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BU succeeds with freshman platoon in goal
Boston University coach Jack Parker has helped develop a great many goaltenders during the course of his long career, many of them youngsters.
At the start of the 2008-09 season, the Terriers platooned freshmen Kieran Millan and Grant Rollheiser until Rollheiser was set back because of injuries. Millan went on to backstop BU to the NCAA championship.
Millan moved on after four years, and now Parker has another promising pair of freshmen netminders: Matt O'Connor and Sean Maguire.
Heading into this weekend's games against No. 1 Boston College, Parker said he believes in both of them.
"[O'Connor] is a mature kid, he's a 20-year-old freshman,'' said Parker. "Our other goalie is a 19-year-old freshman, so there is a little difference in the maturity level there.
"They are both playing extremely well right now. We feel really confident in both our freshmen goalies. Before the season started, we thought we had a great freshman class but it would be a real good freshman class if we were correct in our two goaltenders.
"No matter how good the other guys were, it wouldn't be a very good freshman class if we were incorrect in our two goaltenders. But it appears we have two really solid guys for a while here.''
As far as numbers go, O'Connor's are stronger so far. He has a record of 5-2-0 with a .939 save percentage and 1.90 goals-against average. Maguire is 2-2-0 with a .910 save percentage and 2.56 GAA. Maguire struggled initially but has righted his game in recent performances.
"Matt started off with a very high bar and he has kept it high,'' said Parker. "Sean had a bad opening night at UNH and he certainly would like to have that game back, but since then, he's played extremely well and he has gotten his bar up to Matt's status.''
Parker said his philosophy is to give them both a chance and see how it plays out.
"This way, if somebody goes down, you have an experienced goalie who is going well, and if somebody goes bad, you have another guy you can rely on,'' said Parker. "You can't have too much pitching and you can't have too much goaltending.''
BU, ranked No. 9, heads into Friday night's game with a 7-4-0 record and has won two of its last three, with the loss coming against No. 2 New Hampshire. Parker said for a young team, the record is respectable.
"I've liked my team since the first day of practice,'' said Parker. "We've got a nice mix of older kids and a lot of freshmen. There is a lot of enthusiasm and I like everything they're doing and the way they're conducting themselves. We'd like to win a couple more games here and there, obviously.''
BU has a challenging schedule to close out the first semester. After two against BC, the Terriers travel to the Whittemore Center to take on UNH and then close out with a game against Maine at Agganis Arena.
"We have to really finish up strong,'' said Parker, "because we're playing the No. 1 team and the No. 2 team in the nation the next three games, and then a team we've always struggled with and had great games with.''
Reveling in rivalry
BC has won 10 games in a row, and the weekend set against BU is just the next chapter in the storied rivalry, one that Parker said has remained consistent over the decades.
"It has never changed,'' said Parker. "It hasn't changed since I arrived [at BU] as a freshman in 1964.''
Parker said he has always had a great appreciation for the matchup — as a player, coach, and hockey fan.
"You can't have enthusiasm in a building or have enthusiasm for your program without a great rival,'' said Parker. "I always tell people, 'The best thing to happen to BU hockey was BC hockey.' Having that great rivalry has promoted our program and I'm sure it's promoted their program.''
Hockey East teams have won the NCAA title four of the last five seasons, with BC winning three and BU one.
"I think it really has promoted Hockey East in our league as well as the individual schools involved,'' said Parker. "I think we all kind of build on that as far as prestige for our league and prestige for the fact that if you want to win the national championship, you might have to beat a Hockey East team.
"And that's been going on for a long time. It's not just a BC-BU thing. The fact that BC has won it is the thing that is different from the rest of us. We've won it once, they've won it three times in the last five years. That's a completely different level than we are at, but all Hockey East teams benefit from that.
"I think all the Hockey East teams realize that when you get through this league, you've got a good chance to be somebody special at the end because you've got to beat so many good teams to get there.''
Wildcat strikes
After a tie at Colorado College last Friday, followed by a win at Denver Saturday, UNH (9-1-2) gets back to league play Friday and Saturday when it squares off against UMass-Lowell (4-5-1). Sophomore forward Grayson Downing and junior forward Kevin Goumas both had big weekends, with their first career hat tricks against Denver. Goumas won Hockey East Player of the Week honors with a 7-point weekend (four goals) . . . Vermont (2-7-2) travels to Maine (2-9-1) for a pair of games at Alfond Arena. The Black Bears are 7-1-1 in the last nine meetings between the teams . . . UMass (4-5-2) takes on Northeastern (4-7-1) in a home-and-home series, and Providence (6-5-1) squares off with Merrimack (4-6-2) with one game at each school.


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Library to hold annual Kwanzaa event Dec. 7
The Atlantic City Free Public Library's 26th annual Kwanzaa celebration will be held Saturday, Dec. 7, at 2:30 p.m. at the Main Library.
The featured performer will be Afro-One Dance, Drama and Drum Theatre.
This event combines song, music, poetry and traditional and contemporary dance with an educational element.
Dr. Patricia Reid Merritt directs the Afro-One Dance, Drama and Drum Theatre. A professor of Social Work and African-American Studies at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Dr. Reid-Merritt has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the NAACP Freedom Award. Afro-One was founded in 1974 and emphasizes dance, drama and music in the African-American arts. Afro-One has performed at schools, colleges and universities, businesses and corporations, conferences, Kwanzaa celebrations, weddings, rites of passage, local festivals and community events. Their past performances include presentations at Rutgers University, Monmouth University, Penn State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Philadelphia Zoo, African American Historical Site at Boston, University Museum of Pennsylvania, The College of New Jersey, Richard Stockton College, Conference on Black Families in Urban America, Bell Labs, McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix.
Kwanzaa is a holiday of African heritage and values and is celebrated from Dec. 26 through Jan. 1.
Call (609) 345-2269, ext. 3112, for more information.

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I guess it depends on your definition of style. Most handlepasses lack style IMHO. Some of the simpler tricks look better because they can be done with finesse and grace. I agree that gliding does not always look graceful, it depends on the rider just as any jump. However, I can tell you that gliding feels graceful. Instead of a boost, you just sheet-in the bar, lift your legs and float upward on the updraft. The perspective in the air is amazing as well. You get a birds-eye vantage of the entire area.The dangling I am talking about is a result of the harness, climbing or otherwise. It is being connected to the end of a long string that looks kinda silly. Action sports go through a refinement process where participants first concentrate on learning basic trick, then explore the range of possible tricks, then expand the scale of tricks, and finally do everything big and with style. Style usually is comprised of smooth, fluid, controlled motion. Dangling while gliding seems to be currently in direct contrast to style even when done by really good kiters.
It may be a flash in the pan for some people, but for me gliding has added more to my stoke for the sport than any other single aspect.


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Echoes of a Bitter Crossing: Lewis & Clark In Idaho
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The two months the Lewis and Clark expediiton spent in Idaho on the way to the Pacific Ocean are the focus of this IdahoPTV production. National experts gather on the trail to discuss the expedition and locate sites the explorers visited. A reenactment on the Bitterroot part of the trail and a dugout canoe trip on the Clearwater River recall historic atmosphere. G
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It isn't entirely true that, as Lord Acton said, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." It's often the case that power simply allows people the luxury of lowering façades and showing their true colors.
A good example is the recent behavior of many on the Left. Commentator Donald Kaul just wrote that he had no problem with guns being pried from their owners' "cold, dead hands" and that Republican leaders should be dragged around a parking lot with a pick-up truck. A European college professor recommended the execution of "Climate Change Deniers" and the Pope. Closer to home, an American academic called for NRA president Wayne LaPierre's "head on a stick" in some profanity laden tweets. And then there was voice of moderation Harry Belafonte; he didn't ask for blood — only that Barack Obama arrest political opponents (prompting me to spoof a song in his honor).
Ah, it's a long way from Woodstock and peace and love, isn't it?
You might not expect such hostility, with Barack Obama's reelection and the liberal dominance of our culture; you might think the leftists would be satisfied with their many legislative wins and be busy planning political strategy. Think again. As I wrote recently, with liberals' victory in the culture war — and it is over — they're now embarking upon something else: a pacification effort.
But aren't these the folks who preach against violence, war, capital punishment, and all those other conservative bugaboos? Aren't they the staunchest defenders of freedom of expression? Think again, again. Defined by relativism, liberals' positions change faster than Superman in a phone booth. The aforementioned are their out-of-power values. Now you're starting to see their in-power values.
This is nothing new. French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre had been an ardent death-penalty opponent, yet upon seizing power, he and his fellow leftists authored the Reign of Terror and executed thousands. It makes sense, too. When out of power, capital punishment can be used against you; it's a handy way to win arguments when you're in power, though.
Then there was the Red Terror in Spain, which helped push that nation toward bloody civil war. The violence started in 1931 already when leftist mobs burned churches, convents, and religious schools; in 1934, 70,000 communist-sympathizing miners in Asturias revolted and not only burned churches but also murdered priests and other inconvenient Spaniards. The persecution became more intense as the Left's power grew, and ultimately the Red Terror would claim perhaps as many as 110,000 lives and 20 percent of the nation's clergy, with death squads heavily staffed by members of the Soviet NKVD.
Of course, in more recent times we've seen the Occupy Wall Street violence and the riots in Greece and elsewhere. And now, as in Robespierre's speech "The Terror Justified," the mob's leaders are wielding the pen to provide justifications for wielding the sword.
Kaul, for instance, introduced the call for gun owners' and their supporters' scalps by saying that the Newtown shooting had changed things, writing, "You looked at the small children around you differently, as fragile, precious gifts to be cherished and, above all, protected." Funny, Donald, but that wasn't necessary for me. All I needed to do was ponder the thousands of children a day whose murder you support — through abortion.
Kaul also said that the "thing missing from the debate so far is anger." But don't be so sure. Just consider the tweets of the academic who wanted LaPierre's head on a stick, University of Rhode Island history professor Erik Loomis. He wrote: "You are god**** right we should politicize this tragedy. F*** the NRA. Dear Republicans, do you know the definition of family values? It's not having our kids F****** SHOT AT SCHOOL! F*** the NRA." Just imagine, for a mere $40,000 a year your kids can imbibe this kind of intellectualism firsthand.
There is in reality little but anger on the Left; in fact, leftists are defined by emotion and the absence of intellectualism, despite their claims of a monopoly on the latter. This is why Kaul and others make appeals for gun control despite not knowing basic facts such as what an assault weapon actually is.
Another example of leftist emotionalism is Professor Richard Parncutt, who manages to do within one article the capital-punishment flip-flop that took Robespierre years. After writing that the death penalty is "barbaric, racist, expensive" and that "even mass murderers should not be executed," he then calls for the execution of not only climate-change "deniers" but also the Pope. The Pope's sin is opposition to contraception, which Parncutt says renders him guilty of the murder of millions via AIDS. He also mentions in his "objective argument," as he puts it, that the "position of the church is presumably also racist: if those dying from AIDS were not predominately black, the church would presumably have changed its position on contraception long ago."
But before Parncutt moves on to mind reading, he ought to master fact reading. And here's a fact: Top Harvard AIDS researcher Dr. Edward C. Green said in 2009, "The Pope is correct" and that our best studies show a "consistent association … between greater availability and use of condoms and higher HIV-infection rates."
The irony here is that the Left has created the very problems for which it wants to punish — and perhaps kill — others. Liberals complain about the consequences of sexual promiscuity, but who has inserted graphic sex education into schools, infused entertainment with intense sexual content, and overtly advocated libertinism? Liberals complain about gun crime, but who glorifies mindless, gratuitous violence through movies, shows, and video games in which real assault rifles spray more bullets than the NRA's whole membership? Most of all, who has spread moral relativism's "If it feels good, do it" message, which can justify any kind of behavior imaginable?
Such as killing political opponents.
In fairness, some of the Left's violent commentary may be humor, albeit the tasteless variety. Kaul would likely make this claim, and head-on-a-stick Loomis chastised critics for not understanding "metaphor." As for Parncutt, after making his very serious case for death, he wrote that he is "not directly suggesting that the threat of execution be carried out" (nod, wink) and is "simply presenting a logical argument." He also has now apologized, saying that he completely retracts his statements and was just "thinking aloud"; although I personally didn't detect much thinking.
But, frankly, these leftist "jokes" stopped being funny a long time ago, especially since leftist action always seems to align with them. We have seen this in the riots and violent protests throughout the world, and in attacks on conservatives. We have seen it when liberals vandalize political opponents' property. We have seen it throughout history, from the Reign of Terror to the Red Terror to the Stalinist purges to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. We have seen it wherever and whenever those who think like the jokesters take control. It's out-of-power vs. in-power liberal values.
Yes, leftists are always just kidding. That is, until they're not.


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INDIANAPOLIS, April 28 (UPI) -- Jason Richardson drained a go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:04 remaining Saturday, rallying Orlando to an 81-77 win over Indiana to open their playoff series.
Richardson's fifth 3-pointer gave him 17 points and handed a decisive lead to the Magic, who finished the contest on an 11-0 run and claimed the first contest of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series against the third-seeded Pacers.
Jameer Nelson also finished with 17 points to go with nine assists. Glen Davis chipped in 16 points and 13 rebounds in the absence of Dwight Howard.
The all-star center underwent season-ending back surgery last week and is out for the playoffs.
David West scored 19 points and grabbed nine rebounds for the Pacers, who didn't score in the final 4 minutes and missed nine straight shots down the stretch.
Danny Granger added 17 points and eight boards, but was whistled for traveling in the game's waning seconds.


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S. Afr. j. surg. vol.50 no.1 Cape Town feb. 2012
Prehospital transport of spinal cord-injured patients in Nigeria
Kawu A. AhidjoI; Salami A. OlayinkaII; Olawepo AyokunleIII; Alimi F. MustaphaIV; Gbadegesin A. A. SulaimanIV; Adebule T. GbolahanIV
IUniversity of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
IINational Orthopaedic Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
IIIDepartment of Anatomy, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
IVNational Orthopaedic Hospital, Yaba
BACKGROUND: Well-organised and efficient prehospital transport is associated with an improved outcome in trauma patients. In Nigeria there is a paucity of information on prehospital transport of spinal cord-injured patients and its relation to mortality.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether prehospital transportation is a predictor of mortality in spinal cord-injured patients in Nigeria.
DESIGN: Prospective cohort study.
METHODS: Prehospital transport-related conditions, injury-to-arrival intervals and persons who brought spinal cord-injured patients to the casualty departments at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, and the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Lagos, were noted. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, the chi-square test and multiple logistic regressions.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Mortality within 6 weeks of admission.
RESULTS: During the review period, 168 patients with spinal cord injury presented to the casualty departments. Most presented 24 hours or more after the injury (67.9%) and were brought to casualty by their relatives (58.3%). Saloon cars were the most common mode of transportation (54.2%), most patients (55.4%) lying on their back during transfer. The majority of the patients (75%) had been taken to at least one other hospital before arriving at our casualty departments. The mortality rate was 16.7%. Multivariate analysis after adjusting for age, gender and means of transportation revealed that age (odds ratio (OR) 63.41, 95% confidence interval (CI) 9.24 -43.53), a crouched position during transfer (OR 23.52, 95% CI 7.26 - 74.53), presentation after 24 hours (OR 5.48, 95% CI 3.20 - 16.42) and multiple hospital presentations (OR 7.94, 95% CI 1.89 - 33.43) were associated with death within 6 weeks of admission.
CONCLUSION: Well-organised and efficient prehospital transport would reduce mortality in spinal cord-injured patients. Providing information on prehospital transport would also reduce mortality.
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text: WiFly RN-134 Breadboard Testing 10 September 2010 david Micro I've mentioned before that I bought one of these RN-134 "SuRF" boards from coolcomponents.co.uk. My aim is to write some code for AVR microprocessors that will be able to POST data to a service on the web. Maybe I could even get it to send ebMS 3.0 messages. I reckon it would be cool to be able to send an ebMS 3.0 message without needing a computer. Anyway, I digress... But ... before I jump in and start writing AVR code, I wanted to test my WiFly board. It has taken me some effort to get this procedure working, so I thought that I had better blog it – before I forget. Then, when I buy another WiFly, I can come back to this page. To send commands and data to the WiFly I'm using TeraTerm (Windows Hyperterminal has problems with the WiFly, apparently, so don't use it). Oh, and I've done all this on Windows 7. To connect to my PC, I'm using one of these - mainly because I had one lying around. It gives me a virtual com port on my computer and exposes TTL serial signals to my breadboard. Since I'm just testing, I don't want to solder anything to the WiFly board, so I'm going to use the WiFly's RS232 interface, the board already has header pins for it, like this: Pins 5 and 9 of this RS232 interface can go directly to the GND and 5v pins exposed by my USB-to-serial adapter; this will supply power to the WiFly. But the RX and TX pins expect RS232 voltages (not the TTL signals coming from the USB adapter). Enter the MAX232 chip which will convert the signals for us:Pins R1IN and R2IN are connected to my USB adapter, whilst R1OUT and R2OUT are connected to the RS232 headers on the WiFly board. Now we have all this in place, we should be able to fire up the WiFly and connect to it via the virtual com port on the PC. Open TeraTerm and make a serial connection to COMx. The serial settings should be 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, no flow control, 1 stop bit. You should get a connection. Type '$$$' and we should get the 'CMD' message returned from the WiFly. Tip: type three $ signs in quick succession, don't do what I did and pause between each key press. The WiFly expects this string to be entered in a short space of time. OK, we're in. You can see all the default settings by typing: get everything<enter> ...and the WiFly should list back all the settings to you. They should match these default settings. So... what would you need to change, to join your wifi network? Enter these commands: set wlan ssid [your ssid]<enter>set wlan key [your 128 bit wep key]<enter>save<enter>reboot<enter> Tip: when you change something, don't forget to type 'save'. Your changes will not be written to the configuration unless you use the save command! Now, the WiFly should restart and you should see it connected, assuming your wifi has DHCP. NOTE: I'm assuming 128-bit WEP, you'll have to adapt this procedure if you have other security settings on your wifi. You should now be able to find out the ip address of the module on your network. Type '$$$' again to get back into command mode, since we've rebooted the WiFly. Now enter: get ip<enter> The device should list back the details of its ip address. Now you can ping it from a PC on your network. Hopefully you'll get responses back and know that the device is connected! I'll try and make another post describing how to get the WiFly to return the html source of a webpage over the serial port, but for now I've done enough documenting... NOTE: I did not find the documentation for the WiFly to be the best, I would have liked to see a test procedure like this included. However, before I bought the WiFly I asked Roving Networks some questions via e-mail and they came straight back to me with responses. This is amongst the best support I have ever received from any manufacturer. Encouraged by this I went ahead and bought the device. I'm pleased that I did – this board is a great product. People at Roving Networks: you have my thanks.


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Among the many medicinal herbs used throughout the long history of Occidental
culture, St. John's wort, Hypericum perforatum L., has always been
and still is of great interest. From the time of the ancient Greeks down
through the Middle Ages, the plant was considered to be imbued with magical
powers and was used to ward off evil and protect against disease. As a practical
folk-remedy, it has been used widely to heal wounds, remedy kidney troubles,
and alleviate nervous disorders, even insanity, and recent research makes
a provocative statement about the ancient uses of St. John's wort by showing
that it is a modern protector against depression and virus infection--two
modern demons in their own right.
St. John's wort is a member of the genus Hypericum, of which
there are 400 species worldwide, and a member of the St. John's wort family,
St. John's wort is native to Europe, West Asia, North Africa, Madeira and
the Azores, and is naturalized in many parts of the world, notably North
America and Australia. The plant spreads rapidly by means of runners or
from the prodigious seed production and can invade pastures, disturbed sites,
dirt roads, the sides of roads and highways, and sparse woods.
In the western United States, St. John's wort is especially prevalent in
northern California and southern Oregon, hence one of its common names,
"Klamath Weed". Because of the known photosensitizing properties
of the plant, which can be toxic to cows and sheep, it has been considered
a pest in some places. Prior to 1949, it was estimated to inhabit 2.34 million
acres of rangeland in northern California. For years an attempt was made
to control the plant with herbicides, but with little success.
The solution to the problem with St. John's wort in northern California
finally proved to be with biological methods of control, not pesticides.
In 1946, the leaf-beetles Chrysolina quadrigemina Rossi, and to a
lesser extent C. hyperici Forst, were introduced from Australia,
where it had been observed that they had a voracious appetite for Hypericum.
Their appetite proved to be so voracious, in fact, that by 1957 northern
California's stands of St. John's wort were reduced to only 1% of their
original number.
Folklore and History of Use
The name Hypericum is ancient and may have several derivations.
Yperikon was first mentioned by Euryphon, a Greek doctor from 288
BC. Pliny called the ground pine Hyperikon, though also chamaepitys
and corion. One common explanation for the name Hypericum
is that it may derive from ereike (heather) and hyper (above).
However, although one Greek species of Hypericum looked similar to
heather (though it grew taller), it seems more likely that the name derives
from eikon (a figure, possibly an unwanted apparition) and hyper
(above), which relates to the ancient use of St. John's wort to exorcise
evil spirits or influences. since the plant may have been placed over religious
icons as a symbol of protection. Linnaeus, who described the genus, thought
that Hypericum came from yper (upper) and eikon (an
The common name, St. John's wort, is obviously a reference to St. John.
Its earliest use may date back to the 6th century AD when, according to
Gaelic tradition, the missionary St. Columba always carried a piece of St.
John's wort because of his great regard for St. John. Some early Christian
authors claimed that red spots, symbolic of the blood of St. John, appeared
on leaves of Hypericum spp. on August 29, the anniversary of the
saint's beheading, while others considered that the best day to pick the
plant was on June 24, the day of St. John's feast. In the Christian tradition,
St. John represents light, hence the flowers were taken as a reminder of
the sun's bounty.
Dioscorides, the foremost herbalist of the ancient Greeks, mentions four
species of Hypericum--Uperikon, Askuron and Androsaimon,
andkKoris--which he recommends for sciatica, "when drunk with
2 heim of hydromel (honey-water)." He also claims that it "expels
many cholerick excrement, but it must be given continuously, until they
be cured, and being smeared on it is good for ambusta (burns)." H.
crispum and H. barbatum, he writes, have "a diuretical
facility....and of moving ye menstrua. The seed being drunk for 40 days
drives away tertians and quartans (fevers occurring every 3 or 4 days,
possibly malaria)."
Theophrastus recommends H. lanuginosum, a Greek species, for external
application, while Pliny says it should be taken in wine against poisonous
reptiles. H. coris, another Greek species, was mentioned by Hippocrates
and Pliny. Although many older authors attest that the ancients knew of
Hypericum as Fuga daemonum and used it to drive away demons,
none make reference to any specific writers. Dioscorides, Pliny, and Theophrastus
do not mention either this name or this use of the plant, but herbalists
from the 16th and 17th centuries commonly mention the name.
St. John's wort was used in early pre-Christian religious practices in England,
and it has many legends written about it. Because of its bright yellow color,
it was often associated with the sun and was often used for purposes of
divination--for every situation from longevity to test one's chances for
matrimony. To predict their chances for marital bliss, young girls were
in the habit of plucking a sprig of flowers--if the flowers were fresh in
the morning, their chances were good, if wilted, a dismal outcome was predicted.
This poem is translated from the German, where this custom was also practiced:
The young maid stole through the cottage door,
And blushed as she sought the plant of power.
'Thou silver glow-worm, oh! lend me thy light,
I must gather the mystic St. John's Wort to-night;
The wonderful herb whose leaf will decide
If the coming year shall see me a bride."
The tops of Hypericum were also considered effective for keeping away
undesirable influences and bringing luck. For instance, one belief was that
bringing the flowers of St. John's wort into the house on a midsummer eve
would protect one from the evil eye, banish witches, promote good fortune
and protect the house from fire. In one case in 1696, Aubrey tells the story
of a poltergeist bothering the occupants of a house in London. A well-placed
bunch of St. John's wort under the householder's pillow proved to exorcise
the apparition.
Until as recent as the 1850s, St. John's wort was used as a method to determine
how long members of a family would live. Sprigs of the fresh plant would
be hung from the rafters and in the morning, examined to see which ones
were most wilted--which foretold which member would die soonest. Another
belief was that if one slept with a piece of the plant under one's pillow
on St. John's Eve, "the Saint would appear in a dream, give his blessing,
and prevent one from dying during the following year". The favor St.
John's wort enjoyed is well expressed in the following old English poem:
St. John's wort doth charm all the witches away.
If gathered at midnight on the saint's holy day.
And devils and witches have no power to harm
Those that do gather the plant for a charm:
Rub the lintels and post with that red juicy flower
No thunder nor tempest will then have the power
To hurt or to hinder your houses: and bind
Round your neck a charm of a similar kind.
Several noted English herbalists, reflecting the general beliefs of
their time, wrote very favorably of the virtues of St. John's wort. For
instance, Gerard (ca. 1600) tells of the ointment he made of the plant as
being a "most precious remedy for deepe wounds", and adds
that "there is not a better natural balsam....to cure any such wound".
Culpeper (ca. 1650), who was fond of ascribing astrological signs to medicinal
herbs, says that Hypericum "is under the celestial sign Leo,
and the dominion of the Sun." He goes on to say that "it
is a singular wound herb, healing inward hurts or bruises," and
that as an ointment "it opens obstructions, dissolves swelling and
closes up the lips of wounds." Also, he claims it is good for those
who "are bitten or stung by any venomous creature, and for those
that cannot make water"--which use modern science confirms--and
adds that the plant helps with "sciatica, the falling sickness and
the palsy."
Other early uses of Hypericum include as an oil (made by macerating
the flowering tops of the plant in oil and then placing them in the sun
for two or three weeks), which was "esteemed as one of the most
popular and curative applications in Europe for excoriations, wounds, and
bruises." This preparation was even used by the surgeons to clean
foul wounds, and was official in the first London Pharmacopeia as Oleum
Other popular folk-uses for St. John's wort have included: as a decoction
for gravel and ulcerations of the ureter; for ulcerations of the kidneys,
febrifuge, vermifuge, jaundice, gout, and rheumatism; as an infusion (1
ounce of herb to 1 pint water) for chronic catarrhs of the lungs, bowels,
or urinary passages; and as a warm lotion on injuries to the spinal cord,
for lacerated or injured nerves, bed sores, and lock-jaw.
In the New World, the native American Indians used several indigenous species
of Hypericum as an abortifacient, antidiarrheal, dermatological aid,
febrifuge, hemostat, snake bite remedy, and general strengthener. After
St. John's wort was introduced by European settlers, they used it as well
for similar conditions.
Despite the Native Indian uses of St. John's wort, the plant was not well-known
and was rarely mentioned by prominent writers on the subject of medicinal
plants. One of the first references to the plant is from Griffith (1847),
who says it can be used as an oil or ointment for ulcers, tumors, and as
a diuretic. Even the Eclectics, medical doctors from the late 1800's and
early 1900's who favored herbs in their practice, did not use St. John's
wort much.
Nonetheless, King, in his Dispensatory (1876), mentions its use in
urinary affections, diarrhea, worms, jaundice, menorrhagia, hysteria, nervous
imbalances with depression, and its usual external applications, including
the use of the saturated tincture as a substitute for arnica, in bruises.
In the later Felter-Lloyd revision of King's Dispensatory, tincture
of St. John's wort, in a dose of 10-30 drops mixed with 4 ounces of water,
taken in teaspoonful doses every 1-2 hours, is prescribed for spinal irritation,
shocks, concussions, puncture wounds, and hysteria.
Today, modern American herbalists still use St. John's wort for many of
the same conditions for which it has been recommended throughout the ages
and many commercial preparations are available either as an oil or a standardized
liquid or powdered extract. In Europe, these preparations are commonly prescribed
by medical doctors for burns, ulcers and nervous disorders, especially mild
depression. Scientific studies have been performed in the laboratory and
clinic to support these uses, some of which follow the ancient applications
detailed above. With a documented history of continuous use for over 2,000,
St. John's wort may find new applications and wider acceptance into the
21st century.


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From the Executive Editor: Sources take risks to right wrongs
Watchdog journalism takes an active citizenry. It takes people who strive to make a difference, who have high standards, who live their personal values.
They are people like Molly Simones of Loaves & Fishes. Or Yun Chung, a retired engineer and metallurgist. Or David Lerman, a Berkeley attorney.
All of them, and many more, became key sources for The Sacramento Bee's investigative reporting this year. They took the time to make a difference.
In some cases, sources just made a phone call or sent an email tip. In others, they gave generously of their time to us or to the community. Chung might have been the most generous of all, spending hundreds of hours researching and writing a report to refute an official report explaining why high-strength steel rods on the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge broke.
Many of the people who alerted Bee journalists to stories this past year never will receive public recognition. We've kept their identities secret because their bosses would react far differently if they were aware who tipped us or leaked information and documents so we could expose problems or wrongdoing. They are quite certain they'd be out of a job or have their career derailed.
Today's column is to thank all of them. Without sources taking a risk, we would not have published stories including:
• Marjie Lundstrom'sinvestigation into the controversial work of two UC Davis neurosurgeons
who the university found had "deliberately circumvented" internal policies when they obtained consent and then treated three brain-cancer patients by infecting them with bowel bacteria. The surgeons, Dr. J. Paul Muizelaar and Dr. Rudolph J. Schrot, resigned even as they maintained they were working in the best interests of their patients.
• Charles Piller's extensiveinvestigation into the troubled construction of the Bay Bridge,
at $6.4 billion the most expensive public works project in California. Piller's reporting revealed construction concerns that remain under review despite the opening of the bridge to daily traffic.
• Diana Lambert and Melody Gutierrez'sreporting on myriad problems
within the Twin Rivers Unified School District, culminating in the arrest of trustee Cortez Quinn after allegedly conspiring to falsify a paternity test and illegally receiving loans from a school district employee.
• Coverage by Laurel Rosenhall parting the curtain on influence peddling by a powerful Sacramento public affairs firm,California Strategies
. The firm and three partners recently were fined a combined $40,500 by the Fair Political Practices Commission and forced to register as lobbyists for crossing the line from advocacy into lobbying.
• Ongoing deep reporting by Matt Weiser onstate plans to re-engineer the Delta
with the help of two gigantic tunnels. Weiser might well be California's leading water journalist, and he benefits from sources who leak documents not yet public.
In general, we try to avoid quoting anonymous sources or using just their word in our stories. But many of those who have worked with us confidentially on investigations are leading us to documents we might not otherwise know about, or might be able to obtain through public records laws.
"We weigh their anonymity with the importance of the information they are providing, recognizing and evaluating its value to us and to our readers," said Managing Editor Scott Lebar. "All along, we know how sensitive speaking out can be. It's not an easy thing to do."
In addition to valued confidential sources are those who can work with us publicly. Sources we can name include Simones, a young woman who works at Loaves & Fishes and thought it was wrong that James Flavy Coy Brown had arrived alone in Sacramento via Greyhound from Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas. Simones called reporter Cynthia Hubert and you know the result – many Bee stories by Hubert and Phillip Reese detailing how the hospital bused 1,500 psychiatric patients across the country over a five-year span, effectively moving vulnerable people who needed services to other states that absorbed the cost.
Imagine putting someone on a bus with a few bottles of Ensure and a couple of days' worth of medication. Imagine, again, that the patient has a serious criminal past. Hubert and Reese found sources willing to talk or leak records showing that this happened. Since our coverage began, the hospital stopped busing patients without chaperones and fired two staff members. After the most recent report detailing crimes committed by some who were bused, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval announced he was creating a special council to review the state's mental health care system and find ways to improve it.
Lerman, another source, is the Berkeley attorney who touched off a controversy earlier this year over the slow pace of California's government business registrations.
Lerman wanted to start a wine-exporting company but quickly learned that the secretary of state's office had a six-week backlog on business registrations, a necessary piece of paper to any business launch. At the time, similar action in Texas, which was courting California businesses, was one week.
Secretary of State Debra Bowen blamed the backlog on five years of budget cuts during the recession. Lawmakers passed a bipartisan bill to increase the secretary of state's budget while it worked to develop its own online system.
Lerman was outraged by the delay and took action by calling The Bee.
Yun Chung was outraged as well and took action well beyond what most of us would do.
They lived their personal values to the benefit of all of us.


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I don't know what this has anything to do with India winning...but OK?
I don't know what this has anything to do with India winning...but OK?
-My beliefs summarized in words much more eloquent than I could come up with
How the Universe came from nothing
Conspiracy theory.
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Yea, I got that part. I just don't see what the purported connection is?
Just suss that they wanted this version to work in favour of the full members, then were firm on 10 teams only for 2015 - no negotiations - even after we beat England... something along the lines of 'it's bound to happen sometimes'. After that there weren't any other upsets or really close finishes and now it's open for discussions again.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the result of Saturday's match. Just strange.. Anyway, i'm happy
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Thus ends any question about whether Bernie Madoff lied in his own confession when he said he acted alone. (He lied).
By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister, NEW YORK (AP)
After months of secretly working with the FBI, Bernard Madoff's right-hand man emerged in federal court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to conspiracy and other charges, contradicting claims by the disgraced financier that he acted alone.
"I was loyal to him. I ended up being loyal to a terrible, terrible fault," Frank DiPascali told a judge during a hearing at which his long-rumored cooperation deal with the government was confirmed.
Both prosecutors and defense attorneys portrayed DiPascali as the man who could unlock his former boss' epic Ponzi scheme and potentially make cases against other defendants. Since Madoff revealed the fraud to his sons in early December and was arrested by FBI agents, investigators have looked into the actions of his wife, Ruth, his brother and two sons, who ran a trading operation under the same roof, and other insiders. No other Madoff family members have been charged.
Attorneys argued the former chief financial officer should be free on bail to help investigators sift through a mountain of evidence. But U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan surprised both sides by ordering DiPascali jailed immediately -- a rarity for a cooperator in a white-collar case who had pleaded guilty.
Sullivan said he felt compelled to keep 52-year-old DiPascali locked up after hearing the defendant admit that, at Madoff's direction, he lied to the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2006 when he thought they might discover the fraud. The judge said he was troubled too that DiPascali also lied repeatedly "to people who entrusted him with their life savings."
Defense attorney Marc Mukasey told Sullivan his client was "completely unprepared for this" and tried several times to persuade the judge to change his mind. He described DiPascali as a genuinely repentant cooperator who won the trust of FBI agents by speaking to them nearly every day since late last year.
But in the end, a dejected-looking DiPascali was handcuffed and led out of the courtroom.
The cooperation deal may still earn him leniency against charges which carry a potential penalty of up to 125 years in prison for securities fraud, money laundering and other crimes. It was agreed that sentencing won't occur before May 2010.
Madoff is serving 150 years in prison for a Ponzi scheme that destroyed thousands of people's life savings, wrecked charities and shook confidence in the financial system. During his guilty plea in March, Madoff insisted that he acted alone. Only one other person -- his accountant -- had been charged during the seven-month investigation before the charges were revealed against DiPascali.
The conspiracy charge against DiPascali and his cooperation deal are likely to increase speculation that investigators might learn who else was involved in the multi-decade fraud that led thousands of investors to sink at least $13 billion into Madoff's firm only to lose all.
Madoff told investors late last year that their accounts contained nearly $65 billion, when he actually had only several million dollars left of their money.
During his plea, DiPascali described himself as a "kid from Queens" who began working for Madoff in 1975, just after he finished high school. He said he became aware of the fraud by the 1980s or early 1990s.
DiPascali said account statements showing the firm was making trades for clients were "all fake" -- something "I knew, Bernie Madoff knew and other people knew." He claimed he thought "for a long time" that Madoff had other assets to cover the claims of any investors who might demand their money back.
"That's not an excuse. I knew everything I was doing was wrong and criminal," he said.
The SEC, in a complaint filed Tuesday against DiPascali, said one reason the fraud "was not detected for so long was DiPascali's considerable success in overseeing the creation of large quantities of false books and records that corroborated the fictitious trading."
The agency said new investments were dumped into a bank account that amounted to a slush fund used to pay out redemptions when investors asked for money.
The SEC said Madoff and DePascali used the fund to enrich themselves, with DiPascali in 2002 setting up an account for himself named after his fishing yacht, "Dorothy Jo." It said he withdrew over $5 million from the account between 2002 and 2008 to fund personal expenses, including the purchase of a new boat. He also received $2 million in salary and bonuses.
By the summer of 2008, the value of the account exceeded $5.5 billion. But investor redemptions spiked dramatically following the market collapse in September 2008 -- to more than $6 billion -- in the final three months of the fraud, the SEC said.
When the account dwindled last fall to a few hundred million dollars, DiPascali and Madoff discussed using the remaining funds to liquidate the accounts of family and friends of the firm, including employees, rather than honor redemption requests from institutional investors, the SEC said.
It said DiPascali reviewed investor lists and identified which accounts should be liquidated and then, with Madoff's approval, instructed that checks be prepared. Those checks, totaling more than $150 million, were found by investigators when Madoff was arrested.
Mariam Siegman -- calling herself a 65-year-old, near-homeless Madoff victim -- was the only victim to take up the judge's invitation to speak at the hearing.
She said she opposed acceptance of the plea because it prevents a trial and "the kind of justice that allows truth to be spoken out loud in a courtroom."
The judge said that he did not believe "the quest for truth ends today."


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Oil in 1998-99:
[I]f you're still operating under the assumption that the earth's petroleum--or at least the cheap stuff--is about to run out, you're not going to thrive in the new oil era. Technology is making it possible to find, produce, and refine oil so efficiently that its supply, at least for practical purposes, is basically unlimited.
--BusinessWeek, December 14, 1998
With oil prices projected to stay low, companies are dismissing employees and cutting the spending that is crucial to finding the oil they will sell in the future.
--The New York Times, December 26, 1998
Now, as oil prices languish at the lowest levels in more than a decade, contractors like Diamond, the R & B Falcon Corporation, the Noble Drilling Corporation and the Rowan Companies are taking rigs out of service as rents slide.
--The New York Times, January 2, 1999
[T]he situation looks so gloomy that Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia warned starkly in December, ''The boom days are over, and they will not come back.''
--The New York Times, January 16, 1999
Baker Hughes Inc., the third largest United States oilfield services company, said the number of rigs drilling for oil and natural gas in the United States had fallen to the lowest level since 1947.
--The New York Times, January 26, 1999
Yet here is a thought: $10 [a barrel] might actually be too optimistic. We may be heading for $5.
--The Economist, March 4, 1999
Natural Gas in 2008-09:
U.S. natural gas reserves are far more plentiful than previously estimated, says an industry study being released today - a discovery that heralds a potential remedy to the energy crisis. The report says the U.S. has up to 50% more natural gas reserves than earlier projections because of higher-than-expected yields from 22 shale formations in 20 states.
--USA Today, July 30, 2008
Given the current gas supply/demand situation, [John Walker, the chief executive officer of EV Energy Partners] sees gas prices falling into the $3-$4 per Mcf range that will create serious economic challenges in the gas and energy industries. He thinks gas storage will be full by September 1st and that could lead to $1 per Mcf gas as gas-on-gas price competition develops.
--Rigzone, January 21, 2009
The number of rigs drilling for natural gas in the United States fell 15 to 685 this week, the first time below the 700 benchmark since late November 2002, according to a report on Friday by oil services firm Baker Hughes in Houston.
--Reuters, June 12, 2009
Years of worry about supply shortages because of the maturing of conventional supplies have been replaced by worries there aren't enough customers for the 1,200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in shale deposits -- enough to last a century -- found in the past three years, plus liquefied natural gas coming from offshore that is "needed like a hole in the head," Mr. [Steve] Letwin [vice-president, gas transportation and international, at Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge Inc.] said in an interview.
--Financial Post, June 15, 2009
The amount of natural gas available for production in the United States has soared 58% in the past four years, driven by a drilling boom and the discovery of huge new gas fields in Texas, Louisiana and Pennsylvania, a new study says. The report, due to be released Thursday by the nonprofit Potential Gas Committee, concludes the U.S. has more than 2,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas still in the ground, or nearly a century's worth of production at current rates.
--Rigzone, June 17, 2009
BP Plc, Europe's second-largest oil company, forecasts that [world] gas resources may rise 60 percent to 100 years of global use at current rates, helped by unconventional sources that are undeveloped or unidentified.
--Houston Chronicle, October 9, 2009
A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world, raising hopes of a huge expansion in global reserves of the cleanest fossil fuel.
--The New York Times, October 9, 2009
Big players in the LNG market like Repsol YPF, Total and Qatargas, which oversees some of Qatar's huge LNG industry, predicted this week spot gas prices will remain mired near current low levels until well into the next decade.
--Reuters, October 10, 2009
At turning points most market observers and participants are of the same mind. That doesn't mean the bear market in natural gas can't continue, perhaps for quite a while yet. But the idea that gas will remain cheap and plentiful for decades because of technological breakthroughs sounds too good to be true, and it probably is. Dave Cohen offers a corrective to this vision in his piece, "A Shale Gas Boom?"
Of the many problems not apparent in the above quotations concerning natural gas, two loom large. The shale gas resource is undoubtedly vast. But the key question is at what rate can we produce this shale gas. I've used the following analogy many times before, but it bears repeating: If you inherit a million dollars with the stipulation that you can only withdraw $500 a month, you may be a millionaire, but you will never live like one. We may all be natural gas moguls, but will we ever live like natural gas moguls?
The second big question is how much energy will be required to get the shale gas. The financial costs of getting it are one indication. A key industry insider who heads the country's largest independent shale gas driller said last year that a sustained natural gas price above $6 per mcf is required to grow gas supplies. In truth, a price above $10 per mcf might be needed to get the massive quantities of shale gas touted by the industry. The industry is now drilling the sweet spots in the various shale formations. As they explore further, it will become harder to extract the remaining gas. That means more energy will be required per unit of gas. At some point, shale gas will cease to be worth extracting meaning much of the resource will remain in the ground.
Perhaps the technology will improve. But will it improve quickly enough to offset the increasing difficulty of extracting the shale gas resource as the more easily exploited areas deplete?
There are myriad other issues as well with both conventional and unconventional natural gas:
- High depletion rates, as much as 65 percent for shale gas wells within the first year, and 30 percent per year on average for all North American gas wells.
- Pollution of drinking water aquifers from chemicals dissolved in the water used to fracture shale gas formations, a process that is necessary to allow the gas to escape.
- The availability of capital in a depressed economy and industry to pay for expanded exploration and drilling for both conventional and unconventional gas.
- The availability of rigs and other equipment needed for a geometrically increasing drilling rate for shale gas necessary both to maintain existing production (in the face of the rapid depletion of wells) and to grow supplies.
- The possibility that conventional natural gas production in North America may be nearing a cliff that unconventional supplies simply won't be able to compensate for.
We heard the same kind of optimism about supplies (and pessimism about prices) just before oil began its historic ascent from $10 a barrel to $147. Given what we know about consensus predictions for fossil fuel prices and supplies, would it be wise to accept the current consensus on natural gas?


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Unions Call On AMR Board To Support US Air Merger
Three unions at American Airlines are appealing directly to the company's board of directors to support a merger with rival carrier US Airways, a step that managers at the carrier's parent, AMR, have so far resisted.
In a letter addressed to the board and signed by leaders of unions representing 55,000 flight attendants, pilots and ground workers, the unions say a merger plan offered by US Airways will save jobs, boost revenue and shore up the combined network of the two airlines.
AMR, based in Fort Worth, Texas, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November citing a need to cut costs, has said it is committed to emerging from Chapter 11 as a stand-alone company.
"Under the plan put forth by US Airways management, a merger now between American Airlines and US Airways would result in a rejuvenated American Airlines," according to the letter, signed by leaders of the Allied Pilots Association (APA), the Transport Workers Union (TWU) and the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA).
The text of the letter was set to appear on Friday in ads published in the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, a TWU spokesman said.
US Airways has not submitted a formal merger proposal to AMR, which has the exclusive right in bankruptcy court to reorganise without interference from outsiders.
US Airways, however, has struck a deal with AMR's unions, which are members of AMR's creditors committee and therefore have a say in the restructuring.
"An American Airlines-US Airways merger would be mutually beneficial by filling the gaps in each carrier's network and boosting overall revenue," the letter said.
US Airways declined comment on the letter to American's board.
American said the manoeuvre changes nothing, that the airline will continue on its restructuring path that includes a proposal to abrogate union contracts.
"It should be easy for anyone to understand the agendas of other interested parties and their sense of urgency to advance them, and their actions continue to demonstrate that. We don't need to address them again," a spokesman said.
The spokesman noted that American executives have said the carrier's restructuring will be disciplined and dictated by facts, including whether the company chooses consolidation down the road.
"This is the charge of the board of directors and the leadership team to be done in close collaboration with the creditors committee," Hicks said.
US Airways has said a merger with AMR would generate at least USD$1.2 billion a year beyond the benefits that could be passed to employees of the combined carrier.
AMR, however, insists its stand-alone plan would create USD$3 billion in financial improvements by 2017. To achieve this goal, the company says, it must slash staff costs by USD$1.25 billion a year.
AMR has been locked for years in negotiations with its unions on concessions it says it needs to survive. The company has asked the bankruptcy court for permission to void the contracts it has with unions that are not willing to make required sacrifices.
Spokesmen for the TWU and the APFA confirmed their unions have talked to their counterparts at US Airways to lay the foundation for joint contracts in the event of a merger.
James Ray, spokesman for US Airline Pilots Association, which represents the pilots at US Airways, said members are working with the APA on a joint contract.
US Airways, formed from a 2005 merger with America West Airlines, still has not integrated its pilots' and flight attendants' work groups.
Separately, American is challenging a decision by federal mediators to allow a union representation election for about 10,000 non-union airport agents and other passenger service workers.
The airline said in a suit this week in Texas that the National Mediation Board (NMB) applied an outdated standard for gauging the level of worker support needed to hold a union election.
The suit is not part of American's bankruptcy case.


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The Good: Ping has always produced a quality product, and this set is no different. Any ball hit square will fly straight and true, you will not have to worry about faulty workmanship costing you a bad shot.
The Bad: The club seems to really let you know when you hit one thin, almost too much feel. Mis-hits aren't helped much either. Working the ball is also more difficult and unpredictable than they should be.
Overall: Finding fault with a set of Pings is like saying the latest Mercedes cars have too small a glovebox. You can do it if you try, but you have to nit-pick to do it. Still, for my money, I think there are better irons out there for the good players, and for the not so good players, you shouldn't spend this much on a set of irons as it is.


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Friday, February 11, 2011
Where the heck am I?
This might seem a little weird but I'm doing a lot of blog hopping – and a few giveaways - today and tomorrow. It's confusing, even to me, and I scheduled them, so I'm organizing. I even made a list.
So here's where I am and where I'll be. Please stop by and chat. I'd love to hear from you.
Today I'm at Pen of the Dreamer sharing an excerpt from my new release LOVE BYTES:
And I'm visiting Judie at Honey Bunny Promos talking about the new release:
Zee at Fire Pages reviewed CAPTIVE. Leave a comment to enter her Love at First Sight Giveaway for a copy.
Saturday 2-12, Zee will be posting a review of POINT OF BEGINNING. Leave a comment to be entered in her giveaway for a copy.
Saturday 2-12, I'll be on the Silver Publishing Facebook page chatting and I have a few copies of LOVE BYTES to giveaway.
And due to a scheduling snafu I might be somewhere else tomorrow. If that happens I'll let you know on Facebook.
I'm looking forward to seeing you!
2 comments:
- Scarlet Hyacinth said...
Hi Gale. Just wanted to say I enjoyed Love Bytes a lot. I've always been a sucker for love beyond death :). I hope you'll consider writing a sequel so that we'll know what happens with the boys next :D.
- February 22, 2011 at 3:50 PM
- Gale Stanley said...
Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked it. I'm all for being immortal myself. There's so much to do, see and write.
- February 22, 2011 at 4:49 PM
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There have been a few changes to the rules so please check them out before submitting to be sure your video qualifies.The AMV (Anime Music Video) contest takes place on Friday. Anime Music Videos consist of clips from one or more anime series or movies set to songs. They are made by fans because they have a passion for an anime/song combination that drives them to show that vision to audiences.
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The most important change is that we have changed the soft deadline to November 1st and the hard deadline to December 1st. If the entry is not in my hands by midnight December 1st it will not be accepted.
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I am proud to announce our Finalists (not neccessarily in final order)
Time to Let it Go by Sean McPartland
Hell Jump by Yosef A Ghiassu
Dragonball Evolution by Ryan Molina
Beat of the Rising Sun by David Nguyen
Final Fantasy Heroes by Maya K. Williams
Explosive Soul by Mike Hernandez
Illusion Breaker by Jason Fiore
Running Desperado by Dean Seirafi
If everyone Cared no one would cry by Lindsay Maire Young
The Love of a Hero by Matthew Lewis
You're not Alone by Katherine Cullen
Princess of the Red Rose by Lark Isenberg
Over and Over by Tiffany Chase
Naruto's Hope by Mike Hernandez
Kiss Me by Edwin Hollowell
I Love the Anime World by John Galietta III
Be a Man Conrad by Miguel Melendez
Thunderbusted by Isaac Fischer
AMG in a Nutshell by Janet Lookabaugh (EDIT: Apologizes, this was a typo only on this forum, internally we notated it correclty)
Thunder Cats by Tiffany Chase
A Host's "Special" Kind of Girl by Jason Fiore
Your Own Miracle by Billy Taing
To the Future by Erin Nguyen
Curtain Call by John Galietta III
Tomo's Gonna STAAAAAND Out! by Janet Lookabaugh
Crimson Rhapsody by Victoria Galietta
Spinning Infinity by Kerry Potts
Building Steam by Nic Neidenbach
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Running Desperado
Best Produced
Curtain Call
Creators' Choice
Crimson Rhapsody
Staff's Pick
A Host's "Special" Kind of Girl
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