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The popular media, statists, intelligentsia, and all other people with a collectivist mentality will push that there is a class warfare in this country. They are correct that there is class warfare in full swing today, but their definition of the antagonists is absolutely incorrect.
Through the indoctrination of children in the public education system, college students in the public universities, and dishonest reporting in the media, we have all been led to believe that the "class war" is all about the wealthy versus the poor. When the entire world was agriculturally based and wealth was a fixed quantity, this may have been true. The owners of the land had a distinct advantage. With the onset of the industrialized world where wealth continues to be created, as opposed to being acquired, this is no longer true. Any individual, in a free society that guarantees individual liberty, has the ability the create wealth through ingenuity and sweat. Thomas Edison, one of the most prolific creators of wealth in history, once said "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration". This man, along with many others throughout history have shown that wealth can be created and is not a static quantity. Therefore, as long as there is a level playing field, equality of opportunity, any individual can elevate their own financial status.
The class war in which we are currently engaged is the political elite versus everyone else. The American people have finally started to awaken to this phenomenon that started one hundred years ago. The collectivists have been slowly usurping this country and establishing their positions of power since Woodrow Wilson was president. While the collectivist elite (more commonly referred to as career politicians) has been slowly acquiring power, the rest of us have been trying to live the American Dream and provide for ourselves and our family. In the 30's and again in the 60's, the collectivist elites made huge strides in establishing themselves as the ruling class by creating large numbers of people fully dependent on the government. A large portion of them originally understood that this is not the promise that America holds, but you can't bite the hand that feeds you.
The elitist class now openly states that we are essentially not smart enough to understand what is good for us. The media keeps us distracted with stories about celebrities behaving badly, and the legal system has devolved into judgement of popular will as opposed to Rule of Law. Most people don't even understand what Rule of Law entails or even the difference between natural rights and government handouts. But there is a growing number of us who do and are speaking up.
Throughout the history of the world, liberty has been secured for the many by the few. It is now time that the few do it again. This country has been usurped by would-be monarchs that promise equality of results instead of equality of opportunity. Those of us that are standing up for individual sovereignty are not racists or any other vilifying term that the "ruling class" or media choose to pin on us. We are Americans who still understand that this is the land of opportunity and all we want government to do is to protect our individual liberty and leave us alone to live our own lives. We all need to be allowed to succeed or fail on our own merits. Liberty must be secured in this generation or there will be none for future generations.
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On both sides of the Missouri River from the mouth of the Platte as far north as Little Bow River, in Cedar County, lived the Omaha tribe. They claimed Nebraska westward as far as the Elkhorn River and Shell Creek. Their great chief Blackbird was the first Indian of this region whose name is known to white men. The Omaha Tribe had about 3000 people.
The Omaha Indians were hunters and planters. During the planting season the men would clear the fields in preparation for planting, whereupon the women would actually do the planting. Hunting was the primary responsibility of the men, with buffalo, deer, bear and small mammals being the targets. Birds and fish were also a part of the Omaha diet. The women would also gather roots and plants like ground nuts, artichokes and mushrooms.
The Omaha Indians used roots and plants, game, birds and fish for food. Some of the roots and plants they used were ground nuts, artichokes, milkweed and mushrooms. They also ate antelope, badgers, bears, buffalo, chipmunk, rabbit, and squirrel. The birds they ate were boiled and roasted. Some birds used were the blackbird, crane, dove, duck, goose, turkey, swan and robin. They fished from streams and lakes. They ate trout, garfish, and pickerel.
They also ate beans, squash, corn and melons.
The Omaha tribe lived in tipis and earth lodges. They lived in tipi's during the fall and winter months when they were hunting buffalo. The tipi was made from 9 to10 buffalo skins and the frame was made from cedar poles that were 14 to 16 feet in length. There was only one black pole and the rest were white. The frame of a tipi could hold up against a fairly heavy wind. The entrance to the tipi faced to the west when the tribe was traveling. It was the women's job to set up the tipis.
The Omaha learned how to make earth lodges from the Pawnee. They lived in the earth lodges during the summer and spring. They stripped the bark of trees and used them as poles. The earth lodge was almost 8 feet high with a dome shaped roof. It was about 20 to 60 inches in diameter. There was an opening at the top of the earth lodge for smoke to go out and for sunlight to come in. They had a fireplace. The men and women built the earth lodge together.
The Omaha Indians wore leggings. The shirt was decorated with embroidery, fringe or paint. The moccasins were made without soles. They were made the same except the women's moccasins were not as decorated as the men's. The tunic was the woman's shirt. The shirt was held in place by the belt. The robe was also an important part of the Omaha Indian's clothing.
The Omaha men wore their hair long and also wore earrings. The women sometimes painted the part of their hair red.
The Omaha Indian used signs from nature to explain the things happening around them. When there were fireflies around them that meant it would rain during the night. When the birds sang in the morning it would be clear. Mist in the morning meant a hot day. When the horses played after long rains it probably meant the rain was over.
In the village, everyone had certain jobs. The men did the heavy work. They cleared the garden for planting and were responsible for the hunting. They also protected and defended the village. The women made the clothing and set up the tipis. They planted the gardens and made the food, tools and clothing. The children learned how to do grown up things. Girls took care of the babies and learned how to sew and cook. The boys cared for the horses and learned how to hunt, garden and become warriors. The children also loved to play games like keeping house or going on the hunt. Some of their toys were made of clay. The dolls were made with wood or corn cobs. The made drums, whistles and rattles. Other popular games were Follow the Leader and Cat's Cradle. During the winter, they made sleds from bones.
At first the Omaha Indians walked by foot. They used dogs to carry things around early on, then they used horses as a means to get around and carry things. They would use a
"Travois" which is two poles attached to the back of a dog or horse so they could carry things from one place to another.
The word Omaha means 'those who go upstream' or 'against the current.'
Omaha women were skilled craftspeople. They made pots, wove baskets and made tools from bone and wood.

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Shri. Karumuthu Thiagaraja Chettiar affectionately called "Kalaithanthai" meaning "Father of Arts" founded the Thiagarajar School of Management (TSM) which was the first of its kind institution in the southern part of Tamil Nadu. The textile honcho "Shri Karumuthu Thiagaraja Chettiar", popularly known as "Karumuthu", was born in the year 1893. After completing his Education in India & Ceylon, he started his career as an assistant editor in the Ceylon English daily "Morning Leader". He fought for the rights of Tamil labourers in plantations in the then Ceylon. He contributed articles and also published a book titled "Indian Immigrant on Ceylon Estates". His persistent efforts made the Government to offer better working conditions to the labourers. This was a phenomenal achievement at the age of 22. He returned to India from Ceylon in 1916 and joined the Congress in 1917 and became President of the labour wing.
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California's vegetable with a heart has a history that includes everyone from racketeers to gourmets. Check out the recipe for cream of artichoke soup from Duarte's.
If you were asked to vote for the Vegetable Most Likely to Succeed, the contenders would be many. The carrot, probably; the potato, perhaps; zucchini, almost certainly. These are all friendly, approachable vegetables that don't put you through an obstacle course to eat them. As for the Least Likely candidate, the artichoke would be hard to beat. Not only does it have thorns, which is off-putting, but it's designed like a multilayered fibrous suit of armor. Its leaves are three-quarters inedible and, as a final hurdle, it offers a mouthful of throat-tickling fluff at its center appropriately called the "choke."
And yet here is a vegetable about to be celebrated with its own festival for the 41st year in a row. On May 20 and 21, marching bands and artichoke-festooned floats will set the tone as the Artichoke Festival Parade wends its way through the streets of Castroville, Calif., a farming community some 16 miles north of Monterey. Under the famous sign proclaiming "Castroville, the Artichoke Center of the World," arts and crafts people will preside over booths covered with artichoke memorabilia: T-shirts, aprons, candlesticks. Human artichokes in many-petaled green costumes will stroll with escorts dressed as jars of mayonnaise and bars of butter. This year, 20,000 visitors are expected for events such as the 10K footrace through artichoke fields, the car shows, artichoke eating at food concessions, recipe contests, and chefs' demonstrations. As always, the majority of proceeds go to charity.
Although user-friendliness is not one of the artichoke's virtues, these apple-shaped members of the thistle family get our attention. Perhaps it's the vegetable's checkered past, filled with notorious and glamorous associations and a history that precedes its relationship with Castro-ville, which started production in 1922.
California has led U.S. production of artichokes since the 1890s when Half Moon Bay's Italian farmers planted the first crops. A decade and a half later, they exported artichokes back east to enthusiastic New Yorkers. So enthusiastic, it turned out, that New York's racketeers wanted a piece of the lucrative action. Not only did they terrorize distributors and produce merchants, they even launched an attack on the artichoke fields from Montara to Pescadero, hacking down the plants with machetes in the dead of night. These "artichoke wars" led Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to declare "the sale, display, and possession" of artichokes in New York illegal. In his words: "A racketeer in artichokes is no different than a racketeer in slot machines." This put artichokes on the front page, increasing their demand everywhere, even among those who'd never seen one. Finally, La Guardia publicly admitted that he himself loved the vegetable (with mayo) and after only one week he lifted the ban.
Back in Castroville, landowner Andrew Molera encouraged farmers to grow artichokes, which he thought would thrive in the Salinas Valley's loamy, well-drained soil and cool, fog-dusted summers. This first crop was planted in the early '20s and today Castroville, home to two major packers and the country's only artichoke processing plant, grows 75 percent of the state's artichokes.
Of all the artichoke's moments in the sun, probably the most glittering took place in 1947 when Marilyn Monroe came to Castroville. Although her appearance had nothing to do with artichokes, some local growers asked the starlet to be California's Artichoke Queen. She accepted. They were either totally unprepared for her response or there was a refreshing absence of PR hotshots, because the photographs taken of her coronation, reportedly at a Kiwanis Club luncheon, have been lost. The event is memorialized by a yellowed newspaper clipping of a smiling Marilyn, staring adoringly at an artichoke and surrounded by a small crowd of embarrassed gentlemen. In another Hollywood affiliation, actress Kim Novak was served a plate of fried artichokes at a Castroville restaurant. She devoured them happily—after sprinkling them liberally with sugar.
Even ordinary people have been baffled by the artichoke's idiosyncrasies. Almost anyone who hasn't undergone formal artichoke training has a story about chewing the inedible leaves interminably until, as one friend confessed, "I finally just hid them in my pocket."
Cultivation of the traditional artichoke, called the green globe, is labor-intensive. The plant must be hand harvested before the buds, which are the edible part, flower into blue-violet blossoms. Propagation is accomplished by cuttings from the rootstock. Although artichokes are being grown from seed, too, some artichoke aficionados consider these thornless varieties mushy and lacking in flavor. Consumers can identify the seed type from the true-blue green globe by searching for the telltale thorns.
Last year, California, which accounts for nearly 100 percent of the commercial crop, produced more than 9,300 acres of artichokes at a value more than $46 million. But this fernlike plant with its deeply serrated leaves, whose name comes from the Arabic al' quarshuf, was around even before California. Reliable evidence suggests that in the second century artichokes were the costliest garden vegetable in the Roman marketplace. In the 1500s, when Catherine de Médicis left Italy to become the bride of Henry II, she purportedly brought along her beloved artichokes, transporting them into French gastronomy. A hint of scandal surrounded her devotion to the intriguingly configured vegetable, which is said to have aphrodisiac properties.
Its popularity spread through Europe and on to the New World, where it was often found on the tables of wealthy Virginia planters. Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery contains a 17th-century recipe entitled "To Make Hartichoak Pie." By the early 20th century, Fannie Farmer notes in her ninth edition that California artichokes were selling in Boston for 30 to 40 cents each.
But the artichoke's appeal is no mystery: Its lush texture and nutty taste lure us through all impediments. No wonder recipes abound. A French classic called barigoule features the thistle braised with mushrooms and ham, while the Italians take pride in carciofi al'inferno: sautéed, filled with garlic, crumbs, and capers. One of the world's most succulent preparations is closer to home. In Pescadero, Duarte's Tavern has been knee-deep in artichokes almost since the family restaurant was established in 1890. The restaurant has an artichoke patch out back from which each morning the cooks gather enough for the day's orders of Duarte's cream of artichoke soup. When asked for the recipe, owner Ron Duarte was fairly nonspecific: "I just make it is what I do." A little coaxing yielded the recipe, but only traveling to the restaurant assures the real thing. Wherever you live, it's worth a special journey.
Duarte's Cream of Artichoke Soup serves 4
Bring water to a boil with oil, lemon juice, and two garlic cloves. Add the artichokes and cook 45 minutes. Remove hearts and puree in food processor with some of the stock, remaining garlic, salt, and pepper. Slice ½ to 1 cup of the tender end of the leaves into thin strips. Reheat soup with leaves, half-and-half, and thyme.
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HBO Launches Theatrical Division with Fine Line; O'Connor To Head Unit; "Elephant" Set As Second Release for Outfit
by Eugene Hernandez
With Thursday's announcement of what it described as "an innovative distribution arrangement," HBO Films has taken a full-fledged leap into U.S. theatrical distribution. Its partner in the initiative is AOL Time Warner cousin Fine Line Features, the specialty division of New Line. Dennis O'Connor is leaving his post as VP of marketing at United Artists to serve as head of HBO Films Domestic Theatrical Releasing. In the role, O'Connor will oversee the domestic theatrical distribution of titles released by HBO Films. He will be based in Los Angeles and report directly to HBO Films president Colin Callender. Fine Line President Mark Ordesky and Colin Callender discussed the announcement in separate conversations with indieWIRE on Thursday.
HBO Films will release Gus Van Sant's Cannes 2003 Palme d'Or winner "Elephant" through Fine Line as part of the new initiative, on October 24. That will follow the release of the outfit's first title, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner "American Splendor" on August 15. Fine Line acquired "Splendor" shortly after Sundance and a broader deal emerged from there according to Mark Ordesky. The pact will send select HBO Films dramatic titles through the Fine Line distribution pipeline under the HBO Films banner, however it will not include HBO's larger "event movies," HBO's Callender said. Nor will it include projects from the company's acclaimed doc division as of yet. Releases will be co-branded by HBO Films and Fine Line Features.
"This was not a top down mandate (from AOL Time Warner)," Ordesky told indieWIRE, "It developed very organically from the 'American Splendor' deal in further discussions between Colin and myself." Continuing he explained, "Ultimately the upper management people were very enthusiastic," he said, referring to New Line's Bob Shaye & Michael Lynne and HBO's chairman Chris Albrecht. "It wasn't a forced synergy."
"At the heart of it," explained Callender, "We didn't simply want to be another producer licensing out (our movies), we wanted to be principles in this. We wanted to broaden the HBO name, we wanted a partnership in theatrical distribution." He added that HBO had been approached by numerous companies interested in creating distribution arrangements for its titles.
Callender calls this the "last piece of the puzzle" for HBO Films following the company's announcement in Cannes this year that it has launched a foreign sales operation, dubbed HBO Films London, and run by joint managing directors Rosa Bosch and Penny Wolf.
This is a deal that certainly reflects the growing importance of HBO Films as a major player in the independent and specialty films sector of the narrative film business. However, it does not yet include the numerous HBO documentary projects that are also prestigious films at festivals and in theaters. Colin Callender told indieWIRE that including HBO's doc films under the new HBO Films/Fine Line initiative is still a matter under discussion with HBO executive vice president of original programming Sheila Nevins.
"We are having those conversations (with Nevins)," Callender said, "There are lots of opportunities. We are not quite sure where this will go, but that is part of the fun of this — we'll see as things unfold."
A number of documentary films from the New York based non-fiction division headed by Nevins are currently in release under the HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films banner, including "Capturing the Friedmans" through Magnolia Pictures, "Spellbound" through ThinkFilm, and "Balseros" (Cuban Rafters) through Seventh Art Releasing.
Fine Line's Mark Ordesky explained that the value of the initiative is not only the ability to bring quality films to theaters through Fine Line but also the solid marketing and publicity team already in place at HBO. As they have on "American Splendor," he indicated, his Fine Line group will collaborate on the releases with HBO, now with the leadership of O'Connor.
"HBO plus Fine Line is bigger than the sum of its parts," Ordesky said. "This creates an even stronger team to get focus and attention for those titles."
"It enables us to provide a home for filmmakers," Callender offered, "A one-stop shopping, full service home for filmmakers where we can continue to make the sort of interesting, unusual, risk-taking movies that are increasingly difficult to finance and distribute effectively in this competitive marketplace."
HBO Films will determine which films are to be released theatrically through the unit, but Ordesky was quick to clarify that this is not a "service deal" arrangement. "It's an evolution," Ordesky said, "HBO is not merely a program supplier, they are a marketing and promotion powerhouse, we have a great collaboration."
"American Splendor" and "Elephant" will be the second and third releases for HBO Films, following the distribution of "Real Women Have Curves" in 2002. For that release, the company collaborated with Newmarket; the film earned more than $6 million in its theatrical run. Callender told indieWIRE that the company has only pegged those two films for release right now.
Other finished films that have been produced by HBO Films include Jim McKay's recently shot low-budget feature "Brooklyn," Carlo Gabriel Nero's "The Fever" (based on Wallace Shawn's play), Katja von Garnier's "Iron Jawed Angels" (about women's rights activists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns), Stephen Hopkins' "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" (based on the book by Roger Lewis), John Leguizamo's directorial debut "Undefeated," and Mike Nichols' direction of Tony Kushner's adaptation of his own play, "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes." It stars Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, and many others.
Dennis O'Connor served as head of marketing for UA for nearly two years, working on such films as "No Man's Land," "Bowling for Columbine," "24 Hour Party People," and "Igby Goes Down." Prior to landing at UA, he served as VP of theatrical distribution at Universal Focus, head of the theatrical division at Trimark, head of marketing & distribution at Strand Releasing, and VP of marketing and distribution for First Look Pictures. He has also worked as a buyer for Landmark Theaters. O'Connor began his career at the Samuel Goldwyn Company, where he worked on "Henry V," "Le Femme Nikita," and "Wild At Heart."
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PITTSBURGH, May 20, 2003 Elderly women with osteoporosis can significantly and safely improve their bone mass with a combination therapy of hormone replacement and the bisphosphonate alendronate (Fosamax). The findings are published in the May 21 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association by University of Pittsburgh researchers.
Our study found that a combination therapy of hormone replacement and alendronate was well tolerated by elderly women with low bone mass. After three years of treatment, these women showed significantly greater increases in bone mass than we saw in similar women taking only one of the therapies, said lead author Susan Greenspan, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of the Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center . Combination therapy is a safe, viable option for postmenopausal women who have been unable to improve their bone density with an individual therapy, or in women with osteoporosis severe enough to require a greater increase in bone density.
Earlier research has suggested similar results with younger women, but up to now little data were available on the effectiveness and safety of combination therapy in older, post-menopausal women.
The study was conducted with 373 women aged 65 to 90 years. At baseline, participants as a group had bone mass thin enough to be classified as osteopenia, a precursor of osteoporosis. Thirty-four percent of the women had osteoporosis.
Participants were evenly randomized to receive hormone replacement therapy (HRT) (conjugated estrogen with or without medozyprogesterone) plus alendronate, HRT alone, alendronate alone, or placebo. All received calcium and vitamin D supplements.
After three years, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans showed that participants taking combination therapy had greater improvements in bone mineral density (BMD) at the hip and spine than did those participants taking HRT or alendronate alone, or placebo.
For instance, the mean increase in BMD at the hip was 5.9 percent with combination therapy, 4.2 percent with alendronate, 3.0 percent with HRT and 0.0 percent with placebo. At the lumbar spine the mean increases in BMD were 10.4 percent with combination therapy, 7.7 percent with alendronate, 7.1 percent with HRT and 1.1 with placebo.
Also, in comparing HRT with alendronate, researchers found that participants taking alendronate alone had greater improvements in BMD at the hip.
While the study was not designed to examine fractures as an outcome, a higher bone density is usually associated with fewer fractures.
We applied a logistic model to our data and determined that combination therapy would provide an additional 10 percent reduction in fracture over HRT alone and an additional 8 percent over alendronate alone, said Dr. Greenspan. These results can help elderly women decide whether the potential risk inherent in HRT use is worth taking to reduce the risk of fracture.
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Q&A with MAYBE I WILL author Laurie Gray
"In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone." ~Cheryl Rainfield, award-winning author of Scars, Hunted, and Stained
1. Sandy uses two very different coping strategies; alcohol abuse and Tae Kwando. Why did you choose these and how do they reflect on Sandy's 'character,' which is a theme in the book?
As human beings we all have to deal with traumatic events at some point in our lives. We can try to escape our feelings or we can figure out how to face them. For Sandy, alcohol is an escape while taekwondo is a way to stay physically and mentally present in the moment in a way that allows the healing process to begin. I chose alcohol because it is by far the most commonly abused substance by both teens and adults. Because it's legal for adults, teens have a sense that it is safe. This misconception that alcohol won't hurt you only makes it more dangerous. Working as a prosecutor in juvenile court and in our local drug court, I saw alcohol destroy many lives. It's not just about becoming an alcoholic. Sandy doesn't become an alcoholic. Abusing alcohol can cause death (alcohol poisoning), act as a gateway drug, and lower people's inhibitions enough for them to make really bad choices they wouldn't even consider if they were sober. I chose taekwondo as a positive coping strategy because I've spent many hours over the past five years watching my daughter (now 11) progress through the ranks to earn her second-degree blackbelt. I have been so impressed with all of the instructors and the supportive community created by Penny Beddow-Wolf, the owner of Coventry Taekwondo in Fort Wayne where my daughter attends. In addition to the physical aspects of the sport (balance, coordination, strength and endurance), my daughter has developed confidence and perseverance. She has learned to set goals and to work toward achieving them. But what I really emphasize in the book is how the studio feels like a safe, friendly, and nurturing place the moment you walk in. It's exactly what kids need whether they're recovering from a devastating event like Sandy or just dealing with the normal angst of growing up. As far as character goes, I would hope that kids realize they don't have to let any single event or series of bad choices define them. Sandy lies and steals to get alcohol, but by the end of the book, I don't think most people would say Sandy is just a good-for-nothing liar and thief. Sandy's real character traits are those that we see at both the beginning and the end of the book. Sandy is intelligent, resourceful, courageous, and creative.
Because as much as they'd like to, adults can solve kids' problems for them. There are really only two people in the book who don't believe Sandy about what happened—The police detective and Cassie. Cassie's refusal to believe what happened is far more devastating to Sandy than what the police detective does or doesn't believe. Most of the adults really do believe Sandy. Certainly Sandy's parents and counselor believe Sandy. Even the district attorney, who gets to decide what crimes will be prosecuted, believes Sandy. He just knows that without physical evidence to corroborate Sandy's testimony, there's not enough to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. A good defense attorney (like Mrs. Peareson) would destroy Sandy's credibility in cross-examination, while Aaron as the defendant would be presumed innocent. As long as he exercised his right to remain silent, the jury would never get to know anything about Aaron's credibility and questionable conduct in other situations. One of the reasons I made Mrs. Peareson a defense attorney was to emphasize that there really isn't much Sandy's parents can do to make the legal system work for Sandy or bring Aaron to justice. If Sandy's parents were to focus on trying to make Aaron pay, they would probably only prolong and increase Sandy's suffering. In my opinion, Sandy's parents do everything they can do, and do it very well. They notice the changes in Sandy's behavior and are persistent in trying to get to the bottom of it, following through, and getting Sandy professional help as needed. As a parent myself, I would hope that my child knows she can tell me anything, but as a professional, I know that even kids with the most supportive and loving parents are often reluctant to talk about what's really going on. It's human nature to hope that if we pretend something didn't happen, it will all just go away.
Sandy is a boy. And Sandy is a girl. I have never seen Sandy as "non-gendered." Instead, I tried to create a character that is so human as to embrace both genders fully and equally. I think we're so accustomed to gender stereotypes and the way that we judge people based on their gender, that it really can feel disconcerting not to know. It matters because our expectations for Sandy and our judgment of Sandy's conduct are unconsciously controlled by stereotypes that are so deeply ingrained that we don't even notice them. To engage fully in the story as a reader, you have to picture Sandy as male or female. Readers who jump back and forth or approach it as a mystery to be solved are likely to feel frustrated and attribute this to just about any other aspect of the book, from character development and dialogue to plot and the open ending that doesn't tie everything up into a pretty package. As a society, we're so accustomed to gender bias that we feel some critical element must be missing when it's not there. I'm not saying my writing is perfect. Far from it. I'll spend my lifetime experimenting with and honing my craft. But I do think that there's at least a hint of discomfort with my refusal to identify Sandy's gender behind many of the comments I'm seeing. To me, that's a good thing. It means I'm encouraging readers to move outside their comfort level and think about things in a new way. It doesn't matter to me whether the reader reads the book with Sandy as male or female or whether that assumption comes consciously or unconsciously. My hope is that after reading the book one way, there will be readers who are willing to go back and read it the other, just to see for themselves if they feel differently about anything. THE FIELD wins the Eric Hoffer Award for YA
"Readers will appreciate the fast-paced, compelling drama. A good choice for people who hope there's more to space than space". ~ Kirkus Reviews
The Eric Hoffer Award for short prose and books was established at the start of the 21st century as a means of opening a door to writing of significant merit. It honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers. The winning stories and essays are published in Best New Writing, and the book awards are covered in the US Review of Books. Luminis Books president, Tracy Richardson, talks about 'What is New Adult?' in the Booklist New Adult Webinar.
New Adult is an emerging category of books that is receiving a lot of attention. On August 5th, Luminis Books president, Tracy Richardson participated in the Booklist New Adult Webinar. The big question, though, is 'what exactly is the New Adult genre', if we can even call it a genre. We are so pleased to be part of the conversation of what is New Adult. This is a great opportunity to reach out to readers in the 18 to 26 age group with books that speak to what is important to them. To what is going on in their lives and what they find compelling. Not just books about sex and romance, but about every aspect of their lives. Just as YA as a category encompasses a wide range of genres, so should the New Adult category. We're hearing from librarians who are identifying ways to connect with new adult readers. Here's how we see New Adult:
Peter Van Buren discusses why he wrote GHOSTS OF TOM JOAD A Story of the #99 Percent
"A seasoned State Department diplomat, stalwart Iraq War whistle-blower, and author of "We Meant Well" (2011), Van Buren turns his keen eye to the shameful treatment of the nation's unemployed and homeless." ~ Booklist
I never expected to become an author. I worked as one of America's diplomats abroad, at our embassies and consulates, from London to Tokyo to Seoul. My last overseas assignment, however, was in Iraq, in the midst of America's invasion and occupation. What I saw shocked me, and I blew the whistle on all the waste, fraud and terrible mistakes there in my first book, We Meant Well: How I Lost the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. The U.S. government sought to prosecute me for telling the truth, and it was only with the help of some good lawyers that I was able to leave government on my own terms. At first the only job I could find was working for minimum wage at age 52. I wasn't planning on writing another book. But what I saw shocked me. I had returned to America from Iraq to find another sort of regime change underway. I saw firsthand what a life based on lousy wages and barely-adequate food benefits adds up to. There were no cruise missiles deployed to create the changes, but the cumulative effects of years of deindustrialization, declining salaries, absent benefits, decimated unions, the undertow of meth and alcohol abuse pulling at our people, the broad-based loss of jobs and of course wealth inequality on a radical scale did the job. The willful destruction of a way of life in service to the goals of the rich was hard to miss, but I still wanted a clearer picture. I began researching the plight of the working poor. I traveled throughout the Midwest, the old industrial areas now called the Rust Belt, where I had grown up. I saw an America that is tired. Drive through our Main Streets, past abandoned shopping strip malls, and you can't help but return to that word: tired. These towns grow smaller each year. They replaced factories with boutiques and pop-up wine bars and thought it was a rebirth when they couldn't see the dying. These experiences drove me-- compelled me-- to write about it all, and the result is Ghosts of Tom Joad. In this book I hope to humanize a complex issue. Too many people who have a decent life now either demonize the working poor as lazy or uneducated, or mythologize them as salt-of-the-earth yeoman. There are indeed some of each out there, but the majority I met were just trying to do what everyone tries to do, feed themselves and their families, make a better life for their children and find some meaning and pride in work. The problem is that the currents of society and economy make it near impossible for them to do that, and Ghosts tries to explain all that not only from a numbers and economics point of view like in Thomas Piketty's new bestseller, but from a human point of view. Economics in the end isn't about numbers, it is about us, how we live, how we might become better people than we now are.
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|26 Jul 2009
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Where are all these leaks coming from?
It's a bit interesting that the final ISO was leaked on the 23rd, a day before the royalty OEMs got them (they are supposed to be the first to get Windows). So... I think that the leaks are coming from within Microsoft.
After reading this MSDN blog post, it sounds like Windows 7 was made available to the employees with keys and all. That also explains how the German Microsoft employee who published the hashes knew what they were. And with probably tens of thousands of employees who were given access, it's probably not hard to find just one rogue employee who's willing to sneak out a copy. So while everyone was focusing on the July 24 release-to-OEMs date, the real leak was probably coming from Redmond itself.
And I'm guessing that the subsequent OEM ISOs that came a couple of days later were probably leaked by an employee of a royalty OEM who got the stuff on July 24 (and not by a MSFT employee, as I think most MSFT employees who are not a part of the Windows team would not have access to the OEM ISOs).
As for why nobody has leaked a Home Premium or Professional ISO, my best guess is that the people who have access to this are all using Ultimate (after all, if you're a MSFT employee with free Windows keys, would you even think about the lower editions?).
Now, while I think that the leaks are coming from MSFT, I am not saying that MSFT condones this. It's possible (though highly, highly unlikely) that these are intentional, but the most likely scenario is that some rogue employee downloaded it from Microsoft's internal MSDN-like thing, put it on a flash drive, and took it home and surreptitiously uploaded it using his home Internet connection.
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Sorry to say but untouched ISO came up on 24th.
From zukona.
The story of the leaked RTM is like this:
The leak came from a Chinese guy who leaked both 16384 and 16385. He had the untouched ISO from 7-15-09.
He extracted the untouched ISO and leaked it as 3 rar files on pcbeta. Maybe he was afraid of something to leak the ISO with the real hashes from Microsoft.
At that time nobody was sure this is RTM.
A lot of people downloaded his leak and compiled it on bootable ISOs.(wsor also)
That's why these ISOs contain the original files from Microsoft and install.wim is the same with the untouched ISO.
Microsoft created this untouched ISO in 7-14-09, if you look at the date of the files
Microsoft signed-off Build 7600.16385 as RTM and did not make a public announcement.
Microsoft proudly announces the RTM official.
RTM is released to OEM.
Zukona leaks the untouched ISO
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"We like questions that nobody else has answered," said Richard Park, Managing Director of Sandvik's Osprey unit.
"Though we're not always asked to work on projects aimed at answering the fundamental question about the origin of the universe."
He was referencing Sandvik's recent contribution to the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor, or CLASS telescopes that Johns Hopkins University,NASA, and other partners hope will detect "the faint afterglow of energy released during the first trillionth of a trillionth of a second of the universe's existence" after the Big Bang. The company developed a controlled expansion alloy that could perform at 0.1 degrees Kelvin. (Absolute Zero is the point at which atoms literally freeze in place.)
The company has also provided a different alloy for the WIYN One Degree Imager visible light telescope at Kitt Peak Observatory, which operates at the some of the highest resolutions currently possible from terrestrial telescopes, according to Andrew Coleman, Sales Manager, Osprey Controlled Expansion Alloys.
"Nobody is going to build hundreds of these telescopes," Park added.
"But there are thousands of industrial opportunities for similar performance tolerances and properties."
Another innovation from Sandvik Osprey is the metal powder that it pioneered 12 years ago for a process then called rapid prototyping, and is now the raw material used by many of Sandvik's customers as well as Sandvik's Additive Manufacturing Center ("AMC"), just opened in Sandviken, Sweden, where applications for additive manufacturing are being explored (otherwise known as 3D printing).
"We are unique because we have our own powder capabilities," explained Mikael Schuisky, manager of the AMC. "So we can focus on developing processes." He added that powder production capabilities are vital to producing the high-quality parts that might end up in an airplane engine or hip replacement.
Unlike the telescope projects, most of the AMC's work is focused on improving existing products, and then getting them to market quickly. It's purposefully using existing small and medium-sized machines for its materials and process development, so its underlying technology platform can be easily replicated and scaled. Its staff comes from both inside and outside the organization, but maintains close contact with Sandvik's operating units. Weekly meetings review and reprioritize projects.
Such activities compliment the innovation that is ongoing within the company.
"About one-fifth of our research is fundamental, and the rest is applied research based on customer needs," said Olle Wijk, Sandvik's EVP & Head of Group R&D. "The R&D managers from different businesses meet regularly to share ideas, and they work on common projects."
A rigorous product development process informs those ideas and projects, including a business case approach that grounds opportunities in what's possible with existing production capabilities, risk/reward ratios, and other KPIs.
"Otherwise there is a risk that R&D guys are too far away from the business, because they might not see the forest through the trees."
"We are always planting seeds," Park said of projects that are coming after the telescopes, though he declined to hint at what they might be.
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The state Supreme Judicial Court has posted Independent counsel Paul Ware's report on his investigation into charges of patronage in the Massachusetts Probation Department.
"The hiring and promotion process within the Probation Department represents a
pervasive fraud against the Commonwealth," Ware writes in the report.
Read the full report below. Read the SJC's statement about the report here.
The report clocks in at 337 pages; The Republican's Statehouse reporter Dan Ring will have an article this afternoon.
Report of Independent Counsel, In the Matter of the Probation Department of the Trial Court


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What's this, an outfit post?? Well, kinda. I didn't like the way this dress photographed in it's entirety, so I almost didn't post it. But then I figured, "why the hell not?" The neon stitch design was too cute not to share. Maxi dresses are a rarity in my wardrobe, so once I find a decent-looking one that doesn't require any altering, I cling to it for dear life. Seriously, I think I only own about three maxi dresses. Three. The last time I wore one on the blog was a year ago! I wish I had more since they are so comfortable & require the least amount of thought when deciding what to wear in the morning. Short girl problems, amiright? Although, apparently not all girls love maxi dresses as much as I do, haha. What about you? Are you all for floor-length dresses or do you wish the style would die out?
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American Eagle dress (bought last year on sale)
Target wedges
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This arrangement of objects on a table provides a convenient excuse to explore pleasing arrangements of color and shape. I try to communicate this experience with a sensual application of paint that allows the viewer to enjoy every square inch of the surface by embedding it with thousands of miniature abstractions. My ambition is to find viewers, collectors and art lovers who understand and respond to this. A form of mutual understanding.
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text: watermelon Are you afraid of melons? [Results] By Scott Pham • Sep 19, 2012 Abbie Fentress Swanson / Harvest Public Media Last week we asked you two simple questions: are you avoiding cantaloupes or melons? Indiana farm linked to contaminated cantaloupe also recalls watermelons By Abbie Fentress Swanson • Sep 11, 2012 Abbie Fentress Swanson / Harvest Public Media The Indiana farm that recalled cantaloupes linked to a Salmonella outbreak that has killed two and sickened 204 is now recalling its watermelons. Chamberlain Farms issued the voluntary recall because the melons could be contaminated with Salmonella Newport. Foodborne illness is always a danger for farmers, grocery stores and customers alike.


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IV. OIG Findings Regarding Allegations of Racial and
Criminal Misconduct at the Roundup
This section addresses each allegation of racist or criminal misconduct we received, the evidence developed, and our findings based on the evidence. For the allegations found to be substantiated, where possible, we will also identify the responsible persons. Before reporting our findings, however, it is important to note that virtually all of the allegations and the evidence regarding these allegations are based on eyewitness recollections. Asking eyewitnesses to recall events occurring years ago is a difficult proposition under the best of circumstances. When one factors in that many of these people had consumed great quantities of alcohol at the time, the risks that such recollections are distorted or inaccurate are magnified. Consequently, many of the eyewitness accounts OIG received differ in material respects; some of the accounts are contradictory. We have attempted to set forth the different versions of events where relevant, to resolve the discrepancies where possible, and to explain the basis for our findings. In this regard, we note that many individuals could not recall the exact year in which they saw something that could be construed as racist or criminal. In many cases witnesses gave us a range of possible years in which the conduct may have occurred. We made every effort to resolve these uncertainties by considering other known facts, largely the testimony of other witnesses.
Relying on eyewitness recollections also requires making credibility determinations for each of the witnesses. It was apparent from the outset that witnesses, including attendees, had possible motives to cast the Roundup in a certain light, either good or bad. We therefore scrutinized each witness's testimony carefully, considering whether the person had an obvious or strong motive to exaggerate, fabricate, or significantly understate the facts; whether they revealed information that was unfavorable to their particular interest; whether their testimony was corroborated or contradicted by other witnesses; whether their testimony was plausible or implausible; whether there was any physical evidence supporting or contradicting their testimony; and whether their recollections were hazy or detailed. The majority of our interviews, including all of the high priority interviews, were conducted in person so we could also assess the witness's demeanor. We did not hesitate to cross-examine witnesses, especially where we had received conflicting information. In some cases we found credible some of what a particular witness said, but incredible some of the other testimony from the same witness. No single group of witnesses was wholly credible or incredible, so we carefully parsed the various testimony before making our conclusions regarding the facts.
It also should be noted that while we spoke to significant numbers of attendees over a broad range of years, we did not and could not speak with everyone who attended. Because we must rely on after-the-fact reconstruction of events, we cannot know everything that happened at the Roundup or know everything to a certainty. We sought, however, to speak to as broad a range of witnesses as possible and to sufficient numbers of witnesses so that we could have maximum confidence in the conclusions that we reached.


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By Dan Wooding, ASSIST News.
A dedicated missionary couple strangled in their Mexico home knew how much danger they were in, but refused to leave the people they cared for, it has been revealed.
This has been revealed in a story by Christina Ng writing on the ABC News website.
"They had opportunities to return, but these are their people. It would be like abandoning family. We don't abandon family," Karen Mosley, the secretary for Liberty Baptist Church in Lewisville, Texas, told www.ABCNews.com. "We lost a couple of great prayer warriors."
The story says that John and Wanda Casias, from Texas USA, were found dead at their home near Monterrey, Mexico, on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, by one of their 10 children. They had been living and working in Mexico for nearly 30 years and began their ministry there in 1983.
"It was the second time in a year that an American missionary was killed in Mexico. Nancy Davis, 59, was shot in the head in January 2011 when she and her husband were attacked at an illegal road block," said Ng.
"In the latest assault, Shawn Casias had come to pick up a trailer from his parents' home and when he went inside, he found his mother Wanda Casias, 67, lying on the floor with an electrical cord around her neck and a head wound, according to the Associated Press. His father John Casias, 76, was found in the storage room of a building on the property with an electrical cord around his neck."
A safe, several electronics and the couple's car were missing from the home. All of the surveillance cameras had been disabled, said ABC News.
"They had all kinds of updated security measures, which makes us all believe it was somebody he knew or he wouldn't have let them in," Mosley said. She said they lived on a walled property and had a gate.
Mosley said church members used to go on missions every other year to the area where the Casias couple lived, until about four years ago when things became too dangerous for them to travel there. Fighting between drug cartels over the past few years made Monterrey an extremely dangerous place.
"John doesn't allow visitors to come to his place anymore. It's that bad," Mosley said. "There are no more policemen, they're all dead. The last mayor was murdered. All they have there are soldiers."
The couple had discussed what they wanted, should anything ever happen to them, with members of the church, Mosley said. The couple said that if they were to be kidnapped, they did not want anyone to pay ransom for them.
"They would not allow it," Mosley said. "They knew it was dangerous. They were just cautious and they made a pact."
The couple maintained a website, www.casias.org, with details and photos about their missionary work.
"John was a character. He was one funny person, but he took his love of his Lord very seriously. He was hard working, loving, caring and would give you whatever you need, if he had it," Mosley said. "Wanda was a very sweet lady, always got a hug and a smile. She would ask, 'What can I pray for you for?' She was always praying."
The attack on the Casias comes year after Nancy Davis and her husband Sam were ambushed.
"The couple, also from Texas, were driving along a highway 70 miles south of the border town of Reynosa, Mexico, when they approached an illegal roadblock. Rather than stop, they continued driving and were chased by several gunmen in a black pick-up truck," added Ng in her story.
"The pursuing gunmen fired at Davis' truck, and a bullet hit Nancy Davis in the head. Sam Davis sped away to a border checkpoint and his wife was rushed to a hospital, but she did not survive."
Dan Wooding is founder of ASSIST ministries.
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This blog will not be current until further notice.
We have two computers in this household. One can upload photos, but does not allow me to type or click on anything. One allows me to type, but it cannot upload photos. I am up a creek until one of them is fixed.
So we had a great weekend, and hopefully by the end of the week I can tell you about it!
Luckily it works out that today is a monthly wrap up. It's the last day in September - SAY WHAT??
Reagan is 11 months old now. I know. I don't believe it. We're going to be throwing a first birthday party very soon!
My son developed a real sense of humor over the last month. The little dude cracks up over everything, and he thinks everything he does is hi-larious. Reagan is a real jokester, even though he can't talk. :) I can't wait to hear the things that actually come out of his brain someday, haha.
Reagan's hair gets blonder and blonder every day, and if you look closely enough you'll even see some strawberry streaks. Sometimes, in the right lighting, you don't have to look closely at all. Reagan takes after his Grandpa Greg A LOT, and if any of our kids ever have red headed children, it will be Reagan. Just remember that in 25 years or so...I totally called it. ;) Reagan still isn't walking, but he has definitely taken a step or two! If only I didn't freak out and scare the willies out of him any time he made an attempt, haha.
I wish there was more to say about my little buddy, but he continues to be a sweetie pie and a really great baby. We lucked out with him! He is low-mainetenace, a first-class cuddler, and a joy to be around. I love my third born more than words can say!
Gracie Violet is still one tough cookie to figure out. I feel like since the beginning of these monthly wrap ups...which would be since her infancy...I have played a game of ping-pong with her personality. One month she is my little pal, sweet as can be. The next month she can be a real challenge to live with. Haha.
I was just telling Eric in the car the other day that Grace and I already have one of those "hot and cold" relationships. The girl is only two! (Though...her third birthday is next month, too. Yowza!) I am a totally introverted person. I prefer the quiet, and I am often lost in my own thoughts. Gracie is an outspoken, boisterous, fiery personality. We're total opposites. And while I am still groggy and waking up in the morning, the very last thing I want to hear is a child shouting shrilly at the top of her lungs, "MOM - I WANT TOAST!!! AAHHH!!! TOAST! TOAST!"
"Please, Gracie."
I just. I can't handle that. Haha. This goes on all day long. Grace doesn't just ask for something, she immediately bursts out in a fit as if she's already asked ten times and no one is listening to her. She is all drama, all the time. I run from drama like it's the plague.
But her smile. Oh my GOSH. And her hugs and kisses - they are the best. When she is good, she is SO good, and she melts my heart. She loves dress up, she loves princesses, she plays and pretends with her dolls and it is the most adorable thing ever to spy on. :) Part of her is a little introverted, too. Grace is totally content if her big sister is playing with the other kids on the playground and she is left to her own devices. Gracie is just fine off on her own, pretending or chasing butterflies. So I guess maybe we're not total opposites after all. :)
This weekend Evelyn became the proud owner of her very first "Perfect Attendance" certificate from school for the month of September. I consider that a personal pat on the back that we managed to get out of the front door every day, haha. She is loving every minute of preschool, and I love hearing all of the stories she brings home everyday.
My mom works at the school, and occasionally she gets to pop out and say hi to Evie when she is in the lunchroom. The other day my mom came out and saw that every kid had a tray in front of them except for Evelyn.
"What's the matter, Evie? Aren't you hungry?"
Her teacher stepped in and said, "Oh she already ate her lunch - and she had seconds!" Ahahaha. That's my girl. :) My children love food, ya know.
One thing that is sort of maddening though...both at school and at home...is the amount of PAPER my child generates in a given day. Paper, paper, paper, all over the house. Paper with drawings, paper with letters, paper with "check lists." Evelyn loves to draw, and create, and make up stories. I should have expected this. I was a decent paper generator myself, back in the day. And I discovered long ago that Evie is a mini-me in that regard. So I guess it's just going to be something I learn to live with. Let her create, I say! Some day she will discover typing, and then maybe we'll save a tree or two. :)
The month of September was full of school days...
...and family fun.
It was the month that we welcomed family home from China and Eric and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary! Of course, we will never forget that this was also the month that we saw the end to my fourth pregnancy. How different things would be right this very moment....
But we are still counting our blessings. We are in a really great place right now and in a position to start seeing some things come together. We are not far from realizing some really huge goals we have had since the day Eric and I were married. It's kind of surreal that we've come this far. Life is good! Even on the hard days, life is good.
Starting tomorrow...let a season of traditions begin!! I love the month of October. Probably my favorite of the entire year. So...holy cow...gotta get these darn computers fixed!! There are too many memories to document and pictures to share. My sister comes home SOON, and we've got birthday parties galore. I'm ready!!