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I have Steven on my blog before because he writes beautiful so I was more than happy to hear that he has another book out, The Rockin' Chair. I am sad I wasn't able to squeeze this one in for a review but I am excited that Steven could be here today to tell us a little about his new book.
Title: The Rockin' Chair
Author: Steven Manchester
Series: Stand Alone
Published: June 18, 2013
Genre: Contemporary
Book Description:
Memories are the ultimate contradiction. They can warm us on our coldest days or they can freeze a loved one out of our lives forever. The McCarthy family has a trove of warm memories. Of innocent first kisses. Of sumptuous family meals. Of wondrous lessons learned at the foot of a rocking chair. But they also have had their share of icy ones. Of words that can never be unsaid. Of choices that can never be unmade. Of actions that can never be undone.
Following the death of his beloved wife, John McCarthy Grandpa John calls his family back home. It is time for them to face the memories they have made, both warm and cold. Only then can they move beyond them and into the future.
A rich portrait of a family at a crossroad, THE ROCKIN' CHAIR is Steven Manchester's most heartfelt and emotionally engaging novel to date. If family matters to you, it is a story you must read.
About the Author:
Steven Manchester is the author of the The Rockin' Chair (to be released June 18th), as well as the #1 best seller, Twelve Months (2013 San Francisco Book Festival award winner). He is also the author of Goodnight, Brian, A Christmas Wish, Pressed Pennies, The Unexpected Storm: The Gulf War Legacy, Jacob Evans, and several books under the pseudonym, Steven Herberts. His work has appeared on NBC's Today Show, CBS's The Early Show, CNN's American Morning and BET's Nightly News. Recently, three of Steven's short stories were selected "101 Best" for Chicken Soup for the Soul series. When not spending time with his beautiful wife, Paula, or his four children, this Massachusetts author is promoting his works or writing.
Alice could feel the sun on her eyelids before she dared opening them. Beginning with a squint, she was blinded by the light that engulfed the room. Taking a second to adjust, she shook off the two quilts that restrained her, and then grabbed for her flowered housecoat at the foot of the massive bed. Throwing it on, she steadied her tiny feet into a pair of worn moccasins, all-the-while wondering, Why didn't Ma let me sleep in? It don't make no sense. It's Saturday…with no responsibilities to school or church. She felt tired, more exhausted than usual, but waking to a fire burning into her pupils was certainly not the way to start such a pretty day. Making the mental note, I'll have to talk to Ma about the rude awakening, she stumbled and had to brace herself at the doorway. Her mind had sent some message that her body could not interpret. Brushing it off as fatigue, she started again toward the kitchen, thinking, Maybe Ma will let me help with breakfast?
Grabbing the dented copper kettle off the stove, she turned to the sink and let the water flow like one of the fresh mountain springs that ran out in the backyard. She lit all four burners, placed the kettle back on the stove and began humming a childish tune. The last embers in the wood stove made her nostrils flare at the distinct scent of burnt oak. Smells like the remnants of a late night's chill, she thought, one of my chores to remove. But she couldn't recall bringing in the wood, or lighting a fire. Shrugging it off, she snugged down on the robe's cotton belt, folded her arms across her chest and continued to hum.
She wandered toward the kitchen window and, though she could not have fought it off, nor even detected it, her mind was suddenly exposed to a different reality. Like a child discovering a new world through ancient eyes, she peered out the window and her
jaw went slack.
A stranger was busy at work and the sight of him made Alice's mouth go dry. Her heart began to race and her breathing became shallow. Yet, though the man's presence absolutely terrified her, his every movement was hypnotizing. Trembling, she stood paralyzed and watched.
He was a large fellow, maybe six feet or better, with shoulders as broad as his smile. In his fists, he held cracked corn, scattering it in a pattern so that every chicken had its fair chance. He was an old-timer, his face wrinkled and weathered like his callused hands. In the middle of that chiseled face sat the biggest nose. Curiously—as if she'd thought it a million times before—she decided that it showed great character. For a cruel second, he turned toward the window, making her squirm with anxiety. She relaxed, though, when she was sure that his liquid blue eyes had not found her. He returned to working slow, his every move filled with purpose and kindness.
But that moment of peace only lasted one single sigh of relief. As if caught in an inescapable nightmare, she watched the man's three-legged dog limp straight to the window, glance up and tilt his head—cynically. Though she could not manage the words from her constricted throat, her eyes begged for the animal's silence. Please don't, she pleaded in her mind. Please…please…please… But it was not to be. The crippled mutt barked out his wailing alarm, calling his master's attention to her. In an instant, she felt her knees buckle, as the room spun slowly—in a cruel sort of way. She tried desperately to hold on, but the last thing she saw was a red cap and green overcoat rushing for the house.
"Oh God...no!" she screamed, but the stranger kept coming. He's comin' to get
me, she feared, and though her mind pleaded for her legs to flee, they would not budge. She collapsed to the cold linoleum floor and awaited the worse.
With no more than a stern look, Three Speed lay down on the porch, the storm door slamming in his silver-haired face. John raced through the parlor and could hear the teakettle screaming for help. Breaking the kitchen threshold, his worried eyes caught Alice lying near the bottom cupboard. Her frail body was rolled up in the fetal position and her thumb was stuck in her mouth. As if he were approaching a wounded bird, he slowly kneeled down beside her and held out his hand. She swayed back and forth, humming louder with each movement. For what seemed a lifetime, she avoided his stare. And then finally, courageously, she glanced into his eyes. For a moment, she looked as if she was going to accept his hand but, in the last glimmer of such a hope, she pulled back, retreating deeper into her tortured mind.
"It's me, darlin'," John whispered. "It's John…your husband."
"You do look some familiar," she mumbled. But still, her eyes betrayed her lack of trust.
Again, he whispered, "Come on, Alice. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You're just sick, ol' girl." He opened his hand even wider and watched as her horrified eyes gradually registered his words as truth.
Like an abandoned child who had lost all hope only to find that her parents had not meant to leave her behind, Alice raised her arms and began to weep mournfully. "I'm sorry…" she whimpered.
In one easy motion, John scooped his tiny wife into his arms and kissed her
frightened face. Turning off all four burners—the majority that did nothing but lick at air—he carried Alice like an infant to their bedroom. All the way, he could taste the salt of her tears on his tongue. It was a bitter taste and he hated it, yet he knew all-too-well that it was only a small taste of what was still to come.
On the way up the stairs, Alice sobbed, "I'm so stupid now…so dumb."
"You shoosh now," John whispered. "That just ain't true."
He placed her back into their four-poster bed and, conforming to their daily ritual, gave her the two white pills and a small glass of water to wash them down. He talked slow and gentle to her, trying to remove her fears and keep her mind in the present. "Time to rest, Alice," he whispered. "You just need to get some rest, is all."
For a moment, she smiled—as if she believed him. But in the next moment, her eyes filled with panic and she pushed herself toward the headboard, scrambling desperately to create a safe distance between them. "Don't you touch me, mister!" she screamed. "Don't you dare lay a finger on me!"
She's getting' worse, he thought, and began humming a lullaby.
"Mama! Mama…help me!" she screamed out, but as she called out in a panic for her mother the pills began to take effect. He stroked her hair until her mind eventually removed itself from the harsh reality of now and found a more pleasant place to dwell. When John was sure that Alice would need nothing more, he kissed her and returned the cap back onto his throbbing head.


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Whoopi Goldberg's reaction on first seeing Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, played by Nichelle Nichols. Apparently Nichols almost left the show because she had a Broadway offer, until a chance encounter with a fan changed her mind.
That fan was Martin Luther King Jr. Nichols recalls their conversation:
One of the organizers came up to me and said that there was someone who wants to meet you; and he says that he's you're best, biggest fan and I'm thinking it's a Trekkie! [laughs] and so I said certainly and I got up and turned around and maybe 10 or 15 feet coming towards me I see Dr. Martin Luther King and I remember thinking whoever that little fan is, he's going to have to wait, because here's Dr. King, who walks straight up to me with this big, magnificent smile on his face and says, "I'm the fan!" because I'm sort of looking around for someone else, and he says, "I am your best fan, I am your biggest fan!" and I… I was at a loss for words, and if you know me, I am never at a loss for words.
...and so I told him I would be leaving the show, because; and that was as far as he let me go, and he said, "STOP! You cannot! You cannot leave this show! Do you not understand what you are doing?! You are the first non-stereotypical role in television! Of intelligence, and of a woman and a woman of color?! That you are playing a role that is not about your color! That this role could be played by anyone? This is not a black role. This is not a female role! A blue eyed blond or a pointed ear green person could take this role!" And I am looking at him and looking at him and buzzing, and he said, "Nichelle, for the first time, not only our little children and people can look on and see themselves, but people who don't look like us, people who don't look like us, from all over the world, for the first time, the first time on television, they can see us, as we should be!
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My wrist was cuffed to the White House fence next to the wrist of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Our nation's chief climate scientist James Hanson stood next to me; Daryl Hannah sat in front of us. A few feet away, also cuffed to the fence, Julian Bond stood next to Bill McKibben and Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club. Altogether, 48 of us from all over America obeyed our consciences. The days of safety and silence have ended. The time of pretending is over. Humanity will be held accountable for our desecration of creation. It is happening already.
And it was Ash Wednesday. When I mounted the platform to address the rally that preceded our civil disobedience, many were unaware that Lent was beginning. In the context of climate disruption, anyone who cares about creation can embrace the significance of Ash Wednesday. It's a day of conscience, repentance, and conviction; a day when we take stock of our lives and our life together on the planet; a day when we confess our self-indulgent appetites, our intemperate love of worldly goods and comforts, and our obsession with consumption of every kind. For Christians, Ash Wednesday is a day to acknowledge that we are accountable to the God who gave us life and who entrusted the earth to our care.
Ash Wednesday is a good day to be arrested, I told the crowd. It's a good day to realign our lives with God's desire to preserve this good creation. I invited any who wanted to receive ashes as a sign of their repentance to approach me on their way to White House.
Dozens did, including those who would soon be arrested, supporters, camera technicians, and journalists. The mood was this striking mix of sober, joyous, serious, grateful conviction.
As we slowly approached the White House fence, President Obama's State of the Union address from the night before echoed in my mind:
"If Congress won't act soon to protect future generations, I will. I will direct my Cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy."
One such action to protect future generations – an action the President has the power to take – is to stop Keystone XL pipeline. For a moment, while I held the cold iron of the White House fence with my left hand, it seemed simple. Such an action by President Obama would give hope to the world, and would be regarded by future generations as a hinge on which history would swing towards hope.
We cheered the name of each person as they were cut from the fence, given a new set of plastic cuffs and escorted to the police transport vehicles. I greeted two of the police I met in August 2011 when 1,253 of us were arrested, and 63 of us spent three days in jail. We remembered our friendly conversation.
Hope became tangible for me during the two hours I spent jammed in the police transportation vehicle, hands cuffed behind me, shoulders aching, and wrists in pain. Hope emerged – as it so often does – from conversation. To my right was writer and now full-time activist Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. We had been arrested together in August 2011.
To my right sat Julian Bond, whose first civil disobedience action was in 1960 at a lunch counter in Georgia. Two hours is a long time.
Hope grew as I began to take in Julian's resolute courage and realized that it was less than 50 years between his first arrest and Obama's first election. Much has changed in that time. Julian reminded me that the single most important ingredient in social change is persistence. Hope grew.
Hope is what the church provided the Civil Rights movement in 1960. Hope is what the church can and must provide the climate movement today. Hope. Whatever energy churches are now giving to preserve their buildings or to maintain their institutions – that energy must be redirected so that the big challenge – the challenge in which all others are contained – the challenge of climate change can be confronted.
Only our hope will provide the courage and vision to redirect our energy. Ash Wednesday is only the beginning. A dark journey lies before us. The promise of resurrection hope illuminates the darkness. If we stop too soon, it doesn't end well – God is crucified yet again. Our hope and certainty is that neither darkness nor death is the end of the story. God has done God's part. Now it's up to us.
When I emerged from the confinement of the transport vehicle and stretched my legs, my soul was aglow from conversation laced with hope. I believe the church can underwrite the hope humanity needs to change our ways. I believe the climate movement has the resolute courage, persistence, and creativity to reframe this crisis so that our generation – and President Obama – will embrace the opportunity we now face.
The Rev. Dr. Jim Antal is Minister and President of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ, and former Executive Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He provides national leadership as a climate activist for the United Church of Christ.
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Researchers at Purdue University are working with the state of Indiana to develop a system that would use a network of cell phones to detect and track radiation to help prevent terrorist attacks with radiological "dirty bombs" and nuclear weapons.
Such a system could blanket the nation with millions of cell phones equipped with radiation sensors able to detect even light residues of radioactive material. Because cell phones already contain global positioning locators, the network of phones would serve as a tracking system, said physics professor Ephraim Fischbach. Fischbach is working with Jere Jenkins, director of Purdue's radiation laboratories within the School of Nuclear Engineering.
"It's the ubiquitous nature of cell phones and other portable electronic devices that give this system its power," Fischbach said. "It's meant to be small, cheap and eventually built into laptops, personal digital assistants and cell phones."
The system was developed by Andrew Longman, a consulting instrumentation scientist. Longman developed the software for the system and then worked with Purdue researchers to integrate the software with radiation detectors and cell phones. Cellular data air time was provided by AT&T.
The research has been funded by the Indiana Department of Transportation through the Joint Transportation Research Program and School of Civil Engineering at Purdue.
"The likely targets of a potential terrorist attack would be big cities with concentrated populations, and a system like this would make it very difficult for someone to go undetected with a radiological dirty bomb in such an area," said Longman, who also is Purdue alumnus. "The more people are walking around with cell phones and PDAs, the easier it would be to detect and catch the perpetrator. We are asking the public to push for this."
Tiny solid-state radiation sensors are commercially available. The detection system would require additional circuitry and would not add significant bulk to portable electronic products, Fischbach said.
The technology is unlike any other system, particularly because the software can work with a variety of sensor types, he said.
"Cell phones today also function as Internet computers that can report their locations and data to their towers in real time," Fischbach said. "So this system would use the same process to send an extra signal to a home station. The software can uncover information from this data and evaluate the levels of radiation."
The researchers tested the system in November, demonstrating that it is capable of detecting a weak radiation source 15 feet from the sensors.
"We set up a test source on campus, and people randomly walked around carrying these detectors," Jenkins said. "The test was extremely safe because we used a very weak, sealed radiation source, and we went through all of the necessary approval processes required for radiological safety. This was a source much weaker than you would see with a radiological dirty bomb."
Officials from the Indiana Department of Transportation participated in the test.
"The threat from a radiological dirty bomb is significant, especially in metropolitan areas that have dense populations," said Barry Partridge, director of INDOT's Division of Research and Development.
Long before the sensors would detect significant radiation, the system would send data to a receiving center.
"The sensors don't really perform the detection task individually," Fischbach said. "The collective action of the sensors, combined with the software analysis, detects the source. The system would transmit signals to a data center, and the data center would transmit information to authorities without alerting the person carrying the phone. Say a car is transporting radioactive material for a bomb, and that car is driving down Meridian Street in Indianapolis or Fifth Avenue in New York. As the car passes people, their cell phones individually would send signals to a command center, allowing authorities to track the source."
The signal grows weaker with increasing distance from the source, and the software is able to use the data from many cell phones to pinpoint the location of the radiation source.
"So the system would know that you were getting closer or farther from something hot," Jenkins said. "If I had handled radioactive material and you were sitting near me at a restaurant, this system would be sensitive enough to detect the residue. "
The Purdue Research Foundation owns patents associated with the technology licensed through the Office of Technology Commercialization.
In addition to detecting radiological dirty bombs designed to scatter hazardous radioactive materials over an area, the system also could be used to detect nuclear weapons, which create a nuclear chain reaction that causes a powerful explosion. The system also could be used to detect spills of radioactive materials.
"It's impossible to completely shield a weapon's radioactive material without making the device too heavy to transport," Jenkins said.
The system could be trained to ignore known radiation sources, such as hospitals, and radiation from certain common items, such as bananas, which contain a radioactive isotope of potassium.
"The radiological dirty bomb or a suitcase nuclear weapon is going to give off higher levels of radiation than those background sources," Fischbach said. "The system would be sensitive enough to detect these tiny levels of radiation, but it would be smart enough to discern which sources posed potential threats and which are harmless."
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Your emotional venting thread. I'll explain.
So, this is how it works. For the title of your post, put an emotion, like ANGER, JOY, EXCITEMENT, FEAR. Then write how you feel.
Vent vent vent!
Destructive :/
I'm mean to everyone. Not that I insult them, but I'm just so... silent... that it's offending. People thinkit's personal and feel like I dno't want to talk to them specifically. D:
Plus this guy that I liked asked me out, and I said no all mean annoyed like even though I really wanted to go with him. :eek:
This si a really good idea for a thread, though.
I don't know why I'm so jealous of my sister. It's just that she's so awesome to everyone. She's two years younger than me, but she looks and acts pretty maturely. While I get annoyed easily, she's kind and sweet and loves children. She also does not very well in her studies, but is pretty and athletic. I'm just the quiet, sullen, evil older sister who is an excellent scholar and can play the piano and doesn't like flowers in particular. What's with me?
I don't know how to change how I feel, so I guess I can't really help you either. :/
I don't know... my sister has this knack for being glamorous. I'm the person in the background. I like being dramatic and I want to be a musician and a singer and an actress, but I'm not glamorous exactly... my mood changes, too, but I'm never exactly the same level of glamorous that my sis is.
That's it.
Sad, Angry, Jealous
My mom told me just an hour ago that we're having a christmas carol singalong at our house tomorrow morning. She gave me a list of songs to play, but I didn't even have a piano book of christmas carols! So then she bought a book of them, and they didn't have them on my level, and I can't learn ten carols four books above my level in just a few hours. Now I don't know what to do because everyone in my family but me will be playing and everyone knows I play the best in the family, and I'm so sad that I can't, and angry that I was never told and that I will have to be sitting in my room while my whole family plays, and jealous that everyone will clap for my sister and my brother and my parents while I sit in the corner. :(:mad::(:mad:
AA, I'm so sorry! I don't know what to say. Just... explain to your mom, maybe?
So... yeah...
First Kiwara, then Rosie and Rachel and Stara! And has anyone seen Bingo or Eric around? What about DeEcrivan?
I'm leaving in 6 months maybe. You're lucky if I stay that long.
We can fix KP. We can turn it around again.
That's what they said... oh let's see.. 7 months ago?
Maybe we could try for at least part of it……
/laughs bitterly/ it's already dead. There's no fixing this place.
There's still some stuff left… WB, some people on the main site… :/
I guess you're right.
KM is untouched though. Pretty much. That's the only part that's not destroyed.
I'm soo sad right now I have this big musical theater performance thursday and I need the costumes by monday anyways I was painting them with that fabric paint and it was a huge mess but finally I got it under control and my mom stacked them while they were still wet and ruined them but she doesn't want to buy new t-shirts to paint even though on has a big black glob that won't come out.. She's being so stubborn and annoying and it's a huge wreck and I started crying cause I don't want to wear the t-shirt cause it looks really bad and she doesn't even care she's just sitting on the computer looking at more fish to buy.. WE DON"T NEED ANYMORE F****** FISH!! She always does this, the fish always matter more than I do, I want to show her the dance for this musical theater show and I have to stop cause I'm SCARING the stupid fish.. I can only practice at school or in my room where i can't do the cartwheels cause that's the only room that doesn't have a retarding fish tank..
Eek... that sounds a bit sad... :(:(:(
again om kimdle so grammar bad
anyway i lost the penvil pouvh and library booklif i cant find it on the bus i cat just say he u know that boolk i checked out a ay ago well i already lost it sorry heres money
Great another problem to add to this Musical theater disaster.. My teacher decided since my partner doesn't have the song and dance down we have to sit on chairs and sing an upbeat song I worked soooo hard practicing the song and dance where she blew it off, now it's my fault.. Plus the t-shirts aren't bleaching out
The T-shirts Aren't Bleaching Out?
Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh.
Life is hard. Through ups and downs and twists and turns and... and... UGH. I don't feel like explaining... but I am... so... STRESSED.
Everyone's so sad...
Last night was an orchestra concert. Everyone did great in the actual orchestra. The for the 2nd concert was extra curriculurs and we messed up a little and my mom got realy mad. I'm in 6th grade and she's like, "Well, that guy in front of you knew what he was doing!". That guy was in 8th grade Select Strings. That's like 5 years ahead of me. And she goes, "What?!
"Do you KNOW how advanced SS is?"
"Do you know MATH ?"
"Noami started playing when she was 3 and she got in, so how good do expect me to be?!"
I know it doesn't seem like much, but Naomi has everythnig. A bunch of friends, she's good at everything and the best viola player in the school. And I hate being compared to her.
I'm sending this email to my so-called best friend.
You can forget about our plans to go to the library as many times as you want. You can ditch me as many times as you want. You can decide Kristiana's more fun and go to her house every day of the week if you want. You can stand by and do nothing when she treats you or me like crap. Laugh it off. Or even agree. You can hug me and act like it's okay again. You can live with the fact that you're best friend is the girl who sent a message as me to you, about how much she hates you.
Oh, that's right, you already do.
Talk to me when you're feeling like a friend, M****.
(****=Her name...)
So, I am kind of doubting that my mom even cares about me anymore. I think that she likes my little sister better. In fact, one time Elizabeth (my little sis) said that Mom said, "I wish you were the older sister instead of Stephanie." Also, today, she said, "If you weren't my daughter, I wouldn't even talk to you."
I mean, what kind of mom says that???
Ugh. I just always get so mad at her.
And, she always yells at me and hits me.... :(
Ouch... that sucks. It's okay, she'll probably get over it when she gets over the stress in her life.
Although I personally agree that my little sister would make a better older sister... she is better with little kids. :p
HAHA oh god, this is the time in the day, every couple days or so, when I laugh at everything. EVERYTHING. That gif, the crush thread, people suffering, sad songs, sad YouTube videos (I'm laughing insanely at this one, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=RNlDYyRRanw), sadness, all the bad feelings that anyone and I have ever had... it's all so funny... my gut is hurting from laughing so much at what would happen if I put some horrifying cryptic message somewhere for someone to find, their expression...
Oooh, my stomach... it hurts... hahehehehe... I'm trying to bite my tongue to stop laughing...
Spelling bees are stupid. First, I only get to go trick or treating for an hour because the spelling bee is a day after. Then I can't even write because I' supposed to study. And now the whole school is counting on me to win the state. They all say that its a gift. Maybe it is a gift, but it is also a burden. And jeez, I'm only eleven. Leave my child hood alone. Maybe I'm greedy, but why does it have to be me? Like, go away and bother someone else please. I never wanted it. I just want to be normal. Isn't it already bad enough that I'm considered weird? If I don't win the national bee, I'm gonna be so angry that I missed Halloween and wasted useful time. I probably won't even win, and if I do, the trophy can be crushed by a hammer. Me winning the spelling bee isn't going to help me other than school. I know school is important, and it could be my future, but I'M STILL ELEVEN. PLEASE. I WANT MY CHILDHOOD, MY WRITING TIME, AND MY CANDEH. And I absolutely hate being filmed. I look all emo and depressed in pictures.
I'd happily pass on this chance, if my parents would let me.
Frightened and sad
The scary thing is that I don't feel like I have any emotion right now, that's what's making me frightened and sad. Listening to scary music and looking at gory pictures isn't helping...
@Lily09: I know how you feel. o_o I can't deal with the pressure, I expect way too much of myself, so I purposely strike out and go for third in every schoolwide spelling bee I go to. o_o
Emotion: Awwww crapppppp
I'm getting the feeling I shouldn't have had coffee today. This doesn't always happen, but about every month, when I have a cup of coffee, I break out into crazy twitching and almost-seizuring movements... I don't know if it's a reaction to the caffeine, but it certainly doesn't happen EVERY time, so I don't even know. My upper arms are twitching and I'm getting this weird feeling in my legs and diaphragm, just like I did last time when I broke out into this huge seizure thing and had to run to my bed as fast as I could and just flipped out there for like twenty minutes until my mom came in and I had to get a better grip on my movements...
I just realized that I'm spamming up this thread... >_> Sorry...
Dissapointment in Myself
When I get home, I have to take off all of my beads.
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I'm not actually sure what the GIF is about. :P
Fear. Also a bit of deranged optimism.
I'm scared of what's going to happen after I leave KidPub. Everyone has lives to move onto, but I don't. My family seems to think everything is just fine. And I'm stuck, stressed out by everything. I'm afraid of the future and change. I'm terrified of the world. I'm terrified of life in general.
The optimism is in some dark and distant corner, shrieking, "YEAH WOOT LET'S CHARGE AND HEADBUTT SLASH TACKLE LIFE YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!1!!!!!" or something like that.
Whyyyyyyy my optimism always insane. ;_;
Because if you do, I'm pretty sure that at least ten people will also leave.
Anyway... try literally hugging trees. And growing flowers. And doing ballet randomly on the lawn. And climbing trees. And wearing polka dot shirts and shorts. That adds activity to life. xD
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The morning of March 12, 2010, I roused myself from a deep slumber a little before 8:20 a.m. Wiping the sleep from my eyes, I walked to my Mac Pro and began to refresh the Apple store over and over again. Yes, like many other Mac writers and Mac fans, I awoke to pre-order an iPad so I would be certain to have one on April 3.
In my weary and blurry state I saw two delivery options: normal shipping or expedited shipping for a mere $12. Given the fact that I set an alarm to awake up so I could pre-order a device sight unseen (and untouched), it seemed ridiculous not to splurge on faster shipping, so I ponied up the extra 12 bucks.
As the haze of my conspicuous consumption wore off I realized something: Apple promised an April 3 delivery date for the iPad, no matter which method of shipping one opted for. Clearly, I had just wasted $12. I figured it was just a tax brought on by my own stupidity and vowed to never mention this dark episode to anyone (such was my shame, dear reader).
My morning-addled mind aside, it seems odd that such a mistake could even be made. Apple goofed by giving people an option for expedited shipping option for a product slated to arrive on a certain date.
That being said, I thought nothing more of it. However, it looks like I wasn't the only person who made this mistake. The following email from Apple was waiting for me this afternoon ( others received it as well):
To Our Valued Apple Customer:
Thank you for your recent Apple iPad purchase.
Our records indicate that when you placed your iPad pre-order, you chose to pay for expedited shipping.
Expedited shipping is not necessary to ensure delivery. Apple has processed a refund for the shipping charge on your order. Please contact your card-issuing bank for information on when the credit will be posted to your account.
Your iPad will deliver on April 3rd in the areas where UPS offers Saturday delivery.
You can view the most up-to-date status of your order at .
Sincerely, The Apple Store Team
Good on Apple for making this situation right. Sure, I wasn't upset to begin with, but now I'm both impressed and happy (a happy customer is a repeat customer).
Thanks, Apple Store Team! And seeing as how this $12 is now "found money," I'm going to use it to support iPad development by spending it on some fancy new iPad apps (that is, once I actually receive my iPad).


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Boss of the Sauce Flashback – 2013 Chef Mike ABG [VIDEO]
April 21, 2014 at Jenkinson's in Point Pleasant Beach from 6 to 9 p.m.
We need you once again to decide which area restaurant will be crowned "Boss of the Sauce."
If you have never been to Boss of the Sauce, you're missing out. It's simple…Join us at Jenkinson's on April 21st. There will be more than 20 restaurants on hand for you to sample their food and, most importantly, weigh in on their red-based tomato sauce.
Last year, Chef Mike's ABG won Judges Choice, and Nino's Coal Fired Pizza was the big winner in the People's Choice category.
Who will win this year?? We will find out April 21st.
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choreography, the art of creating and arranging dances. The word derives from the Greek for "dance" and for "write." In the 17th and 18th centuries, it did indeed mean the written record of dances. In the 19th and 20th centuries, however, the meaning shifted, inaccurately but universally, while the written record came to be known as dance notation.
A brief treatment of choreography follows. For full treatment, see dance: Choreography; dance, Western.
The composition of dance is creative in the same way in which the composition of music is. The notation of dance, however, is a work of analysis and reporting, performed generally by people other than the choreographer, in language or signs that may well not be understood by the creator.
During the Renaissance, dance masters in Italy, such as Domenico da Piacenza, taught social dances at court and probably began to invent new ones or arrange variants of known dances, thus combining a creative function with their educational ones. Staged ballet employed the same steps and movements as social dance and differed from it principally in floor arrangement and visual projection.
In the 16th century, dance masters at the French court so organized the floor patterns and theatrical and artistic contexts of their social dances as to initiate a choreographic form, the ballet de cour. In the two centuries that followed, the gap between social dance and theatrical dance widened until ballet in the 19th century achieved a basically independent vocabulary.
The ballet master of this era, the choreographer, was an arranger of dance as a theatrical art. The giant of late 18th-century choreographic art was Jean-Georges Noverre, whose work and writings made the dramatic ballet, or ballet d'action, celebrated. In this, ballet incorporated mime as well as academic dances, giving expression to the dance by narrative and histrionic context. After Noverre and his contemporary Gasparo Angiolini, others developed this trend in various ways—especially Jean Dauberval in the realistic depiction of contemporary country folk, Charles Didelot in moving toward Romantic stage illusion and fantasy, and Salvatore Viganò in the dramatic use of the ensemble (choreodramma) and naturalness of tragic gesture.
The choreographers of the Romantic movement employed ballet, as codified by such masters as Carlo Blasis, chiefly in the ballet d'action theatrical forms of Noverre's day or in opera divertissements (balletic interludes). The ballerina, her role heightened by the newly invented pointework (position of balance on extreme tip of toe), and the female corps de ballet both acquired new prominence. The choreographers who best developed the art of theatrical dance narrative were August Bournonville in Copenhagen; Jules Perrot, particularly in London and St. Petersburg; and Marius Petipa, who in St. Petersburg brought the spectacular classical ballet d'action to its peak in such works as The Sleeping Beauty, in which extended and complex suites of classical dance brought poetic and metaphorical expression to the plot.
Early modern dance in the United States introduced new elements of movement and expression; and in ballet the work of Michel Fokine emphasized more naturalistic styles and a more potent theatrical image than had Petipa's ballet classicism. Since then, choreographic forms have varied between the poles of representation and abstraction.
Dance notation in the 20th century came to be concerned with basic movement as well as formal dance and was assisted by the invention of new systems of abstract symbols—those of Rudolf von Laban and Rudolf Benesh being the most influential. Labanotation was the first to indicate duration, fluency, or intensity of movement. Today, these systems and others continue to evolve rapidly, amplified by film and videotape.
Choreography evolved no less rapidly. Methods of composition vary radically—some choreographers using their dancers' improvisations as raw material, others devising every movement prior to rehearsal. Merce Cunningham radically changed the context for choreography in his attitude to music and decor as coincidental (rather than collaborative or supportive) to dance, in his employment of chance methods in dance composition and organization, and in his use of nontheatrical performance space. He, George Balanchine, and Sir Frederick Ashton became the leading exponents of classical or abstract dance; but the latter two—like Martha Graham, Leonide Massine, Jerome Robbins, and others—also produced major representational works of choreography. The only absolute rules in choreography today are that it should impose order upon dance beyond the level of pure improvisation and that it should shape dance in the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time, as well as according to the potential of the human body.


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Why People Choose the Bakersfield Home & Garden Show
You will meet the professionals you can trust, many have been part of our Home Shows for over 35 years, some have been with us since day one… that's real reliability. In today's fast pace complex world, we have all come to rely on many sources of information. We are bombarded by the web, radio, TV, print, direct mail, and tons of social media. How do we find just the right home product, service, designer, or contractor?
At our show you are in charge. You get to choose which exhibitors to "interview" and then compare their business offerings face-to-face on your terms. We take away the "fear" of the hardsell stranger invading your home after that 1-800 appointment you made, or that list recommendation web site you clicked on. You will be able to evaluate your potential source on your terms. If the "fit" is not there, you move on to find just the right professional somewhere else at the show.
Thousands of attendees have even made our Home Shows an annual experience. They get to know many of our hundreds of exhibitors and even become casual friends with some. Then when ready to proceed on a project, they have greater confidence, which can ultimately save time and money.
By California State Law, all of our exhibitors, requiring licenses, are checked for good standing with the state licensing board. This gives you another measure of confidence.
The History Of Bakersfield Home Shows
We're celebrating over a quarter century of providing the best home improvement experience. We search out new and better ways to enhance and enjoy our homes in many ways. Traditionally, newspapers, magazines, television, radio and now the internet have been used by all of us. But there are two other ways to research how you can make your house into that really special home. One is word of mouth but that doesn't always lead to happiness. Second, there is the personal hands on, one on one experience that can only be experienced at the Home Show. It is the one event that brings together the homeowner and top local and regional, professional home improvement experts in a non-threatening, fun and satisfying environment. The Bakersfield Home & Garden Show has been the marketplace for every project and home improvement needs for a quarter of a century. Whether you need a new roof, kitchen / bath remodel, expert landscape design, help with DIY projects, or even a new RV, this show has it all. The companion Fall Home Show completes the package with a slightly different seasonal mix of exhibitors.
The two shows are perfectly timed six months apart to fill every wish for Spring/Summer and every need for Fall/Winter projects. G&G Productions, Inc. also produces The Sonoma County Home & Garden Show and The Sonoma County Fall Home Show. Both shows are held in the heart of California's picturesque wine country at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa while the Bakersfield shows are held at the Kern County Fairgrounds in Bakersfield CA. G&G Productions, Inc. presents these events in two dynamic regions of California. We are a small company that has enjoyed working with many of our exhibitors for over two decades. Our relationship with the facilities management and staff is summed up in one word…GREAT.
We have had many successful co-sponsors over the years and currently enjoy great partnerships with local iconic retailers. We have a strong relationship with local media and have worked with some of them personally for over decades. Plus, we are proud to say the Guy Fieri of TV/radio and Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives fame got his start presenting cooking seminars to our attendees after he opened his first Johnny Garlic's location just down the street. Our successes over the years have only been possible by working with the best professionals in the home improvement industry and inviting tens of thousands of great folks from local counties to our shows. Whether you wish to market a product or service along side hundreds of our successful exhibitors or join thousands of your fellow California homeowners looking to make their house a very special home, and have a lot of fun at the same time, join us at one of our shows.


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The payoff with these fries? A great source of potassium and beta-carotene.
1 lg yam and 1 lg russet baking potato (1 1/2 lb total), peeled and sliced into thin strips
Water for either rinsing, or misting potatoes
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp sea salt
Preheat the oven to 450°F. Combine the potatoes, misted with water, chili powder, garlic powder, and cumin in a bowl, and toss well. Arrange the potatoes in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake for 25 minutes. Halfway through, turn the fries over, and continue baking. After removing them from the oven, sprinkle them with the salt. Serve immediately.
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By: Patrick Thibodeau
The composition of Infosys' U.S. workforce is too lopsided — overwhelmingly South Asian — to be an accident, allege the plaintiffs in a discrimination lawsuit.
The plaintiffs, four IT workers from around the U.S., brought their discrimination lawsuit against the India-based IT services giant in 2013. This week, they filed a motion seeking class-action certification from 2009, and say the potential pool of plaintiffs may be as large as 125,000.
In bringing this motion, the plaintiffs also worked to cement their claims with expert help.
David Neumark, a professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine, analyzed Infosys' U.S. workforce for the plaintiffs and wrote a 76-page report filed this week in federal court in Wisconsin, where the case is being heard.
Neumark, an expert witness, described Infosys' workforce as "remarkably disproportionate" because of its South Asian hiring.
The lawsuit alleges that the India-based firm was engaged in "ongoing national origin and race discrimination," and claimed, at the time the lawsuit was filed, that the Infosys U.S. workforce was roughly 90% South Asian.
One plaintiff was hired by Infosys to work on a $49.5 million Affordable Care Act, government-funded development project for the District of Columbia. There were about 100 Infosys employees working on the healthcare project, but only three were American, the lawsuit claimed. The plaintiff alleged harassment, and was denied promotion, the complaint said.
Neumark brought a statistical analysis to the discrimination claim. Specifically, the economist wrote, "from 2009 through 2015, 89.39% of Infosys' United States workforce was South Asian while only 11.45% of the United States' Computer Systems Design and Related Services industry was South Asian.
Neumark wrote that "the share of South Asian workers in Infosys' United States-based workforce, when compared to the relevant labor market, is 301.17 standard deviations higher, and the statistical likelihood that this disparity is due to chance — as opposed to a systematic difference in hiring favoring one group over the other — is less than 0.0000001%, or less than 1 in 1 billion."
Infosys is one the largest users of H-1B visa workers. Infosys employs about 20,000 in the U.S, according to court records.
When asked for comment, Infosys said as a general policy it doesn't comment on pending litigation.
The motion for class certification covers all individuals who are not of South Asian race or Indian national origin, who sought a position with Infosys in the United States and who were not hired from August 1, 2009 through the date of class certification. It also covers those who were denied promotions or terminated.
Plaintiff attorney Michael von Klemperer, with law firm Kotchen & Low in Washington, said: "We believe strongly in the merits of the case, including the merits of the class-certification motion, and we look forward to the court's ruling and we look forward to trying the case."
It's expected that Infosys will file a response to the motion. A ruling by a judge on the class-certification motion isn't expected until next year.
The lawsuit last year survived an effort by Infosys to dismiss it.
In the ruling to allow the case to proceed, U.S. District Court Judge Pamela Pepper wrote, in part, "that the plaintiffs' allegations are sufficient to state claims that the defendants intentionally discriminated against them because of the plaintiff's' race, and the complaint is clear that the plaintiffs regard their race as distinct from the 'South Asian race' that the defendants allegedly favor."
There were some 50 exhibits filed in this case, including one from a former Infosys recruiter who said, in a declaration, that in conference calls "many of the highly qualified American candidates we presented were being rejected in favor of Indian candidates."
This story, "Infosys' U.S. workforce is mostly South Asian and no accident, plaintiffs allege" was originally published by Computerworld.


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GASB Final Pronouncements Are Now Available as Free DownloadsNorwalk, CT, June 1, 2012—Effective immediately, final Statements and certain other pronouncements issued by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) are available for downloading at no cost on the GASB website (www.gasb.org), the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) announced today. Documents available will include GASB Statements, Concept Statements, Interpretations, and Technical Bulletins. These documents will be posted as PDF files in their originally issued form and therefore the documents have not been modified for any subsequent amendments.
"Making these GASB documents available to the public on our website at no cost is a step forward in our effort to promote a better understanding of generally accepted accounting principles for state and local government financial reporting among a wide variety of constituents," said GASB Chairman Robert H. Attmore.
The FAF action follows the establishment of an accounting support fee to fund the annual budget of the GASB pursuant to rulemaking under Section 978 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. In the months ahead, the FAF will consider whether other GASB materials should be available online at no cost.
The GASB will continue its fee-based offerings for The GASB Subscription service, the Governmental Accounting Research System (GARS) on CD-ROM, annual bound editions of GASB Original Pronouncements and GASB Codification, and hard copies of individual GASB final pronouncements, which can be ordered online at the GASB Store.
About the Financial Accounting Foundation
The FAF is responsible for the oversight, administration, and finances of both the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and its counterpart for state and local government, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). The Foundation is also responsible for selecting the members of both Boards and their respective Advisory Councils.
About the Governmental Accounting Standards Board
The GASB is the independent, not-for-profit organization formed in 1984 that establishes and improves financial accounting and reporting standards for state and local governments. Its seven members are drawn from the Board's diverse constituency, including preparers and auditors of government financial statements, users of those statements, and members of the academic community. More information about the GASB can be found at its website, www.gasb.org.


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The reason the APA (American Psychiatric Association) and the NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) fail at mental health is that they try to treat two different sciences as the same science. That is, they try to treat brain science and mind science as the same thing.
Brain science and mind science are not the same thing.
Brain science deals with the health of the brain. Mind science deals with the wholeness of the mind.
Now, health and wholeness are two different things.
Wholeness is not health.
Wholeness is the completeness of the complex (a set of interacting things) of abilities of the human mind.
To be mentally ill is actually, to one degree or another, to be mentally disabled. Mental illness (mental disability) requires rehabilitation ([mental] retraining), not recovery ([physiological] rebuilding).
The main idea of wholeness is:
Complete ability.
The main idea of mental health, which is a poorly chosen term for what we are really dealing with and which should be called mental wholeness is:
Complete ability of the mind.
Now, what the stupid, moronic APA and NIMH are trying to do is to give people mental ability through drugs . What utter nonsense!


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With an exceptionally wide range of enchanting colors, from jewel tones, to bright children's colors, and even classic shades for men, one glimpse of this mystical new yarn will leave you spellbound. The ideal weight for crocheters, just one ball will allow you to conjure a scarf, small shawl, or even a sorcerer's cap! Actual color may vary from uploaded image due to lighting and/or screen color calibration.
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Eastern Washington Management Plan
Welcome to the website for development of the Eastern Washington Resource Management Plan (RMP). We hope this website will help you stay up-to-date on the planning process and provide information about how you can be involved in the process. We appreciate your participation and look forward to continuing our work together.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Spokane District will be preparing an RMP and associated Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for 425,000 acres of public lands in Eastern Washington. The map on the right shows the boundaries of the planning area. Click on the map to view a larger detailed map.
The public scoping period for this planning process began April 30 and ran through July 12, 2010. During this period the BLM held six open house meetings, at various locations throughout the planning area, and received 134 comment letters and emails. The comment analysis process and results from scoping are discussed in the Scoping Report, recently added to the documents section of this website.
In addition, the BLM recently completed an analysis of the management situation (AMS) which describes the current status of lands, resources, uses, and management direction for the planning area. The AMS is also available in the documents section.
The Spokane District is currently developing and analyzing alternatives for the RMP/EIS.


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In 1788, the slave ship Africa set sail from the Gambia River, headed for American shores with its hold laden with hundreds bound in chains. Eight months later, a handful of survivors found themselves for sale in Natchez, Mississippi. One of them, 26-year-old Abdul Rahman Ibrahima, a highly educated African prince, and heir to a kingdom made an astonishing claim to Thomas Foster, the plantation owner who purchased him at auction, that the bedraggled Abdul Rahman's father would pay gold for his return. Foster dismissed the claim as a lie.
Prince Among Slaves tells the story of Abdul Rahman, trilingual, a military general and heir to a West African nation the size of Great Britain, who did not return to Africa for 40 years. In that time, he toiled on Foster's plantation. He married a fellow slave, Isabella, and they had nine children. Gradually, he also became the most famous African in America, attracting the support of President John Quincy Adams and Secretary of State Henry Clay. Abdul Rahman returned to Africa at the age 67, only to fall ill and die just as word of his return reached his former kingdom. Throughout a life of Shakespearean dimensions, Abdul Rahman maintained his dignity and hope for the freedom of his people.
The extensive credits of Executive Producers Alex Kronemer and Michael Wolfe span over 10 years of film making and include: Enemy of the Reich; Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World; Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think; Allah Made Me Funny; On a Wing and A Prayer: An American Muslim Learns to Fly; Talking Through Walls; Prince Among Slaves; Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain; and Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet.


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OCEAN CITY – Ocean City police this week made two arrests in connection with a rash of burglaries in the resort, using the Internet and other cyber-savvy techniques to catch the perpetrators, who were setting up the thefts through their computers.
In early April, OCPD detectives were investigating multiple burglaries that had been carried out in the resort area since early January and began to notice several of the cases had similar characteristics and that in most of the cases, flat-screen televisions had been the target. During the investigation, detectives learned a common thread in the cases was that almost all of the properties burglarized were rental units listed on a real estate web page that provided a "virtual tour" of the property.
OCPD detectives began to believe whoever was responsible for the burglaries might be trying to sell the stolen items on the Internet. The detectives then conducted several Internet searches for similar items on popular sites such as craigslist.com, for example. As a result, resort detectives were able to obtain exact matches for the stolen items being offered for sale by individuals in the Baltimore County area.
OCPD detectives were able to track the craigslist.com sale postings by using the seller's email address and were able to track the seller's email address through myspace.com. Throughout the investigation, OCPD detectives exchanged emails with the suspects by acting as potential buyers for the stolen goods until they were able to positively identify the suspects as Nathan Christopher Scheufele, 22, and Allen Dale Garman, 34, both of Dundalk in Baltimore County.
Detectives this week traveled to Baltimore County to interview the suspects. During the interviews, police obtained confessions from Scheufele and Garman and also learned how the two carried out their scheme. According to police, Scheufele and Garman used the Internet to search for Ocean City area rental properties that had virtual tours available on the real estate web sites. Then, posing as prospective seasonal renters, the two would schedule an appointment to see the rental property. If the property contained the high-end items and was deemed an "easy target," Scheufele and Garman would return later to the unoccupied units.
Detectives charged Scheufele and Garman for six separate burglaries and thefts totaling over $7,000.


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Studios Allegedly Pull All Whitney Houston Titles from Netflix to 'Make More Money off the DVD Sales' (Updated)
Want to watch The Bodyguard? No worries; it's one of Netflix's streaming titles. Or it was — until the studios removed it, and all of Whitney Houston's movies, from the streaming video site after the singer's death, allegedly to goose DVD sales. (Update: This appears to be wrong.)
Update: McDermott writes that while he quoted the Netflix rep correctly, the rep was wrong.
Google Plus Week host Dan McDermott noticed that The Bodyguard had been pulled from Netflix streaming right after Houston's death (as testified by several angry and disappointed "reviews").
So I called Netflx and the rep confirmed what I suspected:
Netflix rep: "Okay Dan, I just went and talked to my main supervisor as to why the movie had been pulled and the reason it was pulled was the production company pulled the streaming rights from us because all the publicity after Whitney Houston's passing there was an opportunity to make really a very large amount of money on the DVD sales of her movies. So they're going to pull all the streaming titles we have of Whitney Houston so they can make more money off the DVD sales of her movies."
Well — it makes business sense, I suppose. (Sony did something similar last weekend, raising the prices of her records.)


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The History of WILL
Some highlights:
- Our AM station signed on only two years after the first commercial station in the country hit the air
- Our FM station was only the second FM station on the air in Illinois; its license was the first issued to a university station
- In 2012, Illinois Public Media celebrated its 90th anniversary.
- The University of Illinois played a pivotal role in the development of public broadcasting in the United States
- 1920
- First U.S. radio license issued to Westinghouse. KDKA signs on in Pittsburgh on Nov. 2, 1920. Westinghouse operated the station to stimulate the sale of receivers built by the company
- 1922
- WILL-AM, then known as WRM, signs on, broadcasting from the U of I Electrical Engineering Laboratory. The call letters stand for "We Reach Millions." WRM possessed the only two vacuum tubes on campus -- tubes so fragile they had to be cooled by blasts of an electric fan to avert disaster. They were so rare that they were borrowed during off-the-air hours for Professor Joseph Tykociner's pioneer work with sound film.
- 1926
- WRM moves to new brick building at the south end of Illinois Field, facing Wright Street, with a new 1,000-watt Western Electric transmitter and tower. The new building was constructed with funds given by Chicago businessman Boetius H. Sullivan in memory of his father. For the next 16 years, the station was known as the "Roger C. Sullivan Memorial Station." Josef Wright becomes the university's first director of broadcasting and director of public information.
- 1928
- WRM changes call letters to WILL.
- 1929
- WILL hires its first full-time employee, Frank Schooley. He worked for 43 years at WILL, from 1954 to 1973 as director of broadcasting. In the early years, Schooley had to have physical agility as well as radio know-how. To broadcast a classroom lecture, Schooley would set up the equipment, mount the platform to introduce the speaker, handle engineering chores from the studio, and then collect the gear when the lecture was over. The radio station is assigned the frequency of 890 kHz.
- 1935
- WILL-AM begins operating on current frequency of 580. Good music has always been a part of WILL's programming. Much of it was broadcast live. In 1937 the station even had its own chamber orchestra, the WILL Sinfonietta. Later, the development of high-quality tape and the long-playing records reduced the use of live music.
- 1938
- WILL-AM assumes regular night-time broadcasting.
- 1939
- First U.S. FM station begins broadcasting. A young U of I engineer named Jim Ebel personally guided the university into the FM broadcasting business. Ebel built an antenna in the attic of a campus auditorium so he could listen to the state's only FM station, owned by Zenith in Chicago. He became excited about FM's static-free reception. Armed with a basic circuit sketch from a trade magazine, Ebel and fellow WILL engineer Ed Hamilton build WILL-FM's first transmitter. Its 250 watts barely reached beyond Champaign-Urbana.
- 1941
- WILL-FM (then known as WIUC) signs on with first FM license to a university. In the early days, FM was so new that WILL-FM had an audience made up of the 15 to 20 people who had access to FM receivers. "The station used to have about six small FM receivers we would loan out upon request," said Jean West, transmitter engineer in the early days. "Sometimes we would go to people's homes and convince them to take a receiver. We wanted people to try us. I think it did a lot of good, because people did go out and buy their own receivers."
- 1942
- Both WILL radio stations move to "temporary" quarters in Gregory Hall (where they remained until June 1998.) WILL became known as "The University of the Air," which was literally true. Remote audio lines extended to every building on campus, allowing live broadcast from any classroom.
- 1946
- WILL begins broadcasting university athletic events.
- 1948
- With an increased emphasis on news and public affairs, WILL starts 24-hour use of the Associated Press wire service.
- 1949
- Wilbur Schramm convinces the Rockefeller Foundation to underwrite an ambitious two-week seminar at the university's Allerton House Conference Center. He invites 22 educational broadcasters from campuses across America. That conference becomes known as Allerton I, and its conclusions remain the philosophical cornerstone of public broadcasting. Robert Hudson, a former CBS official, takes over for Josef Wright as director of the Division of Broadcasting.
- 1950
- A new transmitter building for WILL is built in Robert Allerton Park.
- 1951
- The National Association of Educational Broadcasters begins delivering programs to noncommercial radio stations across America from the basement of Gregory Hall. The forerunner of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System, NAEB is given home at the U of I by Wilbur Schramm. The Kellogg Foundation provides the NAEB with a $245,000 grant.
- 1953
- First U.S. noncommercial TV station begins broadcasting. The National Association of Educational Broadcasters acquires its first full-time staff director, Harry J. Skornia. He holds the post for seven years.
- 1954
- WIUC changes call letters to WILL-FM and moves to present frequency, 90.9. Frank Schooley takes over for Robert Hudson as director of the Division of Broadcasting.
- 1955
- WILL-TV begins broadcasting from makeshift studios under the stands of Memorial Stadium. WILL-TV went on the air about 15 minutes later than the scheduled 6:45 p.m. debut. Equipment blew seven fuses so viewers missed the start of the film, "The Finder." Also on the first night was "Your University," with U of I President Lloyd Morey and other U of I faculty and staff. WILL-FM becomes the most powerful educational FM station in the country, increasing its coverage to a radius of 80 to 100 miles.
- 1956
- The U of I dedicates WILL-TV. The station's transmitter, which is also dedicated, was given to the university by General Electric Co. in memory of the late William A. Knight, BS '34. Knight, a GE employee, was killed in a car accident following a visit to the campus to interview prospective GE workers.
- 1958
- WILL-TV begins broadcasting during daylight hours, with telecourses offered by the speech and French departments.
- 1960
- WILL-TV acquires its first videotape recorder, allowing recording and editing of productions.
- 1961
- The National Association of Educational Broadcasters moves its headquarters from the Urbana campus to Washington, D.C., to be closer to the campaign to win federal support for the creation of a public television and radio system.
- 1962
- WILL-TV goes on air from Main and Goodwin in Urbana. For several years in the mid-1960s, WILL-TV transmitted educational programming from a small airplane flying over Illinois and Indiana. "We had two video transmitters and videotape," recalls Larry Inman, former chief engineer at WILL-TV. "The schools were wired and we flew around in the plane transmitting the shows to the schools."
- 1966
- WILL-TV doubles its viewing range to 70 miles with completion of a 1,047-foot tower near Monticello.
- 1968
- WILL-TV builds a new studio for color broadcasting (Color broadcasts didn't start for several more years while the station worked on obtaining color equipment).
- 1969
- Sesame Street premieres on WILL-TV. Big Bird is perhaps the best known children's character on WILL's stations today. But programming for children has always been a priority on WILL radio and television. "Stories 'n' Stuff," an award-winning program produced at WILL radio for 17 years was carried by 65 other stations; WILL-TV produced several children's programs during its early years including "Olive Lives Here," "Mister Cane," and 15 episodes of an imaginative children 's program, "Tell Me Why," which were shown on educational TV stations across the country. One episode took viewers on a trip through a "fun house" maze than turned out to be a larger-than-life model of a human ear.
- 1970
- WILL-FM begins broadcasting in stereo. Before stereo recording or broadcasting were invented, WILL stations recorded special musical events on a two-track audio recorder with the left half of the orchestra on one channel and the right half on another. WILL would play the tape on the air with one channel on FM and the other on AM. Listeners were told how to position their FM and AM receivers to benefit from the stereo effect.
- 1973
- Don Mullally takes over for Frank Schooley as director of the Division of Broadcasting
- 1974
- WILL-TV begins Saturday broadcasts and fundraising. WILL-FM begins 18-hour a day schedule more focused on music and the arts.
- 1978
- WILL-TV begins receiving programs via satellite.
- 1981
- The National Association of Educational Broadcasters ceases operations after many of its duties are absorbed by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- 1987
- WILL-FM begins 24-hour schedule and WILL-AM introduces an all-information format.
- 1993
- Robert C. and Alice Campbell donate $5 million to build new broadcast center to house WILL AM, FM, and TV.
- 1994
- WILL-AM begins 24-hour schedule, airing the BBC World Service overnight.
- 1995
- WILL-FM installs a translator in Danville, providing a stronger signal at 106.5.
- 1998
- WILL-FM installs a translator to provide a stronger signal in Champaign-Urbana at 101.1. WILL radio and television begin broadcasting from Campbell Hall for Public Telecommunication.
- 1999
- WILL-TV begins broadcasting 24 hours a day. The U of I dedicates Campbell Hall, Richmond Studio and Swanson Center on September 24. WILL dedicates the Friends of WILL Plaza on October 17.
- 2000
- In July, WILL-AM begins 24-hour live audio streaming on the Web of all local and national programs. For the first time, a global audience can hear WILL anytime, anywhere.
- 2002
- WILL celebrates its 80th anniversary by creating The WILL Awards: Signaling Excellence in the Community. The first recipients are Carol Reitan of Normal, Citizenship; Ted Peck of Champaign, Education; and John Knoepfle of Auburn, The Arts.
- 2005
- WILL-TV begins transmitting a digital signal, with three different channels of content.
- 2006
- Mark Leonard named General Manager at WILL AM-FM-TV-Online.
WILL Radio begins broadcasting a digital signal, with two, and later three, different streams of content.
WILL AM-FM-TV changes its name to Illinois Public Media to reflect WILL's expansion into the Internet and outreach projects in the community. WILL-TV, WILL-AM and WILL-FM retain their individual names.
Illinois Public Media and other public broadcasters in the state launch "Illinois Edition" of PBS LearningMedia, a free on-demand digital library of more than 16,000 research-based videos, interactive images, audio files, mobile apps and lesson plans, for use by teachers and students.
- 2012
Illinois Public Media celebrates its 90th anniversary.
- 2014
- CEO Moss Bresnahan begins his tenure at IPM with a Corporation for Public Broadcasting-backed joint appointment as CEO at WTVP, a community license PBS affiliate in Peoria. "This partnership is groundbreaking," said Jan Slater, Dean of the University of Illinois College of Media, which oversees Illinois Public Media. "We're not merging two stations. We're keeping their strong local identity, but creating stronger public media through that."
- 2016
- Launch of The 21st radio talk show with Host Niala Boodhoo, which brings listeners the news, culture and stories that matter to Illinois.
- 2017
- Expansion of The 21st to five markets: WGLT, WUIS, WCBU, WNIJ, WILL.
- 2017
- CPB-grant supported Illinois Newsroom launch: a collaboration of Illinois radio stations (WILL, WIUS, WSIU and WVIK) that brings comprehensive news coverage to listeners all over the state of Illinois.
- 2018
- Longtime Mid-American Gardener host Dianne Noland retired from the host's chair in late 2017 after 25 years of service. Tinisha Shade-Spain, whom some viewers may recognize from her time as an anchor and reporter at another local statoin, joined the show in August 2018. Shade-Spain works full-time in economic development in her hometown of Danville, IL, and is completing her certification in the University of Illinois Extension's Illinois Master Gardener program.
- 2018
- 2018 celebrates 15 years of PNC Foundation support for Book Mentors. WILL-TV's Book Mentor Project supports the literacy, language, math and social emotional skills of pre-school children in Head Start classrooms, homes and day care facilities throughout Champaign County. They work with a team of curriculum experts to select age-appropriate bi-lingual books that meet Illinois Learning Standards and train community volunteers to read those books to Head Start children and then engage them in a teacher-led book-related activity. Children keep a copy of the Book Mentor book for their home libraries. PNC Bank, through its Grow Up Great Grant has funded WILL-TV's Book Mentor Project since 2011.