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1. Camp Counselor Guy I: You were quirky, kind of immature, liked The Dead (although innocent, pre-college me thought they were just dancing bears and found you cuter for wearing those shirts). I used your laid-back attitude for my YA boy. He might even have your hair.
2. Camp Counselor Guy II: You wore a yarmulke, were going to Jewish College, all up in the religion. But had a thing for making out in back seats and not committing yourself to just one girl (I guess like the men in the bible who had more than one woman in their tents). My sister dated an older version of you. She said guys like that weren't sleazy, "just ahead of their time." It's now called "Friends with Benefits." I'm waiting for the chapter that will be the best fit for you.
3. Camp Counselor Guy III--(I guess I needed something to keep me busy during my summers)--Lopsided smile and too cool attitude made the cut
4. College Party Hook Up Boy--Tried to get me to sleep with you by saying "It will only take a minute." How can that line not make it in?
5. College BF--Broke up with me by saying, "When I said you were my girlfriend, I meant, you know, girl who's a friend, and when I said we were going out, I meant out of your house." True story, people.
There are other guys too--like the ex who wrote poems and read books with me (like Joey and Pacey) or my husband whose amazing math skills inspired me to write one of my female MCs. And when I feel my teen boy is becoming too much of a player, I reel him in with the some "good guy" characteristics. But the bad ones are just much more fun. :-)
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Small recap: Friday, hubby was home from work so he, N, and I spent the day together looking at trains (of course), playing with N's bat, ball, and rake (those things must always come in threes), and running around and climbing. N so tires us out--in a good way--but he never seems tired. Mommy has no time for gym so he's really helping me out.
Also, on Friday, on a whim, not in the mood to go food shopping, we decided to go out to dinner. This may sound uneventful, but a sit down dinner (even at a place that's a diner) with an almost 2 year old, is never just sit down. And, don't tell me I should just take him to Fuddruckers or something. Those places are even worse because he's so distracted by everyone and everything, he won't sit AT ALL. We haven't gone out the three of us to dinner since Mother's Day (that actually went super well) so we figured why not? He sat in the booth for a while, colored, threw things in my water (who needs to drink?) and was doing well. Now, if only they had brought out all the food just 10 minutes earlier than they did. Then, N had enough and wanted to go "OUUUTSIIIIDE." Well, wouldn't you know it, then, miraculously all the food is ready and brought to us. I guess they saw him getting restless and made their decision to bring stuff out that was sitting in the back? Hubby went to play with N in the parking lot (gives new meaning to "Go play in traffic") and I finished maybe half my dinner and then hubby and I switched N roles. All in all, not a bad outing. Went far better than the last time we went out, which I just remembered was not MD, but a few weeks ago when we braved Applebee's. N sat for maybe 5 minutes that day. So this time way better.
BUT, the real highlight of the dinner is about me. When I ran outside to find N and hubby so we could do the eating swap, a car honked at me. I wasn't in the street at risk of being run over so maybe I dropped something and the driver noticed? Nope. When I looked up, dude was all smiling this "you're cute" smile and honked again. OK, folks, it's been quite a while since I've been honked at. I guess baby as accessory does not invite honking. Go figure. Back in my single days, I would have ignored honker or rolled my eyes. But, I was wearing my cute, fitted pink shirt so I just smiled back and then went to find my boys, feeling, hot, hot, hot. I don't advocate leering, but once in a while, a few honks don't hurt. Maybe I should wear a shirt on days I need a honk. You know, something like, "Honk if you support moms." I don't know....I'll work on that idea.
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Trying to get some inspiration from Stephen King's ON WRITING, and I love what he says about muses. I was trying to picture mine and am not quite sure what she looks like. I know what she's not, though. Definitely not a girly girl or one of those chicks who gets her nails done every day. But I don't see her as a tomboy either. I think she wears funky clothes and cracks on her gum a little too loudly and keeps things real. Like, she'll roll her eyes if I'm making my characters too sappy or really trying for an ending that will make my high school self really happy but will not work with the book. Sometimes she's goofy and makes faces at my son to get him to laugh, while looking at me from the corner of her eye to make sure I'm working. And other times she rather watch reality tv and chill with black coffee (loaded with real sugar--none of that artificial stuff for her) than help me out. I think that's what she's been doing this week, and it's quite annoying. What bribe should I give her so she'd be useful again?
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But here is the issue. I don't really understand what the big deal is and it's on my mind because the novels and stories I write do have a Russian-Jewish component that is relevant to the story. This is what I'm drawn to. Yet, continuing the language is not really important to me. I know my mother is not thrilled with this (and she claims she is but then she is quick to point out to everyone that N doesn't know Russian--like every random person cares). I don't feel connected to the language. I feel connected to the culture; the mahtroshka doll (the doll-within-a-doll-within-a-doll) always makes me sentimental and think of time spent with my grandparents. Stuffed cabbage and cutlets (made Russian style) are foods I make while I remember my grandmother's hands rolling the meat between her fingers. But the language itself? It doesn't evoke much; I don't feel that alone defines me. I taught N a few Russian words like "yazik" (tongue) and "myach" (ball) and he knows some nursery rhymes. I'll teach him Russian-Jewish traditions and show him old photographs my parents had and for me that's enough. Still, I can't help sometimes like I messed up in some ways. Like SHOULD I care? SHOULD the language matter? Am I the only one in a bilingual household who is raising her child to only speak English? And why am I made to feel like less of a parent because I choose to do this?
You may think I'm exaggerating, but I have yet to come across a writer without even a little bit of neuroticism. In fact, this whole epiphany started with a Facebook post. I wrote, "I just realized I have control issues." and a writer friend wrote back, "It's called being a writer." Really? This never occurred to me and then the more I thought about it, the more writers I talked to, I have come to realize that there are certain traits common to people in this profession (or maybe I'm just drawn to other unstable people). So which came first? The quirks or the writer? Or is it just the life of all people in the arts--the insecurities, etc. We are just made that way.
If you are a secure, non-neurotic writer can you speak up and show yourself? Because I am totally convinced you are an imaginary creature like the elf or the unicorn.
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I have two articles due within a week of each other, am waiting for edits for my first book, trying to decipher all the plots in book two, and hoping to start book three in the near future, but instead of working my day is built around watching planes and chasing trains and lawnmowers. This is what my almost two-year-old wants.
Recently, I got the local train schedule so I could coordinate my coffee trips with the trains' arrivals and departures. I figure I have to go into town anyway, what difference do five minutes make, especially since my kid's smile and excited bounce at the sound of the train coming are so worth it. He's at a funny age. He always wants to be on the go, to play, to climb, but will stop whatever he is doing if he hears a lawn mower and then stand for more than 20 minutes watching landscapers cut grass. Sometimes, this is a good break for me because I don't have to chase him. I can sit on the grass beside him and watch, allowing myself to be hypnotized by the moving machinery. Other times, I feel like one of those tornado chasers, trying to determine where the lawn mower sound is coming from, running from one street to another only to discover the mowing is in someone's back yard and we can't go there.
Back in my boy-chasing college days, when my friends and I would wander from one party to another, hoping the next place we went would have a better view, I would never have believed frat boys would one day be replaced with trains and lawnmowers, an occasional low-flying plane thrown in. That you could get a high from rolling on the grass or a little person looking at you in amazement when you showed off your hitting "skills" (read: hitting a ball a foot into the air), that turning cartwheels would impress little boys as much as big ones.
All this stuff surprises me because I have never been, nor am I now, a relaxed person. I'm not the girl who can chill on a bench for half-an-hour and just zone out. I'm the girl who sits on the bench and watches people and thinks about how they'll fit into her next book, who wonders how this activity can result in some pitches for magazines, who even as she is typing this is getting all jumpy because she should be working on a novel or her articles. But with N, I focus on him, live in his world for a while, slow down and breathe. It feels good to breathe.
And then productivity happens, like an extra reward. There is a park we like to go, and when N gets bored with the slides, tunnels, and climbing structures, we head to one of five homes whose backyard opens into the park. The house he loves has at least seven bird houses and the yard is flooded with flowers, birds, and squirrels. He stands on the path just outside the trellis and points out all the birds to me, tells me how they are flying, how he wants to touch them (he says this last thing with a sly but hopeful smile because he knows I won't let him touch them). They're almost as good as the lawnmowers and trains. Almost. I never rush him because, other than his nap, we have no other plans and recently I saw the birds and grass and flowers as he did. Let myself fully relax and watch. And that's when this picture came into my head for a subplot I have been struggling with. A boy who loves birds, who is calmed by them. That's what I will write about this weekend when I have the time to write.
In the meantime, N and I have lots to do: there are men drilling outside, lawnmowers on my neighbor's front lawn, a train coming in an hour, and birds so close you can touch them. If I let him.
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Material here is indeed intensely personal, a travelogue of sorts through a restless (and ultimately doomed) relationship, with the city of New Orleans providing a moody musical backdrop. Grooves are slow and soulful, punctuated by occasional blasts of Bucaro's dirty harmonica and excellent organ courtesy of Mike Burkart. Adding to the atmosphere is Kirk Joseph, a founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, on sousaphone (an instrument rarely heard outside of the Crescent City), while guitarist and fellow New Orleans transplant Anders Osborne contributes guitar and piano as well as handling production chores.
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This museum is long over due. The material is interesting and well presented. I did it in 30 minutes but I am sure that in order to do it justice that at least an hour would be more appropriate. It is a very confusing topic even if you have grown up in Northern Ireland and it is no wonder that...
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I was very young when I last entered the imposing building known as the ' Apprentice Boys of Derry Memorial Hall' in Londonderry, so on my return today I was very surprised to see how much as a young traveller I had failed to notice back then.
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The Non-Western Jesus
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NEW YORK (AP) Chris Carter snapped a ninth-inning tie with a colossal three-run homer, extending his second-half power surge and sending the Houston Astros to a 7-4 victory over the New York Yankees on Tuesday night.
Brian McCann hit a two-run homer and Martin Prado had three hits for the Yankees, who wasted their first chance to make up ground during a six-game homestand against a pair of teams with losing records in Houston and the White Sox.
David Robertson (1-4) walked consecutive batters and threw seven straight balls before Carter launched a 3-0 pitch into the raised concrete bleachers in left field for his 30th home run.
The reigning AL player of the week came in leading the league with 10 long balls since the All-Star break. Carter had struck out in his previous four at-bats in the game.
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Most of cards contains such as bug symbol; P.K.; P.K w/ a heart sign; P.K.OV..what with those signs?in my experience playing this game, i'd say that it affects the ability of the cards...please help me in particular..discuss all about those ... thanks
I always thought it's just hte artist initials.
I figured it was the artist's sigs.. don't think it affects anything.
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Are you sure guys ? coz most of bug sign cards are usually aggresive and belong to rare cards group like vladhimir.. candy man... Kinjo many more ...
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Cooperative production under diminishing marginal returns: interpreting fixed-path methods
Fixed-path methods (FPMs) were introduced to manage situations where several individuals jointly operate a single technology (see [4]). In the production context, they consist in allocating marginal increments of output according to a proportions vector which changes along an arbitrary path. While very appealing from an incentives viewpoint under diminishing marginal returns, the asymmetry of these methods lacks solid economic interpretation. We provide such an interpretation by considering a situation where the technology to be shared results from the aggregation of private production processes. We propose a group-strategyproof mechanism under which no single agent wishes to secede from the partnership: the inverse marginal product proportions mechanism. It is the only FPM satisfying autarkic individual rationality; its path is uniquely determined by the technological contributions of the agents.
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Modelling the linkages between the Australian and G7 stock markets: common stochastic trends and regime shifts
This paper examines whether the Australian equity market is integrated with the equity markets of the G7 economies by applying both the Johansen (Statistical analysis of conintegrating vectors, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 12, 231-54, 1988) and Gregory and Hansen (Residual-based tests for cointegration in models with regime shifts, Journal of Econometrics, 70, 99-126, 1996) approaches to cointegration. Some evidence of a pairwise long-run relationship between the Australian stock market and the stock markets of Canada, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom is found, but the Australian equity market is not pairwise cointegrated with the equity markets of France, Germany or the USA.
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I was musing today on what President Bush would have to do in order to assure that he has a legacy to be proud of after his second term is up. Despite his detractors his first term was certainly not a disaster, but it also wasn't a huge success. With three years to go, he still has the opportunity to use his time wisely and leave behind a legacy which he can be proud of, even if it doesn't please all of his critics.
Given Bush's past performance and apparent personality it seems to me that the model of James K. Polk is one for him to consider. Polk went into office with four specific goals, achieved all four of them and chose not to even run for reelection. All four were somewhat controversial, but absolutely necessary for the country, and by focusing just on those issues and spending all of his efforts and political capital on them alone he was able to achieve 100% success. Polk's goals, BTW were to end the federal role in domestic improvement programs, restore the treasury without creating a national bank, substantially lower the tariff and resolve the nation's border issues by acquiring Oregon, Texas and California.
Four goals in four years seems like a reasonable target for a president, even today, and if James K. Polk who was a political genius could only achieve four it might be unrealistic for the intelligent, but less remarkable Bush to do any better. Even completing three important goals would probably be a pretty impressive victory. Bush's goals should be as clear and as simple as Polk's and need not necessarily be as ambitious as Polk's massive land grab from Mexico. Bush has already identified important issues he wants to take action on, so what he needs to do now is focus on them and follow through to completion come hell or high water. He needs to drop the petty issues, and focus on the four most important issues which he has already expressed commitment to and make sure those goals are achieved, not by half measures, but as completely as possible.
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Goal 2: Social Security Reform – Bush needs to push this issue much harder than he is. It would be better for him to pursue a full and fundamental reform of the system even if he loses completely than to settle for half-measures or compromise with the Democrats at all. Social Security reform is going to come eventually, and by putting forward a really good plan, Bush can get credit for his work whenever Congress grows the spine or feels the desperation to make the right changes. A reformed system should cut off the services of the current system for anyone under the age of 30, and offer those between the ages of 30 and 50 the option of voluntarily leaving the current system. Future social security contributions for those leaving the old system should be split, with half going into the trust fund to pay off the obligations of the old system and the rest going into strictly controlled private investment accounts based around broad market mutual funds. As the deficit in the old system gets paid off the amount of the total social security tax paid by individuals into the system would be reduced and that money would be switched over to the private accounts. Ultimately the target would be for the old system to be shut down around 2050, at which point the private account system would be the only system and the mandatory contribution level would be lowered to 10%.
Goal 3: Tax Reform – Bush has only hesitantly metioned how far he'd really like to go on this issue, but he should step forward and make a full commitment now. The income tax needs to be abolished and the IRS needs to be shut down. That system should be replaced either with a flat, uniform percentage tax on all incomes over the poverty level (adjusted for number of family members) with no deductions, or a 'fair tax' type system of federal sales tax. The system proposed by the actual 'fair tax' advocates is not a viable option as the tax rate is too high and their system of rebating hypothetical expenses for necessities is completely impractical. In both cases the tax rate should be set around 20% and the reform should be accompanied by a Constitutional Amendment strictly limiting federal government spending to projected tax revenue plus no more than 10%. Of course, I'd love to see Bush repeal the 16th Amendment and return taxing authority to the states, but I think that's unrealistic, so failing that either of these plans will do. Realistically Bush ought to go for the flat income tax, as that can be sold as just a reform rather than a scrapping and complete redo of the system.
Goal 4: Immigration Reform – Bush's general idea of a guest worker program could be an excellent solution to our immigration problems if it was implemented well. It would allow continued opportunity for Mexican workers and make cheap labor available to US employers, but make it practical to keep track of them while making it easier to control the borders and make sure that it wasn't costing US Citizens jobs they were willing to do. The benefits of such a program for the workers, for the nation and in controlling terrorist entry to the country are incalculable. Plus this might be a program Bush could get some bipartisan support on.
Goal 5: Win the War on Terror – This one is a no-brainer. I don't necessarily support unilateral military action on principle, but once you commit to it you have to follow through to the bitter end. Bush really has to continue taking the war to the enemy and not worry too much about the domestic side of the war or the potential fallout. By choosing this strategy he's made the War on Terror an all or nothing proposition. Given that choice, the best defense in this case is a good offense. Just as Iraq was a good place to fight because of its location and potential for success, Bush ought to look for one or two other soft targets to move on to once the situation in Iraq resolves itself. He needs to steel himself to selling the American people on the idea of ongoing warfare in multiple locations with the objective of keeping the terrorists occupied and spreading order and democracy in troubled parts of the world. His next target should probably be Sudan, because it's a breeding ground for Islamic discontent, relatively easy to take on, and will win him some good credit internationally. He ought to move troops there as soon as a significant number can be taken out of Iraq. Operations in Sudan shouldn't take more than a few months, but the situation there will require long-term occupation which we'lll have to do even if the UN doesn't get off its ass and help. After Sudan Bush should look closely at Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia. If they don't start implementing democratic reforms in the next two years he should use military pressure to bring them to their senses. Since Bush started with this idea of foreign intervention and making the war on terror military in nature, he has to follow that strategy through to the end. Weakening or abandonning it would be disastrous for the nation, for the world and for his legacy. The world can forgive someone who tried and failed, but they can never forgive a coward.
Of course, if Bush does achieve three or four of these goals, the Democrats will be in serious trouble, as they will have nothing important left to do except screw things up if they ever get power again. And of course, we can expect them to resist these sorts of badly needed reforms with tooth and nail, because they care more about their personal power base than they do about fixing the nation's problems.
The goals are also of different levels of importance. Bush can't pass on #5. He's already committed to it and not following it through would be disastrous. As for the others, he can pretty much pick and choose. Social Security reform is already running into problems, so vitally important though it is he might have to back-burner it. Tax reform scares people, so it will be a challenge. The easy route is to do Immigration and Medicaid reform which are feelgood measures which some Democrats will support, and then use the political capital that builds to tackle one of the tougher issues.
Bush will have to be very careful not to get distracted by partisan issues of lesser importance or to pay too much attention to criticism or polls. He seems to have an instinct for what is right and he needs to follow that instinct first. Everyone in Congress is going to come yammering at him with their pet issue, and he needs to stand firm and tell them to back off, or else make deals which will get the important bills passed before he'll consider their lesser issues.
Bush needs to remember that he can't be voted out of office, so he can afford to take some risks and step on some toes that badly need it. Each of these goals is enormously important for the nation, and if he can achieve even a couple of them he will have done more good for the country than any president in the last 40 years. In fact, even attempting them seriously and failing will leave him with a better legacy than most of his predecessors. In this he should take a note from the firm hand of Teddy Roosevelt who said:
- "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
Even if this mission is hopeless and he fails, he'll still win a legacy of respect if he at least goes down trying to do the right thing. It's do or die time now for Bush. He can either take these vitally important issues which he has already identified and pursue them with everything he's got, or he can accept a legacy of mediocrity at best. So far his ideas have outstripped his performance. In the next three years it's time for his performance to make those ideals a reality.
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