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BAYBORO � In the offseason, rising senior NaQuan Gibbs has learned a lot about what it takes to be a successful high school quarterback.
BAYBORO � In the offseason, rising senior NaQuan Gibbs has learned a lot about what it takes to be a successful high school quarterback.
He started nearly every game during Pamlico's one-win season a year ago. But after receiving some valuable advice from his coaching staff, and taking time to adjust to a brand-new offense, Gibbs is ready to help turn the Hurricanes' previous misfortunes into victories.
�Last year, I knew what I was doing, but not well,� Gibbs admitted. �I know what I need to be doing.�
Gibbs will direct the spread formation, which will allow him to take snaps out of the shot-gun formation.
He will throw the football more, and lead some option-style running plays.
�I like running the shotgun better than being under center because I get to see the field better and see what's open before the snap,� Gibbs said.
Pamlico has just two wins in the past two seasons, and haven't made the postseason in six years. The Hurricanes also have a seven-game losing streak going against rival Jones Senior.
However, there is a different vibe going on in Bayboro.
Gibbs believes it's because of team leadership, and new head coach Kevin Yost.
�Last year, since we only had two seniors, we didn't have that much leadership,� Gibbs said. �This year, we have about 10 seniors, and everyone wants to lead and do their part.�
Yost, the Hurricanes' offensive coordinator last season, is finding ways to bring enthusiasm back to a program that hasn't had a winning season since 2007.
�I just want to see them compete,� Yost said. �These kids have worked so hard for me and have bought into the program. I want to see them get rewarded for their hard work.�
Yost is particularly pleased with the defense, led by defensive lineman Arthur Randall and linebackers Connor Hough and Tony Credle.
The secondary has speed with Will Becton, Jamal Coffey, Cameron Moore and Josiah Simmons.
�They fly around and they are fast. They are more in attack mode now,� Yost said. �We've worked a lot on turnover drills.
�We have to win in turnovers and special teams, penalties and not make mistakes.�
Gibbs is entering his second season as Pamlico's starting quarterback, but he is surrounded by skilled playmakers.
Becton, Tarik Davis, Coffey and Moore have big-play potential.
The offensive line is young with Montell Sparrow, Hough, Kevin Midyette, Jalen Davis and Rayshawn Wilson.
�We are young there, but they are all 4.0 students,� Yost said. �It's nice to have because we can do stuff a little more difficult.�
The Hurricanes are no longer in the same conference as perennial powerhouse Southwest Onslow. Instead, Southside and Northside (Pinetown) will join a league with Pamlico, Jones Senior, East Carteret and Lejeune.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – Graduate students enrolled in the University at Buffalo's Master of Humanities (MAH) Program in Caribbean and Latina/o Cultural Studies have always extolled the program's hands-on and educational opportunities.
Rodrigo Del Rio-Rivas, who is currently enrolled in the program, calls his participation "the best decision ever made." He recalls that when he studied in Spain, his class climbed to the top of a mountain so they could have a session in view of El Escorial, a historic royal palace and world heritage site in Madrid.
The spring 2014 semester will be no exception to the rule. Caribbean studies' students will explore a lost Mayan underwater world as part of an archeology project at the Autonomous University of Yucatan, in Merida, Mexico, one of several partner institutions involved with the UB program.
Dalia Muller, PhD, associate director of the UB Caribbean Cultural Studies Program, says the students will explore ancient "cenotes" – natural sinkholes or surface connections to subterranean water bodies like rivers and cave systems.
Mayans sometimes made sacrificial offerings to the god of the underworld via these water portals and students will be on the hunt for material related to such sacrifices – pottery, underground pyramids, paintings, and animal and human skeletons.
Muller says Caribbean studies students seem to thrive on the program's intensive curriculum and study-abroad opportunities at universities and research centers in Spain and Mexico.
"This experience has propelled our graduates to placement in the top 10 PhD programs in the field nationwide," she says.
She notes that 66 percent of the students advance to doctoral programs, and all of the program's participants are employed within six months of graduation in fields like study-abroad administration, international education, college teaching, secondary education Spanish programs and even on Wall Street.
The program includes on-campus study at UB, in Mexico and in world-class research centers and historical archives in Spain. Among its academic offerings are the General Archive of the Indies, housed in the ancient merchant's exchange in Seville. The archive contains 400 years of American history from Columbus to the 1830s.
Jose Buscaglia, PhD, director of the program, describes it as one that allows students the opportunity to study the Caribbean on their own terms.
"We encourage students to use the program to develop cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary research specializations in fields like history, politics, philosophy, archaeology, anthropology, filmmaking, performance architecture, urban planning and creative writing," he says.
In addition to Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan (Autonomous University of Yucatan), UB's academic partners in this endeavor are the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (Center for Humanities and Social Sciences) in Madrid and the Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos (School of Hispanic American Studies) in Seville, Spain.
"Apart from facilitating academic and research opportunities that are one-of-a-kind, the program made me aware of the fundamental role played by the Caribbean's historic and geographic space in the Americas," says Jesus Ruiz, a MAH alum and doctoral candidate and fellow at Tulane University.
Candidates for the program are not required to submit GRE exam scores, but they must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 and two to three years of college-level Spanish language experience before joining the program. Future participants who lack near-native fluency are encouraged to take an intensive Spanish course in the first semester of the MAH program.
For more information on the program, visit the Caribbean Cultural Studies website.
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Fast track expired at the end of June. It's just as well.Officially known as Trade Promotion Authority, it authorized the president to negotiate trade agreements, which Congress could accept or reject "as is"; no changes allowed.
Congress writes all other laws -- for taxes, military spending, immigration, environmental policy, agriculture and space exploration, among other things.
Fast Track applies only to trade agreements. The executive branch writes agreements with substantial help from the business and investor communities. Congress and the public are excluded from the process.
In the past 20 years, we got WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and many smaller agreements. Although free trade advocates promised shared prosperity and mutual gains, our actual experience has been an astronomical trade deficit, the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs, the steady de-industrialization of our economy, stagnant wage growth, and growing income inequality. Workers in Latin America and other countries similarly failed to enjoy promised rewards.
Free trade advocates promised us "access to markets." In 1995, we thought that meant access to consumers around the world who would buy goods we make in America. More often, it simply meant access to producers in low-cost countries such as Mexico, China and India, who make goods for us to consume.
One of the "free" parts of free trade has been freedom from regulation. Trade agreements shield investors and businesses from regulations designed to protect public health, the environment, worker rights and human rights. Public policy enacted by federal and state governments can bring ruinous trade sanctions. As a result, the interests of businesses and investors are placed above public interest. Public interests are fine, as long as they do not restrict trade in any way.
Is this a good thing? Most people would say no.
Our current trade policy isn't actually about "trade," in the strict sense. Instead, it's about global economic integration. Here's trade: We make something and trade it for something else we want. The clichè is, "They do what they do best, we do what we do best, and we trade."
So, what does America make that the rest of the world wants to buy? Under current trade policy, not much. We pay dollars for goods and pile up debt -- to the tune of more than $800 billion annually and growing. That's not trade.
Global economic integration is very different. For example, our 50 states form the integrated U.S. economy. The European Union is economically integrated. When you integrate a high-income region with a low-income region, you get leveling. That's why Europe won't let Russia into the European Union.
Our trade policy creates global economic integration by design. Businesses and investors wrote the language in trade agreements to accomplish exactly that. The public was excluded from every step of the process, and it shows. Fast Track is the final step. It prevents Congress from addressing the leveling issues that skew the benefits to a few and the costs to the rest of us.
With 15 years of experience, we can see that the NAFTA-style "free trade" policy has failed to serve the public interest. The last thing we need now is a fast track to more failed trade policy.


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Being the Hunted
Fear is an excellent motivator. The primal instinct resides deep in our being, yet instantaneously reacts when a challenge arises. As we continue to be exposed, it establishes a complex set of recall processes that our key to our survival. However, fear is tragically uncomfortable. Fear can paralyze.
There are a few common fears, subcategorized into thousands upon thousands of phobias. Karl Albrecht, Ph.D., wrote that there are five basic fears. One limited from physical stimulus is the fear of ego death: "a fear of humiliation, shame, or any other mechanism of profound self-disapproval that threatens the loss of integrity of the self."
In any contest to one's standing at the top, at least half the battle resides between the ears.
The Sooners were selected the preseason favorite to win the Big 12 women's basketball regular season title in a vote of the league's head coaches (coaches were not permitted to vote for their own teams). OU tallied five first-place votes, landing on top of half of the coaches' ballots.
It was the fourth time the Sooners have topped the preseason rankings. OU was also picked No. 1 in 2001-02, 2006-07 and 2008-09 and won at least a share of the Big 12 championship in each of those seasons.
There is no mistaking what the expectation has become after three seasons without adding to their trophy case.
"There's history here and you want to be a part of it," senior Aaryn Ellenberg said. "We don't want to be the only class to not cut down a net."
"They understand the expectation and they embrace it," OU head coach Sherri Coale said. "I think this senior class had the disadvantage of playing their entire careers in the league with Britney Griner, truthfully. They understand that they have a bit of a window, maybe. It does make the league a little bit different."
Stacey Dales, Caton Hill, LaNeishea Caufield, Phylesha Whaley, Rosalind Ross, Leah Rush, Ashley and Courtney Paris, Amanda Thompson, Danielle Robinson, and Whitney Hand -- members of OU's championship teams had palpable qualities that radiated to their teammates.
"They were gritty, they were confident, and they held each other accountable."
More often than not, Sooners are in the championship hunt. Oklahoma has claimed a league-leading six regular season conference titles and four Big 12 Tournament crowns. Each of those teams had an undeniable will to win, all comprised of different characteristics.
"It's different with every group. Personally, I prefer it," Coale said. "I want to be the one that's expected to win. But every team has its own personality and you have to approach everyone differently."
The championship legacy at Oklahoma was not built overnight, but its essence overwhelms those who walk inside the locker room within microseconds.
One cannot dribble on the practice court, change shoes in locker room, or enter the main arena without being engulfed by visions of dreams realized. This is by design.
The banners on the wall act as a road map for past successes. An NCAA Tournament appearance followed the next season by a Sweet 16 finish followed by a Final Four. Over and over again until a dynasty is formed. Portraits litter the walls. In these photos, trophies are being hoisted and nets are being cut from rims. Script of championships won and the habits that allowed them covers every crevice.
"It's all relative. I think it's a very personal reaction. I think, for some kids, they see all that and there's an immediate pressure and an expectation. And that can come with its bags of tricks. For some kids, they come in and it gives them confidence. They put on this jersey and they become invincible."
It's safe to say that mediocrity is not allowed within the walls of the Lloyd Noble Center.
"Coach Coale put it on us seniors that we'll be the only class to not cut down a net, if we don't cut one down this year," senior Morgan Hook said. "I think for us four seniors, there's more determination."
Players traveled back to Norman Friday morning and returned to the court that evening. The Sooners retraced their steps traveled thus far this season. They revisited their season goals, the ways to achieve them, and adjusted their plan after 12 games worth of study revealed some issues.
"Well, the positive things is we've played some really good teams who have exposed our weaknesses," Coale said. "We know exactly what we need to do and so there are no surprises going into conference play."
Oklahoma is 8-4 entering its final pre-conference game versus Samford Sunday, Dec. 29, at 2 p.m. The Sooners counted defeats at home to then-No. 5 Louisville and No. 2 Duke and on the road at UCLA and Marist.
"I really think it's a blessing that we've found ourselves in this situation because we have been exposed. There's a tendency when you always play teams that are not capable of beating you that you have diseases that go untreated and they eat you up and you can't fix it. We've got a diagnosis early enough that we can work on it."
Always the teacher, Coale has a brief period to refocus her team for the remainder of a season-long education.
"They have to learn what their trump card is. They have to learn what that thing is that they have to be able to hang their hat on, that they can do better than anybody else in the world. Sometimes that's a hard riddle to solve. Especially, when you're potential says you can do a lot of things -- you could this, you could do that -- you have a tendency to be a jack of all trades and a master of none. I think it's that identification process of what you really have to make your own. That's probably the hardest thing."
Those lessons, when properly learned, end with a graduation that involves climbing the rungs of a ladder and cutting strands of a net.
"It's been a long time since I have," Coale said, "so I'm looking forward to doing that again."


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This model is a variant of the vrtkoff example that shows also how to display signal values as text in the virtual scene and a simple Head-Up Display (HUD).
The text is sent to virtual scene using the VR Text Output block. This block formats the input vector using the format string defined in its mask (see sprintf() for more information) and resulting string is sent to the 'string' field of the associated VRML text node in the scene.
The HUD behavior (maintaining constant relative position between the user and the Text node) is achieved by defining a ProximitySensor that senses user position and orientation as it navigates through the scene and routing this information to the translation and rotation of HUD object - in this case a VRML Transform that contains the Text node.


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Nov. 08--Oh boy.
Your new baby's sex may be to blame for your postpartum depression.
The mood disorder that comes after childbirth has been linked with having a boy in a new study out of England'sUniversity of Kent. In fact, the odds of developing postpartum depression for moms of males is boosted by an astounding 71 to 79% compared to moms of female infants.
The reason is because postpartum depression is associated with an inflammatory immune response, which has been linked with both the gestation of male fetuses and birth complications. Inflammatory immune response occurs when tissues are injured by bacteria, trauma, toxins or other causes.
"The occurrence of birth complications increased the odds of [postpartum depression] by 174% compared to having no complications," the study also found.
Symptoms of postpartum depression -- which typically begins between one week and one month following childbirth -- can include extreme sadness, low energy, anxiety, crying, irritability, and sleeping or eating pattern disruptions.
"While always at increased risk of [postpartum depression], women with a tendency towards symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress at other points in the life course had reduced odds of [postpartum depression] when experiencing birth complications, suggesting such women may elicit greater support," the study continued.
The research looked at about 300 women born between 1930 and 1966 who reported details about every birth they had and were assessed on various demographic and psychological measures. Women who experienced the death of an infant or gave a baby up for adoption were excluded from the analysis.
"These results highlight two novel [postpartum depression] risk factors, male infants and birth complications, which can be easily assessed by health professionals," the study concluded.
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Low Platelet Counts in Animals
Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
Can you please tell me what kind of cancers in animals often lead to a drop in platelet counts and how that can that be treated? Also, do cancer treatments for such cancers lead to drop in platelet counts due to their effects on the bone marrow?
Lili Duda, VMD, Editor of the OncoLink Veterinary Oncology Section, responds:
Several types of diseases can cause platelet decreases in dogs. One category are the immune mediated diseases such as "idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura," or "ITP." Another category are the tick-borne diseases such as Rocky Mountain Spotted fever and Erlichia (these diseases can also cause enlarged lymph nodes which can mimic some forms of cancer in certain cases).
Various cancers can cause low platelet counts, including cancers that involve the bone marrow (lymphomas, leukemias, mastcell tumors, multiple myeloma), tumors that involve blood vessels (hemangiosarcoma), or any cancer that has spread to various parts of the body. A thorough evaluation can help differentiate these causes. One important test is a bone marrow aspirate/biopsy along with a general work-up (bloodwork, Xrays/ultrasound etc. as indicated by the patient's clinical signs).
Some types of chemotherapy drugs can cause drops in various white cells, including platelets. However, chemotherapy in veterinary patients is usually much less aggressive than in human medicine. This means that severe clinical signs (such as platelet counts that drop low enough to cause increased risk of bleeding) are very unusual. Often, decreases in other types of white cells (such as neutrophils) are more of a concern.


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James Edward Brinlee
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d. 11 Feb 1908, Pauls Valley, OK
& Ida Rosalee Brock
b. 2 Jul 1871, Georgia
d. 27 Dec 1940, Aubrey, Denton, Texas
m. 26 Aug 1901
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|---& Marshall Smith
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|--Audry Lawton Brinlee
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|---& Viola Dora Matlock
|--Jimmie Gladys Brinlee
|----b. 15 Dec 1907, Van Alstyne, Texas
|----d. 30 Nov 1999, Lamar County, Texas
|---& Tonie Melvin Moore
|----d. 18 May 1976
|----m. 7 Jun 1924, Denton, Texas
This is the family of James Edward Brinlee (my paternal grandfather's oldest brother) and his second wife, Ida Rosalee Brock. Ida's first husband was George Washington McClerry; their children were Luther Pinkny McClerry, James Walter Lee McClerry, and Mattie L. McClerry. I would especially like to know more about Audry Brinlee's wife Viola Dora Matlock, since I am related to a Matlock family that ended up in Texas.
I would love to share information with anyone related to/researching this family; you can contact me at my e-mail address, which can be found by going to my profile page (there is a link to that page in the About Me section to the left).


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Pollster calls Fla. and Va. for Romney
Suffolk University pollster David Paleologos said Tuesday that he's stopped polling Florida, Virginia and North Carolina because he's already concluded that President Barack Obama will lose those swing states.
"In places like North Carolina, Virginia and Florida, we've already painted those red. We're not polling any of those states again. We're focusing on the remaining states," Paleologos told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly.
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The remark surprised O'Reilly.
"That's interesting. Let me stop you there. You're convinced, your polling agency is convinced that Florida, North Carolina and Virginia are going to go for Romney?" O'Reilly said.
"That's right, and here's why. Before the debate the Suffolk poll had Obama winning 46 to 43 in the head-to-head number, a poor place to be for a couple of reasons," said Paleologos, director of Suffolk University Political Research Center.
He continued: "Number one, his ballot test, his head-to-head number was under 47 [percent] before the debate and it's very difficult when you have the known quantity, the incumbent, to claw your way up to 50. So that was a very, very poor place for him to be. And so we're looking at this polling data not only in Florida but in Virginia and in North Carolina and it's overwhelming."
Recent polling since last week's presidential debate in Denver has shown GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney closing the gap with Obama.


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"To subtitle or not to subtitle?" It's a tricky question for which there seems to be no steadfast rule, not even within the sub-genre of comic book movies. Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Thor: The Dark World and The Avengers: Age of Ultron have indulged in the subtitle format, but Iron Man 2 & 3 settled for simple numbering to distinguish themselves from one another.
Sony's The Amazing Spider-Man faced the challenge of being a reboot that was pieced together in only a short space of time after the Sam Raimi-directed trilogy, which also happened to be extremely successful, and therefore having to distinguish itself. It seems like one simple way to accomplish that would be to eschew the simple numerical system of Spider-Man 1, 2 & 3 and instead come up with a creative subtitle for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and it seems that this is exactly what Sony has in mind.
Just when we though Lucasfilm and Disney would have trouble subtitling Star Wars: Episode VII, CBM received a tip from a reader, Jeff White, who claimed to have recently attended a screening of Captain Phillips at Mall of America. Prior to the start of the film, two representatives from Sony's marketing department were asking audience members for their opinions on three possible subtitles for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The first option was The Amazing Spider-Man 2: The Price of Power, the second was The Amazing Spider Man 2: With Great Power, but White couldn't recall the last of the possible subtitles. This may well be a reflection on how memorable it was.
Both of the subtitles he could recall are a riff on Peter Parker's mantra, "With great power comes great responsibility." While it's a great and memorable soundbite, it doesn't necessarily make for a good subtitle and makes the film sound more like a political thriller than a superhero movie. If any Screen Rant readers have been quizzed by Sony's marketing people at screenings, let us know in the comments if the third option was any better.
One alternative option would be to go the same direction as The Avengers: Age of Ultron and base the subtitle around The Amazing Spider-Man 2's main villain, but that is somewhat complicated by the fact that there are multiple villains being introduced. Teaser images have indicated that the Ravencroft Institute, an asylum for criminally insane and superpowered villains, will serve as the location of some kind of setpiece - most likely the breakout of a whole team of bad guys. Electro (Jamie Foxx) seems to be the most prominent new antagonist, but a title along the lines of The Amazing Spider-Man vs. Electro doesn't really capture the spirit of a movie with a larger villain showcase, and one that could be leading to a Sinister Six introduction.
Do you like either of the subtitles suggested, or can you come up with something better? I'm hoping that they just stick with The Amazing Spider-Man 2; anything much longer than that is going to become a real pain to type out.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Subtitle TBC is out in theaters on May 2nd 2014.
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First, thanks so much to everyone who rescued me from friendless hell over at myspace! (And please feel free to keep it coming!)
Second, I was just looking at my very own page o' friends, and you guys, I got a little choked up. 'Cause first, YOU'RE ALL SO CUTE. Second, there are only a handful of people there that I've met in real life — everyone else came through blogging, one way or another. I'd say about half are people I didn't know by name or face at all before yesterday, but who kindly responded to my clarion call for friends other than Tom.
And what really got me is, you all look like my friends. You look like the people I actually do hang out with. (Well, except that several of you make me feel very, very old, but in those cases, you look like the people I hung out with in college.) My friends page looks exactly like I'd expect it to look if it were full of actual friends instead of strangers. And that made me think, you know, maybe there's something to this blogging thing.
A few years ago, I started joking that I wished I could figure out how to get someone to pay me to write and make friends, because those are the only two things I really think I do well. Sadly, I didn't believe there was any job in the world that actually involved both of those skills. But you know what? This is it.
Okay, so there's still no paid job that involves those skills. (Or at least, I'm nowhere near the point where I could live off this.) That's a problem. But for now, I get to do what I love — writing and interacting with new people; in some cases, building new friendships that carry over offline — every damned day, and man, I feel lucky about that.
Thank you so much, readers, commenters, lurkers, and new myspace friends for hanging out around here and making it feel like a blossoming community, not just a solipsistic rantfest. Part of the reason I've loved reading Shakesville for so long is that it feels like a real community — and the welcome I got for my first post there last night was overwhelming. I would love to have more commenters who participate so actively around here. (If you've got ideas on how I can make things more commenter-friendly, do let me know.) 'Cause I really do love the making friends part just as much as the writing part.
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#Packers linebacker AJ Hawk has agreed to a restructured contract, per league source.
— Aaron Nagler (@Aaron_Nagler) March 15, 2013
I don't have any specific numbers, but I am told the restructure was not "significant" and that it is a slight adjustment to the final three years of the contract he was already on.
While some Packers fans may not think so, I think this is a great move. There had been speculation that the team might simply cut the veteran linebacker, despite the cap hit they would take in the process. But with Desmon Bishop and D.J. Smith both coming back from significant injuries, Hawk is too valuable to let go.
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Ridley Scott is famous for his big movies, for genre-defining sci-fi like Alien, or an Oscar-winning epic like Gladiator, or even a historical crime saga like American Gangster. But it's easy to forget that at the center of all three of those films-- and most of the film's Scott has made in his career-- are performances that hold it all together. Not only has Scott worked with a laundry list of enormously talented actors throughout his career, starting with Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel in his first feature The Duellists and leading to this week's Prometheus, but he's helped many of his actors accomplish performances they've never matched elsewhere. Ridley Scott isn't just a director of great cinematic spectacle; he's a great actor's director too.
To list all of the great performances in Ridley Scott movies would take a week-- we'd spend an entire day going through Blade Runner alone-- so we've started with just five, with performances that not only stick with us, but stand out in those particular actors' careers as huge achievements. Check out our picks for the five greatest performances in Ridley Scott movies, and make your own picks-- yes, we're aware of just how many we left out-- in the comments below.
Sean Young in Blade Runner Though Blade Runner does feature one of Harrison Ford's best, tucked-in noir hero performances, it's the supporting characters in the movie that give it its indelible, haunting beauty-- and most beautiful among them, of course, is Sean Young as the replicant Rachel. With her tight 1940s hairdo and severe outfits, she first appears like the ultimate secretary, though with an added precision, barely perceptible, that we soon learn means she is a machine. Not unlike Michael Fassbender in Prometheus, Young has to walk the fine line of being a robot without human feelings, but a robot who's so close to being human that she's almost got all of it right.
As the confident and violent replicant Roy Batty, Rutger Hauer might get all the good lines and the iconic final fight scene, but it's Rachel's perfect face, her stillness and her deep insecurity, that haunts both us and Deckard as the film comes to a close. And while Hauer, Ford and even Daryl Hannah have all gone on to lengthy careers, Young's has been more turbulent, which means it might really only be Ridley Scott who's capable of helping her create this unforgettable performance.
Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise With so many action epics to his credit, it's easy to forget that Scott was the director behind this Oscar-winning drama that beautifully captured the fierce bond of female friendship. Geena Davis memorably co-starred with Susan Sarandon, and while both earned well-deserved Academy Award nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role, this was a real breakthrough for Davis. The Mensa member began her career in her underwear with a small but eye-catching appearance in 1982's Tootsie, and though she'd won an Oscar for her supporting part in The Accidental Tourist in 1988, this marked her first lead role in a non-genre effort. And with Scott's direction, Davis was at long last able to show the depth that lay beneath her beaming smile and bright eyes.
Together she and Scott wove the heartbreaking yet weirdly inspiring arc of Thelma Dickinson, a bullied housewife who becomes a fearlessly faithful friend and unrepentant rebel. Leaving behind her no-good husband, she finds herself on the road with the world as her oyster, and her unbridled joy in moments of exhilaration—be they sexual or criminal—is utterly contagious all the way through the film's bittersweet finale.
Eric Bana in Black Hawk Down Black Hawk Down is Ridley Scott's most recent of three Academy Award losses for Best Director. The first two, Thelma & Louise and Gladiator, came with coinciding acting noms for all three titular roles but the true story of the Battle of Mogadishu found none. The ensemble features a few fantastic turns and in a cast including vets like Sam Shepard, it was Eric Bana, a newcomer to North American screens, that stole the crowded show. As Delta Sergeant First Class Norm 'Hoot' Gibson, Bana's lone-wolf instantly has our attention as he's airlifted from his reconnaissance mission back to base. It's here that we're told how the effortlessly cool Hoot uses his trigger finger as his 'safety' and that politics do not come into play when you're on the receiving end of enemy fire.
Over the course of the film, Bana's soldier increasingly becomes a mouthpiece for BHD's themes ("it's about the men next to you and that's it") but never once at the expense of his captivating performance. And Hollywood couldn't help but take notice of electric supporting turn as the Aussie soon found himself landing high profile leading roles like Bruce Banner in Ang Lee's HULK.
Nicolas Cage in Matchstick Men Over the years we've learned that Nicolas Cage isn't really a normal guy. While most actors seem comfortable in their own skin and have no trouble playing average, Cage has always been at his best when playing damaged or mentally ill characters, either for dramatic (Leaving Las Vegas) or comedic (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans) effect. But that's why he was so lucky that Ridley Scott cast him in 2003's Matchstick Men. In addition to being a move away from what we've come to expect from the director, the movie also gave us one of Cage's most powerful performances as he plays a confidence man named Roy Waller suffering from a terrible case of OCD who learns that he has a daughter (Alison Lohman).
Cage has surprisingly great chemistry with Lohman and a real fatherly charm, but what makes his turn so impressive is the portrayal of the character's mental condition. Whenever we see Roy lock and unlock the door three times just so he can walk through it you can see the pain in the actor's eyes as he recognizes the severity of his condition but is unable to do anything to stop it. He is filled with nervous tics that flash across his face and remind us of the struggle that's going on inside Roy's mind. It's not just an example of Cage at his finest, but one of the best performances that Scott has gotten out of an actor.
Michael Fassbender in Prometheus It's borderline ludicrous to claim that the best performance in a Sir Ridley Scott movie exists in the great director's latest feature. That discounts Oscar-nominated performances by Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix and Ruby Dee (and a win by Crowe, who took home the gold for Gladiator).
And yet, Michael Fassbender leapfrogs to the head of this class courtesy of a stupendously ambiguous yet impossibly precise performance as the android David in Scott's Prometheus. His motives are never clearly defined – or are they? David works for Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), a billionaire with an agenda. But David's true agenda might be his own, and this sentient being without feeling is the wild card that keeps Prometheus feeling as unpredictable as a game of poker in a Las Vegas casino.
Here's the thing, though. David is the polar opposite of Fassbender's intensely self-obsessed Shame character, who was the polar opposite of the megalomaniacal Magneto from X-Men: First Class. Every time I'm ready to declare that Fassbender has shown us his entire bag of tricks, he disappears into a multi-faceted part like David, and anchors a philosophical masterpiece that somehow feels grounded, even as it soars to the heavens to try and answer our universe's biggest mysteries. There's no mystery about Fassbender's talent, though. He's brilliant, and Prometheus might be his best.


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I like the Techdirt website. I often refer Techdirt posts. You do some great work on government surveillance and open source software development. But you do not understand respect for an artist, his/her wishes, or respect for an artist's work. I'm not sure why you don't understand and I will refrain from speculating.
Am I missing something or are you just recycling he said/she said "reporting" from the WSJ, which is not, in my view, a credible source for facts?
I've come to expect better from techdirt...
I have not seen details, yet, that would lead me to the conclusion that the case against Keys is strong. If someone could point me to links that describe the evidence in detail, I'd be grateful. Thanks.
I'm a deeply cynical person. I'd rather not be cynical but I am. I don't believe we have meaningful judicial oversight that will prevent more overreach and abuse by the federal prosecutors. The amount of public outcry over Aaron Swartz would have to be enormous and sustained to budge the balance of powers to reform the judicial system. My hat is off to Techdirt for doing it's part in raising the profile of this case; cure my cynicism, please.
I know many artists who don't use a computer and could care less who controls your computer but they don't want their work defaced or trivialized. I know many artists that do not want any special dispensation. You and I have have a vastly different view on art, and what it means to be an artist. In the society you advocate, the price would be a world saturated with cheap reproductions masquerading as creative art. We are well on the way to that model.
My apology is offered if I misrepresented your position. My orphan metaphor was not well stated. I don't see how you can deny that the discussion of ownership of original works of art is not about artists. If you don't understand my example about Dali/Van Vliet, then I think our perspectives on art and how it relates to business are on different planes never to intersect. Oh well. When original art is appropriated for cheap knockoffs, you seem to think that it somehow benefits the original artist who does not want his original work degraded. I have to wonder if you have ever been offended by cheap imitations of great art. Like I said, I still agree with what you and Techdirt do a great percentage of the time so keep up the great work.
Some interesting discussion, but not much depth. I can't believe MOMA honors a guy that promotes plagiarism as poetry. What a load of BS. As for you and Lowery, sometimes it sounds like a personal grudge match, Mike Masnick. I don't agree with Lowery, but I think he understands more about artists. Artists don't have to be entrepreneurs and many don't want to be. Dali was sponsored and if he wasn't, we wouldn't have as many paintings by him. The same could be said for recording artists like Don Van Vliet. The idea that Van Vliet would be an entrepreneur is absurd. I like Techdirt. Your stands against patent scams and CISPA is why I recommend you, but I think you do not do yourself (or anyone) a favor by being an advocate for turning artists into orphans.
Totally agree. Techdirt has a knee jerk reaction when it should be responding to the complete disrespect of the author's/artist's original work and wishes. If Beste and "mashers" like him think they have some kind of talent, they should develop their own characters and comics or stories.
Agree with your last point and it is huge. Artists who have been unable to promote their work for personal reasons can use and appreciate the support of small labels. It would be nice to hear from the recording artists that benefited from labels like Sire and IRS. I'm a big believer in disintermediation for most businesses but I don't think it can be applied as a blanket solution.
Many artists do not think about "connecting with the public." An artist with a personal version may not connect with the public. Further, many artists believe that shaping their art to make the public love them and support them is not art. I remember when California supported artists with tax money, including artists that would never be popular with a large segment of the public. I don't believe there is a market solution to art and many countries in the world still recognize that fact.
I think you should post this again at the beginning of a thread. By the time you posted this, the topic had been abandoned. It is a really good point. I don't want to see tunes by Neil Young or Lou Reed appearing in cheap TV ads...
I detest the RIAA and their army of lawyers but I can see why an artist would want a label. If an artist or band does not have any support, he/they could spend all their time managing the business when he/they could be writing new material or refining their craft/art. Even bands that toured for years without label support, like REM, probably jumped at the chance to put more time into their music instead of organizing a tour etc.


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The following pages teach you how to build a simple Android app. You'll learn how to create a "Hello World" project with Android Studio and run it. Then, you'll create a new interface for the app that takes some user input and opens a second screen in the app.
But before you start, there are two fundamental concepts you should understand about Android apps:
Apps provide multiple entry points
Android apps are built as a combination of components that can be invoked individually. For example, an activity is a type of app component that provides a user interface.
The "main" activity is what starts when the user taps your app icon, but you can take the user straight into a different activity from other places, such as from a notification or even from a different app.
Other components such as broadcast receivers and services also allow your app to perform background tasks without a user interface.
After you build your first app, learn more about the other components at App Fundamentals.
Apps adapt to different devices
Android allows you to provide different resources for different devices. For example, you can create different layouts for different screen sizes. Then the system determines which layout to use based on the current device's screen size.
If any of your app's features need specific hardware, such as a camera, you can query whether the device has that hardware at runtime and then disable the corresponding features if not. You can also set some features as required so Google Play won't allow installation on devices without them.
After you build your first app, learn more about device configurations at Device Compatibility.
With those basic concepts in mind, click below to start building your first app!


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Nearly two years after the release of the PlayStation 3, Sony has released its first batch of Greatest Hits titles for the console. This was announced at E3, but it's great to see such an impressive collection of games for this price made available to the public. These 10 games will now retail at just US$29.99. Here's the complete list:
- Warhawk (SCEA)
- Resistance: Fall of Man (SCEA)
- Motorstorm (SCEA)
- Call of Duty 3 (Activision)
- Fight Night Round 3 (EA Sports)
- Need For Speed: Carbon (EA)
- Rainbow Six Vegas (Ubisoft)
- Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda)
- Ninja Gaiden Sigma (Tecmo)
This is not a bad selection, and it's a perfect way to start building your library if you're a new PS3 owner. These games launch today, so keep your eyes peeled for the distinctive red PS3 Blu-Ray cases if you're out in the retail world. Our suggestions? Motorstorm, Fight Night Round 3, and Resistance: Fall of Man.


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Well I am about to go out of 2009 the same way I came in; injured. Despite all the time stuck inside going a wee bit insane I know I'll enter 2010 a lot stronger. Now don't worry, I'm not about to get all inspirational and start blaring chariots of fire,
What keeps me excited for next year is summed up in this press release,
Yep, next year I'll get to trapse the globe with a new bike, new mates and a new outlook chasing new adventures and hopefully having a whole heap of fun.
The hardest thing about it is that I am still a couple of weeks away from riding and possibly another month from really riding hard. So I need to hold back even though I am ready to grab a bmx and ride to Baw Baw and back, seriously I am getting restless.
Bye for now, hope everyone ate themselves into a coma on Christmas day and I'll see you all in the new year for some training and a bunch of failed resolutions!
Last minute Edit!
Here's a nice write up on our team bikes for next season, the Museeuw MF 1


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Josh McAdams and Pete Krawczyk have just released the YAPC::NA 2006 schedule on the conference website. This year there will be four rooms of talks going on for the three days of the conference. We are lucky enough to have both Larry Wall and Damian Conway giving keynote addresses. Of course, there will be a lot of Perl 6, Pugs, and Parrot talks, was well as the usual barrage of Perl 5 goodness.
Some other items of interest that aren't on the schedule include a Perl 6 hack-a-thon immediately following the conference, as well as, open classes taught by Damian Conway, brian d foy, and Randal Schwartz. You can find out more at the YAPC Chicago website.


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Pain is the most common reason a person seeking medical assistance. Pain occurs with the disease process, diagnostic examination and treatment process. Pain is very annoying and difficult for many people. The nurse could not see and feel the pain experienced by the client, because pain is subjective (between one individual with another individual is different in addressing the pain). Nurses provide nursing care to clients in various situations and circumstances, which provide interventions to improve comfort. According to some theories of nursing, comfort is the basic requirement that the client is the purpose of nursing care. The statement was supported by Kolcaba who said that comfort is a state has met basic human needs.
Definition of Pain
Pain is an unpleasant feeling that is conveyed to the brain by sensory neurons. The discomfort signals actual or potential injury to the body. However, pain is more than a sensation, or the physical awareness of pain; it also includes perception, the subjective interpretation of the discomfort. Perception gives information on the pain's location, intensity, and something about its nature. The various conscious and unconscious responses to both sensation and perception, including the emotional response, add further definition to the overall concept of pain.
What do you know about Pain ?
- Pain is tiring and requires a lot of energy
- Pain is subjective and individualized
- Pain can not be objectively assessed as X-rays or blood lab
- Nurses can assess patients' pain just by looking at physiological changes and behavior of client statements
- Only the client knows when pain and pain arising
- Pain is a physiological defense mechanism
- Pain is a warning sign of tissue damage
- Pain started the inability
- The false perception that causes pain so pain management is not optimal
In summary, Mahon, argued pain following attributes:
- Pain is an individual
- Pain is not fun
- Is a strength that dominate
- Are endless
Nursing Assessment of Pain
Assessment of pain is factual and accurate information is required to:
- Establish a baseline
- Appropriate nursing diagnosis
- Selecting a suitable therapy
- Evaluate client response to therapy given
Things that need to be studied are as follows:
- Expression of the client to pain
Many clients do not report / discuss the condition of discomfort. For that nurses must learn how verbal and nonverbal clients in communicating a sense of discomfort. Clients who are unable to communicate effectively often requires special attention when the assessment.
- Classification of pain experience
Nurses assess whether the client felt the pain of acute or chronic. When acute, it takes a detailed assessment of the characteristics of pain and when pain is chronic, then the nurse to determine whether ongoing intermittent pain, persistent or limited.
- Characteristics of pain
- Onset and duration. Nurses assess how long the pain is felt, how often pain relapse, and whether the appearance of pain at the same time.
- Location. The nurse asks the client to indicate where the pain is felt, or feels settled on spread
- Severity. The nurse asks the client describes how severe the pain is felt. To obtain these data the nurse can use assistive devices, measuring scales. Clients indicated the scale of measurement, then given the choice to suit current conditions. Measuring scale can be a numeric scale, descriptive, visual analogue.
- Effects of pain on the client
Pain is stressful and can change the lifestyle and psychological well-being of individuals. Nurses should review the following things to determine the effect of pain on the client:
- Signs and symptoms of physical
Nurses assess the physiological signs, because of the pain that is felt the client could have an effect on the normal functioning of the body.
- Behavioral effects
Nurses assess verbal response, body movements, facial expressions, and social interaction. Verbal report of pain is a vital part of the assessment, nurses must be willing to listen and try to understand the client. Not all clients are capable of expressing the pain that is felt, for things like that nurses should be aware of client behaviors that indicate pain.
- Effects on ADL
Clients who experience pain are less able to participate in regular daily activities. This assessment indicates the extent of the adjustment process the client capabilities and participate in self-care. It is important also to assess the effects of pain on the client's social activities.
- Signs and symptoms of physical
- Neurological status
Neurological function more easily influence the pain experience. Any factors that interfere with or affect the reception and perception of pain that would normally affect the client's responses and awareness of pain. It is important for nurses to assess the neurological status of the clients, because clients who have neurological disorders are not sensitive to pain. Preventive action needs to be done on the client with a neurological disorder that easily injured.
Nursing Care Plan for Pain - Assessment, Diagnosis and Interventions
Nursing Diagnosis for Pain
- Acute Pain related to physical injury, reduction of blood supply, process of giving birth
- Chronic Pain related to the malignancy
- Anxiety related to pain that is felt
- Ineffective individual coping related to chronic pain
- Impaired physical mobility related to musculoskeletal pain
- Risk for injury related to lack of perception of pain
Nurses develop a plan of nursing diagnoses that have been made. Nurses and clients together to discuss realistic expectations of action to overcome the pain, the degree of recovery of the expected pain, and the effects that must be anticipated in the client's lifestyle and function. Expected outcomes and goals of nursing and nursing diagnoses were selected based on the client's condition. The general objective of nursing care with pain are as follows:
- Clients feel healthy and comfortable
- Clients retain the ability to perform self-care
- Clients maintain physical function and psychological currently owned
- Client describes the factors that cause pain
- Clients use the therapy given safely at home


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Yale PRs
800m 2:01.80
1500m 4:00.10
Mile 4:25.60
3000m 8:32.30
5000m 14:58.22
XC 4k 15:42.26
XC 8k 25:21
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1500m 4:06.12
3000m 9:06.21
2013-2014: Competed against Harvard, at the New England Championships and at the CCSU Mini Meet...Recorded his season-best time at New Englands...Finished 12th in 3,000-meters against Columbia and Dartmouth...Competed in 800-meters and 1,500-meters at Mark Young Invitational and Yale Springtime Invitational.
2012-2013: Placed seventh in the 3,000-meters against Harvard...Finished fifth in the 5,000-meters at the Yale Springtime Invitational.
2011-2012: Won the open race at the Princeton Invitational, where he set his PR… Fifth on the team at the Paul Short Invitational (25:49)… Represented Yale at cross country Heps (26:50.5).
2010-2011: Placed eighth in 1500m run at Harvard-Yale … Opened outdoor season with a third-place finish in 1500m run at Tribe Invitational … Indoors, specialized in 3000m, in which he ran PR of 8:38.11 at Giegengack Invitational and took second in 3000m in season opener.
High School: Twice NEPSTA Division I All-League … Captain and MVP of indoor and outdoor track teams.
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Please call me before you call anywhere else in the Atlanta area, so that we can talk about what you should expect from your therapist and from therapy (404) 698-3699. I look forward to speaking to you.
Family members don't have to be a part of the problem when someone is having difficulty, but they are often part of the solution.
The work I do is solution-focused. No one ever leaves my office, even the first time, without some ideas as to how to begin to solve whatever problem brought them to see me.
Married for thirty-six years, I have my own live laboratory as to what works and what is less likely to work in marriage.
I also have had it proven to me that marriage is a set of skills and not about being "in love" or "not in love".
Some People Self-medicate!
Many people know about anti-depressants. However, did you know that there are some non-medical ways to treat this problem that work quite well.
People who don't know when they do wrong, can't learn to do anything right.
Behavior is purposeful. Think about the purpose behind what you see.
People often come to see me with problems with saying "no", wanting to please others to an extreme, not liking themselves, and being unhappy with who they are or what they are doing in life.
I believe the first issue is to understand when these feeling began, for how long, and what has already been done about it.
Everybody feels anger. The question becomes to what intensity and what you can do about it.
It is useful to learn to separate what we feel from what we do. This is part of being an adult.
Sometimes people arrive in therapy too late to save the marriage.
What is important is that people learn the skills to stay together-not to live in misery, but to live lives that contain joy and commitment that make good models for children to follow.
I was the advisor to the Step-family Association of Atlanta while it was here. This lasted several years.
I live in a step-family so I know how hard it can be and have been very effective at helping people in step-families to straighten things out.
It can be painful and
heartbreaking to watch a loved one decline.
The alternatives of sudden loss may, in some ways, be easier on the survivors but the shock waves of sudden loss are equally tragic.
Children need team parenting and consistency. In our hectic world, these skills are often hard to do.
So, what makes the difference between normal and abnormal anxiety?
Some anxiety is good for us. It motivates us to do things that need doing.
Coupling and parenting become irresponsible.
Drugs and alcohol interfere with everyone's relationships when either or both are present in families–alcohol in excess and drugs at all.
Many people believe that there is no return from infidelity but I do not find this to be the case.
Unlike a broken egg, things can be put back together. Most people are surprised and pleased with the outcome.
I think this word gets over-used without explicit understanding of "how" to say "what" to "whom".
I am teaching people who see me the "foreign language" of how to speak to each other in ways that promote conversation instead of shutting it down.
A company can save money if they know how to read people!
Did you know that the configuration of relationships in a family is very much like the configuration of relationships in a company. They are both "systems".


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Nearly two thirds of voters in Harrow East are from ethnic minorities, but despite these groups being politically active they are still undervalued and poorly represented, new research shows.
In a study released last week, a Warwick university academic shows that the ethnic minority vote will be more important than ever before in the upcoming election but Britain must still do more to encourage their role in the national debate.
Professor Muhammad Anwar, from Warwick's Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, notes that ethnic minorities are nearly on par with white voters when it comes to voter registration and that as a group they have above average turnout in elections.
Harrow East has the highest proportion of the ethnic minority vote in the country, and is one of 25 constituencies where more than 40 per cent of people come from a minority group.
With 66.3 per cent of the area's population categorised as from a minority in the 2001 census, Harrow East is far above the national average of one in ten.
Yet even for the national average, minority groups remain badly represented in the political process. There are only 15 MPs of ethnic minority origin, and just double this figure in the larger House of Lords.
While nationally voter turnout has plummeted in recent years, it is rising amongst minority groups. Just 61.4 per cent of people turned out to vote in the 2005 election, but for Bangladeshi voters it was per cent, with 70 per cent of Pakistanis and 67 per cent of Indians voting.
Professor Anwar said this trend would continue among Asian and particularly among Muslim groups. He said this was because British Muslims had become a focus of the media and of politicians.
"Muslims themselves have become more conscious of their rights and responsibilities as British citizens, including participation in the electoral process," he said.
He said that rising political participation should also be matched by rising representation.
"The effective representation of ethnic minorities in politics is crucial to the achievement of equality of opportunity across our society," he said.
"There has been some progress but Britain has a long way to go in providing equality for ethnic minorities in the decision making process."


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Welfare systems exist to reduce the worst excesses of poverty. When poverty increases during recessions, the welfare state is supposed to rush into countercyclical action, providing a firewall against a growth in destitution.
That's the theory, anyway. In practice, it's never been the case. In recent years in particular, the American welfare system has increasingly shed itself of this key obligation.
In 1996, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)—the welfare system established in 1935 as part of the Social Security Act—was scrapped in favor of a more limited system, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). But in the Great Recession that began in 2008, TANF has proved a total disaster. Unemployment doubled in many states, but in most of them, the number of TANF enrollees either increased only marginally or decreased.
It wasn't always that way. "AFDC used to be countercyclical," says economist James Ziliak of the University of Kentucky's Center for Poverty Research. The program expanded automatically when the number of eligible recipients swelled during recessions. TANF, by contrast, was designed so that it couldn't expand unless Congress specifically voted it more funds.
In fact, enrollee numbers have been decreasing since TANF was enacted. That's hardly a surprise; to a large extent, reducing rolls was the primary purpose of the reform. The severity of the means tests, work requirements, and other conditions some states impose, such as drug tests, has reduced the applicant and beneficiary pools. At the same time, the value of the TANF benefits for those who do manage to access them has declined.
"In 1994–95, for every 100 families with children in poverty, the AFDC program served 75 families," researchers from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concluded last September. "In 2008–09, only 28 families with children participated in TANF for every 100 families in poverty." In Arkansas, that number was a mere 9 percent by the end of 2009; in Mississippi, 12 percent; in Alabama, 15 percent.
Moreover, throughout most of the South, benefit levels declined to one-fifth to one-tenth of the poverty line. In Mississippi, that meant that a family of four was averaging less than $200 a month in benefits. The decline in benefits isn't, however, limited to the South. In all but two states, benefit levels today are below what they were in 1996 (and by 1996, most states had already been cutting the real value of their welfare benefits for a quarter-century), and in no state in the country does the maximum TANF benefit get a family above 50 percent of the federally defined poverty line.
The welfare state in America developed in fits and starts throughout the 20th century. While some states had experimented with unemployment insurance after World War I, national unemployment insurance, Social Security, disability insurance, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children were all legislated into being in 1935 as keystones of the New Deal. Food stamps emerged as a pilot program during John Kennedy's administration, which was dramatically expanded under Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Similarly, Medicaid and Medicare are creations of the Great Society years. Nutritional programs such as school breakfasts and lunches as well as the Women, Infants, and Children program took off in the 1960s and 1970s. Subsidized housing for the poor, either through vouchers or the building of public housing, emerged in a series of legislative bursts from 1937 onward.
Taken as a whole, the responsibility for America's welfare system has been juggled uneasily between the federal government and the states. This patchwork-quilt system has never been perfect, but in the post-2008 milieu, and especially in the budget-cutting environment prevailing after the 2010 midterms, it signally failed to reach its targeted population. Obama's administration has done a good job of protecting what remains of the safety net for those who lost jobs in the recession, people who might be termed the "temporary poor." It's been far less adept, though, at protecting both the long-term poor and the poorest of the poor from budget cuts.
From the 1930s through the mid-1990s, the central cash component of America's welfare system was the federal aid distributed through AFDC. In 1996, however, under pressure from Congress to slash welfare, President Bill Clinton pushed for reform. AFDC was replaced with a block grant to the states, and women's ability to access welfare was limited. Thereafter TANF would be the norm—aid would be tied to the search for work, it would be strictly time-limited, and how it was distributed would be largely left to the discretion of states. Not surprisingly, welfare enrollment plummeted.
Out of the gate, this was touted as a grand success: A booming economy meant that rolls could fall and, at the same time, the nation's poverty rate could also decline. But from the get-go, critics worried that in a prolonged downturn, the poor would be hit hardest, as states raided TANF funds to make up for budget shortfalls and as soaring need levels and increasingly scarce work opportunities pushed more families into poverty.
That's exactly what happened. And while AFDC would have increased funding in every state during the recession, TANF didn't provide much new funding and left it to the states to decide what to do with it. During the crisis that followed the 2008 collapse, there was a $2 billion federal contingency fund that states with unemployment at 2 percent or more above the national average could access. They didn't have to, though, and so many didn't. Congress added $5 billion to the fund as a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, but that has now gone, too. In June 2011, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reported that "no additional resources are available from the federal government for the first time since TANF's creation in 1996, despite today's hard economic times." To counter this, the center proposed that states receive additional TANF funds as soon as they reach an unemployment rate of 6.5 percent or more and that they have to spend those extra dollars on helping more people rather than simply replenishing their existing funds.
"Here we are, worst recession of our lives, and we didn't suspend the lifetime limit or exempt households who've met the lifetime limit," says Jessica Bartholow of the Western Center on Law and Poverty. Worse, many states decreased the number of months a woman could access welfare. California, for example, took it from 60 months to 48, and during budget negotiations in late 2011, Governor Jerry Brown tried (and failed) to reduce it still further, to 24 months. The governor's just-released "May Revise" has reintroduced the call for a 24-month time limit as a stopgap plug for the yawning budget deficit.
How could TANF be made more responsive to downturns? By bulking up federal aid to the states, by replacing the block-grant system with a nationally mandated eligibility system akin to Medicaid enrollment, and by automatically suspending lifetime limits during economic downturns that last beyond a certain number of months. How much would it cost to boost TANF rolls by 50 percent? Elizabeth Lower-Basch, senior policy analyst at the D.C.-based Center for Law and Social Policy, believes that it would be somewhere between $5 billion and $7 billion, less than 1 percent of the financial industry's bailout following the 2008 meltdown.
Absent TANF reform, the central countercyclical institution propping up the welfare system these days is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP (colloquially known as food stamps), which is used by about 46 million Americans. These men, women, and children receive a monthly average of $133.85 per person and $284 per family in food assistance.
Because SNAP is available to anybody below a certain income threshold, it ends up being used in recessions by far more people than can access TANF or general cash-assistance programs. Food stamps are available to people with a gross income of 134 percent (and in some states 200 percent) of the poverty level, but to access them, net income, after housing and health-care costs have been deducted, cannot exceed 100 percent of the poverty line. Even then, the benefits available are meager. To access a high level of benefits, you have to be at about 50 percent of the poverty line. In other words, tens of millions of families qualify for some food assistance, but for many of these families the assistance is inadequate.
Raising the food-stamp aid thresholds and letting benefits kick in for the working poor as well as the very poor would instantly make the plan more countercyclical, better compensating for lost earnings as hours worked and hourly wages decline.
Additionally, there are glaring holes that need to be fixed in the system: During normal economic times, able-bodied adults can access food stamps only if they prove that they are actively looking for work. This provision can be suspended regionally when local unemployment rises a certain amount above the national average. In 2009, recognizing the severity of the need and the unavailability of jobs, the authors of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act suspended this requirement for most recipients of SNAP nationwide. Yet two groups weren't exempted from the requirement. The first was students. A working-class student enrolling in college to better her skills, say, after being laid off would still have to work 80 hours a month to get food stamps. If she couldn't find work, she'd lose her benefits. If she dropped out of college, however, she'd qualify even without finding work. It's a catch-22 poverty trap.
The second group was made up of those on TANF, whose food stamps were tied to their welfare checks, which in turn were only available to those in a welfare-to-work program. In New York City, welfare recipients, even at the height of the recession, had to work for their welfare and food stamps, while others could access food stamps simply by proving their newfound poverty. It's a double whammy for the poorest of the population. In 2012, in California alone, according to Bartholow, of the Western Center on Law and Poverty, 72,000 adults were losing food stamps because they couldn't find jobs. While the Obama administration had waived most work requirements for food-stamp recipients during the recession, it never lifted this burden on the TANF enrollees at the bottom of the economy.
The other largely countercyclical system is Medicaid, which grants families with children access to health care once they reach a certain threshold level of poverty. But while Medicaid is a whole lot better than nothing, it is restricted by the fact that until and unless all the Affordable Care Act provisions kick in, most states won't extend Medicaid to childless adults. Furthermore, strict asset tests force those temporarily out of work or who are cash-poor to strip themselves of almost all assets (homes, car, retirement accounts, savings) to gain health care—even if this condemns them to long-term poverty. Finally, even for those who qualify, state after state is limiting the services covered by Medicaid—witness the hundreds of millions of dollars in additional Medi-Cal cuts recently proposed by Governor Brown in California—meaning more people still end up paying out of pocket, or doing without, when it comes to such services as eye care, dental work, and mental-health treatment.
Some of the reforms needed to fix the country's broken welfare-distribution mechanisms have to be implemented nationally; others, however, could be done at the substate level. Richard Parker at Harvard's Kennedy School argues that the federal government should make many of its programs available to localities as well as to states. Such programs, he says, ought to kick in automatically during either regional or national downturns, with money targeted to high-unemployment zones within states. These deprived regions could access additional funding even if their state as a whole didn't qualify—bypassing often-dysfunctional state agencies that operate in partisan political environments. It wouldn't be a cure-all, but it would be a start.
That welfare rolls and benefits were slashed during the Great Recession bodes ill for our sense of community and shared sacrifice. That we do better next time is not merely an aspiration but a national imperative.
This article comes out of Sasha Abramsky's current project exploring poverty in America, which is funded by the Open Society Foundations' Special Fund for Poverty Alleviation. The project's website is www.thevoicesofpoverty.org.


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Most likely if you're reading this, you are probably sitting down and planning your wedding and thinking about all the possibilities you'll have for your wedding/reception at the American Swedish Institute. It's an incredibly exciting time.
One thing you've likely considered, is who might be a good fit as a wedding photographer?
My name is Josh and I'm a photographer, and an artist. Some people call me "J" for short. I'm passionate about documenting real stories, and narrative has always been a part of my artistic practice. This focus on storytelling led me to photographing events, and discovering weddings. Aside from the joy I get from being able to document celebrations, the inner anthropologist in me loves weddings. Weddings give me the opportunity to witness raw and intimate connections, partake in cultural traditions, and collaborate creativity in so many different forms.
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Ark of Taste
Boston Marrow Squash
Cucurbita Maxima
This lovely, mid-size winter squash has a custard-like, buttery flavor with almost 200 years of documented history, though possibly of prehistoric origin. It reaches maturity in 90 to 100 days and has striking, reddish orange skin and an average weight of 10 to 20 pounds, though it can be larger in optimal growing conditions.
The squash originated in the upstate New York area and its legend as a Native American vegetable gifted to European-descended gardeners links it to traditional American history. The seeds were later passed on to Salem, Massachusetts in 1831, where the Boston (or "Autumnal") Marrow Squash was then popularized by Mr. J. M. Ives. It is speculated to be originally of Chilean origin (linked to the Valparaiso squash or C. mammeata) but this is undocumented. It was primarily used in New England as a pie squash and is prized for its rich orange flesh with a fine texture. Its water content gives it a fresh mouthfeel, and it was described in 1858 as having a skin as thin as the inner envelope of an egg. Due to its success in cool and short-season growing regions and other easy-to-grow qualities, its production has spread throughout the United States, from Massachusetts to Washington state and from California to Florida. It is a good storage crop, for if kept in a cool and dry place it will last until the following spring.
This product is offered by only a few mail order seed companies in the US and Canada, and grown by a small number of farmers across the country. Its future is in the hands of a few.
Image courtesy of Mike Denton of Victory Seeds.


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Pine County works 'Toward Zero Deaths'
According to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, 75,954 crashes occurred in 2012, with 395 deaths resulting from those accidents. Of the 395 deaths, 131 were alcohol related and 116 were unbelted motor vehicle deaths. In 2012, 28,384 driving while intoxicated citations (DWIs) were issued.
The state has responded to these statistics by implementing Toward Zero Deaths (TZD). Its goal is just that, to strive toward zero deaths on Minnesota roads.
The organization's mission is to create a culture through the four E's — education, engineering, enforcement, and emergency medical and trauma services — for which traffic fatalities and serious injuries are no longer acceptable. Efforts are underway to implement the four E's in Pine County.
The Pine County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) held a TZD meeting Tuesday, July 23. The meeting was attended by Holly Kostrzewski, northern regional TZD coordinator; Lt. Jason Hanson, Minnesota State Patrol; Todd Lindstrom from the Pine County Highway Department; and Sgt. Dan Kunz, Sgt. Robert Ouverson and Denise Baran, from the PCSO.
Kostrzewski addressed the group regarding the education component and stated their goal is to involve parents of new teen drivers in the driver's education program so they understand the laws and type of training new drivers go through. Hanson stated that law enforcement has used the crash car, donated by the parents of Haylie Samuelson who was killed last year while she was responding to a text message, to educate students in St. Louis County regarding the dangers of inattentive driving, speeding and impaired driving. Hanson added that those schools had an estimated total attendance of more than 2,000 students.
Hanson also spoke about extra DWI enforcement in Pine County during the fair and the possibility of getting extra troopers to assist deputies during that time. There was also discussion regarding community events in Pine County such as Willow River Days, Quarry Days (Sandstone) and Rutabaga Days in Askov, and the extra enforcement possibly needed for the large number of people in attendance during these events.
On the educational end, Kunz stated, "Changing driver behavior is the focus of traffic safety education efforts. It is not enough for drivers to understand the 'rules of the road'. Drivers must be motivated to change their driving habits."
Ouverson added, "Education and enforcement efforts working together can be an effective strategy for improving roadway safety. For example, targeted enforcement in areas such as drunk driving and safety belt use can be coordinated with educational efforts such as public service announcements. Also, many educational efforts are led by public health educators who may integrate traffic safety into their work within their communities."
Baran, PCSO office manager, raised the possibility of the highway department purchasing a trailer mounted with a speed monitoring device. Lindstrom stated that steps are being taken to have this type of equipment in Pine County. He added there are currently flashing LED stop signs in Pine City at Main Street South and 8th Avenue Southeast to help prevent people from going through the stop sign, and that these lights have helped manage traffic at that location.
County Engineer Mark LeBrun later added that on the engineering side, the county has done some projects in compliance with their county roadway safety plan, including wider pavement edge striping, wet-inlaid edge striping (striping with reflective inlaid glass), intersection lighting, improved signage, shoulder paving and guardrail installation throughout the county.
Local law enforcement officers are in agreement, stating they see a cross section of infractions such as impaired driving, speeding and distracted driving, but the two top reasons people get into accidents are speeding and impaired driving. This takes place in no specific demographic.
"It happens with both adults and youth," stated Ouverson.


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Fed Governors Increasingly Have Academic Backgrounds
At a time when the Federal Reserve finds itself more deeply involved in banking oversight, a new report laments the lack of direct regulatory experience among its top officials.
The Conference of State Bank Supervisors study zeros in on the members of the Fed's seven-member board of governors in Washington.
The paper's authors observe these policymakers, both now and for some time, have been drawn primarily the ranks of academic economists. A few have had finance backgrounds, while fewer have had direct experience in the regulation of the financial industry. This contrasts with the Fed's early decades, when most of the board members were drawn from the ranks of banking, finance and government. The transition over time is tracked in a colorful Excel chart (one could quibble with some of the classifications, given many board members had experience in more than one category):
The report said that twin trends of increasing the Fed's powers over banks, as well as need to promote a diversity of backgrounds among its leaders, points to "the importance of maintaining a tight connection between the Board of Governors and supervision." The group adds, "this can only be accomplished by naming individuals to the Board of Governors with an in-depth understanding of bank supervision."
The report flags the fact that the only current governor with direct regulatory experience is Sarah Bloom Raskin, who previously supervised banks as Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation. And she's likely on her way out after having been nominated to a position at the Treasury. Fed governor Jerome Powell has held a wide portfolio of jobs: lawyer, investor, private business and a stint at the Treasury under George H.W. Bush dealing with financial institutions. Fed governor Daniel Tarullo, after a series of government jobs, came to the Fed from Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught on banking issues.
The report categorizes governors going back to the founding of the Federal Reserve a century ago, and finds that the domination of the board by academics goes back some way. It's only until one rolls the clock back to the 1960s do those with governmental banking oversight profiles make a strong showing.
While the report doesn't analyze the current leaders of the regional Fed banks -- they lead the institutions where most of the actual bank oversight takes place, even as it's controlled from Washington -- those officials are also by and large academic economists. Only Boston's Eric Rosengren and Kansas City's Esther George have extensive direct experience in bank supervision. Meanwhile, Dallas Fed boss Richard Fisher has an extensive and successful background as an investor, while Atlanta Fed chief Dennis Lockhart was a long-time banker who also spent time in academia.


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It's official: Maria Sharapova has dropped out of next week's Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla.
"I've been playing a lot of tennis, flying a lot, and it's all been work since I took a week off after the championships," she told reporters. "It's pretty much been nonstop from the season to all the tournaments I've been playing, and Fed Cup as well. It takes a toll on your body and your mind. You feel like you have to go out on the court and, you know, spend a lot of emotion and energy out there, and sometimes you just don't have it for every match."
She also mentioned wondering why she would be tired this early in the season (if it's not mono, then it's probably all that jetsetting, dear). Of course, money is of no concern vs. taking care of her body, so Sharapova will pony up the stiff fine that goes along with skipping this mandatory SEWTA tournament.
What she'll likely wear in Paris: We at TSF are sad to hear about Sharapova's withdrawal, especially since it might have been a chance for Nike to unveil a new outfit for the Siberian Siren. In the meantime, we'll feast our eyes on what will likely be her outfit for the 2008 French Open. See the pictures after the cut…
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Editor's note: This post has been updated with information from Andrew Warner.
Came across an interesting video tonight: Andrew Warner's teaser for an upcoming magic production.
Warner is currently training to break the sleep deprivation record currently held by Briton Tony Wright in 2007 (264 hours). His training includes a heavy workout regimen and a vegan diet.
The Columbus, Ohio-based magician is still trying to pick the perfect public location where he can be on display throughout his sleep-deprivation stunt. He plans to begin in late summer, "so I don't have to spend 12 days awake in the sweltering, midsummer heat," he said. (We don't blame him. Hot = bad. Hot + no sleep = suck.) The whole stunt will be blogged and webcast, and it will be the focus of Warner's upcoming video.
Check out his moves in the video above.


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Nasdaq Leads the Way
Nasdaq has always been a believer in the virtues of sustainability. We were practicing corporate sustainability – in many different places and in many different ways – long before the term became so prevalent and fashionable. Efficiency and transparency formed the foundation of our brand 40 years ago, and they still drive our decision-making every day.
|Key Sustainability Highlights
|Research and publication of a substantive new Corporate Sustainability report, following the GRI standard and content index. You can download a free PDF version of the Nasdaq report here.
|BWise (our enterprise governance, risk management, and compliance software tool) announced the inclusion of Sustainability Performance Management as part of its suite of products, making information gathering for sustainability reports a breeze. Bwise also organized, in conjunction with the Harvard Business School, an online training program for corporate executives that want to be at the forefront of Integrated Reporting.
|Completion of the first substantive energy and water usage audit of all global facilities.
|Significantly enhanced reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project.
|Nasdaq was accepted into the United Nations Global Compact.
|Through the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, Nasdaq entered into a historic agreement with other key exchanges to develop and promote sustainability guidelines.
|Via the World Federation of Exchanges, Nasdaq promoted sustainability dialogue and consensus with other stock markets and exchanges.
|Major infrastructure improvements, including an increasing number of LEED and other environmental certifications for our global offices.
|Nasdaq Helsinki was the first exchange to receive a WWF Green Office diploma, and one of the first in the world to go carbon neutral. It has continued to maintain its carbon neutral status.
|Regular assistance of listed companies in ESG and CR matters, helping them better handle sustainability as an aspect of their own operation.
|Key partnerships with advocacy groups, non-governmental organizations and economists in the last three years to better understand the interplay of sustainability metrics and market dynamics.
|As we look ahead, we will continue to work with our customers, stakeholders, investors, and exchange peers to promote sustainable business practices.


text: George R.R. Martin is now in Belfast, escaping the very wet Scotland of the last day or two for the equally wet North ireland, and he reports that HBO's pilot for Game of Thrones is scheduled to shoot an execution scene tomorrow. This scene will involve most of the Starks men and boys, plus the character of Gared, played by actor Richard Ridings. Everything seems to be moving along on schedule.


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SymmachusPublishing, classics, mood swings
Archive for Venus
Two wedding song fragments of Sappho (heavily emended); Vesper and Lucifer; the eroticism of morning
104a Voigt
Vesper, bringing all that shining dawn has scattered
you bring the sheep and goat, you bring the mother's child;
far away you bring the child from mother, baneful star.
Ἔϲπερε πάντα φέρων ὄϲα φαίνολιϲ ἐϲκέδαϲ' Αὔωϲ,
οἶν ϲὺ φέρηιϲ τε καὶ αἶγα, φέρηιϲ ἄπυ μάτερι παῖδα,
<τῆλέ γε παῖδα φέρηις ἀπὺ μάτερος, ὤλιος ἄστηρ.>
114 Voigt
– Maidenhood, maidenhood, where have you gone and left me?
– Not again, by any means, to you, at any time, shall I return from anywhere,
not again shall I return.
παρθενία, παρθενία, ποῖ με λίποιϲ' ἀποίχηι;
οὐκέτι <πωϲ> πρὸϲ ϲέ <ποτ'> ἤξω <ποθέν,> οὐκέτ' ἤξω.
Hermes 142 (2014), pp. 225–39.
The relation of Vesper or Hesperos, the Evening Star, to the goddess Aphrodite (Venus), a tacit presence in most of Sappho's preserved poetry, is an interesting topic. The association of the goddess with the planet Venus is not attested in Greek sources before the fourth century B.C., but in Symbolae Osloenses 86 (2012) we speculated on possible relics in Greek art and literature of the mythological notion of Hesperos and Phosphoros (Lucifer), the Evening and Morning Star, serving as the goddess's twin charioteers. This might relate them genetically to the winged Aśvin twins of Vedic mythology, who are the charioteers of Sūryasa, Daughter (or wife?) of the Sun. Textual parallels between Sappho 1, the "Hymn" to Aphrodite, describing a chariot voyage of the goddess, and RigVeda 1.118, could support such a relation. As has been suggested, Castor and Pollux, the twin riders of light, brothers of the divine Helen, might constitute another mythological hypostasis derived from the same cosmological foundation: the two opposite aspects of the planet Venus, custodians of the erotically charged light of evening and dawn.
Not only evening but also morning is a time of heightened eroticism, as in RigVeda 1.134.3:
Wake up abundance
Like a lover a sleeping girl,
Make both worlds visible, make the dawns light up
– and in an hommage to Sappho by Posidippus of Pella addressed to Doricha the courtesan, lover of Sappho's brother Charaxus (Gow-Page, Hellenistic Epigrams vv. 3143–45; Ath. 13.596c):
…the fragrant gown, which you wrapped around your beloved Charaxus as you, your skin adjacent to his, took hold of the ivy cups of daybreak.
What exactly is here meant by "the ivy cups of daybreak" (ὀρθρινὰ κιϲϲύβια) is uncertain. Gow-Page's assertion that it refers to "a symposium prolonged past midnight" seems doubtful; for instance one might have expected the imperfect tense of the verb ἄπτομαι ("grasp", "take hold"), denoting continued or repeated action. The wrapping of a gown around two naked bodies is also awkward in combination with holding cups and drinking, and the procedure is a literary topic associated with coitus in Archil. fr. 196a West (Archilochus molesting a girl) and Hieronymus of Rhodes fr. 35 Wehrli (Sophocles debauching a boy = test. 75 Radt, Ath. 13.604e).