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On Losing a Friend (Who Happened to Be Trans)
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. I remember here my good friend Kiira.
Posted Nov 20, 2012
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. In honor of the day, I am reproducing here a memorial I wrote on November 4 of this year.
My friend and colleague Kiira Triea died two days ago. Several people have asked me to provide an obituary that they can share, so I am trying. I find I have begun by turning on far more lights than the morning daylight really requires.
Kiira probably would have approved of me summing up her extraordinary life this way: Science repeatedly nearly killed Kiira, and art constantly sustained her. Kiira had two public lives, which only occasionally overlapped. In one, she was an advocate for children and adults who were intersex and transgender. In the other, she was an extraordinarily talented musician, songwriter, and poet.
This double public life grew out of her own childhood experiences. Kiira's mother was given a form of progestin when pregnant with Kiira, in the 1950s, in an effort to prevent miscarriage. Kiira was a genetic female, and the progestin caused her genitals to virilize during fetal development. When she was born, the adults presumed her to be a boy. From the start, this child was a very femme boy. Looking back, Kiira would often say to me, "Everyone knew I was a gay boy," meaning she was one of those boys who was irrepressibly feminine--the kind of boy everyone assumes will grow up to be gay. She sometimes laughed to me about how boy crazy she'd always been.
Kiira's father was in the military, and as a consequence her childhood was constantly disrupted by the family moving. When she reflected on this with me, she did so with her typical nuance. She knew that it kept her from being able to form friendships, and at the same time, it seemed she felt the moves matched the sort of placelessness she often felt by virtue of being what her biology made her.
When Kiira was fourteen, she landed in the gender clinic of the psychologist John Money at Johns Hopkins University, the place we came to call "the Death Star." As Kiira wrote for the public just a few weeks before her diagnosis of stage-4 cancer:
"Money himself wrote in a study with Anke Ehrhardt that, although progestin-exposed females might show some tomboyish traits, they seemed to outgrow these and showed no increased inclination toward attraction to females and no increased desire to be boys. So according to Money and Earhardt, progestin-virilized females like me were what they thought of as pretty typical females. Yet still, when I ended up in his clinic, Money tried to surgically and hormonally assign me as a male and, to my knowledge, he did the same to two other female adolescents with histories parallel to mine. His methodology was unethical not only because this course of treatment was obviously harmful to me, but also because I know now that he told me several deliberate lies."
At the time Money got his hands on Kiira, Money was deep into public insistence that gender was mostly about nurture. Kiira represented one of those problematic cases that suggested otherwise. Rather than change his science for the data Kiira's gender identity represented, he tried to change Kiira to save his "science." Eventually he gave up and "let" her present to the world as a girl.
Early in the intersex rights movement, Cheryl Chase (Bo Laurent) asked Kiira what it was like in Money's clinic, which was known as the Psychohormonal Research Unit (PRU). Kiira later gave me a copy of the letter. There she wrote:
"The hardest question you've asked me though is what it was like being Dr. Money's patient. I think I am so confused and twisted by my experience at the PRU that I'm not ready or proficient to say anything sensible. He seemed so understanding at times, this powerful man who seemed like he wanted to help, and then the same day something would happen to me at the PRU which he ran which would humiliate and embarrass me so much I can barely think clearly of it. All I could say for certain is that something was wrong there, something I'm not sure what, was wrong with him. The PRU was an unhealthy place, a place with some kind of sickness as part of its nature."
Kiira helped Chase/Laurent and others (including Max Beck, also lost to cancer) in the creation of what we now call the intersex rights movement. In essays like her masterful autobiographical piece, "Power, Orgasm, and the Psychohormonal Research Unit," Kiira tried again and again to explain to people that the problem with the way people like her was treated was not ultimately a wrong theory of gender; it was a wrong theory of what it means to care for a child.
She used her own experiences to try to illustrate what Chase/Laurent meant when she said that intersex is primarily about shame, secrecy, and trauma, not gender. She tried so hard to explain that it didn't have to be about any of that. In her most recent essay, Kiira reiterated this point:
"Being raised as a boy, even though I was a normal girl, wasn't a very good thing to happen to me, but I know now that it didn't hurt me so badly that I could not be happy and normal and sexual, had my disorder of sex development (DSD) been treated sensibly. It was the nature of being 'treated' at the PRU for being a normal girl who was raised as a boy which hurt me."
Although so much of her public writing was necessarily deadly serious in tone, Kiira had a wicked sense of humor. Two examples stand out: the phall-o-meter and the "rare interview" with "Dr. Arika Aiert," to insiders an obvious send-up of Anke Ehrhardt. That "interview" began:
Interviewer: What causes sex?
Dr. Aiert: Well, soft pink lighting, a glass of wine, "If You Don't Know Me By Now" on the CD, and a nice butch friend who doesn't think I'm a Feminist Traitor because I wear dresses and heels. That usually does it. 'Course, that's just me.
Interviewer: Oops… I meant what determines sex?
Dr. Aiert: Oh! Surgeons determine sex.
Interviewer: In what way?
Dr. Aiert: Well, let me try and explain it to you with an analogy. It's kind of like fishing. When a doctor "hooks a big one," so to speak, he keeps it as a good "viable" fish. But if he hooks a little one, he doesn't throw it back, he makes it into a girl fish. Surgeons feel that fish with small penises will be very unhappy, but if they are just girls, then it doesn't matter so everything will be OK. So, being a girl fish is not as great as being one of the "real guy fish," but it sure beats being such a miserable creature as a "guy fish with a little weeny."
But Kiira's humor masked her pain. What had happened to her at the PRU left her with profound mental illness. She spent many years with drug addiction and often found herself surrounded with only remnants of intense relationships. During the darkest years, when she had essentially been ejected from the ISNA crowd, I did not know Kiira, except by virtue of asking if I could reprint her PRU essay in Intersex in the Age of Ethics. It was not until 2006 that we met again and became close friends.
That was the year that I started to investigate what had really happened in the controversy surrounding Michael Bailey's book, The Man Who Would Be Queen. I don't have the energy today to explain all that in depth; you can always read the article that resulted. Suffice is to say that when I started looking into the controversy over transsexualism made nuclear by the critics of Bailey's book, I was surprised to find that Kiira was in the middle of the fire. She had helped to found a website called transkids.us, a website that defended the vision of male-to-female transsexualism put forth by Bailey.
Bailey and Kiira subscribed (as I now do) to Ray Blanchard's understanding that male-to-female transsexuals come in two basic types, divisible by sexual orientation. Kiira (like Bailey, Blanchard, and I) fully respected both routes to MtF transsexualism, but she saw them as fundamentally different. The "transkids" were the ones who, like Kiira, had been ultra-femme androphilic boys, before becoming women. Kiira always felt that, whether or not a transkid could point to a DSD etiology as clearly as she herself could, they all shared in common a brain that had been feminized in utero.
For the sin of supporting Bailey and Blanchard's work, Kiira was assaulted by the transgender "activist" Andrea James, as was I. There are many things for which I am perversely grateful to James, but surely I am most grateful for the way James' venom made Kiira my sister.
Kiira and I ended up becoming fast friends, talking and writing frequently, although sometimes with long gaps as life sent us in various directions. But from 2006 forward, we were always collaborating in spirit. She co-wrote (for a special issue of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine that Paul Vasey edited with me) an article with Mike called "What Many Transgender Activists Don't Want You to Know, and Why You Should Know it Anyway." Like Mike, Kiira never hated transgender women who were autogynephilic, the way certain activists would claim. But neither did she have any patience for those who would pretend to have had a childhood like hers and the other transkids, many of whom as children had been beaten senseless, literally or metaphorically, for being identified as queer so young.
When I started working on prenatal dexamethasone for CAH in early 2010, Kiira became one of my psychological lifelines. She always took dex personally, because of how her life had come to be. In fact, she never revealed (except implicitly to me) how the way the dex story played out caused her enormous psychological distress. She knew that, in the work, I was actively fighting Heino Meyer-Bahlburg of Columbia University, as she had fought Heino before. She knew--because I told her--that Heino had told me once that Kiira wasn't "really" intersex because she was "just" progestin-virilized. (I guess his logic was that because doctors had caused her intersex, it somehow wasn't real.) She also knew that Heino had been downplaying Blanchard's findings on transsexualism, perhaps out of fear of people like James. And of course there was Heino's previous relationships with Ehrhardt and Money. Dex was an insider battle at a level only Kiira and a few others could really understand. It was our unfinished business, and we knew that as soon as we knew of it.
The dex battle forced Kiira to examine her own life experiences as she never had done before, because she wanted to try to explain to the parents considering dex today just what they might really be doing to their children. When I told her I wanted to publish a series of "dex diaries," Kiira quickly volunteered to write the first one. There she confessed,
"Beyond the obvious harmful sequelae of my pre-birth exposure to a drug which turned my life upside down, I sometimes suffer from a strange, haunting confusion. Because my 'self' was changed without my participation before I even developed a 'self', I have a sense of profound violation, as though I was not born, but rather, 'made' and then 'treated' for my 'making' without regard to my humanity.
"I frequently relate to characters like Rachel in the movie 'Bladerunner', who is a 'replicant' who cannot be differentiated from a 'real' human. I wonder if there is an alternative universe where a different Kiira lives whose life had not been messed with in the way mine was. I wonder what she is like.
"I very much wish I lived in that universe instead, because I do not believe that suffering builds character, but rather, simply reveals it."
In the course of her adult life, Kiira's character was revealed again and again. She often put those revelations into music and poetry. Kiira played electric guitar and bass, professionally mostly in metal bands. That fact always made me and her bandmates laugh, because she was not the sort of person you'd look at and say "heavy metal rocker." In fact, Kiira loved any good music, but I think metal captured her anger and hope. As I was set to debate Heino at IASR in Los Angeles in 2011, Kiira and her bandmates recorded a version of Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" that exactly captured the terror and anger we both felt. I must have listened to it a thousand times, especially the part we both knew was about the way she felt toward Money and Heino:
Well, if you told me you were drowning,
I would not lend a hand
I've seen your face before, my friend,
but I don't know if you know who I am.
Well I was there
and I saw what you did,
saw it with my own two eyes.
So you can wipe off that grin.
I know where you've been.
It's all been a pack of lies.
How many times did we talk about the "pack of lies," Kiira?
When dex nearly killed me, Kiira stayed by my side. I sometimes tried to nudge her away, because I was afraid dex was poisoning her. That sense became more real when she kept telling me she felt she had a terrible sickness inside, a wasting, a pain. I kept trying to figure out a way to get her to a real doctor, but with her history, there were only a couple she trusted, and they were hard to get in to see. A couple of months before they finally made the terrible diagnosis of cancer all through her body, she wrote and recorded a new song, "Kali's Day," a song she told me was about her and progestin, and simultaneously about me and dex. I'm crying too hard to explain that whole song. I'll just say here that the refrain is this:
Is this the end of the story finally coming?
Is this the end of the story, finally?
It's the longest way to the shortest ending.
It's the longest way to the shortest ending.
When Kiira's sister called me and told me terminal cancer, a few weeks to live, it was hard not to realize that Kiira must have sensed this when she recorded that song.
What more is there really to say? She was angry at the diagnosis. Angrier still when the hospital discharged her for lack of insurance. Still somewhat angry when she landed in a decent hospice, because she wasn't ready for a short ending. There was so much left to do. She had been writing her own story. . . .
I asked a colleague and friend a year or so ago to go meet and talk with Kiira in Baltimore, where she was living. The colleague-friend called me up afterwards, stunned, asking me if I understood the kind of poverty Kiira was living in. Yes, I said. Sometimes just barely off the street. I knew that Kiira could have lived on social security disability, but she opted instead to remain a working person as much as she could, working sometimes in a hardware store, sometimes in repairing amps and guitars. My mate and I often sent her money. When a bicycle a friend had made for her was stolen last year, we sent her money for a new bicycle so she could still have a way to get around. (I learned then that she had once as a young woman been a leg model, her legs were so long, which is why her friend had made her a bicycle specially. We laughed when she told me of modeling Hanes pantyhose.) When she decided last year to go back to school to try to become a nurse, we sent her rent and tuition. She never asked, but I could tell in her voice when she didn't have enough heat or food.
Somehow, in spite of having nothing much of the time, Kiira managed to give many people (and many cats) shelter and love, and helped many get access to the medical care they needed. This included many transwomen whom she walked through transition. The most recent one was a transkid who is just now 16, and just had surgery. I'll call her Tina here. Tina had somehow figured out Kiira lived near her, in Baltimore, and had dragged her mother to a poetry reading, and introduced herself. Kiira took Tina under her wing and made it all okay. I asked Kiira, when I called her at the hospital, if Tina had come to visit, and had asked her whether she'd told Tina her real diagnosis. Kiira said she'd visited, and she looked absolute radiant since her transition, but that no, she hadn't told her young friend she was dying. She said she wanted to spare the kid.
I yelled at Kiira. "Of all people to withhold medical reality from a 16-year-old, you?!" She laughed at herself, and promised me she would tell Tina. The next time we talked, she told me she had.
Pretty quickly, it became impossible for me to reach Kiira. Her brain was infected with cancer, her body spent. I talked to her sister instead. The last few calls with Kiira lasted only a couple of minutes each. I know because I would look at my phone afterwards to see the length of the call, to tell myself, "Well, I had two more minutes with her." The last long call, a 22-minute call, was weeks and weeks ago now. She still had enough strength then to talk a while, and she was telling me about how Tina was number twenty: she was the twentieth transwoman Kiira had helped through transition. I asked her to name each for me, and she went backwards, starting with Tina. She made it up to about eight names, but paused to tell me about each, so that she sapped her strength and then had to stop.
It is impossible for me to believe any have forgotten her.
"I do not believe that suffering builds character, but rather, simply reveals it."
Goodbye, my sister. I can't bring myself to listen to your music anymore, so I will listen today to the song we always said was the song that understood: Paul Simon's "American Tune." You try to get some rest.


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It's not considered admirable to sleep well. The phrase "like a log" sums it up, suggesting that the good sleeper is merely a mindless, useless lump of wood. So people don't admit to it; when asked how their night was, they say "troubled" or claim they "couldn't get off" or they slept "fitfully". I suppose it's a sort of Henry IV complex — uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
The only time we say we slept well is when we spend the night in somebody else's house or maybe in a hotel. Then we overdo it. In reply to the question at breakfast time, we say: "Never better. It was absolutely amazing. Must be the air around here. That mattress is fantastic." All polite lies. In fact it was too dark or too light, the mattress sloped, the building creaked, a dog barked and you didn't dare go to the loo.
My life was changed the other day when I read a report of a study which said that sour cherry juice before bed boosts the level of the hormone melatonin and adds an extra 25 minutes sleep a night. The really exciting bit was that it said this increases "sleep efficiency" by up to six per cent. Suddenly there is no stigma attached to my snooze and my zizz is guilt-free. So now I don't sleep like a log, I have a very efficient night's sleep and I put in a very workmanlike eight hours.
My wife, on the other hand, is an incompetent sleeper. I'm sorry to say she is just not proficient; her productivity is low and she lacks the necessary sleep skills. For the first time I find myself on the moral high ground in the morning. When asked how my night was, I say: "It was very businesslike, actually. In fact I slept like a time-and-motion manager."

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YONKERS, N.Y. Shoppers shouldn't overlook store brands if they are looking for quality and ways to save money, according to a new Consumer Reports study.
Consumer Reports' price study — which appears in the publication's October issue — evaluated five supermarket chains and compared store- and name-brand prices for 30 everyday items at five chains, collecting a total of 283 price quotes. Consumer Reports found the average savings with store brands was 30%, but shoppers saved as much as 52% on some items.
Consumer Reports said that 84% of Americans purchased store brands in the past year, and 93% of store-brand shoppers said they would keep buying as many store brands after the economy recovers. Nationwide, store brands accounted for almost 1-of-4 products sold in supermarkets and a record $55.5 billion in sales last year.
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P&G's Future Friendly tackles imminent opportunities
CINCINNATI Since launching a full media platform for its multibrand Future Friendly program in the spring, Procter & Gamble has made a significant impact among both retailers and mainstream consumers looking to save energy and reduce waste. Now the manufacturer is looking to expand the initiative even further in 2011.
Phase one of Future Friendly focused on how washing in cold water with a detergent formulated for that application — like Tide Coldwater — can conserve energy and help consumers reduce their utility bills. Now, phase two of the platform is taking aim at powder detergent carton sizes, targeting a reduction in packaging materials, as well as truck and fuel usage.
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Future Friendly is an educational platform designed to help educate consumers on how to use leading P&G products, such as Tide, Pampers, PUR and Duracell, to achieve savings in water, waste and energy.
Serving as the underpinnings, and helping to shape the initiative, is P&G research that found many consumers are interested in buying products with an environmental benefit but they are not likely to trade up in price or to sacrifice product performance or value.
Earlier this year, P&G deployed a full media platform, and consumers started seeing Future Friendly-labeled products — which, in total, represent about $6 billion in sales — on store shelves in April. Since the launch, the efforts of this major initiative have been significant, with incremental displays in more than 16,000 retail locations, 2.7 billion media impressions and a 5% boost in corporate favorability and trustworthiness. In addition, participating retailers have experienced a more than 3% growth in the average basket size, according to P&G.
Now, the manufacturer is looking to go even bigger and take Future Friendly to the next level. For the next phase of Future Friendly, P&G is tackling its powder cartons and will be compacting the cartons by 33%, effective February 2011. "All of which, combined, will help us deliver some significant environmental savings, not only from a packaging perspective but also from a logistics perspective," Forsyth said.
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This initiative will take place in one wave across the United States and Canada. Beginning in April, consumers will see Future Friendly stickers across some of the powder cartons, and retailers will be able to leverage in-store tools, such as shelf-talkers with the Future Friendly messaging.
P&G will continue to drive consumer awareness through, for example, its P&G brandSAVER coupon book and a partnership with National Geographic's in-school conservation education program called Find Your Footprint. P&G noted that it has beefed up its marketing spend compared with a year ago, and will continue to engage consumers through such social media as Facebook and Twitter to further promote the initiative and educate consumers on Future Friendly.


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House Speaker Bobby Harrell is not being treated above the law by having ethics complaints levied against him heard first by a group of legislators and not the State Grand Jury, his lawyers argued in a state Supreme Court filing Monday.
Harrell's legal team said the Charleston Republican is subject to state laws as they are written and interpreted. In their opinion, which they used in a successful lower-court case, that means S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson needs to let the state House Ethics Committee weigh civil allegations against Harrell before taking any further steps.
"Everyone who is subject to the Ethics Act must follow and adhere to the procedures that it creates for the investigation and disposition of allegations of violations of the act," Harrell's lawyers said. "The attorney general does not have the right – much less the duty – to ignore enacted laws of this state."
Wilson appealed a ruling last month by Circuit Court Judge Casey Manning that the state's top legal officer erred in not taking the charges that Harrell — that he used his office for personal gain — first to the House Ethics Committee. The attorney general said if the ruling is not reversed Harrell and other lawmakers could be treated as "super-citizens." The S.C. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in the case June 24.
In his June 6 appeal, Wilson said he had the right to investigate complaints brought by the S.C. Policy Council, a libertarian think tank, that Harrell misused campaign money to pay for his personal plane, abused his position to aid one of his businesses and appointed his brother to a key judicial review panel. Harrell has denied any wrongdoing.
"The attorney general's appeal of Judge Manning's ruling was a political document designed to grab headlines," Harrell said in a statement Monday. "Failure to uphold the lower court's correct ruling would unleash the potential of a rogue prosecutor unrestrained by the Constitution and unaccountable to law and legal precedent."
Wilson has said in testimony that the House Ethics Committee staff might have a conflict of interest in the case against the speaker, who hires them. Ethics Committee members are elected by all representatives, not appointed by the speaker. But half of the 10-member Ethics Committee accepted donations from a political group with ties to Harrell.
Harrell's attorneys said Wilson was overstepping his authority in raising conflict-of-interest concerns.
"The constitutional authority of the attorney general does not confer upon him the right to refuse to comply (with state law) based on a perceived conflict of interest or any other reason," Harrell's lawyers said. "The attorney general is not simply empowered to decide independently that a conflict exists. His failure to adhere to the law has rendered everything that has transpired since he received the complaint null and void."
The speaker argues the complaints against him are civil, and not criminal, and state law and court rulings say those allegations must go before the House Ethics Committee.
That committee can refer cases to the attorney general after its review for possible criminal prosecution. That is proof Wilson could have a role in the case – when the time is right, Harrell's lawyers wrote. Until then, the attorney general is violating the separation of powers, they argue.
Harrell's response also said the State Grand Jury is not supposed to review civil allegations. Manning based his ruling, in part, on not seeing any evidence of criminal wrong-doing from Wilson's office.
"The attorney general has no statutory or criminal right unilaterally to ... attempt to criminalize those patently civil claims by placing them before the State Grand Jury," Harrell's response said.
Wilson has said the State Grand Jury is investigating criminal allegations. His office had no comment Monday.


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It sounds very similar to the show Ten Years Younger in Ten Days, however it looks like they are wanting to make changes over a longer period. Contestants will need to be available for a 3 to 6 month commitment in 2013/2014. It is unclear whether they will be filming around your ordinary daily life.
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While this concept resonates with little ol' portly middle-aged me , I have pinpointed the ideal candidate (who now seems to have some free time in his schedule) – http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2013/09/02/1226709/128241-hot-albo.jpg
- 2 Culinary Boner { 10.23.13 at 1:59 pm }
"Do You Want Your Sexy Back?" …
Yep, sure do.
I luvs my sexy back (and so does Mrs Boner) – http://www.nba.com/media/pistons/hairyback_001_600.jpg
- 3 brain dead dave { 10.23.13 at 2:04 pm }
Is complimentary scrotum tightening and free Viagra part of the makeover deal?
I'll also need the obligatory Krill Oil for my arthritic fingers so I can play my leg opening rendition of Stairway To Heaven for the cougars and MILF's on show.
- 5 mahlia { 10.23.13 at 4:22 pm }
RR – they keep coming up with reality TV ideas – I hope you are tiring of writing your blog
- 6 Georgie { 10.23.13 at 5:06 pm }
RR you could never regain any self esteem doing this on national TV – in fact you'd most likely lose whatever you still had.
- 8 Ari { 10.23.13 at 10:51 pm }
No I do not want my sexy back.
I never lost it.
- 9 You call that a sexy back?.... { 10.25.13 at 9:03 am }
This, is a sexy back…
- 10 Joanne Mansfield { 11.29.13 at 9:46 pm }
I'm a divorced mother 57 years old women who has charged their business and private life. Once in the corporate business arena and married now in the wellness and lifestyle area but very much over weight. Unfortunately I currently don't look the picture of wellness with my weight hence my reason for applying.


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Discuss and debate the issues that mean the most to you.
OK, so once again I am calling on you, dear commenters of xoJane, to help me sort my life out. Should have figured it out by the age of thirty, right? Team Awkward For The Lose.
In keeping with the awkwardness that colours every aspect of my life, this one's a social (or socialising) problem. What I want to know is, how do you handle bumping into an ex-friend who done you a grevious wrong?
My particular ex-friend is a former work colleague I sat next to for two months a couple of years ago. We got on well enough that we'd started socialising together outside the office, which culminated in us getting invited backstage a deux after a Snoop Dogg concert, turning his massively over-sized security guard down, and bitching frantically about the rest of the staff while we were at it. A bona fide baby friendship.
Then, DISASTER STRUCK in the form of that music festival where I was nearly sexually assaulted and - whole other story- nearly run over by a well-known indie band. Even without those particular incidents, the festival didn't go well.
I speech impedimented my way through an on-camera interview with a minor chart star, tweeted about the torrential rain (thus risking offending the magazine's all-important advertisers), and missed another interview altogether after being almost assaulted.
And, long story short, my now ex-friend, who was in charge of all the editorial staff over the course of the festival - and was desperately trying to deflect attention from her own ineptitude - got me sacked.
I've since had an apology from the magazine in question, but never from her. A fact that rankles all the more when my husband, who still works with her, tells me that she asks about me All. The. Time.
Dublin is very small. More like a village than a major city, in that everyone who lives here knows someone who knows everyone else. Usually, I love that about it. But now that I've found out that my ex-friend's social life and mine are starting to converge again, so there's no way I won't bump into her one drunken evening.
Clearly, I'm less than thrilled. I need to know how to handle things when I see her. There's no way I could be friends with her again. When I tell someone to "fuck off and die", as she effectively did to my career, I mean it. If the world was flooded with piss and she owned the only tree, I still wouldn't bother.
I don't even really know if it's friendship, or merely us being back on civil terms, is what she wants. But is it OK to voice that to her?
Am I better off reverting to type and either pulling a full-on Garbo sulk while she's around, or making nice and just saying "hi" and pretending bygones are bygones?
I'm really keen to try out a technique I once used on a similarly treachorous ex-boyfriend wherein I answered every question he asked with positive "my life fucking rocks" type responses, and never asked a single one about him, all the better to deflate his ego.
Have you been in a similar situation? What did you do? And, more importantly, what the fuck should I do? Let me know below, or on Twitter @AlisandeF.


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First, an apology for having disappeared for so long. We have finally managed to set up shop and have started of with a pizza home delivery service in Ahmedabad. Getting things organized and experimenting had taken up all our time and we didn't get a moment to breathe, let alone keep the blog updated! We are now back in action with lots of interesting things to share!
Slice the cake in half and sandwich with the whipped cream. A light dusting of cocoa on top and you are ready!
Contrary to popular belief, a sponge cake is quite a difficult cake to master! It must be soft, airy, moist and have a super tender crumb. I've tried innumerable times to reach that perfection but failed miserably. Finally, after much experimenting, I've found the perfect recipe. This is a classic Victoria Sponge with equal amounts of egg, butter, sugar and flour. It is moist, and has the most tender crumb ever!
The twist that we added to this was fresh lavender! It adds a completely new dimension and I wouldn't suggest leaving it out!
- 3 Eggs
- 175g Butter
- 175g Sugar
- 175g Flour
- 2tsp Baking Powder
- 1tsp pure Vanilla Extract
- 1tsp Lavender leaves, finely chopped
- 1 cup Whipping Cream
Cream the butter and sugar together till it is pale and light, crack in one egg at a time and mix thoroughly after each addition. Stir in the Vanilla Extract.
Sift the baking powder and flour together, add the lavender.
Fold the dry ingredients into the wet till just mixed. Over mixing is the only thing that can go wrong with this recipe!
(Traditionally one would make two 8" cakes and sandwich them together. Considering I have only one 9" tin, I made my cake in that and sliced it in half.)
Pour your batter into a greased baking tin and place in an oven pre-heated to 180C for about 20 minutes or till a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Allow the cake to cool in the tin for about 10 minutes, then remove and allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
Meanwhile, whip up the cream till soft peaks form, you can add sugar as per your taste. You won't need a lot as the cake is fairly sweet.
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Finally: ...a fresh startAhh Finally, I did it!
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YES!.. When it's time to leave the house I am so Up to the challenge of "What To Wear" today..
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The Supreme Court has sent a Texas case on race-based college admissions back to a lower court for another look, keeping alive the plaintiff's case — and the chance to repeal Affirmative Action.
The court's 7-1 decision Monday leaves unsettled many of the basic questions about the continued use of race as a factor in college admissions.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, says a federal appeals court needs to subject the University of Texas admission plan to the highest level of judicial scrutiny.
The case was brought up by Abigail Fisher, a white Texan, sued the university after she was denied a spot in 2008. She has since received her undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University. Fisher seeks to overturn the school's consideration of race among many factors in filling the last quarter of its freshman classes.
A broad ruling would have ended the use of race in college admissions nationwide.
The compromise ruling throws out the decision by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld and sided with the Texas admission plan.
Kennedy said the appeals court did not test the Texas plan under the most exacting level of judicial review.
He said such a test is required by the court's 2003 decision upholding affirmative action in higher education.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the lone dissenter.
Justice Clarence Thomas, alone on the court, said he would have overturned the high court's 2003 ruling.
Justice Elena Kagan stayed out of the case, presumably because she had some contact with it at an earlier stage when she worked in the Justice Department.
The challenge to the Texas plan gained traction in part because the makeup of the court has changed since the last time the justices ruled on affirmative action in higher education in 2003. Then, Justice Sandra O'Connor wrote the majority opinion that held that colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies.
O'Connor retired in 2006, and her replacement, Justice Samuel Alito, has shown himself to be more skeptical of considerations of race in education.
Another factor fueling Fisher's lawsuit was that the university has produced significant diversity by automatically offering about three-quarters of its spots to graduates in the top 10 percent of their Texas high schools, under a 1990s state law signed by then-Gov. George W. Bush. The admissions program has been changed so that now only the top 8 percent gain automatic admission.
More than 8 in 10 African-American and Latino students who enrolled at the flagship campus in Austin in 2011 were automatically admitted, according to university statistics. Even among the rest, both sides acknowledge that the use of race is modest.
In all, black and Hispanic students made up more than a quarter of the incoming freshmen class. White students constituted less than half the entering class when students with Asian backgrounds and other minorities were added in.
The university said the extra measure of diversity it gets from the slots outside automatic admission is crucial because too many of its classrooms have only token minority representation, at best. At the same time, Texas argued that race is one of many factors considered and that whether race played the key role in any applicant's case was impossible to tell.
"We're encouraged by the Supreme Court's ruling in this case," University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers said in a statement Monday. We will continue to defend the University's admission policy on remand in the lower court under the strict standards that the Court first articulated in the Bakke case, reaffirmed in the Grutter case, and laid out again today. We believe the University's policy fully satisfies those standards."
The Obama administration, 57 of the Fortune 100 companies and large numbers of public and private colleges that feared a broad ruling against affirmative action backed the Texas program. Among the benefits of affirmative action, the administration said, is that it creates a pipeline for a diverse officer corps that it called "essential to the military's operational readiness." In 2003, the court cited the importance of a similar message from military leaders.
Based on reporting by The Associated Press.
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Karen Gillan laughs it up during the Doctor Who panel during 2012 Comic-Con International held at Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel on Sunday afternoon (July 15) in San Diego, Calif.
The 24-year-old Scottish-born actress joined costars Matt Smith and Arthur Darvill on the panel as well as producer Caroline Skinner and exec producer Steven Moffat to chat about what's coming on the popular program.
Karen, Matt and Arthur were also spotted out earlier in the week at Wired Cafe held at Palm Terrace at the Omni Hotel.
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Wrappping up our "March to Mobile Madness'', ICMI devoted one more #ICMIchat to the mobile customer experience.
What are consumer perceptions of customer service apps? How can the contact center personalize mobile customer service?
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A pretty space, designed by Emma Persson Lagerberg and photographed by Petra Bindel, inspires us to go on a little shopping spree. Check out what we found below.
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As 2016 comes to a close and we look ahead to the New Year, we would like to express our thanks to you for your ongoing support of the work that God has called us to in Haiti. Together in this journey, we have seen God move in so many amazing ways. Please know that YOU are an essential part of this ministry that God has composed. The incredible thing is that He doesn't need any of us in order to accomplish His will in Haiti, but He has invited us to join Him so that we can grow closer to Him, to know and love Him even more deeply.
It is our ongoing desire to not only honor God by being obedient and serving Him in Haiti, but to keep you connected as you are engaged in this work. Your involvement is important and is making a difference, without a doubt!
Here are some things that we believe are in store for 2017 that we will be involved with:
· A heavy-duty concrete bridge construction at a main river crossing leading into St. Michel.
· A dental office established to provide St. Michel's first well-trained dental technician and a place where visiting dental teams from the U.S. can hold clinics.
· A new ESL (English as a Second Language) course taught to the children at our ministry's orphanage as well as in one of the high schools.
· Getting surgeries lined up for children with club feet, advocating for them and seeing to their after-care.
· Helping equip disabled children with tools they need to become more mobile and comfortable.
· Home visits to assess health and nutritional needs for desperately poor families/children; implementing plans to improve their health and sustainability.
· Job creation for mothers that struggle to feed their children.
· Orphanage visits within the community to assess the health and well-being of the children, as well as any efforts that can be made to reunify these children with their families.
· Health and nutrition education for families.
· Educational, emotional, and spiritual support and development for the children in our ministry's orphanage.
And of course, we have no idea of the countless things God has planned that we don't know about. But we do know that our daily life, including discussions and relationships and living by example, will be a testimony to the love and hope that can only be found through Jesus. That is our goal, to bring the love of Jesus to the lost and better understanding of the Gospel to the believers there in St. Michel.
We do have a few specific prayer requests for you prayer warriors:
· For healing of the staph infection/open wound on Allison's leg. Allison had a strange reaction to a bug bite in early October. It remained a blister until we arrived home at the beginning of November, at which time she went to the doctor and began antibiotics for it. It developed into a dime-sized open wound that would not heal. Mid-December she was referred to Wound Care, began more antibiotics, and weekly debridement. A culture indicated a staph infection. As of today, the wound is 50% healed and the doctor is hopeful that it will be fully healed in two more weeks. We cannot return to Haiti until it is healed, as the risk of severe infection is far too great while it is an open wound.
· For wisdom as we search for an intern to serve with us as a homeschool teacher for Brianna and to fill the role as head ESL teacher. We are hoping for someone to work with us (as a volunteer) for ten weeks during February through April. This will be such a huge help to us, and can be a life-changing experience for the intern. We also anticipate recruiting an intern for the summer as well as the fall. We want God's will in this like everything else; we only want the person that He has hand-picked for this position!
· For healthy financial support for 2017. We currently are at 80% of our budget needs for pledged monthly support. God has been faithful in providing for all our needs with random donations and unexpected gifts. We continue to trust Him, but it sure would be nice (less stressful) to reach 100%. We need $400 per month in additional monthly pledges to reach that goal.
With us being here in Paducah for a few more weeks, if you'd like to get together with us to catch up, just let us know. We'd love to see you!
Thank you for your prayers, love, and awesome encouragement. We appreciate it so much. For those of you that support us financially, we can't express how humbling that is, and we don't take it for granted one bit. You amaze us. If you feel that God is leading you to donate to our ministry or become a monthly sponsor, and you'd like to know how to go about that, please get in touch with Allison or Brennon. A donations are tax-deductible.
So here's to a new year…. 2017, let's do this! May God grant us the wisdom, discernment, and courage we all need to tackle what lies ahead! Love God, love people. Amen!
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The Orthodox Church
In Part One he describes the history of the Eastern Church over the last two thousand years with particular reference to its problems in Twentieth-Century Russia: and in Part Two he explains the beliefs and worship of the Orthodox Church today. Finally, he considers the possibilities of reunion between east and west. - from the blurb on the back cover.
I have heard many a good thing about this book, and know from reading The Orthodox Way, that Bishop KALLISTOS is indeed a wonderfully thorough and accessible writer.
I had seen The Orthodox Church in the catalogue of The St John of Kronstadt Press, with a note that all of the copies that they sell are second-hand copies of the first edition, free from the heresies contained in the second. Now I had assumed that this was some reference to ecumenism, and this assumption was made all the firmer when I saw the blurb on the back. I had no problem with reading this and consider myself discerning enough to be able to take the bits I value and perhaps not take on board things that may be based on an acceptance of the so-called "branch theory".
I must say, that, while I am only 85 pages into Part one, which is purely historical, I am thoroughly enjoying the book so far. It is helping me to gain a better understanding of times and places surrounding key events in the spread of the Faith. While I am finding this helpful, I cannot help but feel that there is a certain inadequacy in the language used in some parts. The good bishop seems to be writing as a neutral historian rather than a bishop of the Church, and appears to be almost apologising for Orthodox beliefs rather than offering an apology for them (if you'll pardon the pun). It is quite subtle, and in parts I do agree that, historically, especially to do with the Schism between east and west, there was dishonesty and wrongdoing on both sides, but there do seem to be a number of instances where I perhaps feel that his concessions stem to aspects of belief as well.
I could, of course, just be reading too much into this, having had prejudices instilled by the SJKP catalogue. Has anybody else noticed this or am I completely off the wall?
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Android became even more famous when they announced that they are now capable of supporting dual-core devices. It was their Android 2.3.4 which was released last April 2011 that made the full utilization of a dual core system.
What surprises me is Intel's latest test. Their test revealed that the latest Android operating system, Android 4 ICS, which has multiple cores is just giving a little benefit and speed and can even be a detrimental to performance.
Android's thread scheduler isn't ready yet for multi-core processors. Mike Bell, GM of Intel's Mobile and Communications Group, pin-pointed.
"If you are in a non-power constrained case, I think multiple cores make a lot of sense because you can run the cores full out, you can actually heavily load them and/or if the operating system has a good thread scheduler. A lot of stuff we are dealing with, thread scheduling and thread affinity isn't there yet and on top of that, largely when the operating system goes to do a single task, a lot of other stuff stops. So as we move to multiple cores, we're actually putting a lot of investment into software to fix the scheduler and fix the threading so if we do multi-core products it actually takes advantage of it." Bell said.
There is even more of a surprise when Intel discovered that a single core system is running faster than a multi-core system. Crazy isn't it? "If you take a look a lot of handsets on the market, when you turn on the second core or having the second core there [on die], the [current] leakage is high enough and their power threshold is low enough because of the size of the case that it isn't entirely clear you get much of a benefit to turning the second core on. We ran our own numbers and [in] some of the use cases we've seen, having a second core is actually a detriment, because of the way some of the people have not implemented their thread scheduling."According to Bell.
"I've taken a look at the multiple core implementations in the market, and frankly, in a thermal and/or power constrained environment – what has been implemented – it isn't obvious to me you really get the advantage for the size and the cost of what's going into that part. The way it's implemented right now, Android does not make as effective use of multiple cores as it could, and I think – frankly – some of this work could be done by the vendors who create the SoCs, but they just haven't bothered to do it. Right now the lack of software effort by some of the folks who have done their hardware implementation is a bigger disadvantage than anything else," Bell added.
Android has always been the first one to support single core to dual core to quad core systems. But with Microsoft reportedly working obsessively for the performance of their Windows Phone, how will Android respond to this? I suppose+ that Windows 8 will maximize the full potential of dual core processors on future gadgets. If Android doesn't do something about this, you're out of the competition immediately.
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Carleton P. Palmer III
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You may mail your donation or pledge with this pledge card and send it to:
510 West Main Cross
Findlay, OH 45840
Prayer is one of the greatest ways you can help. Pray for the challenges ahead and the trust in His plan to do great work at City Mission.
Meeting the Need
For over 79 years, City Mission has been committed to helping the homeless and needy of Findlay, Hancock County and the surrounding area. The services the Mission provides are vital to this community. The need for these services; the requests for housing, meals and food boxes continues to rise.
The City Mission needs to expand its facility to be able to meet the current and future needs of this community. The City Mission was at or near capacity for most of the last 3 years. The majority of those staying at the Mission (65-70%) came from a 25-mile radius of Findlay.
The Mission is the only emergency shelter in this area for families. In 2013, the Mission housed 41 families with a total of 27 children. We were not able to house an additional 15 families with a total of 25 children.
More room is needed for serving meals at the Mission to residents and drop-ins from the community. The current dining room seats 30, but in 2013 there were 187 nights when supper had to be served in two or three shifts to accommodate everyone. On 91 nights, attendance ranged between 40 and 92.
A more commercial size kitchen is needed to safely handle the larger amounts of food being donated to and served at the Mission. The size of the kitchen was adequate for the Mission's staff and volunteers when the first addition was built in 1998. Now there are more meals being prepared and essentially all of the food used in the on-site meals is donated. A larger, commercial kitchen is needed as safe and proper storage and preparation are essential.
The Expansion will provided much needed meeting, class and mentoring space for the Mission's Day Center program. While the Mission is an emergency shelter, individuals who are willing to join longer term programs in conjunction with Day Center classes and training are offered extended stays. These longer stays allow them time to work on resolving issues that lead to their homelessness, find work and save enough money to move into their own housing.
Join in a new vision of caring for the homeless and needy men, women and children of this community. This is a vision which meets both the physical and spiritual needs of those who have fallen on hard times. The City Mission provides a REFUGE where they can regain their strength in a safe place and begin again from a strong foundation. A caring staff provides HOPE through training, support and spiritual guidance.
Your gifts to the "Eyes To See, Hearts To Give" capital campaign will create a "living endowment" that will be used to house and feed your neighbors in need. You are investing in the future of the City Mission. More importantly, you are investing in the futures of the hundreds of men, women and children who will come to the Mission seeking refuge and hope.
When you give to the City Mission Capital Campaign you are partnering with a ministry with a proven track record of providing for a real need to Findlay, Hancock County and surrounding areas. You can have confidence in knowing that your gift does make a difference.
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The specialization in Information Assurance and Security Policy provides study in the professional domain of Cyber Security and Information Assurance that focuses on the organizational and informational portion of the field. This arena particularly involves larger organizations, often in government, that have codified standards, policies and practices for this field.
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- Differentiate among the models, architectures, challenges and global legal constraints of secure electronic commerce technologies used to ensure transmission, processing and storage of sensitive information.(PLO5)
- Prescribe how to provide message privacy, integrity, authentication and non-repudiation using network security practices and infrastructure hardening techniques.(PLO 6)
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I wouldn't dream of removing the functionality of "here documents", but there's a balance to be made between simplicity and functionality and I think we've got it wrong with respect to here documents in the current draft. The fact that we have three ways to describe inputs, and the fact that one of them (here documents) is very different from the other two (attributes) makes the draft quite a bit more complicated. It also imposes (unnecessary, IMHO) constraints on the design of the language. Consider the current draft's position on "choose" as opposed to "for-each". Because we put the context attributes directly on the "choose" element, you can't use a here document for choose. Because we used a "declare-input" for for-each, you can. Bleh. I propose a standard "p:document" component that has no inputs and returns its content as a document instead. Instead of writing:

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 I think that here documents are relatively uncommon and I don't think this is a significant burden on authors. It has two additional benefits: 1. The step is considerably shorter and simpler and, as a consequence, I think it's easier to understand. 2. The content of the here document becomes reusable. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh XML Standards Architect Sun Microsystems, Inc.Received on Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:13:48 UTC
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Swans by the canal and the Beguinage.
I am amazed at how long their necks are! And, they can do the most outrageous moves with their necks.
This guy is just showing off.At the Beguinage, the trees all seem to grow in one direction ~ towards the church.
And, they only sell one kind of mint:Even though this nun is wearing shades, she too is looking towards the Beguinage.
I know what you're thinking, "So, Lydia, what's a beguinage?"
Basically it's a city within a city for the Beguines of the Roman Catholic Church. They are beautiful, quiet places.
We stopped in for a pint at an old brewery.Founded by Henri Maes in 1856, Brouwerij De Halve Maan is the only brewery in Bruges' town center.
In my glass is Brugse Zot, or fool of Bruges. To learn why it's called that, click here.
That was nice and refreshing, but we still haven't seen the city center.
Hurry! If we make it by 4:30, we can go to the top of the Belfry!Shoot! Too late. Let's just walk across the Grote Markt (Grand Square) and find something to eat... After a proper Belgian meal, beer and coffee, we continued our walk. Taking pictures of whatever we pleased, because that's what we do.
A Baroque church, with, wait... Are those, hands? Yes! Yes! They are hands sticking out of a church! Crazy! I'd never seen anything like that before.
Taking pictures sure does make you thirsty.
What's this? A bar in the cellar of a church! Cool! By far, the best bar I've been to in Belgium, this is 't Poatersgat, or The Monk's Hole.
Soon we were on our way, walking and taking photos.
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The only thing I was looking forward to was getting rid of that brown door. I got rid of it all right. They painted it an even darker brown. Now it looks like a giant dark chocolate Hershey bar.
And the last owner put in nice light fixtures with clear glass for maximum light. The new owner ripped those out and replaced them with a tiny fixture with dark plastic that blocks the light coming through. And they are butt ugly. I hope we move and soon. UGH.
|Me in front of the Hershey Bar door. The new Dark Chocolate Hershey Bar Door.
|The old fixture is the tiny one in the corner. I hate the new one, and they put one on the back porch too.
|Three days after they bought the place, this is what I came home to.


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Constructing => General Discussion => Topic started by: leoanem on July 23, 2012, 02:11:52 PM
Rating the difficulty of crosswords
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Hello everyone !!!
I am new to this site and I find it very interesting and useful for those in the crossword business . I currently prepare some crosswords and I am interested in rating them so that the solver selects the ones he prefers . I have a database with rated words and clues but I would like to know if there is or could be a rule about rating a crossword . An imaginary example of a rule is in a 11x11 crossword if there 4 and more difficult word-clues then it is rated difficult . Could anyone help me with that?
Thank you in advance
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July 25, 2012, 03:41:40 PM
Most crossword puzzles are rated difficulty-wise by the day of the week on which they appeared (with the exception of Sunday). Mondays are usually the easiest, and Fridays/Saturdays the hardest. Usually, clues, fill, and themes get more difficult and complex as the week progresses. If you want to build a database centered around difficulty, this is where I would start. Good luck!
Re: Rating the difficulty of crosswords
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July 27, 2012, 11:50:37 AM
Thank you very much for your response . However ,my question is more about the constructing part of the crosswords. I will refer to a similar situation regarding themed crosswords. I have read the invaluable quidelines of Nancy Salomon who says that for a 15x15 crossword there could be the following theme entry lengths :
-Three 15's
-Two 12-15 letter entries and one 15
-Two 14-15 letter entries and one 13
This ,of course is a general advice bout it is very helpful for a beginner in order to follow a rule and create some themed puzzles.
So my question is if there is a similar rule for level of difficulties . I have a huge database word-clue-rating (1 up to 5 ) and I would like to know what percentage of 4s and 5s rated word-clues should be included in a crossword so that is defined as difficult. I know that this is a difficult question but even a small tip would be very useful for me.
Thank you in advance
Re: Rating the difficulty of crosswords
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July 27, 2012, 03:09:41 PM
I don't know that there's any hard and fast rule for the number of hard answers/clues that make a puzzle difficult. For one thing, a hard answer can be really easy with the right clue, and a really easy answer can be devilish with a challenging clue. Plus, there are aspects of the puzzle's shape that make things harder or easier that are independent of the difficulty of each individual answer or word. For example, puzzles with very few black squares are generally harder because the fill tends to be "denser" (i.e. larger chunks of fill). Puzzles with more "Theme squares" tend to be harder because theme answers tend to be harder to solve and the more theme squares there are, the more often the constructor will have to resort to less-than-stellar fill. Other aspects of a puzzle that make it harder is the average word length (longer words are generally harder to solve than shorter words), words with more proper nouns (these often fall in the "you know it or you don't" category), and puzzles with more open squares (squares that don't touch black squares in any direction). To rank puzzles by difficulty would require quantifying these aspects of a puzzle's geometry in addition to taking into account a puzzle's clues/answers. Or, at least, that's my opinion!
Oh, and some theme types are generally harder than other theme types. For example "quote" or "pun" puzzles tend to be pretty challenging, as are rebus puzzles.
Re: Rating the difficulty of crosswords
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Thank you very much for your valuable advice . Actually , I will do exactly that . Take into account all these aspects , maybe quantifying them and then try to rank puzzles .
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An 82-year-old man named John Hetlinger certainly proves age is just a number. Hetlinger appeared on "America's Got Talent" and shocked the judges and audience with his performance of Drowning Pool's song, "Bodies." Awesome!
The 82-year-old singer rocked the house with his rendition of Drowning Pool's "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor," stunning all four judges.
Hetlinger performed his rendition of the popular song, while rocking his khaki pants and white polo shirt.
John told the audience he had served in the Navy four years, two years in a patrol squadron in Okinawa.
He was a navy pilot, a minister, and then an aerospace engineer for Ball Aerospace in Boulder. Hetlinger worked on a team that made repairs to the Hubble telescope.
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