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As a substantial number of our readers are in high school themselves (hi, guys!), we asked Emma, the blogger behind The Emma Edition and a connoisseur of all things teen (she's 16!), to educate us on fashion, when it comes to all things high school and beyond. Today, she makes a few disconcerting points about Jeremy Scott's most recent collection, and its similarity to some of the very real teen-girl Tumblrs out there.
The other day I was sitting in The Center, the common space for students at my high school, and I overheard this part of a conversation taking place between two boys in my grade:
Boy A: "What is a Tumblr?"
Boy B: "I don't really know, dude, but it's like this blog web site my little sister uses to post quotes from The Jonas Brothers and stuff. She's on it, like, 24/7."
Boy B: "I don't really know, dude, but it's like this blog web site my little sister uses to post quotes from The Jonas Brothers and stuff. She's on it, like, 24/7."
While it's true that Tumblr is a web site that's often manned by teen/tween girls reblogging imagery into the wee hours of the night just to create virtual mood boards to define their aesthetic, to define it as just a site full of pretty pictures and glitter font is undermining its significance in pop culture. Because it is a youth-driven site, Tumblr has had a huge influence on Internet style, and even the Internet itself.
Style blogs originally came about so that people could share their views democratically, without a mediator dictating what to think about a certain topic. However, the line between blogger and fashion editor has become blurred. On Tumblr, there is no expectancy for high-quality photos; in fact, almost all of the photos are taken via webcam. After seeing a couple of the collections from this Fashion Month, I wanted to trace the connection between the Tumblr aesthetic and how it translates to IRL runway style.
I feel like something needs to be said of Jeremy Scott's fall '12 collection, which seems to reflect my own complicated relationship with the Internet. For a long time, Jeremy has been one of my favorite designers, and this season's collection was like Lizzie McGuire on acid...and I mean that as the utmost compliment. I genuinely would wear any of the items, especially the turtlenecks featuring The Simpsons and anything involving that psychedelic day-glo fabric. Jeremy says that his collection was inspired by the Internet, which is evident in his emoticon and mouse-clicker prints, but looking at the pieces was also a lot like looking at my Tumblr dashboard: girls with Kool Aid hair, bindis, and chain nose rings.
Jeremy Scott's fall '12 show.
Still, I think there is something to be said about the "coincidence" of Jeremy calling upon the influences of his '90s Gwen Stefani-worshipping club days and today's Tumblr girls who have been re-appropriating these very images of bindis, Unicorns on Acid, Lisa Frank, The Simpsons, and Kool-Aid hair on the Internet for years now.
I've blogged about Grace Miceli before, but Grace is a really rad artist who is inspired by Internet culture, and even has her own online art collective called Art Baby Gallery. A year ago, she posted a video on her Vimeo page called, "Alien Grooves 2," which features her friend sticking Lisa Frank stickers on her chest, quite similar to the Lisa Frank sticker bustier Jeremy Scott made this season. She seemed to agree, "It feels a little strange to see an older man commodify certain imagery, especially Lisa Frank's, which does have strong meanings for a girl who grew up in the nineties."
No one has the right to stake a claim on this look, but it definitely means something about how today, people are creating their online identities. Jeremy was clearly inspired by the revival he's seeing on Tumblr, of the very same images that he grew up with. However, I do think it gives us insight on how Internet trends are being translated in terms of the fashion industry, especially by adults. Grace concluded, "Aesthetic trends on Tumblr are always shifting …But I guess as a young person who takes time and consideration with their appearance and attempts to make it public, part of the fun is witnessing what catches on and how far the trend may go. So I can't say I have any hard feelings, but maybe Jeremy could hire me next time!"
Since there is also so much content on Tumblr, it's hard to make a generalization for the entire culture of the site too. But, what bridges everything together on Tumblr is its convenience. You no longer have to feel like you need to sit front row at a fashion show just to see what wacky person Anna Wintour is sitting next to or wait to get a glimpse of a trailer for the Hunger Games. We as youth on Tumblr are carving out the next generation of the internet. Exciting, isn't it?


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50 Reasons to Love This City
Not to break out that tired phrase again, but we Honolulu residents really are lucky. It's easy to take for granted how cool, how eclectic, how just plain great this city is, so we thought we'd take a few pages to list just a few of the reasons, both big and little, that we love this place.
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1. Bon Dances
Andagi, taiko drums and the dance of joy—what more could you ask for? There's still one more chance to dance, on Sept. 20 at the Autumn Dance Matsuri at Hawaii Okinawa Center, 5 p.m. For more information, call 676-5400.
2. Karaoke Bar Food
You wouldn't think that a shabby karaoke lounge in a strip mall would offer dishes like whole crab with curry, miso butterfish or kim chee steak. But in Honolulu, it's highly possible. Some of our faves: Shinsho Tei on Nuuanu Avenue, Sunflower Lounge in Aiea and Lisa's House by the airport.
3. Sitting in a Monday morning meeting and discovering there's still sand in your hair.
4. Everyone is Family
Hawaii—the only state where everyone has 57 aunties and 46 uncles.
5. Kikaida Fans
Now two generations and counting.
6. Crack Seed Stores
Good li hing mui puckers your cheeks, and seeing the seed scooped out from the glass jars of a tiny locally owned store is half the fun. Kon Young of the Crack Seed Store on Koko Head Avenue might as well be the patron saint of seed in Hawaii—he's been doling out sweet and salty treats for almost 30 years.
7. Plate Lunches
The Rainbow Drive-In mix plate with chicken katsu, pork cutlets, two scoops white rice and mac salad. And gravy on the rice. And then a nap.
8. The Manoa Valley Theater
There's something great about having a vibrant theater outpost in the middle of an old graveyard. What better place to stage the Rocky Horror Show?
9. Kahuku Corn
Maybe it's the long drive. Maybe it's something about the roadside stands. All we know is, nothing's sweeter than Kahuku corn.
10. Picking Out The Real Lost Locations
The YWCA! First Hawaiian Bank! The Ala Wai! Recognizing the real-life spots where Jack and Kate are emoting has become a thrill on par with the actual plot line of the show—and usually easier to figure out.
11. Grumbling
It's practically the state pastime: bemoaning all the cool stuff we don't have in Honolulu. Ikea, Trader Joe's, In-N-Out Burger. But watch out, with all the recent and upcoming additions—Whole Foods, Target, Beard Papas—we may soon be left with nothing for which to pine.
12. Rearview-Mirror Mahalos
We're not imagining it, Honolulu drivers aren't showing as much aloha these days. Yeah, we're talking to you, punk in the Acura TL. That's why we appreciate those courtesy hand waves—especially during rush hour—more than ever.


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When Nepali Congress And UML parties are joining hand to remove the Government of KP Oli and form new Government which will be lead by Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, there has created a scenario of worried among Nepali. Especially youths from social media has collaborated at Kathmandu and Pokhara to raise voice on supporting the Government of KP Oli to bring development in Nepal. After KP Oli showed the hope and faith on the development of Nepal, youths has showed their interest on politics and has supported Oli for moving towards development. Today youths have organized a rally event at Maitighar supporting KP Oli and wanted to continue the recent Government and requesting other political leaders to support the KP Oli Government to bring development. Watch video coverage:
Guide of the month: January 2018
Traveling gives us the opportunity to disconnect from our regular life. You get to forget your problems/issues for a few weeks, it can also help you figure things out that you would not have understood without the distance traveling can give you. We all have crazy schedules, work and a family to take care of, going away alone or with some friends can give you distance and perhaps even make you realize how important these people are for you. Like the saying says: we never know what we have until we lose it.
Another great benefit is the relaxation you get to do. It's nice to live life to its fullest and enjoy a stress free time with yourself. Going on vacation lets us recharge our "batteries" by disconnecting us from our regular life. When we come back we feel invigorated and we are happy to be back in our day to day routine. It's a very good stress remover that has a lot more to give than most people are willing to accept.
Traveling increases our knowledge and widens our perspective. To view new customs, different ways of living is fantastic for the mind. It gives us a new perspective about life and especially our life, it can help us change some of our habits or even create new ones. When I travel I usually make it a point to try new food, some cultures don't have fries in their diet and they are all skinny, others use spices to give taste and not oils or fats. Discovering different values and ways to get by in life is really interesting. You also need to visit exotic new places and discover what this wonderful world has to offer.


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Are you being BAITED?
At home, at work, in life, there are folks out there who want to bait you - to get you all worked up and aggravated or get you to think emotionally, in order to take advantage you one way or another. In some instances, people will bait you just to get you upset, so they can then mock you. It goes on from nearly the moment you are born until you die. People are just swell!
The idea is simple. Folks, if they think rationally, will make rational decisions. Rational decisions rarely result in large profits for anyone. However, if you can get someone to think emotionally, you can rob them blind. It is a game as old as the hills.
The emotions they play upon are basic:
- greed
- envy
- jealousy
- vanity
- anger
Who does this? How does this work? And how can you tell if you've been baited?
The scenarios are endless, but here are a few scenarios which might have answers to these questions.
People who are baiting you are not only commercial interests (salesmen, companies, etc.) but also your friends, co-workers, employers, and even your own government. They also include the television, particularly the evening news. The basic goal is to get you all riled up so you can't think straight.
1. The Car Dealer - An Obvious Example
For example, take the car salesman. Cars are sold on emotions, not on rational thinking. If people bought cars rationally, they'd all be rather bland looking and bought through the fleet sales office. What sells cars is emotion. If a car looks "sexy" - or more importantly makes YOU look sexy, you are more likely to buy it. In our society, status is tightly tied up with what make, model, and year car you drive. Most folks buy new cars in order to keep up the appearances of what they perceive to be their status and station in life. With all of this in the background, the car salesman has an easy time of it.
Going to a dealer to buy a car is one of the worst experiences in life. Since most people do it maybe a dozen times in a lifetime, it is not something we become skilled at. So right off the bat, you are at an experience disadvantage. Salesmen start by playing up to the emotions you are already pandering to - how the car will enhance your status. One common trick of salesmen is to say "hey, I'll put temp tags on it now, and you can drive it home and show it off to your friends!" The idea being that you are so caught up in impressing people you hardly know that you will forgo negotiating price and terms on the deal. And many do just that.
The other common tactic is the wear-down. Most folks report that a simple sales transaction with a car can take 3, 4 or even 5 hours or more - for no apparent reason. By keeping you hostage in the showroom, the salesman can wear you down. After you've spent an hour or more there, you feel committed to the process, as you don't want to lose the time you've "invested" in the process by starting over somewhere else. In addition, after a few hours, your blood sugar level goes low, and you become dehydrated. You may feel dizzy and lightheaded. You want to leave, and you'll do anything to finish the process, even accepting terms that you would not normally find acceptable.
The only way to avoid this trap is not to step in it. You can't win at the car dealer game, period. Just as you can't win at a casino. Thinking you can outsmart a salesman is folly. In one month, he completes more car transactions that you will in a lifetime. Who has experience on his side? Yet many people, men in particular, like to boast about how they "put one over" on a car salesman, when in fact it was they who were had.
Buying services, online sales, and the like are helpful tools in that game. But the best deal of all is a well-researched low mileage used car. A car than is one year old and has 12,000 miles on it can be had for 20% less (or even far less) than the cost of a similar new car - when bought from an individual, not a used car salesman. No matter how good a haggler you are, you can't get a deal like that at a car dealer.
2. Employment Games
But that is merely an obvious form of baiting - in a sales transaction. Employment is another area where people use baiting - often subconsciously (or not) to get ahead of their fellow employees. For some people working in a company, the ultimate goal is to get ahead - no matter how trivial the advancement is, or what the cost involved is, to the company or your fellow employees. Many companies inadvertently (or intentionally) foster an atmosphere of competitiveness amongst their employees that can be very destructive to productivity.
For example, Joe Green wants to work his way up the corporate ladder at Acme Corp. The first step is to become department head. But there are other, more highly skilled employees with more seniority above him. His first goal is to get these people out of the way. Joe targets Sam Brown first. He takes Sam to lunch and tells him stories about what an awful place Acme is. Sam never realized that simple Acme Corp. was a cesspool of vice and corruption! Joe keeps hammering the point home over time. Stopping in Sam's office time and again to engage in hour-long bitch sessions about how crummy Acme is. The employees are being taken advantage of, of course, and management is inept and corrupt. The rival Apex Company is a much better place to work, he says. They have a profit-sharing plan!
It doesn't take too long before Sam becomes depressed in his work, as he spends hours every day with Joe, bitching about how bad Acme is. Of course, Joe manages to casually report to his superiors how Sam is bitching about Acme, and Joe also tells other co-workers about Sam's unhappiness. Before too long, Sam is sending a resume to Apex Company, and if Joe's plan works, Sam leaves Acme before too long, and Joe advances another notch. Sam fell for Joe's baiting in a big way.
Of course, if Sam didn't get the hint the first time, Joe has other tricks up his sleeve. For example, Joe calls a headhunter and gives him Sam's name as a potentially disgruntled employee. Now that Joe has worn Sam down with the negative talk about Acme, when the headhunter calls, he'll have easier pickings.
There are other tricks as well. Joe can suggest to Sam that he take on an unpopular and unprofitable project, which, when it fails, will be blamed on Sam. Or Joe can encourage Sam's discontent in front of others, and then show Sam's bosses that Sam is being "disloyal" to the company. There are many techniques.
Are there really people as evil as Joe in the world? Yes. There are some folks who will stab their Grandmother if it meant a $10 a week raise and a corner office. But the Joe's of the world also do these nefarious things very subconsciously. If confronted with their tactics, they will deny they are doing anything intentionally, and in their minds they are telling the truth. Human behavior is a very complex thing, and many of us (most of us? all of us?) do things without thinking of what our real motivations are.
How do you avoid Joe? Well, don't play his game. If he wants to stop in your office for an hour and bitch about work or co-workers or bosses, tell him you have an important project that needs to get done (don't be surprised if he suggests you blow it off). Just say no to Joe, and that means no lunches, no chat sessions, and certainly do not rise to his bait by bitching about work or your bosses. If you get a call from a headhunter, ask them where they got your contact information. Someone had to give it to them - they don't just randomly dial people.
Even if you do hate your job and think your boss is a jerk, there is little to be gained, amend that, NOTHING to be gained, by bitching about it at work. If you really feel that your job is wrong for you, research and find a new one - non-emotionally and rationally. Don't be baited into it by an employee like Joe.
3. TeeVee (and Radio) Games
As I noted in my "Kill Your Television!" article, TeeVee has degenerated into little more than a continual baiting game. They want to get you all riled up so you continue to watch. It is highly addictive.
In Howard Stern's movie "Private Parts" there is a line that illustrates how this works. The station manager is reading the latest A.C. Nielsen ratings and says :
" 50% of listeners LOVE Howard Stern and listen for an average of 1.5 hours. Reason given? They want to hear what he'll say next!"
" 50% of listeners HATE Howard Stern and listen for an average of 2.5 hours. Reason given? They want to hear what he'll say next!"
Whether this survey was actually true, it illustrates the twisted genius of Stern and other "shock jock" and talk show hosts, as well as television programmers. Their goal is to get you to listen or watch, so they can sell you, like a pimp sells a whore, to advertisers.
Pleasant music and subdued announcers do not generate an emotional response from listeners. But shocking material gets people to "stay tuned" and listen for yet more outrages.
TeeVee works on the same principle. The 11:00 news starts advertising around 8PM every evening with 5-second "teasers" that are ambiguous and alarming. "A hurricane in the forecast? Stay tuned for news at 11!" Of course in the same time it took them to "tease" you about this, they could have said "no hurricanes in the forecast" or "a hurricane IS forecast". But that doesn't insure someone will watch later on. This sort of teaser is insulting to your intelligence, frankly.
TeeVee shows work on the same principle. They titillate with sex and "controversy" to get you to watch. Fox started this trend with "Married: with Children" and the other networks quickly followed suit. Today, most sitcoms and dramas on TeeVee are about who is sleeping with who. And every year, a new swearword is added to the list of "acceptable" television dialogue, usually on the premise that "people actually talk that way in real life."
If you stop watching TeeVee for a year or so, going back to it is like trying to take up smoking again. You wonder what you ever saw in it - or what others saw in it. While the shows are barely 22 minutes long, they seem to drag on for hours. The latest baiting trend is "reality" shows, which of course, are all scripted. What do they script? Fights. They go on for weeks with juicy and gossipy arguments and tiffs between the contestants - as if these people even know each other or care. But apparently there is something in human nature that likes to hear about such stuff - a somewhat evil and sad part of human nature at that.
Again, the only way to avoid the baiting of TeeVee is to just stop watching it. Spending hours every day sitting and staring at a screen is not a constructive use of your time, and hardly engaging your brain. Once you stop thinking, the brain atrophies and doing things like buying a new SUV sound good (after you've seen countless ads). So you go to the dealer and get baited some more. Controlling TeeVee watching is akin to trying to control a crack habit. You might kid yourself it is under control, but deep down you know you have a problem. After 30-40 years of this, you'll look back at your life as one long sitcom and wonder what the heck happened.
And bear in mind the average American watches 4.6 hours of this junk a day. Not only is it a bad influence on your brain, it is the ultimate time bandit!
4. Is Your Government is Baiting You? Of course they are!
One of the most common forms of baiting is from your own Government and in particular, politicians. You don't get elected these days (or any days) by being quietly competent. You have to be against something or tell the electorate that dire things will happen if they do not vote for you!
Republicans have been using the baiting game for decades. So-called "social issues" such as Abortion, Gay Marriage, Gun Control, Prayer in School, Creationism, and the like are used to get fundamentalist Christians to the polls. The last thing the Republicans want, of course, is for these issues to actually go away. If they did, who would vote for a bunch of crooks?
So after nearly 20 years of Republican rule under Reagan and two Bushes, Abortion still remains legal. The last thing they want to do is actually overturn Roe v. Wade - it would be bad for business!
The National Rifle Association had this problem recently. They have had such a success pushing through their agenda that very little remained to be done. How do you get people to send in their dues and vote Republican if their guns are not in peril? Their solution was to go abroad - they would use gun laws in Canada and Europe as examples of "what could happen" in the USA if we weren't careful. Playing on John Birch paranoia, they argued that United Nations "laws" would preempt the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and force us to give up our guns!
Silly nonsense? You bet. The UN has no power at all, particularly when we have a veto seat on the security council. But people believe it, and they send in their dues, buy the CD's with these paranoid theories, and vote for crooks who would not otherwise get elected dogcatcher without these baiting games.
Lest you think I am being partisan, Democrats play the same game, albeit with a different set of rules. If you vote Republican, women will go back to having back-alley abortions! Right? Well, no, actually not. More than half of all births today are out-of-wedlock. There is little or no social stigma attached to an "illegitimate" birth. The incentive to have a dangerous abortion if it were outlawed is quite overstated. And the risk that abortion will be outlawed throughout the USA is also overstated.
The Democratic playing card is "going back". If you vote Republican, we'll "go back" to the days before affirmative action, before the civil rights act, to Jim Crow, and eventually, slavery will be legalized! This is of course, a ridiculous argument, but they make it all the time. Even mere discussion of the merits of affirmative action are called racist. And traditionally, it has worked in getting out the vote, particularly in minority neighborhoods.
And once elected, our elected leaders bait us all the time to push through projects of dubious merit. The war in Iraq? The economic bailout? Those are just a couple of recent things sold to us on emotional, not rational, terms.
How do you avoid being baited politically? For starters, avoid listening to political pundits, talk show hosts, and the like. Most of these use emotional arguments for what should be rational public policy decisions. Every issue has two sides to it, try to figure out what the other side wants, and why. It may not change your mind, but it will help you understand what is going on. You may find that both sides of an issue are being baited and used.
And most of all, don't be a single-issue or "issues" voter. If someone can snag your vote based on one position on one issue, they have you. Most elected officials do not have control over these issues anyway (which is why Reagan and the Bushes could not outlaw abortion during their terms). Electing your local mayor based on his position on abortion makes no sense - particularly when he has been accused of looting the town treasury.
5. Are your Friends (and family) Baiting You? They Might Be!
The idea that your friends might try to manipulate or bait you seems odd at first. After all, these are your friends, right? People you love and trust, right? But in any group of people, be it a bridge club, a family, or a clique at school, there is a constant competition, which is usually operating far below the levels of conscious behavior. Usually.
As sad as it may sound, people curry favor with one another. People want to be loved, to be popular. And there is a nasty tendency, in any group, to scapegoat others. In many families, this behavior is all too common. Sibling rivalry is a well-known term. Siblings vie to see who can curry favor with the group, and often this means ostracizing one or more members of the family. The situation is often fluid and dynamic, as one member becomes popular, while another is in emotional exile.
Amongst groups of friends, similar things happen. People turn on one another with a vengeance. Someone who is popular one day is reviled the next, usually because they were popular, which encourages jealousy.
There is an old saying that goes like this: "Intelligent people talk about ideas. Mediocre people talk about things. Small people talk about other people". In our society, we are encouraged to be small people. "People" magazine and the like are some of the most popular forms of press. "Entertainment News" trumps real news on a regular basis. Reality TeeVee and the like focuses on arguments and disputes and scandals revolving around people. So it is little wonder that most folks today take their social cues from these sources and turn their personal lives into pathetic mirrors of celebrity news.
It is hard, very hard, not to get sucked into this sort of thing. The warning sides are obvious. When you are with a group of people, and the discussion degenerates into a bitch festival about the one person missing, you know you are headed for trouble. The problem with this behavior is that after an hour-long bitch session about Suzie, the next time you see her, it will be....awkward.
And the next time the group is assembled, well, how awkward is it that you all know the horrible things you've said about Suzie and here you all are in her presence? And of course, you'll have to ask yourself this pertinent question: If they say this nasty stuff about Suzie when she isn't around, what are they saying about YOU? Answer: The same sort of stuff.
If interaction with your friends and family is degenerating into baiting like this, it is a sure sign you are spending too much time together. Groups, Cliques, and Families, tend to ostracize outsiders as a means of reinforcing group cohesiveness. However, this "blackballing" of others can make things uncomfortable and difficult later on - and make yourself miserable as well.
The best thing to do is to reduce contacts with folks in a group when it reaches this point. When you see each other less, you will have other, more important things to discuss when you do meet. If the bitch fest starts, you can try to change the subject, but it rarely works, I have found.
And sometimes, you just have to let your membership in such groups lapse. Your own mental health is more important than group membership, and if a group brings you down with their constant harping on others, it is not good for your psyche. Besides, if you leave the group, you give them a new topic for discussion - and a new target for their vitriol. So in effect, you are doing them a favor.
6. Please Hold for the Next Available Operator - is the Telephone Baiting You?
Customer service is another area prime for baiting. We've all spent hours on musical hold, trying to get a refund for a item that was defective, or a charge on our account that was not legit. The systems companies use to handle complaints are very well crafted to get customers to give up on their complaints and go away.
Long hold times and frustrating telephone operators can get you riled up -get you angry. You call and are transferred, and then put on hold, transferred again, and again. Each time, you have to explain your life's story to some clerk or "supervisor" (usually another clerk) in a call center. No one is very helpful, because they are trained not to be. And eventually, you get upset. And that is what they want you to do. If they can get YOU to be angry and unreasonable, then it is easier for them to paint themselves as the ones who are calm and collected. And if they can get you to spend an hour on the phone, chances are, they can get you angry pretty easily.
The best solution to this problem is to write down what it is you want and mail a letter to the company involved. It may not provide instant gratification, but it creates a better paper-trail for you later on, should something like this escalate into a legal matter. Gather together all your documents, write down a statement of facts, and most importantly, set forth what you feel is a reasonable resolution to the problem.
Many folks, being baited by telephone call centers, fail to get their documentation in order. If you don't have the paperwork, they can claim they never heard of you. And if you don't have your complaint in writing, they can claim you never complained.
Offering a reasonable solution is also important. I have read many angry letters to consumer complaint hot-lines in the past, with consumers who want unreasonable solutions to their problems. One fellow's RV breaks down on a trip. Not only does he want free repairs, but he wants his towing covered, the cost of the campsite reservation, a three-night stay in a hotel, including room service meals, and $5000 on top of that in "aggravation". The best he could hope for is a free repair.
Put it in writing. Write down the facts. Assemble supporting documents. Ask for a reasonable solution to the problem. And if there is no reasonable solution to the problem, then just move on with life. There is little or no point in "filing a complaint" if it does nothing to compensate you for your losses. Sometimes the best you can do is move on and take your business elsewhere.
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All of these experiences above are based on my own experience, as well as the experiences of others I know. Chances are, you've been baited in the past, just as I have been baited. As humans, we cannot help making a knee-jerk reaction to certain emotional stimuli. However, if you can recognize when you are being baited, it is a good first step. Avoiding baiting situations can improve your life from both a financial and emotional standpoint.


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For as long as hip-hop has existed, MCs have been boasting their claims to the throne. While all that braggadocio has produced some of the genre's most entertaining (and most tragic) rivalries, it ultimately doesn't amount to much.
But that hasn't stopped Rolling Stone from putting together its own list of hip-hop's latest and greatest — and crunching the numbers to make a well-constructed, albeit sure to be hotly contested, argument for the current king.
According to Rolling Stone's list — which only takes the last couple of years into account — Eminem deserves the crown thanks to a variety of factors, including YouTube views, album sales, live grosses, and social networking presence. Coming in second and third? Lil Wayne and Drake, respectively.
Further down the list are Jay-Z and Kanye West, who placed fourth and fifth, respectively, while Nicki Minaj — the sole female artist to break the ranks — landed at number six. Rounding out the top 10 are, in order, Rick Ross, Ludacris, Gucci Mane, and T.I.


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The reality TV show about the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office premiered to moderate ratings, which declined slightly in later episodes.
The reality TV show about the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office premiered to moderate ratings, which declined slightly in later episodes.
About 1.4 million tuned in to A&E to watch the first episode of "Cajun Justice" on June 7, and about 1.5 million tuned in for the second one that night, according to Nielsen ratings data.
The second episode was the 25th most-watched non-broadcast cable show that night, with ratings similar to Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and Home and Garden Television's "House Hunters."
Ratings remained at an average of 1.4 million viewers for both shows on June 14, then dropped to about 1.1 million when A&E aired reruns on Thursday.
The popularity of the reality TV show comes nowhere near that of "Swamp People," which was the third most-watched cable show the night "Cajun Justice" premiered and brought in 4.2 million viewers when it premiered in 2010.
The hour-long "Swamp People" airs on the A&E-affiliated History Channel at 8 p.m., and two half-hour episodes of "Cajun Justice" air at 9 p.m. on A&E.
These Nielson ratings only include viewers who watch it live and viewers who record it and watch it the same day, Nielson officials said. However, Nielson ratings also track how many people tape shows with a digital video recorder, though those numbers are not released until later. The ratings count viewers as young as 2 years old.
When news spread of "Cajun Justice" using footage from a search for a man who died in a boat crash last year, Houma resident Carla Ortego said she would not watch the show because she doesn't ethically agree with it. That show has not yet aired.
"This poor family's privacy has become somewhat of a curiosity to all out there," Ortego said in a post on The Courier's Facebook. "This is how producers get their ratings: through bad publicity. ... I, for one, am not curious and will not be watching the show."
Many Terrebonne residents have said they are offended by the portrayal of their parish in the show. Incoming sheriff Jerry Larpenter has said he will not allow the production company to continue filming when he takes office July 1.
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NEW ORLEANS – The Georgia College women's cross country team remained at the No. 10 spot on the most recently released rankings from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). This is the fourth-straight week that women's cross country has been ranked in the southeast region.
There were no changes from the previous rankings, including the five other Peach Belt Conference (PBC) teams that were previously ranked maintaining their positions on the list.
The Bobcats will next be in action when they travel to Montevallo, Ala. to compete in the PBC Championships Saturday, Oct. 20.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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An international team of scientists have developed the world's first fiber-optic solar cell. Thinner than the width of a human hair and scalable to many meters in length, the silicon-based wire opens the possibility of a new generation of flexible fabrics capable of converting solar radiation into direct-current electricity. The group's findings, which were published in the December 6 issue of Advanced Materials, expand upon earlier attempts to combine optical fibers with electronic chips. Although many attempts have been made to integrate photovoltaic technology into clothing, traditional components tend to be rigid and unyielding.
Led by John Badding, a professor of chemistry at Pennsylvania State University, the group found a way to build a new kind of optical fiber with its own integrated electronics, eliminating the need for additional chips. The secret lay in high-pressure chemistry techniques, which allowed the scientists to deposit semiconducting materials directly, layer by layer, into tiny holes in the optical fibers.
Long, fiber-based solar cells can be woven into fabric with power-generating, chemical-sensing, or biomedical properties.
Those same techniques led team members to craft a fiber out of crystalline-silicone semiconductor materials that can function as a solar cell. "Our goal is to extend high-performance electronic and solar-cell function to longer lengths and to more flexible forms," Badding explains. Although his group has successfully produce meters-long fibers, their goal is to create bendable solar cells over 10 meters—that's 32 feet—in length.
"Long, fiber-based solar cells give us the potential to do something we couldn't really do before," he says. "We can take the silicon fibers and weave them together into a fabric with a wide range of applications such as power-generation, battery-charging, chemical-sensing, and biomedical devices."
Another advantage of their technology? Team members believe that the flexibility of their material would make it possible to collect light energy at different angles. "A typical solar cell has only one flat surface," Badding says. "But a flexible, curved solar-cell fabric would not be as dependent upon where the light is coming from or where the sun is in the horizon and the time of day."
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Dr. Joanne Stewart of the Hope College faculty is part of the leadership team of a national online resource featuring teaching materials for inorganic chemistry that has recently received a major grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will help expand its content.
The project, titled "IONiC: Transforming Education Through Collaborative Development of Materials at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry," has received a four-year, $437,962 award from the NSF to develop additional classroom and laboratory lessons based on the latest research in inorganic chemistry by top scientists from around the country. The materials will then be made available at no charge to instructors of inorganic chemistry on IONiC's web site, "VIPEr" (for "Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource").
The NSF support will enable IONiC to organize a series of four summer workshops during which faculty from within the IONiC community will work with the authors of the new research to develop at least 80 new high-quality teaching resources that relate the research to fundamental principles of inorganic chemistry. The workshops will run from 2013 through 2016.
IONiC is short for "Intellectual Online Network of Inorganic Chemists." The NSF-funded content expansion reflects the network's on-going mission to enhance undergraduate chemistry teaching through a community of educators dedicated to sharing and improving lessons and ideas to both inform and excite students about the discipline.
"The site emphasizes active learning and provides great ideas for bringing active learning into the chemistry classroom," said Stewart, a professor of chemistry at Hope who joined the Leadership Council for IONiC in 2007. "What this grant does that's unique is that it brings cutting-edge research in science into what is essentially an introductory course in inorganic chemistry, and that's not easy to do."
Launched by a team of seven chemists, IONiC now has more than 500 registered users. Through VIPEr, the project currently makes available more than 440 lessons in a variety of subfields within the discipline of inorganic chemistry, a resource that Stewart noted that she finds useful continuously.
"When I teach inorganic, for almost every class day I have chosen a VIPEr activity to do in class," Stewart said. "Because many of the activities are also appropriate for general chemistry, several of us use them in teaching our general chemistry students as well."
The site also includes interactive forums that enable participants to write about their experiences using the lessons, discuss teaching, share information about additional resources or consider other topics related to their profession.
"It's not just small colleges. There are also two-year colleges and large universities on the site," Stewart said. "There are very few places that bring all these faculty together."
The new grant, which is being administered through Earlham College, is the second that IONiC has received from the NSF. A two-year, $150,000 award in 2007 assisted in the site's development across 2008 and 2009.
In addition to Earlham and Hope, the institutions represented on IONiC's Leadership Council include the Claremont Colleges, the College of Wooster, DePauw University, Harvey Mudd College, James Madison University, Lafayette College, Reed College, Smith College and the University of Michigan at Dearborn. More information about IONiC is available at www.ionicviper.org.


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Tech Geothermal Project Bolstered By Department of Energy
UPDATE: November 12 -- Periodic status report updates on the drilling project, including depth and temperatures, are available on the web.
SOCORRO, N.M. November 5, 2009 – Looking to the west from Socorro in the evenings, many people are wondering about the bright spotlights illuminating the base of 'M' Mountain.
|The Rogers & Co. drilling rig at work in the shadow of 'M' Mountain. Photo courtesy of Dr. Mark Person.
The lights aren't related to any explosives testing; a drilling company – under the watchful eye of a team of geologists – is working around the clock to find a source of geothermally heated water.
The federal Department of Energy awarded New Mexico Tech $457,000 earlier this year to drill a test well. Now, the agency has awarded Tech another $2 million to link the geothermal wells to the campus heating system. The project will drastically reduce the university's reliance on its natural-gas powered heating system for campus buildings.
Vice President of Research Dr. Van Romero announced Thursday that the university received $1,999,900 from the Department of Energy through the federal stimulus package.
Tech President Dr. Daniel H. Lopez said the funding represents a significant boost to the university's ability to be energy self-sufficient.
"This funding permits us to continue to develop alternative sources of energy to supply our campus needs," Lopez said. "The ultimate goal is to produce enough geothermal energy to minimize our consumption of electric power and natural gas."
Hydrology professor Dr. Mark Person is the principal investigator on the project. He is also developing a new graduate level course in Geothermal Resource Exploration, which has generated significant interest among graduate students.
The project will also serve as a hands-on teaching lab for students interested in learning more about geothermal energy, Romero said. The federal funding will also pay for two new graduate research assistants.
The campus hot water loop has suffered numerous failures in recent years, costing the university (and the state) millions in repairs. The state had provided funding to replace the system.
|A diagram of the geothermal production well being drilled two miles west of campus.
In the meantime, drilling continues. As of Tuesday, Nov. 3, the Rogers & Co. drilling crew has nearly reached 300 feet, with water temperatures at about 37 degrees C. Ultimately, the primary pump will be set at that level – 300 feet below the surface, but the production well will be drilled to a depth of about 1,500 feet. The primary goal is to find water at 65 degrees C with a flow rate of 800 gallons per minute. Of course, if the geologists find hot water (90 degrees C) at shallower depths, they'll stop drilling.
Based on previous geologic and hydrologic studies by Tech scientists Marshall Reiter and Peggy Barroll, the Tech team believes they've found a location where hot water is closest to the surface.
"We've known for a long time of the source of hot water under 'M' Mountain," Romero said. "Thanks to the Department of Energy, we are able to tap into that heat source and put research into action."
As ground water seeps into the earth on the San Agustin Plains surrounding Magdalena, the water descends as far as three kilometers below the surface – and heating up as it descends. Distinct geologic formations beneath 'M' Mountain push the heated water back toward the surface.
"We're drilling on the bull's eye of a heat flow anomaly at Woods Tunnel," Person said. "It's really exciting. A lot of faculty members are donating some of their time to this project because we believe in helping New Mexico Tech 'go green.' Plus, we can save the university – and the state – about $800,000 in cost every year."
|The bottom inset shows the location of the geothermal well and the pipeline that will connect the well to campus. The top inset shows the location of hot water loop on the main campus. Graphics by Mark Person
The new federal appropriation will pay for the infrastructure (pipes, pumps and heat exchangers) to transport the hot water 2.1 miles from the base of the mountain to the heat exchanger at Facilities Management. University staff will install the pumps and an insulated pipeline, allowing the university to begin phasing out the existing natural gas heating plant. Engineering subcontractor Dan Hand will work with Facilities Management to design and oversee the installation of the district heating system. Jim Witcher, a geothermal consultant from Las Cruces is overseeing the well-site drilling operation.
Person said this phase of the project is exciting; the drilling will answer many questions about the potential for geothermal energy. At the current depth of 300 feet, the drillers have encountered fractured rock and the well is producing 1,000 gallons per minute. Person said the project's success depends in large part on finding similarly fractured rock at deeper depths. Fractured rock allows heated water to easily flow to the well consistently over time.
"Fractured rock makes it hard to drill," Person said. "But it's what we want to see."
Throughout the project, Department of Energy experts Dr. Douglas Blankenship in Albuquerque and Eric Hass of Golden, Colo., have been monitoring the project and offering advice. Person said the agency scientists and engineers have been extremely helpful.
Once the hot water reaches campus, the heat transfer unit will generate the energy required to heat all campus buildings. The spent water will then be injected back into a brackish aquifer. Person said the university will still need to secure the funding – hopefully from the state of New Mexico – to drill a 3,000 foot injection well. The hydrologists are taking special care to find a depth where the injected water will not effect the Socorro drinking water supplies. While still potable, the geothermal water has too high of a saline content to meet EPA standards for drinking water.
The federal Department of Energy is distributing $338 million in Recovery Act funding for the exploration and development of new geothermal fields and research into advanced geothermal technologies.
"The United States is blessed with vast geothermal energy resources, which hold enormous potential," said Department of Energy Secretary Chu. "These investments in America's technological innovation will allow us to capture more of this clean, carbon free energy at a lower cost than ever before."
These grants are directed towards identifying and developing new geothermal fields and reducing the upfront risk associated with geothermal development through innovative exploration and drilling projects and data development and collection. In addition, the grants will support the deployment and creative financing approaches for ground source heat pump demonstration projects across the country.
"We'll be the only green campus in New Mexico," Person said. "And only the second green campus in the nation. That makes this a very exciting project."
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FRISCO, TX (January 30, 2014): The Museum of the American Railroad received
the first of two historic diesel-electric locomotives from TXI this
morning. A longtime supporter of the
Museum, the concrete producer recognized the historical significance of this
locomotive and chose to preserve the unit rather than send it to scrap. It had been recently retired from plant
service at TXI's Hunter facility in New Braunfels, TX.
#2428, the engine enjoyed a long career in Texas. It began life as a streamlined Santa Fe
locomotive built by General Motors in 1953, and could be found pulling the line's
freight trains throughout the Southwest.
In 1977, it was completely remanufactured along with over 200 others of
its class at Santa Fe's Cleburne, Texas Shops.
Opened in 1898, the massive shop complex once employed 1,200 workers of
all crafts, and was known throughout the Santa Fe system as one of the finest
maintenance facilities in the U.S.
"Cleburne Rebuilds" or CF-7s, were known for their ruggedness and
reliability. Many enjoyed another decade
of service on the Santa Fe. In 1984,
#2428 was finally retired and sold to Texas Industries, where it embarked on a
30-year career in plant service. The locomotive will serve as an additional switch engine at the Museum's new Frisco facility, and be the subject of over 60 years of railroad and industrial plant history in Texas.
of CF-7 #2428 was made possible by the cooperation and support of the Nation's
two largest railroads. In a partnership
that provided for its movement to the Museum, Union Pacific Railroad donated
transportation between New Braunfels and Fort Worth, while BNSF Railway contributed
movement of the engine between Fort Worth and Frisco. We are also indebted to the Mechanical forces
on both railroads for ensuring the safety and reliability of #2428 throughout
the move.
Museum is very grateful to TXI for their continued support through gifts and
grants. Their generosity has enabled the
Museum to further construction of its new facilities in Frisco, and add
historically significant pieces to its rolling stock collection. The second TXI locomotive to be donated this
year is being readied for movement in February.
two engines join a third unit donated by TXI back in 2000 that had a long and
varied career, including a stint on the Trans-Iranian Railway hauling allied
war materials into Stalingrad during WWII.


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U.S. Navy Opens More Assignments to HIV-Positive Sailors, Marines
This article was reported by Stars and Stripes.
Stars and Stripes reported today that sailors and Marines with blood-borne diseases, such as HIV and hepatitis, can now serve overseas and on large-ship-platform assignments, a privilege the Navy has long denied them. The Navy's Personnel Command recently approved the rule and announced implementation guidance after taking a year to review the policy issued by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus in August 2012.
Being barred from overseas and on-ship assignments meant that sailors and Marines had few career choices and advancement opportunities. With medical advances, HIV-positive persons can now enjoy healthy lives for 20-30 years and take less medication, which makes treatment outside the United States possible.
"Navy Personnel Command is following the direction of the Secretary, and has begun assigning sailors with blood-borne pathogens to operational [outside the continental U.S.] platforms," according to a statement from Navy Personnel Command Spokesperson Mike McLellan. "At this point, less than 0.1 percent of Navy's population fall into these categories." He did not provide information on the number of sailors and Marines that had been placed on these assignments already, nor how many have yet to be placed.
The policy only applies to HIV-positive sailors and Marines who have minimal medical complications. "In the case of HIV-positive service members, these personnel and the services have put a lot of time and effort into their careers, and there is no medical reason for them not to be able to continue serving with pride," said Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Spokesperson Shoshona Pilip-Florea in December. According to the instruction, post commanders, medical personnel, and detailers have veto power for each request.
The Navy currently bars persons who already have HIV from joining the Navy or Marines.


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It's old news in the NCAC - Wabash (7-1) and Wittenberg (8-0) will battle for a conference title and NCAA playoff birth Saturday in Springfield, Ohio.
The two teams have owned the title the past six years with the last two games coming down to a field goal in the final seconds.
Kickoff is at 1 p.m. Saturday on the Wittenberg campus. Since joining the NCAC, Wabash and Witt have split 10 games.
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After the feedback review of the draft syllabus by MCI, changes in the final from draft syllabus as based on the review committee
constituted by MCI, they have decided to remove the topics of chemistry which are not relevant to medical stream.
These topics include:
Chemistry of Class XI
Syllabus Portion and Deleted portion details:-
Unit I : Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry
- Historical approach to particle nature of matter.
UNIT II: Structure of Atom
-Discovery of electron, proton and neutron; Thompson's model and its limitations, Rutherford's model and its limitations, Bohr's model and its limitations.
UNIT III: Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties
-Significance of classification, brief history of the development of periodic table, Inert gas radii, Nomenclature of elements with atomic number greater than 100.
UNIT IV: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
-Covalent character of ionic bond.
UNIT VI : Thermodynamics
-Concepts of system, types of systems, surroundings, work, heat, energy, extensive and intensive properties, state functions.
UNIT VIII: Redox Reactions
-Applications of redox reactions.
UNIT IX: Hydrogen
-Position of hydrogen in periodic table, hydrogen as a fuel.
UNIT X: s-Block Elements (Alkali and Alkaline earth metals)
-CaO, CaCO3
UNIT XI: Some p-Block Elements
-Physical and chemical properties of boron
UNIT XIII: Hydrocarbons
-Classification of Hydrocarbons; Aliphatic Hydrocarbons
Chemistry of Class XII
Syllabus Portion and Deleted portion details:-
UNIT I: Solid State
-n and p type semiconductors.
UNIT III: Electrochemistry
-Nernst equation and its application to chemical cells
UNIT VII: p- Block Elements
-Group 15 elements: nitrogen-preparation, properties and uses; compounds of nitrogen, Group 16 elements: Properties and manufacture of sulphuric acid, Group 17 elements: Oxidation states; Prepartion of chlorine and hydrochloric acid.
UNIT VIII: d and f Block Elements
-Occurrence of transition metals; Metallic character of first row transition metals.
UNIT IX: Coordination Compounds
-Extraction of metals.
All the rest topics of Chemistry for Class 11 and 12 are same as the old draft syllabus.


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Editorial: The Next Big Thing
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March 02, 2006
I am sometimes asked what I believe will be the next new use of energy or the next big efficiency measure. I made a couple of lucky calls in the past few years—so lucky that I have been virtually tarred with the word "standby" on my forehead— but I'm still willing to stick out my neck and speculate.
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The "fiscal cliff" consists of two elements — tax increases and spending cuts. The tax side is essentially a win-win for President Obama. Either he extracts a large amount of money for the government through across-the-board tax hikes he can blame on Republicans or he extracts a smaller amount of money from well-off Americans, thereby satisfying his emotional desire to stick it to Republicans and the well-off.
The spending cuts, by contrast, represent pure loss for Obama. He has no desire to cut spending, and doing so will limit slightly his ability to govern as he sees fit.
Taxes appear to be Obama's main focus, and understandably so. They relate to politics and emotion, whereas spending cuts relate to mere governance.
But Obama doesn't want a decoupling of the two issues. If taxes fall off of the table, he is left with a pretty weak hand. Thus, it's better for him to resolve both issues at the same time
Why, then, hasn't Obama been more willing to compromise? Probably because he understands the emotional force of the tax issue for Republicans and wants to maximize the concessions he can leverage off of it. This might explain, for example, why Obama could believe that raising the tax rate spike point from $250,000 to $400,000 (or a slightly larger number) might buy him (1) relief from the impending big spending cuts, (2) the ability to make only minimal concessions on entitlements, and (3) no more debt-limit negotiations for two years.
If Obama believed this, it was a miscalculation. Not because Republicans don't give primacy to the tax issue, but because they are too resolute on taxes to be bought off at $400,000 (or even, perhaps, at $1 million).
Eventually, however, Republicans are going to have to take a hit on taxes in order to avoid a massive hit from the electorate. Taking that hit will not constitute their abandonment of core conservative principles. Avoiding a tax hike on all payers of federal income taxes is closer to a core conservative principle than avoiding a tax hike on high earners. And, like it or not, that's the choice Republicans will face.
Their other choice is whether to make concessions to Obama on spending cuts and entitlement reform in order to protect those who earn from $250,000 to (say) $400,000 from a tax increase. For me, the correct answer is that few if any concessions should be made for that purpose.


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Submitted by Susan Spath on August 4, 2008 - 15:47
Reports of the National Center for Science Education, or RNCSE, is published quarterly (winter, spring, summer, fall). RNCSE's editor is Stephanie Keep.
Starting with volume 31, number 1, in 2011, the contents of RNCSE are freely available online at reports.ncse.com.
Selected articles from RNCSE volume 17, published in 1997, to volume 30, published in 2010, are available here. Browse RNCSE via the links below or in the box to the left.


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Visiting Amish Country:
It's all about the experience
Why do four million people a year visit Ohio's Amish Country? Well, where else can you see the "Amish Sistine Chapel," watch one of the nation's oldest livestock auctions, shop at the world's largest retailer of non-electric appliances or take a guided back-road tour that ends with dinner in an Amish Home? We've got bakeries, cheese houses, wineries, quilt and craft shops and 80 hardwood furniture stores. It's all here just waiting to be discovered by you.
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by Matt Dalby, sports information graduate assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College athletic department is pleased to announce the women's cross country team as the overall team academic winners for the 2010-11 season.
The team compiled a department best 3.34 cumulative GPA, tops among all sports at Georgia College.
Leading the way in the classroom for the Bobcats were then-junior Victoria Dobson (New Hamburg, Ontario) and freshman Ashton Passino (Alpharetta, Ga.), with a 3.80 and 3.79, respectively.
Several other Bobcats amassed GPA's over 3.30, including Sarah Balkcom (Fayetteville, Ga.), Andrea Byrnes (Snellville, Ga.), Dani Destiche (Snellville, Ga.), Allison Lones (Kathleen, Ga.), Madeline McCane (McDonough, Ga.), Sarah Ortman (N'Djamena, Chad) and Alex Taylor (Marietta, Ga.).
Director of Athletics Wendell Staton presented the Bobcats harriers with a trophy prior to their home race Sept. 2.
Be sure to keep up with women's cross country team as they head to Aiken, S.C. to compete in he Bridgestone-Pacer Invitational Saturday, Sept. 17 at 9:45 a.m.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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In 1919 Harry J. Marack opened Harry's Chocolate Shop at 329 West State Street in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Marack family operated the Chocolate Shop as the only Soda Fountain near Purdue University well into the 1920's. Primarily serving fountain drinks and luncheonette items, they acquired a license to serve beer and subsequently liquor.
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Mark Malloch Brown is the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations. On Tuesday, the Financial Times published an interview of Brown, which you can access here (subscription only). The interview has drawn attention mostly because of Brown's reluctance to acknowledge that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization:
It's not helpful to couch this war in the language of international terrorism. Hizbollah employs terrorist tactics, it is an organisation however whose roots historically are completely separate and different from Al Qaeda.
Which is, of course, a non sequitur. But I thought this was the most striking moment in the interview:
Everybody would want a solution here which takes away the recruiting power of Hizbollah in the broader Arab world. That is one which addresses the territorial issue of the Sheba farms, which in a broader way addresses Lebanon's sovereignty and integrity in a way that allows Hizbollah a political as against a militia future inside an independent Lebanon. If those issues can be addressed, then the support for a militarised Hizbollah falls away.
This is utterly delusional. The idea that Hezbollah's maniacal attempt to exterminate the Jews somehow turns on Sheba Farms, a tiny slice of land adjoining the Golan Heights, which the U.N. says belongs to Syria, not Lebanon, is absurd on its face. And Brown's reference to Lebanon's "sovereignty and integrity," in the present context, is mystifying, since Israel departed Lebanon six years ago, and the only threat to Lebanon's sovereignty and integrity since that time has come from Hezbollah's patron, Syria, and from Hezbollah itself. But Brown, like most diplomats, is unable to understand or acknowledge that Islamic terrorists are simply evil. He desperately wants the present conflict to be about land. If we can only give Hezbollah some land–any land!–somehow, sanity will be restored. Suffice it to say that this is an approach that has been tried, and found wanting.
What is the book in which people in sleighs, traveling across the Russian steppes, are beset by wolves, and begin to toss children overboard, one by one, in the hope that the wolves will be satiated or distracted? That is the image that comes to mind. Toss the terrorists a bit of land–ultimately, of course, Israel–and maybe they will be satisfied and leave the rest of us alone. It is an unedifying spectacle.
Via Eye on the U.N.


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So Bloomberg finally received the documents that one of their reporters, the late Mark Pittman, requested 20 months ago, to identify the $301 billion in Citi-owned securities that were guaranteed by the government, Bloomberg reports,
But the documents are pretty much useless now.
The 560 pages of emails weren't what Pittman asked for, and most of the text in them has been redacted anyway.
Pittman's news agency, Bloomberg, thought they'd won their battle when a Second Circuit Judge demanded the Treasury turn over the requested documents, until they received the records.
They were so heavily redacted that most of what's left are everyday messages such as "Did you just try to call me?" and "Monday will be a busy day!" None of the documents answers Pittman's request for "records sufficient to show the names of the relevant securities" or the dates and terms of the guarantees.
Here's a brief timeline of what happened:
- Pittman asks the Treasury for details about guarantees it provided on securities held by Citigroup, AIG and BofA in September 2008.
- Responding in December 2008 that AIG and BofA didn't take part in the Asset Guarantee Program (AGP), the request for information is "granted in part and denied in part."
- The Treasury withholds 2810 pages because they contain trade secrets, personnel rules and practices, memos subject to attorney-client privilege and apparently would also violate personal privacy laws. The letter to Pittman from the Board explains that while the "board strongly supports transparency," the country is "facing an unprecedented crisis" and it would be "a dangerous step to release this otherwise confidential information." (Go to Scribd for the full response > )
- Treasury denies another FOIA request on Citi's segregated bad assets based on the trade-secrets exemption. 73 of 104 pages are redacted except for headings. Only the cover, contents page, a list of legal disclosures and a section titled "FOIA Request for Confidential Treatment" (in total, six pages) are left completely intact, according to Bloomberg.
The Treasury told Bloomberg in an email the bank is under "no obligation to explain how much of Citi's recommendations we accepted and in what ways we decided to differ."
So basically, the whole notion of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seems honorable and useful if:
A) You're not asking for information about the bank bailout.
B) You're happy to wait years for the requested information.
C) You don't mind if the requested documents are 95% blacked out when you finally get them.
This is our recommendation to Bloomberg, since it looks like traditional investigative reporting isn't going to cut it in this case - try to convince Wikileaks that its next big drop should be about the bank bailout.
For the full story go to Bloomberg >
For court documents regarding Bloomberg's suit against the Fed, go to the New York Times >


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One of my favorite questions to ask recruiting candidates is: "What content sites have a unique and differentiated user experience?"
The usual answers are as tiresome as the state of web design: YouTube (yes, it is fun to keep clicking), Hulu (yes, they got the experience right for TV viewing), and lots of pauses and comments like "I don't know, it's kind of all the same."
Let's face it: publishers are formulaic herds. And the formulas are boring and tired for users. How bad the state of the art is when Huffington Post gets major props for going with a single full-screen hero shot on its home page – and that's considered breakthrough!
So that's why I'm incredibly impressed with what MSN's Scott Moore and BermanBraun's Lloyd Braun and Gail Berman have done with their newest creation, Glo. From logo to flow, the site's design lets go of the old formulas, tries something new, and most importantly, takes risks. New layouts, new interactions, and new forms of content all create a feeling that this is not an ordinary website. Even more, they have defined their own style that is adventurously well-suited for their audience.
To start making money, publishers need to create consumer experiences that stand out. As MSN's Scott Moore said in a post by Kara Swisher, "we see a lot of room to grow by offering something different and of higher quality." These premium visceral experiences are exactly the path to profit in digital media: they will attract loyal audiences, premium advertising dollars, and over time create opportunities for upselling to consumers. And those premium experiences are, after all, the root reason why everyone is so excited about the iPad this week.
Apple doesn't need to be the only one that can innovate. This kind of innovation is rare among publishers, and yet all too valuable.
For heaven's sake, if MSN can do it, everyone can.