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Budgeting and Hierarchical Control
AbstractThis paper develops a model of budgeting in hierarchical organizations. Each agent (manager) in the hierarchy receives a budget for a task; based on his own information, the agent assigns tasks and budgets to his subordinates, who, in turn, do the same for their subordinates and so forth. Each department's performance is measured by the difference between budgeted and actual cost. In this setting we show that a particular budget mechanism is optimal in terms of the incentives it creates and the coordination it achieves.
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HORNCLASS Interpretation Horn Courses include individual lessons, chamber music and ensemble performance, basic orchestral training, seminars, workshops and instrument displays. The course is opened for all horn playing levels, including beginners. A piano accompanist will be available for the duration of the course. Participants may, should there be enough interest, choose to perform in one of the course concerts to be organized at a later date.
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|July 26 – August 3, 2014
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As in previous years, the aim of the 23rd French horn master class, known as Hornclass and held annually in Czech Republic, is to develop the art of performance on an instrument boasting rich tradition in the history of the Czech lands. We welcome musicians from all spheres, professionals and amateurs, to take part in our master class. Students and teachers at music schools, keen amateurs who simply enjoy music as a hobby and even beginners, eager to get to know the instrument better, are encouraged to participate. A traditionally relaxed and friendly atmosphere among course participants and guest tutors – prominent musicians and soloists invited every year to host the master class – has always ensured the overall success of the weekly program and the course as a whole.
The guest tutors participating in this year's master class will be Professors Hermann Baumann, soloist, former professor Folkwang Hochschule Essen from Germany, Michelle Stebleton, soloist, professor of Horn Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA. They will co-operate with the Czech organizers and pedagogues Jiří Havlík, Jindřich Petráš and Zdeněk Divoký.
Together with the performances by Hornclass tutors and guests, the master class participants may look forward to hearing Czech young virtuoso Kateřina Javůrková, laureate of the Prague Spring International Competition 2013, in a special recital named "Young Talent".
During the masterclass we will also remember the 80th birth anniversary of deceased professor Hermann Baumann.
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— Jim Farrell
In Earth in Mind, David Orr writes, "I believe that most of us do what we do as environmentalists and profess what we do as professors because of an early, deep, and vivid resonance between the natural rules and ourselves" (45). I can see the logic behind this, and I'm sure it's true much of the time. But, for whatever, reason, I don't think it's true for me. I think by Orr's rubric, I am an unlikely environmentalist.
There are nature-lovers all over St. Olaf, people who ski and swim and post pictures on Facebook of their spring-break hikes along the Appalachian trail. I am not one of these. Sure, I grew up playing games outside like any kid, but not often beyond the network of neighborhood backyards. Trips out to a local wilderness walking trail along the river through the woods were by no means arduous, but they weren't something I particularly looked forward to, especially if there were bugs. God, I hate bugs. I can appreciate them in an abstract all-life-is-beautiful-and-meaningful sort of way, but I really need a wall or four between me and them. I'm also a pretty big wimp when it comes to temperature. I hate being sweaty, and I hate being cold. Perhaps you can start to see just how out of tune with nature I am.
So why am I interested in environmental studies? It's not something I had really thought about before. My gut instinct is to say that I'm interested in it because it's something that someone has to take interest in. It's a problem that needs solving, and not in a "oh, wouldn't it be nice if we could save the whales?" sort of way. Global climate change and the host of other environmental issues facing the world are ones that need solving for the very survival of our race. But then why aren't I taking courses in nuclear weaponry and diplomacy to try to avert a catastrophic nuclear Armageddon, or working my way up through the ranks of the military? Maybe it's just because weather-wimps don't do so well in the deserts of the Middle East, either, but I'll try to probe for a deeper meaning than that.
I got to thinking about my other interests besides environmental studies, principally music, writing, and politics. Why am I interested in these topics? The reasons I came up with were very different than why I'm interested in the environment.
First, music. I got into music because I tagged along to my sister's piano lessons when I was but a wee lad, and eventually my mother decided that as long as I was there, I should start taking lessons too. Now it's fifteen-odd years later and I play eight instruments, sing in a choir and a folk duet, listen to music endlessly, and find some of my greatest joy in playing music with friends and some of my greatest release in writing songs. So while the choice to begin music might not have been mine in the beginning, over the thousands of hours I have spent with music, I have come to own it and love it. I can convey things with music I can't in any other way, and have learned things from it that I would not have learned otherwise. Re-reading the paragraph above me, music seems like a very selfish interest for me. I certainly have hopes that by playing music and writing songs I might have some small influence on the world or other people, but that's not why I do music. Music is for me.
It's a little bit different with writing. Whereas I started listening to music after I started playing it, I started writing because I loved reading and wanted to create something like what I was reading. I'm still working on loving the process of writing, but I'm getting better, moving beyond the point of enjoying merely having written. So again, writing is something that I seem to do for personal enjoyment or fulfillment.
My love of politics probably started with my love for the television show The West Wing, which is to this day my favorite show of all time. It taught be about politics, ideologies, and about humanity as well. I liked the drama of elections and political in-fighting and started following political news for real-life excitement before I figured out that politics could be used as a tool to effect change I want to see in the world. So my interest in politics started out as something that interested me for its own sake, and has evolved to become something I study academically and want to use to make the world a better place. But politics, like music and writing, is something I would still do if I didn't "have to."
The environment doesn't fit as easily into a timeline of my life as these last three. I can't point to a formative experience or period of time when I woke up to environmental issues. I remember watching An Inconvenient Truth in high school chemistry, but while it made me think, I don't remember a fundamental change, an "aha" moment. I think that if the environment was fine and unthreatened, I wouldn't be nearly so interested in studying it. In this sense, it's something I am doing because in some sense I *have* to be. That's not to say I don't love studying the environment and environmental issues, but I don't think it's as intrinsic a part of who I am as politics, music and writing.
The concept of the "real world" as opposed to the "fake" world of St. Olaf or another liberal arts college is one that resonated with me as we read about it in Jim's article and discussed it in class. This pressure is something that I think a lot of college students feel, and in me it has at times manifested as guilt over what I'm doing with my life.
It seems at times that going to college is just an exercise in putting off the inevitable joining of the real world. When I get out of here, I think, I'll have to work. Then I think to myself, aren't I working at St. Olaf? Isn't being in college, writing papers and researching and reading copious amounts of dense text difficult? Who said it wasn't? For me, it was a cantankerous old man on the other end of a phone bank. Please allow me a brief story to set the scene:
The summer after my freshman year at Olaf I was working on Matt Entenza's Minnesota gubernatorial campaign, trying to live out my politicking fantasies as seen in The West Wing. I soon discovered, much to my chagrin, that being a campaign foot-soldier is much different from being in the inner circle of the candidate's closest confidantes. Rather than sitting in on dramatic strategy meetings in smoke-filled rooms, I worked mostly from home calling people who weren't especially pleased to be talking with me.
One summer day I called the number that appeared on my screen and a woman answered with a cheerful hello. I told her who I was and why I was calling, and her sunny disposition dissolved into a resentful "Oh. My husband deals with those things." She put her husband on the phone and I dutifully repeated my spiel, but I could sense his simmering anger right off the bat. He questioned me about Entenza's personal finances and how I could support a candidate with so much money. I responded that I didn't think that was important, that I was supporting Entenza for his stance on the issues.
"Fine, tell me what his issues are," the old man replied.
Good, I thought. This is getting back into my comfort zone. I talked about the candidate's support for education reform and green energy. That's as far as I got before the man stopped me.
"Do you know how much oil it takes to build a windmill?" he asked me.
I admitted that I didn't, while glowering silently at how unfair the question was. Could I be expected to have such an array of facts at my disposal to bat away the qualms of every redneck climate-change skeptic who crossed my path? At this point it was clear that the man wasn't going to vote for Entenza or any other Democrat, but I hadn't developed (nor have I yet) the thick political skin to get into the much with the man, or even enough to hang up the phone on him.
"Does he drive a car?" the man asked about my candidate, implying that a man who drove could only be taken as hypocritical on environmental issues.
On the other end of the phone I was flushed and near tears. I replied, "Yes, he has places he needs to go." (I've come up with about a billion better responses to the man's question since then, one for every time I've played the call over in my head.)
"I have places I need to go," the man said. The conversation continued in this vein for a while before the man asked, "so what do you do for a living?"
"I'm a student," I said. I already felt guilty about it, knew exactly what the man was thinking. Oh, look, another stupid, idealistic college kid with no work experience working for a Democrat without understanding any of the issues. He doesn't even know how much oil it takes to build a windmill!
"That's what I thought," the man said, the disdain dripping off every word. "Where do you go to school?"
I was half frightened that he was going to drive down and knock on my dorm room door to berate me more thoroughly in person, but I was more frightened of the present than of the future so I squeaked, "St. Olaf."
"Hmph," he said. "Well, why don't you quit that school and get out in the real world and get a real job."
I don't remember the rest of the conversation, though it wasn't long, because at this point I was full-out crying and trying to do my best to keep it out of my voice while tilting my head awkwardly so tears wouldn't fall on the campaign's loaned cell phone and frazzle its circuits. I think I said something like, "well sir, I can see I'm not going to change your mind, so let me just say good evening and I'll be on my way." I am quite the bloodthirsty liberal. Then I left the phone on my desk and went to lie down, deciding I wasn't going to meet my phone-banking quota for the day. (I ended up not meeting very many of the daily quotas. Though this was among the worst of the calls, there were very few that were in any way pleasant. At least the experience taught me that I'm not cut out for the trenches of political warfare.)
After a few deep breaths and a few hours to think off the worst of the existential nausea, I got down to some real reflection. Did what the man said have any merit? Was I wasting my time in an ivory tower that in addition to not teaching me anything worthwhile was actively distancing and alienating me from the struggles of much of the rest of the world? I decided I was not wasting my time, though it's a question I'm still grappling with and with which I expect this course will challenge me to engage even more.
I may have the basic needs of food, shelter and clothing provided for me at my parents' expense, but just because the academic work I do is not the proximate cause of my continued sustenance and existence does not dispossess my work of value. Certainly there is an economic argument to be made for the value of scholarship, in that college graduates make a higher income on average than their counterparts with high-school educations.
But to make the economic argument is to admit the premise of the higher-education critics that there is no value in the pursuit of knowledge beyond its ability to contribute to economic success. What about education's ability to teach me who I am, what I want to do with my life, and how I fit into a world that exists on a scope broader, deeper and grander than a mere economic one? What about the opportunity St. Olaf has given me to study things that interest me for no other reason than because of that interest? And what about the friends I've made at St. Olaf? Even if my St. Olaf degree turned out to be valueless and I ended up flipping burgers alongside high-school dropouts, I still wouldn't consider my time spent at Olaf a waste, because the friends I have made would be worth every penny of the tuition money. And maybe I would have made friends out in the "real world" too, but I wouldn't have encountered them in an environment like a college where socialization is as important as work and where, for the most part, we have a four-year reprieve from working our asses off in the name of meeting our wants and needs. In this less-pressured environment, friendships and relationships have space in which to plant deep roots and grow.
If my relationships with people are a truer barometer of my fulfillment as a person than my economic success, as I believe they are, then my time at St. Olaf has not been a waste. I don't mean to argue that friends are the only worthwhile thing I have gained at Olaf – or else why not just plop everyone in an eternal playpen? – but I do argue that it is important. I value knowledge and the ability to deepen my understanding of the world and myself through study, and countless other aspects of this four-year chunk of life spent at St. Olaf. Those, however, are topics for future journals.
"And the rain fell on houses, and on the late swaying trees - it fell its fiercest on the skulls of the willingly deceived."
- Laura Marling, "Flicker and Fail"
I want to change the world. Or, perhaps more accurately, I want the world to be changed. Whether or not I'm the one to do it doesn't matter that much to me. But someone has to do it, so I'm going to give it a shot. Up until now, Draining Fiction From My Blood has been a blog about my music, and a little bit about creative writing here and there. From now on, I'm going to include my thoughts on politics and the environment, the two topics I am studying at school. So this blog will be about my relationship with and thoughts concerning music, writing, politics and the environment, and my search for a coherence of these four pillars that hold up a great portion of my life.
I thought about changing the title of the blog to reflect the new direction, but then I thought about it and I think the current title works. I originally chose Draining Fiction From My Blood, a lyric from "We are the Same" by Samantha Crain to reflect the creative process. It meant to me that I was taking out the stories from inside of me and putting them onto the blank white page in front of me, in the form of short stories, novels and songs. But the phrase has meaning for politics and the environment, as well. So much of the world is deluded and misguided on these two issues, willfully or not, that for anything meaningful to be accomplished in either arena we need to drain our blood of the fictions that obscure meaningful progress towards solutions. I don't claim to know fact from fiction in every case, but I do know that too many versions of the truth exist for us to reconcile peacefully. So in this blog, I will try to drain the fictions from my blood as well, maybe, as a few from yours. Maybe then we can come together as one and save the world. I don't think I can do it on my own.
"When the yelling does subside, I'll come running to your side… and we, we are the same."
- Samantha Crain, "We Are the Same"
This change is in part prompted by a class I am currently taking called Campus Ecology. The course is making me think a lot about what I believe about life, the world, and my place in it. I'll periodically post things that interest me in the class and journals I am writing for it.
We are reading an excellent book for class called Earth in Mind, by David Orr, that I would highly recommend. It's one of my favorite things I've read in college so far - I'll share a few lines from it that have gotten me thinking.
"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds."
- Actually a quote from A. Leopold of A Sand County Almanac fame
This quote pretty accurately how it feels to be an environmental studies major - like shit. You know the world is sliding down to hell all around you and you feel like there's no one you can talk to about it who will understand.
"No concerns about the world getting warmer - people thought they were just being rewarded for treating others as they'd like to be treated, for obeying stop signs and curing diseases, for mailing letters with the address of the sender - now we can swim any day in November."
- The Postal Service, "Sleeping In"
As my lyrical quotes have hopefully showed you, music has something to say about the environment. I think that the world can be changed not only by politics, but by music and storytelling. Look at Dylan's protest songs - look at the Beatles. Look at the fear books can instill in the hearts of wrongdoers, so much so that they burn them in huge piles I'm not saying that I'm going to go out and write songs about saving the planet, but I think music has power; I'm not saying I'll write a political treatise on how to tackle the intractable issue of the environment, but I think telling stories can change lives. Then again, I'm not saying I won't do those things. We'll see what happens when I let my blood out on the page, what shapes the fictions will form.
"The planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind."
- David Orr, Earth in Mind
This is my goal. I want to add stories to the stack, pages to the book, music to the air. I'll leave you with the piece of music I quoted at the top of the post, Laura Marling's Flicker and Fail, currently my most-played song in iTunes. It's simply beautiful, and Laura definitely has something to say, if you care to listen:
"And the rain fell on the towers and on the late swaying trees, and it hammered and it raged on us unwillingly. The believers were forewarned, and they ran in to the storm and watched the Earth's light flicker and fail"
- Laura Marling, "Flicker and Fail"


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Mario plays as Dante and Toad plays as Virgil in this fun-filled tour of the monster-filled circles of Hell!
This time, my use of Mario characters isn't entirely my fault.
BlueEyedSweeTie needed a school project done about Dante's Inferno, so she gave me part of a script to work with for me to make a Mario Flash movie for her, since she thought I would use sprites. She also thought the movie wouldn't have sound. Instead, I exceeded her expectations by voicing nearly the entire movie myself, making some short tunes in Finale Notepad, and drawing everything with the mouse. The result of a quick school project is the movie page you see now. The movie itself is about 3 and a half minutes, and I don't remember how long the credits are.
Anyway, enjoy!
[EDIT 03-14-09]: Shoot, I think I might could have gotten a Daily Feature if I had submitted this just thirty minutes earlier than I had. Ah well. Fourth's not bad. =P
[EDIT 03-18-09]: I signed on today and noticed my movie had made it to the frontpage, which I honestly hadn't expected. Many thanks to who put it there!
[EDIT 03-20-09]: By the way, there's not going to be a sequel.
Rated 5 / 5 stars April 30, 2009
Lmao! Awesome.
This was funny! Love the book. you did well. =)
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Ive not read this book either, never the less I was impressed by the quality of animation, Well done!
Rated 5 / 5 stars April 13, 2009
I searched wikipedia
and typed in "Dante's Inferno" and went to "Divine Comedy" Based great on the book :D
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italian poem!
at first i was like wtf then i found out about the poem there are two dantes paradise (or sumthin) then dantes infero this is verry original by adding mario shit in it so yeah every 1 who thinks this suks READ THE ORIGINAL POEM!
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I was 14, you were 25. I told you no, you didn't listen. I crossed my legs, you opened them wide. I screamed and cried, you thrust inside me. I begged and pleaded, you continued to thrust. I weeped on the bed, you continued to thrust. I let myself go limp, you continued to thrust. I stopped struggling, you continued to thrust. You were my first.
I was ordering a drink at a club when a man, about twenty, started humping me. I told him to go away multiple times, but he ignored me. I knew he was drunk from the alcohol on his breath, the excuse I've been using for years. He groped my breasts as drunk onlookers laughed and took pictures. The bartender watched in silence, looking as uncomfortable as I felt. Eventually, the drunk man slobbered on my lips and disappeared into the crowd.
When I was 13, I met a cute teenage boy online, or so I thought. He was acually an old man, about sixty years old. I arranged to meet up with him at a park and got raped. In the public restroom, he locked us in a cubicle and molested me. None of family or friends know. To any readers, please, please don't give any information to strangers, like I did. I made a mistake which will haunt me for the rest of my life, so please don't make the same mistake I did.
My half-brother, 17 years older than me, used to molest me when I was 12 to 17, when my parents told him to get his own house. He came into my bedroom at night, no lock to stop him. First, he would roughly kiss my lips, then make his down while taking off my clothes. He made me feel vulnerable in between my legs, but not as vulnerable as when he was inside me. My parents never found out. I was so relieved the day he moved out. I thought I could get on with my life, but I am still scarred. For any victims out there, do not be afraid. Tell somebody who can help, like the police. Rape and sexual harrassment are crimes. By telling someone, you may save other people from becoming victims.
I was gang raped age sixteen. On my way home, a group of five or so boys, late teens or early twenties, ambushed me in the street. They dragged me into an alleyway and stripped me completely. One boy took my virginity while the others kissed and groped me. I felt so violated and helpless as they stole my innocence. The boy inside me went all out, going so hard and fast I thought I would explode. I tried to scream, but there was always someone forcing their tongue in my mouth. I don't know how long this lasted, but it seemed like forever. They left my clothes when they had enough, leaving me physically and mentally hurt. Three years later, I still feel the pain from that scarring experience.
I thought it was normal to have intercourse with my father because I had been doing it since I was five. He always said everyone did it, so I believed him. My father often made me bleed as he was enormous in my tiny body. This continued even after I hit puberty in my early teens. When I started reading books about teen virgins, I realised it wasn't normal. I questioned my father and he responded with death threats if I told anyone at all. He continued groping me, feeling me with his tongue and having intercourse with me until I was seventeen.


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Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprise their signature roles as Lloyd and Harry in the sequel to the smash hit that took the physical comedy and kicked it in the nuts: Dumb and Dumber To. The original films directors, Peter and Bobby Farrelly, take Lloyd and Harry on a road trip to find a child Harry never knew he had and the responsibility neither should ever, ever be given.
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Electric Counterpoint by Steve Reich, performed by Bang on a Can who are celebrating their 25th birthday.
Happy Birthday guys! Never stop doing what you do so well, pushing the musical envelope… It keeps the world evolving :) *nods*
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(Prompt: Sherlock as a trans woman.)
"She's used to her body betraying her. Drugs, withdrawal, anatomy, stubble, the need to do things like eat and sleep when she has work to do. One type of betrayal is really no different than any other type, except for the part where it is."
tw: reference to self-harm, gender dysphoria


text: I'm a married man who enjoys sexual denial. My wife and I play with male chastity and orgasm denial. The best sex for me is when my partner gets all the pleasure while my own is limited or completely denied. My deepest fantasy is for my wife to enjoy a night of great sex with another man while I wait at home, all alone.


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Peter I
Pis'ma i bumagi Imperatora Petra Velikogo, 11 vol. (1887–1964), contains Peter's correspondence as well as valuable documents on Russian history up to 1711. Biographies include M.M. Bogoslovskiĭ, Petr I, 5 vol. (1940–48, reissued 1969), a detailed study up to 1700; Ian Grey, Peter the Great, Emperor of All Russia (1960); M.S. Anderson, Peter the Great (1978); Alex De Jonge, Fire and Water: A Life of Peter the Great (1979); Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great: His Life and World (1980, reprinted 1991); and Henri Troyat, Peter the Great (1987; originally published in French, 1979), a popularized account.
Peter's reign and the reforms he instituted are analyzed in Sergeĭ M. Solov'ev, Publichnyia chteniia o Petrie Velikom (1872, reissued 1984), by a famous Russian historian; B.H. Sumner, Peter the Great and the Emergence of Russia (1950, reissued 1972); Reinhard Wittram, Peter I, Czar und Kaiser, 2 vol. (1964), and Peter der Grosse: der Eintritt Russlands in die Neuzeit (1954); Ivan I. Golikov, Dieianiia Petra Velikago, 2nd ed., 15 vol. (1837–43), on his reforms; James Cracraft, The Church Reform of Peter the Great (1971); Alexander V. Muller (ed. and trans.), The Spiritual Regulation of Peter the Great, trans. from Russian (1972); and Evgenii V. Anisimov, The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Coercion in Russia (1993; originally published in Russian, 1989). J.G. Garrard (ed.), The Eighteenth Century in Russia (1973), provides a collection of essays on different aspects of the Westernization of Russia. Peter's military campaigns and his role as the founder of the new Russian army are explored in the works of a prominent Soviet historian, Evgeniĭ V. Tarle, Russkiĭ flot i vneshniaia politika Petra I (1949), also available in a German translation, Russisch-englische Beziehungen unter Peter I (1954), and Severnaia voĭna i shvedskoe nashestvie na Rossiiu (1958). Foreign relations are described by Leonid A. Nikiforov, Russko-angliĭskie otnosheniia pri Petre I (1950); and B.H. Sumner, Peter the Great and the Ottoman Empire (1949, reissued 1965).
Xenia Gasiorowska, The Image of Peter the Great in Russian Fiction (1979), is a study of some 60 historical novels written since Pushkin's time. Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought (1985), examines Peter's influence and how he has been perceived in Russia from 1700 to 1983.
Works that put Peter the Great and his reign into historical perspective include Vasili Klyuchevsky, The Rise of the Romanovs, trans. and ed. by Liliana Archibald (1970; originally published in Russian, 1912); E.M. Almedingen, The Romanovs: Three Centuries of an Ill-Fated Dynasty (1966); John D. Bergamini, The Tragic Dynasty: A History of the Romanovs (1969), based on English- and French-language sources; Ian Grey, The Romanovs: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty (1970); and W. Bruce Lincoln, The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias (1981).


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All Nate Godwin really needed was a second opinion.
Since he first met with West Virginia defensive line coach
Erik Slaughter, the Tampa native knew he had made an impression. The key was
getting other members of the staff to agree with what Slaughter believed he had
found in Godwin.
"We've talked on the phone probably four or five times after
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relationship," Godwin says of Slaughter. "He always told me that if it was up
to him, he would have offered me when he first met me, but he had to get the
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"When you look at it, of course they're a bigger school,
they've won more games," Godwin says. "If you look at the stronger programs as
far as West Virginia, I don't want to say I have a favorite, but they're
definitely up there."
He is quick to cite Iowa State and Arkansas State as the
other teams that sit atop his options at this point and expresses his interest
in joining a program that is ready to win right now.
Slaughter first met Godwin at Freedom's spring game back in
May and even though the scrimmage was rained out at halftime, the Mountaineers
assistant appeared to be pleased by what he saw from his 2013 prospect.
"I did pretty good. I was at corner, I didn't give up any
passes, I locked my receiver down and I made a big hit on a screen that really
got the crowd going and really set it off. I showed a lot of toughness," says
Godwin, listed at 6-foot, 190 pounds.
In the conversations that have followed, Godwin feels he has
an idea of what it is exactly that West Virginia sees in him.
A skilled athlete that can play cornerback, he says the
Mountaineers want him as a safety. He believes his skill set allows him to make
plays both in coverage as well as in the run game or to take down a ball
carrier downfield.
His current two-star rating according to Rivals.com is
something he is certain will rise now that WVU has offered and following a
recent combine performance in which he ran the 40-yard-dash in the 4.4-seconds
"As a defensive back, I feel like size really puts me up
there, my physicality. Those two really stand out about me," he says. "I give
it my all, I get in receivers' faces and I've got speed to go along with it, so
that really helps me out."
Godwin is looking into planning an unofficial visit to
Morgantown in late July to get his first glimpse at a campus that he has only
ever seen on a television screen.
"I'm a big college football fan and I watched them in the
Orange Bowl against Clemson. They're a winning program, always in the top year
in and year out playing in bowl games," says Godwin. "I haven't been on campus,
but I know they have nice facilities, I know they have nice uniforms from what
I see on TV, but that's about all I know right now."
He is hoping a summer of unofficial visits will help
determine where he schedules officials throughout the fall. His focus
throughout those months will be on his high school ball, but then he will try
to single out the one program that has made the best impression on him and make
a commitment.
"I really want to feel the environment and get to know the
coaches because they'll be coaching at least the next four to five years that
I'll be there. That's the biggest thing," says Godwin. "I want to get a feel
for the coaches, learn the Xs and Os, see the facilities and where you watch
film and how they do academics and study hall."
Until then, he will wait on other offers to come in and
begin taking a closer look at WVU and any other school that comes knocking for
his services.


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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Mom Defends 11-Year-Old YouTube Sensation Jessi Slaughter
Eleven-year-old Jessica Leonhardt of Florida (who goes by "Jessi Slaughter" and "Kerligirl13" online) recently posted the following video on YouTube [Warning: Explicit language -- NSFW]:
Afterward, she began receiving death threats, and her phone number and home address were posted online. She and her father then made the following video [Warning: Explicit language -- NSFW]:
These controversial videos have already been viewed by more than a million people -- and have even landed Jessica in police protective custody. Jessica's mom, Dianne, speaks exclusively to momlogic.
momlogic: How did all of this Internet drama start?
Dianne Leonhardt: On Thursday evening, it all started. I got a phone call from a guy [representing] himself as a police officer and inquiring about an alleged missing person -- a kid -- who knew or was associated with my daughter. I asked for the missing kid's name and my daughter said she didn't even know who he was. Something didn't seem right; the call seemed weird. So I asked the "officer" what the police chief's name was, and he hung up. The phone rang again, and I told the guy that if he was a real police officer to send a unit to my door. My daughter became more upset because someone had posted a photo of her over the Internet using her head with someone else's body. My daughter was sitting by the computer, and that's the video where my husband was screaming for all of this to stop. We shut the computer down and we were very upset.
ml: When did the actual police get involved?
DL: We all went to bed that night, and then at 1:15 AM, my doorbell rang. Our dog started barking and we heard bam, bam, bam ... someone was banging on our door. It was the Marion County Sheriff's Department. An officer said an anonymous tip had come in that our daughter was hurting herself. He wouldn't tell us who called the tip in, but he made me wake my daughter up to make sure she was OK. The officer was really rude and my daughter kept denying that she made any videos. She kept saying, "I didn't do any of this!" He was here for about 15 minutes.
The next morning, my husband and I were sitting in our home when the doorbell rang again. Another sheriff's department officer was banging on the door. This time, they had another anonymous tip from someone in California claiming my daughter had female prostitutes coming in and out of our home from ads posted on Craigslist. Again, my daughter denied making any of these videos. In the meantime, my mother-in-law called from Michigan, saying she'd gotten a message on Facebook from a man who sent a photo of my daughter with some other guy. I have no idea how they even found her on Facebook! I put the officer on the phone with her and he took down the information. I then went onto my Facebook page and the same guy had sent me a message, too.
After the officer left, I had messages on my voice mail from a man asking me for sex. The guy left his name and number. I also received a death threat on my voice mail, so we called the police back. It was from a bogus number, so they couldn't trace it. The same number has been calling for the last two days, all day and night. We believe it's the same person.
ml: Were you aware that your daughter had been making and posting these videos online?
DL: Jessica has a webcam and a computer. All of her friends have webcams, too, so they video chat with each other. I knew she'd made a video to apply for "America's Got Talent." She sings and sent an audition video in. I had no idea she was making other videos. I have seen her chatting with her friends, but not making videos.
ml: When did you find out about the videos, and what was your reaction?
DL: The officers had said there were videos, but Jess denied making them. Then my mother-in-law called and said there were videos. But I haven't watched them. I can't be in the room 24/7. We tried to talk to Jess last night, but she got very upset all over again. I am trying to get her back to normal. It's taken a very emotional toll on her. I don't know if she made these videos or not, but she says she didn't. Right now, I am trying to figure out what's real and what's not. This has been very difficult to deal with.
ml: Is it true that your daughter was taken into protective police custody?
DL: Yes. On Friday afternoon around 2:45 PM, another deputy and a DCF officer showed up at my door. The DCF agent was saying my daughter was making all these videos online. I never saw any videos and I didn't even want to turn on the computer. I wanted to leave it alone, but they were hammering my daughter. They didn't talk to her, they were talking at her. They were blaming her, saying, "You did this!" She was denying making the videos. I haven't watched the videos, and I don't want my daughter back online. I don't want to make her all upset again. After all that, DCF took Jess on Friday and put her in protective custody at a center. She came back yesterday. I am so angry about how she was treated. I went to visit her on Saturday, and she just wanted to go home. These kids have to get up at 7:00 AM, have breakfast and do schoolwork. There is no TV for them, and nothing else to do. From 1 to 2 PM, you can have visitors, so I went to see her. If you have no visitors, they tell you to take a nap. I couldn't return that evening for visitation, so they allowed her to make a five-minute call to me. She said she was bored and just staring at the walls. After three minutes, they rushed her off the phone.
ml: Do you have any idea how many people have watched these videos of your daughter online? Some of the videos have more than a million views! Do you realize the magnitude of this situation?
DL: I heard there were over a million views online of people looking at these videos. My phone has been ringing nonstop. I have let my phone go to voice mail, and people are calling and leaving crazy messages. A car company called because [someone] used [Jessi's] name requesting information on a vehicle. Domino's Pizza called because [someone] used her name to order hundreds of pizzas online. Pizza Hut called confirming an order for more than $1,000 worth of pizza; a girl left a message on our voice mail saying, "Hope you're enjoying the pizza." Now I am hearing [that] people are saying online that Jessi killed herself! She's an 11-year-old girl! We're trying to figure out what she posted and what she didn't -- what's real and what's not. We've received many threats. This is out of control. People think this is funny, but they don't realize the damage they're doing.
ml: Why do you think this happened to your daughter and family?
DL: Jessica helps a person write song lyrics. He's in a band, and people are jealous because she knows him and they became friends. She's been to one of his concerts and they've become friends. My daughter is a really friendly person and she chats online with people. She has also been bullied and picked on at school by a boy and two girls. The two girls got in trouble and they were suspended for three days after bullying her. Towards the end of the school year, Jess was suspended for 10 days after being accused of slapping a boy in the face and bruising him. She says she didn't do it and that the boy was sitting at a lunch table talking about how he got bruised after his brother hit him in the face with a softball. Every time something happens, there are no teachers or security guards at the school and Jessica gets in trouble.
ml: As a mother, what have you learned from all of this?
DL: I am still trying to take this all in. I can't believe this is happening. My daughter is an only child -- she was our miracle child, because I had cervical cancer and was told I couldn't have children. Then, on two years to the date of my recovery, I wasn't feeling well and found out I was pregnant. I can't be in the same room with her 24/7 and I am trying to explain to her what's going on. It's been very difficult because I don't understand what's going on -- I don't even know what these videos show and I don't want to view them. I am upset enough. I have been throwing up and I haven't been able to eat or sleep since this all started last week.
ml: What message do you have for other moms?
DL: Communicate with your child, try and watch them and try and believe what your child is saying to you. Give your child the benefit of the doubt, because nobody else will. And talk to your child about cyberbullying and about how bad it's going to hurt another person. They don't know or understand the dwindling-down effect of what they've created.
She deserves what she got. The parents too.
If you do ANYTHING on the internet, you run the risk of poking the wasp's nest that this girl did. Providing her name didn't help. These people are relentless, and nothing will ever make them stop, so there is honestly no point in blaming them. They're much like a force of nature. They have always been around, and they always will be. The only reason that they're so big now is because they can be anonymous and do whatever they choose. I've partaken in their events, as have many of the other people posting here, some more obvious than others. In summation: If she wanted to behave the way she did and chose not to cover her own tracks, then she fully deserved everything that she got, and it's clear that it won't stop for a while.
YA DUN GOOF'D! I didn't make none of these back traced videos!
Seriously, her daughter 'didn't make those videos' at all huh? Or the one after her 'sob fest' where she was saying any attention is good and she'd take it? Clearly the police and the videos themselves lied about it. I hope the children's services take her from both parents. Neither one deserves to have a kid if this is how they'll handle one. Or rather not handle it as clearly they can't control her. Give her 7 years (if that) she'll be on whatever version of Jerry Springer we have then.
She shouldn't have had a child for a reason. Miracles will never be the same!
haha stupidest parent ever.
she had cervical cancer for a reason! not to have kids… look at happens when u go agianst natural selection with advanced science. let5s go back to the days of the spartans where the weak were thrown away at birth
The best part is where she lies about how she handled the fake police phone call. Does she not realise that the video is up online of her real response? The guy played her for a fool completely.
momlogic forgot to mention the nude pictures she posted of herself.
Wow, the mum is in the dark. Jess cannot deny making these videos. there are still countless ones on youtube.
There is also a video of the fake police officer ringing. The mother is lying about most of the stuff in the interview.
So not going to end well….. this kid's mum is in major denial. Wake up and smell the coffee, lady. Your baby ain't the angel you think she is; no angel I know cusses like a sailor and threatens to shoot people in the head.
THIS IS THE CYBERPOLICE! Can I just say that this is a display of some of the worst parenting EVER. Your 11 year old kid doesn't need a webcam ESPECIALLY not for posting videos to America's Got Talent, I've seen her singing videos, they're awful. As far as jealousy goes, that's not the situation… It's just a matter of KEEP YOUR DAUGHTER OFF THE INTERNET! SHE'S INSTIGATING THINGS SHE IS CLEARLY UNABLE TO COPE WITH!… if she posted a video to her "haters" that was offensive, anonymous is obviously going to throw it back 10-fold. Oh and also, I just love that the mother complains that DCF made her kid wake up at 7 and she wasn't able to watch TV… someone should have sterilized this woman… or Billy Mays (that's Jessica's dad, right?)
WHy was her daughter back online again on 7/19?
The part where it says "a picture of her head on someone else's body" … is this mother completely blind? That photo was taken by her daughter, and was not a photoshop job.
Worst mother ever!!
This is sad. Her mom is taking no responsibility, and is lying lying lying. Her daughter posted topless pictures. Her daughter made death threats on video. And this lady claimed to not know about her daughters online habits, such as webcamming— SHE WAS IN THE ROOM WHEN HER DAUGHTER MADE A VIDEO!!!!??? You can even hear HER yelling at the camera along with her daughter. The parents are F*CKED, and it goes without saying, their daughter turned out the same way. Parents out there…. HAVE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR CHILDREN'S ONLINE HABITS!
Blood on the Dance Floor frontman Dahvie Vanity is also a registered sex offender. Apparently he had sexual contact with a minor.
@ #gF$V,
It was Ebaums world that organized the Jessi offensive.
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How can the mother believe that bullcrap?
There's proof!


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Creative matchstick carving.
Cool: Jud Turner has created a life size mammoth skeleton out of scrap farm equipment. This piece will be displayed in the Moses Lake Museum and Art Center in Washington State.
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Cool: Impress your friends with the whisky water trick.
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Taken form Benoit Ollive blog:
Graffiti is often misunderstood, and it is difficult for a graffiti writer to explain what he feels about it. I have been asked by a book publisher to write few pages to explain to teenagers how to practice graffiti. After hours and hours I came to the conclusion there was nothing to teach about it except providing the tool to do it. The new generation needs to discover it by practising it. instead of reading lessons. Rather than a long sterile speech debating on the good or bad vertues I created my own book to share my point of view through a conceptual message.
Art: Clemens Behr is currently featuring a batch of commissioned and noncommissioned public space art installations. The above can be found in Postbahnhof, Berlin. View more examples here.
People: Martin Luther King Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that
Inspire: Simon Sinek discusses "How great leaders inspire action."
Art: Concert posters by Crosshair Silkscreen in Chicago, IL integrating concert details with real life urban settings blending photography and print. View more of Crosshair's work here.
Art: Oil paintings by Jason Oda of Starving Eyes, creator of Emo Game.
Art: Portrait of Tom Waits created with coffee beans and cigarettes by Mike Oncley. Check out more on his ETSY site.
Creative: Hand painted leather jackets by East London based Nicolai Sclater. View more of his work here.
Creative: A hard cover notepad designed to look like a VHS tape designed by Peleg design. Buy it here. (via @boingboing)
Hero from Miguel Endara on Vimeo.
Art: Artist Miguel Endara draws a portrait of his father consisting of 3.2 Million ink dots. This video documents the making of this work of art.


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There are several turns of phrase and lines of thinking that make my skin crawl every time I hear them. Here's one:
"[insert pet 'ism' of speaker] is the last acceptable form of bigotry"No. No it isn't.
And no, it doesn't matter what oppression you are talking about. (The claim is made about nearly everything.)
Despite the gains made against things like racism, sexism and homophobia, people of color, women, trans people and gay people are still treated unequally. People of color still get paid less for doing the same jobs that white people do. Gay men and women still can't get married in the United States. Nobel Prize-winning male writers still feel comfortable asserting in the media that women writers are crap. Disabelism, fat phobia, Islamophobia, classism, xenophobia...All that shit still happens, too.
You win no one to your side by pretending yours is the only oppression that still exists. (Especially if your "oppression" is really a petty grievance, but that's another rant.) More than that, you offend everyone who labors under other oppressions every day. "X is the last acceptable form of bigotry" is a thoughtless, self-centered and privileged thing to say. More than that, it carries it's own form of bigotry. Inherent in the phrase is the idea that all that civil rights activism on behalf, for instance, gays and POCs is really just whining. X has been solved. The REAL issue is Y.
In most cases, the better assertion to make about little-discussed oppressions is that they are...well...little-discussed or often-ignored NOT that they are the only forms of real bigotry left.
Is anyone feeling me on this?
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