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While others may try to take traditional music into the future, our goal is to take it into the past. We try to join our research on historical performance styles to the living tradition, so that our music can be both exciting and true to its roots. But the most important thing is to enjoy ourselves and to share this beautiful musical heritage with others.
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Note to people who came to this site after reading my letter in Metronone of my photos of San José are available here. I wasn't really prepared to arrange a public showing, especially since they waited a few months before publishing my letter. I guess I could put some of them up, but I don't have time right now. It would take me quite a while just to go through them and select the best. I have several hundred of them. Sometime in the future, perhaps.
Back in 2001-2002 we had some problems with our hosting company. We now have a new hosting company which we like. Unfortunately we lost access to the files our original site, so we could not simply transfer them. Instead the site had to be rebuilt from scratch and rechecked by hand. I am going to be rechecking every single page on this site, but this will take some time. I haven't had much time to update the site since this task was completed, as I also have plenty of other huge tasks going on. Meanwhile, please accept our apologies for missing pictures, bad links, etc. Notice that our extremely old URL www.sirius.com/~ststones is now permanently dead. Please use our domain name:
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Hi! We're White Whale Web Services of Oakland, California, and we're delighted to be working with CC on your Web site redesign. We work almost exclusively with colleges and universities, and if we've learned anything in our decade or so doing this, it's that each of our clients winds up being completely unique and interesting; we couldn't bring a cookie-cutter approach to this work even if we wanted to (which we don't). So the first step in any new project is getting to know the client: that's why we're coming to CC this week (on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday).
There are six of us in the company (five full-time, and one contract developer), and all six of us are coming to campus. There are essentially three primary purposes to our visit:
- To immerse ourselves in Colorado College's environment: taking photos, meeting people, asking questions, and generally doing everything possible to get a feel for CC's unique culture.
- To give you (that is, everyone with a stake in the CC Web site) a platform to present your likes and dislikes, with an emphasis on where you'd like to see the CC site go in its next iteration (and over the next several years).
- To make it clear to everyone at CC that this redesign will be community-powered, and driven by ideas, stories, and content created by your own community. Our role as designers and site architects is to develop designs, strategies, and best practices for a great new site, but we need you to help us fill in the details.
Note from Karen: If you missed the digest messages and would like to meet White Whale, there's a drop-in session at 4 p.m. on Thursday in Worner 212. If you can't make that session, please contact me and I'll let you know which other session(s) might be of interest to you.

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Adultery and Divorce: A Closer Look at the Impact
The media loves an ugly divorce. You rarely hear about the 95% of divorce cases that settle out of court or resolve through mediation or the collaborative divorce process. Instead, most people focus on the remaining 5% of cases that involve a full-blown court trial and possibly nasty allegations.
Based on what you've read or heard, you may assume adultery is the leading cause of divorce. But most divorcing spouses actually cite "irreconcilable differences," which is just is a fancy way of saying that a couple can't get along anymore, and there's no reasonable chance of getting back together.
No-fault Versus Fault Divorce
"Irreconcilable differences" (also referred to as "irremediable breakdown") is the only ground available for a "no-fault" divorce – that is, a blameless divorce, one where neither spouse claims that the other's misconduct (such as adultery) caused the split. Not surprisingly, no-fault divorces tend to be cheaper, less contentious and less emotionally draining for the parties and their children, which probably accounts for much of their popularity.
Today, all states allow no-fault divorces or a divorce based on separation, and in several states, no-fault is the only option. Some no-fault states, such as California, go so far as to prohibit divorcing spouses from testifying or inquiring about adultery (unless a judge finds that it's relevant to a limited issue in the case.)
See the Divorce Basics section on DivorceNet.com to learn more about the grounds for divorce in your state.
Some states still allow "fault" divorces, which are based on marital misconduct, such as adultery, addiction or abandonment. In most cases, fault doesn't actually play much of a role in the divorce proceeding itself. But in some states, adultery may affect a judge's decisions about alimony and/or property division, particularly where the cheating spouse wasted marital funds on an affair (for example, buying gifts or paying for vacations). In these cases, a judge can order the cheating spouse to pay more spousal support or reimburse the "innocent" one for wasted funds.
To learn more about what role adultery may play in a divorce in your state, see the Adultery and Divorce section on DivorceNet.com.
Adultery in the News
Although adultery doesn't typically play a major role in the legal outcomes of most divorces in the U.S., it makes for flashy headlines. Consider all the media attention the website www.AshleyMadison.com has garnered lately. AshleyMadison (tagline: "Life is Short. Have an Affair.") is a dating site for married people. The company describes itself as "the most famous name in infidelity and married dating" with over 23,010,000 members.
In The United States of Adultery, Huffington Post revealed the top cities for unfaithful spouses (based on AshleyMadison.com's membership data). The top ten locations (with an added description of applicable grounds for divorce) are:
- Washington, D.C. (No-fault only)
- Houston Texas (No-fault and fault grounds)
- Miami, Florida (No-fault only)
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (No-fault and fault grounds)
- Los Angeles, California (No-fault only)
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (No-fault and fault grounds)
- Phoenix, Arizona (No-fault only – unless couple entered into a covenant marriage.)
- New York, New York (No-fault and fault grounds)
- Chicago, Illinois (No-fault and fault grounds)
- Boston, Massachusetts (No-fault and fault grounds)
Obviously, these rankings aren't really reliable since the information is based strictly on AshleyMadison's membership and doesn't capture the percentage of cheaters who find partners the "old-fashioned" ways, but Huffpo thought it was newsworthy and had no issue relying on AshleyMadison as a source.
Aside from reports about a recent alienation of affection lawsuit filed against AshleyMadison, I wasn't able to find much negative press about the company. It's interesting to consider what the website's popularity among members and the media means. Have we become more accustomed to (and accepting of) adultery? Huffpo reports (from sources Gallup and USA Today) that 54% of Americans say they know someone who has an unfaithful spouse, and 37% of currently married adults say they would not get divorced if their spouse had an affair.
Does the nationwide shift to no-fault divorce also reflect today's attitudes about adultery? Much of the shift is due to states' desires to avoid wasting limited court resources on largely irrelevant issues, like whether one spouse cheated. But it may also reflect the fact that fewer divorcing spouses want to publicly hash out the details of what went wrong in their marriage and pay hefty attorneys' fees proving or negating something like an affair. Whatever the reason, overall, it seems the no-fault model for divorce is proving to be the best option for those involved.
Go to www.divorcenet.com for more information on family law and divorce.


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In 2008, John Fowles's widow shipped to the Ransom Center 90 boxes of the writer's manuscripts, books, and personal effects to be added to the author's extensive papers, the bulk of which were acquired in 1991. Among the items received was Fowles's writing desk, complete with its contents. On March 31, 2011—Fowles's 85th birthday—the desk will be placed on display in the Ransom Center's Reading and Viewing Room, where it will remain for at least the next two years. It joins the desks of Edgar Allan Poe and Compton MacKenzie, which have been on display since the room opened to researchers in 2003. Fowles's desk will be displayed with drawers open to reveal a selection of its fascinating contents.
As an undergraduate intern at the Ransom Center, I was given the opportunity to sort through the desk and its contents in preparation for their display. The two-drawer desk is spartan and well-loved, its surface marred by cigarette burns, its left drawer marked with addresses and phone numbers in Fowles's hand. The contents range from dried seeds and paleontology slides to a pair of brass knuckles. After spending an afternoon sifting through the desk's contents, I was hooked. Who was this man who kept a pair of brass knuckles next to his slides of Ammonite-Spinokosmoceras?
Unfamiliar with Fowles's work, I looked to The Magus for an introduction and saw echoes of Fowles's desk and its contents throughout the novel. A handful of Greek coins in the left drawer recalled the novel's setting on a Greek island, while one especially suspenseful scene in the first half of the novel reminded me of a mysterious, single black and gold die. As I became acquainted with Fowles's other novels, I saw reflections of his writing in further items from his desk; among other things, the typewriter ribbon canisters stamped "Lyme Regis" recalled The French Lieutenant's Woman.
The contents of John Fowles's desk, then, are at once material and literary. The Center's John Fowles papers are rich with research opportunities, but the desk provides us with something more: a glimpse into the physical objects from the writer's life that, at times, seem to coincide with moments from his many novels.
Some of the contents of the desk are mysterious and intriguing, and others, like the staples and empty eyeglass cases, are simply the vestiges of any ordinary man's life. The entire contents of the desk are listed below. I'm still unsure as to whether or not any of Fowles's novels can explain the brass knuckles, but I'll keep reading in hopes of finding some clue.
The complete contents of John Fowles's desk:
Two scraps of paper with appointment times, addresses, calculations, names, notes
Two invitations to "A Tribute to John Fowles, Patron of Town Mill" in Lyme Regis, Saturday 13 December 2003, 6–8 p.m.
Annotated photocopied pages from Fowles's diary
Two copies of The Mail on Sunday, November 19, 2000, which includes an article written by Fowles about the planned development of the harbor in Lyme Regis
Newspaper clippings announcing the publication of Fowles's book Lyme Worthies
Copy of an undated newspaper clipping regarding the publication of The Magus
Newspaper clipping, first of a two-part biographical article on Fowles
Two packs of printed self-adhesive address labels for Belmont House in Lyme Regis
Set of blue labels with white string ties
Envelope of photographs inscribed "Photos of Belmont, Lyme Regis, England, 1995"
Five eyeglass cases
Four pairs of eyeglasses
Prescription card from optometrist Guy Hayden
Fourteen typewriter ribbon canisters of various brands (six empty, three unopened, three containing dried seeds, and two containing used cartridges)
Small plastic bag with scrap of paper inscribed "JASPER"
Plant tag inscribed "EUPATORIUM LIGUSTRINUM"
Two paleontology slides from the Yorkshire Museum
Plastic bag of small reddish-white pebbles, stapled closed
Two blending pencils
Three colored pencils
Tin of pastels
Four pens (two fountain, one ballpoint, one felt-tip)
Five fountain-pen cartridges
Two small pencil sharpeners
Two boxes of staples
Loose staples
Two rubber bands
Three binder clips
Two six-inch plastic rulers
Blank notepad, white
Inkpad, black
Bottle of Liquid Paper
Box with Super Glue inside
Four sheets of round, multicolored stickers
Two packs of blank self-adhesive labels, white
Box of self-adhesive company seals, maroon
Paper fan
Seven coins (one Swedish, six Greek)
Small book of holiday gift tags
Pocket knife, Richards Sheffield brand
Medical scissors
Calculator operating manual, Ibico model 122S
Magnifying glass pouch, Magnabrite brand
Three wooden boxes of varying sizes and sources, containing rubber bands and gramophone needles
Descriptive leaflet for a "Handmade Scrimshaw" item
Case for Swatch brand Irony watch
Leather dice shaker
Two carved wooden letter openers
Two pipes
Brass knuckles
Sheet of paper (one side is bright yellow, the other is shiny gold)
Misprinted black die with gold dots
Two stones
Unidentified leaf
Three pieces of unidentified hardware, plastic and metal
Broken decorative piece, painted gold
Green twist tie
A single, white Tic-Tac candy
Please click on thumbnails for larger images.
Image: Tippa model typewriter made by Adler. This is one of three Fowles typewriters at the Ransom Center. Photo by Anthony Maddaloni.


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December 13, 2012
By: Nicole Williams
The annual winter holiday party called "Skate & Donate" hosted by Nick Cannon and Angela and Vanessa Simmons rolled in on the evening of Saturday, December 8. It was held at the Moonlight Rollerway in Glendale and was sponsored by Pastry Shoes and N'Credible. Celebrities and their guests brought gifts to donate to Toys For Tots as they filled up the large box with treasures another less fortunate will get to enjoy.
A variety of celebs attended the event like actors Carlos Knight, China Anne McClain, Kevin Frazier, Laura Govan, Naturi Naughton, Raven Goodwin, and artists E.B. Wright, Estelle and Rachel Crow. The Pastry Ambassadors, Angela Simmons, Vanessa Simmons, Mz Bratt, Alli Simpson and Jessica Jarrell were all in attendance as some sported their Pastry shoes.
"We think it's very important to give back. We did it last year for the first time and it got a really good turn out so we decided why not do it again," Angela said.
"Toys for Tots is a really good organization and definitely one to contribute to during this time of the holiday season and just spreading Christmas joy so everyone can be happy," Vanessa added.
The Pastry founders, who say they started the business to give women more of a variety of tennis shoes to choose from, continue to work on new designs and ideas and advise to look out for their new shoes.
Meanwhile, Cannon, founder of event co sponsor N'Credible, says giving back is what drives Skate & Donate every year.
"It's all about the young people so we give the toys to the less fortunate," Cannon explained.
"I remember receiving toys from Toys For Tots, so it's kind of cool to actually be able to pay them in return for all their good deeds."
Actor/producer Miguel Nunez, executive producer for Cannon's upcoming film, "School Dance" also showed up.
"Nick always likes to give back, so I support him in everything he does," Nunez said.
Cannon wrote and directed the movie, set for a 2013 release.
Everyone spent the rest of their night jamming out to music provided by NCredible's DJ Cam as they put on their skates and hit the roller rink. There were also those who chose to stay on the sideline and enjoy some chips and salsa provided by Chipotle than brave the roller skating rink runway.
Either way, laughs were going around the roller rink as people held each other's hands for not only support across the rink, but support for a good cause.
Photos by Troy Tieuel for LAWT


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Nebraska professor studied Wade Page
As investigators work to find some explanation for what prompted the shootings Sunday at the Sihk temple, there is new insight into the mind of a mass murderer from a Nebraska professor who studied Wade Michael Page, his music and his motivation.
Long before Sunday's deadly rampage, Page was the subject of a Nebraska professor's academic research into the white power movement.
"His beliefs in neo-Nazism and white supremacy didn't come from his immediate family," Professor Pete Simi said.
Simi met Page as he studied neo-Nazi circles in southern California in the early 2000s.
"What he told me is that that identification process really started after he joined the military," Simi said.
Page served in the U.S. Army from 1992 to 1998 when fellow soldiers said his drinking got him discharged. Page told Simi that's where he embraced the white power movement.
"In the military, he saw and experienced things that really angered him, frustrated him and convinced him that whites were really victimized and the deck was really stacked against whites," Simi said. "What he told me at one point was that if you don't join the military as a racist, then you're certainly going to leave as a racist."
But Simi said it was Page's music that cemented his connection to the white power movement. Page played guitar in several skinhead bands, including Definite Hate.
"This really changed his life, and he felt like he all of a sudden had a bunch of new bros, meaning new brothers," Simi said. "He expressed those beliefs, you know, very willingly and seemed to strongly believe that his role in the white power music scene was a form of political activism. He seemed to be very committed to that."
WISN 12 News' request for Page's official military record was denied. The FBI put a hold on his records after Sunday's shootings.


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CANNES, France (AP) — The art of the blockbuster took center stage on the opening day of the Cannes Film Festival, with Steven Spielberg presiding over the festival jury and Baz Luhrmann presenting his big-budget "The Great Gatsby."
Cloudy skies did little to dim the frenzy of the start of the 12-day French Riviera extravaganza, where dozens of the world's most artistically ambitious films are set to premiere on the festival's global platform. Wednesday, though, was a day for star power.
Spielberg has had films at Cannes before, including "E.T." and "Sugarland Express," but never in competition. His presence here is a rarity, and he was received like a visiting head of state, a king of cinema.
He's serving as president of a jury that will decide the prestigious Palm d'Or, given to one of the 20 competing films. (Entries include new works from the Coen brothers, Alexander Payne and Steven Soderbergh.) This year's jury is an intimidating, starry bunch, including Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee and Christoph Waltz.
"Everyone sits in judgment of us," Spielberg said. "So it's our turn."
Luhrmann's 3-D adaption of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is this year's festival opener, a choice that surprised many since the film opened last week in North America. Cannes typically takes precedence over release schedules, but "Gatsby" sails onto the Croisette after a robust weekend haul of $51.1 million.
After Luhrmann noted in a news conference that the film had pushed Fitzgerald's novel to the top of the bestseller list (selling more copies in a week than in the author's lifetime), DiCaprio added with a grin: "And a little film adaptation is doing quite well at the box office."
But while "Gatsby" is getting a victory lap on the Cannes' red carpet, it comes to the festival with the sting of mixed reviews. Many film critics have taken issue with the movie's stylistic flourishes.
"I knew that would come," said Luhrmann, noting Fitzgerald's 1925 novel was also initially received poorly. "I just care that people are going out and seeing it. I really am so moved by that."
"Gatsby" plays out of competition at the festival, but Spielberg should have his hands full with a slate lacking any obvious favorite. Internationally-respected filmmakers like Roman Polanski ("Venus in Fur"), Asghar Farhadi ("The Past) and Jim Jarmusch ("Only Lovers Left Alive") are to premiere their films in competition.
Every year, the Cannes jury president is psychoanalyzed to help predict the Palme d'Or winner. This year is no different, with onlookers guessing that Spielberg will either gravitate toward the kind of warm-hearted films he's best known for, or seek to deliberately contradict that assumption with a more audacious choice.
The international jury also includes Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, Japanese director Naomi Kawase, French actor Daniel Auteuil and Bollywood star Vidya Balan.
"I'm going to have to look at the Sidney Lumet film '12 Angry Men,' again as a tutorial to prepare myself for the final day of deliberation," Spielberg said with a smile.
Cannes film fest opens with DiCaprio, Spielberg
CANNES, France (AP) — The art of the blockbuster took center stage on the opening day of the Cannes Film Festival, with Steven Spielberg presiding over the festival jury and Baz Luhrmann presenting his big-budget "The Great Gatsby."


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When the earthquake struck Japan at 2:46 pm on March 11, Masaru Ouchi, an electrician who was just putting his tools back after a routine maintenance job at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, knew exactly what to do.
He dropped everything, he recalls, ran to a prearranged assembly point outside the plant's administrative offices, and helped his boss count fellow workers. When they were all checked in he jumped into his car and drove to the school.
His father, Mitsuo, a plasterer working elsewhere in the reactor complex, fled immediately. He stopped at his home nearby to pick up his wife and mother-in-law, then drove to find his son.
As the family sheltered in the dark, cold school that night with hundreds of their neighbors, none of them knew that a massive tsunami had knocked out critical cooling systems at Fukushima Daiichi, just a few miles down the road.
The mainstay of their town, Okuma, was about to go into near meltdown, and their lives with it.
Japan Fukushima nuclear crisis: A timeline of key events
The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami is expected to rise above 20,000. Nearly half a million people have lost their homes or been displaced. Some 210,000 homes still have no electricity, and close to 1 million households are without water. In the quake zone, food is short and gasoline still hard to come by.
Officials today expanded the evacuation area around Fukushima from 12 to 19 miles, urging residents to leave voluntarily. The nuclear crisis remains "unpredictable," Prime Minister Naoto Kan said today.
Now, like thousands of other families across the northeast, stunned by their plight and deeply uncertain about their future, the Ouchi family is living in limbo on the floor of a gymnasium here 20 miles west of the plant.
Bereft of all their belongings save a blanket, a bank book, and a cash card, they are making the best of it along with some 700 other radiation refugees huddled under comforters.
"I try not to think about things too much and concentrate on hoping to go home," says Masaru's mother, Takako, a vivacious woman with a ready smile. "I try to be as positive as I can."
"We are waiting and we will be patient," adds her husband. "We'll eat as many instant noodles as it takes until we can go home, and already I'm fed up with instant noodles."
It is by no means clear, however, that the Ouchi family will ever again be able to live in their homes, built in the shadow of the plant.
Their houses withstood the earthquake and were untouched by the tsunami, but the power station has been leaking radioactivity that is contaminating everything in the vicinity, including the soil and the water supply.
Even if one day the area is deemed safe for human habitation, the wrecked plant, where four of six nuclear reactor units have been damaged by fire or explosions, is unlikely to function again. Thousands of jobs with Tokyo Electric Power, the plant operator known as Tepco, are gone.
Those jobs have been a godsend in this decaying corner of rural Japan, already experiencing population decline. The best thing about living in Okuma, a quiet town of 11,500, "is that my husband and son did not have to go somewhere else to find work," says Takako. "The family could stay together, thanks to Tepco."
About half the workforce in Okuma is employed at the nuclear plant next door, according to residents. It is a company town, where almost every family has someone on the payroll.
RELATED: Japan earthquake: Why the Asian nation will rebound from temblor and tsunami
'Everybody said it was safe.'
"Where I come from, it is quite natural to work there," says Mitsuo, who has worked for a Tepco subsidiary at the plant almost all his adult life. Bonds with the company are strong. "Everybody said it was safe, so I believed them."
He remains loyal to his employer. "The reactors stood up to the earthquake," he points out. "It was the tsunami that did the damage. But the government's at fault too. They haven't solved the problem as quickly as we expected."
Reminded that it is Tepco, not the government, that is running the emergency operation, he grudgingly allows that the company too shares some blame.
His wife is just as loyal to her hometown in its darkest hour. "Okuma is a nice place to live," says Takako, using the present tense. As in much of the rest of rural Japan there are not many young people in town, she concedes, but since she moved there after her marriage 32 years ago "I've been getting older myself, so I don't notice so much, and I've got all my friends.
"It's a green town, and the rice they grow around there is delicious," she boasts. "I'll send you some if you like, but I don't suppose you'd eat it now, seeing as how it comes from Fukushima." She laughs, ruefully.
The only rice the family is eating at the moment, sitting cross legged on the patch of school-provided blankets laid over judo mats that is now their home, comes cold in vacuum-packed individual servings donated by regional governments elsewhere in the country and by private companies.
The food is basic but sufficient, prepared by local volunteers at a field kitchen set up under a tent in the sports hall parking lot: two meatballs in a bowl of steaming broth, cold rice, pickled vegetables, and bread made up one recent supper menu. But instant noodles have become a staple.
The mood is subdued in the brightly lit basketball court where the Ouchi family has installed itself alongside its real life neighbors on a patch of blankets surrounded by cardboard cartons that define its space.
Most of the people here are elderly, reflecting the demographics of the region, and many spend their days staring vacantly into space. Only rarely does a child's squeal enliven the atmosphere.
Some of the gymnasium's residents chat in low voices to one another or on their mobile phones. Others snooze under their comforters, read the papers, sew, play chess, or go to the foyer to watch the television, tuned permanently to the news channel of the state broadcaster, NHK, where the aftermath of the March 11 disaster is the only story.
Takako Ouchi spends much of her time caring for her 88-year-old mother, whose health problems have deprived her of her voice and made it difficult to swallow even the soup her daughter feeds her from a paper cup. But her eyes are bright, and she passes her time doing crosswords in a children's puzzle book.
Mitsuo, the father, appears more despondent, sitting slightly apart from the rest of the family lost in thought, occasionally popping outside for a chat with other men grouped at the sports hall entrance, sheltering under a canopy from the snow.
His son Masaru, whose own wife and two sons have found their way to his mother-in-law's home down the coast, rallies himself from time to time to help local volunteers shift boxes of supplies, and takes long walks three times a day around the sports center grounds. It kills the time, he says, "and keeps me fit for when I go back to work."
What work?
What that work might be he has no idea, except that his boss has warned him to be prepared to join the emergency team battling to control the stricken reactors. "If they call me I am ready," he says simply. "If I can help solve the problem more quickly, I'm ready to go."
In the longer run there is a chemical factory in Okuma, he says, "and there ought to be some kind of work taking care of the power plant, maintaining it or decommissioning it."
But neither he nor his father has even begun to talk about how they might earn a living if Tepco has no jobs for them. Masaru has only ever worked for that company since he left high school 11 years ago, except for a six-month break, and Mitsuo has been at the plant for 30 years.
Nor will any of the Ouchi family openly allow any doubts about the safety of their homes to creep into their minds. "I can imagine only that we will go home," says Mitsuo. "Everyone here is the same," he adds, gesturing around the gym.
I'm sure we'll go back home," Takako chimes in. "There is nowhere else for us to go."
A few feet from the Ouchi family's patch of blankets, by the door, a group of women are sitting on the floor sewing scraps of material into small bags and stuffing them with bits of torn up polystyrene noodle cups to make juggling balls. One of them, Yoko Koyama, has also made a teru teru bozu, a traditional rag doll that the Japanese hang in their windows to bring better weather when it is raining.
"I think we'll hang it in the window here," says Mrs. Koyama. "We hope the sun will come out again."


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You know the 2-flip USB rule. The USB plug won't work, so you flip it. It still doesn't work so you flip it again. Then it plugs right in.
Well that is all going to change.
The USB Implementers Forum announced they are working on a new plug that will work however you plug it in. Other features will include a smaller size plug and the connector design will scale for future USB bus performance. You can read it all on USB Implementers Forum document.
Smaller Type-C connectors will be an advantage to newer and smaller tablets, phones and notebooks. Alex Peleg, Vice President of platform Engineering at Intel stated his excitement over the device. He believes this will become a great all-in-one plug and the "only connector one will need across all devices."
Current USB 3.0 standards can transfer at speeds of 5 Gbit/s. As compared to Thunderbolt 1, which can do 10 Gbit/s per channel (20 Gbit/s total).
This new connector could show up as early as mid-2014 when the USB 3.1 specification is expected to be completed.


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Due to settlement terms we are not a liberty to discuss anything.
Thanks to all involved, carry on.
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Like I said earlier today, I had other things get in the way of blogging over the last two days. It didn't help that I worked 10 hour work days yesterday and today. So, I'll catch you all up on my Sunday post, which I intended to write until the lightning storms started!
On Sunday, I forced myself to relax a bit more before I cut our grass. I read Water for Elephants outside because it was so beautiful out.
I also ate lunch outside, which was nice. I need to take advantage of eating outside more before the mosquitoes come!
After lunch, we went to my brother and sister-in-law's house to pick up tomato plants! My brother has a huge garden that takes up most of his backyard. He already had broccoli, brussell sprouts and asparagus planted. I wish we could have a huge garden like that! We also got a ton of rhubarb, so I came home and thought about making a strawberry rhubarb pie later in the week and then it struck me that I should make a strawberry rhubarb crunch instead because I most likely had all of the ingredients for that, and I did!
I used this recipe and it turned out really well. Kind of sweet, so next time I make it, I will use less sugar.
I've been eating the crumble for dessert all week and piled on top of Chobani vanilla yogurt for breakfast.
I also bought some pretty flowers on Sunday!
I don't normally plant flowers, but I love the sight of them so much and wanted cheerful, summery ones that would last all summer, so I got daisies and Celosia.
On Sunday night, we experienced some really bad thunderstorms and had the scariest lightning strike close to our house. It shook our whole house and freaked everyone out, especially the cats. I decided not to blog because it wasn't a good idea to have my laptop plugged in at this point in the evening.
Today was pretty typical and so was yesterday. I decided not to take pics of my food and post them since I was behind anyway in general.
My workout yesterday was on the Cybex and I lifted weights. Tonight, I biked and lifted weights.
Wow, this week is flying by and I only have two more days of work left and then a long, glorious four day weekend! Tomorrow evening, I probably won't blog because I am going to the Taste of Home cooking show. Should be great and I will share everything I learned!
What is your favorite way to use rhubarb in a recipe? I need ideas to use the rest of the rhubarb up or it's getting cut up and put in the freezer!


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They say the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away (or something like that). Well, on Monday the Lord tooketh away when Pope Benedict XVI announced his retirement from the role of pontiff, and the internet gaveth in the best way it knows how: tweets, memes, and jokes on jokes on jokes.
Claiming health concerns, the Pope announced Monday that he would be resigning the papacy. "After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry," the pontiff told senior church officials in Rome, according to Bloomberg. (So the move apparently had nothing to do with fears that Justin Timberlake's triumphant return to music at Sunday night's Grammys was, in fact, the Second Coming.) The move marked the first time a Pope had stepped down since 1415, when Gregory XII resigned.
Naturally, the internet, which had welcomed the man previously known as Joseph Ratzinger so warmly to Twitter back in December, immediately jumped on the news – sending scores of humorous missives on Twitter, memes on Tumblr, and even a jobs posting on Craigslist Rome. Actor Simon Pegg jumped in with a timely tweet: "I think JJ Abrams has been approached." And director Kevin Smith posted a message on Twitter and Facebook stating, "I NOMINATE THIS GUY FOR THE NEW POPE!" along with an image of himself and George Carlin in his "Cardinal Glick" attire from Dogma. Other internet denizens weighed in with riffs on the "One Does Not Simply Walk into Mordor" and "Futurama Fry" memes.
Benedict is scheduled to turn over the keys to heaven on Feb. 28, and presumably he'll have to do the same for the @Pontifex Twitter account then, as well. The internet's reaction is still ongoing, but in the meantime, enjoy some of the best web responses to the Pope's retirement in the gallery above.
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'Shoe Obsession' at the Museum at FIT
Even the Old Testament talks about shoes. The writers weren't clear on just what kind of sandal Judith wore that so enticed Holofernes -- but this Biblical tale ends badly for the dude. (Judith seduces, then beheads him.)
"This shoe obsession goes way back for men and women," says Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of the Museum at FIT, where a new exhibit on the seductive nature of shoes just opened.
"Shoe Obsession," running in the Special Exhibitions Gallery through April 13, explores our fascination with footwear -- high heels, in particular, from Manolo Blahnik to Christian Louboutin to Alexander McQueen.
The show offers more than 150 stunning pairs, from the spikiest stilettos to the wackiest, most gravity-defying platforms.
"Shoes and accessories have moved center-stage in fashion," says Steele. "Maybe it's because shoes are sculptural. Clothing, when not worn, just lies there flat, lifeless. But shoes seem to have an autonomous quality, which may explain why our obsession with shoes seems to have reached new heights."
Don't miss these high-heeled jaw-droppers.
MANOLO BLAHNIK Check out his rhinestone-buckled, silver d'Orsay shoes, a version of which figured prominently in a 2003 "Sex and the City" episode titled "A Woman's Right to Shoes."
RUPERT SANDERSON He designed a simple pair of gold gladiator sandals (simple if you're not impressed by the two gold, crouched figures that serve as the platform and heel) for Verdi's "Aida" at the Royal Opera in London in 2010. Yes, wear them ... while singing.
THE DAPHNE GUINNESS CASE This style icon and beer heiress has a major shoe jones. She's donated a few faves from her closet, including sparkly Louboutins, pony-haired Nina Riccis that look like you're wearing the shoe upside down, and an Alexander McQueen marvel (from his Spring 2008 collection) that suggests an embroidered pink and black bridge.
NICHOLAS KIRKWOOD A relatively new, young, upstart designer, his Alice shoe comes complete with wee dangling teacups and a brass key. Good luck running to catch the train in these.
MASAYA KUSHINO Keep an eye on your pulse when checking out "Lung-ta" (aka, "The Wind Horse"), a sculptural masterpiece by this young Japanese artist who crafted a shoe out of leather, lace, polished wood and a fine ponytail of silky golden human (yes, human) hair. "This is not a shoe you wear in the subway," said his translator at the exhibit opening. "You don't wear these at all. This is fine art." Hey, we're not arguing.
"Shoe Obsession"
WHEN | WHERE Through April 13, closed Sundays and Mondays. The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
INFO Free, 212-217-4558, fitnyc.edu


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Jessica Simpson's dating history has included a host of pop singers — from ex-husband Nick Lachey to John Mayer. But recently, she's been linked with a different kind of musician – grunge era kingpin Billy Corgan.
Jessica and the Smashing Pumpkins frontman were spotted out in New York City last week, and a source recently told E! News, Jessica is gaga over the Chicago rocker.
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"She has fallen hard and is smitten," a source told the Web site.
While a rep for Corgan had "no comment" when contacted by Access Hollywood, the source told E! the two think of themselves as "officially dating."
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Billy, 42, who previously has been linked romantically with Courtney Love and Tila Tequila, may reportedly be making Jessica happy, but another source told E! he hasn't fit in with the family yet.
"He's just another in an endless string of Jessica's boyfriends," the source said. "They think he's too old for her. No one takes any of her boyfriends seriously anymore because she has had so many. They're sick of all of them being 'the one.' "
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Anti-convulsants are used to control seizures in patients with epilepsy and Migraine attacks in migraineurs. I have always wondered why my friends who have seizure disorders could tolerate these drugs better than I can. Am I more sensitive to drug side effects? Or did I have different side effects?
It appears that Are Migraineurs at Increased Risk of Adverse Drug Responses?may have the answer.
Authors Luykx, Mason, Ferrari, and Carpay investigated all of the studies that compared Migraineurs and patients with epilepsy taking only topiramate (Topamax) for treatment. They found that each group experienced different side effects from topiramate. Behavioral side effects and headache were experienced only in patients with epilepsy. Altered taste (yuck!) and cognitive difficulties were experienced only by patients with Migraine. I find this fascinating! Same drug, different diseases, different side effects.
Not only this, but in clinical trials Migraineurs were "more likely to drop out because of ADRs [adverse drug responses]." So, not only were the side effects different for the two groups, Migraineurs appear to be less tolerant to their set of side effects. The article will soon be published in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.


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William Clarence "Billy" Eckstein (July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993) was an American singer of ballads and bandleader of the swing era. Eckstine's smooth baritone and distinctive vibrato broke down barriers throughout the 1940s, first as leader of the original bop big-band, then as the first romantic black male in popular music.
Eckstein's grandparents were William F. Eckstein and Nannie Eckstein, a mixed race, lawfully married couple who lived in Washington D.C.; both were born in the year 1863. William F. was born in Prussia and Nannie in Virginia.
An influence looming large in the cultural development of soul and R&B singers from Sam Cooke to Prince, Eckstine was able to play it straight on his pop hits "Prisoner of Love," "My Foolish Heart" and "I Apologize." Raised in Washington, D.C., Eckstine began singing at the age of seven and entered many amateur talent shows. He had also planned on a football career, but after breaking his collar bone, he made music his focus. After working his way west to Chicago, Eckstine joined Earl Hines' Grand Terrace Orchestra in 1939, staying with the band as vocalist and, occasionally, trumpeter, until 1943. By that time, he had begun to make a name for himself through the Hines band's radio shows with such juke box hits as "Stormy Monday Blues" and his own "Jelly Jelly."


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G.S.A.: The New "Justified Perversion"
Just when I thought nothing could get worse here in America, we've now had FOUR published cases of something "experts" are now coining "G.S.A." (which stands for Genetic Sexual Attraction). And how the "experts" define it is THIS:
"Incest between close relatives, such as siblings or half-siblings, a parent and offspring, or first and second cousins, who first meet as adults".
It should INSTEAD be called "Glorified Sodomy Attribution", since that's essentially what they (the "secular experts") are now trying to do. And it's UNGODLY!
Here are the SIX examples seen in the news most recently: [what is this world coming to, folks? ;( ] [Note: For the first two, you must click on the HEADLINE to link to the article!]
Daughter who plans on marrying her father talks about their
Mom and son admit to incest, go into hiding to avoid jail
Trying to dumb down the schools and education system wasn't good enough for Satan. Neither was introducing LGBT doctrines, dogma, etc. Heck, even legalizing gay marriage wasn't good enough for him. Satan's gotta keep taking these "perversions" FARTHER & FARTHER. So it is with G.S.A. (Genetic Sexual Attraction).
Even the NAME makes it sound "innocent" enough……as in…."oh….so it's kinda like a mental illness that they can't help…….so if they can't help it, it's beyond their control……well……we should allow this then, since they can't really help it". (REALLY? ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME?)
That's EXACTLY the "justification argument" that Satan's gunning for. Because hey, if "gay marriage" is legal, then what ELSE shouldn't be "legal", right? Alot of folks don't realize that the legalization of gay marriage in all 50 U.S. states on or around June 26th, 2015 paved the way for OTHER things to soon be "legalized" (or, at the very least, FOUGHT to be legalized by "fringe groups").
In a nutshell, the number ONE argument for gay marriage was more or less: "They can't help it, they were born that way. And since they were born that way, it's a permanent part of who they are, therefore, they should have unalienable rights to marriage, should they so desire".
Well, just take the word "Gay" out of "Gay Marriage" and what do you get? Answer: "Incest Marriage", "Pedo Marriage", "Polygamy Marriage", Bestiality Marriage", "Inanimate Object Marriage", etc.
Ofcourse, the legal arguments are going to be, "Well…..if homosexuals can marry, why can't I, a (insert any ungodly noun/word here) marry?"
First, it was the "Gay Movement". Then it was the "Transgender Movement". And NOW, it's the "Incest Movement". After the "Incest Movement", they'll move on to the "Polygamy Movement" or perhaps vice versa. And not long after that will come the "Pedo Movement", and the "Bestiality Movement". Don't believe me? Look at current news, in the last year or so!
Why are we JUST NOW starting to see more and more news stories about "incest" and SEEING the word "G.S.A." (Genetic Sexual Attraction) everywhere? I'll TELL you why……it's because the media is pre-conditioning EVERY American (as well as global citizen around the world) to ACCEPT "incest", just like they did with homosexuality and transgenderism. Because they figure if the average global citizen sees it more and more and more in the media, that they will grow DESENSITIZED to it and then, eventually over time, ACCEPT it.
And to be blunt here, that is State-Sanctioned Mind Control at its greatest, folks! That's why it's EVER SO IMPORTANT for us to be immersed in God's written Word (the bible) to know WHAT is true and what is NOT true! Cause otherwise, you WILL be deceived by the One World Government System someday, MARK MY WORDS!
The bible is NOT something that needs to be rewritten, or reinterpreted. God said it and that settles it. There's NO need for humans or scientists to try to figure out how we all got here on this planet (the bible says how we did). Just like there's NO need to ponder if there's life after death (the bible says there IS). Plus there's no need for people to question if God condemns homosexuality/sodomy or not — The Lord clearly DOES condemn it in both Old AND New Testaments in 28+ passages —
Just like there's ALSO no need for any human to question what they're supposed to do with the rest of their lives (the bible states EVERY human's purpose on this Earth!)
To me, it just BOGGLES THE MIND why there are SO MANY "scientists" and "experts" who think they have to try all these complicated formulas and calculations to try figure out how humans got here on this planet (CERN, anyone?) when the answer is right there, right in front of them (the holy bible!)
And quite frankly, the Lord laughs at them in their folly! In fact, Psalms 14:1 states the following: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good".
But all in all, EACH "argument" used to try to justify "sin" and/or "perversion" is based on ONE principle and ONE principle, ONLY……to destroy the Almighty image of God.
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them"
– Genesis 1:27
Satan HATES us, absolutely can not STAND humans (EVEN those who proclaim to worship him). Why? Because we humans were all made in the mighty image of God. And Satan DESPISES the image of God. Therefore, he's trying to do whatever he can to DESTROY THE IMAGE OF GOD (Homosexuality, Transexuality, Etc.)
What's more, the image of God has to do with GENDER. Genesis 1:27 says he created them male and female. He biologically designed males and females to come together as ONE unit, in ONE united marriage. Therefore, traditional marriage is in the image of God. So what INCEST/SODOMY/PEDO/POLYGAMY/OBJECTOPHILIA does is PROFANE THE IMAGE OF GOD. That's why Satan wants these things so bad for humanity.
In fact, Revelation 12:12 states: "Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time"
Translation? The Devil's angry and knows his time is short….Why? Because Jesus Christ will soon return to the Earth someday and wipe him out. And with all the world chaous and moral/spiritual ROT happening here in America and in today's world, it won't be too much longer, now.
So, in a nutshell, Satan knows he gots to get crackin', when it comes to trying to take AS MANY SOULS away from Almighty God as he possibly can! And sexual perversion is one of the NUMBER ONE ways in which he DOES just that, folks! Same with the "justification" for it.
In fact, in God's eyes, if you are a self-professed "Christian" who believes that sodomites of ANY shape or form should have the "right" to marry, the Lord God doesn't consider that any different than YOU being a "sodomite" YOURSELF, so please remember that, folks! (In God's eyes, to "justify" ANY sin, for ANY reason, is likened onto partaking IN/OF that "sin", ITSELF!)
Heck, even the ANIMALS of the world know something is up…..that something big's about to happen……Have you seen the bison "peacing out" from Yellowstone? Have you ever stopped to wonder WHY? What do the ANIMALS know that most of humans today DON'T know?
In Genesis 9:12-17, God promised Noah that he would NEVER AGAIN destroy the world with a GLOBAL FLOOD:
"And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth"
But God NEVER promised he wouldn't destroy the world again with FIRE! Therefore, many biblical experts are now pointing to 2 Peter 3:10 as PROOF of that point:
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up"
Wow folks, that's some pretty heavy stuff right there………And I know ALOT of non-believers and/or lukewarm believers in Christ are probably thinking "yeah? So what? The smoke inhalation will kill people off before the fire does, so they won't even feel a thing when they die, so big deal". But ONE thing they're forgetting is that that the LAKE OF FIRE (the ETERNAL JUDGEMENT of God) WILL LAST FOR ETERNITY! And instead of smoke inhalation killing people off, they will instead be forced to INHALE smoke inhalation, AND….FEEL the hot fire on their flesh for ALL OF ETERNITY! The bible calls this the 2nd death.
The bottom line? NO "sin" is justified for ANY reason, in God's eyes, ESPECIALLY SODOMY. And that's all incest/homosexuality/pedo/poly/objectophilia really IS……sodomy……Because any two living humans that weren't meant for natural, traditional marriage are, when they have sex with one another, committing sodomy in God's eyes, like it or not.
All of the news articles about G.S.A. (atleast to ME, anyways) seem to have some sort of sympathetic BENT to them, making the participants out to be VICTIMS of sorts. But the REALITY is that NONE of those folks are 100% right with Jesus Christ. NOT ONE. For if they WERE, Jesus would tell them in their minds, hearts, bodies and spirits that what they are doing (in their incestous actions) is WRONG and that they need to REPENT and stop doing it!
Though one thing is for sure. We've got to PRAY for these poor folks! We've got to pray that Jesus Christ will wake them up and make them realize the WRONG that they're doing before it's too late for them! We've also got to pray that any other people out there that are "on the brink" of getting involved in an incestuous relationship of sorts will stop dead in their tracks and THINK before they act!
And as time goes on, there's probably gonna be an attempt to REVERSE all incest laws on the books. We're also probably gonna see (in the future) more and more news articles with G.S.A./about G.S.A. and might even see a movie or TV show dealing with the topic. But remember that ALL SODOMY comes about from DEMONS OF LUST. That's WHY we need to pray for these folks and pray that Satan and his demons lose their grip on them. And remember: all things are possible in the name of the Lord!


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Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel made history earlier tonight when he became the first freshman to ever win the Heisman Trophy. Depending on when he leaves college, he'll have at least two more opportunities to earn another.
But will he? It's tough to replicate the sort of numbers Manziel had this year and Ohio State running back Archie Griffin is the only two-time winner (1974, '75) in the nearly 80 years the Heisman has been awarded. Manziel caught the college football world off guard this year, but you can guarantee that won't happen in the years to come.
The question is simple: will Johnny Manziel win another Heisman before he leaves Texas A&M? Vote in our poll below and/or make your voice heard in the comment section below.


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It was another e-mail from the Meg Whitman large and excessively financed campaign staff, which pumps out a half dozen of them a day or so it seems: "Once again," the release stated, "Jerry Brown's rhetoric doesn't match his record." The e-mail was a response to Brown's call for more transparency about salaries paid to government employees in California.
That same afternoon, Whitman was out on the stump talking to a couple hundred workers at Yelp in San Francisco. Asked about the $119 million of her own money that finances her weekly whirlwinds around the state, Whitman said, "You have got to tell people why to vote for you."
Whitman has been doing that for a long time now, spending millions here and millions there, and yet most polls indicate she hasn't been able to shake loose from Brown. It seems there are a lot of working Californians who aren't yet convinced that Whitman's plans to fix Sacramento are going to help them directly.
How different that perception might have been had she decided to invest her campaign dollars differently.
She could have easily bridged the budget shortfall of $18.5 million in Long Beach and ingratiated a lot of voters in the process. Think of the goodwill she might have created by eliminating deficits of more than $4 million in both Ventura and Stanislaus Counties. She could have put Maywood and Del Norte County and Glenn County in the black with a $1.5 million. Contra Costa County has lots of voters and a $6.6 million dollar deficit. Redwood City is staring at budget shortfalls that total nearly $6.5 million through the next fiscal year. Dublin needs $4.6 million and Benecia nearly $2 million. Throw in another $4 million and Amador County's deficit is gone.
She could have done all that for slightly less than $67 million and had $52 million left to spend on a different kind of advertising binge.
Can't you just see it? "Meg Whitman. She personally saved millions of Californians from losing services and police officers. "
Of course we know that will never happen. No other candidates, most with deeper pockets than the voters they are courting, would do that either. It's just a thought as I watch another political commercial featuring Bill Clinton and read another e-mail pointing out that Jerry Brown's memory has receded faster than his hairline over the years.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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Shelly Klein has run k studio in its various forms for ten years working as a consultant for the contract furniture industry with a range of clients including Herman Miller. Also an accomplished painter, she uses overlapping imagery in both her paintings and textile work. The two mediums feed one another and create a dialog that our clients continue to find fresh and exciting. Mary Klein is a veteran of the contract furniture industry with extensive management and manufacturing background. She manages the nuts and bolts of the operation with skill and ease and is a collaborative partner in all design decisions. She also manages research and sourcing. The combination of their respective areas of expertise have resulted in a natural mother/ daughter collaboration exploring a shared interest in combining good design with sustainable materials, business acuity, and social responsibility.


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Carson High sophomore battling cancer
The first thing Jocelynn Gill's family noticed was the normally sweet and reserved 16-year-old who loves to sing and dance began struggling with depression. They weren't sure if it was normal teenage angst or something more serious.
When she started suffering from debilitating stomachaches and vomiting, they knew something was really wrong.
"After a trip to the emergency room in Carson, an ambulance ride from there to Renown in Reno and a Care Flight from there to the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco, they were finally able to figure out what has been making her sick," said Jocelynn's aunt Amy Schreck. "Jocelynn has a cancerous tumor on her pituitary gland in her brain. The cancer is called non-germinomatous germ cell tumor."
The 16-year-old Carson High School sophomore, who is involved in the Naval Junior ROTC, is undergoing chemotherapy.
"Jocelynn started chemo treatments on Halloween and must stay in San Francisco for at least another five to six weeks," Schreck said. "Once she is able to return home to Carson City, she will be required to go back to San Francisco for at least five days a month for treatment."
Schreck said the travel back and forth, as well as medication and other medical bills, are taking its toll on the family's finances.
"The family struggles as is, but with my sister on medical leave from her job to stay with Jocelynn, they are finding it even more difficult to make ends meet," she said. The only income they have right now is my brother-in-law's unemployment. Jocelynn's 12-year-old sister, Allison, has been staying with a family friend so she can continue to attend school."
Jocelynn's parents, Amanda and Bradley Gill, are from the area and have lived in Carson City for 14 years.
An account has been set up to help the family collect donations at gofundme.com/4zs4po.
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Fall has officially begun. I know that the autumnal equinox is a few days away and some experts would say that it is still late summer. They would be wrong. How can I be so sure? Because I woke up one morning last week and I was too cold to go back to sleep. I realized that it was time to bite the bullet and wrestle my duvet back into its cover. This is no mean feat. Imagine, if you will, a rather petite woman practically crawling into the gaping mouth of a king-size bedspread, hauling behind her a large white comforter, trying to match the four corners of this beast and its cover so that it will lie nice and flat on the bed. So there you have it. I mark the change of seasons not so much by the position of the sun in the sky, but by the need to change my linens!
I've had the idea for this recipe in my head for quite a long time now. I'd made some maple-flavoured sugar cookies a few years ago around Christmas time from a recipe out of Bon Appetit, and they'd been a big hit with my coworkers. And as a kid, I'd always loved the junkie maple sandwich cookies you could buy at the store. So the idea of sandwiching these maple cookies together with a maple-flavoured filling wasn't really a huge cognitive leap. With the cooler weather upon us and friends coming over for dinner on Saturday night, it seemed like the right time to break out my leaf-shaped cookie cutters and have some fun.
I had no intention of making these low carb or gluten free. I figured our friends would appreciate the full flour, full sugar version a little better (right, Dionne?). I actually had to go out and buy all-purpose flour and icing sugar for these, since I'd run out quite a while ago and never stocked back up. Now that says something about how well I've been doing with my dietary restrictions, for me to run out of all-purpose flour!
The Results: If you like maple syrup and you like sugar cookies, you will LOVE these! Two maple sugar cookies held together by maple buttercream. Really, how can you go wrong? They were delicious (yes, I tried one myself…and then ran 13.9 miles this morning to make up for it!). Our guests enjoyed them and I sent them away with some of the leftovers. Not all, for certain, as my kids would have my head if I'd given them all away!
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Cookies (from Bon Appetit, December 2005):
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 large egg
2 tsp maple extract
4 tbsp butter, room temperature
1 cup icing sugar
2 tbsp maple syrup
For the cookies, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. In a larger bowl, beat butter and sugars with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and maple extract until combined.
Beat in flour in several additions, until just blended. Divide dough into two balls and flatten each ball into a disk. Wrap each disk in plastic wrap and chill 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 375F and line baking sheets with parchment paper. Roll out one disk of dough on a lightly floured surface until it is about 1/3 inch thick. Cut out cookies with leaf-shaped cookie cutter(s) dipped lightly in flour. Place cookies on prepared sheets about 1 inch apart.
Note: If your cookie-cutter is not perfectly symmetrical, you may need to turn it upside-down to cut out shapes for the backside of the cookie sandwiches. If your cookie cutter is not sharp enough on the non-cutting side, you can also flip the cookie shape upside down after you have cut it out from the dough.
Bake cookies until edges just start to brown, 8-10 minutes. Watch them closely as they can start to burn quickly. Use an insulated baking sheet if you have one, that worked best for me.
Cool cookies on sheets for a few minutes and then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
For the filling, cream butter with an electric mixer. Add in icing sugar and maple syrup and beat until combined and smooth.
Spread the backside of one cookie with a dollop of buttercream. Top with another cookie, and repeat until all cookies are matched up. You can afford to be fairly generous with the buttercream. I stinged a bit of the first few cookies, and found I had a lot left for the last few. You can put about a teaspoon of buttercream in each sandwich cookie.
Makes approximately 36 two-inch sandwich cookies.


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The groups the user is member of define what activities the user can perform. The following table lists a number of important groups you might wish to use:
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(Your root password)# useradd -m -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash john # passwd john Password: (Enter the password for john)Re-enter password: (Re-enter the password to verify)
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AS YOU NO doubt know by now, Seahawks linebacker Leroy Hill was arrested and charged early Saturday morning with misdemeanor possession after an officer found less than an ounce of marijuana in his car.
The incident happened after 4 a.m. in Lithia Springs, Ga. The motorist behind Hill at a traffic light called 911 and reported that the person in front of her was asleep at the wheel.
Officer Joshua Skinner from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office in Douglasville, Ga., responded to the call and noticed the smell of marijuana coming from Hill's car. During a search of Hill's car, Skinner found two bags of pot. Hill was arrested and released on $1,500 bond.
Further details emerged Monday. Hill was not charged with a DUI because "the deputy's investigation revealed no impairment to where he needed to give him a sobriety test," said Stan Copeland, chief deputy of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
I tried to reach Skinner but was told by Copeland that "most officers won't talk because they've been bit in the butt before, talking about a case."
But I did reach the motorist who called 911. She wanted to remain anonymous and felt bad to hear about what had happened to Hill.
The motorist said she sat behind him in the left-turn lane and waited as the light kept turning green and red, green and red. "It changed multiple times," she said.
She kept honking but didn't see any movement and decided to call 911.
"I could've driven around him, but I didn't know if there was something wrong," she said. "I didn't want to leave if there was something medically wrong. I didn't want that to be on my conscience."
She said Hill eventually woke up and drove off. She speculated that Skinner must have pulled him over off the description of his car.
Hill, 26, was arrested in an Atlanta suburb, about 115 miles from his home in Haddock, Ga. A voice mail to Hill's cell phone was not returned, but he issued a statement through the Seahawks, apologizing to his family, teammates, fans and the Seahawks' organization.
"I am embarrassed by the incident Saturday morning and the poor judgment I showed," Hill said in the statement. "Please understand my actions were not consistent with the type of person I hope to become."
There's a big thing to consider here -- will this arrest change the Seahawks' interest in retaining a terrific linebacker who is about to become a free agent?
Earlier this month, Seahawks GM Tim Ruskell said: "Our priority is to have him back on the team." But what does he think now? I don't know because Ruskell did not respond to an interview request Monday.
He did issue a statement, saying: "Any time anybody in our family gets in trouble or gets arrested, it feels like a punch in the gut. We are a team always striving for good, consistent character, so it is disappointing when something like this happens. However, we will never stop trying to be better."
Hopefully this incident won't affect Hill in his negotiations with the Seahawks or other teams. Big deal, an NFL player who smokes pot. Sure, it's against the law and could result in a one-game suspension, but I don't want to criticize him for that.
There's this other little matter that's more baffling to me -- why was Hill driving a 1975 Buick Electra? This is the question of the day. Your answer: Well, maybe he had it customized -- that would then make sense. But the motorist behind him saw no such evidence.
"I'm not exactly a car fanatic, and it was dark," she said. "It was an older car, a Buick, and it looked like it was light yellow. It didn't look tricked out; it looked normal, like an old-school Buick.
Needing further details, I called Todd Collins, who now works at Chuck Olson Chevrolet Kia but worked at Huling Brothers Buick in West Seattle for nearly 20 years.
Asked if he could remember any distinguishing features of a 1975 Buick Electra, Collins said: "No. It was just a big boaty car. It reminded me of a barge."
Added Mark Westlund of Westlund Buick GMC: "It was huge. Those things must have weighed about 4,500 pounds. They're as big as a supertanker. You could literally sit four people across in each seat."
An Internet search revealed that, at the time, it was the longest car ever built by General Motors, stretching 19 feet from bumper to bumper. According to cargurus.com, the '75 Electra was "all about comfort and luxury and not so much about fuel economy."
If Hill's Electra features the Park Avenue trim, he's got velour headliners and carpet and corduroy seats, all standard in '75.
Copeland, the chief deputy, admitted it's "kind of unusual" to stop someone or see anyone who's driving a '75 Electra.
"It may be a beautiful car, I don't know," he said.
To Hill, it probably is. But to the motorist behind him ...
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[Warning: This story contains spoilers from the season premiere of Once Upon a Time. Read at your own risk!]
After a brutally long summer, we finally got to see the Charming family reunite on Once Upon a Time — and it definitely wasn't what we were expecting. Emma (Jennifer Morrison) was filled with conflicting emotions about being given up by her parents Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) — but that was cut short as the townspeople gathered to kill Regina (Lana Parrilla) and Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) unleashed a soul-sucking Wraith to take her down.
Once Upon a Time: Now that the curse has been broken, the real trouble begins
In keeping with Snow and Charming's personalities, the duo and Emma protected Regina from the soul-sucker, banishing him through the Mad Hatter's hat into whatever was left of fairy tale land. But the Wraith pulled Emma along with it, forcing Snow to jump in after her daughter. When the Wraith claimed the soul of Prince Phillip (Julian Morris), Mulan (Jamie Chung) and Aurora (Sarah Bolger) were both devastated and furious with whom they assumed brought the Wraith into the world: the portal-jumping Emma and Snow!
So what does it all mean? TVGuide.com turned to executive producers Adam Hororwitz and Edward Kitsis, who dissected the first episode and dished on what's in store for Season 2. Get the scoop below:
Let's start with the present day New York opener with Michael Raymond-James. Does that mean that someone got out of Storybrooke?!
Adam Horowitz: That's an excellent question. All we can say about his character is that sooner rather than later, you'll learn a lot more about him. We air nine episodes before we're scheduled to go off for Christmas break, and within those episodes, you'll learn a lot more about him and what his role in our larger story is.
How do you respond to the theory that he might be Henry's (Jared Gilmore) father? They do look alike!
Horowitz: I'd say that there's a lot of theories out there. We love the speculation, but you're just going to have to watch and see! Henry's father is someone we will learn about this year well before the finale.
Lightning Round: Once Upon a Time bosses answer your burning questions!
We saw that there is a part of fairy tale world that was preserved. How much of that will we see?
Horowitz: I would be very disappointed if I was introduced to that concept and it wasn't explored. What happened to fairy tale land after the curse, what's there, who's there and what that world is like is something we're going to be explaining.
Edward Kitsis: We're going to have a quest to get home, so in that quest, we're going to traverse many areas.
Already, Emma and Snow are going to be enemies of this world, but they're the good guys!
Horowitz: That's the challenge and that's what's exciting for us. [We wanted] to take Emma into a land that she's never been to and then have it be a difficult place where maybe she's not as beloved as she would want to be.
Kitsis: And with the person that she had, up until now, been the big sister to. Now she's in a land where that person is her mom and knows better. That's a tough adjustment for anyone.
Regina was quick to want to kill Charming, but Henry stopped her. Does that stop her indefinitely or will she continue to struggle with that?
Horowitz: Here's the thing with Regina: Everything's a struggle with her. What stopped her was Henry, and Henry's still there. It's going to be a struggle for her.
Kitsis: Magic is power and power's a hard thing to give up. In order for her to prove to Henry she has a good heart, she's going to have to give that up, but that's a hard thing.
You're now telling three stories, in a way, with Storybrooke, fairy tale land present and past. Will you guys continue to toy with parallel storytelling?
Horowitz: Yeah. The idea now that we can tell stories in Storybrooke parallel with fairy tale land that are both present day and both moving forward is exciting to us. And then, the ability to also be able to look back on the characters in the way we did last year has, for us as writers, added a new dimension to how we tell these stories. We're excited for the audience to see it.
Will Once Upon a Time travel to the Land of Oz?
There's a reason why this land in fairy tale world wasn't touched by the curse. How soon will that start to unravel?
Kitsis: Within those nine episodes, you will probably get the answer to that.
When Phillip says "I love you," it was ambiguous as to whether he was speaking to Mulan or Aurora.
Horowitz: That was purposefully ambiguous. If you ask Mulan and you ask Aurora, you might get different answers.
Kitsis: There's definitely a story there, but it looked to me as if he was saying it to both of them.
That's not your typical love triangle!
Kitsis: I mean, it's your classic case of two women loving a man who was sucked into a Wraith! [Laughs] What I love most about it is it's really not a love triangle. It started with Mulan on a quest to help Phillip wake up his true love, so she walked into it already saying, "I love this man; I want him to be happy." That's why she says in the premiere, "Love is a sacrifice of your own happiness."
We saw that Sleeping Beauty was awakened, but can Phillip be? Is that reversible?
Kitsis: We didn't see him die. We saw his soul be sucked, so the question is: Can somebody go get it?
ABC sent out sent out fun cast photos on Friday, but why is Henry holding a bow and arrow?
Kitsis: There is an Easter egg in there, but it's going to take a while for you to realize it. Then, when you go back, it may not be the bow and arrow that gave it away.
Why do you think Henry's holding a bow and arrow? Hit the comments with your thoughts on the season premiere!
Once Upon a Time airs Sundays at 8/7c on ABC.


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How do you know Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner lead lives very different from our own? When the two Republican gubernatorial candidates completely whiff a softball question about how they can possibly understand the concerns of average, working Californians.
Both answers are unintentionally hilarious, because each sought to emphasize humble roots even though they aren't so humble.
Whitman talked about how she and her husband, a neurosurgeon, came to California in 1981 with nothing except his internship at the University of California San Francisco, which is only one of the world's leading medical research institutions, and her own job at a major international consulting company. With those meager starts, how did those two crazy kids ever make it out of the projects?
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Graduation rates stagnant for men's NCAA Tournament teams
A study of teams in the NCAA Tournament shows that graduation rates for men's basketball players have become stagnant and that the sport's governing body may need to raise academic standards to get them moving upward again.
The most recent report from the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport shows a 78 percent graduation rate for men's basketball players among the 68 NCAA Tournament teams in this year's field. Broken down further, there's a 92 percent graduation rate for white players and a 74 percent rate for black players.
The numbers from the past three years for the men have stayed fairly flat — including the racial disparity. Richard Lapchick, the study's primary author, says the NCAA could potentially change that trend with stricter academic requirements.
"I strongly believe that the NCAA needs to raise the Academic Progress Rate so that the peg is closer to a 60 percent graduation rate rather than 50," Lapchick said. "Almost all the teams in the tournament are already above that rate."
The graduation rates are much higher for the 64 teams in the women's NCAA Tournament field. The programs combined for a 92 percent graduation rate and there's a much smaller difference between white players (94 percent) and black players (91 players). The three percent difference is the lowest in the 16-year history of the study.
"I think the women are the model for the men," Lapchick said. "We can say we want 100 percent but realistically we're always going to have a little shortfall. So 92 percent is pretty amazing."
Lapchick said that the NCAA's implementation of the Academic Progress Rate (APR) in 2004 has helped result in a substantial boost in graduation rates. According to the study, the overall graduation rate for men's basketball players in the tournament has climbed 20 percentage points since 2006 — including 25 percent for black athletes and 16 percent for white.
Schools are now required to score a 930 in the APR on a scale of 1,000 or they face potential penalties, including postseason and recruiting restrictions. The 930 APR benchmark — which all 68 men's tournament teams reached this year for the first time — is equivalent to a 50 percent graduation rate.
This year's study shows that 56 of 68 NCAA Tournament men's teams graduated at least 60 percent of their basketball players in 2018. Twelve schools had a 100 percent graduation rate, including Bucknell, Creighton, Davidson, Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas State, Alabama, Arizona, Kansas, Penn, Villanova and Wright State.
Lapchick said the numbers show that schools are ready to raise the APR standard.
"It wouldn't really be a hardship on schools, but it would be an added incentive," Lapchick said.
NCAA spokeswoman Emily James said in an email that the organization's academic committee "continually reevaluates the rate and benchmarks, including its predictive relationship to" Graduation Success Rate.
Lapchick said that the 18 percent difference in the graduation rates of white and black men's basketball players remains troubling, even if that's tied for the smallest gap since the study was started more 16 years ago. In 2011, there was a 32 percent difference.
"Race remains a continuing academic issue, not only in college sports, but also in higher education in general," Lapchick said.
The study's racial discrepancy in men's basketball graduation rates mirrors similar reports.
A recent study done by Shaun R. Harper at the USC Race and Equity Center found that about 55 percent of black male student-athletes in all sports graduated from college within six years at the 65 schools that comprise the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12 and Southeastern Conference.
That's compared to about 60 percent for black undergraduate men overall at the same schools and 69.3 percent of student-athletes overall for the graduating classes of 2013 through 2016.
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