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Ellen Bork, is a program director at the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI). Previously, Bork worked as a senior program officer at Freedom House and as deputy director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).[1] The daughter of conservative legal scholar and former Supreme Court justice nominee Robert Bork, Bork's resume also includes stints working as an Asia specialist for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, completing a fellowship at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Center in Brussels, and serving as counsel to the chairman of the Hong Kong Democratic Party.
Founded in 2009 by several high-profile neoconservative figures—including William Kristol, Robert Kagan, and Dan Senor—FPI is similar in its aims and operations to the now-defunct PNAC, a letterhead organization associated with the American Enterprise Institute that played an important role in advocating the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.[2] As a successor to PNAC, FPI is devoted to promoting an aggressive U.S. security posture in the post-George W. Bush era.
At FPI, Bork directs projects on human rights and democracy promotion. One of her main activities appears to be helping organize the publication of public sign-on letters addressed to President Barack Obama and other high-profile figures, typically urging commitment to human rights in U.S. relations with other countries. These letters often include signatories from several neoconservative and rightwing groups as well as representatives from established human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Among the letters Bork has appeared to help orchestrate are a July 2009 letter to President Obama on human rights in Russia; an October 2010 letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on human rights in China; a January 2011 letter to President Obama on human rights in China; and a January 2011 letter to Secretary of State Clinton on democracy in Belarus.
The publication of sign-on letters to which representatives of various political factions contribute their names is a time-honored tactic in neoconservative organizing that dates back to the 1970s, when Penn Kemble (1941-2005) and other disaffected liberals and leftists founded various "letterhead groups" aimed in part at promoting hawkish U.S. Cold War policies. PNAC used the tactic to great effect during the 1990s and as well in the run up to the 2002 invasion of Iraq (see Right Web Profile: Project for the New American Century).
The January 2011 letter to Obama on human rights in China was timed to correspond with Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit to the United States. Other signatories included representatives of groups such as Amnesty International-USA (T. Kumar), Human Rights First (Elisa Massimino), Human Rights Watch (Sophie Richardson), and Freedom House (Paula Schrieffer). It urged Obama to use the occasion of Hu Jintao's visit to "indicate a shift in US policy" by: "personally meeting with prominent Chinese, Tibetan, and Uighur critics of Beijing's human rights violation"; "speaking frankly and publicly about the deteriorating human rights environment in China"; "finding ways to speak directly to the people in China, such as through internet discussions and with independent Chinese-language media"; "reiterating your call that Liu Xiaobo and others imprisoned for doing nothing more than peacefully criticizing the Chinese government immediately be freed"; and "enabling the media here to have the access they are denied in China."[3]
Regarding this, the Inter Press Service blog Lobelog commented that it was perplexing "why entirely admirable human rights groups—which pride themselves on their independence from governments and political parties—choose to associate themselves with organizations whose advocacy for human rights is highly, highly selective, to say the least, and whose foreign-policy views are frankly imperialist." The blog added that while the specific content of the letter was entirely reasonable, by participating in a letter campaign with a group like FPI these human rights groups effectively "hitch their wagon to an organization whose founders and directors … [are] closely tied to the aggressive unilateralism of George W. Bush's first term." They not only "lend some of their credibility to FPI and thus help rehabilitate a political movement that has long used human rights and democracy as an instrument for expanding U.S. power and undermining Washington's perceived enemies," but they also "damage that same credibility by offering ammunition to those governments and others who see the human rights movement as a handmaiden of U.S. and western imperialism."[4]
Bork has been a contributor to the Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal editorial page, both important bastions of neoconservative opinion. She has also published in the Financial Times, Washington Post, Humanitarian Affairs Review, and Forward.[5]
Asia—and China in particular—has been a long-standing preoccupation in her writings. In a May 2010 op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Bork argued that the Obama administration had caved into China on human rights and democracy. Pointing to a press briefing about a recent meeting of the U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue in Washington, during which Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner said that one of the items discussed was the recently passed Arizona law on immigration and other discrimination issues in the United States, Bork decried what she regarded as the inappropriate parallel between human rights issues in the United States and China. She cited a letter by hawkish Arizona Republican Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain, who protested "moral equivalency in democracy and human-rights policy" between the two countries."[6]
Bork went on to make the rather garish accusation that President Obama's insistence that the United States can improve its own democracy "suggests he is ambivalent about the superiority of a democratic system, and wants to make America's flaws an element of his foreign policy."[7]
Bork followed up on the China human rights theme in a January 2011 Weekly Standard article, in which she made clear her opposition to the U.S. policy of engagement with China. She dressed down the Obama administration for not "using the weight and prestige of his office to support democratic opponents of authoritarian regimes in China, Iran, Belarus, and elsewhere," particularly for not using with China "the political capital of a summit meeting to force concessions on human rights."[8]
A decade earlier, in an August 2001 article for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Bork called for replacing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) with a NATO-style military alliance that could help keep China in check. She wrote: "The outlook for ASEAN and the ARF [Asian Regional Forum] is not promising. There is, however, an alternative. Rather than trying to transform the ASEAN-ARF system, Asia's democracies should establish a regional political and military alliance committed to strengthening the democracy and security of its members and expanding it in the region. Such an organization would be a logical outgrowth of Asia's democratic development over the last half-century, and an answer to the anachronistic regional institutions that now fail to guarantee the region's security and freedom."[9] She concluded that while an "alliance of Asian democracies, especially one including the U.S., would provoke intense outrage from China," the "circumstances that inspired Asean's founding have long since changed. … While the old Cold War threat is gone, there is still a contest within Asia that involves ideals and the potential use of force. Asia has no regional institution capable of advancing and protecting the interests of its democracies. It should have one."[10]
Bork published an opinion piece in the Weekly Standard on December 19, 2005, criticizing what she regarded as a double standard in the George W. Bush administration's treatment of Taiwan. Highlighting the administration's message to Taipei and Beijing that both should hold to "the status quo," Bork opined: "The Bush Doctrine is incompatible with America's one-China policy, which holds that Taiwan is a part of 'one China' and that there should be a peaceful resolution of the dispute between Beijing and Taipei." She added: "Washington's official 'one China' policy is not rooted in democracy or self-determination. Conceived during the Cold War, U.S. policy has remained mostly static and hamstrung by anachronistic views of China and Taiwan. Washington has tried to soften the edges of Chinese demands without questioning their legitimacy. U.S. policy reflects neither the dramatic changes in Taiwan nor China's economic and military growth and petrified political system. As a result, U.S. policy treats Taiwan as an abstraction. American officials resist as provocative all assertions of a Taiwanese identity, including revisions to the constitution, referenda, and other normal prerogatives of a democratic nation. This state of affairs is both unsustainable and at odds with the Bush Doctrine."[11]
Bork has championed the plight of some victims of Chinese government repression. In July 2009, she published an op-ed in the Washington Post, criticizing what she saw as the Bush administration's double standard in its differential treatment of Uighurs because they are Muslim.[12] Bork had argued in an August 2005 interview with National Public Radio that two Uighur men wrongfully detained at Guantanamo Bay should be allowed to resettle in the United States. Said Bork: "The Bush administration does not want to return them to China, because China has a campaign of repression against Uighurs. The administration, to their credit, does not want to return them, but is looking for other countries that would accept them. I think we should allow them to settle here."[13]
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[1]Foreign Policy Initiative, "Ellen Bork," http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/node/70.
[2]Jim Lobe, "PNAC Revisted," Inter Press Service, Lobelog.
[3]Foreign Policy Initiative, Open Letter to President Obama on Human Rights in China, January 13, 2011, http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/content/human-rights-and-foreign-policy-organizations-press-president-obama-human-rights-china.
[4]Jim Lobe, "Human Rights Groups And The Project For The New American Century," Lobelog, Inter Press Service, Januarz 14, 2011, http://www.lobelog.com/human-rights-groups-and-the-project-for-the-new-american-century/.
[5]Foreign Policy Initiative, "Ellen Bork," http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/node/70.
[6]Ellen Bork, "Obama's Rights Retreat," Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2010, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704026204575267382439094918.html.
[7]Ellen Bork, "Obama's Rights Retreat," Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2010, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704026204575267382439094918.html.
[8]Ellen Bork, "Why Liu Matters, And Hu Doesn't," The Weekly Standard, January 24, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/why-liu-matters-and-hu-doesn-t_533682.html.
[9]Ellen Bork, "Replace ASEAN," Wall Street Journal, August 3, 2001, http://www.newamericancentury.org/eastasia-20010803.htm.
[10]Ellen Bork, "Replace ASEAN," Wall Street Journal, August 3, 2001, http://www.newamericancentury.org/eastasia-20010803.htm.
[11]Ellen Bork, "One China, One Taiwan," Weekly Standard, December 19, 2005,www.newamericancentury.org/taiwan-20051219.htm.
[12]Ellen Bork, "The Right Way to Help the Uighurs," Washington Post, July 10, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070902425.html.
[13]NPR, "Ellen Bork Discusses Uighurs Posing Challenges in Guantanamo," All Things Considered, National Public Radio, August 10, 2005.


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Venture capitalists are investing in more seed-stage startups, leading to a flurry of deal activity not seen since the dot-com boom era. According to a report from CB Insights, venture capital deals totaled 835 during the third quarter. That was up from 790 deals during the same period of 2011.
While deals were up — largely on the strength of early-stage investing — actual dollars invested fell six percent during the third quarter to $7.5 billion. And CB Insights notes that investments for the year likely will fall compared to 2011 "barring a freakish fourth quarter rally."
That's a trend also highlighted in a separate report being released today by PitchBook, which tracked $6.1 billion invested during the quarter. However, unlike the CB Insights report, the PitchBook data also shows a decline in deals during the quarter. The PitchBook report also concludes that even with strong deal making at work this year "it will be difficult for 2012 to surpass the record-breaking numbers posted in 2011."
Washington state's deal and dollar tally fell off during the third quarter, not a huge surprise given the blockbuster quarters the state experienced earlier this year, according to the CB Insights report. As the chart below shows, $132 million was invested in 24 deals during the third quarter as companies such as Tier 3, Impinj and Discovery Bay Games raised cash.
Meanwhile, here's a look at the breakdown of investments by sector in Washington state:
California remains the undisputed leader of venture capital, representing 45 percent of all deals and 53 percent of all dollars invested.
Here's a look at the top 25 states based on dollars invested:
Here's the PitchBook report:

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Radiant flooring has been in use since the days of the Roman Empire when they channeled hot air under the floors of their villas. Basically, radiant systems heat an entire room evenly — not just in localized spots. It is more efficient than baseboard heating and usually more efficient than forced-air heating because no energy is lost through ducts. Radiant systems are also unobtrusive and quiet.
But for homeowners who want to save energy, radiant floors are usually not worth the cost of installation. One exception is a hydronic (water) heating system used in conjunction with solar heating — this can be very efficient. More information can be found on the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) site.
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April 14, 2014 -- At Monday's game vs. the Orlando Magic, the Chicago Bulls welcomed H2O Plus representatives for the official check presentation of their "And One" donation to Chicago Bulls Charities. Throughout the 2013-2014 season, H2O Plus committed to making a $250 donation to CBC every time that a Bulls player scored and was fouled on the play. Leading the team with 17 "And One's" this season, Bulls forward Taj Gibson participated in the ceremony.
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Another Update - As I had hoped/expected, things have gotten much better for Linux on this netbook over the past couple of months. The brcm80211 driver is included in more and more distributions, and there are some very good Synaptic ClickPad drivers coming along now too.
On these distributions there is a kernel driver called acer_wmi which gets loaded by default and interferes with the brcm80211 driver, which prevents the WiFi networking from working. All you need to do is go to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and add a line which says "blacklist acer_wmi" then reboot and the WiFi will work.
- openSuSE 11.4, with the latest updates installed, works extremely well, both the WiFi and ClickPad are fully supported.
- Linux Mint Debian Edition and Linux Mint Debian Xfce edition, with the latest updates installed, also work very well.With all of the latest updates installed, these distributions include version 1.4.0 of the Synaptics driver, which fixes all the problems with the ClickPad.
- SimplyMEPIS 11 works. For the brcm80211 driver, you can add acer_wmi to the b43.conf file and at the same time uncomment the wl and ndiswrapper blocking, and comment the ssb driver startup. MEPIS still uses version 1.2.2 of the Synaptic driver, but it seems to work just fine with the ClickPad, I'm not quite sure how they managed that when no one else has.
- Ubuntu 11.04 works, including WiFi and ClickPad
- Linux Mint 11 looks like it is going to work (no surprise, it is based on Ubuntu 11.04), but it is still a Release Candidate, so no final information yet.


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Brett Anderson does not wait for the game to crawl to him. The Rockies' newest lefty pushes the pace, whipping from one pitch to the next with no time to ponder anything except the now.
"There's less time for your mind to wander in the field," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "It's definitely nice to play behind a guy like Brett. It seems like he's always in control."
Weiss was prefacing the Rockies' series-capping matchup against the toiling Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday by explaining just how quickly and confidently Anderson works through pitches.
Instead, Arizona ace Wade Miley gave a master class on just how to pitch at Coors Field, forcing 19 Rockies groundouts as the Diamondbacks snapped a four-game skip with a 5-3 victory in front of 29,779 fans in Denver.
Miley pitched tip-top throughout. The Rockies didn't reach second base until the fourth inning, when Michael Cuddyer doubled on a line drive to center field.
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But more than doubles, the Rockies double-played their day to a quick end. Miley twisted Colorado into four double-plays (five total including one by closer Addison Reed) — two of them from Rockies second baseman DJ LeMahieu.
Miley got through eight innings on just 94 pitches. And at the plate, he finished with a career-best three hits. He's responsible for Arizona's two wins this season, including a seven-inning effort against the Giants last week.
If the Rockies (3-4) want to keep pace with Arizona (2-7) in the National League West race to catch the Dodgers, they'll need to figure out Miley at some point.
Maybe the Rockies should ask catcher Wilin Rosario for tips. He doubled twice against Miley on Sunday, going 2-for-2 with a walk. Rosario, perhaps the best hitting catcher in the game, has a career .500 average against Miley, going 8-for-16, with a homer and three doubles.
WATCH: Brett Anderson on his 1st start at Coors Field.
"I've got my plan against him and I stay with it," Rosario said of Miley. "I just like to swing. That's my plan — to swing. I try to see the ball in the zone and swing hard."
The Rockies' Sunday RBIs, though, belonged to center fielder Drew Stubbs (sacrifice fly to center in the fifth) and third baseman Nolan Arenado (sacrifice fly to center in the seventh).
But it was Anderson who sacrificed the most, allowing 10 hits and five runs (three of them earned) over six innings.
"I felt I had some decent innings," Anderson said. "But two bad pitches and a good performance from their staff decided the game."
Anderson was efficient — he walked only three and two of them were intentional. And he erased two bases-loaded situations for Arizona.
But his slider to Arizona left fielder Mark Trumbo on a 2-and-0 count in the fifth landed somewhere near the frozen yogurt stand toward the left field concourse. It scored two to put Arizona ahead for good, 5-0.
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529 Integration of Computer-Based Technology in Schools. (3) (On-line course only) Focus on the integration of technologies in the classroom. This course provides opportunities for direct application of knowledge and competencies acquired in prerequisite course work. Prerequisite: IDT 503 or equivalent skills.
530 Graphics Applications in Education and Training. (3) Survey of imaging-related applications such as image editing, 3D modeling, movie editing and special effects software.
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536 Video Production for Multimedia. (3) Emphasizes digital video production techniques such as video camera handling, lighting techniques, special effects, and desktop video editing for use in computerbased multimedia. Prerequisite: IDT 530.
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The old women began arriving in the domino room of the Chauvin Library, where my dad suggested I1 go film as part of my fieldwork. I propped myself up in the corner of the room, making small talk in Cajun French even though my "project" tries to avoid nativist ideologies about Louisiana culture.2 I saw that a completely out of place person had walked in. I immediately recognized her as one of my own3—a strange feeling when one is already "home" and is certain that this person is from elsewhere.
|Selfie at dawn on a trawl boat, Chauvin, Louisiana, June 2013. Photograph by Lindsey Feldman.
A week and a half later, Lindsey and I took selfies at sunrise on a trawl boat in Lake Boudreaux. Our projects in Louisiana were radically different: she was from Tucson, Arizona, working in Louisiana as part of a government-funded anthropology initiative that has been in Louisiana for fifteen years, her dissertation will be on prisoners. I work in straight-up theory, writing about how people perform their culture and where the fantasies that govern their actions come from.
Over the next month, we4 sort of fell into a rhythm of collaborative ethnography. We began interviewing people in tandem, exploring a place that was new and strange for Lindsey and more or less familiar and invisible for me. This emerging situation began to blur the lines between our two positions as researchers, a process that is apparent in our writing about this experience, a shift from the first-person singular to the first-person dual, from the subjective (and/or objective) voice to something else: a practice of collaborative perspective.
The choice to write as "we" is a decision to both duplicate vision and to unify it, to see something less bound by our disciplines and imaginations. It is also a way to alternatively navigate the space of the anthropological field, here being Chauvin, Louisiana, a small "census-designated place" in southern Louisiana. The following is a selection of fieldnotes from June 2013.5
We went trawling on Boudreaux Canal at sunset with a married couple who claimed that they didn't need to belong to a church, didn't need a priest or a pastor, because God blessed them with every good catch and there's no place of worship like the hull of a boat.
We drove past the dock where we eventually went on our first trawl-boat ethnography extravaganza, and there was the smell of it. Somebody had left some shrimp peelings in a garbage can to ferment in the heat of Louisiana June.
We sat at a long wooden dining table in Chauvin with Christopher's grandpa so Lindsey could conduct an interview, and he served us snowballs the right way—stuffed—with cherry flavoring and condensed milk.
|Trawling at dawn, route. Satellite imagery courtesy of Google Earth.
We want trawling in Lake Boudreaux at sunrise. One shrimper was from the days when men were shrimpers. His voice was deep and gravely enough to be heard over the boat's motors. He had an apprentice who wore a rubber bracelet with a single word: "Work." We came full of coffee thermoses because it was four in the morning. We were nervous about being too late for the launch.
|Work bracelet, Chauvin, Louisiana, June 2013. Photograph by Lindsey Feldman.
We snuck out of a Cajun dance hall—overstimulated with the visible spectacle of an over-conscious culture, overburdened with the responsibility of being responsible, needing something quiet involving still water, heavy air, and cigarettes.
We found the ideal situation in which to transcribe interviews and type observations was in a room half-floored, with frozen daiquiris, and an episode of True Blood on the horizon.
We created a brief and incomplete taxonomy of sheds:
- abandoned storage units, collapsed by storms, sometimes housing the bones of small animals;
- rabbit coops overgrown with blackberry vines, lichen, and other muds;
- sheds frozen in time circa 1998, filled with tackleboxes, house siding, oxygen tanks, and gigantic spiders; and
- work areas that are walled rooms beneath raised houses, filled with industrial machines lost to history, cable boxes and plugs, and regular tools (see footnote six).
|Shed, Chauvin, Louisiana, June 2013. Photograph by Lindsey Feldman.
We dealt with Christopher's dad's junk.6
We drove east to the next bayou over to find a place to play pool, to engage in a night resembling the mundane, and found ourselves in the back of a fast food restaurant drinking Coors Light from bottles, chalking cues where we were the only customers.
We ate crawfish among Southern Baptists at Christopher's friend's engagement party, discussing ethnographies of alternative sexual communities. Everyone had gone inside, except us and the mosquitos, which swarmed us no matter how many box fans we directed towards them. We jumped a rope fence, sort of. We itched for days. We were met with only some suspicion.
We went to see Great Gatsby at an extravagantly nice movie theater in New Orleans, a disruption in the flow of down-the-bayou aesthetic, and we remarked that being served parmesan flavored popcorn by waitstaff seemed appropriate while watching that particular film.
We sat in a mansion in Houma—one that is once a year a haunted house—and ate seeds from mason jars while talking politics with a local community organizer and his tenant, another grad student doing interviews.7
Perhaps the presence of researchers in Louisiana (or any location) should be looked at as an opportunity to practice seeing with others. Our fieldnotes are not fieldnotes in that archetypal sense, though they hold the ghost of the classical fieldnote. They're punctuated by experience rather than a strict chronology. They were written from memory—specifically, memory delimited by another person. These fieldnotes are conversations.
|Ghost selfie, Chauvin, Louisiana, June 2013. Photograph by Christopher Lirette.
They are conversations literally and figuratively. We talked to each other in the process of writing them, and we travelled together while doing research. And we spoke with people in Chauvin, and were part of their lives. We travelled with them too. The word conversation comes from conversatio, or "living with," which itself comes from con (with) and verso (to turn). These fieldnotes are not just observations but the relics of a time spent living together, with each other, with a place, with a people. We're exploring a method of research that might allow us as anthropologists to critically examine the people and places beyond our own imaginaries, to let them see us. It can mean letting people in on the cover up.
- 1. The blog post starts with the voice of Christopher, since we were having a hard time beginning in a plural voice. Also, his voice has previously appeared on the Southern Spaces blog.
- 2. For instance, the ideologies that promote a romantic Cajun nationalism where everyone speaks perfect Louisiana French and, I guess, traps nutria for a living.
- 3. Twenty-something creative types, generally seen wearing thick-framed glasses.
- 4. We being, for the rest of this post, Lindsey and Christopher.
- 5. We conceive of the concept of "fieldnotes" as an archetypal form. Fieldnotes are, for anthropologists intent on following tradition, the symbols of professional identity and ethnographic authority. From the time of Bronislaw Malinowski, the father of modern anthropological fieldwork (i.e., getting out of the armchair and into the real world; see Malinowski's seminal work, Argonauts of the Western Pacific [London: George Routledge and Sons, 1932]), fieldnotes have become material markers of doing ethnography. Fieldnotes are made up of daily logs, filled with short conversations or encounters, and some proto-analysis of what was seen. Fieldnotes are also the site of thick description, which is the act of writing down, through a hyper-awareness of the place the researcher is temporarily occupying, the seemingly minute details of everyday life. This is important because, as Clifford Geertz—the first to practice and name thick description—explains, we may not notice the difference between a wink or a twitch without the context that surrounds it. See Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books, 1973), 6.
- 6. Actually, by junk we mean a more or less complete material history of labor, culture, and religion in Chauvin in the "long" twentieth century. He began with a family tree project that quickly became a collection of family photos, which began to amass heirlooms, furniture, machinery, and local publications dating back to the 1860s and encompassing much more than his own genealogy.
- 7. Apparently, 2013 will be remembered as "the year grad students descended upon south Louisiana to work their ethnographies."


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It's been well over a week since I have posted on my blog, and I tell you, it eats at me. I just haven't found [see blog title]. But really, I have some legitimate excuses, uh, reasons, for not posting in a while. Here are the few of things that have eaten up all of my [see blog title].
1) Worrying about Hurricane Sandy. I type this faster and more anxiously as the wind whips up outside, and even though here in Boston we are well away from the center of the storm, school has been cancelled and the T has been shut down, so we are all four at home today. Read: no me time. Just lots and lots of we time. Which is great, great, great, of course. So instead of finishing my next post, which has been sitting in my draft folder for some time now half-finished, I have been drawing Bubble Guppies for T:
Daddy is taking charge of C's homework (brought to you by the letters S and U, cut from magazines), so I have a few minutes on the computer. I'm typing fast. And when the time for the heaviest winds arrives, I'll close the laptop and start pacing back and forth in front of the TV as Pete Bouchard tries to conceal his excitement about storm surges and gust MPHs and astronomical high tides. These meteorologist guys live for this, don't they? They rub their hands in glee while we worriers wear pasta pots on our head waiting for the trees to come crashing down upon us.
2) Everyone else is blaming Lance Armstrong, so why can't I? As a cycling fan, I have been completely consumed by the stunning revelations about Armstrong's alleged doping. Of course, when T was asleep and C was at school, I dropped all important chores and tasks to read the 200-page "reasoned decision" published by USADA, as well as the Tyler Hamilton book. I have had Cyclingnews constantly open in my browser. And like many others, I have been dismayed at charges too hard to ignore, and at watching elder statemen of the sport fall one by one. Another day brings another admission of guilt, another tarnished record, another achievement that was too good to be true. I'm not an expert, so I don't feel qualified to say much about it. So I will leave it to known Mod and Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins to say it best:
"It's a sport I love and have always loved. It's a shame that cycling is being dragged through this again. It's not a shame he's been caught. As you get older, you start to realise that Father Christmas doesn't exist. And that was always the case with Lance."
You have to love this guy. I choose to believe Wiggins has never doped, because that's what he says, but who's to know for sure? Who can we trust? Ever? It's sad that I wish Cyclingnews would publish a list of definitively clean riders, so we could have something to hold onto while the sport goes through this wrenching, scorched earth period that it must endure to restore its integrity.
3) Oh yeah, there's that election. And Halloween.
4) We took a trip to NYC to visit my family and take C to see the Space Shuttle Enterprise at the Intrepid. Out on the flight deck of the old aircraft carrier, we passed rows of fighter planes with teeth painted on them and helicopters just wide enough for one person; I imagined them flying like whirring envelopes. And there's the Captain's bridge where you climb narrow stairs to talk to WWII veterans who were stationed on the Intrepid, and see an officer's cabin where there's a calendar from the year the ship was decommissioned (1974) still on the wall.
Beyond all of that, a temporary bubble houses the shuttle. Inside, the Enterprise floats above our heads in a cloud of blue, like that model of a huge, blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History. Just as hushed, just as commanding of respect. I wonder how the Enterprise will fare during the storm? It's been through much more, I suppose.
5) Sorry, I had to watch Downton Abbey again. It just had to be done.
There are a million things to do, and there always will be, and they are calling me now. But it still makes me glad to know the blog is there, and I will get back to it in the next few days. But as I write this, the house is shaking; there is a big gust. My heart is beating faster. T will wake up soon. I've drawn the shades but I know the branches are bending and leaves are streaking by. I'll need to start pacing soon, and pottering around, putting Legos back in bins, making meatballs, reading stories, vacuuming up crumbs, doing all the things I do to put the fear and worry at the back of my mind.
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With research and programs aimed at changing risky behaviors, Penn State's Prevention Research Center promotes well-being in children, teens, and families.
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President Barack Obama has stumbled into a possible resolution of the Syria showdown, after an act of apparently accidental U.S. diplomacy seemed to deliver a potential way to wriggle out of his political predicament .
Secretary of State John Kerry suggested at a London news conference Monday morning that the crisis could be defused if Syrian President Bashar Assad surrendered his chemical weapons to an international force. The Russians jumped on the idea and Monday evening Obama was sounding open to the proposal.
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"This could potentially be a significant breakthrough," Obama told NBC. "But we have to be skeptical because this is not how we've seen them operate over the last couple of years."
With members of Congress clamoring for a chance to avoid a vote to authorize military action, the idea has a certain undeniable political convenience for the administration because it could avert the possibility of a political loss that could damage Obama's reputation and drop to the U.S.'s global standing.
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The fast-moving developments meant the only thing that seemed certain Monday was that giving the diplomats time to work the issue could forestall an American strike and make it difficult for the White House to demand lawmakers take a tough vote to approve military action against Syria.
"It will at a minimum slow things down," said Les Gelb of the Council on Foreign Relations. "They better call off the vote. I don't see any way they can win the vote at this point and Obama can't afford to be repudiated on top of everything else. That would be the bullet in the belly."
But in his round of interviews with network TV anchors Monday, Obama seemed eager to turn the lemons into lemonade, casting the development as a combination of his threat to use force and his own personal engagement with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The talk of the diplomatic initiative as potentially promising was jarring because in statements in recent days and continuing through Monday, administration officials insisted that all diplomatic efforts had been exhausted — chiefly due to Russia's intransigence.
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And then Kerry spoke.
"He could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week. Turn it over, all of it, without delay, and allow a full and total accounting for that," Kerry said in response to a reporter's question about whether Assad could avert a military strike.
Kerry immediately sought to walk back his own suggestion. "But he isn't about to do it, and it can't be done, obviously," he added. And his aides quickly downplayed his remark, dismissing it as "rhetorical" and a mere "hypothetical statement."
But the Russians jumped on it as a way to halt the march towards a U.S. attack and to put them back at the center of the international drama.
( Also on POLITICO: The United States of weakness)
"As soon as I saw Kerry said that, I said: 'He's in trouble,'" Gelb said.
"The Russians saw the opening right away and Syrians saw the opening right away, now [U.S. officials] have got to play this card out," Gelb said. "I think most people see the Russian and Syrian response as a canard to delay any action and maybe weaken it entirely, but nonetheless you cant now just ignore your own proposal and their acceptance of it."
"In international politics, it's all about who takes the initiative," said Toby Gati, who headed up the State Department's intelligence bureau under President Bill Clinton.
"The Russians saw this opening – and part of the appeal of the opening for them is to tie down Gulliver — that's us. That's why I'm concerned that this can turn into a proposal from hell," she said. "It would take weeks to define what it means to get rid of chemical weapons, then teams will have to go in and find them and secure them and plan on how to destroy them, then we can start to argue about whether we have found all of them."
Obama vowed Monday evening to "run to ground" the Russian initiative, while warning that he wouldn't allow either Russia or Syria to use the diplomatic salvo to stall a reckoning for the alleged chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on Aug. 21.
National Security Adviser Susan Rice was skeptical Monday about the prospect of a diplomatic breakthrough producing consensus at the U.N. Security Council. "Let's be realistic—it's just not going to happen now," she said. "Believe me, I know," she said, referencing the job she left in June as U.S. Ambassador to the global body.
At about the same time Obama's interviews were airing Monday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he was considering delaying a planned Wednesday vote on a resolution to authorize the use of military force.


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John Cranko suggested the theme for MacMillan's third ballet, House of Birds, based on the Grimm Brother's macabre fairy tale, Jorinda and Joringel. A witch, The Bird Woman, snares young children and transforms them into birds. When the witch is overcome by two true lovers, the spell is broken; the witch's victims peck her to death and resume human form. While the turning of mortals into birds is a familiar pastime of ballet sorcerers, House of Birds was one of only three MacMillan ballets which drew for inspiration on fairy tales (The other two are Le Baiser de la fée and The Prince of the Pagodas).
Arnold Haskell found in the first night performance "something of the thrill of a Diaghileff première" while the ballet impressed Clive Barnes of Dance and Dancers for its "brilliance and its oddness", which would "assuredly earn MacMillan a one way ticket to Parnassus or Bedlam." The Times found "much to intrigue the eye, but much that is fundamentally repellent."
This was MacMillan's second collaboration with Nicholas Georgiadis; for several critics there were influences of Paul Klee. The Guardian thought the designs "strange, piquant and right". For the traditionally anonymous reviewer from The Times the designs were the ballet's most striking elements, "brightly coloured but impregnated with cruelty, nature red in tooth and claw. From the outside of the Bird Woman's aviary we see the facade and, as it were, an X-ray plan of the interior; and the analytic method is repeated in the Bird Woman's macabre costume" (black tights on which Georgiadis painted a birdly skeleton).
The choreography for the Bird Woman (Doreen Tempest) suggested automaton movement and the complete absence of emotion (for Clive Barnes, "the personification of evil down to the last baleful feather"). The witch wore a heavy beak, her victims' heads were held in birdcages. Although this complicated the movement possibilities, it also made for choreography that was ugly, jerky and full of menace.
Maryon Lane danced the girl transformed into a bird and then rescued by her lover (David Poole). For Barnes a pas de deux between the couple (complicated lifts foreshadowing future MacMillan couplings) inevitably echoed that in Fokine's The Firebird between the Firebird and Ivan Tsarevitch.
John Lanchbery suggested to MacMillan that he use music by the Catalan composer Federico Mompou. "I was mad about Mompou, who was little known in England at the time. I bought everything of his I could find and put the score together. Kenneth came and I played it through, and we did it there and then. Just like that."
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Risk variations for countries taking Global information management measures.
NTT Com Global Watch vol.6
Corporations that deploy their business globally accumulate a wide variety of data and information at each location. This includes information about vendors' products and services, business deals, and customers' personal information. Corporations generally share the data gathered among headquarters and regional offices, and incorporate it into their initiatives in order to work more efficiently and improve the quality of their products and services. This way, they strengthen their competitiveness and accelerate growth. However, corporations need to be careful about sharing and utilizing data obtained by each location, depending on the country, region, and content.
Changes in the roles of overseas sites makes information-sharing a must
When we talk about the risks involved in information management domestically, the first things that come to mind are leaks of personal information and theft of confidential company data. Naturally, we must continually pay full attention to these risks overseas.
However, depending on the country or region where the overseas sites are located, any data obtained through local business activities that is not managed and shared properly may cause unwanted legal troubles for the corporation and damage to local businesses.
In the past, corporations expanded overseas in an effort to achieve cost efficiencies and global specialization for internal processes such as supply chain, production, and logistics. Today, the rapid growth of emerging markets means that the goal of corporate expansion overseas has transformed to the development of new markets.
Furthermore, because of the significant growth of local markets, sites deployed overseas have become equal to other regional sites in role and function. Such local sites now provide development and marketing functions in order to strengthen competitiveness. As a result, it is essential that the various types of data and information obtained by these sites through local business dealings is shared. Such data should be shared with headquarters as well as other locations globally,so that it can be leveraged for the growth of every market.
Japan 's exposure to legal risks does not compare to that of other countries
We asked Toshiyuki Arai, an international lawyer who is a partner of the Paul Hastings LLP Corporate practice and chair of the firm's Tokyo office, about the risks involved with information management overseas. Mr. Hastings has extensive experience in the US and China regarding various legal risks, practical issues, and lawsuits facing corporations operating overseas.
Regarding the legal risks involved with information management while businesses operate overseas, Arai explains, "For example, if we are talking about the US, let's take litigation related to competition law violations under the US Antitrust Law, which is equivalent to the Japanese Antimonopoly Act, intellectual property rights (IP) and product liability (PL). These are legal risks shared in countries where Japanese corporations are actively doing business."
Incidentally, there is a well-known trick in IP-related litigation known as a "patent troll." This is when the individuals and groups who become the plaintiffs purchase patents from third parties and then exercise these patents to obtain license fees or hefty settlements, even though they are not doing any of the R&D, manufacturing or sales.
In reference to class-action lawsuits, Arai explains, "In Japan, the effect of a ruling in a class-action lawsuit extends only to persons, companies and groups that are named as plaintiffs. However, for example, in the class action system in the US, the effect of a ruling extends to all persons recognized as having suffered the same harm, even if the plaintiffs are not named. Therefore, in the US, if corporations are judged responsible for cartels or PL lawsuits, they must pay a huge amount of compensation. If that happens, there is a risk to the local business of course, but there is a risk of severe damage to the corporate business infrastructure."
Under the discovery system, there is an obligation to submit the requested information
If we take the US as an example, we see that the legal risks vary overseas and the scope of eligibility and monetary compensation is much larger in comparison to Japan. So what is the connection between legal risk and information management?
The US judicial system has a procedure for gathering evidence called the "discovery system." Under this system, when there is a trial, one of the parties mandates the other party to provide existing sensitive information other than protected information. In some cases, the courts order information held by third parties to be disclosed to the plaintiff side, not just that of the parties in the litigation. In addition to the systems and requirements surrounding various types of information in countries beyond Japan, new laws are constantly being enacted.
Arai comments, "If companies do not submit the requested internal information appropriately, naturally this is disadvantageous in the lawsuit. But the possibility even exists that the company would lose the lawsuit if the request for information disclosure was not fulfilled."
One of the risks involved with information management, if disclosure of internal information is requested, is whether the necessary information can be located from within the company's internal information and secured in a timely manner. Deleting information or documents is out of the question at such times.
It is best to consider all information held by a corporation as subject to the discovery system. Nowadays, most information held by a corporation is stored electronically. Electronic documents and data are also subject to the discovery system – in this case "E-discovery" (electronic information disclosure).
Corporations engaged in global business regularly disperse information assets to overseas sites. Global information management infrastructure is essential in finding and retrieving the required data.
Best practices shared and deployed globally
As mentioned in the introduction, there is a tendency in Japanese information management to focus on security measures to prevent leaks of personal information and theft of confidential company data. Countermeasures for these risks are essential initiatives, not only in Japan, but in any country or region. As mentioned above, it is also necessary to understand how regulations, types of risks, and their size differ depending on the country.
Arai says, "The information management risks and the purport of laws relating to business are not that different in the countries where Japanese corporations are actively developing business. However, the fact is that the requirements for information transfer and how strictly information needs to be managed under the law vary greatly depending on the country."
In other words, legal requirements differ depending on the country, and some are interpreted strictly while others are interpreted more leniently. As a result, a common solution for handling local information management is to implement the minimum necessary measures according to the local level of legal risk.
In response to this approach, Arai advises, "It is true that many corporations set a level for each country based on its legal risk and manage information accordingly. However, a corporation's information is shared and managed globally. So when policies differ for each site, it is highly likely that the legal risk will increase for the entire global operation. In actual fact, many corporations get into big trouble this way. I believe that by setting the strictest management level as a best practice and applying it across all sites as a shared practice, corporations can reduce their legal risk across all of their global operations," Arai advises.
Arai also explains, "The shortcut to applying common policies across the globe for the operation of company-wide information management and for information security is to form a partnership with a single global and trusted ICT. It is often pointed out that this is also an effective way to ensure safety. Similarly, operations, application of security policies and maintenance become very difficult if corporations use different services in each country or region for networks and data centers that form the information management infrastructure. Therefore, I think that it is most convenient to use networks and data centers that provide unified services across the globe."
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For risk management measures involving global information management, it is necessary to join forces with a trustworthy ICT partner with a global track record. NTT Com has affiliated companies and offices in 43 countries, and provides a variety of services to support information management infrastructures. These include networks and cloud services in 196 countries and regions worldwide, all in a seamless one-stop service.
NTT Com maintains a high level of service quality that vastly exceeds the global standard. As a global Tier1 provider, NTT Com has a global-scale IP backbone that achieves an extremely high availability rate of 99.99%. NTT Com provides a variety of ICT services in addition to building and operating information management infrastructures, and contributes to the growth of corporations promoting their businesses on a global scale.
NTT Com has a wealth of experience in every overseas country and region where businesses are active, and will continue to support corporations aiming for global growth in the future.
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Video Cameras Deliver More Than Security
IP surveillance cameras can make you more productive and help your business operate more efficiently
I love doing business with small companies, such as local retailers, but the downside is that you often have to wait to be served because there are few staff members. So I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I went to my local dry cleaners to drop off some shirts.
I walked in and nobody was at the counter. I thought I would need to shout to see if anyone was in the back, but luckily the owner quickly came to the desk and greeted me. I told him how happy I was that I didn't need to holler. He apologized and explained that he was in his office ordering supplies on his computer and an alert flashed up on his screen letting him know that I'd just walked in. His video surveillance camera is based on technology which enables him to view camera images on his PC.
Improve Productivity
I've previously discussed how small businesses can use IP video surveillance to gain a strategic advantage. My dry cleaner is using IP video surveillance to help make his small business more productive.
My dry cleaner's IP video surveillance system gives him peace of mind to step away from the front of his shop to work in the back, because he'll be alerted on his PC or on his 3G phone as soon as a customer walks in. It saves him from having to hire an additional employee and frees him to complete other tasks.
Keep an eye on your business from anywhere
Another benefit of IP video surveillance is that it allows small business owners with multiple locations to view what's happening in each of their facilities on a single computer screen or to be alerted on their 3G phone. And you don't have to be at your own computer. You could be at a customer site and use a computer there. As long as you have Internet browsing capabilities, you can view what your IP video cameras are recording live.
Video surveillance cameras, like the Cisco VC 220 Dome Network Camera , that let you virtually manage cameras at multiple sites from a central location makes you more productive because you don't have to be tied to your desk to watch over your business. You could be out generating more business and be alerted to events captured on camera according to the policies you set.
If you're not technically minded, sometimes trying to figure out how to install a piece of technology is time consuming. Many IP video cameras, such as the Cisco WVC 210 Wireless-G PTZ Internet Video Camera, use wireless technology so you can easily add it as a device to your existing wireless network. No need to spend time figuring out how to run an extra Ethernet cable to where you want to mount the camera.
IP video surveillance also lets you locate specific dates, times, or incidents in video archives quickly and easily without having to manually pore over hours of analog video. How time-consuming and tedious that is!
I'm looking forward to going to my dry cleaners to pick up my shirts because I know that I'll get quick service.
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Georgetown Fraternities: This is no Animal House Posted on October 25, 2001 by Voice Staff
As a prospective students take their first tours at Georgetown, tour guides tell them that social fraternities and sororities do not exist here. College guides, such as The Princeton Review describe Georgetown as having a "very small frat-sorority scene." But when students arrive on campus, they see advertisements for events with the business fraternity or the foreign service fraternity, and the number of minority fraternities that have ties on campus is growing. This leaves students wondering why some fraternities exist at Georgetown even though there is no formal Greek system.
There is not a simple answer for why fraternities and sororities do not exist at Georgetown. It is not the University's Jesuit identity, because other Jesuit universities, such as Saint Louis University, have a social Greek system. Unlike colleges such as Amherst, a Greek system here was never officially abolished because of behavior problems. Neither is it because Georgetown is a small and urban university, because there are numerous examples of Greek systems at similar schools. However, each of these reasons, Georgetown's Catholic identity, history, demographics and mission contribute to the […]


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NEW Zealand troops in Afghanistan are safer now Taliban warlord Abdullah Kalta has been killed, Prime Minister John Key says.
The insurgent leader played a significant role in the roadside bomb attack that killed Corporal Luke Tamatea, Lance-Corporal Jacinda Baker and Private Richard Harris in August, Mr Key said on Monday.
He was also linked with the ambush that killed Lieutenant Tim O'Donnell in August 2010.
Mr Key says intelligence indicated another attack was imminent.
"He was seen as a very significant figure and this puts our troops in a safer position," Mr Key said at his post-cabinet press conference.
"The coalition airstrike was carried out on November 21st in the northeast of Bamyan province and resulted in the death of Abdullah Kalta and four other insurgents.
Initial reports said there were two other casualties but Mr Key says he has been told there were five, including Kalta.
New Zealand forces are based in Bamyan province and Mr Key sent SAS troops back to Afghanistan to gather intelligence and help with logistics after the roadside bomb attack.
"New Zealand builds the picture of where these people are, it builds the case that leads to the attack but the operations are carried out by ISAF," he said.
"Intelligence almost certainly came through the SAS, that's the sort of work they've been doing."
Mr Key says ISAF was acting on information that another attack was imminent, but couldn't give details of where or when.
Details of the attack on the insurgents aren't known but journalist Jon Stephenson, based in Kabul, told Radio New Zealand it was likely special forces were on the ground nearby and called in the airstrike.


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Italy's elections: Why it matters for Europe
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It's now almost one month until the general elections in Italy. Three candidates are taking centre stage: the centre-left's Pier Luigi Bersani, the outgoing technocrat Mario Monti, and the flamboyant former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Whoever wins this election will lead the eurozone's third-largest economy. That's why it matters for the rest of Europe.
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- Pino Arlacchi, Italian MEP, Socialists and Democrats;
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Stock Market Secular Trend Review
During periods of great market turmoil, it is useful to revisit the big picture often. Short-term price behavior only has meaning when analyzed in the proper context afforded by the long-term view, so all investing and long-term trading strategies should begin with a thorough understanding of the current secular environment. There have been five secular trends in the stock market since the crash in 1929, three downtrends and two uptrends.
The current secular bear market began in 2000 following a speculative run-up during the second half of the 1990s. As usual, market behavior clearly signaled that a secular inflection point was approaching and our Secular Trend Score (STS), which analyzes a large basket of fundamental, internal, technical and sentiment data, issued a long-term sell signal in December 1999. Following the topping process in 2000, a prototypical secular bear market began and continues today.
Stock market secular trends typically last from 10 to 20 years, depending upon the nature of underlying structural economic trends. Since we are currently in the final stage of a debt expansion cycle that began 60 years ago, it is highly likely that the secular bear market from 2000 is still several years away from its terminal phase.
The STS supports the hypothesis that this secular downtrend is far from over as the score has yet to return to positive territory following the sell signal in 1999. Secular inflection points develop slowly, usually over the course of 6 to 12 months, so the STS will provide plenty of advance warning when the next true investment opportunity develops in the stock market.
Secular trends are themselves composed of cyclical subcomponents, and the current cyclical uptrend began in March 2009. When they occur during secular bear markets, cyclical rallies have an average duration of 33 months. Therefore, at a current duration of 36 months, the bull market from 2009 is likely in the final stage of its development. Following the market crash in 2008, the latest cyclical rally has been characterized by violent moves higher and lower. The last extreme advance from October 2011 has produced a gain of 30 percent during the course of six months and it is highly likely that the next downtrend will be equally violent. Cyclical uptrend support is near 1,175 on the S&P 500 index and the forthcoming overbought retracement will likely return to that area, which is 16 percent below current levels.
With respect to cycle analysis, the rally phase of the intermediate-term cycle from November is now 17 weeks old and it has become extremely overextended, so the next intermediate-term cycle high (ITCH) could develop at any time. Of course, an overextended rally of this nature has a tendency to keep moving higher under the power of its speculative momentum, but when it finally breaks down, the correction will likely develop very quickly and retrace several weeks of gains in a matter of sessions.
Another violent retracement similar in character to the 2010 and 2011 declines is coming; it is simply a question of when. The bigger question is whether the forthcoming high will mark the end of the cyclical bull market from 2009. As always, market behavior, along with diligently applied chart analysis, will provide the answer. We will identify the key developments as they occur in our daily market forecasts and signal notifications available to subscribers.
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Practicing 108 pushups in this tough and challenging yoga program sounds intimidating (and a little crazy), but it is surprisingly quite doable due to the modifications, relaxed do-what-you-can attitude, and the calming, soothing, and encouraging voice of master instructor Shiva Rea. The first segment of this program is the hardest, the Agni Namaskar (fire salutation) that includes the 108 pushups. The pushups are broken up into 9 sets of 12, making them much more manageable, especially with the sweet resting pose immediately following them.Shiva Rea keeps you engaged through the fire salutation sequence by using different variations of the poses, primarily by incorporating many different arm positions. The second sequence "Creative Core" is focused on abdominal strengthening exercises that emphasize fluid movements, breathing and creativity. This is followed by a short guided shavasana for the third segment. This 35-minute video program will certainly "sculpt your abs, arms, and shoulders" and is definitely guaranteed to make you feel sore the next day.
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Honda has priced the 2014 CR-V crossover — a base-model LX will now cost $23,775 including $830 for destination. The popular crossover receives no changes aside from a $150 price bump on all trims including the higher-end 2014 CR-V EX-L with the navigation system, at $31,275.
As with the 2013 CR-V, all-wheel drive remains a $1250 option on all trim levels. All 2014 Honda CR-Vs get a five-speed automatic and 185-hp 2.4-liter I-4. The $23,775 CR-V LX includes Bluetooth, a rearview camera, Hill Start Assist, four-speaker sound system, Pandora capability with an auxiliary input jack, and 16-inch steel wheels. The most 2014 Honda CR-V trim is expected to be the $25,875 EX, which adds a six-speaker sound system, moonroof, foglights, and 17-inch alloy wheels.
Spend an extra $2650 and the 2014 CR-V EX-L will get you leather seats, a 10-way power driver seat, heated front seats, 328-watt seven-speaker sound system, satellite radio, roof rails, and dual-zone automatic climate control. At the top end of the 2014 CR-V lineup are two models, the EX-L with a rear-seat entertainment system at $29,225 while a CR-V with a navigation system will now cost $30,025 in front-drive form.
After driving the CR-V on a couple occasions, we were impressed by the low cargo loading height and the one-pull folding rear seats. For those who don't need the space or aren't interested in paying $25,000 for a crossover, Honda may soon add a Fit-based crossover in the U.S. lineup. When that happens, don't be surprised to see a refreshed CR-V arrive, possibly with an Earth Dreams engine or CVT.
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My writing sprint begins in 3:35, one minute from now.
Nope, now. Right about the time I typed "35" it became "35." I'm magic that way.
I haven't had a thing to say or type or poeticize or blog for months. I still don't. So you're going to sit here with me, on the striped bedspread, and listen to my house and watch my remaining cat, The Grey.
(Do I miss The Cat? I do. I imagine I see him at night, though he's really an empty reusable shopping bag in Market Basket blue or a dark green towel inappropriately discarded and immediately forgotten after a shower on Saturday.
When we sit down to focus on son's math homework, we miss The Cat sitting on the homework, obscuring equations.
When we play Life, which is beginning to bore us mere weeks after Christmas, we miss The Cat strolling across the board, knocking six-seated cars full of growing families off colored spaces and under the couch, where our tiny peg representatives cower in the shadows of monstrous dust bunnies.
The Cat barely got to know the game. We want him back, please.)
Anyway. Listen to my house. Hear what I hear. A child pouring colored gumballs into a plastic container, likely small colored IKEA-ware. I bought my daughter a clear tube of chewy, carcinogen-colored balls at Marshall's, which we housewives are required to pronounce Mar-Shawls, emphasis on the Shawls. Similarly, we say Tar-jay. It's completely obnoxious, but we all do it.
We had to, in order to stay home with our kids.
We all sign forms in the hospital, we women with children. After the Social Security card lady leaves, the Life lady comes in to talk to us and to coo at our new pegs.
(I have one blue peg, one pink peg. I married a blue peg. Last time we played Life, my daughter married herself a pink peg named Charlotte and noted "I can do that because I live in Massachusetts." Love the daughter. Love the Massachusetts.)
The Life lady asks, "Will you return to work?" If we say no, we'll stay home, we're forced to promise to hilariously mispronounce the names of big box home goods stores, write four Facebook posts a month about needing or drinking wine, and wear yoga pants at least four out of seven days a week until our youngest child is 3.
If we agree, the Life lady offers us three extracurricular choices: take up seriously regular exercise; transform skill in a domestic art into profit; or write a blog, long on snark and short on solid content and editing. With cats.
Lazy. No domestic wizardry. I blog!
And, today, listen to the faint sounds of Pinky Dinky Doo and the surprisingly loud sounds of my son. When his 60 pounds charge the pantry for popcorn downstairs, upstairs I hear a gorilla charging a Fossey posse carrying bananas.
(I meant Dian Fossey, but how funny would a troupe of gorillas dancing a Bob Fosse number be? With a group of anthropologists, led by Dian Fossey, carrying bananas? Probably only a little bit funny. If one of the anthropologists was played by Louis C.K., hesitantly hoofing and goof-tripping over his own feet, maybe. If Dian Fossey was played wild by Sarah Silverman, possibly. But even still, not very funny.)
These are the ramblings of a crazy woman. But you know what? My writing sprint is over. I'm done. I rambled and I writled and I listened and I looked at The Grey, who conducted a thorough self-cleaning at my feet while I wrote.
Her sweet head now rests sleeping atop very clean paws. Deep in her gut a hairball grows. Downstairs my primate son stomps back into the pantry for another nutrient-weak carbohydrate. I will go crush his chipster dreams, unpack my daughter's Tupperware-filled lunchbox, and make meatless stuffed peppers for dinner.
Tomorrow? Tar-jay.


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[Funeral Program for Ruby L. MCullough, June 29, 2013]
Description: Funeral program for Ruby L. McCullough, born September 15, 1925 and died June 24, 2013. The funeral was held June 29, 2013 at Second baptist Church, officiated by Rev. Dr. Robert L. Jemerson. Funeral arrangements were made through Lewis Funeral Home and she was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Austin, Texas.
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1. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
2. House Rules, by Jodi Picoult, Atria
3. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson, Random House
4. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson, Knopf
5. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, by Seth Grahame-Smith, Grand Central
6. The Postmistress, by Sarah Blake, Amy Einhorn Books
7. Angelology, by Danielle Trussoni, Viking
8. The Three Weissmanns of Westport, by Cathleen Schine, Sarah Crichton Books/FSG
9. The Man From Beijing, by Henning Mankell, Knopf
10. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, by Alan Bradley, Delacorte
11. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver, Harper
12. Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls, Scribner
13. The Surrendered, by Chang-Rae Lee, Riverhead
14. Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, Holt
15. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown, Doubleday
19. Walking to Gatlinburg, by Howard Frank Mosher
A harrowing Civil War era novel by the author of On Kingdom Mountain.
1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis, Norton
2. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, by Chelsea Handler, Grand Central
3. Game Change, by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin, Harper
4. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, Crown
5. The Pacific, by Hugh Ambrose, NAL
6. Courage and Consequence, by Karl Rove, Threshold Editions
7. The Kind Diet, by Alicia Silverstone, Rodale
8. The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Craft Rubin, Harper
9. Committed, by Elizabeth Gilbert, Viking
10. Stones Into Schools, by Greg Mortenson, Viking
11. Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, by Geneen Roth, Scribner
12. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown
13. Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall, Knopf
14. Just Kids, by Patti Smith, Ecco
15. Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life, by Frances Mayes, Broadway
16. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, by Daniel G. Amen, Harmony
Dr. Amen demonstrates how the key to a better body is a healthy brain.
1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
2. Little Bee, by Chris Cleave, S&S
3. A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick, Algonquin
4. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, Vintage
5. Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann, Random House
6. Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout, Random House
7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery, Europa Editions
8. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, Harper
9. Shanghai Girls, by Lisa See, Random House
10. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Dial
11. Brooklyn, by Colm Tóibín, Scribner
12. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley, Bantam
13. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford, Ballantine
14. Sarah's Key, by Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin
15. The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central
1. Food Rules, by Michael Pollan, Penguin
2. Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin
3. The Lost City of Z, by David Grann, Vintage
4. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin
5. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, by Chelsea Handler, Simon Spotlight
6. The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis, Norton
7. A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, Harper
8. The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan, Penguin
9. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, Scribner
10. Animals Make Us Human, by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson, Mariner
11. In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan, Penguin
12. The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes, Vintage
13. Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder, Random House
14. How We Decide, by Jonah Lehrer, Mariner
15. Einstein's God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit, by Krista Tippett, Penguin
18. The Gardner Heist, by Ulrich Boser, Harper
A fascinating look at the 1990 art theft at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Warner
3. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane, Harper
4. The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central
5. First Family, by David Baldacci, Vision
6. Long Lost, by Harlan Coben, Signet
7. Dear John, by Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central
8. Heart and Soul, by Maeve Binchy, Anchor
9. The Scarecrow, by Michael Connelly, Grand Central
10. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Warner
1. The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary, by Jeff Kinney, Amulet
2. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, Knopf
3. When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead, Wendy Lamb
4. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide, by Rick Riordan, Hyperion
5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.), Little Brown
6. Leprechauns and Irish Folklore: A Nonfiction Companion to Leprechaun in Late Winter, by Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce, Random House
7. The Batboy, by Mike Lupica, Philomel
8. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Puffin
9. Incarceron, by Catherine Fisher, Dial
10. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, Camille Rose Garcia (Illus.), Collins Design
11. The Demigod Files, by Rick Riordan, Hyperion
12. D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths, by Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, Ingri D'Aulaire, Delacorte
13. Graceling, by Kristin Cashore, Graphia
14. The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.), Harper
15. Fantastic Mr. Fox, by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Puffin
1. The Easter Egg, by Jan Brett, Putnam
2. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper
3. The Lion & the Mouse, by Jerry Pinkney, Little Brown
4. Happy Easter, Mouse!, by Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.), Balzer & Bray
5. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, Harper
6. Pat the Bunny, by Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden
7. Happy Easter, Curious George, by Margret Rey, et al., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
8. I Am a Bunny, by Ole Risom, Richard Scarry (Illus.), Golden
9. Fancy Nancy's Elegant Easter, by Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), HarperFestival
10. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle, Putnam
11. Good Night, Gorilla, by Peggy Rathmann, Putnam
12. Fancy Nancy: Poet Extraordinaire!, by Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper
13. Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss, Random House
14. Waddle!, by Rufus Butler Seder, Workman
15. My Garden, by Kevin Henkes, Greenwillow
1. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback), by Rick Riordan, Miramax
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover and paperback), by Jeff Kinney, Amulet
3. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback), by Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
4. Maximum Ride (hardcover and paperback), by James Patterson, Little Brown
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5. The 39 Clues (hardcover), by Jude Watson, et al., Scholastic
6. Hunger Games (hardcover), by Suzanne Collins, Scholastic
7. Twilight (hardcover and paperback), by Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown
8. Fancy Nancy I Can Read Series (paperback), by Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper
9. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books, by 10. Alex Rider Adventures (hardcover and paperback), Anthony Horowitz, Puffin
*Published Thursday, March 25, 2010 (for the sales week ended Sunday, March 21, 2010). Based on reporting from many hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States. For information on more titles, please visit www.IndieBound.org.


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