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SJSU Nursing Fall 2012
I already applied for Nursing at SJSU for Fall 2012 and I am just waiting for the acceptance/nonacceptance now. I am beyond stress and worried that I might now get in because I am competing with so many smart applicants. I impaction is extremely low, its a 10.08, and usually the cut off are around 10.02-10.10, so I am basically at the cut off point. I am proud of my impaction score because I know that I did the BEST I could, but the problem is maybe my best isn't enough. I really want to focus on my current classes right now, but I find it extremely hard while I wait for my possible denied letter. I don't have an option B career, nursing has been the only thing I wanted to do ever since I was little, so if I don't get in, i'll be extremely disappointed and depressed. I contacted the nursing committee to ask them when they will be sending out the acceptance/denied letters, and they said they would be sending letters out the first week of May. Waiting is really tiring. I okay to wait if you know you have a high impaction score and have a high chance of getting in the nursing program, but if you have a low impaction score like me; in the range of being cut off, it's really nerve racking. I really hope someone understands what I am going through, because I it's really hard to express with words how I am feeling right now. Thank you guys. I appreciate any advices/input! What was the lowest impaction score that got into the nursing program your semester?Last edit by biglaughter on Apr 7, '12
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What was the lowest impaction score that got in your semester?
I should I do if I don't get accepted?
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Joined: Apr '12; Posts: 60Apr 7, '12I really didn't get what the "poll" thing was about, so I just wrote in questions. Please answer them instead. Thank you.Apr 14, '12I hope you don't mind that I'm bumping up your thread! I just got an acceptance letter from SJSU today. I'm very curious if anyone else here is planning to go. I'm still waiting to hear from three other programs, but I live near San Jose so I'm happy to have the option.
And did you find out as well, biglaughter?
ETA: Mods, maybe we should move this thread to the California Nursing Programs forum for more responses?Apr 15, '12Moved to CA Nursing Programs for more response.Apr 16, '12you got an acceptance letter already? CONGRATS on getting in! I didn't think they would be done. I don't think that I will get accepted, may I ask, what was your impaction score? I am so nervous...*sigh*, I really dont know what to do. Thank you for your response.Apr 16, '12I thought they were suppose to send letters of acceptance/nonacceptance early May? I feeling really depress right now, if you already received your letter and I still have not, that probably means I did not get in. What am I suppose to do now.....I feel like crying....Apr 16, '12I am sorry my post upset you. Keep in mind that I just got the letter on Saturday and I live very near San Jose. It says that they are only accepting 65 students but hints there is a waiting list. We have two weeks to respond so I think that is for the benefit of the wait listed students. I was very surprised to hear from them so soon, too.Apr 16, '12I am not upest, just a sad that's all. But I thought they are accepting only 60 students? Can you tell me where you are getting all this information? It's not that I don't trust you, but I also want to know too. Thank you. I also live near San Jose, near Capital and Snell, that is consider near right. I am just every paranoid right now, i dont know whether i am missing something on my application or not, know what I mean?Apr 16, '12All the information from my last post was from the acceptance letter they sent me. Did you take the WST and finish most of your prerequisites? I forget what my impaction score is, but I got a 92.7% on the TEAS, 4.0 on my last 30 units, and I think a 4.0 on my prereqs if you disregard my English 1A which I had as AP Credit from high school. Did you apply to any other programs?
Feel free to ask me any other questions, as well. HugsApr 16, '12No wonder why you got in, your impaction is like a 11.90, which is ridicuously high. My impaction score is only 10.08, which is at the cutoff point. I only apply to two programs. Yes, I have finish all the WST (I failed the first time, and took ENG 96s to pass) and prerequisites. I hope the rest of the applicants are not as intelligent as you, otherwise I will definitely not make it in the nursing program. I am waiting anxiously for my letter. Thank you so much for replying, I really need someone to talk to. A stupid question: was the letter you received a big manila enveloped or a small one, I am so paranoid....I am not having high hopes for anything, just want to prepare myself if I recieve a nonacceptance letter.Apr 16, '12but the way, does your acceptance letter tell you what was the lowest impaction score that got accepted into the program?
is there anything else important in the letter that I should know about? Thank you.Apr 16, '12I am so excited! I received my acceptance letter today To the OP: hopefully you will hear from them soon!Apr 16, '12The envelope is a large, white manila envelope. It's not very thick, I was thinking it was probably a denial letter. Anyway, it says they are only accepting 62 students for the Fall. I am still waiting for the decision from CSUEB, but I won't hold my breath as I think that school is more competitive.
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Ice planet.
The latest trailer for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, which premiered at Comic-Con last weekend, is out in the world. We finally get to see what Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and the film's other astronauts are in search of: ice, water, and other things that look like the bottom level of Inception.

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Waid Announces Comic Book Store Partnership with Franco & Baltazar
Mark Waid isn't content with co-owning just one comic book store. Following the announcement earlier this week that he is now a co-owner of Alter Ego Comics in Muncie, Indiana, the "Daredevil" and "Indestructible Hulk" writer announced Thursday that his new store has struck a business partnership with Art Baltazar and Franco, fellow comic creators and owners of Aw Yeah Comics in Skokie, Illinois.
"We'll still maintain our individual identities — one store isn't being absorbed by the other — but we can pool our resources in unique ways," Waid wrote on his Thrillbent blog. "We can design an Aw Yeah Comics!-branded, kid-friendly 'boutique' into Alter Ego that mirrors the Skokie setup. Conversely, we can build more Thrillbent promotion and outreach into the Aw Yeah Comics! storefront. We can meld print and digital in double the locations and strengthen both the stores and Thrillbent."
The deal also includes Alter Ego co-owners, Christy Blanch and Jason Pierce, plus Franco and Baltazar's business partner Marc Hammond. According to Waid, things started when Hammond and Franco visited Alter Ego and asked to invest in the store. The Alter Ego team countered with an offer for the two stores to invest in each other.
Waid described the partnership as "The Image Comics of brick-and-mortar."
"Some people are dissuaded by the phrase 'no one has done this before,' of course, but to the six of us, that's just fuel on the fire," Waid wrote. "A sizable share of our store in exchange for an equal share of their store. A six-way partnership between some of the most prominent and vocal figures in the industry."
Acknowledging the unlikeliness of a digital publisher owning a store selling print comic books, Waid told CBR News, "Digital is not the enemy, and I'll prove it to you. I am putting my money where my mouth is. I am boots on the ground, I've got my checkbook out, I've got the sweat equity in it. I'll work both sides, and let's see what I learn."
Baltazar and Franco, best known for their Eisner-winning "Tiny Titans" at DC Comics, have partnered with Waid before — their all-ages "Aw Yeah Comics" is available through Waid's digital imprint, Thrillbent.
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So as you may already know, due to recent developments I've no publisher and for all intents and purposes I'm riding by the seat of my pants. But I want to let you in on a secret, just a small one – I quite like this situation. I like to do things my own way and under my own steam. And steaming ahead is exactly what I've been doing folks! In fact I've more than one new book on the way and the old books will be revised and republished just as soon as I can get round to it.
So here's a little about my new novel; a historical fiction from the Glens of Antrim. It's based on the life story of certain Thomas McCartney, a 19th century hedgerow teacher who taught in the picturesque town of Whitehead and the surrounding areas. I've painted the front cover myself in acrylic on canvas. So you may find that and the first unedited chapter below. Don't be shy in giving me feedback. I'd love to hear from you no matter who you are. So be brave and fill in that contact form won't you? Best wishes to you all. Sam x
Time is hard to measure in dreams. It could have been several hours or several days since we had first gone down to the Misty Burn to mess about as children do near the old fir tree locals call The Sentry. The wise old evergreen watched us, nodding and shedding its pine needles quietly. In front of it we built our dam using stones and other debris we wrested from the river.
Many years have passed since I dreamt that dream but when I think on it Martha I can still feel the water lapping at my ankles like a multitude of kitten's tongues supping eagerly at a saucer of milk, only much colder than that. It felt real. It feels real; even though it's just a memory of a dream dusted off and brought out into the light.
I can see it as clear as day in fact…
In that far off world my mind created, dappled sunlight filtered through the quivering leaves, beaming down on our mud caked shoes lying forgotten on the bank. Inside them, were the socks our mother made on the long winter nights, her needles gleaming in the firelight as they moved faster and faster beneath our somnolent gaze.
"It's more than they deserve," our stepfather Lyle would say on such nights, his eyes flitting fractiously between our mother and our outstretched forms playing marbles on the rug. I can see his face now, ruddy, robust and rather striking but always there was something implacable in his eyes, something that told me we would always be found wanting.
He had many unfortunate sayings. The one I personally hated most was,
"Bold boys have no need of kindness, Kaitlin. What they need is discipline and a firm hand." It was meant to sound authoritative, fatherly even but when it fell upon my ears it filled me with the knowledge that we were but a grain of sand lodged within the cold shell of him, an irritation that could never be purged; an annoyance beyond all imagining. That feeling was mutual. We were locked in our endless battles day and night, year upon year, with no way to escape. We confused each other, wasted so much time. For instance, he had no understanding of what it meant when we used the socks Mother made us to catch tadpoles and turned them into mits when making snowballs. Our 'naughtiness' offended him. Later it would enrage him. But for now this story is about the dream I had then and those endlessly darned socks…the rest will make its own way I believe, if we let it.
So down by the Burn I had started to feel that we were soon going to have need of those socks since it was mid afternoon and the air already had a distinctly chilly edge to it. My brother Robert did not seem to pay it any mind though. On slippery bedrock his smaller feet were splayed out in confidence. In his left hand he held a dripping rock and with the other he gestured animatedly at whatever it was that had caught his attention somewhere at the top of the Sentry. It turned out to be a Jay.
As he stared I watched his fascination grow, his long dark lashes fluttering rapidly, the colour growing high in his cheeks like twin sunsets in an autumn sky. In low whispers we speculated about the Passerine and where it had stumbled upon the acorn protruding either side of its beak. We guessed it had to be somewhere near the sheep bridge where the oak trees shivered and brambles grew and the stones roundabout were covered in a thick green velvet moss. Squirrels often stockpiled them there for such times when food was scarce but the odd one was sometimes forgotten or lost in which case it usually became a baby oak or a meal for some other favoured creature. The latter must have happened in this case.
The bird was proud of its prize. He took it to his untidy nest of roots, horse hair and fibres, built in the most precarious of places where his mate waited patiently for her champions return with eyes of shining black. But Robert could not content himself with just this fleeting glimpse of her. He wanted far more than that. He stumbled forward hoping for a better view, then slipped, twisting sideways, dropping the heavy flint beside his chalk white feet sending splinters of it far and wide. Most flew into the rushing water to become precursors of what would one day be sand. The remainder rolled a few feet more gathering momentum till it crashed and demolished a small portion of our afternoon work. With the dam thus compromised the river did the rest.
"Ye daft ejit," I cried, hurrying over to him. I helped him up and tilted his chin roughly this way and that to check for damage. "Ye almost smashed ye heid in. An' luk at the state of the dam."
Water was pouring through the gaps, making wider and wider holes. Logs were dislodged and sticks floated away. He ignored my rebukes and inspected a flapping hole in his trousers. They were beyond repair. We would catch it for that. I told him so.
"Faither ul have ye beat," I warned.
"He's nae faither o' mine," he snapped.
I decided to say nothing. I could see he was vexed. His jaw still throbbed as he splashed his way over to the trees crinkled girth and looked up sharply no doubt thinking that the bird must be gone by now. But he was wrong.
"There! Do ye see it?" he whispered to me. "The cock bird jus went in an' fed her agaen. I'll wager she's sittin' on a clutch of eggs."
But I had no interest in any of that. His words had triggered something strange, something I didn't expect; a memory or perhaps a premonition. I drew a halting breath and held on to it for several seconds before releasing it and following him over to the tree. Beneath its twisted boughs the deep foreboding continued to grow, spreading like the foulest of moulds. Something was going to happen, I knew it. Something far worse than just the hole in Robert's trousers or the broken dam. The thought of what it could be chilled me. It was hard to move, hard to breathe. My limbs grew stiff and clumsy. Was the cold I felt actually fear? Or was the fear I felt actually cold?
When you're a child such things can be difficult to tell. I remember asking myself in the midst of the dream why it should have been fear that I was feeling. After all it was no different than all the other times we had collected eggs as far as I could see and we had done so a great many times. From the moment we were old enough to go out and play in the fields of Glenwherry, Robert and I had collected eggs from the surrounding hedgerows and fields. It was a common pastime for country boys and so was the tree climbing that tended to go hand in hand with it. Yet on this occasion my passion had fled for no apparent reason that I could see.
"Let her be Rabbie. We've a dam to fix."
I hoped that he would listen to me but already he was grasping my shoulders in his eagerness to ascend.
"It'll only taek a minat."
Desperately I searched for a reason why he shouldn't go.
"It's too high. It's no safe," I said.
He looked at me curiously and gave a little laugh.
I sighed.
"Come awn then. But see an' grip taet whaen ye reach the tawp," I linked my hands for him and braced myself in readiness for his weight.
He scrabbled around and hauled himself up to the lowest branch, puffing and grimacing. From there he planned his advancement to the next.
"Ye look more a feared than me," he called down.
"See an' mind what ye're doin' instead ae runnin' off at the mouth like a gulpin," I retorted.
He laughed at me and bared his lily white bottom.
"Kiss mae erse."
"Enough of yer cheek! It'll not be so funny whaen Lyle thrashes it later," I yelled and threw a handful of sharp gravel with the intention of stinging his buttocks. Hastily he pulled up his breaches and continued his ascent wearing what was admittedly a much happier expression than before.
The climb was challenging enough. But with a little ingenuity and a fair bit of skill (all learnt from me I might add) he reached his destination without incident. At that point I felt all my fears had been for nought. All was safe. Nothing had gone wrong. Then as Robert gently placed the eggs in his cap, I felt something weighty drop into my hands, something unexpected and strangely out of place. For a few seconds I stared dumbly at the axe with its blade curved like a crescent moon. Slowly I turned it around and around. Then I remembered…
Robert was dead or was supposed to be at least. I had killed him twenty years ago.
I called out to him, my voice jagged like the thorns of a sloe bush.
There was a muffled reply but I couldn't make it out. The ghost child was too busy figuring out how he was going to descend without breaking the eggs.
"I'm sorry Robert."
"What? Why are ye sorry? What are ye gan' on aboot doon thar?"
I had no answers for him, only a terrible compunction. The tree had to come down, even though he – Robert, was still in it. That was the way it was supposed to be.
It bit into the wood with ease, splitting the bark from the cambium. Not surprisingly when he realised what was happening, my younger sibling let out a startled shriek.
"Wayit!" he pleaded, doing his best to get down before the tree was felled. The tears were streaming down both our faces. Mine mingled with sweat as I hacked at the lengthy trunk, Robert's made it harder for him to see and therefore harder to descend. On the fourth branch from the bottom he lost his grip and hung for several seconds by one hand frantically trying to claw his way back up.
"Heyelp Tommy, please!"
But I couldn't. All I could do was sob and continue my instinctive chopping like it was the only pastime in the world worth living for – even when Robert lost his hold and fell to the ground with a sickening crack. With the last swing I bowed my head, not caring at all if the falling fir wiped me out also. An elongated creak heralded the ensuing crash and then the old Sentry hit the other side of the Misty Burn sending a cloud of dust and frightened birds into the air. All was still except for the blood in my veins. It hurtled at great velocity, surging and pounding through me as I hurried over to face what I had done. Seeing him was excruciating. I scooped him up and held him to me, my head just grazing his chest. My eyes were squeezed painfully shut, from them tears fell heavy as silver. When they were spent I opened my eyes only to discover that the river was now gone and that we were in a house, in a room of green, with tall stems of bamboo scattered across wallpaper and a rickety unmade bed of brass pushed up against the wall. I recognised it as our old room.
"Rabbie, if only I knew then what I know now" I mumbled to the wasted body. "I could have saved you. But it's too late."
Then the slap of sea water commanded that I should wake.
I obeyed with a gasp and coughed hard, glancing about me. Where was I? And why was it so dark and cold?
The roar of the elements remained close so I listened in the darkness to them waiting for answers to come to me. Just when I thought my sanity had fled a flash of lightening illuminated my surroundings. I digested what I'd seen in those split seconds, the meaning of the rock all around me, the rain and the thick woollen blanket. So this was home. This was my cave. There were no duck down pillows here or gently glowing embers to keep me warm. But somehow it felt full of belonging. It was all mine, this place of my own. Here, I answered to none.


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The second project I worked with Fyodor Golan on was with the addition of Microsoft Brand Lab to create a live reactive centrepiece for the fashion designers SS15 show for London Fashion Week.
Located in the victorian railway arches underneath Waterloo station, the collection revolved around the theme of 'digital romanticism', glitches and corruption from the vhs era.
I worked as part of an integrated team with Fyodor Golan, leading the concept of the structure and the content to be displayed on it during the show. The final design was a 4m x 4m pyramid floating 1 inch from the floor in the middle of the catwalk.
The pyramid was custom made from Barrisol, acting as a four sided rear projection screen. Each face displayed a different live feed from members of the audience during the show. Four members of the audience shot the show with the new Microsoft Lumia 830 running a custom app created for the show. Before the content was sent to the pyramid to be displayed it went through a render process to distort the footage. The distortion applied was a direct reference from the fashion designer's collection from the show. Distortion, warping and channel splitting was applied using Nuke before being sent to playback machines to be displayed, all with only 0.7 seconds delay from phone to projector running at 10fps.
My role within this project involved detailing the design of the pyramid and its relationship to its environment and visual design of the on-screen content. I also organised the various teams involved which included, riggers, projectionists, fabricators and developers in two week turnaround project.


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Comcast subscribers see fee for once-free digital adapters
When Michael Zalokar of Winfield opened his Comcast cable TV bill this week, he suddenly noticed extra charges; two digital adapters, which had been free, now cost $1.99 each.
"That bites the wallet," he said.
He and his family have been Comcast customers since November 2006 and had enjoyed having those digital adapters for free and never expected the fees. Then Zalokar went back and found that a note was added to his January bill, under the "New from Comcast" section.
It said, "Please see the enclosed information regarding upcoming changes to prices for select video and Internet services and equipment."
"Perhaps that referred to what was on pages 3 through 6," Zalokar said. "I have long since recycled pages 3 through 6. Like I have the time to go sift through that much information."
Like Zalokar, other customers also noticed the additional fee for the digital transport adapter, a small device that lets you watch programming from an all-digital cable network on your older, analog TV. When we contacted Comcast's Midwest headquarters in Schaumburg, the company said the new charges are justified.
When Comcast began moving toward full digital distribution in 2008, it provided up to two digital adapters to customers at no additional charge with Standard/Expanded Basic Cable, said spokeswoman Angelynne S. Amores.
That digital transition brought free additional channels, including History International, Biography, C-SPAN 3, G4, Sprout, Bloomberg News and Hallmark Movie Channel. The adapters also provided customers with improved picture quality, she said.
"The deployment of DTAs allowed us to increase the number of HD channels from about 30 to as many as 100 channels, depending on your area, and faster Internet speeds," Amores said. "We are also beginning the deployments of HD-DTAs, which will provide customers a less expensive way to access HD services on additional outlets, as well as deployments of an interactive guide for the DTAs. Bringing these enhancements to our customers requires significant investment, and we feel the nominal fee now being implemented for DTAs appropriately reflects the additional value of the service," she said.
With the additional $3.98 plus taxes and fees, Zalokar's monthly bill went to about $100 a month, he said.
"I'll still remain a customer," he said. "There aren't too many options."
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By MALCOLM JOHNSON; Courant Film Critic
October 19, 2001
Shortly after it begins, Penny Marshall's "Riding in Cars With Boys" begins to feel a bit like a clumsy revision of "Laverne and Shirley," except that Drew Barrymore and Brittany Murphy play pregnant 15-year-olds, not brewery co-workers. Then things take a turn for the worse. The real-life story of Barrymore's Beverly Donofrio turns into "Stella Dallas"--the Bette Midler version. Marshall's film begins in the '50s, a time when actors nearing 30 routinely played teenagers, so there is ample precedent for Barrymore impersonating an adolescent.
Grandmother Charged With Drunken Driving With Grandson In Car
By DAVID OWENS, firstname.lastname@example.com
September 8, 2014
NAUGATUCK — A grandmother faces a child endangerment charge after she was caught driving drunk with her grandson in the car, police said. Deborah Jaffer, 60, of Oxford, was stopped at 5:35 p.m. Friday on Rubber Avenue, police said. Police said an officer saw her drinking an alcoholic beverage while she was driving and pulled her over. Police found that her grandson, who is younger than 10, was in the car. She was charged with drunken driving and risk of injury to a minor and released without having to post bail.
Suggests Banning Deadly Cars
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July 2, 2014
Regarding the editorial "Check Guns At The Door" [June 20]: Guns are so scary and they kill so many people. Why, almost as many people are killed by guns as are killed by motor vehicles. More than 30,000 die each year in motor vehicle accidents. I hope the Connecticut congressional delegation will urge our lawmakers to ban motor vehicles from the highways of this nation. We will be safer and it will be less scary. If you could save just one life, wouldn't you be willing to give up your driver's license and registrations?
Mustang Featured At Middlesex County Historical Society Antique Car Show
Deborah D. Shapiro, Middlesex County Historical Society and Middletown
September 8, 2014
All eyes at the Middlesex County Historical Society's 29th Annual Antique Car Show and Flea Market will gravitate to this year's featured car, a 1964 Ford Mustang. It will motor to the show, located at an all new location, Palmer Field adjacent to Washington Street, Route 66 in Middletown on Sunday, Oct. 5. Car registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and judging starts at 11:30 a.m. with trophies awarded at 2:30 p.m. General admission is $3 and children under 12 are free. Car registration is $10. Although cars registered for judging must be dated 1989 or older, there is no cut-off date for cars being placed in the car corral.
Cars Can Be Booted On Private Property
By DON STACOM, firstname.lastname@example.com
November 13, 2010
Falling behind on automobile taxes just got riskier. The city is threatening to put wheel clamps on the cars of tax delinquents, even if the vehicles are parked in private driveways. Employees of VioAlert, a private contractor, have been prowling public streets and parking lots for months to find cars registered to people who owe taxes. This week, the city raised the stakes by authorizing VioAlert to go after cars parked on private property, too. City officials say they're confident the system is legal and that VioAlert won't be guilty of trespassing, even if its workers are on private property against the owner's wishes.
When Cars Were Cars
By PAMELA MITCHELL
September 11, 1997
More than 200 antique and classic cars will fill the lawn of Hill- Stead Museum Sunday. The "Hill-Stead Classic Car Festival," presented with the Connecticut Council of Car Clubs, features a pinewood derby, hayrides, petting zoo, magic, tunes with WDRC's Brad Davis, crafts and lots of cars, including this 1929 Packard Phaeton shown here. A preview party, featuring Peter Duchin & His Orchestra, takes place Friday from 7 p.m. to midnight. Tickets are $150. Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine.
Historic Trolley Cars Stripped Of Copper, Brass
February 19, 2012
Volunteers at The Connecticut Trolley Museum discovered yesterday morning that four of their historic trolley cars were stripped of copper and brass. Thieves used a crowbar to break into the barn and steal various fixtures- like window latches. Wood and windows were seriously damaged, wires were cut and control gear was ripped out of the cars. Volunteers estimate damages to be in the tens of thousands of dollars. They're asking anyone with information to contact East Windsor Police Department at 860-292-8240. Also- if you're interested in donating to help with repair costs, call the museum at 860-627-6540.
At Least 17 Cars Broken Into
March 1, 2010
Police said that at least 17 cars were broken into between Friday night and Saturday morning in the area of Nortontown Road, Glenwood Road and Murray Lane in the eastern portion of town. Police found that all the vehicles had been left unlocked, and items were stolen including GPS units, jewelry and loose change. Officers are investigating. "A single set of footprints in the snow was discovered going into just about every driveway in the area," a police press release said. Police are urging residents to make sure their cars are locked and to not leave valuable items in plain sight inside the car. Anyone with information about the thefts is asked to call Officer Mark Thompson or Officer Michael Tullo at 860-453-8061.
Police Warn Residents About Car Burglaries
August 26, 2011
Recent thefts from parked cars has prompted police to remind residents to lock their vehicles to deter thieves. Police warned there have been "overnight thefts from vehicles recently on Hillcrest, Meggat Park, and 700's section of Wolcott Hill roads. Police suggest people check that cars are locked, that they removing valuables from view and leave a driveway light on at night to discourage burglars from breaking into vehicles. —Bill Leukhardt
LETTER: Cars Aren't For Killing
March 20, 2013
In response to "Should We Call Drivers Murderers?" [March 13, courant.com/letters]: If a given driver or a shooter kills, then he is a killer. Don't go all guilt-by-association on us here. No car, properly used, has killed anyone. Guns, on the other hand, have that as their only purpose. Simple ownership is not a crime. When's the last time a secured weapon or parked car harmed anyone? The examples don't hold any water. The real problem is that people who have guns frequently lose control and the results are bloody.
Two Madison Residents Die In Maine Car Crash
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September 6, 2014
BOOTHBAY, Maine - Two Madison residents died in a car crash in Maine Friday morning, police said. Donald Hudson, 85, and Doreen Hudson, 67, were traveling north on Route 27 in Boothbay, Maine, around 10:30 a.m. when the car veered to the right, went down a ditch, hit an embankment, went airborne, flipped over, and hit a utility pole and many trees before landing on its roof, police said. Police did not say who was driving the car. No other vehicle was involved in the crash, police said.
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1. Noun. A judgment entered after a written confession by the debtor without the expense of ordinary legal proceedings.
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Wednesday, May 29 will mark the 100 anniversary of the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
So why do we care?
Because this premiere was a game-changer. Many scholars would argue that, along with the premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, no other work in this history of Western music had the seismic effect that Rite of Spring had at its premiere.
What happened at the premiere?
Stravinsky's conception for Rite came to him as he was finishing The Firebird in 1910. He had a vision of "a solemn pagan rite; wise elders, seated in a circle, watching a young girl dance herself to death. They were sacrificing her to propitiate the god of spring." Stravinsky knew that Nicholas Roerich, a friend who was an archeologist and an authority on the ancient Slavs, would be interested in his idea, and he mentioned it to him. Stravinsky also shared the vision with Serge Diaghilev, impresario of the Ballet Russe, the company that had commissionedThe Firebird. All three men were excited by the possibilities of the project — Diaghilev promised a production and encouraged Stravinsky to begin work immediately.
"What I was trying to convey in The Rite," said Stravinsky, "was the surge of spring, the magnificent upsurge of nature reborn." Inspired by childhood memories of the coming of spring to Russia ("which seemed to begin in an hour and was like the whole earth cracking," he remembered), he worked with Roerich to devise a libretto which would, in Roerich's words, "present a number of scenes of earthly joy and celestial triumph as understood by the ancient Slavs." Stravinsky labored feverishly on the score through the winter of 1911-1912, realizing by that time that he was composing an important piece in a startling new style. "I was guided by no system whatever in The Rite of Spring," he wrote. "Very little immediate tradition lies behind it. [Debussy was the only influence he admitted.] I had only my ear to help me. I heard, and I wrote what I heard. I am the vessel through which The Ritepassed."
Diaghilev scheduled the premiere for May 1913, and Nijinsky was chosen to do the choreography. Stravinsky, however,
objected to Nijinsky's selection because of the dancer's inexperience as a choreographer and his lack of understanding of the technical aspects of the music, but preparations were begun and continued through more than 120 rehearsals. Pierre Monteux drilled the orchestra to the point of anxious readiness. The guests invited to the final dress rehearsal seemed to appreciate the striking modernity of the work, but gave no hint of the donnybrook that was to roar through the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées at the public premiere on May 29th.
Almost as soon as the curtain rose, a riot broke out the like of which had not been inspired by a piece of music since Nero's song of antiquity. Shouts, catcalls, whistles, even fisticuffs grew so menacing that often the orchestra could not be heard. Diaghilev flashed the house lights on and off in a vain attempt to restore order; Nijinsky, when he was not on stage, pounded wildly on the scenery with his fists to keep the dancers together; Stravinsky ran out of the auditorium ("as angry as I have ever been in my life") and spent most of the evening backstage pacing in the wings. Somehow Monteux ("cool as a crocodile," recalled Stravinsky) guided the performance through to the end. Puccini thought The Rite "might be the creation of a madman" and the critic of the New York Sun nominated the composer as "the cave man of music."
No one could deny, however, the ferocious, overwhelming power of the music, and when audiences began to listen to the work on its own, revolutionary terms, they could not help but be swept away by its awesome and wonderful maelstrom of exquisitely executed sound. Within a year of its stage premiere, Koussevitzky in Russia and Monteux in Paris had conducted concert performances of The Rite, and the work's position in the orchestral repertory was soon secured.*
Rite's choreography struck a nerve with audiences as well. Nijinsky asked the dancers to break all the rules of traditional ballet by having them stand pigeon toed with their other limbs at sharp angles.
The sets and costumes from the original production were designed and created by the mystical painter and professional ethnographer Nikolai Roerich. Three of the original costumes and a sketch by Roerich will be on display at theWadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford starting from May 29-June 23. Patrons who visit the museum from May 29-June 2 may present their admission receipt in person at HSO Ticket Services on May 29- 31 or at The Bushnell Box Office from May 29-June 2 to receive $5 off an adult ticket (does not apply to previously purchased tickets). Additionally, HSO audiences will be able to present their Rite of Spring performance ticket stub at the Wadsworth Atheneum from May 31-June 23 to receive $5 off museum/adult admission. For more information about the Wadsworth Atheneum, please visit www.thewadsworth.org.
As with stage performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth, the lore and mystery surrounding this premiere is still carried by performers today. HSO Maestra Carolyn Kuan said in a recent tweet, "Immersed in the world of #RiteofSpring and feeling intoxicated with that wonderful artistic madness." Like a scar, the wildness of the premiere forever ensured that all future performances would be possessed by a chaotic, haunting character.
The HSO will honor this groundbreaking premiere 100 years later with four full performances of Rite of Spring, featuring more than 100 musicians onstage and two soloists from The Hartt School Dance Division on Thursday, May 30 – Sunday, June 2, 2013 at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts. For tickets and more information, please visit http://www.hartfordsymphony.org.
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A few weeks ago I reported that Americans had placed their "hope and faith" in one man, our president, to get us out of the various severe crises our country currently is in. Since then I've been asked several times if I actually believed in what I wrote.
I replied that "yes," for the sake of America, we all want the president to succeed, but with certain conditions, meaning not all of the radical socialist programs he made on the campaign trail. We hoped those were made just to pacify his hard left supporters, and when sworn in he would work with Republicans to make the "changes" he promised to be more acceptable to the public in general.
So far, sad to say, in several areas he has disappointed us. For example, his ordering the closing of the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo without first planning where in America he would hold these terrorists. No state seems to want the terrorists in their prisons. These are bad people who only want to kill all of us. This was just an act on the altar of global appeasement.
Then he gives his first television interview to a Muslim TV Station, not an American one. He says how he wants to play nice with all Muslims worldwide to win their hearts and minds.
Following this act he follows with his selected appointments to his cabinet. It appears all of them are of the same mind set, that there are no bad guy terrorists, only common criminals that should best be handled by police, not our military.
We can just see ahead that our military will be decimated as we won't be able to afford them, by re-distribution of tax money to minorities, foreign illegals and paying for abortions in foreign countries under the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) and the list goes on. A major act has been to agree to put those American troops in combat situations, when accused, usually of murder, under the courts of the U.N.'s International Court System.
Can you imagine what this does to a Marine's mind on the battlefield, having to stop and think; should I not shoot and let them go because maybe I can't prove their actions in court? Maybe I should read them their new-found rights? Some prospect for our troops to think about.
Remember, this enemy now also has "habeas corpus rights," and even all Americans don't have this protection, thanks to President Bush's executive order.
Now we can discuss the future of our intelligence services such as the CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA and 15 intelligence entities all together. By the looks and statements made by those individuals appointed, their intentions are to dismantle and destroy our ability to listen in on telephone calls from various enemy countries to the U.S. via communication intercepts. It will be forbidden to find out what those terrorists intend to do, i.e. where they will attack us.
It has been proven it works. It has saved noted important sites in America, Britain and elsewhere. But these services will be decimated badly, just like they were under President Clinton, they all have pre-9/11 mentalities.
By all this shutting down of needed services, the terrorists know they can't be "harmed" in any way when captured. They will just give their name, rank and serial number, and Americans will read them the rules of the Army manual regarding interrogation, which is nothing.
I expect Israel knows it has probably lost any assistance, military or otherwise, with this election and this is our only ally in the Middle East. They will stop holding back their defense at our request. So we will probably see a first strike on Iran soon, as well as perhaps other increased activity by the Israeli military.
Why not, they are on their own now and thus we can look for Iranian retaliation against various American targets. Other terrorist organizations will join in to hit us. Not a smart military decision as seen by our military leaders.
It is apparent from seeing the names of individuals appointed to the president's cabinet that we can expect a steady erosion of rights we have enjoyed for 200 years. We'll be told it's "for our own good." Many more restrictions we'll see are on home schooling, gun ownership, encouraged continual dependence on the ever-present government.
Have you seen the Web sites and mass e-mails offering "free grants," courtesy of our president, another cover for his re-distribution of workers wealth? There will be many more nanny state provisions put in place to protect the "disadvantaged" and poor and various illegals.
It has already brought out the Hillary Clinton, "Trojan Horse," meaning the reintroduction of the SCHIP bill, which liberals call a step to cover needy children with health care, when in reality it's for anything but. It is the first step for socialist national health care for everyone. This bill was badly defeated a year or so ago when Americans found out what it really was as the fog, smoke and mirrors were removed.
The devil is in the details, so don't be fooled again. Get those telephones ringing to your congressmen and senators, as well as e-mail.
Here is where groups such as the mentally handicapped, elderly (are you listening?) and terminally ill are slowly pushed toward euthanasia. This will all be done under feel good phrases like "death with dignity, not wanting to be a burden" and "merciful release from suffering." All this is just killing people without their consent for the "good of the people."
We previously failed as a nation to a point we are looking to one man to take care of us, to be a father-figure as well as our sugar daddy. A question arises, where is the "can and must do" attitude of our forefathers? Today, we find so many sniveling, whining citizens with the idea they are owed something. We have truly gone from being honorable defenders of freedom to being told we are the problem – and far too many Americans are buying into this lie.
There are people who won't, refuse to, or can't think for themselves. They want our leaders to be inspiring and hope they will do right. We are told we must believe we are just one big family in the overall world and the real facts repeatedly tell us we are not.
I have stayed away from the numerous "bailouts" of various industries, the newest stimulus package where Congress requests even more tax money, and how high will taxes really go? Amnesty for illegals, control of education, judicial nominees and eliminating union secret ballot efforts; all kinds of goodie subjects delve into, all for your benefit and education of this corrupt world.
Robert E. Beckner lives in Majestic Oaks with his wife, Sarah. He is a retired private investigator and insurance adjuster. He has also been a photographer and served with the Military Police in the Marine Corps.
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"O'Rourke was born on January 18, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois. He is an alumnus of DePaul University. He has released albums of jazz, noise, glitchy electronica and rock music. O'Rourke has collaborated with Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Derek Bailey, Mats Gustafsson, Mayo Thompson, Brigitte Fontaine, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Merzbow, Nurse with Wound, Phill Niblock, Fennesz, Organum, Phew, Henry Kaiser, Flying Saucer Attack, and in 2006 mixed Joanna Newsom's album Ys. In 2009, he also mixed several tracks on Newsom's follow up Have One On Me.
He has produced albums by artists such as Sonic Youth, Wilco, Stereolab, Superchunk, Kahimi Karie, Quruli, John Fahey, Smog, Faust, Tony Conrad, The Red Krayola, Bobby Conn, Beth Orton, Joanna Newsom and U.S. Maple. He mixed Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album and produced their 2004 album, A Ghost Is Born, for which he won a Grammy Award for "Best Alternative Album". During the recording of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, O'Rourke collaborated with Wilco member Jeff Tweedy and pre-Wilco Glenn Kotche under the name Loose Fur. Their self-titled debut was released in 2003 with a follow-up in 2006 entitled Born Again in the USA. He also mixed the unfinished recordings that made up a planned third album by the late American singer-songwriter Judee Sill, recorded in 1974 and mixed by O'Rourke for a 2005 release.
O'Rourke was once a member of Illusion of Safety, Gastr Del Sol (with David Grubbs) and Sonic Youth. Beginning in 1999 he played bass guitar, guitar and synthesizer with Sonic Youth, in addition to recording and mixing duties with the group. He withdrew as a full member in late 2005, but continued to play with them in some of their side projects. In the early 1993, O'Rourke formed an avant-rock group with Darin Gray and Dylan Posa called Brise-Glace. The band released one studio album, When in Vanitas..., in 1994. They also released a 7" in the same year titled In Sisters All and Felony/Angels on Installment Plan.
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Swirled Peppermint Bark
Tips: This is pretty and festive-looking, and, depending
upon how you make it, can be a good project for little kitchen elves
at holiday time. There are two ways to go here: you can use supermarket
chocolate and candy canes, or, for a more adult or sophisticated
crowd, use best-quality chocolate and better candy canes. Where
to find the latter? I order my candy canes from Hammond's
in Colorado (www.hammondscandies.com); they're large, beautiful,
and quite pepperminty. Conveniently, however, each Hammond's
candy cane weighs in at 2 ounces, so you needn't weigh or
measure them; just use two for each batch of this. To crush candy
canes, I break them up while they're still in their wrappers
by whacking them on a table several times. Afterwards, unwrap them,
and place the pieces in a resealable one-gallon plastic bag. Close
the bag, forcing out any air. Enclose this bag in another gallon
bag and seal the second bag, pressing out any air. Place bags on
a table or flat work surface. Whack the candy cane chunks with a
rolling pin or cooking pot until most pieces are no larger than
pea-sized (you'll have a few larger pieces and many smaller;
you'll also have some pink dust, all of which are OK).
The bark should be stored airtight in the refrigerator and brought
to room temperature just before serving; it also freezes nicely
on a short-term basis (thaw and store in the fridge). If it is not
stored airtight, the crushed candy canes may pick up moisture from
the refrigerator and become soggy. This would be a nice gift, and
I'm sure you can substitute milk chocolate for the dark chocolate
if you wish. Incidentally, I can make a batch of this in less time
than I can explain how to do it.
Yield: 1-1/2 pounds
Line a 15 by 10 by 1 inch pan with two lengths of aluminum foil;
there should be enough foil so that the entire inside of the pan
is lined. Fold any overhanging foil back against the outside of
the pan. Place the semisweet chocolate in one medium microwaveable
bowl and the white chocolate in another.
Heat the semisweet chocolate in the microwave at medium (50%) power
for one minute. Remove from microwave; stir thoroughly (about one
minute). Microwave at 50% (medium) power for additional shorter
intervals, stirring thoroughly after each, just until chocolate
is melted and smooth. Set aside at room temperature. Repeat melting
instructions with white chocolate.
Pour the melted semisweet chocolate in a thin stream onto the bottom
of the lined pan, moving the bowl around as you do so. Try to keep
the chocolate about one-half inch away from all of the edges (if
you can't, it's no big deal; doing so just makes handling
the finished product a little bit easier). The melted semisweet
chocolate won't cover the entire bottom of the pan, but that's
OK; just get as large an area covered as you reasonably can. Repeat
the pouring with the melted white chocolate, again covering as large
an area as possible and trying to stay about a half-inch away from
all edges.
Using a toothpick or flat knife, marble the chocolates together,
trying to fill in any gaps so that you have one layer of two types
of chocolate that covers the bottom of the lined pan (except for
that half-inch on all the edges). Don't marble so much that
the two chocolates become blended together, and don't dig
into the foil lining the pan! Sprinkle the crushed candy canes all
over the layer of melted chocolate, as evenly as possible.
Tear off a single sheet of foil about the length of the 15 by 10
pan. Place it directly on top of the candy canes you've sprinkled
on the chocolate. Gently press down on the foil sheet to firmly
embed the crushed candy canes in the chocolate layer. Leave the
foil sheet on top of the bark, and refrigerate the whole thing for
about 30 minutes. At the end of that time, the top sheet of foil
should easily peel off the bark. If it doesn't, refrigerate
the bark about 10 minutes longer, then try again.
Once the top sheet of foil is peeled off, quickly break the bark
into small pieces (I wear plastic gloves to do this, as the heat
of your hands can melt the candy if you don't work quickly
enough). Place the bark pieces in an airtight storage container,
and refrigerate until about 10 to 15 minutes before serving (you
can also serve the bark cold from the fridge).
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ARCHDALE, N.C. -- The family of a vibrant 29-year-old woman is grieving after she died from complications with the flu.
Jennifer Brewer and her family were originally from High Point and moved to Clarksville, Tenn., about two years ago.
She and her parents, Craig and Susan Brewer, were visiting their oldest daughter Renee Brewer in Archdale for Christmas.
"She doesn't look sick! She was perfectly healthy," said Renee, looking at the family's last picture taken together on a trip to Pilot Mountain over the holiday.
Renee said Jennifer started feeling sick two weeks ago but thought it was just a cold or allergies.
"The next day on that Sunday it just progressively got worse. She said, 'I really don't feel good,' and again she didn't want to be a burden. But she said, 'I've got to go to the doctor.'"
Jennifer went to Urgent Care and Renee said she was diagnosed with the flu and early stages of pneumonia. Renee said her sister was treated with prescription Tamiflu and a Z-pak.
Throughout last week, Jennifer felt weak and had a fever on and off, but she had no severe symptoms until last Friday night.
"By that point she couldn't even walk to the couch. We called 911, they came out and by that time she was already turning gray."
Renee said doctors at High Point Regional did everything they could but it was too late; Jennifer was too sick.
She died early Saturday morning on Jan. 4.
"They said she had double pneumonia, the flu and probably a bacterial infection had just went like wildfire through her. They said when that hits you only have minutes to get there."
As Renee comes to terms with losing her best friend, she wants other families to listen to her strong message.
"If this secret killer hits -- it hits. We had only time to get her to the doctor," she explained. "Don't wait. If you start just to sniffle funny, get to the doctor. Don't blow it off that you've got a cold. Or you're going to be like me and you're going to be burying a relative who's way too young to go."
Jennifer's family described her as gentle, loving and giving. She enjoyed antique shopping and turning her photography into spiritual artwork on her computer.
Many of her pieces were used for church bulletins. "Her passion was spreading the word of Jesus," said Renee.
Jennifer did not get a flu shot this year. Renee said the coroner told her family a flu shot may not have prevented her from getting this particular strain of flu.
Health Officials are warning people all over the state to get a flu shot. Even if you still contract the virus, they said your symptoms may be milder if you've had a vaccine.
Jennifer was the state's fourteenth case of flu-related death.
As of Thursday, 21 total cases of flu-related death have been reported in North Carolina.
The Brewer family would like donations sent in Jennifer's honor to the James E. Marshall Foundation dedicated to curing Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.


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Susan's home in New York, where she continues to return until her parents finally pass on and the home is sold.
Grass Valley
Location of Zodiac Cottage where Lyman is writing his book.
New Almaden
Oliver and Susan Ward's first home.
Santa Cruz
Where Oliver and Susan rest after New Almaden and dream of a beautiful mansion.
The remote mining town in Colorado where Oliver works.
The Mexican village where Susan falls in love with a mansion style living and the Mexican culture.
Boise Canyon
The rugged, barren canyon where Oliver, Susan, and their rag tag band live while trying to make the irrigation project succeed.
Walnut Creek
Home of Ellen Ward after leaving Lyman.
University town where Lyman and Rodman both have been professors.
Doppler Effect
A law in physics that is used by the author in this novel as a literary device...
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This math activities book is designed as a resource for helping preschoolers learn about numbers. Each book features 101 teaching ideas related to the number theme. The skill-building activities in this book invite children to explore numbers, number recognition and counting. Both cooperative and individual learning are encouraged through the hands-on developmentally appropriate activities. These activities have been correlated to state standards and span multiple curriculum areas including math, language development, science, art, and music.This math activities book is designed as a resource for helping preschoolers learn about numbers.
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Focus: The focus of this self-help article is to provide steps and information to duplicate, copy or clone an existing document.
What type of documents can I duplicate?: You can copy any type of document. Documents that have been uploaded, created using the document builder and documents created from templates.
What will the status be for my new copied document?: When you copy an existing document, it does not matter if it is a draft, sent, for approval, viewed or completed. The new duplicated version will be in a draft status.
What is going to be the new name of the duplicated document?: For example, if you have a document named "General NDA", When you copy it, it will be named "General NDA Copy".
What parts of the document are NOT duplicated?: "Statuses", any "fields" data (example Signature data, initials data, date data, etc..) and any Analytics data. So, if you have a sent, viewed or completed document this will create the new version as a "Draft" and will remove any data in "fields" and remove any analytical data.
Step 1: Find the document to copy. Go to Documents on the left. Click the checkbox next to the document name. Click on "Duplicate" on the top row.
Step 2: New copy. You will see the new copy show up in the document list.
Step 3. Once it has been duplicated, open the document, rename it and you are good to go.


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I was shocked to see a video where a Mesa, AZ principal forced two boys to hold hands as a punishment for fighting (Per AV's comments below, the boys were given a choice of punishments which included this option). The video shows fellow students ridiculing two boys. Let's not focus on the crime (that is not the point). No matter what the reason this punishment is wrought with legal(?) and ethical issues. The situation points a bad, bad light on the principal and the school. Here are the messages the principal sent the students and the community.
"Bullying is OK in my school."
- The principal created a structure where the students could / would / should get harassed.
- Leaders are there to protect students from such behaviors NOT reinforce or create safe havens for those behavior. This principal showed if one has a good reason, it is OK to bully other person.
"One's sexual orientation is cause for harassment."
- The principal allowed / wanted students to be bullied based on 'perceived' sexual orientation.
- Doing this sent the message that being gay (even though the students were not) is bad. The punishment reinforced that gay=wrong=bad and was DESERVING of ridicule.
- Another message sent is that simply being seen as gay (as demonstrated through holding hands) is worse than causing physical injury to another human being.
"Schools are not safe places and should be treated like prisons."
- Schools are often likened to prisons; these acts reinforce that vision.
- By allowing a fist fight to be refocused into a sanctioned verbal attack, the principal created a prison-like (well, the Hollywood version of a prison) environment where punishments can be given by those on the inside.
School leaders have a challenging job. I get that. I honor that. Using one's power to advocate bullying, support homophobic slurs, and to create a prison mentality is simply opposite the call of duty.
Note to the community: The place to put pressure is on the school board. It is their responsibility to create welcoming and comfortable schools. Let's hope they act responsibly.
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Five things for pharma marketers to know: Tuesday, November 29, 2016
1. President-elect Trump selected Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) as the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Price, a critic of the Affordable Care Act, has drafted several bills to replace the healthcare law. (WaPo)
2. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) criticized the 21st Century Cures Act, claiming that the bill in general is full of giveaways to drugmakers and that a reporting exemption for CME would "cover up bribery." (AP)
3. GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty said drugmakers, in the wake of recent criticism around drug pricing, will likely have to get used to making less money. He noted, however, that large markets like the U.S. will still pay for innovation. (FT)
4. Momenta Pharmaceuticals' experimental biosimilar of AbbVie's Humira met its main goal in a Phase-III clinical trial for patients with psoriasis. (Reuters)
5. Pfizer and Eli Lilly often raise the list prices of erectile dysfunction drugs Viagra and Cialis around the same time. This strategy discredits the industry position that competition helps lower prices. (WSJ)


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ShoWest to fete 'Sex and the City 2' cast
Sequel's stars earn film ensemble of the year honorsThe cast of Warner Bros.' upcoming "Sex and the City 2" will be honored as film ensemble of the year at ShoWest 2010.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon will be feted March 18 at an awards gala set to close the annual exhibition confab. ShoWest opens March 15 at the Bally's and Paris hotels in Las Vegas.
"With the success of the first smash hit 'Sex and the City' movie release, based on the hugely popular HBO series, the cast of 'Sex and the City 2' have already garnered commercial and critical success for their roles as four friends making their way through life and relationships in the big city," ShoWest managing director Robert Sunshine said.
"Sex 2" opens May 27.


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The writing and pacing are what distinguish "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" rather than the central concept, which is for the most part a familiar one derived from the question, "What would you do if you were the last person on Earth?" Science fiction writers have been working with that premise for a long time. In this story, the narrator designs and builds robots, and because of her own interests she endows the robots with the capability and desire for sex, reproduction, and, perhaps, love. They will, she believes, continue the evolution of the species homo.
The concept of robots reproducing themselves and replacing humankind isn't a remotely original concept, either, though Murphy uses it well as a reflection of her character's yearnings and sense of meaning. All of the discussion of insect and bird sex in the story ties into the few glimpses of the narrator's own life that she offers, including a vision of her dead mother asking her now, at the end of her own life, "Katie, why didn't you ever fall in love? Why didn't you ever have children?" Katie herself has already told us,
I think perhaps I missed some narrow window of opportunity. If, at some point along the way, I had had a friend or a lover who had made the effort to coax me from hiding, I could have been a different person. But it never happened. In high school, I sought the safety of my books. In college, I studied alone on Friday nights. By the time I reached graduate school, I was, like the pseudoscorpion, accustomed to a solitary life.The rest of the story shows us Katie answering what seem to be her mother's desires -- though she cannot, herself, understand love, and has missed any opportunity for procreation, she has the godlike ability to create creatures that can care for each other and make babies.
The story is both elegiacal and optimistic in a rather typically science fictional way. Indeed, I couldn't help thinking of some of what the narrator in "Invaders" says, because here we have a story of the lonely nerd as lone survivor and savior. Not quite savior of humanity, because humanity seems pretty much dead, but the savior of what the narrator clearly thinks of as a kind of human evolution.
I wonder about the choice of focusing on this character amidst all that is going on in the background (the apparent death of all human civilization). We learn nothing of the war or what has brought complete destruction -- all we know is that "Yesterday ... the bombs fell and the world ended," and then we get a story of a character coming to some self-realization through the creation of robots that will likely repopulate the world with themselves. She creates these robots so quickly and well that I'm tempted to think it's all a delusion -- that "really" she's dying of radiation poisoning and has dreamed the robots and their progeny. She's already admitted to seeing her dead mother, so why not a delusion about saving something of the world? Unfortunately, the story doesn't give us much evidence that we should be skeptical of what Katie tells us, nor does it give us much to do with such an idea.
I suppose it speaks to my own prejudices as a reader that I would prefer the story if it were a more complex study of a fairly ordinary, flawed woman's last, dying delusions. (But then it would be Wittgenstein's Mistress, one of the most interesting and affecting American novels I know.)
Molly Gloss's "Personal Silence" (also in Dozois's anthology), like "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates", takes place during a time of destructive war, but the characters here are not superheroes or exceptions. Though the protagonist, Jay, at first seems exceptional -- he's wandering around the world, looking for a place without war -- he's not the only person on such a journey, and even though he may have been the first, he's not even the most famous. When he meets the 12-year-old girl, Mare, and her father, they aren't especially impressed with him. He's interesting because he relieves the monotony of their days, and he's pleasant enough to have around because he has taken a vow of silence, which makes both Mare and her father more willing to talk to him about personal things than they would be with someone who could respond with speech to what they say. He's not particularly special, but he is useful.
Once Jay has learned of Mare's dreams and that she expects soon to die and to have her death written about in a way that will stop the war, he imagines himself as the vessel for this. But it's clear from the story that this hope is, if not arrogant, at least not a whole lot different from previous hopes he's entertained for himself, none of which have entered reality with the force he imagined them to offer. At the end of the story, Mare isn't dead, but Jay is in the position of wishing for her death so that he, through writing, can save the world. He thinks he has given Mare's life great meaning and her death great power. There is little reason to assume he is right.
"Personal Silence" is a fine companion for "Invaders" in that it offers ways for us to think about storytelling. Though Gloss's tale is less explicit in the questions it asks about wish fulfillment, atrocity, and writing, I think those questions are equally important in the two texts. It's not all of what either is doing, but there is a resonance between the two -- a resonance derived from questions of the silences we choose to break, and the form, thought, and hopes we attach to the noises we send out into the world.


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Pomelos are in season during Chinese New Year. They taste great eaten out of hand but if you'd like to do something different with them, try this tasty salad. Add some cooked scallops or prawns if you'd like.
Instead of cabbage, you can also use string beans, cucumbers or carrots in this salad.


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Party Registration Form
Thank you for supporting women living with HIV/AIDS and orphaned children in South Africa. To reserve your DO Ubuntu Orphan Bracelet Party or Screening, fill in the form below. We will send you a confirmation e-mail when we receive your request.
Every bracelet party order ships standard with one Angels in the Dust DVD for screening, this includes a DO Ubuntu Bracelet Campaign Promo and is yours to keep. We also include glossy black & white Simphiwe Dana postcards and "story cards" for you to package with the bracelets.
A color-coded size chart with 5 bracelet samples will also be shipped with your party pack. These must be returned to the OBC after your party unless they are sold.
Please fill in your personal details below, all boxes marked with * means details are required.
IMPORTANT NOTE: While we require credit card details at the time of your order's confirmation, we will not charge your credit card until AFTER the party. The credit card deposit form can be downloaded from the Resource Page. The total amount charged is based upon the items sold/returned as indicated on your "RETURN ORDER FORM" which you will receive with your shipment. (Non-US orders will be charged at the FOREX rate for the day we receive and process the returned items).
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