught, either explicitly or implicitly, that vowels are in some way the defining characteristic of a syllable. Many people are taught this in school, and become so dependent on orthography that some (native) speakers will even claim that the "th" sound in English (an interdental fricative) is a sequence of /t/ and /h/ (I swear I'm not making this up). However, orthography is always an imperfect clue to pronunciation, and English orthography is far from perfect, since its focus is on preserving the historical source of a word rather than transparently showing the pronunciation (NB: unlike many, I don't necessarily think that makes English orthography "worse" than a phonetically transparent orthography).
In English we have a limited number of syllabic consonants, viz., /n/, /m/, /l/, and /r/, i.e., sonorants. However, many other languages even use obstruents as syllabic. Berber and Bella Coola both utilize almost any consonant as a syllable nucleus; Bella Coola has entire vowelless sentences. What it comes down to is that there is no binary distinction between consonants and vowels; there is only the gradient sonority hierarchy, where sounds higher on the scale are more likely to be syllable nuclei, and sounds lower down are more likely to be syllable margins. For instance, within the five most common vowel quality distinctions, /i/, /e/, /a/, /o/, and /u/, /i/ and /u/ are classified as least sonorous, and are widely used (as /j/ and /w/) in syllabe margins, whereas /e/ and /o/ are more sonorous and rarely used as glides (as far as I know only in a few Papuan languages, and /o/ probably in Blackfoot), and /a/ is never a glide (unless perhaps /h/ is the consonantal version, an intriguing but questionable claim). For some languages, only the most sonorous sounds (vowels) are used as syllable nuclei, but other languages allow also the most sonorous consonants (sonorants) and others consonants lower yet (fricatives or even stops).
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- vp said...
One clue that it really is an /r/, and not a schwa plus /r/ sequence, or even an r-colored schwa: we get orthographic minimal pairs like "fur" and "fir" that are pronounced identically. This would be fine if they were clitics or unstressed syllables, where vowel reduction could neutralize both to schwa, but stressed "fur" and "fir" even in immaculate careful speech, are to my knowledge phonetically identical
I don't follow this argument. Why can't both "fur" and "fur" be phonemically /fər/?
Is there an implicit premise that schwa cannot be stressed?
- February 6, 2010 at 8:50 PM
- linguistlessons said...
Yes. I should have mentioned that schwa can only occur in unstressed syllables in English. Some have claimed stressed schwa in other languages (viz., Salishan), but I remain dubious of any claim of stressed schwa in any language.
- February 7, 2010 at 12:06 AM
- vp said...
schwa can only occur in unstressed syllables in English
In non-rhotic English accents like RP, there can be no doubt that the stressed vowel in a word such as "fur" in phonetically a lengthened schwa. For example, here is Wells in "Accents of English" vol. i, p. 137: "Phonetically, it [the vowel of "nurse"] is a relatively long unrounded mid central vocoid, [ə:]; in GenAm, though not in RP, it is r-coloured. Both the r-coloured and non-r-coloured vowel type are extremely uncommon as stressed syllabics in languages of the world other than English".
This Google Books link might work if we are lucky.
- February 7, 2010 at 2:00 AM
- Ryan Denzer-King said...
It's not a schwa, but rather as John Wells puts it "an ɜː (= strong mid central vowel)". Mid central, yes, but schwa, no. I'll see if I can find out a bit more about stressed schwas, because several languages are claimed to have them.
- February 7, 2010 at 3:53 PM
- vp said...
It's not a schwa, but rather as John Wells puts it "an ɜː (= strong mid central vowel)".
Well, there are two different definitions of schwa given at Wikipedia:
* "An unstressed and toneless neutral vowel sound in some languages, often but not necessarily a mid-central vowel. "
* "The mid-central vowel sound (rounded or unrounded) in the middle of the vowel chart, stressed or unstressed."
If you are using the first definition of schwa then, by definition, it can never be stressed, and it would be a waste of time to investigate the possibility of stressed schwa in any language.
I assumed that we were using the second definition of schwa, since that is the only one that seems to make sense in the context of the original post. In that case, schwa is the stressed vowel in RP NURSE. Wells confirms this by using the IPA symbol for lengthened schwa [ə:] when describing this vowel phonetically. He follows a tradition of using the symbol /ɜː/ rather than /ə:/ for the _phoneme_ of the NURSE vowel in order to avert the visual confusion that would result if there were two phonemes /ə/ and /ə:/ in the system. (This practice is not universal: I believe that Daniel Jones used /ə:/)
- February 7, 2010 at 6:51 PM
- JJH said...
For an example of stressed schwa in English (RP, not sure if you would hear this in AE), how about the contemptuous "The fool!" said with two equal stresses, the first with a high pitch and the second with a low pitch? I have heard this categorised as "stress without accent".
- May 4, 2010 at 3:57 AM
- linguistlessons said...
As an AE speaker, it's a bit hard for me not to get high pitch on "fool" rather than "the". However, even when I do manage it, stress is definitely on "fool", i.e., "the" has accent but not stress. I'd be interested in hearing a recording of an RP version.
- May 4, 2010 at 7:37 AM
- Rob said...
Welsh has stressed schwa, as do some northern british english accents
- May 6, 2010 at 12:39 AM
- Just us - Just me said...
If you're interested in syllabic consonants, try looking at Slavic languages, particularly South Slavic languages. Those languages have loads of them. Macedonian's orthography even respects that.
See the examples:
прв [pr̩v] (first)
'рчи [r̩tʃi] (snore
- May 27, 2010 at 9:27 AM
- vp said...
But the syllabic trills of the Slavic languages really are consonants phonetically.
The approximants used by most English speakers at the beginning of words like "Red" [ɹ~ɻ], "Wed" [w] and "Yes" [j] are from a purely phonetic point of view vowels, in that they do not result in any build up of pressure in the vocal tract, or cause any turbulence. They are considered consonants at the phonological level because of their non-syllabicity.
However, when similar sounds are used syllabically, as in the syllabic cores of "goose" [u] or "fleece" [i] or (N.American) "nurse"[ɚ], there is no reason, either phonological or phonetic, to consider them consonants.
- May 27, 2010 at 6:42 PM
- linguistlessons said...
However, I think there is a phonetic difference in oral constriction between /j/ and /i/. Impressionistically, I feel like the constriction is significantly more with the consonant versus the vowel.
- May 27, 2010 at 7:26 PM
- Just us - Just me said...
Well in the original post it says that many people refuse to believe in the existence of syllabic consonants. Was he just referring to the English language or in general?
I consider the Slavic syllabic consonants to be a more concrete proof of their existence than any case you can find in English. Afterall, they even regulated their spelling accordingly.
- May 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Just us - Just me said...
>>but I remain dubious of any claim of stressed schwa in any language.
There's stressed schwa in Romanian, my native language.
- May 28, 2010 at 9:48 AM


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Microsoft is down 4.5% this morning on the news that it's buying Nokia.
This Nokia deal is a dose of reality for any investor that got optimistic when Steve Ballmer announced he was leaving the company.
Instead of creating a simpler company that focuses on the enterprise like everyone wants, Microsoft seems poised to become an even bigger, more complicated company with more money-losing consumer businesses.
Xbox barely makes any money. Windows Phone is a money loser. Bing is a money loser. Consumer PCs are in decline (though they make lots of money).
Meanwhile, Office and Servers & Tools are growing, profitable businesses.
The Nokia deal isn't terrible. Microsoft is spending ~$7 billion to acquire its smartphone partner. Odds are that Nokia was going out of business if Microsoft hadn't stepped in. And that $7 billion was just going to be sitting around, since Microsoft wasn't bringing offshore cash back home for tax reasons.
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peterkua necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 4 diseños de 2 diseñadores freelance.
LeapHop.com is an award-winning e-learning company that uses artificial intelligence (virtual tutor) and instant corrective lessons that improves a child's English. We are a fun-filled website that has quizzes, a forum for kids to ask just about anything and a free-style essay module for kids to post their essays and receive comments and corrections from the online community.
Kids aged 8-15 around the world who are non-native English speakers
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Centaurs are a unique breed of intelligent creatures that roam the wilds of Eternia. The unmistakable creatures have the upper torso, arms, and head of a humanoid but the lower body is that of a large horse. Both human and equine physiques are extremely muscled. Centaurans live in close knit tribes and are noted for their unique abilities in combat, including their legendary archery skills. While centaurs are usually found in dense woodland areas such as the Evergreen Forest, there tribes have been known to populate both the Light and Dark hemispheres of Eternia.
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The June 9 date at Scope was part of a lengthy itinerary announced this morning by the promoter LiveNation for a tour being billed as "The Main Event." Ticket prices haven't been announced, but they will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31.
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Lookingglass Theatre to Present DEATH TAX, 9/2-10/12
Kicking off its 27th Season, Lookingglass Theatre Company presents Death Tax, by Lucas Hnath, and directed by Ensemble Member Heidi Stillman. Death Tax runs September 2, 2014 - October 12, 2014 at Lookingglass Theatre Company, located inside Chicago's historic Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave. at Pearson. The Press Opening is Friday, September 12, 2014 at 7:30 p.m..
The cast includes: Ensemble members J. Nicole Brooks and Raymond Fox, Artistic Associate Louise Lamson, and Tony Award-winner Deanna Dunagan.
How much would you pay to stay alive? As her health deteriorates, Maxine is convinced her daughter is paying Nurse Tina to "nudge" her into the grave before the new estate tax become law. So Maxine proposes a deal of her own, and the wild ride begins, delivering us, as the title suggests, straight to the intersection of America's two inevitables. Darkly comedic, treacherously suspenseful, engaging and provocative.
Lucas Hnath (Playwright) became a resident playwright at New Dramatists in 2011, and his work has been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, University of Miami, The Culture Project, Target Margin and Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Additionally, his plays have been developed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and Cleveland Public Theatre. He has enjoyed playwrighting residencies with The Royal Court Theatre and 24Seven Lab. He is a two-time winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant for his feature-length screenplays: "The Painting, the Machine and the Apple" and "Still Life." He is also a recipient of an EST/Sloan Project commission for his play, Isaac's Eye. Lucas received both his BFA and MFA from NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing and is a lecturer in NYU's Expository Writing Program.
Heidi Stillman (Director) most recently adapted and directed The North China Lover. She has both written and directed for Lookingglass: Cascabel, in collaboration with Tony Hernandez and Rick Bayless; Hephaestus, in collaboration with Tony Hernandez; The Brothers Karamazov (2009 Raven award); Hard Times (5 Jeff awards including director, new work, and production; also produced at the Arden in Philadelphia); The Master and Margarita (Jeff nominated). Additional writing credits with Lookingglass: The Last Act of Lilka Kadison with Nicola Behrman, David Kersnar, Abbie Phillips and Andy White; The Old Curiosity Shop with Laura Eason and Raymond Fox (Jeff award for adaptation), and The Baron in the Trees with Larry DiStasi (Jeff nominated). Directing work with Lookingglass includes Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Trust, The Wooden Breeks, and Hillbilly Antigone. Heidi's adaptation of The Book Thief premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in 2012. Additionally, Heidi has staged Laura Eason's Around the World in 80 Days at Kansas City Repertory, and Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights at Berkeley Repertory. She lives in Chicago with her husband and her eleven year olds, Sadie and Jude.
J. Nicole Brooks (Tina) makes her return to the Lookingglass Theatre Company stage, where she last appeared as Fedra in Fedra: Queen of Haiti. Brooks is an award winning actor, director, blogger and scribe whose adventures in storytelling have taken her to China, Hungary, England, Los Angeles and now Brooklyn. Noted acting credits include Nina in Immediate Family (Goodman Theatre/ Phylicia Rashad director). As an author she penned Black Diamond: The Years The Locusts Have Eaten, Fedra, Shotgun Harriet and the upcoming untitled Yuri Kochiyama project. Directing credits include Mr. Rickey Calls A Meeting (Lookingglass), and Sex With Strangers (2nd Stage; assistant director to David Schwimmer).
Deanna Dunagan (Maxine) appeared at Lookingglass in last year's The North China Lover. Her work in August: Osage County in Chicago, New York, London and Sydney, garnered Jeff and Tony Awards and an Oliver nomination. Other Chicago performances: Other Desert Cities (Goodman); A Little Night Music (Writers' Theatre); James Joyce's The Dead (Court Theatre - Jeff Award); and A Delicate Balance (Remy Bumppo - After Dark Award). She has a leading role in the M. Night Shyamalan film, "Sundowning" to be released in 2015, and has appeared on television in recurring roles in "Prison Break" and "Unforgettable," and in guest starring roles on "House of Cards," "Private Practice," and "Law & Order" among others.
Raymond Fox (Todd) recently appeared in The Little Prince. His numerous additional Lookingglass credits include Metamorphoses, a play he has performed across the country including its Off Broadway and Broadway productions (Second Stage and Circle in the Square). Additional regional credits: TimeLine Theatre (Equity Jeff Award Supporting Actor - Play - for Blood and Gifts), Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Remy Bumppo, Tectonic Theatre Project/About Face Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Next Theatre, First Folio, Meadow Brook Theatre, Arden Theatre, Arena Stage, Mark Taper Forum, McCarter Theatre, Berkeley Rep., Seattle Rep., American Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, and Canada's Stratford Festival. Mr. Fox is a graduate of Northwestern University and the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard University.
Louise Lamson (Daughter) is an Artistic Associate of Lookingglass Theatre where she has been seen in The Idiot; Hard Times; The Secret in the Wings; The Wooden Breeks; Icarus (at the Getty Villa, L.A.); The Brothers Karamazov; Our Town; The Arabian Nights; Ethan Frome; Metamorphoses and most recently The Little Prince. Some other Chicago credits include: About Face Theatre's Bash (After Dark award and Jeff nomination); The Odyssey (Goodman); and The Adventures of Herculina (Next Theatre). New York credits include: Metamorphoses (Second Stage and Broadway) and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage). Louise is a graduate of Northwestern University.
The show runs in previews September 2 - 10, 2014 with a press opening slated for Friday, September 12, 2014 at 7:30 PM. The regular run continues September 13 - October 12, 2014, playing Tuesdays: 7:30 p.m. (Sept. 2 only); Wednesdays: 7:30 p.m.; Thursdays: 3:00 p.m. (Sept. 18, Oct. 2 and 9 only) and 7:30 p.m. (except Sept. 11); Fridays: 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays: 3:00 p.m. (except Sept. 6) and 7:30 p.m.; and Sundays: 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. (except Sept. 7 and 21, Oct. 5). Touch tour/Audio described performance, October 5 at 3pm; Open captioned performance, September 28 at 3pm. Partial support for open captioning provided by Theatre Development Fund.
Lookingglass Theatre Company is located inside Chicago's historic Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave. at Pearson. Previews are $25 - $40; Regular Run is $40 - $65. A limited number of student tickets are available the day of the show for $20 with valid student ID. Groups of 10 or more patrons save up to 20%. Call the box office for details. Box Office: Buy online at www.lookingglasstheatre.org or by phone at (312) 337-0665. The Lookingglass box office is located at Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave.
About Lookingglass Theatre Company: Inventive. Collaborative. Transformative. Lookingglass Theatre Company, recipient of the 2011 Regional Theatre Tony Award, was founded in 1988 by eight Northwestern University students. Now in its 26th season, Lookingglass is home to a multi-disciplined ensemble of artists who create story-centered theatrical work that is physical, aurally rich and visually metaphoric. The Company has staged 61 world premieres, received 101 Joseph Jefferson awards and nominations, and work premiered at Lookingglass has been produced in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, Berkeley, Philadelphia, Princeton, Hartford, Kansas City, Washington D.C., and St. Louis. Lookingglass original scripts have been produced across the United States.
The Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago's landmark Water Tower Water Works opened in June 2003. In addition to developing and presenting ensemble work, Lookingglass Education and Community programs encourage creativity, teamwork and confidence with thousands of community members each year.
Lookingglass Theatre Company continues to expand its artistic, financial and institutional boundaries under the guidance of Artistic Director Andrew White, Executive Director Rachel Kraft, Producing Artistic Director Philip R. Smith, Artistic Director of New Work Heidi Stillman, a 24-member artistic ensemble, 15 artistic associates, 11 production affiliates, an administrative staff and a dedicated board of directors led by Chairman Joe Brady of Jones Lang LaSalle and President John McGowan of Northern Trust Chicago. For more information, visit lookingglasstheatre.org.


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Press Release
"Operation False Charity" Law Enforcement Sweep
May 20, 2009
(Anchorage, AK). Acting Attorney General Richard Svobodny, along with the Federal Trade Commission and other law enforcers in at least 46 states, today announced "Operation False Charity," a nationwide, federal-state crackdown on fraudulent charities and charitable solicitors claiming to help police, firefighters, and veterans. Federal and state agencies will prosecute 60 law enforcement actions against fundraising companies, nonprofits, and individuals. The FTC and state agencies also released new education materials to help consumers recognize and avoid charitable solicitation fraud.
FTC Enforcement Actions
The FTC cases announced today include actions against defendants who allegedly tricked consumers into giving by claiming they were affiliated with law enforcement or veterans groups or misleading consumers about how much of the money would go to those groups. According to the FTC, the defendants used legitimate-sounding names to give their sham organizations a veneer of credibility. Their real goal, however, was to trick consumers into contributing money that the defendants used overwhelmingly to support themselves and their fundraisers.
Participating States
State officials participating in the sweep include the Attorneys General of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Also participating were other state agencies that register and sometimes regulate charities, including the Secretaries of State of Colorado, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Washington, as well as the Georgia Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs, the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation, and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Consumer Education
The FTC today issued a consumer alert providing tips about charities that solicit donations on behalf of veterans and military families. According to the alert, which can be found on the FTC Web site at www.ftc.gov/charityfraud, while many legitimate charities are soliciting donations to support the nation's military veterans, not all "charities" are legitimate. Some are operators whose only purpose is to make money for themselves. Others are paid fundraisers whose fees can use up most of the consumer's donation.
The new alert, "Supporting the Troops: When Charities Solicit Donations on Behalf of Vets and Military Families," offers the following tips to help consumers ensure that their donations go to a legitimate charity. Many of these tips apply to other charitable giving as well.
- Recognize that the words "veterans" or "military families" in an organization's name do not necessarily mean that veterans or the families of active-duty personnel will benefit from your donation.
- Donate to charities with a track record and a history. Charities that spring up overnight may disappear just as quickly.
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- Check out an organization before donating. Some phony charities use names, seals and logos that look or sound like those of respected, legitimate organizations.
- Call the office that regulates charitable organizations in your state to see whether the charity or fundraising organization is required to register in your state. In Alaska, the information is available at www.law.alaska.gov/consumer.
- Do not send or give cash donations. For security and tax record purposes, it is best to pay by check made payable to the charity.
- Be wary of promises of guaranteed sweepstakes winnings in exchange for a contribution. You never have to give a donation to be eligible to win a sweepstakes.
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- www.law.alaska.gov/consumer - for Alaska's charity registry
- www.guidestar.org - Guidestar
- www.bbb.org/us/charity/ - Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance
- www.charitynavigator.org - CharityNavigator
- www.charitywatch.org - American Institute of Philanthropy
- www.ftc.gov/charityfraud - Federal Trade Commission
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Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Lemon Surpise Pudding
The saddest day of my parents' lives was the day that I dropped out of Westminster School's Oxbridge preparation classes. I didn't really understand what was going on and I wasn't sure if I wanted three more years of not understanding what was going on. But my parents were very depressed about it: out of four daughters, they had only managed to hammer one measly one, my eldest sister, into the city of dreaming spires. And even then she got in second time around and had the temerity to neither marry a Duke nor get a First. And she read physics the square, beaky wonk.
I like to tell myself that it's not that I was too stupid to go to Oxford, it's that I was too lazy. But the fact is that I was too stupid AND too lazy. I got into Westminster to do my A Levels somehow - clerical error? - and when I was there I had to work all the time to keep up. And I mean all the time. I know for a fact that my friend Izzy used to go to the pub after school every day for a minimum of three hours - including Saturdays - and she got straight As and "Excellent" in red pen on all her homework. I sometimes woke up early before school to work a bit harder and I only got 2As and a B. Teachers would quite often say "How are you?" to me. It's tragic really.
Mostly for my parents, because my Dad was an academic and a tutor at Balliol, which is where young Communist PPE students go to wake up at 5am, perform 80 star jumps in the quad while reciting the Greek alphabet backwards, before departing for the library for the rest of the day for some light recreational long division. They can do this because they have plenty of free time, having written all of the current term's essays in the previous vac.
(I ought to point out that my father isn't a Communist anymore, although he remains an expert on Karl Marx. His book, "Karl Marx: His Theory and Its Context" is the only book you'll ever need to read on the subject. Some might say the only book you'll ever need full stop.) Thus, my academic dimness was an unprecedented blow.
It was also tragic for my mother, because it meant that I definitely wasn't going to marry a Duke - although marrying someone who is occasionally on telly runs a close second I think. Imagine Mrs Bennett from Pride and Prejudice in a pair of pink Crocs and you've got my mother.
So my point is that despite this avalanche of parental disappointment, I really try not to be bitter and chippy about NOT ONLY having fallen at the first Oxford hurdle, but then going on to spazz up my degree at Bristol University.
(Of the two people who did worse than me in my graduating year, one got glandular fever half way through the second year and only turned in 60% of her essays and the other went completely fucking mad before finals and was sectioned by the Bristol Royal Infirmary.)
But I have to admit that whenever I am able to do something better than someone who went to Oxford, a little piece of me rejoices. My husband went to Oxford and got a First - despite speaking almost exclusively in swear words, refusing to shave and dressing like a slobby graphic designer - and whenever I outsmart him, I internally give myself a little high-five.
For example: does he know all the words to 'Holiday' by Dizzee Rascal? No. Do I? Yes. *high five*
Can he do the whole talky-bit from the A-Team's opening credits in a convincing American accent? No. Can I? Yes. *high five*
And so it is with this Lemon Surprise Pudding.
An old friend emailed me, challenging me to make it as it had not worked out for her. Normally I don't make lemon puddings because I was traumatised by one as a child. But, you see, my friend went to Oxford - and the opportunity to DBTSWWTO (Do Better Than Someone Who Went To Oxford) was irresistable. Especially as she said that she would "weep" if it worked out first time for me. Oxford people: very competitive, you see.
I also ought to point out that I am a massive shitbag because I promised that if it did work out first time for me I wouldn't tell anyone. But it turns out that I LIED!!!!!! Redbrickers: prone to lying and gloating.
So the idea with a Lemon Surprise Pudding is that you have a sort of fluffy spongy top that you cut through to reveal a pool of lemon sauce. That's the surprise. I was expecting to have to source Semtex from somewhere, but cooking just isn't that exciting.
The things that can go wrong with this are:
a) You end up with a vaguely wet scrambled-eggy mess, which means your oven is on too high. This is quite common with modern ovens - I know that mine sets fire to pretty much anything I try to cook, so I often crank the temperature knob down half a centimetre if I'm cooking something sensitive.
b) You get the light meringue-y sponge bit on top but a thick lemon curd at the bottom rather than a lemon sauce. This is still very delicious, but not quite echt. This happens because you haven't used the right pie dish. For this recipe, you need to use a DEEP 1.5litre basin, not a shallow basin. It really does make a difference.
So here we go:
50g butter
110g caster sugar
rind and juice of 2 lemons
2 eggs, separated
50g sifted SELF-RAISING flour (might burn me once - won't let you burn me twice)
150ml milk
1 Pre-heat the oven to 180C OR if you have a very hot mega turbo fan oven, to about 175-170C and butter your 1.5pint/850ml deep baking dish
2 Beat the butter, sugar and lemon rind together until it's all combined. It won't go light and fluffy because there's too much sugar in it
3 Beat in the egg yolks a little at a time - perhaps a teaspoon each go.
4 Fold in the flour and alternate with the milk and the lemon juice - about a tablespoon each every go. The mixture will curdle and go gross - don't worry.
5 Whisk the egg whites to the soft peak stage and then fold in.
6 Bake in the MIDDLE of the oven for 40 mins.
If only school had been this easy.
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This post is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. And I say that as a VERY competitive Oxford person. (Although of course I harbour the fantasy that I am the most easy-going person in the world and not perfectionist at all, oh no.)ReplyDelete
Tania! Thank you very much. I'm blushing. Come again soon. xReplyDelete
I've just discovered your blog this week (after your husband mentioned in a review that you had one) and I'm loving it--going back through the archives to try to catch up. I plan to try some of your recipes this weekend--the only thing with which I struggle is all of your measurements are in metric (which, of course, we don't use here in good ol' Missouri, USA). Going to buy some of those scales that measure in grams and give it a go, though.ReplyDelete
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Great to have you here. Yes I'm sorry about the measurements thing - if it's any consolation, I have the same trouble cooking anything out of Thomas Keller's ad hoc cookbook. What is all this "stick" and "cup" thing about?
Come again soon xx
My mum used to make this for me when I was little! She used to do it in the oven with the main dish inside another with water in it - I think it keeps the bottom bit liquid? I have no idea. Anyway, I describe it here. Sorry about the crap photo.ReplyDelete
- LauraB10 June 2010 at 20:49
I LOVE your blog. I secretly read it in little snatches in the staff room in between my negotiations/lessons/discussions about my tattoo with the rudeboys and girls of W10 and 12 while slurping very hot, weak Earl Grey tea. It is so excellent that every day I feel thrilled that I know you + you have almost inspired me to cook.ReplyDelete
Lolly B! How great to have you here. Casual readers of this blog will not understand the significance of "LauraB" but she is an old friend from Westminster. Thanks for the Facebook bigup. I am so impressed that you are a teacher, I would cry 10 times a day if I had to teach teenagers.ReplyDelete
As a huge fan of your husband, I've been dying to see what the Mrs.Coren is like. I have to say you are MUCH funnier than he is...so you can add that to your DBTSWWTO list. I'm also a wonky American who cringes at the measurements, but I will be trying many recipes and will continue to read your very entertaining blog.ReplyDelete
Oh no! Poor Giles. Funny in a different way maybe.ReplyDelete
Aha so you are an American. If you could explain what cups and sticks are that would be very helpful. They seem to mean different quantities for different things - like a cup of flour is different from a cup of sugar?!
And a stick of butter?!
Or is that not right. I despair. It stops me from cooking things from American websites, which is a real shame.
After doing much research on "cups" I've come to the conclusion that it's a very retarded system. It's one based on volume and not weight, so a cup of sugar weighs much more than a cup of flour - this sounds like that riddle of which weighs more a pound of bricks or a pound of eggs...I digress!ReplyDelete
I DO know that a stick of butter is 8 US tablespoons, but I don't know how that differs from a UK tablespoon. Logic would follow that since we're a fatty country that our tablespoons are larger? This is ever so complicated.
To forgo math (eurgh) I think I shall follow with the lovely lady up top who said she is going to buy a scale that measures in grams. Voila! Problem solved. For me at any rate, for you I found this handy chart you might find useful when trying American recipes! http://www.recipegoldmine.com/kitchart/kitchart2.html
Also, if you want to spend time doing math apparently the easiest way is to find out how many ounces your ingredient is and multiply by 28.34. Mmm math and cake!
- Harriet25 January 2011 at 14:56
As a square, beaky wonk, I applaud the American system of cups. A cup is 8 fluid ounces. Half a cup is 4 fl oz. So find your measuring jug and fill it up with sugar/ flour/ breadcrumbs/ strawberry jam/ whatever, and throw your scales away forever. Love your blog in spite of the insults. Harriet xReplyDelete
Oh god! What are you doing here? I blithely assume that my family does not read this. *Hyperventilate*. Although Flossie did once and took such umbrage she didn't speak to me for about a fortnight. Oversensitive.ReplyDelete
That DOES seem to make sense about the American measurements thing.
We are having ginger cake tomorrow for tea, see you quarter to four-ish. x
Well fancy my surprise when I was sitting quietly in the Balliol library reading cookery blogs in a desperate attempt to avoid the work that I *didn't* do over the vac and came upon this post. As a procrastinatory finalist I can only assume the section about how I should be doing star jumps while reciting Homer or whatever is the universe's way of telling me to do some bloody work. But I'm not going to, I'm going to keep trying to eat lychees surreptitiously out of a paper bag instead. Clearly things have slipped since your father's day.ReplyDelete
(This blog is the best procrastination of all, by the way - you might be single-handedly responsible for my third class degree, in which case I assume I can take some legal action)Replies
You can TRY taking legal action but my dad has, since his retirement, taken a great interest in the law. something that should make everyone very afraid.Delete
Best of luck with your finals. Be aware that this is the time in your life about which you will have more recurring nightmares, well into your 50s, than any other.


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Danielle and Nate are happier than ever. But merely a few minutes after their engagement tragedy strikes. The Cullens save them just in time but now they have a new life to adjust to. How will this affect their human dreams? What will they be able to leave behind? And what is in store for their neverending future? K+, but I just made it Teen. CHAPTER 2 IS NOW UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"Yes, Nate! The answer is yes!"
I could hardly contain my enthusiasm as he picked me up and kissed me, obviously overjoyed as well. As I admired my ring in the light of the sunset, it was so beautiful. It was the perfect size (I didn't like very big gems for jewelry) and the way the light hit it made it look like a star shining in the darkening sky.
"Thank you, I love you." he simply said. We were walking through the rose garden on Merritt Avenue and looking over at the lake across the road, which was glistening orange and pink with the setting sun.
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By Monsignor Robert J. Panke
I love being a priest. When I shared this fact in a homily a few years back on a college campus, a young man came to me after Mass and told me he had never heard that from a priest. He had no idea priests were happy. He respected the sacrifices of priests, was grateful for the ministry they provided, but the thought of priests as happy never entered his mind. I am happy to report that most priests do experience a great deal of joy in their life amidst the sacrifices. Priests live a life in deep relationship with God and in service to the people they serve. It is in this receiving from God and the gift of self that one finds the joy that no material thing in the world can give.
I experienced this truth firsthand in my life. I was blessed to have been raised in a strong Catholic family, going to public schools until attending the Catholic University of America. After graduating, my life on paper looked pretty good. I was working in Chicago, had a great apartment, and good friends. But I was experiencing an inner lack of joy and could not figure out why. I believed in God, but my faith had waned considerably. It was a pilgrimage to a Marian shrine in Europe that changed my life. I realized the one thing missing in my life was the most important relationship one can have: God was missing me, and without knowing it, I was missing him.
I was pretty much living for myself at that time in my life, and the empty feeling that came from my selfishness was replaced by the generous love of our Lord. God gave me a taste of the happiness and peace that comes from living a life centered on him and others and not on self, and so I pursued that path, which eventually led to the priesthood. People often ask why I chose the priesthood, and I reply with great confidence that I did not choose the priesthood, God chose it for me. It is God who calls the priest through an interior desire, as he did the early apostles, and I am convinced that following the will of God brings one the greatest happiness and freedom.
Once I remember rushing to the hospital late one evening to anoint a woman who was about to die. Just moments before, she was happily having dinner with her family. These are the difficult moments in life that our Lord very frequently asks the priest to enter. After reassuring the family of God's deep love for her and reminding them of the promise of eternal life and a great family reunion in heaven that is sure to take place if we trust in God, her husband remarked, "Thanks for bringing Christ to us." It is in these moments that I realize why God called me to this life of sacrifice, to bring Christ to the world. There are so many moments when the priest brings Jesus to the people through teaching, service, and the sacraments. It is hard to explain the deep joy and satisfaction that one receives in the priesthood but it is evident to me and to the overwhelming majority of priests who are good and faithful in their vocation. I love being a priest.
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It's true. We are THOSE parents and darn proud of it!
I have always been fascinated by the parents of student athletes and now that I am one of them I understand so much more. Many of the coaches I work with tell me about the wonderful things their parents do for the program and believe me, most of them are not sexy…just a great way for them to save money and to save time.
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a Canisius College Women's Soccer game on the campus of Fairfield University. We arrived on campus Friday evening to attend his swim meet at the University of Connecticut the next day. This was the first time a Canisius event occurred on campus while I was there for a swim meet since my son started there in 2008.
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I introduced myself as a member of the Canisius athletic staff and enjoyed meeting nice folks who share the student athlete parent bond. We talked about the competition in the conference and the frequency of the games. We compared notes on distance traveled and they commended me for traveling so far each week for our son's meets.
My favorite conversation was with a mom who wanted to let me know how much easier it was to be the parent of a swimmer rather than one of an outdoor sport. She supposed it was much easier to sit in a natatorium than to battle the elements. She thought it more comfortable to be indoors and while she is mostly correct she does not understand how oppressive the heat can be in a pool. When you are cold you can add layers but when you are in the pool and sweating from the high heat and humidity you cannot take off your skin.
My answer was simple. I gave her the weather issue and agreed we have it easier to be indoors. But I left her with a thought. If their child was a starter or even a top layer substitute they watched them play for 1-1 ½ hours in a game that lasts about 2 hours total start to finish. But with swimming you could attend a meet which lasts 3-4 hours (including diving but that's another blog) and your child could potentially compete less than a minute if they are a sprinter. Whoosh, they are done!
If this seems like complaining, I'm not. Actually I'm honored to be able to attend so many meets and grateful for the time and means to do it.
This week it will be at least 20 hours…but he may swim a longer event so maybe it will be 4 ½ minutes!
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(Reuters) - Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano will replace the injured Peter Hanson in the Continental Europe team for this week's Seve Trophy near Paris, the European Tour announced on Monday.
Swede Hanson has withdrawn from the biennial contest against Britain and Ireland at St-Nom-La Breteche Golf Club due to a back injury that has affected him for most of the season.
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Fernandez-Castano, who will be making his third appearance in the contest, said: "I really enjoyed the two previous contests I played and it is important to support a tournament with Seve's name on it, not only because of what he did for Spanish golf, but for what he did for the game in Europe and the European Tour as a whole.
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Fernandez-Castano is joined by his fellow Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez, Danish duo Thomas Bjorn and Thorbjorn Olesen, Frenchman Gregory Bourdy, Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts, Finland's Mikko Ilonen Dutchman Joost Luiten, and the Italian pair of Matteo Manassero and Francesco Molinari.
They will take on a Britain and Ireland team captained by Sam Torrance and featuring five Englishmen; Paul Casey, Tommy Fleetwood, Simon Khan, David Lynn and Chris Wood, four Scotsmen; Stephen Gallacher, Scott Jamieson, Paul Lawrie, and Marc Warren, and Welshman Jamie Donaldson.
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They tested apps from Gmail, H&R Block, Newegg, WebMD, Chase Bank, Hotels.com and Amazon.
"Changes in the shared memory side channel allow an attacker to infer if there is an activity transition going on in the foreground," researcher Zhiyun Qian, an assistant professor at the University of California at Riverside, told LinuxInsider.
"This is a design choice by modern OSes ... . The same attack may work as well [on other mobile OSes]," he added.
Details of the Flaw
When a new screen or window is shown, the GUI framework allocates a fixed amount of memory in the shared memory register that's proportional to the size of the screen, Qian said. This memory is allocated inside the app process and shared with a separate window compositor process.
Shared memory is commonly adopted by window managers to receive window changes or updates from running applications. This gives rise to the side channel.
When a user downloads a malicious app, the shared memory lets attackers steal information such as login credentials, and obtain sensitive camera images such as photos of personal checks sent through banking apps.
How the Attack Works
The researchers first built a UI state machine based on UI state signatures constructed online.
In real time, they inferred UI states -- called "activities" in Android -- from an unprivileged background app.
They then exploited the designed functionality that allows UI preemption, commonly used by alarm or reminder apps on Android, to break the GUI integrity.
"This is akin to a combination of other well-known flaws such as the Trojan Horse approach," Al Hilwa, a program director at IDC, told LinuxInsider.
Trojan Horses capture user data with a decoy UI before error messages are put out, and the real app is brought up once the data is stolen. However, in the researchers' attack, "the real app is used but another app is capturing the data, then throwing out an error message," Hilwa said.
The findings put paid to the common notion that downloaded apps cannot interfere with each other.
The Killing Fields
The researchers achieved success rates for their attacks of 92 percent for the Gmail and H&R Block apps; 86 percent for Newegg's app; 85 percent for the WebMD app; and 83 percent for the Chase Bank and Hotels.com apps.
"We will shut down the vulnerability on Android first, followed by iOS," James Wu, CTO and COO of Newegg North America, told LinuxInsider. He expects these fixes to be in place by next week.
"At this time, there is no indication that any H&R Block client data has been compromised as a result of this vulnerability," said company spokesperson Gene King.
"H&R Block takes privacy and security very seriously, and we are in contact with appropriate parties to address these reports," he told LinuxInsider.
The researchers had not yet notified Google of the flaw, UCR's Qian said.
On Responsibility and Defense
As for fixing the flaw, Newegg's Wu said, "everyone is responsible -- the OS makers, app developers and phone users."
The researchers "did a good job at pointing out and educating everyone about a possible vulnerability," he continued. "Now it is up to all of us to do something about it."
OS vendors could eliminate the shared memory side channel, Qian suggested, although that could impact backward compatibility. Or they could redesign the GUI framework to avoid frequently allocating and deallocating memory, instead preallocating double the size of the memory. That approach would increase memory consumption, though.
There are "not always perfect solutions," Qian admitted, noting that each imposes its own penalties.


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Long-term survivors of cancer that developed in adulthood are at increased risk of experiencing serious psychological distress, according to a report in the July 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
The estimated 12 million cancer survivors in the United States represent approximately 4 percent of the population, according to background information in the article. "The number of cancer survivors has steadily increased over the last three decades and is expected to continue to increase with the implementation of improved cancer screening, the adoption of more efficacious cancer treatment and the aging of the population," the authors write. "As more individuals survive cancer, it is important to understand how cancer and cancer therapies affect long-term quality of life and psychological adjustment."
Karen E. Hoffman, M.D., M.H.Sc., of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, and colleagues studied participants in the National Health Interview Survey, a cross-sectional in-person survey conducted annually by the U.S. Census Bureau. Participants in the 2002 to 2006 surveys were asked questions about their history of cancer and assessed using a scale of serious psychological distress. The researchers compared the responses of 4,636 individuals who had survived five years or longer following the diagnosis of an adult-onset cancer with those of 122,220 individuals who had never had cancer.
A total of 5.6 percent of cancer survivors screened positive for severe psychological distress within the previous 30 days, compared with 3 percent of those without cancer. "After adjustment for other clinical and sociodemographic variables, long-term survivors who were younger, were unmarried, had less than a high school education, were uninsured, had more comorbidities or had difficulty performing instrumental activities of daily living were more likely to experience serious psychological distress," the authors write.
A history of cancer may affect current mental health in several ways, the authors note. "Cancer diagnosis and treatment can produce delayed detrimental effects on physical health and functioning such as secondary cancers, cardiac dysfunction, lung dysfunction, infertility, neurological complications and neurocognitive dysfunction," they write. "A cancer history can also affect social adaptation, employment opportunities and insurance coverage. Adjusting to these functional and life limitations may create long-term psychological stress."
A total of 9 percent of long-term cancer survivors and 6 percent of individuals without cancer reported seeing or talking to a mental health professional within the previous 12 months. One-third of survivors with serious psychological distress reported using mental health services, whereas 18 percent said they could not afford mental health care during the previous year.
"Because long-term survivors may not be seen by oncologists as frequently as they were during treatment, or at all, the increased risk of serious psychological distress and the need to screen for serious psychological distress should be communicated to primary care physicians and other care providers," the authors conclude. "Given that cancer survivors with more chronic medical conditions tended to be those most at risk for psychological distress in this study, the findings also underscore the need to integrate medical and behavioral health care for survivors. Specifically, cancer survivorship clinics may benefit from having mental health providers on staff for a multidisciplinary approach to the care of these patients."


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Who Am I
A Memoir
Pete Townshend
Harper: 544 pp., $32.50
Pete Townshend has always been rock 'n' roll's reluctant warrior.
The driving force behind the legendary band the Who, Townshend revolutionized rock with his guitar and pen. He wrote numerous anthems, including "My Generation," "See Me, Feel Me," "Baba O' Reilly" and "Won't Get Fooled Again," and, when he wasn't smashing guitars, embraced his role as the thinking man's rock star.
At the same time, Townshend spent much of his life offstage trying to avoid all that came with his fame and fortune. While his bandmates — particularly the late Keith Moon and John Entwistle — enjoyed (and ultimately died from) sex, drugs and other excesses, Townshend sought out a spiritual path, only to fall short time and time again.
In "Who I Am," Townshend's long-awaited, deeply introspective memoir, he lays out his struggles with success, fidelity and fame. He pulls few punches in this exhaustingly detailed read, even though it doesn't always paint him in the most flattering light. Like many alcoholics, he's an egomaniac with an inferiority complex. "Artistic grandiosity" coupled with "desperately low self-regard" is how he prefers to describe it.
It's those character traits, of course, that drove him to create groundbreaking music and take rock far beyond two-minute songs about cars, girls and surfing. It's also what led him to constantly question his skills, success and place in the world.
Townshend traces his insecurities back to his childhood. Raised in post-World War II London by two hard-drinking musicians with marital issues, Townshend was sent to live with his deranged grandmother at age 6, and the scars are still visible.
"She was a perfect wicked witch, even occasionally threatening me with gypsy curses," Townshend writes. He details being beaten and tormented by her and hints at even darker abuse.
Although he eventually returned to his parents, the damage was done. Townshend recalls that as a child he was most secure "in a gang of boys, protected by a dominant male."
Perhaps he was foreshadowing his own role in the Who. He wrote the hits, but on stage it was tough-guy lead singer Roger Daltrey who brought the words to life. When the Who started to hit it big, Townshend's self-doubt about his work and desire to do something groundbreaking grew. "I often felt that as a performing artist I was undervalued. ... I wanted to be serious about what I did, and wanted my work — including smashing guitars in concert — to be regarded as part of a passionate commitment to an evolving stagecraft."
He got all that with "Tommy," the band's acclaimed rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind pinball champ who becomes a spiritual leader. "Tommy," which was inspired in large part by Townshend's painful youth, not only made the Who rich, it gave him the confidence to push the boundaries of music further with the band's next two albums, "Who's Next" and "Quadrophenia."
Instead of enjoying his hard-earned success, Townshend often felt artistically trapped by the demands of feeding the machine that was the Who. He had long railed against hard drugs and tried to play the part of good family man. But in the end he turned to drink, drugs and women to escape his self-imposed hell, which shattered his marriage and nearly cost him his life.
To his credit and the reader's benefit, Townshend doesn't gloss over any of the inconsistencies in his life. He also spells out how he ended up getting arrested for suspicion of downloading child pornography (Townshend was cleared of possession but did receive a caution for visiting such a site, which he has said he did as part of research having to do with credit card companies and banks turning a blind eye to child porn).
Ultimately, "Who I Am" may be a disappointment to hard core Who fans, since Townshend doesn't spend a lot of time on glory stories from the Who's heyday, and his stint as an editor at publisher Faber & Faber is not likely to serve as much of a substitute. Nor does he probe as deeply as one might hope into his love-hate relationship with Daltrey or his friendship with Moon and Entwistle.
"Who I Am" often reads like a somewhat unorganized (albeit colorful) diary dump. For example, on the very same page that he details a sordid story of being set up by Moon and Entwistle with a groupie who had gonorrhea, he matter-of-factly tells of marrying his long-suffering now-ex-wife Karen.
There is also an excessive amount of name-dropping. Any memoir from a famous rock star will have its fair share of big names, but mentioning that George Clooney waved to him at the Sunset Marquis seems superfluous.
In "Who Are You," the band's last great song, Townshend wrote: "I spit out like a sewer hole yet still receive your kiss. How can I measure up to anyone now after such a love as this?" After 500 pages, readers may be wondering the same thing.


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Permits to carry in Minnesota require the individual requesting the permit to attend a gun safety class taught by a qualified instructor before the Sheriff's Department would issue the permit.
The number of county residents seeking permits to acquire guns and permits to cary guns has soared in the first 3 1/2 months of the year.
Through the middle of April in 2013, the number of Watonwan County residents who have requested permits to acquire guns was 53 and the number of permits to carry guns was 49 for a total of 102.
The numbers for all of 2011 were 44 permits to acquire and 43 permits to carry for a total of 87. The numbers for all of 2012 were 79 permits to acquire and 61 permits to carry for a total of 140.
If the current trend remains in place for the entire year the county may have nearly 400 permits to acquire or carry by the time 2013 draws to a close.
These are the county numbers only. St. James and Madelia Police Departments keep track of permit requests within the city limits.
Much of this surge in permit requests is likely a reaction to the Sandy Hook massacre as some people are concerned new gun laws might restrict access to certain types of guns or gun clips now available or put up additional barriers or background checks before a person could purchase a gun.
Shay Forstrom is an Administrative Secretary for the Watonwan County Sheriff's Department and she handles the permitting process for the Sheriff's Department. She is not required to ask people why they are seeking permits, but she said that one of the motivations that people express to her is that, "A lot of people have expressed concerns about new gun laws."
Forstrom didn't have a sense that there was a surge in permits in the last quarter of last year, but Google Trends reported that a search term like 'bulk ammo' soared after President Obama won reelection. Several national news reports also had gun sales soaring after the President won reelection.
Permits to carry in Minnesota require the individual requesting the permit to attend a gun safety class taught by a qualified instructor before the Sheriff's Department would issue the permit.
The permit to acquire a gun involves the Sheriff's Department seeking information from the state of Minnesota about an applicant's mental health, whether the person has a drug conviction and a criminal background check including if a person has a restraining order placed against them.
Forstrom agreed that much of what people seemed to be concerned about happening if new gun laws were passed are already in force in Minnesota.
At the current time gun permits are not required if a person purchases a gun at a gun show or from a private party.


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It's a dog-eat-dog world in most corporations. And it helps to have a best friend nearby.
Bringing your pet to work is still a fairly rare perk at most companies, but there are definitely benefits to doing so. A study in the International Journal of Workplace Health Management found that people who bring their dogs into the workplace are less stressed, and that sense of job satisfaction extends to people who come into contact with the pet.
"Dogs in the workplace can make a positive difference," wrote principal investigator Randolph T. Barker, Ph.D. and professor of management in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business. "The differences in perceived stress between days the dog was present and absent were significant. The employees as a whole had higher job satisfaction than industry norms."
Looking for a job where you can bring Fido along? DogFriendly keeps a running list of companies that are dog-friendly—or you could simply apply for a job at one of these businesses.
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The third annual Chris Lopez Classic is coming up.
The race is set for June 15 at Upper Greenhorn Park in Yreka.
In 2009, Lopez, a cross country runner at Yreka High School, passed away a few days after collapsing at a league cross country meet in Redding.
His mother, Stacey Willison, along with Yreka High cross country coach Pam Borg are co-chairs of the race.
The event is a way for her to keep her son's memory alive and to help other young runners here in Siskiyou County,Willison said.
"It's important to help other kids dreams come true," she said.
Thanks to funds from the race last year, event coordinators were able to provide two $750 scholarships in 2013; one for a graduating senior from Mount Shasta High School and one from Yreka High School. Race officials also donated $1,000 to the Yreka High School cross country team to assist them in going to the Steens Mountain Running Camp in Oregon.
Willison said that putting the race together each year helps her as she copes with the tragedy of losing her child.
"It's been so therapeutic," she said.
There is a 1-mile walk/run, a 5K walk/run and a 10K race.
The 1-mile walk/run start at 8:30 a.m. on June 15 while the 5K and 10K races start at 9 a.m.
For registration forms and more information go to www.chrislopezclassic.org.The 1-mile walk/run is $15, or with three or more family members walking, the cost is $40. A separate entry form for each family member is required.
The 5K and 10K races are $25. Pre-registration ends on May 31.
This year, for the first time,Midnite Racing from Redding is doing the timing for the race, Willison said. A DJ is providing the musical entertainment. And, there is a massage tent with various styles of massage for race participants.
Last year, 172 runners took part. This year, Wilsson is hopeful that at least 200 runners will take part. The race is offering neon lime green shirts that come with pre-registration. The shirts are only guaranteed for the pre-registrants and are not guaranteed for sale on race day.
Packet pick ups are available at the Dosomthin Athletics at 614 S. Main Street in Yreka, which is located next door to the Brand-n-Iron, the day prior to the race. Packets cane be picked up from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. and then again from 4:30 to 7:00 on Friday, June 14. There will be race day registration from 7:30 a.m. until 8:15 a.m. For more information, call Stacey Willison at 530-921-8722, or email@example.com, or Pam Borg at 530-905-0700.
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A whopping 70 percent of consumers globally report trusting online reviews from strangers when making purchase decisions, according to Nielsen's most recent Global Trust in Advertising study. In fact, four out of five consumers say they reverse their purchase decisions based on negative online reviews, according to a Cone study of online trends.
To compound the issue, consider that many of your other marketing efforts – such as social media, direct mail, email, advertising – are ultimately designed to drive consumers to your website. If your online reputation is poor or nonexistent, you're likely to lose these customers to competitors with more savvy online skills. It's clear why online reputation management is imperative for 2013.
Imagine this horrifying scenario: you've been delivering for your customers consistently for years, exceeding their every expectation. Unbeknownst to you, a former customer posts unfair reviews of your business online – creating a twisted sense of reality. Because you're not encouraging your current customers to post positive reviews, all prospective customers see are these negative comments, resulting in significant loss of business.
Bottom line – if you're not monitoring your brand's online reputation, a few negative reviews could kill your business.
The first step in online reputation management is monitoring. Set up a Google Alert notifying you of all mentions of your brand online. Also, put a weekly reminder on your calendar to search for your company on the most relevant review sites for your business category. If you run a residential service company, Angie's List is important. For restaurants, Yelp and Urbanspoon are key. Alternatively, consider a site like ReviewTrackers.com, which allows you to track your reviews from the major review sites in one convenient location for a fee.
Next, set up a system for encouraging your customers to submit online reviews to a variety of sites. Never put all of your eggs in a single review site's basket, as you wouldn't want your company's future dictated by a single vendor with no vested interest. You are targeting a sizeable quantity of recent positive reviews from actual customers. Both consumers and search engines place greater value on more recent reviews, which means you'll want to regularly ask your customers to review your company online. If you have two positive online reviews over the past year compared to a competitor with over 100, which do you think consumers will naturally gravitate toward?
If you receive a negative review, don't panic. Respond to the customer publicly to demonstrate your willingness to make it right with full transparency. If you're running a sound company and proactively encouraging customers to review your brand online, the good will inevitably outweigh the occasional bad review.
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