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A mother. A daughter. A shattering choice.
From Anna Quindlen, comes a novel of life, love and everyday acts of mercy.
"Fiercely compassionate and frank…conveys a world so out of kilter and so like ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerved by its accuracy."
"A masterpiece."
—Tulsa World
"Provocative…We leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more thoughtful than when we began."
—Los Angeles Times
"It is simply impossible to forget."
—Alice Hoffman
Question: Where did you come up with the idea for such a complex story? How did you do your research on the medical and legal aspects of the novel?
Anna Quindlen: Odd as it may seem to some readers, I wanted to write a novel about the lives of women at the end of the twentieth century, in light of the modern feminist revolution. To me, Kate and Ellen represent the two polar ideas of women that arose at that time: the traditional woman, who embraced life as wife and mother alone; and the new woman, who rejected those roles in favor of a life in the world. Of course, as we all know now, what works for so many people is a synthesis, something closer to the center. And I wanted to explore a series of events that would take Ellen there, or at least place her closer to some more balanced sense of what it means to be female. Originally I had the idea of the mother and daughter; it was only after some consideration that I decided to introduce the notion that the mother was dying, and the mystery about how she ultimately died. The ?rst was an attempt to sharpen the characters of all involved. I believe that in ?ction, as in life, people become most themselves under pressure. The second was to explore the notion of that traditional woman, and the probability that beneath the surface there was more steel and strength than met the eye. I did no research on either the medical or legal aspects of the story. In fact I have never done any research for any of my novels. In this case I knew a lot about issues surrounding cancer and euthanasia, and it was helpful from a legal standpoint that my husband is a longtime trial attorney.
Q: How did you create the members of the Gulden family? Did you know from the beginning how their characters would take shape?
AQ: I was pretty clear on Kate and Ellen from the very beginning, although in the natural order of things you always learn a great deal about your characters as you move along. It's a little like a friendship; you understand much more at ?ve years than you do at one year. George developed over time. I think hugely nurturing people sometimes create monsters around them: they give and give and so produce people who know only how to take. And then of course, the Oedipal triangle encompassing mother, father and daughter means that qualities developed in each that I tried to illuminate. My greatest challenge as a writer was to not make Ellen too likable. I don't think, especially in her earliest incarnation, that she's a particularly likable person. It was dif?cult to channel her because of that, and I might have despaired had I not known that she was going to grow, learn and soften. But in the early days I kept having to rewrite scenes in which I'd lapsed into making her nicer. I suppose that's a stereotypical female response. Or maybe it's because I knew the reader might see her as my surrogate.
Q: Was it hard to write about such a painful topic? How did you balance the dif?cult aspects of the story (Kate's illness, the deterioration of Ellen's relationship with her father, the trial, etc.) with the overall hopeful message?
AQ: I think readers who are familiar with a bit about my life assume that the book was more dif?cult than it was. Sometimes they will come up to me and say, "Oh, I loved the book about you and your mother." It is true that my mother died of ovarian cancer when she was forty and I was nineteen, and of course that made it easy to evoke many of the details of Kate's illness and death. But I used that in the way you might use a city you'd lived in as the backdrop for a story, or give a character a profession you'd once practiced. It was useful and important, but I don't think of it as what the book is about. It probably would have been painful had I tried to write this a short time after my mother died, and I can say unequivocally that I would have been unsuccessful, both because I would have lacked the emotional wherewithal to work with the material and transform it properly and because I wasn't introspective enough to tell a story of this sort. But One True Thing was written twenty years after those events in my own life. There were scenes that were quite draining. The scene in which Kate is in the bathtub was pretty terrible to write. I wept through most of it. But I did the same with emotionally charged scenes in all three other novels as well. I tend to be an optimistic person and writer, but in this case if there is a hopeful message it is with good reason. Ellen has been well-mothered, and I know enough about the world to know that that is both relatively rare and absolutely pivotal. So I think she is going to be able to incorporate the life of the mind that her father bequeathed her and the full heart her mother left her and be a whole human being.
Q: You've written ?ction and non?ction, news columns and novels–what is the most dif?cult to write? The most fun? The most rewarding?
AQ: I have been a journalist for so long and have written so many hundreds of columns that it is just easier for me than writing novels. Columns are also bite-size; one of the things that makes a novel so challenging is that there's so much of it. Having said that, if I had to choose a single form tomorrow, I would choose novel writing. I'm lucky; I don't have to make that choice.
Reader's Guide
1. One True Thing begins with Ellen in jail. What do you think about the book beginning this way? Did it affect the way you read the rest of the story, knowing (to some extent) how it would end? Looking back, do you think that scene in jail ultimately adds or detracts from the mystery of the story? How?
2. What was your ?rst impression of Ellen? What did you think of her when you ?nished the novel? It's clear that she changes over the course of her mother's illness and in the wake of her death, but in what speci?c ways?
3. Kate Gulden seems to be the archetypal "perfect mother." Was she? How were her relationships with her sons, Jeff and Brian, different from her relationship with Ellen?
4. What did you think of George Gulden at the beginning of the book? Were you surprised as you learned more about his relationship with his wife and children? How did your opinion of him change, and why?
5. Ellen re?ects, "No one knows what goes on inside a marriage. I read that once; the aphorism ended 'except for the two people who are in it.' But I suspect that even that is not the truth, that even two people married to each other for many many years may have only passing similarities in their perceptions and their expectations" (p. 106). What do you think of this statement? How does it apply to George and Kate Gulden?
6. Describe Ellen's relationship with Jonathan. Why does she remain interested in a man who does not treat her well? How does Ellen's relationship with Jonathan compare and contrast to her relationship with her father? Were you surprised by Jonathan's betrayal? Why do you think he turned on Ellen?
7. In reference to her father, Ellen says: "He divided women into groups . . . the intellectual twins, the woman of the mind and the one of the heart . . . I had the misfortune to be designated the heartless one, my mother the mindless one. It was a disservice to us both but, on balance, I think she got the better deal" (p. 281). Discuss the meanings, and implications, of these categorizations.
8. Discuss the reactions to Kate's cancer diagnosis, and the progression of the disease, both within the Gulden family (Kate, Ellen, George, Brian and Jeff) and in their small town (the Minnies, etc). Were you surprised by any of the reactions? How and why?
9. Against Ellen's wishes, Dr. Cohn sends Nurse Teresa Guerrero to help care for Kate. How does Teresa ?t in with the Gulden family? Do you agree with Ellen, when she thinks that Teresa helped her as much, if not more, than she helped Kate? How?
10. When Kate died, what did you think happened? Were you surprised to learn about the morphine overdose? Before you learned the truth, did you think it was Ellen, George, or Kate who had administered the lethal dose? Did you ever think it could have been an accident?
11. Mrs. Forburg, Ellen's former English teacher, bails Ellen out of jail and lets her stay at her home during the indictment media frenzy. Why does Mrs. Forburg take such a risk?
12. Were you surprised by the grand jury's decision? If you thought Ellen would or would not be indicted, explain why. Do you think the jury's decision was realistic?
13. At the end of the novel, Ellen sees her father for the ?rst time in eight years. About the death of her mother, she says, "Someday I will tell my father. Someday soon, I imagine, although there is great temptation to leave the man I once thought the smartest person on earth in utter ignorance" (p. 287). Do you think Ellen will tell her father what happened? Why or why not? Would you, if you were in her shoes?

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 4, 2011) – The U.S. Men's Pan American Games Volleyball Team fell to the Toray Arrows of Japan, 21-25, 25-20, 29-27, 25-19 in an exhibition match on Monday at Concordia University in Irvine, Calif.
The U.S. team used the match to prepare to compete at the Pan Am Games on Oct. 24-29 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Outside hitter Tony Ciarelli (Huntington Beach, Calif.) paced the United States' effort with 12 points on 10 kills and two aces.
Opposite Dave McKienzie (Lakewood, Colo.), who is not on the Pan American Games roster but was supporting the team, scored 11 points on nine attacks, one block and one ace. Matt Rawson (Los Angeles, Calif.) totaled 10 points on five kills, four blocks and one ace.
The U.S. team out-blocked Toray, 10-7, led by Rawson's four. The U.S. also scored on 50 kills while the Arrows had 48. However, the U.S. was hurt by 18 hitting errors while Japan committed seven. The teams were close in aces with Toray leading 6-5, but again, the U.S. was hurt by 20 serving errors while the Arrows had 15.
Toray's Tatsunori Kakuda led all scorers with a match-high 22 points on 21 kills and one block.
Photo: Copyrighted by USAV/Gary Mathews Among other U.S. scorers, Matt Stork (Topanga, Calif.) had eight points on six kills and two blocks. Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) added seven points on six attacks and one block. Jeremy Dejno (New Berlin, Wis.) totaled six points on four attacks, one block and one ace.
Nick Vogel (El Cajon, Calif.) and Scott Slaughter (Newport Beach, Calif.) both scored three points on three attacks. Kyle Caldwell (Newport Beach, Calif.) totaled three points on two kills and one block.
Cody Loe (Chatsworth, Calif.) scored two points on two attacks.
U.S. Head Coach John Speraw started Ciarelli and Stork at outside hitter, Rawson and Vogel at middle blocker, Patak at opposite, Caldwell at setter and Kirk Francis (Torrance, Calif.) at libero.
McKienzie started the second and third sets at opposite. Slaughter started the third and fourth sets at middle blocker. Dejno started the fourth set at outside hitter. Loe started the third set at middle blocker. J.D. Schleppenbach (Ventura, Calif.) started the fourth set at libero.
Taylor Crabb (Honolulu, Hawaii) also played as a substitute.
The U.S. Men's Pan American Games team will begin competition on Oct. 24 in Group B with Brazil, Canada and Puerto Rico. Group A will include Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela.
U.S. Men's Pan American Games Team
(Twelve players will be selected to travel to Guadalajara)
No Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 J.D. Schleppenbach (L, 6-4, Ventura, Calif., Pepperdine)
2 Tony Ciarelli (OH, 6-6, Huntington Beach, Calif., University of Southern California)
3 Evan Patak (Opp, 6-8, Pleasanton, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
4 Carson Clark (Opp, 6-5, Santa Barbara, Calif., UC Irvine)
5 Eric Vance (OH, 6-4, Camarillo, Calif., Cal State Northridge)
6 Nick Vogel (MB, 6-9, El Cajon, Calif., UCLA)
7 Matt West (S, 6-5, Seattle, Wash., Pepperdine)
8 Kyle Caldwell (Opp, 6-9, Newport Beach, Calif., UCLA)
9 Scott Slaughter (MB, 6-7, Newport Beach, Calif., UCSB)
10 Matt Rawson (MB, 6-7, Los Angeles, Calif., Hawaii)
11 Matt Stork (S, 6-5, Topanga, Calif., Cal State Northridge)
12 Kirk Francis (L, 5-11, Torrance, Calif., Long Beach State)
13 James Baughman (Opp, 6-7, Valencia, Calif., Long Beach State)
14 Cody Loe (MB, 6-8, Chatsworth, Calif., Cal State Northridge)
15 Jordan DuFault (OH, 6-4, Lakewood, Calif., UC Irvine)
16 Tri Bourne (OH, 6-5, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USC, Aloha)
17 Scott Kevorken (MB, 6-8, Westlake Village, Calif., UC Irvine)
18 Jeremy Dejno (OH, 6-5, New Berlin, Wis., UC Irvine)
19 Taylor Crabb (OH, 6-1, Honolulu, Hawaii, Long Beach State)
Head Coach: John Speraw (UC Irvine)
Team Manager: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Assistant Coach: Jeff Nygaard (USC)
Therapist/Trainer: Charlie Sullivan (Springfield College)
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They are children who have no home of their own, let alone cherished material possessions. When the wife of their prime minister came to visit recently, they were thrilled when she gifted each one the equivalent of about $12 Cdn.
On Wednesday, those children handed over half of their new windfall to the Paul Brandt Build It Forward Foundation, specifying that they wanted the money to go to victims of the Alberta floods. Together with donations from orphanage staff, the final tally came in at $900 — impressive from children of any socioeconomic background.
These children, though, are the neediest of the world's needy. They live in a place called Place of Rescue Orphanage, a Cambodian sanctuary for children and adult AIDS patients and other unfortunates.
While such an act of generosity is jaw-dropping — the poorest of the poor giving to citizens in one of the wealthiest cities in the world — it doesn't surprise someone like Brandt.
"You go there thinking you're helping them, to make their lives better," says Brandt, who visited the orphanage in 2004 and 2009, one of those visits with Samaritan's Purse. "Then they give to us what's a month's salary to them. It's pretty neat, pretty neat."
Besides, they learned the art of giving from one of the best in the world: when I speak with Brandt, he's just wrapped up a day of visiting flood victims at Siksika First Nation; the day before, he visited Nanton and the Turner Valley area.
"I've just been letting them know that people aren't forgetting about them," he says. "I was crying with people ... you just want to be there for them."
Orphaned children giving money to Alberta flood victims also doesn't surprise Blaine Sylvester, director of the Calgary-based Canadian Foundation Place of Rescue, who had the honour of wiring the money Wednesday afternoon to Brandt's foundation.
"They consider themselves very fortunate, because their lives are better than the kids they see on the streets," says Sylvester, who adds that they have never forgotten Brandt's visits to the orphanage. "The children may live in spartan conditions and sleep 10 to a house with a house mother, but they're safe, they're secure and they're loved."
In addition to their love for our homegrown country music star, some of those kids have a personal connection to the city itself. A couple of years ago, a group of them came to Calgary and presented dance performances in various venues around the city.
"One of those places was Bowness Park," says Sylvester, whose mother-in-law Marie Ens founded the orphanage in 2003. "When they were told that the park had been flooded, they wanted to help."
Sylvester, who has made 10 visits to the orphanage over the years, is preparing to go there again next week, taking 48 Calgary volunteers with him.
"We will be hosting an English camp for the kids," he says.
Over the past week, Calgary and its environs have seen the worst of Mother Nature, the best of human nature.
Whole armies of smiling volunteers have descended on destroyed neighbourhoods, lending a hand to lift a crowbar or haul away a rotted two-by-four, their busy hands offering both practical and spiritual relief to those who have lost so much.
On Wednesday alone, I was witness to the generosity of people from all walks of life: former Flame Jim Peplinski offered up trucks free of charge from his leasing company to be used to haul debris to the dump; famed entrepreneur and philanthropist Brett Wilson didn't cancel his fundraising annual Garden Party, instead choosing to add flood relief to his recipient list; and the Calgary Foundation announced the creation of the Flood Recovery and Rebuilding Fund, which has already received a donation of $100,000 by Suncor Energy and pledges to match all future donations up to an additional $150,000.
Then there are those stalwart helpers of the needy, the Calgary Food Bank and Calgary Meals on Wheels, announcing a temporary collaboration to provide a steady stream of nourishing meals to area evacuation centres, as well as volunteers and homeowners in the hard-hit areas.
But children in an orphanage, living in an impoverished country on the other side of the planet? If this does not fill your heart to the brim, then I am afraid you might not have one at all.
Brandt echoes my sentiment.
"When you hear about this kind of thing, from orphaned kids, it's humbling," says Brandt.
"It is an incredibly heartwarming, wonderful thing to see."
For more on Place of Rescue, including donation information, visit its website at http://www.placeofrescue.com


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- salt0.35g
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The Champion: Smith eyes Thanksgiving brewery opening
Keep your eyes peeled this fall for a new brewery and public taproom, as construction continues on the inside of what will become Champion Brewing Company. Located on Sixth Street Southeast, near the southern end the of Belmont Bridge near the Downtown Mall, the place is aiming for a Thanksgiving-time opening.
The creator is Hunter Smith, a 26-year-old Suffolk native who enthuses about combining his passion for craft beer, which he honed at Chicago's Siebel Institute of Technology, with his interest in business, which he honed as the marketing manager of his family's Afton Mountain Vineyard in Afton.
"I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't confident I could make good beer," says Smith, who, as Hunter Smith and the Dead Men, is also the leader of Americana singer/songwriter act noted by the Hook two years ago as an artist to watch.
A self-described brewing "nerd," Smith says he plans to serve a rotation of five or six beer varieties, with his personal IPA recipe a permanent part of the menu. Champion, he says, will be equipped to produce up to six kegs a day.Read more on: Hunter Smith and the Dead Men
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Hopefully he eon't wear that shirt to the grand opening....Nice look
I think this is a great. I will definitely check it out when it opens.
Psyched about this.
ps. his band is 'Hunter Smith and the Dead Men'
I wish Hunter Smith great success ... sounds like he has a good sense of what it may take to operate a business. I hope the band will play at the opening party. The sun is beer!


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Gov. Rick Perry is still sticking with Newt Gingrich as Mitt Romney appears to have sewn up the GOP presidential nomination.
Even Perry's camp suggests it has more to do with loyalty than anything else at this point.
Here's a statement from Perry spokesman Ray Sullivan:
"Governor Perry will strongly endorse and work for the Republican nominee, since our priority must be to replace President Obama and his destructive policies. As a former U.S. military officer and a proud Aggie, Rick Perry puts a premium on loyalty and therefore today remains Newt Gingrich backer."


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Early Life
Minerva McGonagall was born into the McGonagall family on 4 October, 1925 to at least one magical parent, making her either pure or half-blood. She was presumably born or lived in Scotland as she had an accent and would often wear on her robes the traditionally Scottish pattern-fabric tartan.
Minerva attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as a pupil from 1937 to 1944. This would mean that McGonagall was studying as a pupil in the year above Tom Riddle. She was Sorted into Gryffindor House, of which she would later serve as Head in her later life. McGonagall presumably achieved an Outstanding or Exceeds Expectations in Transfiguration, which was taught by Albus Dumbledore, as she would later go on to teach the subject.
It is unknown when, but Minerva trained also to become an Animagus, wanting to explore Transfiguration further.[1] It is also notable that Minerva is able to conjure a Patronus, which takes the form of a cat, something average students are not taught and considered a high level of practical magic.
First opening of the Chamber of Secrets
- "I was wondering, if you could... tell us about the Chamber of Secrets?"
- —Hermione Granger questions McGonagall aboutt her knowledge of the Chamber.[src]
In her sixth year studying at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Minerva would go through the first opening of the Chamber of Secrets in 1942 by pupil in the year below her, Tom Riddle. Minerva was safe at Hogwarts as she was not a Muggle-born which the creature within the chamber preyed on. However, Myrtle a Ravenclaw student did not have the same luck and was killed instantly when she came across the monster. Hogwarts faced possible closure afterwards, however it never closed and McGonagall proceeded to go through the rest of her education at Hogwarts as intended. She graduated from Hogwarts in 1944.
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- "Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts. Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned."
- —Minerva McGonagall lectures her first-year students.[src]
In December 1956, Minerva returned to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this time not to learn but to teach Transfiguration, after Albus Dumbledore ascended to the position of Headmaster of the school. As a teacher, Minerva was a strict disciplinarian, maintaining control of her students with a stern hand that made her someone not to be crossed. Her lessons consisted of but were not limited to match to needle, animal to water goblet, beetle to button, and mouse-to-snuffbox transformations, as well as Vanishing, Conjuring and Switching Spells.
Later on in her career, Minerva would also be appointed the position of Head of Gryffindor House, the house in which she used to reside whilst studying at Hogwarts. Albus Dumbledore would later on in her career also trust her enough to allow her to become Deputy Headmistress of the school and fill in for him on the occasions of his absence.
First Wizarding War
After the first rise of dark wizard Lord Voldemort (whom McGonagall was educated with during her time as student at Hogwarts) Minerva took part in fighting back against the Dark Wizard and his followers. This rise of the dark lord is known as the First Wizarding War.
Order of the Phoenix
In the early days of the First Wizarding War, McGonagall joined the rebel alliance founded known as the Order of the Phoenix, led by Albus Dumbledore. Minerva played a vital role in the resistance against Voldemort and his army of followers and throughout the war McGonagall stayed loyal to the Order despite the rise in murders of members. McGonagall got through the war unscathed where others suffered loss of limb or other injuries.
Protection of Harry Potter
In 1981, baby Harry Potter defeated Lord Voldemort in his family home at Godric's Hollow, his parents James Potter and Lily Evans (both members of the Order of the Phoenix) were killed whilst protecting their son from harm. The defeat of Voldemort ultimately ended the war and his followers were arrested and those that escaped went into hiding. Minerva travelled to Surrey and there spent an entire day observing the Dursley family seeing whether or not they met the standards of looking after Harry as they were his only living relatives with his parents now dead. She was thus present, along with Rubeus Hagrid, when Dumbledore placed Harry on the Dursleys' doorstep, despite her objections to leaving him with these Muggles, whom she considered to be the "worst kind" of them. She kept a close eye on Harry from time to time during his early childhood, as did other members of the Order of the Phoenix.[2]
Between Wars
Protecting the Philosopher's Stone
Second opening of the Chamber of Secrets
Escape of Sirius Black
Triwizard Tournament
Second Wizarding War
High Inquisitor at Hogwarts
St. Mungo's Hospital
Return to Hogwarts
Assassination attempts on Albus Dumbledore
Battle of the Astronomy Tower
Voldemort's control of Hogwarts
Battle of Hogwarts
Later life
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How do you install color ink cartridges in your printer? What does it mean when the light won't illuminate on your disk drive? You're not alone if you've encountered problems with your PC. But when you don't have time to spend hours leafing through an owner's manual or waiting on terminal hold for tech support, call the PC Crisis Line.
Created in 1995 by frustrated PC user Robert White and his brother, William, this independent technical support hotline gives callers more than answers: If none of PC Crisis Line's three technicians can help you, not only are you not charged, but they'll refer you to someone who can help. PC Crisis Line never puts callers on hold; if no one is available, they'll call you back within 30 minutes--or give you two free minutes of tech support.
PC Crisis Line is geared toward anyone who's a PC user and needs help. Calls cost $3 a minute, with a 2-minute minimum. After 10 minutes, the charge drops to $1 per minute (average calls last less than five minutes). Support is available 24 hours a day. Call PC Crisis Line at (800) 828-4358.
Husbands For Hire
By Charlotte Mulhern
Last year when Kaile Warren Jr. renamed his home-repair business Rent-a-Husband Inc., he got some strange responses. "A lot of people thought I had an escort service," Warren remembers. Not quite--his company helps people with household tasks, from doing laundry to staining decks, shingling roofs and installing appliances.
As it turned out, renaming the company and targeting a specific market (women aged 20 to 50) transformed Warren's struggling Portland, Maine, business into a million-dollar nationwide franchise operation that expects to have 200 locations open in three years. The name has even attracted national media attention: Warren has appeared on the Maury Povich and Montel Williams talk shows, and Jay Leno has cracked jokes about Rent-a-Husband in several opening monologues.
"[The name `Rent-a-Husband'] is simple to remember," says Warren, 38, whose franchise can be run from the home. "Once people hear it, they never forget it. It stays with them forever."
Despite its moniker, Warren has no intention of excluding women from his payroll. But so far, his only "husbands" are men. "They're every woman's fantasy," he says. "Tall, dark and handy."
California Steamin'
By Janean Chun
Inflamed lobbyists, defensive government officials, a handful of serious misunderstandings--everything's present and accounted for in the controversy surrounding California Assembly Bill 701, which passed the state legislature in September. Debra Schacher, chairman and CEO of the Home Office and Business Opportunities Association, calls the bill "a witch hunt," while Tim Lynch, deputy controller for the city of Los Angeles, says it's "a very minor type of housekeeping thing."
The red tape started sticking this summer in Los Angeles, when the city at long last updated its zoning ordinances to legalize homebased businesses. However, the victory came with a sharp edge: Any homebased business that registers after the amnesty period that ended in September can be back-taxed from November 1996 forward. By the city clerk's calculations, approximately 5,800 of Los Angeles' estimated 20,000 homebased business owners made the cut-off date.
Just as the uproar started brewing, the California Assembly Bill began picking up steam. The bill allows the state to provide city officers with names, addresses, Social Security or taxpayer identification numbers, and business activity codes of anyone paying state taxes. Some homebased business advocates started smelling a conspiracy.
The California bill, says Schacher, empowers the city of Los Angeles to go forward with its plans to identify Los Angeles' homebased businesses through tax records without the knowledge of the business owner.
Lynch claims the bill and the Los Angeles zoning ordinance are not connected. "I can understand that for someone who is working quietly in his home, this looks as if all of a sudden we're ganging up on him," says Lynch. "But [the bill and the zoning ordinance] just happened to coincide in the summer of 1997."
Cyber Stamps
By Charlotte Mulhern
As the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) considers implementing its Information Based Indicia Program, which would enable entrepreneurs to generate postage in their offices, companies awaiting evaluation results expect their electronic postage products to hit the market in 1998.
*Neopost: In May, this worldwide manufacturer and distributor of postage meters and shipping and documentation equipment announced its PC Stamp, which will enable users to generate stamps using their computers.
Once users purchase postage (on the Internet or by calling the company directly), PC Stamp allows them to print out two-dimensional bar codes, also known as indicias, on envelopes or labels. The software required to use the system will be available in retail outlets or from Neopost directly; prices have yet to be determined. Visit http://www.pcstamp.com .
*E-Stamp Corp.: Designed specifically for small office/home office (SOHO) entrepreneurs, E-Stamp Corp.'s E-Stamp Soho, upon USPS approval, is expected to be the first electronic postage product on the market. E-Stamp expects the product to be available in the San Francisco and Washington, DC, areas by the time you read this.
E-Stamp Soho will allow users to download postage off the company's Internet Post Office and print postage in the form of bar codes on letters and packages to be sent. Visit http://www.estamp.com .
*Pitney Bowes Inc.: Pitney Bowes' electronic postage product, also pending approval by the USPS, is called Personal Post Office for the PC. Visit http://www.pitneybowes.com .
It's In The Mail
The SOHO market on handling postage.
*Amount of mail sent out each week:
69% of respondents: up to 49 pieces
14% of respondents: 50-99 pieces
*57% spend up to $49 each month on postage.
*88% do not have or use a postage meter.
*98% would likely use electronic postage software products, if available.
*67% said they would very likely purchase electronic postage products.
*75% address at least half of their outgoing mail electronically.
Book Review
By Debra Phillips
Doing business on the World Wide Web isn't the anomaly it once was. Indeed, according to author Evan I. Schwartz in the highly readable Webonomics: Nine Essential Principles for Growing Your Business on the World Wide Web (Broadway Books, $25 cloth), new Web sites are popping up literally every minute. Unfortunately, not all of these would-be cyberstars know exactly what they're doing.
"Building a long-term business on the Web is done not just by momentarily grabbing our attention, but also by sustaining it with something of unique value," Schwartz says. "If Web pages are to become more than just the Pet Rock of the '90s, browsing them has to be a satisfying experience in and of itself."
As Schwartz sees it, many companies fail to give Web surfers ample reason to return to their sites after the initial visit. "People are looking for more than just information when they go online," Schwartz points out. "They treat the Web as a place where they can interact with other people. The most effective Web sites are not just billboards on the side of the road."
So is it worth all this time, trouble and consideration to venture forth into this new electronic marketplace--or "marketspace," as Schwartz calls it? After reading Webonomics, you're likely to answer in the affirmative. Given its potential as an exporting tool, the Web could prove to be a formidable force for your business.
Contact Sources
E-Stamp Corp., 4009 Miranda Ave., #225, Palo Alto, CA 94304, (415) 843-8000
National Home Office & Business Opportunities Association, 92 Corporate Park, Ste. C250, Irvine, CA 92606, (714) 589-3232
Tim Lynch, Deputy Controller, City Hall, Room 220, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Neopost, 30955 Huntwood Ave., Hayward, CA 94544, http://www.pcstamp.com
PC Crisis Line LLC, 490 San Antonio Rd., Ste. G, Palo Alto, CA 94306, http://www.netbox.com/pccrisis
Pitney Bowes Inc., (212) 684-6300, ext. 313
Rent-A-Husband Inc., 217A Commercial St., Portland, ME 04101, (207) 879-7425


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Although I soldered SMDs before, this was the first time I built an entire kit made of SMDs.
As challenging as it looks at first sight, after warming up by soldering a few LEDs, one may be inclined to give up through-hole soldering altogether. Soldering SMDs is not as scary as it sounds once one gets the technique, described in 4 steps: "wet" one pad, place the SMD on its pads, solder one terminal to the "wet" pad, then solder the other terminal.
The step-by-step tutorial for assembling the "SMTCylon" is very good, in the adafruit style, with lots of photos. Assembling takes about half an hour. The attiny microcontroller comes already programmed.
I highly recommend this kit as a great introduction to SMD soldering. And after the soldering fun was over (with absolutely no glitches), the playing fun started. I am thinking of incorporating the small board into a bigger project.


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Thursday, October 30, 2008 | Posted by Brodd Family at 9:32 AM 0 comments
Adam asked if my present needed to be wrapped, I said yes. Maybe next year I will say no.
Meg made up for Adam's slacking with a beautiful gift and chocolate:) Plus she brought her momma with so we had a great girlie time.
Mary (the momma) gave me a Raggedy Anne that she made. She is even cuter in real life!
Mary (the momma) gave me a Raggedy Anne that she made. She is even cuter in real life!
I am doing things a little out of order but I went out with Trin to celebrate the last day of my twenties. You can visit her blog for pictures and a proper description of the evening. She gave me a really neat knitting sock kit thing. Her blog also has a better description of how the sock kit works.
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Don't mess with me!
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What does Lucy want?
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Pumkin Carving Celbration
These are a bunch of pictures from our fun day of pumpkin carving. Since time seems to go way to quick now that I am back at work I think I will just be posting lots of pictures.
Scott can hold a pea pod, drink beer, take pictures and cut stuff all at the same time. Wow his wife is one lucky lady.
I think he is tooting
not sure what he is up to
Vonnie-I hope this makes you happy :)--buy lots of shoes over there and don't forget to get me a b-day present!
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Sweet Pea
Sorry for the big delay in blogging. We had a very busy week, but we survived. This is just to tide you over until I have a little more time. We just spent to long picking out pictures to get develped on Snapfish and then our cart only had 3 photos in it so I am a little annoyed at the moment. Hopefully this little pea will keep you happy for a day or two.
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10 of the world's coolest underground wonders
By Carren Jao, Travel + Leisure • Updated 27th February 2014
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Jules Verne understood it best: you can fly around the world in 80 days and dive 20,000 leagues under the sea, but you can also find awesome otherworldly adventures right beneath your feet.
Just ask the Mexican miners who discovered a sweltering cavern filled with crystals as tall as apartment buildings, or the Brazilians who first gazed into Poço Encantado, a cave with a lake so clear you lose all sense of perspective looking into its depths. Mother Nature knows what she's doing when it comes to creating cool underground attractions.
Mankind isn't so bad at it either. Turkey's ancient city of Derinkuyu is thought to have housed 20,000 people 18 stories inside a mountain. And in Luxor's Valley of the Kings, the Tomb of Seti I's sheer size and extensive Book of the Dead bas-reliefs would make any aspiring Egyptologist cry mummy.
Ready to discover some of the earth's coolest underground sights? Here's where to start digging.
Travel + Leisure: World's coolest new tourist attractions
Puerto Princesa Underground River, Philippines
A UNESCO World Heritage site, this five-mile-long underground river lies beneath a limestone karst mountain on the island of Palawa, connecting the Cabayugan River's flow to the South China Sea. The surrounding national park protects eight different forest systems, from mountains to beaches, and is a naturalist's dream with a multitude of plant species (800 and counting) and vibrant animal life. While underground on guided rafting trips, visitors enter several large chambers, some as wide as 390 feet and almost 200 feet high, as well as passageways with a more claustrophobic fit.
Turda Salt Mines, Romania
Excavated by hand since the 13th century -- although perhaps as early at 1075 -- the massive Turda Salt Mines in Transylvania is now a subterranean museum and recreation center with basketball hoops, a mini-golf course, Ferris wheel, and even an underground lake you can go boating on. From mine mouth to dome's floor is a staggering 368 feet underground. Those with allergies and asthma will be especially interested in the mine's halotherapy spa facilities, which use ionized air, pressure, and humidity in the salt-lined caves to treat persistent respiratory problems.
Magma Chamber of Thrihnukagigur Volcano, Iceland
Joe Versus the Volcano this is not -- no need for human sacrifice to see the inner chamber of Thrihnukagigur Volcano, which has been dormant for 4,000 years. Instead of erupting, the magma mysteriously drained away, leaving behind psychedelic mineral colorations geological geeks can gawk at today. After a hike across lava fields, visitors are whisked 390 feet into the volcano's maw by a cable car. Tours usually occur between June and July, but can be extended beyond that period.
Travel + Leisure: Coolest underwater attractions
Poço Encantado, Brazil
Set along the eastern border of the Chapada Diamantina range near Andaraí in northeast Brazil, the Poço Encantado (Enchanted Well) is an underground lake with a natural window out to the Bahian jungle above. Between April and September, when the sun is at just the right spot in the sky, the light hitting the water in the cave turns it a deep, mysterious blue. The water is so clear that one can see more than 200 feet to the bottom, where ancient tree trunks and rock formations appear disorientingly close.
Cave of the Crystals, Mexico
La Cueva de los Cristales was discovered in the Naica Mine near Chihuahua in 2000 after water was pumped out of the 30-by-90-foot chamber, and there's nothing else like it on -- or under -- earth. The crisscrossing gypsum columns are some of the world's largest natural crystals. Despite its grandeur, visits are nearly impossible to come by due to dangerous conditions: near 100-percent humidity and temperatures as high as 136 degrees, warmed by a pool of magma sitting below the cave. There's even been talk of refilling it with water.
Waitomo Glowworm Caves, New Zealand
The real-life setting for a glow-in-the-dark sci-fi spectacular is two hours south of Auckland and the same distance west of Rotorua under Waitomo's rolling green hills. Here caves are filled with arachnocampa luminosa (that's New Zealand's indigenous glowworms to you) that give off a subtle blue glow due to a chemical reaction occurring in their abdomen. Enjoy a boat ride that will take you through this galaxy of living lights, strong on sticky webs above.
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Greenbrier Bunker, White Sulphur Springs, WV
Indulge in a little espionage while visiting the Allegheny Mountain's posh Greenbrier resort, where a bunker was secretly built in 1956 to house members of Congress should nuclear war break out. Now declassified, the fallout shelter could have accommodated more than 1,100 people behind 25-ton blast doors; today, it's a time capsule of Cold War hubris. The unused bunker came equipped with a power plant, decontamination chambers, communications equipment, meeting rooms, and a great hall for joint sessions -- all over two football-field-size levels.
San Clemente Basilica and Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, Rome
Uncover eons of religious belief at San Clemente Basilica, a 12th-century basilica built on top of a many-frescoed fourth-century church -- itself built over a secular first-century home that stands next to a second-century temple used by an all-male fertility cult worshiping the sun god Mithras. Those with darker leanings can explore the Capuchin ossuary underneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione, a 10-minute walk away, where the bones of 4,000 monks were used to artistically decorate the crypt in the form of chandeliers, coats of arms, and archways. Keep a lookout for a toddler's skeleton turned flying grim reaper.
Forestiere Underground Gardens, Fresno, CA
From 1906 to 1946, Sicilian immigrant Baldassare Forestiere built himself a subterranean home and garden modeled after the ancient catacombs of his homeland. The intrepid builder and gardener dug some 10,000 square feet of rooms, a chapel, and even an underground fishing pond using just farming tools. Forestiere's 10-acre creation provides a cool respite from the scorching California sun, with blooming fruit trees reaching to skylights above.
Cabinet War Rooms, London
Across the Atlantic, another secret underground bunker got a lot of use as the nerve center of the British war effort in World War II. Occupied by ministers, military personnel, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill from 1939 to 1945, the Cabinet War Rooms -- part of the Churchill War Rooms museum -- preserves many of the day-to-day artifacts used in that period, from large maps full of pinpricks indicating changing front lines down to the swivel chair Churchill used while presiding over the War Cabinet.
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I've been getting a lot of questions again regarding the pigment samples, so let me re-iterate them and hopefully this post answers all your questions! :)
- YES I am still selling pigments, however I ran out of the jars to place them in due to amount of orders i've been getting. I ordered more jars and they have NOT arrived yet, so please don't place any orders or they WILL get lost, so just keep checking this site to see any updates as I will announce when I am ready to take orders again. They are 1/4 teaspoon samples in a 3 gram jar with a sifter.
- I bought more piggies (such as Vanilla and GoldStroke), "Your Ladyship" and "Viz-a-Violet" is no longer available due to being limited edition items, and I need to save some for myself! Sweet Sienna is still available, I may purchase more of "Your Ladyship" just for sampling but I am not sure yet, let me know if you ladies are interested in this pigment, if there are enough ladies that want to sample it, then i'll buy it.
- Prices are still the same, $3 each except for 7+, 7-8 is now $15 (a buck cheaper), 9+ will be $17 and I will be getting more pigments as I go along. PRICES INCLUDE SHIPPING AND PACKAGING (THE JARS AND ENVELOPES). I DO SHIP INTERNATIONAL HOWEVER TRACKING INFO IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR INTERNATIONAL AS IT IS MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE. ESTIMATED SHIPPING TO INTERNATIONAL COUNTRIES ARE ABOUT A WEEK. I am not responsible for lost international packages because there is no tracking info, if you are interested in tracking info, refer to the usps.com website and estimate the rates and let me know. Last time I checked, shipping to the UK barely Priority Mail was already $24.60!
- The colors I have available are: Teal, Vanilla, Golden Lemon, Gold Stroke, Fuchsia, Pinked Mauve, Blue, Sweet Sienna, Violet, and Your Ladyship (vote if you want it!)
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Reader Questions: Pigment Samples
I've been getting a lot of questions again regarding the pigment samples, so let me re-iterate them and hopefully this post answers all your questions! :)
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- Ethereal Prey said...
Hi thanks for the linkie! you're making me want to get drizzlegold so bad now!!!! Must show restraint! ah screw it..i'm ordering it now...i'm so weak...so weak.....
- November 16, 2007 at 11:16 AM
- CuttiBeBe said...
one vote for Your Ladyship
- November 16, 2007 at 11:35 AM
- CuttiBeBe said...
one vote for Your Ladyship
- November 16, 2007 at 11:35 AM
- Anonymous said...
Hi Vanessa, I would love to purchase some pigments from you! I've been meaning to email you about which colors you have but good thing you posted the list up so I dont' have to ask lol. I'm disappointed that you no longer have Your Ladyship! I really wanted to try it, so I'm voting for YES do get more because I will definitely order it, probably more than one sample of it too! 7-8 for $15 is a great deal thanks for offering this! Please keep us updated on when you will be able to make the orders and I will place mine. Thanks again!
- November 16, 2007 at 12:39 PM
- Anonymous said...
hey vanessa!!
your pigments are $2 per a container righht??
- November 16, 2007 at 8:12 PM
- Elizabeth said...
I'd definitely get some piggies off you but shipping for international is so expensive :(
- November 16, 2007 at 10:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
lol.. nevermind.. i just read it. -_- $3 bucks
- November 17, 2007 at 5:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
Hi :)
For the pigment samples...
Does that include shipping for international as well? Or is it an additional shipping if outside of the US?
thanks :D
- November 17, 2007 at 5:25 AM
- Anonymous said...
Another vote for Ladyship pigment!
- November 17, 2007 at 11:22 AM
- Christiana Divine @ Memoirs of A Shopping Addict said...
My friend from MAC says Your Ladyship is a pretty color. :] I'm curious... but I don't know. Haha. What do you think?
- November 17, 2007 at 11:20 PM
- G_046 said...
hi Nessa!
good pictures, good makeup as well!!
I was wondering if you receive money order to pay the samples + shipping and handling.
The reason I ask is b/c I don't have any paypal (sp?) stuff like that from amazon...
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RiverCityWeather.Net is shutting down as of September 19, 2012.
It is a sad day for me, this site has been one of my babies for many years, but I have decided to pull the plug on RiverCityWeather.Net. There are many factors, including life changes and a lack of support from the community. It was a great run and I thank all of the past visitors for trusting us with their weather needs.
It takes far more time and money to run this site and provide what we were providing than most people imagine. There are software costs, server costs, data pc costs, weather instrument costs, power, internet data connectivity costs and more.... not to mention hours of time each and every day.
It is time for me to sit back and relax some without having to worry about this site. It is time for me to spend some additional time with my family and it's time to give the money back to my family that I have been giving away to strangers each and every year. Just so you know, it costs enough to run this site on a yearly basis for my family to take a pretty nice vacation!
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[PC] Hellion
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[PC] Hellion
I decided to post because I'm still making a half-assed attempt at keeping the forum alive.
Hellion is a game in space about a large ship of people that FTL'd their way to a new solar system orbiting the star Hellion, only to have their ship ripped apart. Some individual cryo modules survived, and the players must now try to survive the empty blackness of space.
Key features:
-Modular (literally) pieces of station/ship you can dock together.
-Multiplayer focus
-Asteroid mining!
-Room pressurization
-Togglable artifical gravity
-Subsytems (oxygen, reactor, solar, gravity) with individual access points where parts occassionally burn out.
-Deus Ex / Half-life sized vents to crawl through / hide in.
-FTL, RCS, and regular engines
The game is about scavenging parts while keeping your base up-and-running. Due to a technical oversight, you can make your ship your home base just by docking a few modules to the airlock. (Just don't expect to be fuel efficient!) Otherwise, make friends and enemies as you establish your turf, and expect some people to turn pirate as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
The game is designed to be multiplayer, though it functions as single-player if you start the dedicated server program and connect to yourself. It has free-to-use public servers, though, so anyone with stable internet can enjoy it how it was meant to be played. (I guess LAN is technically possible.)
Oh, and Zero Gravity (the devs) promised me a free key from their next batch because I ... emailed them about adding a demo version? Ah, whatever. Odd response, but who'd ever say no to a free copy?
P.S. I plan to be a vent pirate/stowaway. I sneak into your base and live like a rat inside your vents, messing with things just enough for you to notice you aren't alone.
Also, vents auto-connect to eachother when you dock stuff.
Forever vigilent.
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The German steel and metals sector remains resilient with a competitive edge. However, major structural challenges and downside risks have increased.
- Better results expected in 2016
- Payments take between 30 and 45 days
- Increasing payment delays in some segments
The German steel and metals sector (with its main subsectors metals manufacturing, wholesale of metals and ores, iron and steel) is heavily dependent on the overall development of the German economy, especially on the performance of construction and export-oriented sectors such as mechanical engineering and automotive manufacturing.
According to the German Association of Steel and Metal Processing, production increased just 0.5% year-on-year in 2015, and in 2016 production growth of 1%-2% is expected, while the market environment is expected to remain difficult. In 2015, overcapacity and lower prices led to strong competition with decreasing sales and margins and depreciation of inventory. Therefore, the balance sheets of many steel and metals businesses show losses, especially due to the fact that prices deteriorated sharply last year. However, prices rebounded in early 2016, which means that businesses can expect better results in 2016, with improved profit margins.
While profit margins are shrinking, the general equity and liquidity of steel businesses in Germany are better than the manufacturing industry average, except for small wholesalers without pre-fabrication and/or steel service activities. Banks are generally willing to provide loans to the steel and metals sector.
It is expected that structural challenges (global overcapacities, cheaper imports from China and other foreign competitors, price volatility, geopolitical uncertainties, high energy costs in Germany) will continue to be downside risks for the time being. That said, the German steel and metals sector remains resilient with a competitive edge, due to its high technology products. Market participants remain rather optimistic about the further development of the main steel consuming sectors like automotive, construction and mechanical engineering. But without market adjustment, the economic slowdown in China and the unsatisfactory price development may have further negative impacts on export activities. Additionally, the final outcome of the Volkswagen scandal has to be closely monitored, as automotive suppliers could be affected by lower demand and cancelled orders.
We have seen no change in the payment behaviour of companies in the steel and metals sector over the past couple of months, with payments taking, on average, between 30 and 45 days. However an increase in payment delays in some more troubled segments cannot be excluded: the tubes and pipe segment suffered from decreased orders and postponed projects in the oil and gas industry. Those businesses are now more dependent on their credit lines in order to finance their working capital/high inventories and potential losses. Another difficult subsector is scrap recycling where businesses suffer from low steel prices and decreased margins. Additionally, smaller steel traders dealers without additional business like prefabrication and weak equity ratios are facing strong competition and low margins.
While we are more cautious when underwriting the aforementioned segments, in general our underwriting stance for German steel and metals businesses is basically positive. Insolvencies in this industry are not expected to increase in the coming six months. We pay particular attention to recent financial information (balance sheets, interim figures, bank status, payment terms, duration of contract, order volume, payment behaviour).


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Managed to get in the middle of it after lunch last Friday. Sitting in the car finishing up some correspondence on the thumb devil one minute, breaking up a fight outside that badguy social club next to the Chip Shop on Fifth Avenue the next.
Press send on a text and through the rear view mirror I've got one middle-aged man pounding, stiff as a statue, on a morbidly obese member planted on a chair outside the club. His assailant is screaming curses in time with the blows he's landing and Fatty has his arms up protecting his face, but he's getting the worst of it. I drop out of our Luxury German Automobile like a cross teacher on the playground. As I'm marching round the back bumper towards these graceless gladiators it becomes clear that the assailant isn't entirely talentless, but he is drunk as a Lord.
Game changer. As I close on the melee Fatty launches off his chair fist first, connecting with Drunky's nose. A testament to Newton's Second Law, Fatty has no swing, just locked shoulder, elbow and wrist. And even with its paltry acceleration, when Fatty's doughy fist makes contact with Drunky's nose it's all about the multiplier of Fatty's enormous mass. The nose splatters, flattening instantly against Drunky's face. Fatty doesn't hang around to celebrate, rather continues, his arch uninterrupted, on his course, landing, a modest hillock, in the middle of the sidewalk. Too blasted to realize that his profile has been irrevocably altered, Drunky begins kicking Fatty who tries vainly to roll over on his back.
The club, a VFW Hall in name only, is a Known Location, so as you'd expect, the new arrivals aren't the least bit concerned about the condition of the screaming drunk with the destroyed face. They are looking out for their own. A deeply-muscled thug pulls up in a tow truck, leaps into the street and chases Drunky through traffic off across the street where, face streaming blood, he stands defiant, if weaving unsteadily, and begins taunting Fatty. "Bury me? Bury me? You'll bury me?"
Outnumbered now, Drunky appears satisfied to stand his ground, shouting from a safe distance. Tow Truck joins the three of us and together we haul Fatty–cold to the touch and completely disoriented, likely in the throws of massive heart attack–back into his chair. Tow Truck and the two ruffians are joined by an amigo ("Johnny? You okay, Johnny?") and all four implore Johnny… "Fat" Johnny… to stay put in the chair. Fat Johnny just stares out on the scene like he is a million miles away.
Once satisfied that Fat Johnny is okay (which he absolutely is not), the ruffians pat him on the back, bid Fat Johnny take it easy and lope off in different directions away from the club.
Unattended, Fat Johnny immediately heaves himself out of his chair and back into the fray. Before he can take a single step he falls flat on his face, lets out a low moan, and lies stone still. I'm closest, so I'm first to try to grab him up. Joined by Tow Truck and yet another denizen of the VFW we drag the inert Fat Johnny back into his chair. "Maybe he should drink some water?" I suggest, certain he is dead.
"Yeah, water. Here Johnny, some water. Johnny, over here. Drink water. You okay."
"Don't move Johnny. Drink water," says tow truck looking up and down the avenue. Drunky, still unaware he has no nose, is leaning heavily on a mailbox, berating Fat Johnny."
"Okay," says Tow Truck. "We're good. Stay here Johnny. Drink water." Johnny has touched a drop. That's the best part, every new bad guy who swoops in to help is trying desperately to move on as soon as he arrives. Nobody wants to be around if the cops show up. I keep my eye on Tow Truck. He's the smart one, a man of action, too. Tow Truck keeps his eye on me. We're both wondering what I'm still doing on the scene. When we aren't sizing each other up, scrupulously avoiding eye contact, Tow Truck is scanning for the avenue for official response. My gaze follows his. Drunky could have friends too. That would be bad.
Fat Johnny either falls asleep or dies.
It's time to go.
Tow Truck hops into his ride and guns the huge engine, I'm back in the Luxury German Automobile, and the remaining ruffians vanish around corners and disappear into storefronts. It's over. The only guys left on the block are Fat Johnny and Drunky.


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At Big Think, I examine what surrounds the morality of keeping animals in captivity: of course, that's already a somewhat loaded phrase, but for the sake of brevity I just equated that with anything involving animals being in an enclosed "smaller" area (than the normal habitat), by humans.
I'm not convinced all captivity is always wrong – but that doesn't mean all are or most. Primarily, I want to untangle automatic assumptions that become definitions: that is, by definition x is wrong, when that is not clearly defined; or where there are instances of "black swans" in terms of these topics.


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Stevens Alumnus Named President of Top Architecture and Engineering Firm
Stevens alumnus John Sartor, a 20-year veteran in the architecture and engineering industry and who has been instrumental in major environmental and development projects in the tri-state area, has been named President of Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor (PS&S), a top architecture and engineering firm.
Sartor, who earned three master's degrees from Stevens in Environmental Engineering (1995), Civil Engineering (1999), and Construction Management (2003) has many significant development projects to his name. Most notably are the redevelopment of Hoboken's South Waterfront, now home to Wiley and Sons and the W Hotel, and the development of Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel and Casino. In both of these large-scale mixed use brownfield re-development projects, Sartor used his experience in environmental, civil and geotechnical engineering with his construction management training to create outstanding successful properties.
"John's passion to help clients and our team at PS&S deliver environmentally sound and extremely successful projects has been a hallmark of his career," said Dr. Anthony J. Sartor, PS&S chairman and chief executive officer. "He has developed into a tremendous leader for our organization and we have every confidence that he will continue as he helps guide our company's future."
Sartor was instrumental in developing PS&S's Renewable Energy Group, which is assisting clients in the development of Solar, Wind, Alternative Fuels and Geothermal projects in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. A member of Governor Christie's New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Transition Team, he has also been the guiding influence behind PS&S's Sustainable Development Group, assisting clients with green, sustainable solutions to reduce energy loads and water consumption.
"Stevens offered me a phenomenal opportunity to pursue my academic goals while fulfilling my responsibilities that furthered my career growth," said Sartor. "I attribute much of my success at PS&S to the time I spent at Stevens; the high quality education combined with the seasoned staff provides a wonderful environment for any professional looking to advance their career."


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Text of Kennedy Letter to Pope Benedict and Part of Response from Vatican as Read by Cardinal McCarr
Kennedy's letter:
"Most Holy Father, I asked President Obama to personally hand deliver this letter to you. As a man of deep faith himself, he understands how important my Roman Catholic faith is to me, and I am deeply grateful to him.
"I hope this letter finds you in good health. I pray that you have all of God's blessings as you lead our Church and inspire our world during these challenging times.
"I am writing with deep humility to ask that you pray for me as my own health declines. I was diagnosed with brain cancer more than a year ago, and, although I continue treatment, the disease is taking its toll on me. I am 77 years old and preparing for the next passage of life.
"I have been blessed to be a part of a wonderful family, and both of my parents, particularly my mother, kept our Catholic faith at the center of our lives. That gift of faith has sustained, nurtured and provided solace to me in the darkest hours. I know that I have been an imperfect human being, but with the help of my faith, I have tried to right my path.
"I want you to know, Your Holiness, that in my nearly 50 years of elective office, I have done my best to champion the rights of the poor and open doors of economic opportunity. I've worked to welcome the immigrant, fight discrimination and expand access to health care and education. I have opposed the death penalty and fought to end war. Those are the issues that have motivated me and been the focus of my work as a United States Senator.
"I also want you to know that even though I am ill, I am committed to do everything I can to achieve access to health care for everyone in my country. This has been the political cause of my life. I believe in a conscience protection for Catholics in the health care field and will continue to advocate for it as my colleagues in the Senate and I work to develop an overall national health policy that guarantees health care for everyone.
"I have always tried to be a faithful Catholic, Your Holiness, and though I have fallen short through human failings, I have never failed to believe and respect the fundamental teachings. I continue to pray for God's blessings on you and our Church and would be most thankful for your prayers for me."
Excerpt of Vatican reply:
"The Holy Father has read the letter which you entrusted to President Barack Obama, who kindly presented it to him during their recent meeting. He was saddened to know of your illness, and has asked me to assure you of his concern and his spiritual closeness. He is particularly grateful for your promise of prayers for him and for the needs of the universal Church.
"His Holiness prays that in the days ahead you may be sustained in faith and hope, and granted the precious grace of joyful surrender to the will of God our merciful Father. He invokes upon you the consolation and peace promised by the Risen Savior to all who share in His sufferings and trust in His promise of eternal life.
"Commending you and the members of your family to the loving intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Holy Father cordially imparts his Apostolic Blessing as a pledge of wisdom, comfort and strength in the Lord."


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The New England Mutiny of the Women's Premier Soccer League has reached the East Conference Finals thanks in large part to Blue Devils Nikola Deiter, Jewel Robinson and Tori Sousa. The feat marks the first time since 2008 that the Mutiny has advanced to the East Finals and a victory would further advance the squad to the WPSL National Championship on July 27-28.
The Mutiny earned a 2-0 victory over Mid-Atlantic Division champion Empire Revs WNY at the University of Buffalo to advance to the East Conference Finals. Blue Devil captains Deiter and Robinson contributed heavily to the win as Deiter registered her eighth shutout of the season and Robinson scored the insurance goal in the 30th minute.


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The glasses work on the principle that the more liquid pumped into a thin sac in the plastic lenses, the stronger the correction.
[Joshua Silver] has attached plastic syringes filled with silicone oil on each bow of the glasses; the wearer adds or subtracts the clear liquid with a little dial on the pump until the focus is right. After that adjustment, the syringes are removed and the "adaptive glasses" are ready to go.
Currently, Silver said, a pair costs about $19, but his hope is to cut that to a few dollars.
This is interesting for several reasons:
- It increases the flexibility of a single pair of eyeglasses for different situations.
- It allows the entire field of view to be the same focal length, unlike a bifocal or multifocal lens that has only a small region at the required focus and everything else off-focus.
- It decreases the long-term cost by allowing eyeglasses to adapt to changing eye-lens powers over many years (assuming the glasses last that long).
- It's a clever emulation of what nature does for the eye-lenses of most species: make them fluid-filled and change their shape with muscle tension.
Overall, seems like a design that solves several problems simultaneously. Quite impressive.


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July 1, 2018
Destroying America
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I normally dont like, what CEOs of major industry-companies say. But this time , Trump should ask his Advisors for good advice on what GM CEO was warning the administration about putting customs on imported cars.
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Faces of the Recovery Act: Jobs at Savannah River Site
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SKILA HARRIS: We understand the health risks associated with radioactivity much better today than we did 50 years ago. And at the sites where this country was developing its weapons, we were not responsible in how we handled those materials. The recovery act has allowed us to accelerate the clean-up, hire a lot more people so we can return these sites to the way that they were, and benefit the community, while at the same time giving people jobs.
MR. : All right, ready?
DOUG CLARK: Ready.
Name's Doug Clark, and hired out of here on June 30th, 2009, and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been a godsend to me and my family. I was in the forest products industry, had a good job for 28 years, and then we got laid off about two years ago and it's been hard finding a job.
BILL PICCIANO: I got started back in 19 – I'm sorry, 2007. I got laid off from Boral Brick, spent about three months looking for work then, and then I found a job under a contract with no insurance, and it was a year contract. And I actually spent a year and three months before I got let go from there.
KELLI CULPEPPER: I was unemployed for a year. Before that, I spent six years working on the commercial side as a chemistry technician at a place, Colleger Eston (ph), up in Morris, Illinois. And I left there because I was working a rotating shift – I'm a single mother, three kids – and on the verge of my second divorce.
NANCY COLE: I've been out of work for two years, and I've been doing some odd jobs over that time. I have three kids, and I'm a single mom. And it was really hard. We had to rely on other people to give us food, and we even lost our home. It was really bad.
MR. CLARK: Got a son going to college, just started last year, and this is his second year, so we wondered how we were going to get him in school and keep him in school. And of course, things really getting tight, as far as the bills and all. So –
MR. PICCIANO: We started running out of money at the house. We didn't have insurance. I ended up putting the kids on Medicaid so they could stay covered. And we had pretty much made our last house payment in May and ran out of money, and we were trying to figure out where we were going to get the next house payment for June. And the last week of June, NX, Incorporated, who I worked through, called and offered me a job as a logistics expeditor. So I told them I'd take it just because I needed the work and I needed to keep my family out of hock.
We started with some checks finally rolling in, and we've still got to get some things in line. But we pretty much got our house now back on track and all that good stuff.
MR. CLARK: Now that this has come along, it's really, really made a difference in our family.
RAHMEL OLIVER: It's like you're walking different or, you know, you can – not that you were sitting down, but you can really stand up and, you know, just – I'm glad of the opportunity.
MS. COLE: I'm a radiological control inspector. I keep people safe.
MR. OLIVER: I mean, you've got a chance.
MR. CLARK: It just gives you a lot of pride to be able to wake up in the morning and know you've got not just a job, but a good job, and you can come to work and provide for your families, and that's a real good feeling.
MR. PICCIANO: Hi, my name is Bill Picciano. I was hired June 7th, 2009.
MS. COLE: Nancy Cole, I started June 15th, 2009.
MS. CULPEPPER: Kelli Culpepper, August 3rd, 2009.
MR. OLIVER: Hi, my name is Ramel Oliver. I was hired on August 24th, 2009.
MR. CLARK: Doug Clark, June 30th, 2009.


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U.S. bank earnings rose 21 percent in the April-June quarter and lending to consumers increased, adding to evidence that the industry is strengthening four years after the financial crisis.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday that the banking industry earned $34.5 billion in the second quarter, up from $28.5 billion in the second quarter of 2011.
About 63 percent of U.S. banks reported improved earnings as they were able to set aside less for losses on loans. And the number of troubled banks fell for the fifth straight quarter.
Banks became less cautious about lending. Bank loans to consumers increased in most categories, including credit card loans and home mortgages, reversing a first-quarter decline.
"The industry continues to recover at a gradual but steady pace," FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg said at a news conference.
Still, the gains in revenue remain "sluggish," Gruenberg said. Total revenue increased only $1.3 billion in the second quarter from a year earlier.
Banks with assets exceeding $10 billion drove the bulk of the earnings growth in the April-June period. While they make up just 1.5 percent of U.S. banks, they accounted for about 77 percent of the earnings.
Those banks include Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. Most of them have recovered with help from federal bailout money and record-low borrowing rates.
The number of banks on the FDIC's confidential "problem" list fell in the second quarter to 732, or around 10 percent of all federally insured banks. That compares with 772 troubled banks in the first quarter.
So far this year, 40 banks have failed. That's far below the 92 banks that shuttered last year and the 157 that closed in 2010 — the most for one year since the height of the savings and loan crisis in 1992.
In the second quarter, fewer bank failures allowed the insurance fund to strengthen. The fund, which turned from deficit to positive in the second quarter of 2011, had a $22.7 billion balance as of June 30, according to the FDIC. That compares with $15.3 billion at the end of March.
The FDIC is backed by the government, and its deposits are guaranteed up to $250,000 per account. Apart from its deposit insurance fund, the agency also has tens of billions in loss reserves.
— Marcy Gordon ASSOCIATED PRESS


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Aida Tomescu worked on the four plates that form this suite at the same time, allowing her gestures to flow freely between them, thus uniting them as a whole.
"Overall the work evolved as a chain of experiences which opened up a space where structure and form grew out of the making of it. Although the drawing on each etching plate was self-contained there is an implicit serial relationship to the work. The layering that happened within each work opened the potential for the next. My concern was with the resonance within the spaces and with the openings of light. It was the stillness that opened up intriguing possibilities".
(Tomescu, 1998)
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
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lift ground aquatint, drypoint on steel, black ink on white Velin Arches 300 gsm paper
120.9 x 79.9 cm sheet; 142.0 x 101.0 x 3.0 cm frame
Signature & date
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Contemporary Collection Benefactors 1993
Not on display
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© Aida Tomescu. Licensed by Copyright Agency
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Exhibition history
Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995
Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999
Referenced in 3 publications
Deborah Edwards, Daphne Wallace, Margo Neale, Victoria Lynn and Sandra Byron, Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, "Women Artists in the Contemporary Collection", Victoria Lynn, p13-15, Sydney, 1995, 15, 27.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 155 (colour illus.). cat.no. 132
Margaret Marsh, Michelle Watts and Craig Malyon, A.R.T. 2 practice, South Melbourne, 2005, 32 (illus.). illus.no. 2.14


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Claiming to unravel the secrets unleashed never before, Formula One Trader enters the casino arena with a big bang! The Formula One Trader is an infamous sport by virtue of the difficulty players face to place their bets. They are faced with a series of troubles such as technical problems, system and software crashes, conditions of weather and above all team orders.
While at one moment you may make it straight to Lady Luck, the very next might put your hopes in the tyre wall with the driver. The F1 Trader strives to guarantee a profit margin by using the back and lay facility you get on Betfair. If you are familiar with the concept of trading, you'll know that punters look out for trends in the market so that they can support and put forward a selection at different prices, thereby bringing about a profit.
The Formula One Trader system is fairly priced at L34.99 within a 30 page PDF file. After explaining the system inns and outs of Betfair, it starts with the user friendly approach. The factual system is presented in an easy to read format which clearly explains the purpose of the system, which is supported by a few examples to help you out as you read along.
The system is not suited to all races, but show a reasonable profit nonetheless. Like all systems, sometimes a particular trade demonstrates a loss but along an entire Grand Prix the player should be able to throw up a profit and with time you will be able to identify losing trades easily. As a practical explanation of the odds, Formula One Trader provides an insight into the following:
- Explaining the fractional and decimal odds.
- Trading on Betfair through backing and laying.
- You'll also get a view of the weight of money and how it affects the markets you are currently betting on.
- Secrets or fundamental rules every gambler must know.
- Laying the important Betting Bots, deciding on which are the best and the ones you should use.
- The Formula 1 Trader System that helps you make the maximum profits at the race, with a few rules made easy to earn you profits.


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Robert Szymczak, associate professor of history at Penn State Beaver, is the recipient of the Swastek Award given by the Editorial Board of the Polish American Studies journal in recognition of the best article that appeared in the publication in the past year.
Szymczak was honored for his article, "Cold War Crusader: Arthur Bliss Lane and the Private Committee to Investigate the Katyn Massacre, 1949-1952," which appeared in the journal, Vol. LXVII, No. 2 (Autumn 2010), pp. 5-33. He will receive the award in January at the awards ceremony hosted by the Polish Consulate in Chicago.
The award was announced by Stephen M. Leahy, second vice president and awards committee chair of the Polish American Historical Association.
Szymczak is the recipient of numerous honors within Penn State, including the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Penn State Beaver Advisory Board Excellence in Research Award, and the Penn State Commonwealth College Excellence in Teaching Award. In addition, he is a three-time recipient of the Penn State Beaver Advisory Board Excellence in Teaching Award.
Szymczak joined Beaver campus in 1983 and during that time has taught a wide variety of courses, including History of the Holocaust 1933-1945, History of Fascism and Nazism, and History of the Soviet Union.
He holds a doctorate in modern world history from Carnegie Mellon University; a doctorate in recent American history and politics from Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, and a master's degree in liberal studies from Duquesne University. In addition, he has a master's degree in history/international relations and a bachelor's degree in history and literature from West Virginia University and holds a certificate of study from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
Szymczak can be reached at email@example.com or 724-773-3895.