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In 2002, Whoopi Goldberg became one of a very elite group of artists who have won the Grammy ("Whoopi Goldberg," 1985), the Academy Award ("Ghost," 1991), the Golden Globe ("The Color Purple," 1985 and "Ghost," 1991), the Emmy (as host of AMC's "Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel," 2002) and a Tony (Producer of "Thoroughly Modern Millie," 2002). She is equally well-known for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of children, the homeless, human rights, education, substance abuse and the battle against AIDS, as well as many other causes and charities. Among her many charitable activities, Whoopi is a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations.
Born and raised in New York City, Whoopi worked in theatre and improvisation in San Diego and the Bay Area, where she performed with the Blake Street Hawkeyes theatre troupe. It was there that she created the characters which became "The Spook Show" and evolved into her hit Broadway show, Grammy Award-winning album and the HBO special that helped launch her career.
Whoopi made her motion picture debut in Steven Spielberg's film version of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple," for which she earned an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award. Her performance in "Ghost" earned her the Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
On television, Whoopi appeared for five seasons on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and hosted her own syndicated late-night talk show. She starred in the NBC sitcom, "Whoopi," which she executive produced. She currently appears as moderator on ABC's long-running talk show "The View."
As she has in every other facet of her career, Whoopi has made her mark as a producer. She executive produced the Lifetime original drama series "Strong Medicine," the longest-running original drama created for basic cable and the first cable show to go into syndication. From 1998-2002, she executive produced and appeared in the center square on the Emmy Award-winning "Hollywood Squares." Whoopi executive produced the hit Broadway musical, "Thoroughly Modern Millie," which won six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. She was also a producer on George C. Wolfe's "Harlem Song," her own "Whoopi…The 20th Anniversary" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (in which she also starred). She will also produce "Bricktop – Queen of the Night," as well as the West End debut of the new musical, "Sister Act," at the London Palladium later this year.
Whoopi has appeared on many television series and specials, including her own HBO specials, and nine "Comic Relief" telecasts with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams. Whoopi received Emmy Award nominations for hosting the 66th, 68th and 71st "Academy Awards" telecasts and returned to host the 2002 telecast at the new Kodak Theatre. In 2008, Whoopi hosted the Tony Awards for the first time.
She returned to Broadway in 1997, garnering rave reviews in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." In 2001, Whoopi returned to her performing roots, on tour for the first time in over 10 years, performing one-night-only engagements across the U.S She commemorated the 20th anniversary of her original one-woman show with a Tony-nominated engagement production on Broadway last year and the HBO broadcast of the show was nominated for an Emmy Award.
In addition to the Oscar, the Grammy and two Golden Globe Awards, Whoopi has been honored with multiple NAACP Image Awards, numerous People's Choice Awards (including a special tribute in 1998) and five Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards as "Favorite Movie Actress," as well as various awards and honors for her many humanitarian efforts.


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Lymphoma can be difficult to distinguish from other conditions, such as infections. Medical oncologist Anas Younes explains that doctors may suspect lymphoma when symptoms such as enlarged lymph nodes do not become resolved after treatment with antibiotics. Other general symptoms may include shortness of breath or coughing, night sweats, fever that lasts for a long period of time without an infection, and severe itching.
In diagnosing lymphoma, doctors assess the appearance of lymphocytes under the microscope and use specialized tests to look for the presence of certain proteins, chromosomal abnormalities, and genetic markers associated with the illness.
Having a weakened immune system is the most widely recognized risk factor for developing lymphoma, says Memorial Sloan Kettering pathologist Ahmet Dogan. Lymphoma is more common in people with HIV infection or other chronic viral infections, and in people who are taking immunosuppressant drugs. Researchers are also studying environmental and genetic risk factors for this illness.
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Walt Starling, one of the first flying traffic reporters, died of cancer Jan. 4 at his home in Maryland. He was 52 years old.
Starling's career started as a class project at the University of Maryland, where he was studying radio and television in 1973.
His assignment was to create a job for himself. He was a student pilot at the time, and his idea was to provide live radio reports while monitoring traffic from an airplane. Starling's professor told him it was just about the dumbest idea he'd ever heard.
Undeterred, Starling took the idea to Washington, D.C., radio station WAVA, which agreed to try it. On March 4, 1974, he started delivering morning and afternoon rush hour reports from a Cessna 172, circling Washington at 1,200 feet. He was one of the few traffic reporters who did his own flying, and may have been the first. By the time he quit he had flown about 2.2 million miles – nearly all inside the Washington Beltway. That's a lot of time in a little airplane for a big man who stood at 6 feet 4 inches.
Although his traffic reports kept him busy, Starling found time to restore and fly vintage airplanes, and to perform in the Flying Circus Airshows at Beallsville, Virginia.


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VIDEO: The Daily Zap for games played Jan. 2
Report: Gasol-for-Bynum swap losing ground | Rondo open to D-League stint | Report: Warriors, Kings interested in PG Miller | Blazers revel in big night from 3-point land
No. 1: Report: Gasol-for-Bynum talks stall out — Cavs center Andrew Bynum has been basically excused from the team since his suspension from the team for detrimental conduct five days ago. In the time since then, trade talks regarding Bynum have heated up — especially since moving him before Jan. 7 would spare the Cavs from having to pay Bynum anything more than half of his $12.25 million deal. One deal that seemed to be picking up steam involved Cleveland shipping Bynum to his former team, the Los Angeles Lakers, for big man Pau Gasol. But as ESPN.com's Brian Windhorst and Ramona Shelbourne point out, that deal is starting to lose its momentum of a few days ago:
The deal is not dead, but it is no longer progressing. The Cavs, who have until Jan. 7 to trade Bynum before his contract becomes guaranteed and loses its instant value in a trade, are now actively seeking other options.
The major issue, sources said, involves the Lakers' desire to get an additional asset from the Cavs beyond Bynum's team-friendly contract, which could save the Lakers more than $20 million in salary and luxury taxes. The Lakers are interested in also getting a young prospect or a first-round draft pick as part of the deal. The Cavs have been reluctant to part with either.
To satisfy NBA trade rules, the Cavs would have to add at least one more player to any trade involving Gasol for Bynum. Gasol is in the last year of a contract that pays him $19.3 million. Bynum's contract is for $12.25 million but is only half guaranteed before next week, which is why the Lakers are interested. By trading for and then waiving Bynum, the Lakers could take themselves below the luxury-tax threshold for the first time in seven years.
The Lakers, though, remain reluctant to part with Gasol before giving the team time to recover from a wave of injuries that have derailed its season, sources said.
There is some pressure for the Lakers to get out of the luxury tax to help with future flexibility. If the Lakers remain in the tax this season, going into the tax in either of the next two seasons would trigger a "repeater tax" the franchise hopes to avoid. The Lakers are planning to be major free-agent players the next two summers.
Gasol, no stranger to trade rumors, addressed the latest one after the Lakers' practice Thursday.
"I'm more accustomed to them and I deal with them better than I did at first, when it started," he said. "But it's just a reality, and I just got to stay cool and keep my mind on the game as much as I can."
He also said he wants to remain in Los Angeles.
"It's my home, it's my team," Gasol said. "It's the team that I've been through so much with, and I'm not the type of guy that likes to jump ship because everything is not going right right now. So, I'm a loyal guy. I'd like to continue to be here and fight with the guys that are here and once we get bodies back, everything will be better. But right now, I'd like to continue to stay here. This is my team, this is my city."
VIDEO: Pau Gasol talks about his name being bandied about in trade rumors
No. 2: Rondo says he's 'pretty close' to a return, is open to D-League stint — Some good news for the Celtics as the New Year gets rolling — point guard Rajon Rondo told the Boston media yesterday that his rehab is moving along well and his return might not be far off. One idea that was floated by Celtics coach Brad Stevens to help get Rondo back into NBA shape was the send him down to the Maine Red Claws of the NBA Development League for a few games before he takes the court in Boston. That's an idea that Rondo isn't scoffing at, writes Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe:
Rajon Rondo said Thursday he is open to a rehabilitation stint with NBADL Maine and is getting "pretty close" after missing nearly a year following tearing his right anterior cruciate ligament."I'm better than last week when I talked to you guys," he said, referring to his Dec. 22 meeting with the media. "I'm still getting my endurance but I'm getting pretty close, feeling good, feeling better. Like I said, I feel better than last week."
"A like a 12-minute quarter, straight," he said when asked whether there is one sign that he's ready to return. "I don't want to go out there and get fatigued and cause another injury. I want to makes sure I'm ready to go and I'm in shape."
Celtics coach Brad Stevens said Monday that the organization had discussed sending Rondo to Maine for game action and practice time. Rondo had been mum about the possibility until Thursday. If Rondo does play with the Red Claws, it would likely be away from Maine. After Sunday, Maine hits the road for five games on the West Coast before returning to Portland on Jan. 18.
"That's an idea definitely," he said. "That's more game-like speed with our schedule, the Celtics, we don't a chance to play a lot of pickup, so that might be a possibility. You just never know, I might just pop up and play. You guys won't get the memo. You just have to catch me on YouTube or something. Each week I'm getting better so I just want to give it a test when I have a chance."
When asked if he was truly open to playing in the D-League, he said: "That's what it's for. I'll probably be the first (NBA player) to (use it as rehab) but it doesn't make a difference. I want to make sure I'm healthy and I handle it the right way. I don't want my first time to come back out game-like to be the first time with the Celtics. I haven't had a preseason. I haven't had a training camp. Right now, this is my training camp."
The Celtics entered Thursday in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race despite a 13-18 record. Boston has been one of the league's most surprising teams because of the chemistry quickly gained under Stevens but Rondo said the team's record will have nothing to do with the timing of his return.
"I'm pretty motivated regardless of our team's record," he said. "I told myself before the season I wasn't going to base it off our record. It's based off how I feel. We could be 2-30 right now, if I'm able to come back and play I want to play. I love the game. I've been away for a long time, and when I feel ready to play, I'm going to play."
No. 3: Report: Warriors, Kings interested in acquiring Nuggets' Miller — ICYMI (and as we reported in this space yesterday morning), Nuggets point guard Andre Miller and coach Brian Shaw got into quite the shouting match during Denver's eventual New Year's Day loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. The fallout from that war of words resulted in Miller being suspended two games by the team yesterday. But there might be more to this tale as Adrian Wojnarowski and Marc J. Spears of Yahoo!Sports.com report that the Warriors and Kings are both trying to work a deal to trade for the apparently disgruntled Miller:
The Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings are intrigued with the possibility of acquiring suspended Denver Nuggets point guard Andre Miller, league sources told Yahoo Sports.
For now, Denver management is determined to smooth over the acrimony between Miller and coach Brian Shaw, and plan on bringing back Miller on Monday for practice, league sources said.
Denver had resisted trade overtures before Wednesday's encounter between Miller and Shaw on the Nuggets bench, and teams reaching out to the Nuggets on Thursday insist that Nuggets GM Tim Connelly still seems committed to working through the issues with Miller and getting him back on the floor for Denver.
The Warriors have been shopping for a backup point guard and have been engaged for weeks with Toronto on Kyle Lowry, sources said. The Warriors and New York Knicks have been two of the most persistent suitors for Lowry, but Toronto's recent run of success has made the front office more reticent to unload Lowry, league sources said. Toronto hasn't completely changed course on a possible deal for Lowry, but they're no longer simply auctioning him.
Sacramento GM Pete D'Allessandro was a longtime executive with the Nuggets and has long been an admirer of Miller's. The Kings would love to use Miller as a veteran mentor for young point guard Isaiah Thomas, league sources said.
The frustration that started on the floor on Wednesday night extended into the postgame locker room too, sources told Yahoo Sports. Miller has grown frustrated with Shaw and had recently addressed some issues to him in a locker room meeting forum, league sources said.
Connelly spoke with Miller for approximately an hour late Wednesday night at the Pepsi Center, and the team suspended Miller on Thursday for its next two games.
VIDEO: Coach Brian Shaw talks about the team's suspension of Andre Miller
No. 4: Blazers enjoy their record-setting night from deep — If you've spent any time at all this season watching the Trail Blazers on NBA League Pass or on national TV, you've surely noticed they have plenty of capable 3-point shooters and a willingness to fire from deep, too. Damian Lillard is third in the NBA in 3-pointers attempted with 240, while Wes Matthews (203, t-6th) and Nicolas Batum (185, 9th) are both in the top 10 in that category, too. The Blazers' shooters were simply on fire last night in a win against the Bobcats as Portland set an NBA record by becoming the first team in history to nail 20-plus 3-pointers twice in a season. After the game, the Blazers soaked in their accomplishment, as Kerry Eggers of The Portland Tribune writes:
"I like being part of history," Portland coach Terry Stotts said. "I think that's pretty cool. It's good to do something that's never been done before."
The Blazers entered the game shooting a league-best .396 from beyond the arc and improved on that considerably.
"It was a lot of fun, with shots falling like that, but we've been doing it all year," Lillard said.
Well, not like Thursday night. But the Blazers have made the 3-point shot their calling card this season.
"Everybody has been willing to make that extra pass," Lillard said. "We have a lot of good shooters. If we get in a good enough rhythm, if we get good looks and the ball is moving how it did, that's the kind of night it can be."
"We're going to shoot 3's and we're going to shoot them well," Stotts said. "We're going to make our percentages, because we have a lot of good shooters."
Seven Blazers knocked down at least one 3-point shot, and even LaMarcus Aldridge (0 for 1) and Meyers Leonard (0 for 2) tried to join the party.
"When the guys are hitting like that, that makes it easy for me," said center Robin Lopez, who had 14 points on 7-for-10 shooting and five rebounds in 26 minutes. "All I have to do is get somebody on the floor open, set the screen, give him a little space and let him go to work."
"Making those shots is contagious," Matthews said. "Our crowd gets into it. Our crowd is almost willing the ball in for us, before we even shoot it.
"When that ball is flying around the perimeter like that, when (Aldridge) is kicking it out, it's almost like it's expected you're going to make the shot."
For a team with a league-best 26 victories, the Blazers have precious few blowouts. They are 14-3 in games decided by 10 points or fewer and had only two wins by more than 15 points before Thursday. Stotts was able to get at least seven minutes of action for all 13 players dressed, with nobody playing as many as 30.
"It's always good to get a win like this," Stotts said. "Guys on the bench can get some minutes; starters can get some rest. You have to enjoy these, because they don't come often."
"It's a good feeling," Matthews said, a smile forming on his face. "We didn't get to do that much last year. It was on the other end, actually."
VIDEO: Trail Blazers nail 21 3-pointers in a rout of the Charlotte Bobcats
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: Good news for the Magic — Nikola Vucevic's ankle injury isn't as bad as was initially feared … Although he says otherwise, it seems that Knicks guard J.R. Smith is still a tad upset about the team cutting his brother, Chris … Veteran Keith Bogans isn't too happy about his lack of playing time with Boston this season … Kendall Marshall will become the sixth different player to start at point guard for the Lakers this season
ICYMI(s) Of The Night: Apparently, it was a good night to have the last name "Plumlee" as both brothers — Mason (of the Nets) and Miles (of the Suns) — got to finish off tasty alley-oops.
VIDEO: Miles Plumlee reverse jams the alley-oop assist from Goran Dragic
VIDEO: Mason Plumlee gets up to finish off the alley-oop from Deron Williams


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The College of Mount St. Joseph's chapter of the history honor society, Phi Alpha Theta, welcomed five new members on September 20. The students were inducted into Sigma Chi, the local chapter of the national honor society, at the Mount's newly-opened Flats Gallery.
Phi Alpha Theta
The national history honor society was founded in in 1921 to promote history as a field of study and encourage casual discussion amongst faculty and students. Dr. Peter Robinson, associate professor of history and advisor to the Mount's chapter of Phi Alpha Theta says the group is a great way to "raise awareness of the (history) program and increase social connections outside of the classroom."
Members must have a minimum 3.0 overall GPA and at least a 3.1 GPA in 12 or more credit hours of history.
The Ceremony
Four of the five inductees participated in the initiation ceremony that included an address from Dr. Tim Lynch, chair of the Department of History, as well Helen Rindsberg, adjunct instructor at the Mount and docent for the Cincinnati Art Museum. Rindsberg's address to the 25 attendees celebrated the deep connections between history and art, making the gallery a fitting background for the event.
New Members
Kristina Brodbeck, Phillip Gilmore, Faith Glisson, Nathan Islamovsky and Daniel Kramig have joined the Sigma Chi chapter. They join 21 Mount students that have been inducted since the group's rekindling three years ago. This year the group hopes to hold several meetings throughout the semester to bring in speakers and talk about the field in general, outside of the classroom environment.
Pictured above: Daniel Kramig, Faith Glisson, Nathan Islamovsky, and Phillip Gilmore.
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Marinepits wrote:My dogs are totally addicted to Jolly Balls! We've used all sizes with them, including the horse size, and they just LOVE them. They are not very durable for persistant chewers, though.
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Dukes_mom wrote:Does anyone's pitbull LOVE lasers? Duke just can't get enough of it. If he hears the jingle of its chain he goes crazy! It is the one thing he never gets bored of, he can chase it for hours. My cousin also had a pitbull that loved lasers as well, so I'm wondering if its just a pitbull thing.
pitsnok wrote:our dogs will chase lasers as long as we feel like shining them! the best part is when they look for that sneaky 'bug' for an hour after we've put it away! it's good exercise for rainy days when we can't make it out to the spring pole, too.
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BRISTOL —The New York Yankees of the 1950s, the Boston Celtics of the 1960s, the Montreal Canadiens of the 1970s, and now the Berry cousins of the present day — they are all dynasties of their own eras.
With their fourth consecutive victory in the Independence Day Bristol Outhouse Race, local residents Chris and Kevin Berry have established themselves as Addison County's modern day athletic dynasty — the duo of cousins has owned the town's Fourth of July outdoor toilet-racing scene since 2009.
BRISTOL — Bristol police on June 21 responded to Main Street to check on a dog in a vehicle and cited Scott Martin, 35, of Winooski for possession of marijuana.
The officer asked Martin to crack his truck windows. As soon as he opened the truck door, Bristol police Chief Kevin Gibbs said, the officer was overwhelmed by the smell of marijuana.
Democratic consultant Jason Stanford argues in a Huffington Post article that negative advertising is a good thing, if you like democracy. He argues that voters pay more attention to criticism than praise and that raising the voters' hackles also gets them to the polls.
We would like to believe otherwise, but the research shows he's correct. To drive the point home, he points to the recent Wisconsin election, which was highly negative, and yet drove more people to the polls than in the general election.
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VERMONT — Jeff Severson has spent much of the past 50 summers at his family's Lake Champlain camp in West Addison. But it wasn't until two weeks ago that the born-and-raised Vermonter had ever seen blooms of the potentially toxic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, engulf his favorite swim and fishing spot.
While Severson and his son were fishing on June 29, his wife Lisa Windhausen, who teaches middle school science in Jericho, watched from above as Oven Bay turned from a pool of glistening glass to chunky green sludge within hours.
FERRISBURGH — Vermont's political landscape has changed quite a bit since Ferrisburgh Democrat Arabella Holzapfel ran for the Vermont House back in 2000.
That was a year during which the GOP claimed a decisive majority in the House following a session that saw passage of the nation's first civil union law.
VERGENNES –– Charles Gravier, Le Comte de Vergennes, a French nobleman for whom the city of Vergennes was named, died in 1787. But on July 14 le Comte de Vergennes will be strolling around the streets of the Little City, stopping to talk to passersby and leading a tour of the city's downtown.
French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who lived from 1574 to 1635, will also be hanging out in the City Park this Saturday telling his personal history. Craftspeople will be knitting, making 18th century shoes, quilting, blacksmithing and spinning.
RIPTON — Ripton officials are getting their town ready to participate in the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, which provides renewable energy incentives for local residents. With that in mind, the Ripton selectboard recently adopted a PACE program description and guidelines for the program. Efficiency Vermont will administer the program for the town.
The selectboard is considering having the Addison County Sheriff's Department periodically monitor the town shed in wake of unauthorized dumping of trash at that location between recycling dates.
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TROY, Ala. (AP) Jordan Swing and Robert Williams scored 18 points apiece, Rod Rucker had a double-double and Alabama-Birmingham used a first-half surge to pull away from Troy en route to a 75-55 win Tuesday night.
The Blazers (4-3), who snapped a two-game skid, trailed 20-18 with 8:29 left in the first half. A Terence Jones layup sparked a 17-0 run to close out the first half, with Jones scoring eight in the spurt.
The Trojans (4-3), who saw their three-game winning streak end, shot only 25 percent in the first half (7 of 28), missing their last 10 shots and turning the ball over seven times during the scoring drought.
Jones finished with 14 points and Rucker had 10 points and 12 rebounds as the Blazers had a 45-29 edge on the glass.
Hunter Williams had 16 points and Antoine Myers added 13 for the Trojans.
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OOOMS' Rebellious Cabinet: When One Door Closes…
Anyone who revels in the inherent spirit of a new year, the simultaneous sense of closure and a new start, will appreciate the poetic design of OOOMS' Rebellious Cabinet— a piece intended to make literal those yearly, philosophical musings about the nature of beginnings and endings.
With its usual sense of style, wit and proclivity towards natural-based products, Dutch design studio OOOMS has created an oak cabinet whose drawers never totally close. When you attempt to shut a single drawer, the one beside it partially opens. Alternatively, to open any specific drawer, you must venture to close an adjacent one; the company recommends doing so by pushing, hitting or kicking.
The choice, however, is yours: You can prod one section open by approaching the closure of another beside it by kicking and screaming to get it shut or you can close the door you no longer need with firm but loving intention.
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When Abraham Lincoln stepped ashore at Fort Monroe late on May 6, 1862, he hoped his visit would prod Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and his Army of the Potomac into action.
By the next morning, however — after finding that McClellan's long siege of Yorktown had finally forced the Confederate army to retreat toward Richmond — he was organizing an impromptu military expedition that forced the surrender of Norfolk.
Just how closely Lincoln directed this unexpected Union success can be seen in the few hundred yards that separated his vessel from Federal warships during the fiery May 8 bombardment that silenced the rebel guns atSewell's Point.
The following afternoon the president steamed to Ocean View, where he tread upon the "sacred soil" of Virginia while reconnoitering the enemy-held coast for an amphibious landing.
Only once before — and never since — had any sitting commander in chief been so personally involved in planning and directing a military mission. But if Lincoln hadn't taken charge, one of the Civil War's most unusual operations might not have happened.
"Lincoln wasn't a military man. But he had an innate ability to size up military situations — and it was a lot better than that of many of his generals," says Hampton History Museum curator J. Michael Cobb, co-author of a 2009 book on Fort Wool — the Hampton Roads outpost that played a vital role in the operation.
"What's so amazing here is that we have a commander in chief who not only initiates the attack but assumes direct operational control — and it never happens like this again."
Lincoln wasn't alone in recognizing the value of Norfolk.
Long before the Union's massive build-up at Fort Monroe and its April 1862 siege of Yorktown, its chief engineer — Brig. Gen. John G. Barnard — had argued that the key Southern port and the strategic Gosport Navy Yard in adjacent Portsmouth made rich targets.
With McClellan's advance up the Peninsula, moreover, Norfolk became increasingly isolated. It also was threatened from the south by an amphibious expedition from Fort Monroe that had seized a large swath of coastal North Carolina earlier in 1862.
"Norfolk was ripe for the taking," Norfolk State University archivist Tommy Bogger says.
"But Lincoln was the one who made the Union army and navy do it."
Meeting with Maj. Gen. John Wool and Flag Officer Louis Goldsborough soon after his arrival, Lincoln found them practically paralyzed by the threat of the ironclad CSS Virginia, which in March had inflicted the navy's worst defeat before Pearl Harbor.
But rather than ordering his commanders to attack the formidable warship directly, he purposed capturing its base in Norfolk and Gosport through an amphibious landing.
Then he countered their worries about operating in such shallow waters by suggesting they use the shoal-draft canal boats already tied up in large numbers at Fort Monroe.
"Lincoln had been a boatman on the Ohio River," says J. Michael Moore, curator of Lee Hall Mansion.
"And the plan he laid out was pretty sound."
Early on May 7, a captured rebel tug reported that Confederate forces in Norfolk and Gosport had started an evacuation.
The president also toured the burned ruins of Hampton later that day, seeing first-hand the kind of destruction that had been carried out in order to keep the town from falling into Yankee hands.
Whether the grim sight of that charred wasteland compelled Lincoln to act more quickly is unknown. But by 2 p.m. the next day he was at Fort Wool, watching the heavy guns there join Federal warships — including the USS Monitor — in bombarding the rebel batteries atSewell's Point.
Eager to get closer, the president took a tug to within a few hundred yards of the vessels. But the ominous sight of the Virginia steaming out of the Elizabeth River sent the Union ships fleeing for the safety of the guns at Fort Monroe.
"When the Virginia made a move toward the Rip Raps, Lincoln literally had to skedaddle," Cobb says.
"That's how close they were to the action."
Despite the Virginia's foray into Hampton Roads, the Union did not fight.
Instead its leaders revamped their plans, moving the landing fromSewell's Pointto the Chesapeake Bay side of Norfolk, where the guns of forts Monroe and Wool could stop any attempt by the Virginia to use the narrow channel.
Not until 2 p.m. on May 9, however — after Lincoln had consulted a local pilot and explored the shoreline — was the beach at the foot of Willoughby Spit selected. And when Wool and the first of 6,000 Federal troops landed at 7 a.m. the next day, the president was watching from the decks of the revenue cutter Miami.
Returning to Fort Monroe, Lincoln waited for news at Quarters No. 1 — and angrily bounced his hat off the floor after learning some troops had been withheld from the expedition.
He also watched as ugly plumes of smoke appeared, suggesting Norfolk might share the fate of Hampton.
Not until after retiring at 10 p.m. did Lincoln hear the city had surrendered without resistance. He was about to return toWashington, D.C., the following morning when he received word the Virginia had been destroyed by its sailors.
Boarding the USS Baltimore, the president saw the blown-up remains of the rebel ironclad drifting in the Elizabeth River off Craney Island as he steamed to Norfolk. Battery after battery of silent Confederate guns rose from the banks as he passed, but within hours they all sported the familiar sight of Old Glory.
"The Confederates did a much better job of destroying the navy yard than the Federals had done the year before. But it still fell back in Union hands," says Dennis Mroczkowksi, former director of the Casemate Museum.
"So now they'd recovered this great navy yard and this major seaport. They'd extended Union control from Norfolk all the way down into North Carolina — and they'd ended the threat of the Virginia.
"It was an easy victory with a lot of military and symbolic value."


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We made our usual panelle, for which I will finally provide a recipe, and we also made Ivonne's stuffed eggplant, which were amazing! The detailed recipe with photo's can be found here. Thanks Ivonne, for sharing treasured family recipes with your devoted readers!
Panelle, for those of whom have not yet heard me ranting and raving about them, are fritters made from chickpea flour typically eaten in Palermo and its surrounds, which are served either plain with salt, or are the star of a sandwich over which lemon is squeezed. I have come to associate them with the beach, since we have eaten them there a few times, but I also ate my first panino con le panelle in Mondello, a beach side resort area in Palermo. They are quite easy and satisfying to replicate at home, and if you have your deep fryer (or pot with hot oil) already at hand, why not give them a try? Start your own Friday night tradition!
-500 grams chickpea flour (found at health food stores or Italian food shops)
-1.5 L filtered or spring water
-salt, pepper
-1-3 tbsp anise seeds (optional)
-1/2 cup finely chopped Italian parsley (not the curly leafed one)
-vegetable oil for frying
To make:
~Set a medium size saucepan on rubber pot holder or tea towel for support. Place the chickpea flour in the pot and slowly add the water, whisking vigorously to prevent lumps from forming.
~Once the mixture is uniform, place the pot over medium heat and whisk continuously until it starts to bubble. Add a pinch or two of salt, a few grindings of pepper, the parsley and the optional anise seeds and continue whisking until very thick, the whole process should take about 5 minutes.
~Rinse out a large 8 x 12" (or similar) cookie sheet or low sided pan with cold water and dump it out. With a spatula (or an offset spatula if you happen to have one), quickly smooth the thick batter into a thin sheet about 1/2 " high, until it is relatively even throughout the pan. Let cool for about 40 minutes. At this point the mixture can be covered with plastic and refrigerated up to 2 days.
~When the mixture is firm (we often rush and wait only 20 minutes), cut into small square or rectangular pieces, and fry in oil at about 350 degrees until golden brown. This can be done in a shallow skillet as well as a deep fryer.
~Place the fried panelle on paper towels to drain, sprinkle some salt over them and serve them very hot with some lemon wedges and some cold beer.
~This recipe makes enough for 4 as a snack or appetizer, or as one part of a deep fried meal.
~Enjoy! Eat plenty of salad and brown rice the day after, to offset any artery clogging guilt!


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Lord Curzon, in full George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon, also called (1898–1911) Baron Curzon of Kedleston or (1911–21) Earl Curzon of Kedleston, (born January 11, 1859, Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, England—died March 20, 1925, London), British statesman, viceroy of India (1898–1905), and foreign secretary (1919–24) who during his terms in office played a major role in British policy making.
Early life
Curzon was the eldest son of the 4th Baron Scarsdale, rector of Kedleston, Derbyshire. His early development was strongly influenced by the benign neglect of his parents and the dominating character of his governess (whom he termed "a brutal and vindictive tyrant") and of his first preparatory schoolmaster (a firm believer in corporal punishment). At Eton, where he proved a wayward and emotional pupil, he clashed with his tutors but developed an extraordinary gift for assimilating the contents of books; by studying hard in private, he surprised everyone by winning more prizes (for French, Italian, and history, among other subjects) than had ever been carried off before.
Just before entering Oxford in 1878, he was struck down by a devastating pain in his back, the aftermath of a riding accident of four years previous. He refused to accept medical advice to rest and instead donned a leather harness, which he wore for the rest of his life. The back pain was to plague him from that time on, robbing him of sleep, forcing him to take drugs, and often making him querulous and unbalanced at some of the most vital moments in his career and in the affairs of the British Empire. It should be added that the pain sharpened his mind and never kept him from achieving remarkable feats of physical and mental endurance.
Curzon was elected president of the Oxford Union in 1880 and made a fellow of All Souls College in 1883. He had a gift for making friends in high places, and this was apt to be resented by his contemporaries. About this time a verse was circulated at Oxford of which he was to write later: "Never has more harm been done to one single individual than that accursed doggerel has done to me." It went as follows:
My name is George Nathaniel Curzon,
I am a most superior person,
My cheek is pink, my hair is sleek,
I dine at Blenheim once a week.
(Blenheim is the residence of the dukes of Marlborough.) Two years later he was dining even more frequently at Hatfield House, ancestral home of Lord Salisbury, Conservative leader in the House of Lords, for whom he was now doing research and drafting speeches. His reward was Salisbury's recommendation of Curzon to the Tories of Southport, Lancashire, who agreed to adopt him as their candidate at the next election. It was a safe Tory seat, and in 1886 Curzon became a member of Parliament for the first time. With Salisbury's approval he neglected his parliamentary duties to embark on a world tour and came back infatuated with Asia. From this and subsequent journeys emerged three books: Russia in Central Asia (1889); Persia and the Persian Question (1892), by far the most successful of his works; and Problems of the Far East (1894).
Rise to political eminence
On November 10, 1891, Curzon took his first step up the political ladder by accepting Salisbury's invitation to become under secretary of state for India in the Tory government. The financial worries that beset him at the time (for he had developed extravagant tastes) were solved when he married Mary Victoria Leiter, daughter of Adolphus (Levi) Leiter, a Chicago millionaire. The marriage took place in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 1895, and the union involved marriage settlements of several millions of dollars. There was also a present from Lord Salisbury: the newly married couple returned from their honeymoon to find him waiting with an offer to Curzon of the job of under secretary of state, Salisbury having just been appointed foreign secretary. Curzon accepted on the condition that he was also to be made a privy councillor, and on June 29, 1895, he was duly sworn in by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. From this moment his rise to political eminence was swift.
In 1898 it was announced that he would succeed Lord Elgin as viceroy of India, and, in September of that year, he was created Baron Curzon of Kedleston. He was the youngest viceroy of India in history, and he cherished the prospect of it, for it was an office filled with the pomp and ceremony he loved. India was the most-treasured jewel in Queen Victoria's crown, and, after the pageantry of his arrival in Calcutta on January 3, 1899, Curzon wrote: "I suddenly saw what had come into my hands, and what prodigies of energy and inspiration would be needed on my part to guide them." He demanded obedience and a bent knee from the rajas, maharajas, and provincial governors he now ruled, but there was no doubt of his sense of mission toward the Indian people. He initiated commissions of inquiry into education, police, and civil services; he reduced taxes; he ordered immediate punishment of any Briton (including members of the army) who ill-treated Indian nationals. In external affairs he paid special attention to India's frontiers, toured the Persian Gulf, and sent a successful mission to Tibet to frustrate Russian ambitions there. On his return from what he called a "triumphal" tour of the Indian provinces, he ordered the restoration of the Taj Mahal, which was decaying, and thereafter took a personal interest in India's artistic and cultural heritage.
At the end of his first five years in India, his successes were recognized by the government at home by a renewal of his term, but, in fact, the period of blazing glory was over and now came political tragedy. At Curzon's personal request, the job of commander in chief of the Indian army and military member of the viceroy's cabinet had been given to England's military hero of the day, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. Curzon believed that to have such an illustrious soldier on his staff would embellish his own image, though his friends in England warned him repeatedly that Kitchener was, in Lord Esher's words, "an uncouth and ruthless man." It was a clash of personalities, and the two were soon unscrupulously intriguing against each other. A final confrontation between the two men, which ended in Curzon's bursting into tears, brought matters to a climax. Curzon, confident that the government would take his part, cabled that either his views must be accepted or he would go. On the morning of August 16, 1905, he received a cable from King Edward VII telling him that his resignation had been accepted. He delayed his return to England, and, by the time he was once again in London, the Tories were out of office, and his Indian achievements had been forgotten. He was not even given the earldom usually awarded to retiring viceroys.
In the period of political eclipse that followed, he became an excellent and enlightened chancellor of the University of Oxford and filled many other important offices. But his temporary retirement from politics was marred by the death of his beloved wife, Mary. Her death affected him deeply, but the money that now came to him enabled him to indulge in his passion for the collection of art treasures and old buildings. In 1911 he bought his first castle, Tattershall, in Lincolnshire, which he restored; and later he did the same to Bodiam Castle, Sussex, eventually presenting both of them to the nation.
His political ambitions had been damped down but never extinguished, and his hopes were stirred anew in 1911. In that year, after the coronation of King George V, Curzon received an earldom, along with the viscountcy of Scarsdale and the barony of Ravensdale. He showed his gratitude to the Tories who had elevated him by persuading his fellow peers (against his own and their feelings) to abstain from voting against the Parliament Bill, which curtailed their powers, thus avoiding a constitutional crisis the government had feared. He joined the coalition cabinet of H.H. Asquith in the summer of 1915, and, when Lloyd George took over that December, he became leader of the House of Lords with the office of lord president. From then on Curzon was one of the members of the inner cabinet concerned with the policies and pursuits of World War I.
There had been a time when all fashionable London imagined that Curzon would marry the flamboyant redheaded novelist Elinor Glyn, but to everyone's surprise—not least that of Glyn—he announced his engagement in December 1916 to Mrs. Alfred (Grace) Duggan, widow of a rich Argentinian rancher and daughter of J. Monroe Hinds, an American diplomat. They were married on January 2, 1917. His first wife had given Curzon three daughters. He hoped that his second would produce the son to inherit his title, and for both of them the years ahead were filled with hopes and disappointments.
Last years
There were disappointments in politics too. Curzon had decided that the one lesson he must learn from his bitter experience in India was: never to resign. But in his case, it was a poor one. In the postwar government led by Lloyd George, he was appointed foreign secretary, a position for which he was eminently fitted. But time and again he was overruled or pushed aside by his boisterous leader, and his carefully planned policies thwarted. It was a time when resignation might well have gained him the overwhelming support of the Tories (who despised the Liberal coalition leader, Lloyd George) and taken him to the top. Instead, he clung to office, and it was not until Tories took over in 1922 that he came into possession of the full powers of his office. He served with distinction until 1923, painstakingly dealing with the chaotic problems of postwar Europe and the Near East. When the Tory prime minister Bonar Law, a dying man, prepared to relinquish office, Curzon had good reason to believe that his efforts would be rewarded by the premiership that he felt he so richly deserved. It was not to be. Backstairs political intrigue (and the fear that a premier in the House of Lords would be "out of touch") resulted in the appointment of a House of Commons man, Stanley Baldwin, as prime minister.
It was a bitter blow to Curzon's hopes, but he insisted on presiding at the meeting at which Baldwin was elected to the job for which he was so much better equipped. He hung on to his job as foreign secretary until 1924, when Baldwin replaced him with Austen Chamberlain.
He had been created a marquess in 1921, and more than ever he hoped for a son to inherit his title, but in this too he was to be frustrated. On March 9, 1925, he was operated on for an internal condition, and he died of complications less than two weeks later. With him died his marquessate and his earldom. The viscountcy subsequently passed to his nephew and the barony of Ravensdale to his eldest daughter, Lady Irene Curzon.Leonard Mosley
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India: The Second Anglo-Afghan WarThe viceroy, Lord Curzon (governed 1899–1905), however, recognized the impracticality of trying to administer the turbulent frontier region as part of the large Punjab province. Thus, in 1901 he created a new North-West Frontier Province containing some 40,000 square miles (about 100,000 square km) of trans-Indus and…
education: Pre-independence periodWhen Baron Curzon of Kedleston arrived as viceroy in 1898, his determination to improve education was immediately translated into an order for a close survey of the entire field of education. It revealed: "Four out of five villages are without a school. Three boys out of…
Kolkata: Pre-independence troublesLord Curzon, viceroy of India, partitioned Bengal in 1905, making Dacca (now Dhaka, Bangl.) the capital of eastern Bengal and Assam. Insistent agitation led to the annulment of this partition in 1911, but at that time the capital of British India was removed from Calcutta…
Pamirs: Study and exploration…foray by the British statesman Lord Curzon in 1894, only scouted the fringes of the Pamirs.…
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Ask half a dozen people about the latest report on gross domestic product ( GDP ), and you're likely to get half a dozen answers about just It isn't great news for President Obama, but it isn't bad news either. The recovery is either stalling, or fading before our eery eyes. All that may be true, but it also represents a failure of leadership at the highest levels of our government.
Over at the Economic Policy Institute, Josh Bivens and Nicholas Finio, look at "actual GDP as a percentage of 'potential GDP '," and as symptom — one that "is not moving the economy much closer to full health, and may even be doing real damage to that long-run health" — of a much bigger problem. They offer a succinct diagnosis at the end of their post.
… There's a long line of research that finds that extended slumps can actually reduce potential GDP ; think of all the factories and labor market skills that would've been built and nurtured over the past four years if the economy was running at full capacity.
This continuing economic slack clearly signals that the economy would benefit from more support from policymakers.
It's the equivalent of your doctor taking a look at your blood pressure and/or cholesterol levels, noting that they aren't great, but could be and would be better if you got off your ass ass did something about it. Maybe she even gives you a handful of pamphlets or articles outlining simple fitness tips like "Get off the couch," and easy-to-do exercise programs like "Go for a walk." Maybe she even hand delivers a pair of walking shoes to your door, and all but laces them up for you.
If you're the 112th Congress, you're likely to go back home, flop back down on the couch, complain about the doctor. You'll do nothing — which is pretty much you've been doing for quite a while now.
That is, you'll do nothing except complain that the doctor didn't tell you how to improve you're health outlook, and gave you nothing to point you in the right direction.
But if you're the 112th Congress — particularly the Republican-dominated House — and the doctor is the president, the truth is you just haven't bothered to get off your ass. That's the blunt assessment. Republicans in Congress have had plenty of opportunities to get off their asses and do something to improve the health of our economy.
First, though, let's put things in perspective. When John Boehner accuses Democrats of stalling Republicans' so-called jobs bills, let's remember that this is the same guy who said "So be it" to reports that the GOP's job-killing cuts would cost thousands their jobs.
When Mitt Romney says the President has not jobs agenda, let's remember this: Mitt Romney says a lot of things that aren't true. For example, Romney claim that he has presented a detailed jobs plan while the president has not just isn't true.
Remember, that if anybody is betting on failed policies, it's Mitt Romney. Let's remember that Romney's policies are essentially George W. Bush's policies – the same George W. Bush most Americans still blame for the economic crisis that Obama basically inherited.
Romney's "jobless plan" is the same old job-killing madness that went on under Bush, which resulted in a lost decade of zero net job creation. It's likely to create more jobs in China than in the U.S. It won't lower the unemployment rate, and will add thousands more to the ranks of the unemployed – like teachers, police officers, and fire fighters. Apparently, Republicans think losing those jobs is a good thing. That's why congressional Republicans sat on their hands while state and local governments laid-off thousands, and refused to save those jobs. Is it any wonder a majority of Americans have a low opinion of Republicans in the House?
In September of last year, the president handed Congress a bill called the American Jobs Act.
That is the jobs bill that the President sent to Congress back in September 2011 – damn near a year ago – and pitched to voters in John Boehner's own back yard:
- the jobs bill that nearly two thirds of Americans support.
- the jobs bill that Moody's said would create 1.9 million jobs and grow the economy by 2%.
- the jobs bill that Macroadvisors said would create at least 1.3 million jobs.
- the jobs bill the CBO said would reduce the deficit by $6 billion in the next decade, in the Senate version. (Who says we have to choose between job creation and deficit reduction?)
That's the jobs bill the President is still fighting for today in nine battleground states today. That's the jobs bill that on the table, still waiting for Congress to act.
Imagine the shape our economy would be in if Republicans had followed the president's lead? What kind of shape would we be in if hundreds of thousands of laid-off state and local government workers were still on the job, or had gone back to work. Public sector jobs beget private sector jobs, because public sector workers get most of what they need to do their jobs from the private sector. More people working in the public sector means even more work for people in the private sector, as consumer demand increases because more people are earning paychecks they will spend on goods and services.
Instead, Republicans have:
- pushed "jobs" bills that are not about jobs;
- offered jobs bills that won't actually create jobs;
- stalled any effort at job creation, even as layoffs of state and local employees fuels a "vicious cycle" of unemployment and economic crisis;
- demanded an austerity agenda that benefits Wall Street and the one percent, at the expense of middle- and working-class Americans;
- "voted 15 times against Democratic proposals or efforts to consider proposals – several of which are bipartisan – to create or protect American jobs"
In the meantime, Republicans in Congress have found time to:
- introduce legislation to:
- prolong a debt ceiling fight that cost taxpayers $1.3 billion;
- vote 33 times to repeal health care reform (and increase the deficit, in the bargain).
The list could go on, and on. For what I haven't included, see Ezra Klein's list of 14 reasons why this is the worst Congress ever.
The bottom line is this: the latest GDP report is another symptom our declining state of economic health, and a confirmation of the long-standing diagnosis: a Congress that refuses to get off its ass and do something about it.
Not to steal the First Lady's thunder, but this Congress has had plenty of opportunities to "get moving" and get out economy moving in the right direction. Yet, they're still waiting for someone to lace up their walking shoes.


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This character thread is dedicated to the discussion of the hawtness known as Uzumaki Kushina. Her image may have appeared only once or twice (so far), but despite her non-presence, she is still one of the most important characters of the series (if for no other reason than the fact that she is Naruto's mother). Sadly, not much is known about Kushina, so we can only speculate for now, but we will undoubtedly learn more as the series progresses.
This is a manga thread, so spoiler tags are not needed. Besides that, the general rules and courtesies apply. And, since this thread is dedicated to Kushina, please keep the conversation focused on this red-headed beauty.
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Yeah, it's some pretty wild speculation. I've been wondering for a while why Minato didn't tell anyone Tobi was behind the kyuubi attack. It occurred to me now that someone must have been there, to take Naruto once the kyuubi was sealed, since Minato would die in the sealing. The only person who'd have anything to gain from hiding the kyuubi's controller is danzou: he'd get to blame the uchiha, remove them as a threat to his rule and acquire a useful sharingan for himself.
So, my theory is that a bunch of people were with minato, including danzou and/or his flunkies. Minato relayed the info to them (and kushina, naruto was a newborn so I'm guessing she must have been there too), then sealed the kyuubi and died. Danzou or his flunkies kill kushina and whoever else was around, take naruto back to the 3rd or whatever and say kushina and whoever else was around got killed fighting the kyuubi.
plot-wise it also sets up danzou as a major enemy for naruto, and gives naruto a personal reason to hate his guts. sadly, it'll probably end with a conversion jutsu as naruto and sasuke both learn forgiveness. or something. kishi better not ruin the ending.
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|2010-01-05, 01:51
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Kushina? I see her as a character that could potentially be very interesting. The shame is we all know that she won't get much attention, unless somehow she either
a.) has a penis.
b.) is an Uchiha survivor.
I'll look forward to see what Kishi does with her anyways...if he doesn't just plain ignore her outright.
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I'm interested why Jiraiya didn't remember her name :
"Right she was that kunoichi from the former country of whirlpools ..." and here he can't remember the name.
And he's talking for Minato as a son
It's like Kushina pop up from nowhere, got pregnant, birth the child and leave, as she is no important for the story.
I want to know why, after the death of Minato, she leave Naruto alone - may be she was threaten by someone to leave the village ?
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I kind of like james idea of Kushina being villian, but i doubt there will be part 3. I'd like to know if Kushina died giving birth to Naruto, or was she killed later (and by who)?
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-Am I the only one hoping she is still alive for more than just comedy reasons? Well, either way, I'm surprised to know people are actually paying attention to a character that has only appeared in 1 chapter with the Uchiha sausage-fest that is taking place in the manga right now (hint*hint: sarcasm). Truth be told, I'm probably just deluding myself into thinking Kushina is still alive. I mean let's face it, if she were alive, there would be too many questions that Kishimoto would likely not feel like answering. Stuff like: How Minato and Kushina met? What's their story? Why was she not present during Naruto's childhood (something which could have sparred the latter a LOT of crap)? What was her former country like? Why did she stay in Konoha? Hell, Kishimoto could write an entire arc for this stuff and it would be great since the center of attention would be a female character this time (a great change of pace IMO).
-But no, we will likely never hear her story because like all mothers in Naruto, Kushina is only there for the space between her legs. Hell, just look at Sakura's mother. She's not even visible. For all I know, Sakura recorded that voice some many years ago into deluding she has parents and is completely off her rocker.
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Possibilities and assumptions I guess...and in case she does show up, character development!
So, from a serious approach, there could be millions of reasons for her to leave Naruto's side: sent as a spy to tail Madara but got defeated/tricked and wound up in an unintroduced country/village, sleeping in eternal genjutsu and in need of saving, etc. Having her as a villain would be shallow at this point, although if she was introduced earlier back before Narutism started, she could have been a good villain who hated Naruto for taking away her husband's life.
A possible encounter with Sakura, who kishimoto claims will become important, would be very interesting though.
I'm afraid I'll have to agree with Fukitsu Naruto though, females are treated like milk...they expire pretty fast.
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-I still question why Naruto was never told his mother's name. I mean, Yondaime Hokage is understandable since he filled so many body-bags in other villages and made a lot of enemies, but why not his mother? Since we know most kunoichi in Naruto amount to dick all in combat department, why not tell him? Its not like they can use her as a hostage since she was never around to begin with.
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I love Starbucks. It's expensive, so I don't go too often, but it makes a nice treat. And I do love those creme brulee lattes this time of year.ReplyDelete
I would get either a white chocolate mocha or a pepperment latte. I would most likely take my dad with because we both work at the airport, and we take out lunch breaks together. Another person I probably would take is my mom for a just because moment. :)ReplyDelete
I would bring my Alli so she could get some cocoa too and whoever was with me while I was running errands that day!ReplyDelete
- Rose ChovanDecember 15, 2011 at 7:44 AM
I would take my friend Jen with me. We both like Starbucks alot and need the caffeine to keep up with our children and husbands. :) She is a great friend and deserves some "just girls" time.ReplyDelete
Ahhh when I heard Starbucks I jumped at this! I'm addicted to salted caramel mochas. They are the perfect combination of sweet and salty. My favorite thing about a salted caramel mocha is licking the delicious whipped cream covered in thick caramel and crunchy bits of sea salt. This drink is good hot, iced, and blended. It also makes a great hot chocolate too! Although this is a seasonal fall drink, it's great all year round! If I got this gift card, I would take my amazing boyfriend seeing as this is our special drink for our special time. We like to go get a salted caramel mochas than take a walk by the bay discussing our days and kinda catch up. It's our special alone time where we can just be at peace :)ReplyDelete
Oh, this is easy because my husband and I go almost every weekend. This time of year I enjoy my Gingerbread soy creamer with an extra pump of gingerbread and no whipped cream (there's no coffee in this one). My hubby loves coffee so there's no telling what he'd get. It could be anything from a house drip to one of the fancy lattes.ReplyDelete
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I would use the gift card with my hubby, seeing as hes my favorite person to spend time with. We both just started drinking coffee in September and yet to go to Starbucks. I think it would be fun to figure out what we would like to drink together :o) I LOVE those cake pop things that they have there and Randy hasnt tried those yet, so I would like for him to be able to. It would be a nice cheap date I think :o)
Woo Hoo!!!! I love Starbucks and am always looking for giveaways. I'm so glad one of my friends is hosting one!! :) I hope I win!ReplyDelete
- Diane DupontDecember 15, 2011 at 9:02 AM
As my kids are growing up, getting married, and leaving home, I'm realizing more and more how short our time with them really is. I would use my $20 Starbucks gift card to treat my two youngest sons, (who will BOTH be home when Nathan gets home from college on Saturday) to a mom & son's mini-date!ReplyDelete
- AllisonDecember 15, 2011 at 9:21 AM
Sweet! I love Starbucks! I would treat a couple of friends I haven't seen in awhile to a coffee date. Starbucks is a great place to catch up with old friends!ReplyDelete
Our Starbucks is in our local grocery store, so I'd probably treat my mom and sons on one of our errand days.ReplyDelete
I love Starbucks, as you probably know. I would bring my hubby and probably get an iced peppermint mocha, my favorite!ReplyDelete
YAY a giveaway! I'd really love to treat my friend Andrea to coffee but she lives thousands of miles away, so I'd probably take my mom for a chai latte, which she loves. We haven't been able to spend much time just talking since school started (she's a teacher) I would probably get a salted caramel latte or a caramel apple spice! YUMReplyDelete
I would take my hubby out on a date! :) Then, I would use what was left to take out my dear friend for a girls day. Fun!ReplyDelete
I would take my lovely sis for an eggnog latte! Too bad she is far away! :(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2011 at 12:53 PM
I would give my 8 yr old & 5 yr old almost adopted girls a treat by taking them to have a peppermint hot chocolate with me. That would make the 8 yr old feel grown up! Merry Christmas from Cynthia, Stormi & Josey.ReplyDelete
Can I regift it...is that allowed? If so, I would give it to one of my clients. Many of the people I work with have very little money and little to no social outlets. There is one person in particular who loves to go to Starbucks when she has a little extra money. She thoroughly enjoys the socializing she gets to do with the other customers as well as the employees and it is a very important part of her life. While I also love many of the Starbucks treats, I know she would get so much more out of it then just a cup of coffee!ReplyDelete
- Leslie WilliamsDecember 15, 2011 at 7:38 PM
I would take my daughter and get her a hot chocolate and me a caramel macciatto with caramel sauce. I'd also get some cake pops to munch on too :)ReplyDelete
I would take my friend, Tara. We have the best conversation and we stay long enough that we could go back up for a second latte! I would ask them to make me a salted caramel latte, even though it's not currently on the menu. They can still make it!ReplyDelete
I will be treating my mom to a delicious coffee beverage when we go holiday shopping! :)ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousDecember 16, 2011 at 10:43 AM
I would take my sweet baby girl and get some hot cocoa! Since she just learned to say "hooot coooocooooa"ReplyDelete
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I would take my husband !ReplyDelete
I would get a vanilla latte
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My best friend A. I usually get a Double Chocolaty Chip Frappuccino, but since it's cooler weather I'd probably try something new and warm.ReplyDelete
I would hopefully hang out with a couple of my friends and just relax and enjoy some coffee.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 2:32 PM
I'd share the gift card with my hubby. He would buy iced coffee and I'd choose the Cafe Mistos.ReplyDelete
I would certainly give this gift card to my husband because he so deserves this! Thanks for the chance to win!! What a lovely giveawayReplyDelete
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I like the Caramel Apple Spice drink.ReplyDelete


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Story highlights
- Ally Del Monte, 15, says she wanted to kill herself after being bullied by friends
- "(Bullying) was normal because that's what I was used to," teen says
- Bullying among friends can lead to difficulty forming new personal relationships
- Building empathy and respect is key to battling bullying in relationships, expert says
The taunts began in second grade when Ally Del Monte started taking medication for a thyroid disorder and gained 60 pounds.
The boys at her elementary school in Westchester County, New York, banned her from the jungle gym because they said she would break it. The girls made fun of her large jackets and told her she was fat, ugly and weird.
She took everything they said to heart; it was a small school, and they were the only friends she knew. It's what friendship was, she thought. Only years later, as the pattern persisted and grew more aggressive in middle school, did she begin to see that her friends were her bullies.
"To me, it was normal because that's what I was used to," the 15-year-old high school sophomore said.
"At first I didn't consider it bullying because the people treating me like this were supposed to be my friends. That's how I perceived myself because that's what they were telling me."
It's a recurring theme in movies and pop culture, perhaps best epitomized in the 2004 film "Mean Girls." Bullying among friends, also known as relational bullying, stems from a natural tendency to develop an identity based on your friends. Young people often join groups defined by who's included or excluded, experts say, but it crosses the line when it becomes a sustained campaign to hurt someone who's not currently "in."
And while bullying awareness has risen in the last few years, bullying among friends remains hard to detect. It's subtler than insults and punches between children who obviously don't get along, said Lynn Bravewomon, coordinator of the Hayward Unified School District's Safe and Inclusive Schools Program in California.
It can take the form of spreading rumors or belittling someone over what they wear. It can look like teasing over race, gender or how well they perform in school or sports. It can happen between the smiles and laughs of friendship, such as when Ally's friends cracked jokes about what she wearing and followed it up with "just kidding." Or, as Ally's mother discovered, it can happen through social media, making it even harder for parents to detect if they don't know to look for it.
It can also be more traumatic because relational bullying is a breach of trust by people who are supposed to be there for you -- similar to how spousal or relationship abuse can lead to trust issues down the road.
"It's a painful bullying dynamic, fed by people with various levels of closeness and friendship through silence or encouragement," said Bravewomon, who teaches bullying prevention strategies to educators and students.
'I couldn't escape'
Ally experienced it most acutely after her family moved to New Milford, Connecticut, the summer before sixth grade. After a rough start, she became a cheerleader and fell in with the popular crowd. Friends regularly came over after school and on weekends for sleepovers. Her parents proudly watched her blossom, relieved that the move seemed like the right choice.
Then, in eighth grade, she had a falling out with a popular girl and once again found herself on the fringe of school social life. No one would talk to her in the hallways -- they just pointed and laughed.
Eventually, the teasing got louder, meaner and turned physical. "They would shove me into lockers, trip me as I would walk by, and push me on the stairs," Ally wrote in a CNN iReport.
Harassment continued outside of school through phone calls, often several in a week, sometimes twice in one night.
"They called me a fat pathetic b****, told me I was worthless, I was ugly, my mom should have aborted me, I should just kill myself, no one likes me, they all want me gone," she said. "I felt hopeless. They could reach me everywhere I went. I couldn't escape."
Her mother, Wendy Del Monte, realized something was wrong when friends stopped coming over and Ally spent most of her time in her room. It all seemed to happen so fast; in less than two years, Ally went from being a popular cheerleader to having no friends at all.
But she didn't want to be the overbearing parent, the mom who assumes everyone's to blame except her own children. After all, meanness among friends isn't the same as bullying, she told herself.
"You're walking this tightrope, this fine line between trying to protect your children without protecting them so much that they're not able to reach their full potential or learn from their mistakes," Del Monte recalled in a phone interview.
She did everything she thought she was supposed to do. She contacted Ally's school, put her in counseling and got her on medication, per the doctor's recommendation. But she didn't know her daughter had turned to cutting and burning herself as a way to release her anguish.
She also didn't know Ally had an account on the blogging tool Tumblr until she found her daughter balled up and sobbing on her bed, trying to open a bottle of her father's blood pressure medication. She was planning to attempt a drug overdose. That's when she saw dozens of messages on Ally's phone, telling her to kill herself.
"She finally said to me, 'I'm really sad. I don't know how to handle all of this,' " Del Monte said. "It's like your entire world stops and pivots.
"I've tried to figure out the words for what that moment is like, but it's just the most awful thing you can think of when the person you love so much and brought into this world tells you, 'I want to leave this world because it's not the right place for me.' "
Del Monte brought her daughter to a crisis center, and the family tried to help Ally become whole again. When she wasn't at school, she was with her family or talking to a counselor. She slept on an air mattress in her parents' room for several months. She started a personal blog, Loser Gurl, to work through her feelings and help others.
Things eventually got better, "but it wasn't instant," Ally said.
"I sometimes still felt alone, hopeless, worthless, disgusting and pathetic. It didn't go away all at once," she wrote in her iReport. "But slowly, it did go away.
"I made it to high school. I survived."
Understanding what makes some adolescents vulnerable
This kind of bullying -- between people who even recently appeared to be in a healthy, normal friendship -- isn't the most common. In a recent study, 30% of 18-year-olds said their friends had bullied them at least once, according to Elizabeth Englander, a psychology professor and founder and director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State University.
But it's important because it reflects the extent to which children value peer relationships and understand what it means to be a friend.
"Social rules are the most powerful shaper of social behavior, and society cannot function without social norms. It's important to utilize them as best you can so that people are as good and kind and helpful to each other as possible," she said. "If we don't impress that friendship relationships carry obligations, we're giving up some of our leverage to get people to behave themselves."
Englander's study, which is still in progress, also looked at why some adolescents are more vulnerable than others to being bullied by friends. Common factors included difficulty being active in the school community, anxiety, depression and trouble maintaining friendships.
"By understanding what makes kids vulnerable, it gives you a map for how you can help these kids cope in a more resilient way," she said. "You can't affect if parents get divorced, but you can affect the support systems we provide to kids."
As with any form of bullying, prevention and intervention comes from fostering respect and empathy for others. (It's not just a problem for children. Adults also tend to define themselves by their differences, too, experts said.)
The challenge facing both groups is simple: Can we honor and respect our own values -- "without defining them by hating others"? Bravewomon asked. In other words, if owning expensive sneakers or being fourth-generation Americans is what binds a group of friends, can they learn to live with others unlike them?
"Schools need to wholeheartedly respect and value belief systems that all families teach," she said. "Where it runs amok at school is when students use hate-based behavior because of a personal belief system."
So what can educators and parents do if they can't necessarily even see bullying cloaked in the highs and lows of friendships?
The first step is modeling positive behavior to build a schoolwide expectation of kindness, respect and empathy and cultivate an environment where everyone feels connected, said Chen Kong-Wick, violence prevention program manager for the Oakland Unified School District in California.
"We spend a lot of time teaching students academic skill sets, but we don't teach expected positive behavior," she said. "It's harder to gossip, bully or name-call someone if you have a relationship with them."
New Milford Public Schools, where Ally goes to high school, tries to promote an environment of respect by focusing on a different "character attribute" each month, Superintendent JeanAnn C. Paddyfote said.
In October, when the focus is on responsibility, students have taken turns on the public announcement system sharing what the attribute means to them. It could be handing in homework on time or, in the context of bullying, telling a teacher when they see a someone being mistreated firsthand or on social media.
In the digital age, teachers and parents need help from students to spot cyberbullying, Paddyfote said.
"Anyone who wants to engage in bullying or mean-spirited behavior knows how to do it so no one catches them," said Paddyfote, who declined to comment specifically on Ally's case, citing district policy.
"A good friend -- or person -- will have the courage to go to a guidance counselor and let us know when something's happening before it's too late."
Creating a 'success story'
Families play a vital role, too, in modeling empathy, respect and kindness -- a lesson the Del Monte family has absorbed in a variety of ways.
These days, Wendy Del Monte monitors every aspect of her children's social media activity. She has all their passwords so she can check them when she wants. Her son and daughter can't bring their smartphones into their bedrooms at night; they charge in the family room.
She even helps Ally run her blog, Loser Gurl, which she launched in 2012 after she considered suicide. Del Monte tried to discourage her at first, fearing it would become yet another platform through which people would attack Ally. And, while her first post about struggling with her weight drew some negative comments, they were outnumbered by others thanking her for sharing.
Through her blog and social media, she estimates that she has connected directly with more than 60 victims of bullying to offer a sympathetic ear and encouraging words. She has friendships -- fewer, but healthier, many of them online.
Ally's goal is to become a motivational speaker so she can help others struggling with the effects of bullying. She wants them to know that their value resides well beyond the social boundaries of high school cliques.
"There's not really a success story for anyone who's been bullied. I feel like people need to know that someone got through it without having to kill themselves," she said.
"So many people with suicidal thoughts feel like they're alone or no one understands what they're going through. I never want anyone to feel like that again."
Were you bullied by someone you considered a friend? Share your story in the comments or on Facebook.


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