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2012-13 Season
Suffered a season-ending torn ACL in his left knee at Loyola (2/2).
Started for the first time since Dec. 7, 2011, against YSU (1/17), tallyingfour points and three rebounds.
Has knocked down 15-of-18 free throws, including 4-of-4 against Youngstown State.
Returned to action against Illinois-Springfield (12/30), scoring four points in seven minutes.
Suffered a torn MCL against Idaho (11/20) and missed seven games.
Scored a season-high six points against Cal State Fullerton (11/18).
Had a season-high 11 points and made 2-of-3 three-pointers at Valparaiso (12/31).
Also suffered a season-ending torn ACL injury against the Crusaders.
Had eight points and five rebounds in a win over Michigan Tech (12/13).
Tied his season high by grabbing eight rebounds against UIC (12/1/11).
Tallied six points and eight rebounds in win over Wyoming (11/19).
Totaled five points and six rebounds at NDSU (11/16).
Led Green Bay in rebounding as a freshman with an average of 5.8 boards per game.
Also averaged 6.6 points per game in first college season.
Posted a double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds in regular-season finale at Cleveland State (2/26).
Totaled 10 points at Milwaukee (2/5).
Scored nine points and added six rebounds in win over Detroit (1/30).
His eight points and 10 rebounds helped Green Bay past Loyola (1/13).
Had 14 points and nine rebounds against Houston Baptist (1/3).
Grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds in win at Wyoming (12/22).
Notched 10 points and five rebounds at Buffalo (12/11).
Posted career highs of 15 points and 12 rebounds against Duquesne (12/8/10).
Tallied four points, four rebounds and three assists against Cleveland State (12/2/10).
Made his first career start and grabbed five rebounds against NDSU (11/27).
Had career highs of seven points and seven rebounds in win at Miami (11/21).
Tallied four points and two rebounds against No. 25 San Diego State (11/20).
Made Green Bay debut at Marquette, scoring four points and grabbing four rebounds in 10 minutes.
Ranked as the ninth-best small forward prospect in the state according to Indiana Basketball Digest
Considered the 19th-best player in the class of 2010 according to Indiana Hoops
Was a 2010 Indiana All-Star, an AP All-State selection and an Indiana Basketball Coaches Association All-State pick
Earned Academic All-State honors
Named to the Indianapolis Star Metro Super Team and was a two-time Indy Star East Player of the Year
Named the Hancock Country Player of the Year
Was a three-time All-Hoosier Heritage Conference selection
Helped his team to back-to-back conference championships (2008-09, 2009-10)
Started all four years on varsity
Averaged 16.6 points per game and 6.9 rebounds per game as a senior
Aided team to a 22-3 record, which tied for the school's most wins in a season
Finished his prep career with 1,037 points
Averaged 13.3 points and 11 rebounds as a junior
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DURHAM, N.C. - Seventh-ranked North Carolina held sixth-ranked Duke scoreless for only the third time this season and Meg Morris and Kealia Ohai scored goals early in each half as the Tar Heels blanked the Blue Devils 2-0 Thursday night at Koskinen Stadium. On Senior Night for the Blue Devils, the Tar Heels won for the fifth time in the last six games and for the fourth time in a row before a noisy and wet crowd of 2,134 fans, including a large contingent of diehards from Chapel Hill.
Carolina's goals came from junior midfielder Meg Morris and junior forward Kealia Ohai. Morris' goal was her first tally since she scored against Virginia Tech in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals in her freshman year on November 3, 2010.
On their Senior Night and in a downpour, the Blue Devils came out with a lot of fury but the Tar Heels weathered the early storm and struck for a sensational goal by Morris at 9:53 of the match. From the right side of the pitch, freshman midfielder Katie Bowen served a ball to the top of the box where Maria Lubrano laid out and redirected it to an onrushing Morris. The junior from Montclair, N.J., took one dribble and buried a shot into the lower left corner of the goal past Duke senior goalkeeper Tara Campbell.
The Tar Heels dominated the reminder of the first half, outshooting the Blue Devils 9-1, but they were unable to get a second goal on the scoreboard before intermission.
It took less than eight minutes into the second half for the Tar Heels to get the insurance goal they needed to put the game away. Off a free kick just inside midfield by Crystal Dunn, Duke was unable to get a clean clearance. Senior midfielder Amber Brooks headed the ball back toward the Duke goal and freshman Summer Green gobbled it up, dribbling to the end line and delivering a perfect cross to the onrushing Ohai. The junior from Draper, Utah took the pass in stride and finished into the left side of the net from the four-yard line. It was the fourth goal of the season for Ohai.
UNC outshot the Blue Devils 9-6 in the second half and 18-7 overall for the game. UNC also finished with a 7-3 corner kick margin. Adelaide Gay went the entire way in goal for UNC and posted her third straight solo shutout, making three saves. Tara Campbell finished with seven saves for the Blue Devils. Gay's shutout was significant as Duke led the ACC in scoring with 3.0 goals per game going into the game. The only other teams to shutout Duke this year were Florida State and Virginia.
UNC improved to 9-3-2 overall and 5-2-1 in the ACC. Carolina has gone 5-1 in conference play since starting out the league season 0-1-1. Duke is now 11-4-1 overall and 5-3-2 in the ACC. The game was the last league tilt of the season for the Blue Devils who wind up against Francis Marion on Sunday. UNC has two ACC games left, hosting 12th-ranked Wake Forest Sunday at 1 p.m. on Senior Day for the Tar Heels and then finishing at NC State next Thursday at 7 p.m. Both of those games will be televised live on ESPN3.
Carolina remained unbeaten all-time at Koskinen Stadium against the Blue Devils on a crazy night in the ACC where the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 teams in the league standings all lost. In other games, Florida State fell to Boston College 3-2, Miami upset Maryland 1-0 in overtime, Wake Forest beat NC State 4-2 and Virginia Tech downed Clemson 3-0.
With one week remaining in the ACC regular season, FSU continues to lead the league with 21 points while Maryland is second with 19 and Duke third with 17. North Carolina and Wake Forest are tied for fourth with 16 points each heading into Sunday's head-to-head clash. Virginia is sixth with 13 points, Boston College seventh with 12 points and Virginia Tech and Miami are tied for eighth with 10 points each.

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Discussion in 'February 2010' started by roscoe36, Nov 3, 2009.
Excellent color commentary Kim...I love that...the stuff you don't see on television.
Great job! I was really looking forward to your recap and it did not disappoint in the least. I got a lot out of it. I'm not an x and o person but I can appreciate that others are. We need a "color person" around here.
There are plenty of us.......and gosh-dab-nab-it it's African American.....just Kidding
C'mon 2Tough, I made a point to post at halftime that he was playing an excellent game, I put in bold that I WAS IMPRESSED! That said he did indeed irk me in the 4th when all of a sudden he stopped doing the things that he did so well in the first 3 qtrs of the game. In the 4th qtr he froze up, that's not me picking on him, he did what he always does when he starts thinking......he starts stinking. He's a legit NBA talent, he's above average in soooo many areas and I completly believe in him, but trust and believe I critique the hell out of the position I love so dearly, especially when you play it on the team I love so dearly. You don't want hear me going off while I watch Maurice Jones run the point for Arthur Hill High School, even though he's an all-american headed to USC in the fall....I'm convinced he's butchering the position I once ran flawlessly, even though I got ZERO D-1 offers out of highschool.
KGREG...you were a Lumberjack?...I live about a mile from AH. I like to hear you tell it like you see it when it comes to Rodney.
Awesome! Loved the Kimcap.
Lol, it's all good. I'm a massive Stuckey homer (if you hadn't noticed) so I will rush to his defense MOST of the time. ;) Truth be told, I was disappointed with the entire team in the 4th, but especially the the bench, whose poor play forced the starters back into a game they should not have had to come back into. That irked me more than anything. Rodney, Rip, Ben, etc. should have been able to rest up in the 4th, so they could be fresher for tonight's game. Anyway, the confusion sets in even more. A two game win streak... happy as hell with the two wins. BUT... we can't keep winning games. But I can't actually root for them to lose games. You know what I mean?
Aurora's Game Report As others have said great Kimmiecap You couldn't convince the usher that you were JJ's relative and you had to personally go down to the bench to check on him so you could text a message back to the rest of his [STRIKE]pistons forum[/STRIKE] family if he was OK or not??? Also where are those close-up pictures of you and Tay?? Obviously he saw you there and was inspired to put on a good show
Other teams have adjusted to Bynum. Now he needs to make the next move. He looks terrible out there. Cant believe this is the same player that provided so much excitment last year and at the beginning of this year.
and this is why coaches know more then the fan that thinks we'd be so much better off with the subs playing over the starters. I root for bynum to be our backup PG but honestly just don't see him ever having anymore upside then the backup.
Bynum isn't 100% - he doesn't have his feet or his rhythm or explosion. Give him time. I'm pretty confident he's a high quality backup - and one of the best guards going to the rim in the game.
Really nice recap, aurora. I did notice quite a few Piston jerseys in the crowd last night. I was wondering if I might have spotted you. lol
Awesome report. Nice to hear a real fan's perspective. I did see on TV a girl wearing a blue Ben jersey sitting next to a guy wearing a Rip jersey. Was that you?
No I was wearing a road red #3 Ben jersey and lodged among Sacramento fans! That was okay because I got to educate them about the Pistons. LOL. This guy behind me asked me why I was wearing the jersey of a thug! Seriously. He called Ben Wallace a thug. I said "Hello. You really don't know what you are talking about. Ben Wallace went to Virginia Union. He came into the NBA undrafted. He was the Defensive Player of the Year 4 times and he wants to go the law school when he retires." Harumph. I was outraged. Ben Wallace a thug. My Lord. He did apologize abjectly. He admitted he had no idea what he was talking about. He said he and his friend got free tickets and they weren't even NBA fans. I told him to be careful. Them's fighting words. Ben is my favoritest player along with Allen Iverson and I just won't stand for that kind of stuff.
I saw them too. It was Ben and Rip.
'Scoe, I think you should let us know when you close the chat every game.
Awesome recap Aurora, wish that I was there someday.
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MaryJane and Bob Pauley had always lived in older houses—the sort that had more charm than modern conveniences. So in 1996, when they were looking to buy in Berkeley, they put "garbage disposal, a dishwasher, and a garage" on their wish list. But the early-1900s Craftsman they ended up with had none of these. "We fell in love with this incredible view," says Bob, a Pixar production designer, pointing to the Golden Gate Bridge with an orange wake of sun setting behind it. "And we were used to not having a fancy kitchen, so we knew we could make it work."
But 10 years and 2 kids later, the Pauleys were in desperate need of more storage, more room to move, and, most of all, a revamped kitchen. Coincidentally, "at work, we were updating Andy's house for Toy Story 3," Bob says. "Of course, adjusting walls and paint colors in a virtual home is much easier—and less expensive—than in a real one."
Given the house's historic style, all design decisions fell back on What would the builders have done with today's materials? "We want to stay true to the house," says MaryJane, who worked closely with architect Alex Bergtraun on the plans. "We felt a responsibility to do our part, to keep it going for the next century."
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It is the longest fringing reef and one of the last 'relatively pristine' major coral reef systems in the world. Ningaloo is so unique in its profound biodiversity that it easily qualifies for World Heritage Listing (although this has not yet happened).
The relative health of the area is primarily due to its isolation, but this isolation may be shattered if plans to build a major resort there get the go ahead. There is still time to stop this plan, and create a sanctuary for 'wilderness' that the world can enjoy, appreciate and learn from, forever.


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STAC, the Securities Technology Analysis Center, has formed an exciting new Benchmark Council, an organization devoted to the creation and management of customer-driven benchmark standards for trading technology.STAC has announced three sets of benchmarks, corresponding to the three basic steps in making a trade:
Yesterday STAC released its first public STAC Report of a very exciting trade-execution workflow benchmark. An integrated solution from IBM, GemStone Systems, and Intel configured to handle high-speed trade order messages was tested and demonstrated excellent performance. The focus of the benchmark was to measure latency at different order rates for a system that was configured for zero data loss. (1)
I used to walk around Wall Street and think --- I will never work somewhere this exciting ever again. I was probably right.
(1) Mean latency less than 1 millisecond (987 µsec) at 6000 orders per second, with full data replication using a two-server GemCache configuration. Mean latency of just 519 microseconds at 6000 orders per second with a single GemCache server without replication Three active/active two-server clusters can support 18,000 orders per second with approximately 1 millisecond (1017 µsec) of end-to-end latency using six IBM Server blades. No data loss was observed during any test, including a two-server failover test. The system consisted of GemFire® Enterprise 5.0 software, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4, IBM BladeCenter® HS21 servers with Intel® Xeon® Quad Core 5355 processors, and SDP over Cisco SFS InfiniBand.
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text: Going by the entirety of the series that recently finished, I have to say that Gundam Unicorn is by far the best anime I've ever seen. The music is beautiful. The animation is refined. The story is meaningful. Every moment of every episode made me feel something. What is an anime if it does not move you? What is life if you are not moved? For me, Gundam Unicorn transcends art itself. I ask myself, now that the series is over, will I ever hold this experience again? Gundam Unicorn is emotion. It can not be explained. It simply is what it is. What I have perceived within this series, will stick with me till death. My first love, my strongest anger, my most pathetic of fears, the sadness of what I've lost... Gundam Unicorn shares a spot alongside these memories. It has made life even more worth living. I couldn't have asked for a greater experience out of an animation. If you love anime, let alone life itself, Gundam Unicorn will not disappoint you. It will however, remind you of what makes us human.


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But is has me wondering what type files the government will have in the future? Will we have a "health care" score kind of like a credit score? One where someone will look over my records, and decide if I am worthy of some medical procedure or worth saving. Will some government twit bean counter have it noted that I am "republican" and this be a reason for a certain decision to be made? Hard to say.
They ask those questions because they're directly linked to your health. If you're worried the government is coming to get you, then don't answer them. Same questioned asked if you want health insurance or life insurance...
Here in Sweden if you get done for drunk driving to many times or are a habitual alcoholic you run the risk of loosing your gun/hunting licence until you can prove a sober healthy life style.As most hunters cant live with out the hunting life style it keeps some of them sober.mvh edward :-P
The brits fought the most, The swedes drank the most.
Will some government twit bean counter have it noted that I am "republican" and this be a reason for a certain decision to be made? Hard to say.
... The lowest way to keep costs down is to keep people out of the hospitals.
But Miss honey, if the questions are so innocent, why don't you take the quiz and post your answers here for us all to gape at. Besides, the Obama health care law prevents insurance companies from asking these types of questions before they write a policy to cover you. Good try but no cigar.
... What does one thing have to do with the other? ...Privacy does not equal guilt.
and I WOULD like affordable healthcare, which conceivably could be more affordable if I wasn't paying for the extremely high repercussions of smoking.
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Running from South Miami Avenue to S.W. 107th Avenue (near Florida International University), Calle Ocho (Southwest 8th Street) is the lively main thoroughfare in Little Havana, the best known neighborhood for Cuban exiles in the world. The area today is home to Cubans, Nicaraguans, Hondurans, and other immigrants from the Caribbean and Central America; the demographics have changed so much since the 1960s that the eastern portion of Little Havana is now referred to as Little Managua. It's a five-minute drive west of downtown Miami and 15 minutes from South Beach. (You'll know you're there when all the signs are in Spanish.)
The repetitive, rump-shaking beats of salsa and merengue pour out of storefronts and restaurants, sometimes joined by the staccato crowing of a rooster in a neighboring backyard. The street is lined with coffee counters, beauty salons and barber shops, little food markets, art galleries, dollar stores, botanicas filled with candles and statues that are part of the Santeria Afro-Caribbean religion, cafes, Cuban nostalgia shops, and bakeries offering racks of crusty Cuban bread and guava pastries. But the tour begins on a serious note.
Start at (1) Cuban Memorial Plaza at Southwest 13th Avenue and Southwest 8th Street. The pain of exiles is palatable on this landscaped street median in the center of what is called Cuban Memorial Boulevard. A string of small monuments commemorates the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion by the 2506 Brigade and the Cuban wars of independence in the 1800s. The seven monuments include the bust of Cuban independence fighter Antonio Maceo, statues of the Virgin Mary, and anti-communist crusader Tony Izquierdo (once a suspect in the John F. Kennedy assassination), and a 16-foot-long raised map of the island of Cuba. The map bears a weathered inscription by Cuban poet and patriot Jose Marti: "La patria es agonia y deber." ("The homeland is agony and duty.")
Colonial and masonry vernacular houses from the 1920s line the boulevard, which is still used for political gatherings, parades, and demonstrations. Every January, uniformed schoolchildren line up here to march in a birthday tribute to Marti. Exiles leave flowers or touch the statue of Mary for good luck as they walk by.
Walk west along Calle Ocho, which is a one-way street that carries traffic east into downtown Miami. There's an open-air coffee counter on practically every corner in Little Havana, but one of the oldest and best is 41-year-old (2) Los Pinarenos Fruteria on the block just west of Cuban Memorial Plaza. Sit at one of the stools on the sidewalk and enjoy a dark cafecito as sweet as candy. Order a steaming Cuban-style tamale with spicy, fresh tomato-cilantro salsa, and coco frio (coconut water), served straight out of a chilled coconut with a straw sticking out of the top. Rebuilt by the Hernandez family after a fire in the 1990s, the place doubles as an open-air fruit market, where you can find boxes of mangoes, papaya, coconuts, bananas, and sugarcane.
Across the street is (3) La Casa De Los Trucos (The House of Costumes), where locals go for elaborate Halloween costumes and rubber masks.
Look down as you keep walking west. You'll see blocks with stars bearing the names of famous artists and Latin personalities engraved in the sidewalk. This (4) "Walkway of the Stars" along Calle Ocho includes tributes to Sammy Sosa, Maria Conchita Alonso, Thalia, Celia Cruz, Willy Chirino, and Gloria Estefan, among others.
A block down at 1419 Southwest 8th Street is (5) Lily's Records (www.realpagessites.com/lilirecords), which has a huge selection of Latin music representing Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Bachata, Latin rock, salsa, etc.
Keep heading west and check out the (6) wall mural outside of Cafeteria Guardabarranco, which pays tribute to Celia Cruz, Tito Puente and Selena, as well as Latin and American heroes such as Abraham Lincoln, Jose Mari, George Washington, and Ruben Dario.
On the next block, you'll find (7) Little Havana To Go, an upscale souvenir store that sells Cuban flags, paintings, music, guayaberas, hats, folksy dolls, cigars, Cuban coffee cups, T-shirts, key chains, and even domino tables.
Follow the sound of clattering dominoes and chatter to neighboring (8) Maximo Gomez Park, at Southwest 8th Street and 15th Avenue, where Cuban old-timers still gather to play serious games of dominoes in what locals call Domino Park. On the wall is a mural of Central, South American, and Caribbean presidents, painted when Miami hosted the Summit of The Americas in 1994.
Next to the park is the historic (9) Tower Theater at 1508 SW 8th St. Built in 1926, the masonry vernacular building, which had art deco touches added later, was the first theater in Miami-Dade County to offer titles in Spanish. It's back in use today, hosting Hispanic and international film festivals.
Across the street is the (10) Latin Quarter Cultural Center, a private, nonprofit group that helped save the theater from the wrecking ball and hosts concerts, exhibits, talks, and other gatherings. The group organizes "Cultural Fridays" on the last Friday of each month, when art galleries along Calle Ocho between 14th and 17th avenues throw open their doors and live music fills the street.
Back on the south side of Calle Ocho is Ismail Fine Art Gallery, where you can purchase tiles painted with colourful Cuban and tropical themes, paintings, and note cards. Next door is the Cuba Tobacco Cigar Co., one of the oldest cigar stores and lounges in Miami. You can watch cigars being rolled by hand at the inside wooden table.
In the same block is (11) Alfaro's Boutique, which sells casual and dressy linen guayaberas for men and guayabera-style dresses, pants suits, and skirt-and-top sets for women. There are also guayabera shirts and dresses for children. A seamstress at the sewing machine in the back of the store will custom fit one for you. Alfaro's also has an adjoining restaurant, which features live music Wednesday through Saturday nights.
Refuel by stopping for a creamy café con leche at the (12) El Pub outdoor coffee counter at 1548 SW 8th St. The dining room here is a favorite meeting place for Miami's business and political elite. On the corner in front of the restaurant, you'll find two six-foot (two-meter) rooster statues, a tribute to the crowing birds that still roam this and other immigrant neighborhoods throughout Miami.
More souvenir hunting is on hand at the I Love Calle Ocho Café and Shop and the Maxoly Cuban Cigar Gallery and Gift Shop. End your walk just in time for lunch or dinner at (13) Casa Panza, site of mesmerizing flamenco shows (beginning at 8 p.m.) and candlelight sing-alongs of a prayer to the Virgin of the Dew. There's paella, a large selection of tapas, Spanish wine, and delicious pitchers of sangria. Owner Jesus Lopez, an exuberant Spaniard from Madrid, circulates among it all, determined that everybody has a good time.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Pregnancy, my greatest fear
The fear crept out of frenzied conversations full or reassurances from friends and into my my academic work. In my senior year of college, literally everything I wrote was about pregnancy - and it was all in the horror genre.
And it was never founded. I am very, very, very careful about avoiding pregnancy. In my three plus year relationship with my partner, we've never gone without some form of birth control (be it prophylactic, hormonal, or otherwise) and we usually use two forms. I am not casual about these things.
At one point, I was primarily scared of getting an abortion. That seemed, to me, the ultimate sacrifice. It's still scary, but more for the "invasive surgery" aspect and less the moral handwringing. I've made my peace with doing away with a being whose creation I took steps to prevent, who would leech off of me for nine months. It wouldn't make me feel awesome morally, but many things I do do not make me feel awesome morally.
But now, after experiencing the terror of OCD triggered directly and repeatedly by the hormones of birth control, I'm more scared of losing my sanity through impregnation. Even if I procure a hasty abortion, I will still be pregnant for a few weeks, I will still be subject to the hormones that that brings along.
Pregnancy is often framed as independent of the woman whose body is being incubated. In law, in the gynecologist's office, in birth and after birth, in politics, in popular culture, the contribution and serious sacrifice demanded by creating a person within our body is minimized and dismissed. In reproductive health legislation, in discussions of famous pregnancies, in religious functions, the burden of pregnancy upon women pales in comparison to the angelicized babies they create.
When I began looking at non-hormonal methods of birth control (crazy things like diaphragms) the male gynecologist I saw said that no young woman had ever asked for one, and dismissed the idea out of hand because I wasn't in a serious enough relationship (though I'd been in a monogamous relationship for almost two years at some point). He patted my head and sent me away with a form of birth control that made me lose control of my emotions, heightened my anxiety, and killed my sex drive.
Being in control of my body, in and out of the realm of fertility, is a major part of my feminism. I've been a feminist for over a decade, but becoming sexual, becoming physically vulnerable to the whims of a state that does not inherently respect women and their agency in their bodies, gave my views a personal stake and an urgency. It's one of the reasons that I've actually become more of a feminist since I began dating my partner, who is decidedly not a feminist.
Perhaps one day, I will be ready to make the sacrifice of my body and possibly a good chunk of my sanity to have a child. But until then, I'll be dependent on condoms, diaphragms, pregnancy tests, and the safety of abortion (and the privilege that nearly assures me of a safe termination).
But until then, I will be scared of and obsessed by the possibility of pregnancy.
Illustrations are from my senior honors thesis, a feminist dystopian graphic novel. College was awesome.
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My god... someone else is as utterly paranoid as I am. Makes me feel a little bit better. :)ReplyDelete
You wrote a feminist distopian graphic novel? That sounds amazing!ReplyDelete
Pregnancy is also my worst nightmare, but somehow I've managed to avoid paranoia about it. In 12 years I've only taken 1 test. It was shortly after I got and IUD and it was very strange to have no period to reassure me each month.
I've never been very comfortable with the idea of pregnancy - first from the birthing videos we saw in 10th grade health, and then for my fear of doctors. Since getting into my 20s and thinking more about possibly having kids someday I have tried to imagine what it would be like to be pregnant. Those daydreams usually end in a miscarriage or horrible birth defect that leaves me with little other choice than to abort the fetus. Apparently I'm not meant to incubate a child in my body.ReplyDelete
This post reminded me a lot of my feelings towards pregnancy. I am completely scared of getting pregnant. I often joke with my friends that I will never have children. This might change down the road, but right now I don't want children. I am not emotionally ready to be pregnant, let alone a mother.ReplyDelete
And I hate how I'm made to feel by society (and even some specific people) like I'm not a real woman because I do not want children. Like I am missing some important gene that would make me a woman because I do not want and am not ready to be physically, emotionally, mentally, socially responsible for another human being and I'm not ready to give up my personal agency by becoming pregnant. If I'm missing the "mothering gene" that just makes me not a mother, not not a woman (if that makes sense...).
Your discussion about seeking non-hormonal methods really interested me. I find it extremely irritating that a lot of health care providers are so reluctant to discuss non-hormonal birth control, let alone sterilization, with younger patients. Those who complain of side effects from hormonal options are offered a lower dose option, but not really allowed to explore alternatives without really pushing for it. And those of us who *never* want children are just ignored.ReplyDelete
There seems to be an assumption that we will be irresponsible and use the method wrong, or that we may not apply the method consistently with our myriad of sexual partners (evidently young people aren't actually capable of monogamy, dontchaknow), or we're going to "change our minds," and be filled with bitterness and regret. Or something.
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 4:02 PM
I love this post! Thank you for writing it. It reminds me of the paranoia I experienced for years in my hetero relationships. While I thought I was "in love" and knew that if there was a child I'd be okay with it, I certainly didn't want one!ReplyDelete
But, most importantly for me. I've had a LOT of struggles in the experience of coming out. Some days I wish I had just stayed in denial. I've lost friends, career, home and family. It has been miserable. So, it's nice to have a reminder that there is the occasional perk. Now when I have sex it's all about the connection between my partner and myself...no worries about creating a child accidentally! I'm SO glad to be a lesbian! *grin* And I will ABSOLUTELY keep fighting for better pregnancy prevention for women. It's too important to set aside.
Thanks again. This is a delightful post!
This is an excellent post, and from the looks of it, it's made a lot of people realise they're not the only ones feeling like this.ReplyDelete
I'd like to hear your thoughts on being in a relationship with someone who is NOT a feminist - I am in this situation, and at times I find it really hard to rationalise it to myself and stay together. Actually, it's driving me insane.
I'm really interested in what you've written because until this past year I always thought of pregnancy as an extremely negative thing for any woman to go through. Why? Because it always felt to me that our society has constructed pregnancy in such a way that the women who experience it are considered less adults than children-- children who must be monitored, controlled, and told what to think, feel, and do-- often by strangers-- at every pass.ReplyDelete
So what changed? Nothing in society. Our culture-- and maybe most cultures-- do make pregnancy horrible, I'm convinced of it. But this year despite regular and consistent use of hormonal birth control pills, I got pregnant. I had no symptoms in the first trimester, didn't realize I was pregnant until well into second trimester, and then I had a second trimester abortion. I knew immediately it was what I wanted to do and my husband was my biggest and greatest ally. I'm so glad I had my abortion. But for the week that I knew I was pregnant-- I was terrified, of course, but I was aware that if circumstances were different-- maybe in a few years-- pregnancy might be something I could do. Because I know can manage telling other people to back off and go frak themselves if they start getting involved in my business uninvited. I can make sure to decide to continue a pregnancy only when I have the funds available to afford working with a radical feminist doula and feminist OB who will help advocate for me and my rights as an adult. I could work really hard to make my pregnancy a big frak you to a culture that wants to make me less than human for the sin of being female.
Thanks everyone for stopping by. Especial thanks to those who chose to share their experiences. It's very brave and very helpful to me in a number of ways. Thank you.ReplyDelete
(Zombie - look for a post on the feminist/non feminist relationship coming up.)
Yes. THIS. All of this. Thank you! When I was with dudes, this was my biggest nightmare. And it's not like they understood, or were particularly enthused about condoms/paying for half the pills. SO glad to be with a woman now.ReplyDelete
J has many flaws, but he has never balked at helping to pay for birth control. It's a bill we always split.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 17, 2010 at 4:59 PM
Ah, the days when I had this kind of thing to consider...ReplyDelete
Having three great young people who have grown via my body was a pretty interesting journey, I assure you. I also do not recommend anyone have children that doesn't enjoy people. They are a huge responsibility and do require that you change your schedule for a few years.
Amazing to be a part of the growing process from the mommy side, though. One of my limiters in pregnancy and family-production is to be married to the dad in advance...and so, I always did this as a pre-requisite to pregancy.
I'm alone now because daddy #2 died, but life goes on and guess who keeps me company? That's right, my cat...
- KatarinaAugust 22, 2010 at 1:56 AM
I always considered pregnancy and birth to be very natural and empowering for women. It is commonly demonstrated as an illness (the fetus itself being a parasite that leeches off your body's supplies) and this illness is easily "cured" in a hospital once you pay your nine month dues. What has helped me to look at pregnancy realistically were documentaries of natural birth. It showed birth as something rather uncomplicated and (dare I say it?) pure.ReplyDelete
These documentaries focused on how women are PERFECTLY equipped to give birth on their own, and it shows women's bodies as not growing weaker, but instead being incredibly strong (much stronger than mens'). Our patriarchal society designed birth to be traumatic, not natural and empowering, in an effort to traumatize and terrify women into choices and experiences that are not realistic. (If you want more information about the CONSCIOUS traumatizing of birth and pregnancy, I suggest "The Business of Being Born" and articles on the process of "Pit to Distress". Don't drink anything while reading/watching, you might spit out the contents all over the screen.)
It is okay to not wish for children, but I would not be terrified of something 98% of women are not only perfectly capable of handling on their own, but also something that they do so terrifically that something as "stereotypically female" as giving birth could be seen as embracing feminism itself.
I should also note that I don't understand how you would suffer through pregnancy. There is weight gain, nausea, swollen feet and all that, but all in all its temporary and not a true "sacrifice", unless you're the type to care about...you know, superficial things like stretch marks and weight gain. Or god forbid, saggy breasts.


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Artist's BiographyClarinet/Bass Clarinetist Michael Drapkin is considered one of the world\'s foremost experts on the bass clarinet. His series of orchestral excerpt books, Symphonic Repertoire for the Bass Clarinet, Volumes One, Two, Three and the upcoming Volume Four (Transposed Orchestra Parts for the Bass Clarinet), have been the gold standard for bass clarinet orchestral study worldwide for the last 34 years, and are now referenced as a source for most bass clarinet orchestra auditions.
Michael Drapkin was a member of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, as Associate Principal and Bass Clarinet and the New York City Opera Touring Company and Lake George Opera Festival, as Principal Clarinet. He has spent summers playing at Aspen and at Tanglewood as a Berkshire Music Center fellow, and performs regularly with fine chamber music groups as well as his Austin, Texas klezmer band, Yiddish Cowboys.
Mr. Drapkin is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music where he studied with acclaimed master clarinet teacher D. Stanley Hasty, toured Japan with the Eastman Wind Ensemble under Donald Hunsberger, and played Principal Clarinet in the Eastman Philharmonia under David Effron. He also studied clarinet with Gary Gray, Charles Bay and Harold Wright.
He has performed with the New Jersey Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Portland Symphony, the Long Island Philharmonic, the Brooklyn Philharmonic and with conductors Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Michael Tilson Thomas, Neville Marriner, Leonard Slatkin, Lucas Foss, Christopher Keene, Klaus Tennstedt, Frederick Fennell, and many more celebrated orchestras and maestros.
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In addition to his career as a symphony orchestra clarinetist and bass clarinetist, he has published numerous books and articles spanning three fields, was Chair of eCommerce Management at Columbia University, held leadership positions with firms ranging from startup to multinational firms and the Fortune 500. He has been commissioned to write for the New York Times, interviewed in numerous articles, and has been a frequent public speaker on subjects ranging from marketing to future trends in the economy, and has appeared on the radio on CBS Marketwatch and on television on CNBC, where he discussed the future of music on the Internet.
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I thought this was rather interesting: A rising star in the GOP at a major RNC convention not only said of the GOP "stop being the stupid party" but he also said:
"It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults," "We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. I'm here to say we've had enough of that."
OMG. I think this is actually one of the few times I've totally agreed with a Republican politician.


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Re: Rigging up an A-sail
I designed a 3' aluminum retractable sprit that uses the existing stay sail car and track on the inboard end. The outboard end slides through a stainless collar pinned to the stem fitting using the same pin as the forestay. I have a block on the end of the pole that swivels on the centerline of the pole to avoid any torquing of the pole. I used one of my old guys for the tack line so it is long enough to douse the sail into the companionway just by blowing the tackline from the cockpit. The sail is relatively small (code 4) but still plenty powerful. It was cut a bit short on the hoist to allow for a sock or furling but I haven't got either yet. I launch it out of a racing style box bag clipped to the lifelines. We use it whenever the wind is right for it. It is very effective in lighter breeze where the genoa just isn't quick enough. I haven't used it in strong breeze much because the headsail can get us to hull speed easily.
Re: Rigging up an A-sail
i have a 12' carbon fiber 4" dia. retractable bowsprit that swivels side to side on curved track at the rear. on the top front of the mast is a bail with a strong swivel block and a external halyard. this works very well with either of my two asymmetrical spinnakers on my 30ft nimble express.
Re: Rigging up an A-sail
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I converted my boat to asymetric, but if I was going to campaign it seriously I would go back to the symetric!
This is something more folks should be doing...
Re: Rigging up an A-sail
At 19k displacement shes a heavy beast, and very tender. Shell go over 25 to 30 degrees without much thought or provocation at all. Given that, we had the sail maker (Doyle) come out and look at the boat, do some research, and come up with a custom designed pair of sails. The main has a large roach to help get us moving in light air, the jib is a #2 cut like a #1. A 155 would start to over power the boat, as a rough guess, in about 7 or 8 knots of air. We start to get overpowered in 12 knots with the 135 and need to bring the jib cars back a touch to twist off the leech, spill a little air. By 15 knots we have to take in a bit of jib and/or stick a reef in the main, 18 knots for sure we are reducing sails, both of them.
Having a 155 out there then, on a roller furl, wed have it furled in to 135 or less much of the time, creating a bag-o-sail out there on the forestay, which would (and does) limit our pointing ability. It would, however, be great on a light air reach or downwind run, and this is where the a-sail comes in. The 135 fits the conditions for a little better than half of the time we are on the water, racing or not, but we could use something to fill the gap when the winds drop below 8 knots.
My tactician has been racing for the past 4 decades, the mere mention of putting a symmetrical on causes him to go pale. Of course, Im sure much of it has to do with us being a rookie crew, but still, if hes unnerved by it
The boat was originally billed as a racer/cruiser, were talking Ted Irwin after all. Why it didnt come with a third halyard baffles me some. The goal isnt so much to turn it into a flat out race boat, but to a make it a reasonably fast, easy to handle, cruiser that can be somewhat competitive in the local beer can circuit with similar boats.
The Bay-Mac race starts this weekend and weve been frantically trying to get in touch with that sister ship. At this point we dont know if shes racing or not, but she makes berth in Port Huron, where the race starts. Thought we would drive up and watch the start and combine that with a look-see at the other Irwin.
Appreciate the links for the sprit and mast hardware, wasnt having much luck finding them on my own.
Re: Rigging up an A-sail
It sounds like you are getting serious about setting your boat up for racing. If you are determined to go with an A-kite then you should definitely go with a sprit. Flying it from the tack is for cruising spinnakers. If you are planning on getting a full sized chute, you are talking about alot of power and alot of load, and that may call for a stayed sprit.
I am sure the sistership that is racing and winning at 129 is running a symetrical chute. If you really want to make your boat competitive THAT is what you should be thinking about.
I converted my boat to asymetric, but if I was going to campaign it seriously I would go back to the symetric!
Re: Rigging up an A-sail
One of the things you might want to look at is jib size. I am pretty surprised that you are only using a 135. In the conditions you describe I would have a 155 up on pretty much every boat I race.
Re: Rigging up an A-sail
For a boat of the Irwin 39's displacement (17,000 lbs ?) the Selden kit using a 99mm aluminum tube offers a "maximum unsupported" length of about 41 inches. Their carbon fiber or other aluminum sprits would not safely extend even that far on such a heavy boat. Adding 6' to the sail's foot length is going to get pretty pricey. The Evelyn 32 we saw Friday displaces perhaps 5000 pounds, and their permanently mounted sprit extended about 3' beyond the stemhead.
Re: Rigging up an A-sail
If you want to race dont listen to this advice about flying an asym off your bow - that would be a slow and losing proposition. An asym is all about sail area, you need an extra 6 or more feet in your sail's foot, or you wont have enough sail area to power your boat. an asym for racing should have something like twice the area of a cruising chute, which flys off the stem. You dont need a small sprit, you need a BIG sprit. Take a look at these:
Carbomax Carbon Bowsprit
Selden Bowsprit Kits
You should talk to a local sailmaker who makes racing sails, for advice on sprit length and target sail area for racing.
If you dont do the asym right , go with a traditional symmetric with a pole, it is a much simpler fit and size question.
You can find spinnaker cranes here:
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Re: Rigging up an A-sail
Chris mentions setting up a sprit of some sort to handle the tack of the A-sail. Make sure it's strong enough. Rode in a launch on Friday with crew from a boat (Evelyn 32?) that rigged up their own A-sail sprit. They said their first two sprits had had...longevity issues. You're dealing with a big sail on a heavy boat. Using the anchor roller may work - but it is designed more to handle downward (anchor) forces, not upward (sail) strains.
All in all, you may be able to spend several thousand dollars setting up the hardware, and another several thou on the sail. On an Irwin 39, this may give you an extra knot on reaches, compared to a big genoa. The cost/benefit ratio starts to look very tight from this angle.
Re: Rigging up an A-sail
It looks like your forestay goes to the stemhead or very close. Presumably there is something there for an anchor roller to which you can attach a pulley for the tack line. You may have to as I did have a small extension to this made but this was to get some separation for a furler.
A furler has some advantages, but also means the tack line is fixed in length which is ok but not optimal for racing.
You also need to clear the pulpit. That would probably mean that the tack is not attached directly to the stemhead, rather the tack line allows it to project out and up. To me that is an advantage as a cruiser in terms of visibility.
To a racer you would probably want a smallish removable prod. Harken make them in various sizes. You would probably need to reinforce the deck where it attaches.
On that size boat the forces would be substantial at all 3 points tack head and clew. However since you are obviously prepared to spend money on racing that may be your best option.
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Our London-based Interactive Marketing Research Associate James McDavid chimes in with this great tale of how listening to and embracing your fans in social media can create powerful word-of-mouth marketing:
As every dance music aficionado knows, Miami is the place to be every March as it hosts the Winter Music Conference (WMC), an event that brings together leading lights from the industry to party, share records, and make fun of Paris Hilton. So when Dutch airline KLM announced they'd be launching a new route between Amsterdam and Miami at the end of March 2011, a couple of Dutch DJs tweeted KLM to see if the airline could move the flight forward a week to coincide with the WMC. The DJs claimed that they could fill a flight from Amsterdam to Miami solely with revelers and ravers. KLM, seeing a great opportunity to show off their social savvy, offered the DJs a challenge — if they could get 150 people to register in seven days, then KLM would move the inaugural flight forward — and, as a bonus, let the DJs spin some records in the cabin.


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China's Lenovo sees RIM as M&A option, CFO says
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TORONTO (Reuters) - A senior Lenovo executive said on Thursday that the Chinese computer maker may consider Research in Motion as a takeover target, sending the Blackberry maker's shares up 2 percent just a week before it launches a make-or-break line of redesigned smartphones.
But Lenovo, which vaulted into the personal computer market with its 2005 purchase of IBM's PC division, would face formidable hurdles if it tried to buy a company that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper once described as a national "crown jewel." The Chinese company would also encounter tough regulatory scrutiny in Washington, cybersecurity experts say.
Lenovo, on track to become the world's largest PC maker, has held talks with RIM and its bankers about various combinations or strategic ventures, its chief financial officer, Wong Wai Ming, said on Thursday.
"We are looking at all opportunities - RIM and many others," Wong told Bloomberg in an interview at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. "We'll have no hesitation if the right opportunity comes along."
A spokesman for Lenovo said Wong was asked about RIM by the Bloomberg journalist and that Wong was speaking broadly about Lenovo's M&A strategy.
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At the recently concluded Tizen developer conference in South Korea, Nokia announced that it has licensed its maps and related functionality to the Tizen ecosystem. While no phone or tablet running the Tizen OS has yet launched, device manufacturers like Samsung, Huawei, and Fujitsu are backing it.
Mobile handset manufacturer Jolla, whose first phone ships on November 27, also announced that it has licensed HERE's positioning services and map technology for its Sailfish OS. We expect more handset manufacturers to build devices for Tizen and Sailfish over the next 12 to 18 months, as both are open source and can run Android apps.
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This larch tree on the oval at Swart Terrace in Nashua is believed to be the largest tree of its kind in New Hampshire. It has been nominated as a champion for the New Hampshire Big Tree Program. (KIMBERLY HOUGHTON/Union Leader Correspondent)
An Epping resident and author of a new book featuring various trees throughout the state has nominated an American larch that stands on the west end of the oval at Swart Terrace for the competition.
The larch, which he originally labeled as a European larch but after more study believes it is actually an American larch, stands about 79 feet high. What is more impressive, according to Martin, is the tree's circumference of 118 inches and its average crown spread of 56 feet.
Pappas says it is an honor to have the tree, which is located on common land within the neighborhood, to be nominated for the state title. The New Hampshire Big Tree Program, organized by the University of New Hampshire's Cooperative Extension, records the state's biggest trees.
Martin is hoping that his book, once published, will help New Hampshire citizens understand, identify and recognize different tree varieties, which he said could ultimately prevent them from being cut down in the future.
"It is one of the few trees that loses its needles in the winter," he explained. Martin notes in his book that larch trees are golden in color in the fall, but stark and barren in the winter.
There are some pine trees at Edgewood Cemetery that are incredibly tall, with some of them over 10 feet in circumference, he said, adding that the sugar maple trees within the cemetery are also quite large.
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September 09, 2013 , 9:16 AM by Gerard Callinan
Extraordinary night last night at the Morrish Medal count (kind of like the Brownlow Medal but for reserves initially and now TAC Cup players) with a four way tie and Josh Scott (left) from Lakes Entrance winning the Morrish. This makes four winners in last six years for the Power with Nick Graham winning last year and Dyson Heppell in 2010 and Jarryd Blair winning in 2008.
Pete Francis from the Gippsland Power joined me this morning after a late night at the medal count to reflect on the success of Josh Scott and also the Gippsland Power.
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The Japanese government continues refusing to accept responsibility for the actions of its military forces in killing thousands of innocent Japanese civilians during the battle of Okinawa. Nobe Prize winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe testified in court that orders were issued by the Japanese military to Okinawan civilians to kill themselves rather than allowing American soldiers to capture them. Yutaka Umezawa, aged 90, who was the garrison commander on Zamami Island in the Okinawan island chain, is seeking to halt publication of three books by Oe that state the military ordered civilian suicides. Oe claims it is of no importance that written orders were issues because military leaders were of the same mind that everyone must die rather than surrender to the Americans.
The Ministry of Education in Japan is requiring textbooks to delete references to any atrocities in WWII that were due to action by the armies of Japan. The record of Japan in dealing with its brutality is shocking. Unlike Germany which has confronted the Holocaust and ensured it is taught in German schools, the Japanese government acts as though any atrocities during WWII were caused by the Americans.


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"My husband developed this quick meal after taking stock of the leftovers in our fridge," says Nancy Harris of Prince George, British Columbia. "This hearty omelet is a weekend favorite, because there always seems to be that one leftover potato from Friday's dinner."
- 1 cooked medium red potato, cubed
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh broccoli
- 2 tablespoons chopped onion
- 1 small tomato, seeded and chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon dill weed
- 2 tablespoons butter, divided
- 4 eggs
- 1 tablespoon water
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 3/4 cup shredded cheddar or Swiss cheese
- In a saucepan, saute potato, broccoli, onion, tomato and dill in 1 tablespoon butter until tender; keep warm. In a bowl, beat the eggs, water, salt and pepper.
- In a skillet, melt remaining butter; add egg mixture. As the eggs set, lift edges, letting uncooked portion flow underneath. When eggs are completely set, remove skillet from the heat. Spoon vegetable mixture and cheese over half of the eggs; fold in half. Serve immediately. Yield: 2 servings.
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Right-wing revisionist history on Today show
James Taranto [1], editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page website, OpinionJournal.com, appeared on NBC's Today show on June 10 to promote his new book, Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House [2]; the book's co-editor is Leonard Leo [3], executive vice president of the right-wing legal advocacy group The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies [4]. Presidential Leadership is based on a survey [5] conducted in 2000 by The Federalist Society that rated former President Ronald Reagan much higher than had others' previous surveys.
As Media Matters for America previously reported, Taranto suggested [6] a connection between the "academic left" and the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib; republished [7] an unverified account of a Vietnam veteran who claimed to have treated Senator John Kerry for a wound he received while serving in Vietnam; questioned [8] Democrats' patriotism after claiming that Republicans never did so; conflated [9] Kerry with communism; wrote [10] that former Vice President Al Gore "has cracked" (following Gore's May 26 speech [11], which was critical of America's Iraq policy); and, most recently, repeated [1] an unsubstantiated report by The American Spectator's "Washington Prowler" about the Democratic National Committee that relied solely upon an unnamed secondhand source.
On the Today show, co-anchor Katie Couric interviewed both Taranto and author-historian Douglas Brinkley, who is a contributor to Presidential Leadership [2]. Taranto told Couric that the survey was done "to get a balanced panel of liberals and conservatives because past surveys by people like [historian] Arthur Schlesinger tended to be quite liberal and so Reagan didn't do very well, for example he was number 25 in the 'low average' category in Schlesinger's last survey in 1996."
The Federalist Society study surveyed 78 historians, political scientists, and lawyers. According to Northwestern Law professor James Lindgren [12], who put together the survey and analyzed the data, the similarity of results between Schlesinger's 1996 study and The Wall Street Journal/Federalist Society study is "staggeringly high." According to Lindgren, "The main difference between the two studies is that Ronald Reagan ranks eighth in our study, while he ranked 25th (out of 39 presidents) in Schlesinger's 1996 study."
During the interview, Couric asked whether or not the book's lists of presidential rankings are "kind of a joke when all is said and done?"
The new book, published by Wall Street Journal Books/Free Press (an imprint of Simon & Schuster), includes the rankings as well as more than four dozen essays on presidential leadership written by conservatives such as Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes [13]; Solicitor General Theodore Olson; former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork; wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, Lynne Cheney; and former independent counsel Kenneth Starr [14], whose investigation led ultimately to former President Bill Clinton's impeachment by the House of Representatives and subsequent acquittal in the Senate. William J. Bennett [15] wrote the book's foreword on presidential character.


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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:32 am
Post subject: Buying my first sound system...
I feel so conflicted...
I'm just getting started again, so it probly will not be a real issue for me for a bit, but have started doing some thinking about it. And technically it's not my first, but I sold my Newcomb about 25 years ago....
I plan on only using my laptop or MP3 players for my music, so I would assume a turntable is not required. However, all the dances I have attended here in Seattle area still seem to be turntable oriented, and shared between the cuer and caller. Is lack of a turntable going to be an issue?
When looking at sound systems, the obvious answer is the Hilton system. One thought I have though is I'd also like to start doing some more general DJ work as well. A single system that could handle both would be ideal. I've looked at some of the portable DJ systems (Peavy, Samson and JBL) as well as powered speaker systems. Most I have looked at don't seem to have support for remote volume control of the music channel. How important is this?
Are there other callers that are using their sound systems for multiple purposes? Or would I be better off going to separate systems.
I'd love to hear others experiences in this area.
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Hello John,
I have a somewhat flaky Hilton M-100 which gets sent back to California more often than I really like. Sending it across the Canada/US border is a hassle. For this reason I did invest a few dollars in a small amp and mixer board. Although they work well, they are not as compact as the Hilton (2 boxes as opposed to 1, and the many cables to connect them together), so I end up using my Hilton anyway. If I had some way of making my amp and mixer easier to tote, I would be much happier using them.
Of course, I have to use my Hilton if I expect guest callers to call, unless they are using some sort of digital signal rather than vinyl. Still, even if using an MP3 player or laptop, I feel it's a little unfair for the guest callers as they would likely be completely unfamiliar with the controls on the mixer board, and their Hilton microphone cable would not work properly with the system.
Hilton offers the MA-150, which would have been my choice over the non-specialized equipment, had I not had so many problems with my M-100.
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Hello John,
Good to see you coming back to the calling activity.
What sound system to buy is definitely a difficult decision to make, and I understand your need for advice about it. But I thought this new bulletin board was meant as a forum for discussing Vic Ceder's CSDS program, and to be quite honest, I don't think your post has very much to do with CSDS.
I think the sd-callers mailing list would be a better forum for your question. Maybe you're already a member, but if not, you can find more information on the following address:
Good luck.
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Well, since I was using CSDS with my laptop, and want a sound system to use with my CSDS, I sorta kinda assumed that a general CSDS forum would be for more general questions and to be quite honest, I didn't realize that other users of the BBS were gonna be so uptight as to start scolding posters that ask less than perfectly relevant questions.
I'll just shut up now.
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Don't shut up.
This is why I put in a General Discussion area; I figured that people would want to discuss things not directly related to CSDS with other CSDS users.
So I've moved this particular topic (sound systems) to the General Discussion area.
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- 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 cup honey
- 4 teaspoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 3/4 cup seasoned bread crumbs
- 1 package (17.6 ounces) turkey breast cutlets
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 1/4 cup slivered almonds
- In a small bowl, whisk the vinegar, honey and soy sauce until blended; set aside. Place eggs and bread crumbs in separate shallow bowls. Dip turkey slices into eggs, then coat with crumbs.
- In a large skillet, saute turkey in oil in batches for 2 minutes on each side or until no longer pink. Remove and keep warm. Stir vinegar mixture and add to the skillet; add the raisins and almonds. Cook and stir over medium heat for 5 minutes or until thickened. Serve over turkey. Yield: 4 servings.
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