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THE father of a British tourist gunned down in a botched robbery attempt 10 years ago has made an emotional journey.
Terry Colley, of Brighouse, flew to the United States and placed flowers at a Florida highway rest stop - the place where his son, Gary, died.
Mr Colley, 67, tapped his heart several times and inhaled a couple of deep breaths to keep his composure as he placed a bouquet of mixed flowers with yellow roses on a large stone memorial at the rest area on Interstate 10, 35 miles east of Tallahassee.
He placed another under a marker where a tree was planted in memory of his son.
"I'm not a believer religiously, but I believe there is something there," said Mr Colley, who travelled to Florida from Brighouse to mark the 10-year anniversary of the shooting.
"Where he died is where he left his body, and I believe that's here."
Gary Colley was 34 when he was shot and killed as he and fiancée, Margaret Ann Jagger, rested in their rental car in the pre-dawn hours of September 14, 1993.
They were the apparent victims of a random hold-up attempt.
"It was one of these things," Mr Colley said today. "Gary was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If it hadn't been Gary and Margaret it would've been somebody else."
Ms Jagger was wounded in the shooting, but later testified at trials of the attackers.
The teenagers who attacked the sleeping couple ranged in age from 13 to 17. Aundra Akins, now 24, and John Crumity, 26, are serving life.
Deron Spear, now 27, was sentenced to eight years.
Cedric Green, now 23, pleaded no contest and testified against the others.
Mr Colley said: "I don't know about forgiveness. How can you forgive when they took my son away"
The brown stone marker, shipped from Yorkshire, was from Ms Jagger and inscribed: "Have I told you lately that I love you?"
Meanwhile, Ms Jagger has begun to move on with her life.
"She moved out of the house, which is a good thing," said Mr Colley. "She's going into a new house. She's got a new relationship, a nice chap. She's moving forward slowly."


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Well back to the storyline! Now we can continue to petalburg but first the annoying route that every trainer has to go through:[ Also meaning more battles! Hooray!;):(
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Chelsea Handler is ending her E! show, "Chelsea Lately," partly because she's tired of being part of the celebrity-industrial complex.
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Handler is a celebrity in her own right and has a cadre of famous friends, but cracking jokes about the foibles of other celebs, including her network-mates the Kardashians, has worn on her.
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This is the super awesome Margaret (left) and her gang of volunteers who have recently started a new chapter of Green Bag Lady in New York. YAY! Look at all the bags they have made already. SO excited about these smiling faces and the amazing effort they have made so far! Keep it up Cortland, NY! Teresa
Good morning! We had such a good time yesterday at our "Sew-in" and although we only had 6 people sewing we managed to stitch up 25 bags in about 90 minutes. Everyone took fabric and "patterns" home to continue the efforts. We have 3 (ugh) plastic bags of bedsheets to cut up, and lots of colorful prints to entice the children with. The libraries I contacted have approx 500 children who register for the Summer Reading Program, so we have our work 'cut out' for us!
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Los Alamos National Laboratory – High Security Lift Station
Project Description
A high-security federal facility purchased this package lift station to meet medium sewage flow and classified installation requirements. Installation required a 13-foot-diameter hole for the wet well to be drilled to avoid a network of buried conduit and infrastructure. The hole was 45-feet-deep, so custom alignment brackets were provided to set the 6-foot-diameter manhole risers without positioning a person in the hole. For the final step, the gravity line was horizontally drilled 807 ft. from grade to a 16-square-inch junction located on the sump 36 feet below grade.
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Canopy Advisory Group Gives an EDGE to Consultant Community
New Platform Addresses the Needs of the Growing Independent Workforce
According to a recent NPR/Marist poll, one in five jobs in America is held by contract workers, and within a decade half the American workforce could be contractors and freelancers. Canopy Advisory Group, a consulting firm that matches high-level advisers with employers who require specialized expertise, is offering EDGE, a new, premium service that supports independent consultants' practices.
"We listened to feedback from our consultant advisers and reviewed market and behavioral trends to determine how Canopy could most effectively meet the expressed needs of our team. The opportunity to collaborate with other highly skilled colleagues was at the top of their list."
Business of Aging
Canopy Advisory consultant Karen Larsen, second from right, works with a team at Graebel, which includes Gen X'ers, millennials and boomers. Photo by Kathleen Lavine, Denver Business Journal
Baby boomer Karen Larsen used to be afraid to talk about her grandson at work because it would draw attention to her age. Now, she has now found an encore career where her years of experience as a chief marketing officer are wildly sought after.
Denver's Canopy Advisory Group hires new CEO amid expansion plans
Canopy Advisory Group, a network of independent business consultants, today announced that is has hired Chaun Powell at its new CEO.
Powell will join Griffen O'Shaughnessy, who co-founded the Denver-based firm with Brooke Borgen. O'Shaughnessy — who was also named a DBJ Outstanding Women in Business finalist in 2016— heads Canopy's Denver operations. Canopy also has an office in Seattle.
"With the success of Seattle and continued growth in Denver, there was also need to grow our leadership team," O'Shaughnessy said. "Chaun is an outstanding business leader with nearly two decades of experience in health-care startups and Fortune 25 companies. He is filled with ideas to help Canopy realize its next-stage client partnerships, and I couldn't be more thrilled for the Canopy brand, our clients, and our consultants on this addition."
Two Women, One Vision
The immigrant founders behind Fresh Monster are taking a new approach to working motherhood
As moms with years of experience in the personal care industry, launching Fresh Monster—a line of affordable, toxin-free bath products for kids—was a natural career progression for co-founders Jean Sim and Irena Todd. However, as immigrants who were born into very different circumstances, the story of how these two entrepreneurs came together to create a thriving business is remarkable.
The Gig Economy: Your Ticket To Sourcing Top Talent
The gig economy isn't just for ride-sharing services and odd jobs. Smart leaders are taking advantage of it to source highly qualified knowledge workers — and, with a little preparation, you can too. Here's how.
The first step is to learn a bit about the gig economy.
The freelance economy grew to 55 million Americans this year — 35% of the nation's workforce. This trend doesn't just exist among service workers. We also see it among professionals who have been trained at tops schools and firms. Why? There are a few reasons:
• Talented workers, historically employed on a full-time basis, are dropping out of the full-time labor force. This is happening across generations: baby boomers who don't want (or can't afford) to fully retire, Gen Xers who need flexibility to raise kids and care for aging parents, and millennials who seek more freedom and independence in their work.
The rise of the "highlancer": Working moms eschew the C-suite for flexibility
It's often said glass ceilings and the old boys' club keep successful women from reaching the corner office as the pinnacle of their careers. But do today's working moms want to be a CEO?
For many women, the grueling years that are most critical to reach the corner office overlap with the years to start and raise a family. Frequently, trying to accomplish both leads to feeling stress and lack of fulfillment in both arenas. Choose your career and compromise on your family time; choose your family, and you're likely to be passed over for executive growth.
A subset of today's working moms – who had previously chosen the C-suite path toward the executive chair – are creating a new conversation about what it means to have it all. A recent Harvard Business Review article reported today's working women want more meaningful work, more challenging assignments and more opportunities for career growth, but cited job titles and similar status concerns – such as being in the C-suite – as less relevant.
Why I Followed My Personal Calling, Even When It Led Away From A Great Job
I realized over 10 years ago that I have a calling that cannot be ignored — a calling to create opportunities for the next generation of leaders in under-represented communities. After years as a corporate communications executive, I saw an opportunity for my employer to be a more socially responsible company, generate positive news stories, and support public policy goals by creating partnerships with leaders of under-represented communities. After all, these growing communities are the users, customers and supporters of the companies that serve them. But the notion of working closely with them was unfamiliar to leadership primarily because they are not represented in decision-making roles.
As an executive at a Fortune 500 company, I created a new role focused on developing a network of relationships and partnerships with under-represented communities. The idea was supported and after several years, there were tangible outcomes for the public policy, human resources, and diversity teams and noted benefit to company value. There was also significant progress in the community as a result of our collective work together. At last, I was able to fulfill my personal calling while contributing to the good of the company. This calling eventually led me to Facebook.
Who Wins in the Gig Economy, and Who Loses
The winners and losers in the U.S. economy have traditionally been easy to identify. If you had a full-time job, you won. A full-time job provided the steady income needed to support our traditional version of the American Dream: the highly leveraged, high-fixed-cost house; the cars; the latest consumer goods. A full-time job was also the only way to access important employer-provided benefits, such as health insurance and a pension, as well as protections against workplace injuries, discrimination, and harassment. Without a full-time job, a true sense of security was elusive, benefits were inaccessible, and you were more likely to be stranded on the fringes of the labor market, observing rather than living the American Dream.
Is This Wildlife Conservation PhD The Steve Jobs Of Impact Investing?
Did the people who met Steve Jobs in 1976 have any inkling that they were talking to the person whose name would for a generation be synonymous with "entrepreneur"? More often, people have believed to have found the next incarnation of Jobs only to be disappointed. Perhaps you can help me determine if the subject of this article could become the Steve Jobs of impact investing.
From my perch in Salt Lake City on the west side of the Rockies, over the last few years I've been hearing rumblings from the other side of the mountains. In Denver, Dr. Stephanie Gripne has created one of the most dynamic centers of impact investing and social entrepreneurship in the world. With a goal to catalyze impact investments of over $1 trillion and a plan to get there, it is about time that people outside the Rocky Mountains took note.
Dr. Gripne founded the Impact Finance Center as a partnership between the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business and the Sustainable Endowments Institute, a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
Starting Your Own Midlife Internship
"Let's take some time off." That's how Susan Corvino of Pasadena, Calif., remembers her husband's reaction when her communications job was eliminated four years ago. At the time, her husband was working long hours, so they agreed she would stay home with their three young children.
But returning to work two years later when her youngest daughter began preschool wasn't so easy. Interviews in her field led nowhere, particularly when she asked for a flexible schedule.
Working It Out: Is outsourcing your best opportunity?
For many young companies, the pressing question is whether to commit precious resources to a full-time hire — or to outsource some tasks
It's no secret that Colorado is an entrepreneurial mecca. The state was ranked fourth in startup activity nationwide, with 350 people out of every 100,000 adults becoming entrepreneurs every month, according to The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurship.
Canopy Advisory Group's "Third Way" Expands to Seattle
Complete article at DenverPost.com.
Canopy Advisory Group's "Third Way" Speaks to Top New Year's Resolutions: More Meaningful Work, Reduce Stress
According to Forbes*, today's professional hopes to welcome the New Year with new outcomes including more meaningful work, less stress, and better work-life balance. As these professionals search for career opportunities that are right for them, a third way – something between opting out and leaning in to the big firms – has begun to take hold. One such example of the third way is being coined the "highlancer," a model proved lucrative for early entrant, Canopy Advisory Group.
The term refers to a new breed of freelance professionals who are highly qualified, having typically attended prestigious undergraduate or graduate schools and later honed their skills at a big firm. Their experience in the corporate world, however, has left them feeling disillusioned, dissatisfied and looking for an alternative.
Confluence Denver features Canopy as a leader in the rise of the 'Highlancer'
Canopy Advisory Group is featured today in Confluence Denver, a publication that highlights Denver's game changers with a specific focus on entrepreneurship, startups, place building and arts and culture. We are proud to be a leader helping 'highlancers' create fulfilling careers as independent consultants. There is a true third way between opting out and leaning in; we are at forefront of this evolving on-demand workforce and passionate about connecting our talent to the needs of the business and nonprofit communities.
Denver Job Market Lures Millennials
Millennials are flocking to the Mile High City, but it isn't the nearby ski slopes, microbreweries or urban hiking trails that are attracting them: It's the jobs.
A shared office space called Industry, in the popular River North Art District, stands as an example of the entrepreneurial forces that are luring a flood of young professionals here.
Working 9-5 Becoming a Less Popular Way to Make a Living
If you want an income, or you're an employer looking for help, it may be time to scrap the idea of the traditional 9-to-5 arrangement.
For workers, it has become easier and less risky to go solo. Affordable health-insurance plans, which kept many workers shackled to traditional jobs, are more accessible because of the Affordable Care Act. And companies are increasingly open to hiring freelancers and independent contractors. Many say independent workers bring fresh ideas without the long-term commitment.
The On-Demand Economy – Worker on Tap
In the early 20th century Henry Ford combined moving assembly lines with mass labour to make building cars much cheaper and quicker—thus turning the automobile from a rich man's toy into transport for the masses. Today a growing group of entrepreneurs is striving to do the same to services, bringing together computer power with freelance workers to supply luxuries that were once reserved for the wealthy. Uber provides chauffeurs. Handy supplies cleaners. SpoonRocket delivers restaurant meals to your door. Instacart keeps your fridge stocked. In San Francisco a young computer programmer can already live like a princess.
Rethink What You "Know" About High-Achieving-Women
As researchers who have spent more than 20 years studying professional women, we have watched with interest the recent surge in attention paid to women's careers, work-family conflict, and the gender gap in leadership. Among the most visible contributions to this public conversation have been Anne-Marie Slaughter's 2012 Atlantic article "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" and Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean In, both of which ignited fierce public debate.
6 Ways to Make Freelancers Some of Your Most Valuable Employees
Today's businesses have a new secret weapon: Employees who are available at any time from anywhere in the world.
Do you need a blog post written, but don't have the time to do it? What about a new logo? Freelancers are perfect for tasks that you can't complete internally or those that would be cheaper to outsource.
Female Lawyers Still Battle Gender Bias
Despite Advances, Women Still Lag Behind Men in Billing Rate, Management Roles
Despite notching significant gains in the legal world, female law-firm partners continue to lag behind their male counterparts when it comes to billing rates, commanding on average 10% less for their services, according to a new analysis of $3.4 billion in legal work.
Lawyer Patricia K. Gillette said some female rainmakers 'are not getting the credit for what they do.' Ramin Rahimian for The Wall Street Journal
How Tech and Social Go Hand-in-Hand
Q&A: Brad Feld talks how tech and social go hand-in-hand
With a Klout score of 79 and over 220,000 cumulative followers on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it's safe to say that when Feld talks, people listen.
For Smaller Projects, Try Renting an M.B.A
Got a small project and a small budget? For some companies nowadays, the solution is simple: Rent an M.B.A. to do the work. Companies get trained talent to help with marketing, financial modeling and investor pitches for a fraction of what they would have to pay big firms like McKinsey & Co. or Boston Consulting Group Inc.
Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption
After years of debate and study, in 2007 McKinsey & Company initiated a series of business model innovations that could reshape the way the global consulting firm engages with clients.
One of the most intriguing of these is McKinsey Solutions, software and technology-based analytics and tools that can be embedded at a client, providing ongoing engagement outside the traditional project-based model. McKinsey Solutions marked the first time the consultancy unbundled its offerings and focused so heavily on hard knowledge assets.
On the Job: Here Come the Supertemps
Some 58 percent of companies plan to use temporary employees — at all levels — over the next few years, the Harvard Business Review reports. Authors Jody Greenstone Miller and Matt Miller say that temporary employment is no longer limited to administrative assistants, warehouse workers, or other low-level work. High-level people are choosing to work as temporary employees and earning money comparable to what they would have earned as an employee, or even as a partner, in a traditional company.


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Are Dogs as Smart as Two-Year-Olds?
This question doesn't actually seem so ridiculous to us. Many months ago when our son was a newborn we remarked to a friend that we were looking forward to the day when his intelligence surpassed the cats' (and, frankly, our cats aren't the sharpest tacks in the drawer). A canine expert has been looking at all kinds of dog IQ studies and recently delivered an overview at a meeting of the American Psychological Association. His verdict: the average dog has the mental abilities of a 2-year old child.
The article we read focused more on the intelligence of dogs and how this differed by breed, but it did offer several interesting tidbits comparing dogs and children:
• A language development test showed that the average dog and the average two-year-old can learn about 165 words including signals and gestures.
• Dogs were even more impressive in math and do better than most three and four-year-olds in basic arithmetic (and can count up to 4 or 5).
• In terms of social smarts, dogs come closer to teenagers and have complex social lives (though their emotional "toolbox" is closer to toddlers).
Does any of this surprise you?
(Photo: by Flickr member otakuchick licensed for use under Creative Commons)


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An explosion killed 11 garment workers at Bangladesh
From www.industriall-union.org|
Another tragedy has hit the garment industry at Bangladesh. As Industriall-Union reports:
"A boiler explosion at a Bangladeshi garment factory on 3 July 2017 has killed 11 workers and injured at least 50 people. The death toll could rise as many of those caught in the blast are in a critical condition in hospital. The incident took place at the Multifabs Limited garment factory in Gazipur on the outskirts of Dhaka at about 7.30pm. At the time of the explosion, workers at the dyeing section were reportedly engaged in maintenance work on the boiler. The impact was so severe that a section of the four-storey factory building was also damaged".
Multifabs Limited is a supplier of several European brands such as index, ALDI North, ALDI South, Dansk Supermarked A/S, Shop Direct, Wuensche Group, Teddy Spa, and Gekås Ullared AB. and is covered under the Bangladesh Accord on fire and building safety and has been inspected by Accord engineers."However, the Accord does not cover boiler inspections, which are monitored by the Bangladesh government".


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15 = 3 × 5: Photons do their first quantum math
Two teams of physicists have independently confirmed that 15 equals 3 times 5—an arduous task considering that they've done it by manipulating the quantum states of photons. The results are a step toward optical quantum computers, which could do some calculations exponentially faster than ordinary computers can and crack the encryption codes that protect data traveling over the Internet.
Multiplying two whole numbers is easy, but the inverse operation generally isn't: Identifying when a number is the product of other whole numbers becomes exponentially more complex as the numbers get bigger, quickly overwhelming even the fastest supercomputers.
This is good for privacy. When Web-based programs request sensitive data over the Internet, they ask the sender's Web browser to encrypt the data using a number, called the public key, that is the product of two prime numbers. Decrypting the data requires identifying those two prime numbers, which only the legitimate recipi


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*Your party is not confirmed until the deposit is received. Please return this form no later than 14 days prior to the scheduled party, or your space may be cancelled.
Choose from: Mini Package, Deluxe Package or Xtreme Package.
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* Extra children/adults $5 per person
* A Birthday Party Waiver must be signed by each family in attendance.
* When ordering the Xtreme Package, please make sure to upload the Xtreme Package details.
* It is extremely important that you show up at your scheduled party time ON TIME and remind your guests to do the same!
* All Parties include 1 adult supervisor from Xtreme Cheer & Dance Gym.
Another option to pay would be to enclose a check written to: Xtreme Cheer & Dance. Mail to: Xtreme Cheer & Dance, 3000 Canal Circle, Mitchell, SD 57301.


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Moving boxes and supplies
One has many options on boxes and packing materials.
If you contract a professional moving company to move your household items, they can also pack you. When a quote is give and have asked to pack as well, boxes and supplies are included in the quote.
If you are a self- packer, you could ask the moving company to purchase boxes and supplies you might need. You can also go to U-Haul, Home Depot or Lowes and purchase boxes and packing supplies in a hurry. Remember, you always need more boxes and supplies then you think you need. Don't be stingy on using newspaper print or bubble wrap because you want to prevent items in the box from shifting. If you pack yourself and hire a professional moving company to transport the household goods, it is solely the packer's responsibility if an item! is broken.
Recommendation to self -packers to use plain newspaper print not the daily newspaper because the ink from the newspaper will get all over your hands and items. Might consider using the daily newspaper as buffer on the bottom of the box and in between items in the box to prevent items from bumping into one another. In addition, never recommend using boxes from the grocery store especially produce or meat boxes. Those boxes go from the fields, to loading docks and then a truck. The chances of having bugs (bed bugs) in a box is high. If you bring those boxes into your home the bugs hit your home now and go to the new location. Not good!
Check out renting plastic tubs in your area. Though if you fill the tubs with ceramic, china, or metal items it can become very heavy to lift, especially if you are moving yourself. Though the positive note of plastic tubs, it can be re-used many times. However, cardboard boxes can be cut down and in many cities there are many drop off locations for cardboard recycling.
Ordering boxes and supplies made easy and drop shipped to your front door: go to www.completerelocationsolutions.com, click on service tab, click on moving supplies and scroll down to the URL. Click on URL which takes you to usedcardboardboxes.com. The site will provide a selection of how many rooms you are packing. Click on that selection and complete the rest. Packing materials of newspaper print, markers, tape are included with the package. If you place an order before 3PM one day your boxes should arrive two days later at your front door.
Packing and unpacking services: If you are overwhelmed, don't have the energy or time, our team can bring all the supplies and boxes needed, pack and if local move, we can unpack at the new location.
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Lenovo has announced the Blue Sky desktop computer, claiming it to be its smallest, quietest and most energy-efficient desktop.
The new ThinkCentre A61e (its formal name) ships next month. About the size of a telephone book, it weighs 8 lbs, and is about 25 percent smaller than the previous ThinkCentre model, Lenovo officials said.
Blue Sky is also the first full-functioning PC to run on 45 watts of power, meaning it can be powered by a solar panel or roughly the amount of electricity needed for three compact fluorescent light bulbs, a Lenovo spokeswoman said.
It will run either the AMD Athlon 64x2 dual-core processor or the AMD Sempron processor, with several choices of ultra-small hard drives, ranging from 80GB to 750GB. It has 4GB of memory and comes preloaded with either the Windows Vista Business or Windows XP Professional operating system.
The Blue Sky measures 8.5 by 11 inches in size - the same as a sheet of paper - and it's 3 inches thick, about the size of large phone book.
Lenovo expects the Blue Sky to do best in the small business, education, medical and financial sectors, where desktop space is limited. It features a low-speed fan for quiet operation.
Blue Sky derived its code name, which has stuck, for its environmental sensibilities. It is made up of 90 percent reusable or recyclable materials, and its packaging is 90 percent recyclable. Because of its energy efficiency and recyclable materials, it is Lenovo's first product to win a Gold EPEAT rating from the Green Electronics Council.
Lenovo said the ultra-small PC could be a success, noting that research firm IDC has forecast more than 52 percent growth for that product segment from 2005 to 2010.


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LYNCHBURG, Va. - No. 5 Charleston Southern's Big South Championships run came to an end in the semifinal round as the Buccaneers fell in a hard-fought contest to No. 1 Radford on Saturday afternoon in the Vines Center, 53-50.
After trailing most of the game, CSU (18-13) made a late run to take the 49-48 lead with 2:45 left in the contest following a Ke'Asia Jackson layup. Radford's Janayla White responded with a layup and Khiana Johnson connected on a pair of late free throws to give the Highlanders (24-7) the 52-49 lead with 24 seconds remaining.
Alyssa Mann and White traded free throws in the final 11 seconds of the contest to give Radford the 53-50 lead as CSU held the final possession of the contest. The Bucs swung the ball around the arc with Rachel Burns attempting the three-pointer at the buzzer to send the game into overtime, but her attempt was blocked by Jayda Worthy and time ran out before CSU could attempt a second shot to end the game.
Rachel Burns paced the Bucs on the afternoon with 15 points with 10 coming in the first half as CSU nearly overcame a double-digit deficit before the halftime buzzer. Alyssa Mann added 13 points and a pair of assists in her final collegiate game, while Ke'Asia Jackson had 11 points and three rebounds in the loss.
White led the Highlanders to the win and Championship Game berth with a team-high 16 points and 12 rebounds. Destinee Walker added 13 points and 10 boards, while Worthy had 11 points and six rebounds as Radford used its height inside to record the 32-10 scoring advantage in the paint.
Radford held the 12-8 lead at the end of the first quarter with the Highlanders taking advantage of a 13-7 rebounding advantage paced by six points and seven rebounds from Walker. Jackson connected on an early three-pointer while Mann scored the Bucs' final three points of the period to narrow the margin to four after 10 minutes.
The Highlanders rattled off the first six points of the second quarter on their way to building a double-digit lead as Worthy and Johnson both converted a pair of free throws from the line. Burns cut into the RU lead with a three-pointer from the corner at the 6:24 mark, but CSU's offense was unable to connect until the final two minutes.
The Bucs mounted a 9-0 run to end the first half with Mann sparking the stretch with a jumper in transition. Burns added five points during the stretch before Mann capped the scoring with a steal and jumper with five seconds left in the quarter to end the half with CSU trailing 28-26.
CSU kept Radford within a two-possession game in the third quarter as the Highlanders were unable to stretch their lead to more than four points over the period. Elyse Kiploks was fouled on a late layup and converted the free throw attempt to send the teams into the fourth with the Bucs trailing 38-37.
Mann and Breannah Bretches connected on back-to-back three-pointers midway through the fourth quarter to give CSU its first lead since the 9:19 mark in the first quarter as the Bucs went ahead 47-46. White responded for the Highlanders with a pair of layups to swing the advantage back to the Highlanders before her late-game defensive efforts closed out the win.
Buccaneer Notables
- Charleston Southern falls to 0-10 in Big South semifinal games following the loss to the No. 1 seed Highlanders on Saturday afternoon. It was the Bucs' first semifinal appearance since the 2012 season when CSU fell to No. 1 Liberty.
- The Bucs finish the season tying the single season record with 18 wins in the 2016-17 year. CSU last won 18 games in the 1998-99 season when the Bucs went 18-10.
- The Bucs set the new program standard for Big South wins in a single season with CSU posting 11 conference victories in 2016-17.
Coach's Comments
"I'm so proud of this team. This is a team that's gutted it out year-round and a team that was determined to win and change the culture at Charleston Southern University and they did that this year. It starts with our leadership on the team with everyone buying into it. Our seniors to our freshmen all bought in and they did that and had a great year," – CSU head coach Fred Applin.
They Said It
"Radford had a good start, but we came back and kept it close. The jump we had toward the end of the first half was helpful. We always came back and always played hard and super proud of what we accomplished this year," - CSU redshirt senior guard Alyssa Mann


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Here's what happens when you watch FOX News over the course of a day: You see a lot of strange faces.
FOX is obviously best known for its famous, divisive anchors (and Shep) but were you to regularly watch the cable channel over the course of a day -- say between the hours of noon and 6 -- you would quickly realize there are a lot of lesser known people who make up a day of cable content. And many of them are strange-looking.
Probably this is true of most of the cable channels (and if you Google some of these people you'll discover they appear on TV with some frequency!), but since I watch FOX most I notice it most there.
And to be sure TV booking ain't easy. Especially during the afternoon hours when you are left to dredge the B-reel of talking heads for people willing to speak on what is mostly a bunch of ridiculous crap (again: this is true everywhere, not just on FOX).
Here's what that B-reel looks like, as snapped from my desk, over the course of the last month or so.
Randy Zelin (left) and Arthur Aidala (right) deserve special mention. Over the course of their daily appearances on Shep's Studio B to discuss the Casey Anthony trial not only did they forever associate themselves with the word 'chloroform' they firmly solidified themselves as office favorites. Someone should probably consider giving them a show on Court TV.


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The thing about love is that we use one word to describe a million different feelings, a gamut of experiences, a choice, a goal, and a way of being. We love ourselves, we love our friends, we love a joke, we are in love with our partner, and we love our hair… It's an action and a verb. It's permanent and it's passing. It means a lot and it can mean a little.
And we wonder why we are confused about love. Why when one person says that they love you, it means something different than when you do…
I'm one of those people that "love" love. I feel like it's the answer to the age-old question "what are we here for?" I think that people find purpose in caring deeply about our planet, and there's something about feeling so strongly for another human being that we risk being heartbroken.
And as I'm sitting here days before Valentines Day, where love is certainly in the air, I wonder what love truly means to me and how my perception of love has changed and developed through the years. I mean, it has changed, hasn't it?
I remember the first time I fell in love. I was 19, and it was my first boyfriend in university. I remember this sort of passionate, impatience to how I felt- we literally spent hours, days, and then weeks solid together. I experienced my first fight, first makeup, first intimate moment, first "I love you", first betrayal and first heartbreak. I got it all in that relationship. And I quickly after met the guy that would be my longest-term relationship so far. 4 years that finally ended in a bittersweet realization that we had outgrown each other. Tears flowed on and off for months and I literally felt like I might not make it. I felt physical pain, I questioned my decision, regretted it, then accepted it. And he soon found somebody new, and 6 months later when he told me he was getting married, I relived it all once more.
I remember thinking "I will never feel like this again", and meaning it. I remember the moment- crystal clear, that I decided to never get hurt like that again and I haven't. I've played my game defensively since then. Always careless at first in my excitement, "forgetting" the lesson I learned, and then when I noticed what was happening, I would pull back just as fiercely. The guys I have stayed with are the ones that were willing to deal with the dichotomy, and that would endlessly forgive my ambivalence. Those guys, though unbelievable people, I've realized aren't actually the right ones for me.
So now with that awareness has to come change. If there isn't change then it means I am operating with the same mindframe as a hurt 23 year old…
The coach I work with uses a quote "what's in the way is the way" and I think it applies here. The way to truly be in love is to put ourselves in a position to truly be hurt. For people that have had similar situations to me – every instinct will have us do what we've always done, and so it's important to notice our instincts and feelings, but honour our commitment to changing.
So upon reflection about what love means to me and to answer my initial question – yes, it has changed. For me, love used to be a feeling that I had. I needed some way to describe the warmth, connection, and vulnerability that I felt. Now, it's changed a little. It still describes that feeling but unlike a passing emotion, love for me is a choice to keep doing actions that cause me to feel love. It means choosing to treat my partner with respect even when I'm frustrated, it means making sure people are taken care of and it means deciding not to pull back when I start to feel like I may get hurt. And it's the only way, in my opinion, for love to last a lifetime. I let anger pass, sadness floats away, but love is what I'm committed to keeping.
So this Valentine's Day I am going to remember how far I've come from the 23 year old who decided to be tough. And maybe after the cinnamon hearts and chocolate truffles and sappy love songs, we can all take a moment to reflect about what love actually means to us and what we want our experience of it to be. And then do it – put in into action… because at the end of the day, doesn't Valentine's Day always end with a little action anyways? 😉


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(Gospel e-Letter November 2008)
God has shown great favour to the virgin of Nazareth. Through her the eternal Son of God became human and came to the world for our salvation. The church rightly calls her the "Mother of God according to the manhood". It is no wonder that wherever the gospel is proclaimed, God's people call her blessed.
To keep her from vainglory and pride, the Lord adorned Mary with a wise and humble character. To the greetings of Elizabeth, Mary answered, "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord." As for herself, she was amazed that God would look favourably upon "his handmaid's lowliness". Her only desire was to glorify and praise the Lord God Almighty, and certainly not herself.
Sadly, throughout church history specious titles were attributed to Mary, totally ignoring her own desire. Some call her 'the gate of heaven' and even 'our life' and 'our hope'. But the Bible calls Jesus alone our door, our life and our hope.
In 1854 and 1950 the Roman Catholic Church proclaimed the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption even though the Bible is silent about these doctrines. The Bible explicitly teaches that Jesus was conceived without sin (Hebrews 7:26); and being perfectly holy, just and undefiled, he was qualified to die for us, the unjust, to bring us to God (1 Peter 3:18).
Moreover, after the shame of the cross, God the Father raised up Jesus and received him into the glory of heaven. God demands that every knee should bend at the name of Jesus. At this very moment, along with all the saints and angels, Mary is praising and worshipping the Lord Jesus. We too ought to join with the mother of our Lord and the heavenly hosts to give Christ the Lord our undivided devotion, for he is worthy to receive thanks, honour and praise forevermore.
His Mercy is from Age to Age
In my childhood days, my religion teachers presented a distorted image of God. They told us that the Lord is a stern Judge and we should not dare approach him directly. We were advised to pray to Mary, the kind-hearted mother, so that she will intercede for us before her Son. Surely Jesus would not refuse anything his mother asks him, we were told.
Mary refutes such foolish arguments. Mary gloried in the goodness of the Lord, insisting that "his mercy is from age to age to those who fear him." After all who made mothers sweet and kind? Should we then doubt the kindness of the Creator, the font of all blessings?
Mary experienced the kindness of the Lord. When Jesus was hanging on the cross, even a short time before his death, he was concerned about her well-being after his departure. He commanded his close friend and disciple John to take care of her. "Woman, behold, your son," he told her, and to John he said, "Behold, your mother," implying that it was his responsibility to care for her as a son cares for an aging widow. We are told that from that hour the disciple took her into his home (John 19:26, 27).
Mary wants us to appeal to him in our needs. At the wedding in Cana, when Mary noticed the problem, she prayed to Jesus for help, and she told the servants to do whatever he tells them. We ought to do the same. We ought to pray to the Lord for our needs and intercede for others too. After the Lord returned to heaven, Mary prayed with the disciples to the Lord. Nowhere in Scripture do we find an example, permission or commandment to pray to Mary or the departed saints after their death. If you truly respect Mary, follow her example and always seek the Lord in your prayers.
The Lord Jesus himself invites us to go directly to him. He promised, "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). Jesus never turned back anyone who came to him. His disciples tried to keep away the kids, but he said, "Let the little children come to me." The people tried to silence the blind man, but Jesus heard his cry and restored his eyesight. Jesus reached out to the lepers, the outcasts of society, touched and healed them. With stones in their hands, the mob was about to stone the adulterer, but Jesus -- the only one who could have condemned her -- forgave her. Even at his very last hour, he promised a place in heaven to the repentant thief.
Friend, do you suppose that the Lord will not keep his promise, or that his heart has become hard? Do you think he will not receive you if you sincerely turn to him? Come then, come to Jesus today.
Come to Jesus for he alone is the bridge that spans the infinite gap between the holy God and sinful man. "For there is one God. There is also one mediator between God and the human race, Christ Jesus, himself human, who gave himself as ransom for all" (1 Timothy 2:5, 6). Mary gained heaven by his power and merit, and so will you if you believe Mary's testimony about the mercy of God, and by faith rely on him for forgiveness.


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I had to play with this week's Seize The Sketch, it was very interesting to me. I used washi tape strips and I luv how it turned out. I added a few enamel dots, I wanted it to fit this month's Cards For A Cause challenge. You can send your unused cards to this month's organization, get the details here. A super easy card from me today...enjoy!
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I have my new cloth diapers, now what?
After you purchase your new fluff, there are some things you now need to do.
First of all, you need to prep your diapers. This is easy. If you have microfiber or minky inserts, you just need to run the inserts and shells through a wash cycle and dry them. Make sure all the detergent is rinsed out before drying.
Now, if you have natural fiber inserts, you will need to do a much longer prep. These need to be washed at least six times before use. I wash mine ten times. With each wash they become more absorbent. The very first wash of natural fiber diapers needs to be with towels or by themselves. Sometimes the diapers have natural oils on them that can transfer to your synthetic fibers. This won't ruin them, but will cause extra work for you.
After the prepping is finished, all diapers can be washed together. Like I said, I use the following routine. A more complicated wash routine sometimes is harder on you, and sometimes doesn't work as well.
My diapers are prepped and ready to go on my baby. Anything else I should know?
When you put your new fluff on your baby, know this first. Diaper creams are not needed and in fact can harm your diaper and void your warranty. If you need a cream for some reason, coconut oil works wonders, and washes out in the hot wash cycle. If you use it and your diapers are still under warranty, use a cloth wipe or flannel liner in between your diaper and baby's bum. When you do your wash, launder these liners separately.
Before washing, all breastfed solids are water soluble. No rinsing needed, just drop the diaper in your wetbag or dry pail and wash every 1-2 days. If you formula feed or have introduced solids, you will need to dump solids into the toilet (I love a diaper sprayer for this), then put the rinsed diaper in your wetbag or dry pail until wash day.
In my HE washer, this is what I do, your routine may be a bit different.
Step 1: Cold wash - no detergent. This removes any solids left.
Step 2: LONG Hot wash with pre-rinse and extra rinse after - 2 TBS Rockin Green Classic Rock unscented detergent (formula may be different depending on your water type, test it first)
Step 3: Remove unlined shells and pail liner, hang to dry
Step 4: Regular hot wash cycle - no soap, check to make sure there are no suds left.
Step 5: Hang dry or tumble dry on low
After all the diapers are washed and dried, you can take the time to stuff the diapers. I recommend taking off your rings to do this so you don't snag the PLU lining in the diapers.
My son loves to try and help put the diapers together. This makes a great learning opportunity! I show him how the snaps work, and describe the diapers colors and prints.
Now, occasionally you will find "funk" when your diapers are wet. This is usually caused by soap build up. Ammonia can also happen for the same reason. Here is a GREAT chart on combating issues with cloth diapers from Padded Tush Stats.
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a month ago the situation with XXXXXXXX XXXX was looking buoyant. a management buy-out plan was being hatched by the business's original founding MD, and if successful, there was every reason to expect the company to be viable.
by the time i got back from holidays, the silence was deafening on all of that. turns out that plan turned to dogshit. other plans may be afoot, but no ones sayin'. deadlines for placing orders for calendars for next season are looming, and if missed, severely compromise the entire retail effort, and possibly the entire business, as well as many of the smaller local publishers whose sales come significantly from XXXXXXXX XXXX's retail season. one of those local publishers is my client#2.
the Voluntary Administrators aren't going to sign purchase orders for several million dollars worth of calendars for a business that might not exist in 6 months time, so if a new owner with a plan doesn't come to fruition fast, XXXXXXXX XXXX, several smaller/local calendar publishers, and me, are in dogshit too.
suddenly i'm staring into an abyss of "what the fuck will i do if this all turns to dogshit?". i can't easily survive without client#1, and client#1's failure might have repercussions on client#2 (more than they already have), which might have additional repercussions on me.
options: find new clients of a similar vein; or do something completely different.
despite 11 years of self-employment, i've barely had to lift a finger to get the handful of clients that i've maintained to this day, so finding new ones is just as daunting an option as doing something altogether different. regular readers will remember i pondered these issues almost exactly 12 months ago, as part of a plan to relocate to Byron Bay. i'm ashamed to say, i've done nothing toward that goal, lulled into complacency & distraction by the rekindling with J.
coincidentally, J is facing the same decision, but for mostly different reasons: tired of his status quo, frustrated by colleagues who don't share his progressive ideas on UI/UX, but so far not finding a new job opportunity that would satisfy his desire to work in a manner, and with people, who share his views on UI/UX.
we've both been reading/listening to various people – industry 'elites' even in their own modest way – who've risen above similar situations and created for themselves situations where they, for the most part at least, have true independence from the vagaries & occasional stupidity of bosses/clients. i suspect we're both mulling over options on how to emulate their success. it's times like these i regret not getting into web technologies at any time over the last decade – if I had, we'd probably make a great team (professionally speaking) right about now.
i don't suffer from real insomnia very often at all, but tonight would be one :-(


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Don't view spam emails. Often spam emails are in HTML format and contain web bugs (external links to transparent images). Simply opening a spam email may confirm your email address to the spammer resulting in their sending you lots more spam.
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Well I was looking for recipes to make either a gingerbread house or gingerbread men and I didn't expect to stumble on what I ... um stumbled upon. Rather than explain it how about I share the picture that it explains it better than I can.
To find the picture look for google images and search for 'gang gingerbread man' and maybe add some words like obscene to help be a bit more specific.
So yes now you can see it, it is a bit of a gingerbread men/man party featuring one female gingerbread woman.
ok so here are the recipes, I've tried these ones yesterday and they are very good but a bit hard


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Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau doesnt have any plans to rush back Luol Deng from a nagging hamstring injury, even if it means the All-Star reserve misses his own bobblehead night.
I didnt realize that, Thibodeau said laughing when told of Dengs bobblehead. Yeah, thats why were bringing him back.
Thibodeau did, however, seem more optimistic about Dengs chances to play tonight at home against the Bobcats, calling him a true game-time decision. Deng, who was named an All-Star last Thursday, has missed the last five games and the Bulls have taken a cautious approach to his return.
Thibodeau said Deng participated a little bit more in this mornings team shoot-around that the Berto Center, and that hes gotten better every day since aggravating the injury Jan. 18 in Boston.
Swingman Jimmy Butler may have hinted at a potential return tonight for Deng.
I feel great. Glad to have Luol back. Were just gonna keep rolling, same role coming off the bench and just try to keep winning games, he said. I hope he does (play) because hes a big part of our team and we want him out there.
When Deng does make his eventual return to the lineup, Butler knows it will relegate him back to the bench. But the second-year forward said he will continue to have an effect on games, and that his recent stretch in the starting lineup has helped his confidence moving forward.
I feel like when an opportunity presents itself you have to take it, Butler said. (Starting) gave me a lot more confidence in knowing what I can do and having my teammates believe in me more on both ends of the floor. So I feel like it was a definite confidence boost.
Butler has put together the best stretch of his career in the last 10 days, averaging 14.2 points 8.6 rebounds and 2.6 assists in more than 45 minutes the last five contests. The Bulls are 3-2 in that span, and Butlers emergence as a capable scorer and stout defender has helped the Bulls replace the league leader in minutes per game.
Like Nate Robinson and Marco Belinelli before him Robinson has started five games in place of Kirk Hinrich; Belinelli started 12 games in Rip Hamiltons absence the Chicago reserves are proving to Thibodeau they can step up when their name is called.
We always do whats best for the team. You guys make it sound like its a new revelation. Jimmys played well and its what we expect of our bench, Thibodeau said, and when you look at it deeper, when Marco stepped in he did a great job. So we feel very good about our bench and when someone is out we expect that next person to step up.
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Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau doesnt have any plans to rush back Luol Deng from a nagging hamstring injury, even if it means the All-Star reserve misses his own bobblehead night.


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Nemours congratulates the Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) on today's announcement regarding Knowledge Universe's commitment to join PHA and implement standards that align with the Let's Move! Child Care goals.
"Early care and education providers play a vital role in raising a healthier generation of Americans," said Debbie Chang, Nemours Vice President of Policy and Prevention. "With this newest commitment by Knowledge Universe, more than 1 million children in child care settings will be eating healthy and being physically active thanks to PHA's commitments from large child care providers."
The commitment was announced at the 3rd Annual Building a Healthier Future Summit and demonstrates continued momentum to prevent childhood obesity.
Today's announcement expands and leverages the work that Nemours and its partners across the country are doing to promote healthy behaviors for the nearly 12 million children who spend all or part of their day in child care. Initiatives such as Let's Move! Child Care, the National Early Care & Education Collaboratives (a joint effort of CDC and Nemours), and Healthy Way to Grow (a partnership between the American Heart Association and Nemours) help early care and education providers make changes in nutrition, breastfeeding support, physical activity, and screen time policies and practices to ensure our nation's youngest children continue to live, learn and play in environments that support their health.
About Nemours
Nemours is an internationally recognized children's health system that owns and operates the two free-standing children's hospitals: the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., and Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Fla., along with outpatient facilities in five states, delivering pediatric primary, specialty and urgent care. Nemours also powers the world's most-visited website for information on the health of children and teens, KidsHealth.org, and offers on-demand, online video patient visits through Nemours CareConnect. Nemours ReadingBrightstart.org is a program dedicated to preventing reading failure in young children, grounded in Nemours' understanding that child health and learning are inextricably linked, and that reading level is a strong predictor of adult health.
Established as The Nemours Foundation through the legacy and philanthropy of Alfred I. duPont, Nemours provides pediatric clinical care, research, education, advocacy and prevention programs to families in the communities it serves.


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Faruqi & Faruqi Case: Airgas, Inc.
Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Announces Filing of a Class Action Lawsuit Against Airgas, Inc.
Notice is hereby given that Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP has filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, case no. 2:15-cv-06787, on behalf of unitholders of Airgas, Inc. ("Airgas" or the "Company") (NYSE:ARG) who held (and continue to hold) Airgas securities acquired on or before November 17, 2015.
On November 17, 2015, the Company entered into a Purchase Agreement and Plan of Merger ("Merger Agreement") under which L'Air Liquide, S.A. ("Air Liquid") will acquire all of the outstanding units of Airgas through the newly formed subsidiary AL Acquisition Corporation. The unit-for-unit transaction is valued at approximately $13.4 billion.
The complaint charges Airgas, its Board of Directors, and affiliated corporate entities and individuals with violations of Sections 14(a) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act").
Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, which was unanimously approved by the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board" or "Individual Defendants"), Airgas unitholders will receive $143.00 in cash per share for each unit of Airgas they own. However, the complaint alleges that the offer does not reflect the Company's inherent and long-term value based on recent financial reports.
Furthermore, according to the complaint, the Merger Agreement includes a non-solicitation provision, a matching rights provision, and a $400 million termination fee which essentially ensure that a superior bidder will not emerge, as any potential suitor will undoubtedly be deterred from expending the time, cost, and effort of making a superior proposal.
The complaint also alleges that the preliminary proxy statement (the "Proxy") filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on December 8, 2015 provided materially incomplete and misleading disclosures, thereby violating Sections 14(a) and 20(a) of the Exchange Act. The Proxy denies Airgas unitholders material information concerning the financial and procedural fairness of the Merger.
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If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than March 12, 2016. Any member of the putative class may move the Court to serve as lead plaintiff through counsel of their choice, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. If you wish to discuss this action, or have any questions concerning this notice or your rights or interests, please contact us at www.faruqilaw.com.


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In Conversation: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan & Tiphanie Yanique
Wednesday June 10, 2015
07:00 pm
|Photo Credit: Debbie Grossman (Yanique)
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and Tiphanie Yanique came together to discuss Sullivan's new short story collection, Blue Talk and Love.
Blue Talk and Love tells the stories of girls and women of color navigating the moods and mazes of urban daily life. Set in various enclaves of New York City—including the middle-class Hamilton Heights section of Harlem, the black queer social world of the West Village, the Spanish-speaking borderland between Harlem and Washington Heights, and historic Tin Pan Alley—the collection uses magic realism, historical fiction, satire and more to highlight young black women's inner lives. The storylines range widely: a big-bodied teenage girl from Harlem discovers her sexuality in the midst of racial tensions at her Upper East Side school; four young women from Newark, New Jersey, are charged with assaulting the man who threatens to rape them; a pair of conjoined black female twins, born into slavery, make their fame as stage performers in the Big City. In each story, the characters push past what is expected of them, learning to celebrate their voices and their lives.
Blue Talk and Love's "voice, despite material that seems frankly contemporary, is paradoxically lyrical, nearly Faulknerian." - Rick Moody, American Short Fiction Short Story Contest judge
"Sullivan's prose shocks, intrigues, and transports us through fourteen artful and unique stories. And so do her rich and inimitable characters, most of them young black women struggling in a world they did not make but one they must confront, tear down, and remake. Black girls matter and Sullivan shows us just how much." - Cheryl Clarke, author of Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the author of the short story collection Blue Talk and Love. Born and raised in Harlem, New York, she has received the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the James Baldwin Memorial Playwriting Award, and honors and support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Yaddo colony, American Short Fiction, Glimmer Train, the Hedgebrook retreat, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Center for Fiction, where she completed the draft of her collection as a 2011 Emerging Writers fellow. Her writing has appeared in Callaloo, Best New Writing, American Fiction: Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Feminist Studies, Ebony.com, the Root.com, and The Feminist Wire, where she is Associate Editor for Arts & Culture. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, and is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where her research explores subversive poetics in women's literature of the African diaspora. She is currently completing a novel about food, fat, gender and class in contemporary American families.
Tiphanie Yanique's first novel, Land of Love and Drowning was published by Riverhead/Penguin in 2014. Land of Love and Drowning won the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnam First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction. Tiphanie is also the author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony, published by Graywolf Press in 2010 and the picture book I Am the Virgin Islands, published by Little Bell Caribbean in 2012. BookPage listed her as one of the 14 Women to watch out for in 2014. Tiphanie has won the 2011 BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Fiction, Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, and an Academy of American Poet's Prize. She has been listed by the Boston Globe as one of the sixteen cultural figures to watch out for and by the National Book Foundation as one of the 5 Under 35. Her writing has been published in Best African American Fiction, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, More Magazine, American Short Fiction and other places. Tiphanie Yanique is also the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship.


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The official news conduit for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, the WAR Herald, has gotten a nice facelift in anticipation of the upcoming launch.
Welcome to the new look of the WAR Herald and Warhammer Online. While not much has changed weve made the first steps towards getting the site ready for the future. We still have a lot of features planned that we look forward to sharing with you. This new format allows us to get you more news, faster. Thats always a good thing in our book!
Read all about it at the shiny, brand-new WAR Herald.
To read the latest guides, news, and features you can visit our Warhammer 40,000: Storm of Vengeance Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Game Page.


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Surf Hoodies & Sweaters
Arcteryx Cita Women's Hoodie (Beacon)$127.08 View
After a long day of surfing has taken its toll on your body, there is no better feeling than wrapping yourself up in a nice, warm sweater and relaxing on the sofa. Here at Freeze we like to look after you, both in the surf and off, which is why we have carefully selected a range of hoodies and sweaters which can help keep you cosy on those rest days!
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Here is something I expect to be under attack soon by BHO. H/T to TooMuchTime for turning me on to this after I regaled him with the story of my 13 year old son's social studies teacher using the Simpsons to explain the second amendment.
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Lin He is a molecular biologist whose research has made pivotal contributions to an active, new avenue of cell biology: the role of microRNAs in the development of cancer. Her graduate training focused on the relationship between pigmentation genes and behavior and neuropathology. She and her colleagues identified a mouse gene mutation, mahoganoid, that exhibits age-dependent neural degeneration similar to prion diseases (e.g., mad cow disease) but without the degradation-resistant misfolded proteins characteristic of prion diseases. As a postdoctoral researcher, she shifted focus in an entirely new direction, working on microRNAs. Unlike messenger RNA, microRNAs are not translated into proteins. Lin He and colleagues established that a specific family of microRNAs, mi-34, plays an important role in the p53 tumor suppressor network, which works by blocking tumor cells from replicating or inducing their suicide. These findings are supported by the observation that many human tumors have chromosomal deletions that include the region where mi-34 RNAs are located. In independent research as a recent assistant professor, Lin He is working both to elucidate further the precise mechanism that each mi-34 subtype plays in the p53 pathway and to investigate the role of a different microRNA, mir17-92, in the development of B cell lymphomas. In an area that has generated intense effort among many leading researchers, Lin He has established early in her career the capacity to make significant advances with direct implications for the development of future cancer treatment strategies.
Lin He received a B.S. (1997) from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and a Ph.D. (2003) from Stanford University. She was a postdoctoral fellow (2003-2007) at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory prior to becoming an assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008. Her scientific articles have appeared in such journals as Nature, Nature Genetics, and Science.


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Arts And Crafts
The art is the genesis of a creative mind. The creativity evolves if you create the unknown, undiscovered and uninvented things in your life. The unearthing of the unknown things is something that really keeps you ahead of the times. The limit of the present and the existing abilities will be surpassed in your life. You will have to gather some additional efforts to become creative. The spark of creativity is all that radiates far and wide. The extent of the creative creation is also unknown. There is only infinity to your capabilities of creation. You could not think of being creative by being in a confined state. It requires a freedom and fire from inside to become and come out as creative. The fierceness in creativity is something that is propelled to the fore with some hidden instincts. The more you try to explore the unexplored areas the more you will enter the wondrous world of wonderful fantasies. The wild dreams of the life are also a part of the creative emanation of the inherent abilities of a person. There has to have some kind of temptation to become and act like an artist. That temptation is the heart driven force or vibe which moves us to do undone and create the uncreated. The experimentation and its metamorphosis into a piece of art is evolution of an art. Art and crafts things can be purchased online.
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