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Obama 'rolling the dice' on Syria?
The stakes of the Syria vote couldn't be higher for President Barack Obama: If Congress doesn't back him up, his already troubled second term would be dealt another blow in the twin arenas of domestic and foreign politics.
That's why some Republicans and Democrats think the president risked too much in asking Congress to authorize strikes on Syria that Obama believes are within his power to order unilaterally. And it's why the White House is going into overdrive this week to try to sway a skeptical Congress into the war column.
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Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and other National Security Council members have reached out to individual lawmakers. High-ranking administration officials have been dispatched to give intelligence briefings — Sunday's classified session in the Capitol, attended by 70 lawmakers, will be followed by another round of conference calls this week. And Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a frequent critic of Obama's who has argued for robust U.S. intervention in Syria, will meet Obama at the White House on Monday.
( Also on POLITICO: W.H. to Congress: Help protect Israel)
It's a "flood the zone" approach, said one senior administration official familiar with the president's strategy. The upside to a win: Obama could get some of his juice back, both at home and abroad, and Congress would co-own the fallout if anything goes wrong in Syria.
But some of Obama's allies say it looks like he's misread Capitol Hill — badly.
"This could be the biggest miscalculation of his presidency," a senior House Democrat told POLITICO Sunday. "Not only is his credibility on the line but the country's credibility is on the line, so he is rolling the dice by taking this to Congress."
The prospects for passage of Obama's war resolution are dim. Prominent Democratic allies of the president have said they won't vote for it in its current form. Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) said Sunday that his aides are working on new language. But even a resolution that circumscribes the president's authority to strike Syria more than the relatively open-ended version he sent to the Hill Saturday would face a tough vote in both chambers.
( Also on POLITICO: McCain worries conflict in Syria will engulf region)
Washington Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said in an interview Sunday that he would not characterize how he planned to vote "out of respect" for the president's ongoing effort to acquire support.
Smith just returned from a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Jordan that included a stop along the Syrian border. While he was there, he said, he sensed deep ambivalence about a strike in Jordan, because "nobody knows" whether it's better for U.S. allies for America to send cruise missiles into Syria to dissuade further use of chemical weapons in the region or better not to risk retaliatory strikes from Syria, Iran or Hezbollah.
Smith said he would "urge the more cautious approach."
Part of the problem for the president is that there's little public appetite for committing the United States to acts of war in Syria. That means it's a risky proposition for House members, all of whom face re-election in 2014, and the one-third of senators also on the ballot next year. Obama, who used his opposition to the Iraq war to distinguish himself from the Democratic primary field in 2008, knows as well as anyone else how powerful a vote on war can be in politics.
( Also on POLITICO: Kerry: Congress won't turn its back on the Syrian people)
The Washington blame game is already in full swing, with fingers pointing from both ends of Pennsylvania Ave. Shortly after Obama announced his decision on Saturday, senior administration officials insisted going to Congress for a vote was the president's brainchild. Leaders on the Hill had asked Obama to consult with Congress, but not a single one had suggested that the president ask for a formal authorization, they said.
But by Sunday, with many Democrats questioning the wisdom of his move, a source familiar with the thinking in the White House framed Obama's decision as accommodating House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
While Boehner had pushed Obama to consult with Congress and to answer a series of questions about his plans for engagement in Syria, he had stopped short of joining the nearly 200 Republican and Democratic House members who signed a pair of letters urging Obama to seek authorization before taking action.
Some of Boehner's colleagues in both parties read his moves as an indication that he would not stand in the president's way in launching strikes. But Obama had grown frustrated with both international and domestic leaders who gave him tacit approval but declined to jump to his aid. He was taking all the risk and responsibility for a Syria strike, and he didn't like it. Members of Congress were playing political games by asking him to consult with them but not taking on the accountability of voting with him or against him.
On Friday night, Obama announced to his staff that he was going to shine a spotlight on them. Rather than calling out orders for a strike, he called for a vote. Some of his allies patted him on the back for what they described as a bold stroke of political brilliance. Republicans said the president was being nakedly political.
"There is no doubt the White House is making political calculations about all of this. If they didn't think they needed the cover, there's no way in hell they would be coming to us," said one senior GOP aide. "Obama can't stand Congress, and no president thinks there is an actual restraint on their ability to wage war."
Republicans say it's Obama who has the most to lose.
"This vote is entirely on the president," said a leadership aide. "If it fails, it's on him, not us."
Behind closed doors, administration officials are making the case that America — read Obama — will look terrible on the international stage if Congress rebuffs him.
Problem is, lawmakers may not really care if Obama looks terrible. From gun control to immigration to fiscal issues, Obama has spent much of the last three years hitting congressional Republicans for blocking or slowing his agenda. Republicans could return the favor simply by playing it straight.
If Obama was trying to jam Boehner, who had clamored for consultation but pointedly declined to take a position on strikes, with a vote that would split the Republican caucus, it hasn't worked yet.


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Why is it that when using the Bing search API results come back far different than what we tried on the Bing.com search page?
In testing, I get great results if I search for an exact phrase, but sending that same request through the API and it comes back with different results.
Is there a way to use the Bing API that it will return the same results as a normal web search?

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Queen at the Geneva Car Show
Who is this surrounded by curious spectators? It's the new "LaFerrari". The first weekend open to the public at the Geneva Car Show confirmed that the new supercar from Maranello, the first hybrid from the Prancing Horse, is the star of the show. Numerous enthusiasts come to the Ferrari stand to see the new car from close up: technological and stylistic starting point for the new Ferrari generation of the next ten years.
Meanwhile everybody is still talking about "LaFerrari" in the media all over the world and on the Internet: looking for the name of the new 12-cylinder Google comes up with over 11 million search results.


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WATERVILLE, Maine --- Lauren Quisenberry won at first singles and teamed with Candace Wu to win at first doubles to lead MIT to a 7-2 win over Colby College in non-conference women's tennis Saturday.
Quisenberry stayed perfect on the season with a 6-1, 6-2 win at first singles, while Wu defeated Tess Perese at second singles 6-4, 6-3.
Perese was part of a third doubles team that collected one of Colby's two points. Teamed with Kathryn Vergeyle, she defeated Melissa Diskin and Katie O'Neal 8-4. O'Neal got a point back by defeating Mckenzie Love in three sets at fifth singles (6-1, 4-6, 7-5). Julia Hsu and Bianca Dumitrascu each won in singles and together took care of Sally Holmes and Sarah Wiener 8-4 in second doubles.
MIT improves to 2-0 on the spring season and will prepare to travel to Los Angeles, California for a spring break trip. Colby falls to 0-5 on the season and will also make a spring break trip, to Orlando, Florida.
Massachusetts Inst. Technology 7, Colby College 2
Mar 12, 2011 at Colby College
Singles competition
1. Lauren Quisenberry (MIT) def. Katie Muto (COLBY) 6-1, 6-2
2. Candace Wu (MIT) def. Tess perese (COLBY) 6-4, 6-3
3. Julia Hsu (MIT) def. Katie Brezinski (COLBY) 6-3, 6-1
4. Bianca Dumitrascu (MIT) def. Sarah Wiener (COLBY) 6-2, 6-2
5. Katie O'Neal (MIT) def. Mckenzie Love (COLBY) 6-1, 4-6, 7-5
6. Sally Holmes (COLBY) def. Melissa Diskin (MIT) 6-3, 3-6, 10-3
Doubles competition
1. Lauren Quisenberry/Candace Wu (MIT) def. Katie Brezinski/Katie Muto (COLBY) 8-0
2. Bianca Dumitrascu/Julia Hsu (MIT) def. Sally Holmes/Sarah Wiener (COLBY) 8-4
3. Tess perese/Kathryn Vergeyle (COLBY) def. Melissa Diskin/Katie O'Neal (MIT) 8-4


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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
If You Want to Write
Hi everyone! from a newbie to your board. I'm here via an invite from Annette Dashofy. I asked casually one day at our critique group, how does your site choose people to blog? (smile)
I hope you like these thoughts from a discussion I led at our Pennwriters group at Barnes & Noble, South Hills Village, Pittsburgh PA. Jumping right in….
What advice would a writer from 1938 have for writers of our current day? Would it still be timely to our needs? You bet! Barbara Ueland's seventy-year-old book touches the heart and fires the imagination. Titled 'If You Want to Write', the 179 page 'little book' trumpets itself as "A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit'. Copyrighted in 1938, it was republished in 1989 by Graywolf Press. Please join with me as we examine some of the thoughts of Ms. Ueland.
I love author bios, I hope you do too. Barbara Ueland was born in Minneapolis in 1891. Her father was a judge and her mother a suffragette and first president of the Minnesota League of Women Voters. Barbara graduated from Barnard in 1913 and lived in NYC until 1930, where she was part of the Greenwich Village bohemian crowd that included Eugene O'Neill. After her return to Minnesota in 1930, she earned her living as a journalist, editor, freelance writer and teacher of writing. (She also went through three husbands along the way.) She remained physically and mentally active until her death at the age of 93 in 1985.
In her book, she reminisces about teaching at the YWCA. "There were all kinds of people – men and women, rich and poor, erudite and uneducated, highbrow professors and little servant girls so shy that it would take months to arouse in them the courage to try a sentence or two."
The fact she mentioned 'servant girls' got my attention. I had a grandmother who left school in the eighth grade, as many young women did around the turn of the century, to work as a housemaid in one of those now-decaying mansions that dot the Northside of Pittsburgh. Grandma spoke about dusting knickknacks on the shelves and stitching wedding gowns. Anything to help out the family finances in a family of eight kids. Grandma told such wonderful stories that I wonder if she ever fantasized about writing them down. Would things have been different if she'd encountered a teacher like Ms. Ueland? Grandma's son, my Daddy, always wanted to be a journalist. The dream to write was there. Maybe he inherited a writing bug in his genes? In any case, the family urged my Dad to get his head out of the clouds and study something practical. The only writing he did after that was love poems to my Mom. (The dream to write fell to me, apparently, but that's another story.)
Back to Ms. Ueland. Barbara's mission as a teacher was to get her students to express clearly what was true to them from their personal experiences. She led them from initial efforts of stilted, false, dead prose into courageous expressions of slices of life from the heart. Her book is a magnificent pep talk that fires up the writer within each of us. Her key to unlocking the ability to write? She demanded of her students, "Tell me more."
For instance, she queried a budding novelist about whether the character's muscles really 'rippled'. Did the writer actually see that? Her student became excited and declared yes, his muscles were so big they seemed to burst the seams of his coat. Barbara responded, "Well say that! Hurrah! Put it that way. That's alive, great!"
Barbara writes, "I am blessed with a fascinated, inexhaustible interest in all my pupils – their thoughts, adventures, failures, rages, villainies and nobilities." She wanted them to see "how gifted they are and consequently grow in boldness and freedom." To accomplish this, she instructed them to "forget about writing 'writing' and… to tell spontaneously, impulsively, what they remembered."
If you'd like, I could come back sometime and blog on some more inspiring quotes from her book. If you'd like to read it yourself, I'd recommend checking your interlibrary loan system for a copy. In my area of Allegheny County, there's four in the system.
To close, does anyone else have relatives in the family line who might have become writers if fate had given them the chance? If things had gone a bit differently in their lives?
Cheryl Elaine Williams
Check me out on Facebook – type in all three names, the CEW in Pittsburgh PA. My starter web page: http://www.cherylelainewilliams.com
26 comments:
- Sherry said...
Hi Cheryl! I am so glad you wrote about your Pennwriters' talk. Sorry I missed it live.
On my mother's side I come from a line of strong, creative women. I like to think that I have some of their "stuff" in me. None of them ever wrote a book, and like your family, I think they didn't have the opportunities we have today. After all, they did laundry by hand in a wringer washer. And they sewed their own clothes and other house hold items.
I do think of the oral tradition of these women. They told stories as they worked. Some were true. I suspect a lot were fiction. Perhaps this is where my legacy lies.
- Martha Reed said...
Cheryl, welcome to the Working Stiffs! Great story about your grandmother - I love hearing anything about Olde Pittsburgh.
I have an aunt who probably should have been a painter but it wasn't done. She followed the traditional route of marriage and kids and is still bitter about it to this day. Such a shame but then, why didn't she do it on the side? I think people need to take some ownership of their creative powers. I remember the line: Don't let anyone stop you, even if that someone is yourself.
Great post!
- Annette said...
Welcome to Working Stiffs, Cheryl!
My ancestors were mostly farmers, which left no time for much in the way of creative pursuit. But I did have one great aunt who married a much older gentleman, who we now believe was in the mob. My aunt was a great storyteller and was the keeper of the family tree back in a time when genealogy was not a popular hobby. She would get my vote as my ancestor most likely to write a great American novel.
- Joyce said...
Nice post, Cheryl.
Back in March I wrote this post about my mother. If circumstances had been different, she would have been a writer.
Both of my kids write, too.
- Jennie Bentley said...
Welcome, Cheryl. Wow, interesting story. Sounds like someone ought to write a biography... ;-)
Hi Cheryl,
I really liked your opening story. Very interesting and you tell the story well.
When I was younger I read much more than I do now and had an interest at one time in writing myself. Maybe I should take some time to practice writing and see what becomes of it.
You seem to enjoy writing so much and you have become very good at it.
Congratulations on all you have accomplished.
- liana laverentz said...
Excellent post, Cheryl, inspirational and informative! May you carry your father's dream foward!
Hi Cheryl. Very interesting stuff. I too am sorry I missed the original talk last week. As for "lines of writers" my paternal grandmother used to claim that I got my writing gene from her. She has passed on since and as far as I know, she never wrote anything for publication. But your question prompted that memory. I should look into it. Thanks. Lori
- Rebecca J. Clark said...
Very interesting post.
My aunt wrote a book about a baby deer they raised after its mother had been hit and killed by a car. This deer became part of their family, sometimes came into their house, raised its own babies, until her tragic death a few years later when a pack of dogs ran her off a cliff.
Anyway, she sent it to one publisher who rejected it. She figured it must not be good enough so she never sent it off again. I remember my grandmother's comment, "Well, she must not be a good writer." Sheesh. Had I known then what I know about this industry, I would have forced her to keep sending it "out there."
Too bad, eh?
- Cheryl Elaine Williams said...
Hi Sherry, I had to laugh about your comment about the wringer washer. My grandma (the same grandmother mentioned in my blog piece) lovingly used her wringer washer well into the 1960's. I specifically remember watching her feed clothes into the wringer. It's actually a good system for squeezing out the dirt. It was at times like that when she would talk about her earlier years. Yes, this is one example of the oral tradition of stories being passed from one generation of females to another.
- Cheryl Elaine Williams said...
Hi Martha,
thanks for your welcome to Working Stiffs. I too love anything about Olde Pittsburgh or Olde Allegheny. My grandma's house, which is still in the family, dates back to the Civil War, and is in the Bellevue area just on the edge of the Northside. Her street and the nearby ones all have names of Civil War Generals. The lower half of the street is made up of cobblestones.
- Cheryl Elaine Williams said...
Hi Annette, thanks for welcoming me to Working Stiffs. Your great aunt sounds like she was a most interesting lady. Don't you wish our old-time relatives would've left a diary behind in the bottom of their old trunks?
- Cheryl Elaine Williams said...
Hi Joyce, I'll have to check out that link to your blog on your mother. That's great that your two kids write also. Here's wishing them the best of luck!
- Cheryl Elaine Williams said...
Hi Jennie, thanks for the welcome. So you think my Grandma would make a good topic for a biography, hmm? I've always kicked around writing her story. Esp. her love story with Granddad, who served on a ship in WW I and married her as soon as he got back.
- Cheryl Elaine Williams said...
Hi Judy,
thanks for dropping by the board and leaving me your comments. Yes, we all probably read a lot more when we were younger, and then, of course, real life (and time constraints) intervened. Sometimes it's all I can do to read the newspaper, much less a chapter of fiction in a romance or mystery!
- Cheryl Elaine Williams said...
Hi Liana, thanks for the "attagirl" of "May you carry your father's dream forward." My Dad's gone now (both parents and all my grandparents are gone now) but I think they'd be happy about my Chicken Soup sales, at least.
- Cheryl Elaine Williams said...
Hi Lori, that's sweet of your paternal grandmother to encourage you by claiming you got the writing gene from her. That must mean she did some writing in her life. Maybe in school? Maybe your aunts and uncles would know.
- Cheryl Elaine Williams said...
Rebecca, my heart just curls up when I think of your aunt getting that rejection letter and then just giving up. What a shame she didn't have a networking organization to tell her about persistence, like we do today.
- Cheryl Elaine Williams said...
Hey Joyce,
I followed that link back to your March blog. Wow, what an incredible find, to discover those papers in your mother's handwriting. About her remembrance of December 7, 1941, that date was special to my Dad also, being from that generation. As a young man listening to those broadcasts that day on the radio, he knew he was going to war.
- Mary Ricksen said...
I'm kinda sad that your dad was discouraged from his dream. He could have been a major author. Or editor at a magazine, who knows.
At least his daughter can be an author in his place.
The stories we heard were always wonderful to me, but not till I was older. As a kid I couldn't wait to go somewhere else, but as an adult I love them.
- Cheryl Elaine Williams said...
Hi Mary, I know what you mean about listening as a kid to the adults gab, you always want to go somewhere else. Now those times are gone forever and many of the oldtimers are gone too, unfortunately.
Which reminds me to make sure all the photos in my photo albums have a notation of whoever's in the photo.
- Debra St. John said...
This still is fabulous advice. Thanks for sharing this with us.
- Doreen DeSalvo said...
Hi Cheryl & All,
I'm glad to find another fan of Brenda Ueland. I have a copy of "If You Want to Writer" at home and another copy in my office.
I especially like her chapter on "why Renaissance noblemen wrote sonnets." They were not looking to get published. They wrote so they would learn more about love, or politics, or farming (and there were sonnets about all these things). And when they finished, they understood a little more about love, or politics, or farming. That was their whole motivation.
I find it an inspiring notion, that we can write simply to learn more about ourselves and the world around us.
Another great book of Ueland's that's still in print is "Strength to Your Sword Arm". Check it out!
All the best,
Hi Cheryl! I had to laugh about the wringer washer because it brought back memories. I used one until I had my first child, when I put my foot down and insisted we buy an automatic washer. I almost got knocked out when I was trying to get my heavy bedspread through the wringer and it popped up and hit me in the forehead.
You did an excellent job with your review, I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Hello Cheryl! I enjoyed reading your post, and what particularly drew my attention was Ueland's stategy of how she got her students to say it in words, simply. "The rippling muscles" were really "muscles that would rip the seams", the 2nd phrase giving a much more vivid picture of the shirt tearing, having a much greater impact on the reader. Often times i have to stop myself and rethink before I write, how i would say it simply from the mouth.
Also, something else we have in common besides having been published in the Chicken Soup Series - exactly as your grandma did, my mom quit school in the 8th grade to go do housework for a family in Washington County. She was only 13 at the time, and regrets never having finished her education, as i think this would have made her feel better about herself. My mom isn't much of a reader, let alone a writer, but in her younger years, she sure could lay a great brick sidewalk!
For me now, family responsibilities, a job, 6 cats, and keeping up a house get in the way of being able to just sit down with pen in hand and telling my stories like Ms. Ueland would have!
- Cheryl Elaine Williams said...
I'd like to acknowledge the last four people who posted a comment to my piece. Thank you, Debra, for the welcome to the board. Doreen, I too was moved by Ms. Ueland's description of the Renaissance Man writing sonnets - it reminded me of educated people in other cultures (not the US and probably not Canada either), where it is traditionally a mark of distinction for a business person to also publish a book of poetry. It shows him as a person of culture.
Helga, so glad you stopped by. Helga is a Canadian Internet friend of mine from an entertainment yahoo list. I'm honored that a non-writing friend dropped in!
Joyce K. has been published in Chicken Soup for the Wine Lovers Soul. Good to hear from you, Joyce. Your Mom, a lovely lady, has so much energy - now I understand why, since she started her working life at age 13! Ah, that was a different era back then, wasn't it.


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The Hubble orbiting telescope spotted this "glowing eye" in April of 2000. It is in the constellation Aquila. NASA provides the following information about this amazing picture:
April 6, 2000: The Hubble telescope has spied a giant celestial "eye," known as planetary nebula NGC 6751. The Hubble Heritage Project is releasing this picture to commemorate the Hubble telescope's tenth anniversary. Glowing in the constellation Aquila, the nebula is a cloud of gas ejected several thousand years ago from the hot star visible in its center. Planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets. They are shells of gas thrown off by Sun-like stars nearing the ends of their lives. The star's loss of its outer, gaseous layers exposes the hot stellar core, whose strong ultraviolet radiation then causes the ejected gas to fluoresce as the planetary nebula.
This nebula resembles an eyeball. NASA explains the reasons for that:
The nebula's shape - including the circular arrangement of long streamers of gas moving away from the bright, central star - is one of the reasons for its eye-catching appearance. The nebula's vivid colors also contribute to the eye-popping picture.
Astronomers used the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 to snap images through three color filters. Each filter pinpoints gases at certain temperatures. Blue regions mark the hottest glowing gas, which forms a roughly circular ring around the central stellar remnant. Orange and red show the locations of cooler gas. The cool gas lies in long streamers pointing away from the central star and in a tattered-looking ring at the outer edge of the nebula.
The origin of these cooler clouds within the nebula is still uncertain, but the streamers are clear evidence that their shapes are affected by radiation and stellar winds from the hot, central star. The star's surface temperature is estimated at a scorching 250,000 degrees Fahrenheit (140,000 degrees Celsius).
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The Odds Against Circle L
BBC Audiobooks, 2004 - Fiction - 128 pages
"Tag Landry's brother meant to kill him, and in a drunken frenzy might just as easily shoot the old man too. Tag realized that he was outnumbered as he returned at last to Landry, Wyoming. There were too many on the old home place who saw only the price tag on his head. But he's already stuck his neck out, and too many lives and too much land depended on Tag staying alive. So with his hands ready for action, and his guns loose in their holsters, Tag came back onto the Circle L, facing the memory of the first man he'd ever killed--the man whose ghost threatened his life today." -- back cover.
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Indians, Francona surprised by Maddon's comments
ST. PETERSBURG -- The Indians weren't making much of Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon's public comments in which he said reliever Cody Allen intentionally hit Rays star third baseman Evan Longoria with a pitch Saturday night.
Maddon told reporters after the Rays' 6-0 win on Saturday that there was a consensus opinion in the Rays' clubhouse that Allen was trying to hit Longoria when he tossed a pitch at his buttocks in the seventh inning, assumedly a reaction to Desmond Jennings taking out catcher Lou Marson at home plate earlier in the game.
Maddon went out of his way to say that the mandate couldn't have come from Indians manager Terry Francona, but that he "would absolutely point to their bullpen" for the plunking.
Allen was surprised to hear about Maddon's accusation Sunday morning, adding that he didn't understand it and that it wasn't true true. Instead, Allen said he was just trying to throw Longoria a breaking ball inside to keep him from extending his arms and utilizing all his power, and that pitch got away from him.
Francona didn't understand Maddon's comments, either.
"I have my hands full managing our team. I think a lot of Joe, and I really respect him a lot," Francona said. "I just can't manage two teams. One's hard enough for me.
"He got a little ahead of me on that one. He lost me on that one. I'm not sure how to answer it because he got a little ahead of me."


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topology (point-set topology, point-free topology)
see also differential topology, algebraic topology, functional analysis and topological homotopy theory
Basic concepts
fiber space, space attachment
Extra stuff, structure, properties
Kolmogorov space, Hausdorff space, regular space, normal space
sequentially compact, countably compact, locally compact, sigma-compact, paracompact, countably paracompact, strongly compact
mapping spaces: compact-open topology, topology of uniform convergence
Basic statements
closed subspaces of compact Hausdorff spaces are equivalently compact subspaces
open subspaces of compact Hausdorff spaces are locally compact
quotient projections out of compact Hausdorff spaces are closed precisely if the codomain is Hausdorff
compact spaces equivalently have converging subnet of every net
continuous metric space valued function on compact metric space is uniformly continuous
paracompact Hausdorff spaces equivalently admit subordinate partitions of unity
injective proper maps to locally compact spaces are equivalently the closed embeddings
locally compact and second-countable spaces are sigma-compact
Analysis Theorems
algebraic theory / 2-algebraic theory / (∞,1)-algebraic theory
algebra over an algebraic theory
representation, ∞-representation?
symmetric monoidal (∞,1)-category of spectra
model structure on simplicial T-algebras / homotopy T-algebra
In string topology one studies the BV-algebra-structure on the ordinary homology of the free loop space of an oriented manifold , or more generally the framed little 2-disk algebra-structure on the singular chain complex. This is a special case of the general algebraic structure on higher order Hochschild cohomology, as discussed there.
The study of string topology was initated by Moira Chas and Dennis Sullivan.
Let be a smooth manifold, write for its free loop space (for regarded as a topological space) and for the ordinary homology of this space (with coefficients in the integers ).
The string product is a morphism of abelian groups
where is the dimension of , defined as follows:
Write for the evaluation map at the basepoint of the loops.
For and we can find representatives and such that and intersect transversally. There is then an -chain such that is the chain given by that intersection: above this is the loop obtained by concatenating and at their common basepoint. The string product is then defined using such representatives by
The string product is associative and graded-commutative.
This is due to (ChasSullivan). There is is a more elegant way to capture this, due to (CohenJones):
be the cospan that exhibts the inner and the outer circle of the figure "8" topological space. By forming hom spaces this induces the span
Write for the "pullback" in ordinary homology along (the dual fiber integration) and for the ordinary pushforward.
The string product is the pull-push operation
This is due to (CohenJones).
Define a morphism of abelian groups
as follows. Consider first the rotation map
that sends . Then take
where is the fundamental class of the circle.
This is called the BV-operator for string topology.
The Goldman bracket on is equivalent to the string product applied to the image of the BV-operator
This is due to (ChasSullivan).
The structures studied in the string topology of a smooth manifold may be understood as being essentially the data of a 2-dimensional topological field theory sigma model with target space , or rather its linearization to an HQFT (with due care on some technical subtleties).
The idea is that the configuration space of a closed or open string-sigma-model propagating on is the loop space or path space of , respectively. The space of states of the string is some space of sections over this configuration space, to which the (co)homology is an approximation. The string topology operations are then the cobordism-representation with coefficients in the category of chain complexes
given by the FQFT corresponding to the -modelon these state spaces, acting on these state spaces.
Let be an oriented compact manifold of dimension .
For a collection of oriented compact submanifolds write for the path space of paths in that start in and end in .
The tuple carries the structure of a -dimensional HCFT with positive boundary and set of branes , such that the correlators in the closed sector are the standard string topology operation.
For closed strings this is discussed in (Cohen-Godin 03, Tamanoi 07). For open strings on a single brane this was shown in (Godin 07), where the general statement for arbitrary branes is conjectured. A detailed proof of this general statement is in (Kupers 11).
These constructions work by regarding the mapping spaces from 2-dimensional cobordisms with maps to the base space as correspondences and then applying pull-push (pullback followed by push-forward in cohomology/Umkehr maps) to these. Hence these quantum field theory realizations of string topology may be thought of as arising from a quantization process of the form path integral as a pull-push transform/motivic quantization.
The original references include the following:
Ralph Cohen, Alexander Voronov, Notes on string topology, math.GT/05036259, 95 pp. published as a part of R. Cohen, K. Hess, A. Voronov, String topology and cyclic homology, CRM Barcelona courseware, Springer, description, doi, pdf
Dennis Sullivan, Open and closed string field theory interpreted in classical algebraic topology, Topology, geometry, and quantum field theory, 344–357. London Math. Soc. Lec. Notes 308, Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004.
Ralph Cohen, John R. Klein, Dennis Sullivan, The homotopy invariance of the string topology loop product and string bracket, J. of Topology 2008 1(2):391-408; doi
Ralph Cohen, Homotopy and geometric perspectives on string topology, pdf
(2002), no. 4, (arXiv:0107187)
the string product was realized as genuine pull-push (in terms of dual fiber integration via Thom isomorphism).
The interpretation of closed string topology as an HQFT is discussed in
A detailed discussion and generalization to the open-closed HQFT in the presence of a single space-filling brane is in
The generalization to multiple D-branes is discussed in
For target space a classifying space of a finite group or compact Lie group this is discussed in
Arguments that this string-topology HQFT should refine to a chain-level theory – a TCFT – were given in
(see example 4.2.16, remark 4.2.17).
For the string product and the BV-operator this extension has been known early on, it yields a homotopy BV algebra considered around page 101 of
Chains and Cochains_ (2005) (pdf)
Evidence for the existence of the TCFT version by exhibiting a dg-category that looks like it ought to be the dg-category of string-topology branes (hence ought to correspond to the TCFT under the suitable version of the TCFT-version of the cobordism hypothesis) is discussed in
Refinements of string topology from homology groups to the full ordinary homology-spectra is discussed in (Blumberg-Cohen-Teleman 09) and in
Ralph Cohen, John Jones, A homotopy theoretic realization of string topology, Mathematische Annalen (arXiv:math/0107187)
Ralph Cohen, John Jones, Gauge theory and string topology (arXiv:1304.0613)
A generalization of string topology with target manifolds generalized to orbifolds is discussed in
Further generalization to target spaces that are more generally differentiable stacks/Lie groupoids is discussed in
Kai Behrend, Gregory Ginot, Behrang Noohi, Ping Xu, String topology for stacks, (89 pages) arxiv/0712.3857; String topology for loop stacks, C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris, 344 (2007), no. 4, 247–252, (6 pages, pdf)
Po Hu, Higher string topology on general spaces, Proc. London Math. Soc. 93 (2006) 515-544, doi, ps
The relation between string topology and Hochschild cohomology in dimenion is discussed in
More developments are in
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One of the commonest parasites in the world is Toxoplasma gondii. Toxoplasma can infect most warm-blooded animals, including humans, and causes significant damage to the unborn child if a woman becomes infected for the first time during pregnancy. The natural cycle of the organism depends on cats and on mice. Infection by Toxoplasma normally doesn't kill the animal, but there are some "virulent" strains that kill mice only a few days after infection. Jonathan Howard, researcher at the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne (Germany) and at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC; Portugal), and his team have now found a mechanism that allows some mice to survive infection by the virulent strains. These findings offer an explanation for the evolution of parasitic strains with different levels of virulence. This study was published today in the open-access journal eLife.
The sexual reproduction of this parasite occurs only in cats and result in the release of enormous numbers of Toxoplasma eggs in their feces. These get eaten by grazing animals such as sheep or chickens but also by small wild animals such as mice. Upon infecting these animals, the parasite normally settles down in cysts in brain and muscle and can wait for many months until another animal eats its host. When mice are eaten by a cat the Toxoplasma completes its cycle. In the case of virulent strains of Toxoplasma, the outcome of the infection results in the rapid death of the mouse which can be bad for the parasite, because if the mouse dies from the infection before being eaten by a cat the parasite cannot complete its cycle and is eliminated. Virulent strains should therefore be at a disadvantage and die out. But the presence of these virulent strains in nature show that somehow there must be a mechanism to keep them.
The story depends on the balance that needs to be reached between the virulence of a parasite and the resistance of its host, if both parties are to survive. If the resistance is too weak, the host dies rapidly. When laboratory mice are infected with a non-virulent strain of Toxoplasma a group of proteins from the immune system of the mouse, the IRG proteins, disrupt the intracellular vesicles where parasites are located, killing most of them and saving the mouse's life. The surviving parasites become dormant as cysts in brain and muscle. Virulent parasites inactivate the IRG proteins of laboratory mice, which therefore die of the infection. Howard's team discovered that IRG proteins from many strains of wild mice differ from the laboratory strains, and cannot be inactivated by virulent strains. These wild mice are extremely resistant to virulent Toxoplasma strains. The high resistance of the mouse balances the high virulence of the parasite. As a result, the infected mice survive long enough for the parasites to make cysts and survive in a dormant state, allowing time for the mouse to be caught and eaten by a cat, and therefore for the parasite to be propagated.
Jonathan Howard explains these findings in the light of evolution: "We think there is probably a kind of arms race going on out there. Toxoplasma needs to infect mice efficiently because they are such good vectors to cats, but mice have exploited IRG proteins to create a resistance mechanism. The better the IRG resistance mechanism, the stronger the Toxoplasma virulence mechanism has to become. But why are not all mice as resistant as possible? We suspect that maintaining a highly resistant IRG system might be costly for the individual, though we do not know why. In fact, the IRG system has disappeared in several vertebrate groups perhaps because they are not important vectors for Toxoplasma. The maintenance of the highly developed IRG system in the mouse probably tells us that this species is an evolutionarily significant host for T. gondii."


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Buttercup has this horrible grunt-yell that she's done pretty much since she was born, so I hardly notice it as special when she does it. I just tell her that it's so prim and ladylike and laugh at her.
Meanwhile, I went to a baby sign language mini-class about 5 months ago or so, and occasionally I'll try to teach her the few signs that I learned. I haven't been very persistent with it, but there's one sign that I've repeated more than any of the others.
Tonight, Frank was standing near the dog, who was splayed out on the ground. Buttercup was there, too, gently patting the dog on the head (read: using the dog as a drum and a climbing perch). Frank pulled Buttercup off the dog and kind of held her as she stood on her little baby feet. Then she caught sight of me in the kitchen and let out her ladylike grunt. I raised my eyebrows and looked at her and noticed she was clenching and unclenching her fists as she yelled at me. She looked like she really had something to say, so I said, "Is that so?" Again, she yelled, clenching and unclenching her little fists. Then it hit me.
"Buttercup, are you saying 'milk'? Do you want milk??" The sign for milk is hilarious–you act like you're milking a cow. And this is something I've done sporadically over the last several months. Ask her if she wants milk, act like I'm milking a cow. Repeat. I realized this was what she was doing clenching and releasing her fists. We had laughed a month or so ago when she started doing this, yelling while making little fists (the fist thing was new). We thought it was something to do with teething, which makes her a little crazy.
She looked so excited, grinning hugely and raising her arms in the air.
"Milk? You want milk?" She kept grinning and looking expectantly at me.
I picked her up and offered her the boob. Sure enough, she wanted to eat!
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Why This Book
The concept of a shadow has always been a fascinating subject, and when I saw it in the title of a book, I wanted to learn more. I chatted with the author on Goodreads a few times about her life as a writer, quickly finding myself even more intrigued. I got a copy of the book and then saw she was having a blog tour – by the virtue of luck, I got myself included as part of the team (which I'm incredibly grateful for) and dove head first into reading the book. And I'm so glad I did… what a strong and solid young adult, mystery, and coming-of-age novel to spend a few days with!
Approach & Style
I read this ~300-page novel in early January via Kindle Reader on my iPad. It contains twenty-eight chapters and took about six hours to read over three days. The story is told with a first-person point-of-view and a perspective focusing on the main character, Zylia, a 13-year-old girl who feels like no one can see her. There's a fine line in the story that will make you wonder if there are any magical elements going on in the background, but it truly makes for a breathtaking transformation as you live through everything Zylia experiences.
Key Thoughts
The story is simple, but it is captivating. It's a psychological character study, and Mount has done a tremendously wonderful job to keep us interested with only small, simple, and ordinary events happening to her family. Kudos for making something truly introspective feel so warm and other worldly as the same time.
Mount completely captured the life of a 13-year-old girl (not that I would truly know what that is, but that it's definitely what I imagined it to be). Readers see everything from her point of view in a way that makes you feel like part of the action. Whenever I wanted to be angry with Zylia's siblings or parents, they do something to re-balance the equation, so I adore them again. The family dynamics in this book are extraordinary.
The tone is perfectly set. It is somewhat ominous, but not in a dark way. It's written with a light touch that makes you keep thinking… what's gonna happen here? I need to know, and I hope she's gonna be okay. Don't hurt my Zylia! Since this is spoiler-free, I will not tell you what happens… you have to go read it for yourself. Just trust me!
One of the strongest areas is Mount's use of language, narrative, and dialogue to tell the story. The words she's chosen make you think deeply. The book gives you an understanding of the questions we all ask ourselves at different ages, and what we choose to see or not see when we interpret other people's actions.
I definitely see Zylia as becoming a beloved character by readers: 95% adored and maybe 5% frustrated when she slinks too far into the "no one sees me" depths which is completely the way a young teenager would feel — it's absolutely necessary to draw the emotions out us, so it belonged. Zylia reminds me a lot of Leisl from The Book Thief! All the different things she encounters really show a day in the life of a young girl learning how to find her voice, which will absolutely pull readers in, and allow them to compare situations to their own lives or worry whether they've done the same things to others… exactly what a great book is supposed to do!
This is a book you want to take a chance on, especially if you're a young adult reader or love when books take you on a psychological journey.
Genre: YA/ Fantasy/ Coming of Age
Publication Date: December 28, 2017
Blackness. Nothingness. It was in the shape of a giant, hazy shadow, enveloping me, swallowing me, and digesting me into the unknown. It was my biggest fear and my ultimate fate.
Shy, thirteen-year-old Zylia has always known she was different. Most teenagers feel unnoticed and unseen, but for Zylia, it's something much worse. She's disappearing from this world and doesn't know how to stop it. At times, she's not sure she wants to. Until she stumbles across a family mystery surrounding the disappearance of her great-aunt Angelica years earlier. During her quest to unravel the mystery, Zylia discovers she's able to cross the boundary and enter the "in between" world. Now, it's up to Zylia to save herself before she's trapped "in between" forever.
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I did my best to fight and claw my way back to the life I once knew, but panic had taken over and colors were swirling and fading all around me. It was all turning into a great cloud of blackness, just like the one I had seen in my dream. The looming cloud of nothingness I had feared for so long was finally grabbing me, wiping my world dark and blank.
The darkness was thick and intense, an inky void that stretched to eternity in every direction. Eventually my panic burnt itself out and I simply stayed there in the dark, feeling as if someone had drained my adrenal glands. I was no longer responding to the dark with fear, but acceptance. In fact, curiosity was beginning to take over.
The longer I let myself stare into it, the less dark it appeared. After some time, I realized that it was all different shades of murky black and foggy gray overlapping and undulating, just out of focus. I blinked mentally and suddenly she was there, standing above me with concern etched in sooty-colored lines on her monochromatic face."
About the Author
Misty Mount has written since age five and was first published at fourteen. By day she's a caregiver, wife, and mother to a young son but during the quiet hours of night she becomes a novelist. She resides in Wichita, Kansas.
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Welcome to week 10 of the Indie Tee Spotlight series! I can't believe I've been at this for a whopping 10 weeks now! I have to say that I appreciate all the brands and designers that have worked with me on this for the last 10 weeks and I look forward to working with more of you in the near future!Â
This week I am happy to say that I am featuring one of the "funnest" and arguably the most hairy brands around, Fuzzy Ink! They recently made huge splashes with their Series Two shirts featuring the artwork of Craig Watkins aka Wotto in the tee design world. John Paul, Mike Paul and Justin Stimmel of Fuzzy Ink were kind enough to chat with me about how Fuzzy Ink was conceived, why mustaches are a requirement for Fuzzy Ink employees (maybe) and some of the highs and lows of working in the tee shirt business.Â
Coty: The Fuzzy Ink brand is so interesting; it's built around, of all things, the manly mustache! How did you come up with this concept? Where'd you get your mustache inspiration from? How long has Fuzzy Ink been in operation?
Fuzzy Ink: I wish we had a compelling story to blow you out of the water, but the formation of Fuzzy Ink can be illustrated in a few short sentences. December of '07 John and I were back home in upstate NY for the Christmas holiday. As entrepreneurs at heart, we were throwing around random get-rich-quickly schemes. One of us mentioned just throwing a bunch of mustaches on random objects for enhanced comedic value and the idea just seemed to resonate. It was one of those situations where we silently looked at each other, smirked and realized that maybe the idea was worth some additional brainstorming. (I also think it's worth noting that our father has had a mustache since he was 21 and we have literally never seen his upper lip free of fuzz).
Over the next month or so we put together an overwhelming list of ideas and then approached Justin, a graphic designer we knew through the lovely sport of soccer (futbol for the Europeans). From roughly February '08 until the end of May, we spent our time making heaps of purchases (screenprinter, shirts, ink, screens, loads of shop towels, etc. etc.) designing and skinning the website and learning the significant tricks of the trade. Finally in late May we launched our baby to the masses with bated breath. So to answer your question, currently we've been in operation a few days over 5 months.
Coty: Many of your tees have featured the artwork of Craig Watkins, better known in the t-shirt design world as Wotto. What has it been like to work with Wotto and why do you think his artwork matches so well with the Fuzzy Ink brand?Â
Fuzzy Ink: We honestly have nothing but positive things to say about Craig aka the Wottster as he has been an absolutely phenomenal person to work with. Although our initial collaboration started as a more professional-based endeavor, we quickly realized that Craig was better suited as a friend. With regard to his artistic styling, he produces amazingly unique pieces that are whimsical and playful in nature. As kids at heart ourselves, we were instantly attracted to the brilliant Scotsman's creations. Additionally, although he lets his imagination run wild on the canvas, in the business world he's a spot on professional. Not only has he shattered our expectations with his nose-to-the-grindstone work ethic, but he has also provided endless promotion for his design contributions. Craig truly is an unbelievably caring and kind-hearted gentlemen and we'll certainly be combining forces again in the very near future =)
Coty: On the topic of mustaches, it would be a bit hypocritical if you didn't sport one yourself! So the million dollar question is does the mind behind Fuzzy Ink sport a thick mustache much like the ones he promotes and sells? Do you require all Fuzzy Ink employees to sport mustaches as well?
Fuzzy Ink: Is it a crime to be hypocritical (slowly backs out of the room). The proper answer is yes…unfortunately the honest answer is no. We have definitely attempted to grow the 'stache on a number of occasions, but none of us seem to have been blessed with a lovely plethora of magical mustache locks. You will be excited to know though, that all of us are currently participating in Movember and thus are showcasing the patchy, pedophile look for the time being; there's definitely no guarantee we'll make it through the 2nd week though. With regard to employee 'staches, we'd like to think that if we actually had other team members, we would indeed crack down on their facial hair habits and require a strong, majestic soup strainer. Yes, yes you should practice what you preach, which is why we would all be wearing beautifully hand-crafted fake mustaches as we gave any order ;). We're still giving thought to the female option though…
Coty: The Fuzzy Ink catalog of tees is growing. If you had to choose your de facto favorite design, which would it be and why?Â
Fuzzy Ink: Because tastes and perspectives vary with each individual, we'll list the specific favorites of each Fuzzy member:
Mike: Tough question, but I would have to choose You're Nick'd Guv; I was immediately drawn to this older Wotto design and as John can vouch (please forgive me Craig!!!) I crossed my fingers that 90 days would be reached before Threadless picked it up. It's just a really fun design and I could honestly rock that shirt every day of the week.
John:Â For me, Striking has that simple yet complex look to it that makes it my favorite shirt in the collection. Everything about that design just works for me, from the contrast of the cyan and asphalt to the placement of the composition on the t-shirt. Definitely a shirt that I wear more than once in a normal week.
Justin:Â Sometimes the best designs come about when you're not trying to design anything at all. That was the case with Striking. It started out as just digital doodling and ended up being my favorite simple yet striking design in the Fuzzy fleet.
Coty: I just wanted to add that my favorite has got to be I Got 99 Staches… (though I am reaaaally thinking about picking up Striking!).Â
Coty: You currently have a new zip-up for presale; is this the beginning of Fuzzy Ink moving beyond selling just tees and faux mustaches?
Fuzzy Ink: Absolutely!!! We don't want to spill all of the beans on our surprises in production, but we fully intend to embrace the cooler seasons of the year. Additionally, in the very near future we'll be introducing more accessories, some of which probably haven't been seen in quite a few years (wink wink). The current market is so saturated with identical products that the only way to distance and separate yourself from the competition (besides getting your hands on a few venture capitalists) is to offer unique and uncommon merchandise.
Coty: What has been the most challenging part for you in terms of running Fuzzy Ink? What do you like the most (and least) about the t-shirt design business?Â
Fuzzy Ink: Hands down, the most challenging part about running Fuzzy Ink is literally having our hands in every aspect of the process. Early on in our brainstorming, we decided that it would be most efficient to actually purchase a screenprinter and make the shirts ourselves in-house. Throw into the mix all of the designing (website and apparel), screen setup, button-making, marketing, blogging, shipping, etc. and you have a very complex amalgamation of tasks. Although things have been very daunting at times, it has definitely helped us to become immensely well-rounded with regard to the t-shirt environment as a whole.Â
As with just about anything, there are highs and lows in the t-shirt business. The most rewarding experience for us is two fold. For starters, I don't know if there's a better feeling than when you make a sale (well maybe 30 sales =). Much like myself, there are millions of professional browsers that do wonders for website hits, but just never seem to make that important transition to the checkout. Knowing someone donated their hard-earned (assumed) money to sport one of our shirts, belts, buttons, etc. gives you great pride and motivation to crank up the production even higher. Secondly, the launch of Fuzzy Ink has introduced us to an amazing number of people. Sure networking can give you a leg-up with essential constituents and partners, but aside from business needs we've also gained a lot of quality friends.
At the other end of the spectrum, we've had the unfortunate luck of meeting some not-so-lovely individuals as well. One in particular helped us to initially sell a certain shirt and things were going brilliantly. Fast forward a few months and this bang up character is nowhere to be found, much like a large chunk of our change. Although this current situation is still pending, we're definitely a bit smarter when it comes to collaborating because in much of business the typical rules can be thrown right out the window.Â
Coty: As an independent brand I am sure that you received fan mail from people that love Fuzzy Ink. Has there been any one fan in particular that has stuck out in your mind or maybe a particularly interesting photo submission?
Fuzzy Ink: Well we have had a number of interesting submissions, but probably the most memorable feedback we've received came at one of the craftshows we attended. Probably about an hour or two into the show, a younger female approached our booth with an enormous smile. She absolutely adored the Stache Anything shirt and we proceeded to have a wonderfully detailed conversation about John Cusack, our favorite movies growing up and of course loads of other nonsensical things. Additionally, the same day we met a grizzled man who although probably a bit on the tipsy side, shared with us some great nostalgic stories about famous mustached men and their claims to fame. Overall, it's great to receive feedback through all mediums. We welcome constructive comments and hope people continue to critique our unique creations.Â
Justin, John and Mike: An overwhelming thanks to you Coty for the opportunity to share some of the Fuzzy Ink inner workings. You do a phenomenal job with your blog and I hope we can help to bring you some unique visitors. Safe endeavors my friend…
I'd like to thanks John Paul from Fuzzy Ink who contact me and was a blast to work with on this and the rest of the Fuzzy Ink team (Justin and Mike) who helped with this interview! I wish all of you the best in the future and many many tee (and mustaches) sales!


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New Haarlem Arts Theatre Presents BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE 6/23-7/17
New Haarlem Arts Theatre (NHAT), the new professional theater company of City College of New York (CCNY), will present "Blues for Mister Charlie" by James Baldwin, directed by Eugene Nesmith, from June 23 to July 17 at Aaron Davis Hall, located at W. 135th Street and Convent Avenue, Manhattan (Hamilton Heights). This will be the play's first major New York presentation since its Broadway debut in 1964. The timely production, designed to entertain and provoke, will re-imagine Baldwin's notions of race, class and gender relations, casting actors beyond racial lines to present a modern complex picture of American culture today."Blues for Mister Charlie" is based on the historic case of the murder of Emmett Till, a young black man who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for supposedly whistling at a white woman. The play follows a cyclical structure, opening and ending with the crime while utilizing a series of flashbacks to illuminate the social, racial, sexual and religious forces behind the young man's death. "Mister Charlie" is a slang term for a white man. The murder victim, named Richard Henry in the play, is a pastor's son who has returned from Chicago to the segregated Southern town of his birth, aiming to start over and recover from drug addiction. A shop owner named Lyle Britten, a bigot who shoots him and throws his body in the weeds, is acquitted by an all-white jury. The play forthrightly exposes the wounds of racism and its toll on both black and white members of the polarized community who attempt to intervene, notably the publisher of the town's newspaper. The play, Baldwin's second, was dedicated to the memory of Medgar Evers, his widow and his children, and to the memory of the dead children of Birmingham. Reviewing the Broadway production in 1964, Howard Taubman wrote in the New York Times, "James Baldwin has written a play with fires of fury in its belly, tears of anguish in its eyes and a roar of protest in its throat" and compared the play to Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" thirty years before.Director Eugene Nesmith, founding Artistic Director of NHAT, told the New York Times (in an article published May 30, 2011) that he chose "Blues for Mister Charlie" for the troupe's inaugural production because "a lot of the issues we were dealing with in the '60s--the racial, the economic, the gender issues--are coming around again." His innovation is to mount the play with a multi-ethnic cast, causing the audience to challenge its perceptions of race and prejudice in the more nuanced mindset of today. The actors are a mixture of New York working professionals, recent graduates of CUNY's undergraduate theater program, and student actors. The "working professionals" are Kelvin Hale, Earl Griffin, Dennis Jordan, Billy Lake, Johnnie Mae, and Reginald L. Wilson. The recent graduates are Amanda Figueiredo, Brian Reese, Franceli Chapman (in the featured role of Juanita, Richard's fiancee), Leroy Graham, Johnny Maldonado, Jasmine Romero, and Chandler Wild. The student actors are Lucas Babits-Feinerman, Trevania Campbell, Dorothy Davis, Katherine Guenther, Stephan Macari (in the featured role of Lyle Britten, the killer), Nathaniel Manning, Edwin Polanco, and Tiffany Warren (alternating in the featured role of Juanita).Set design is by Heather Wolensky. Lighting design is by Brian Aldous. Costume design is by Mary Myers. Assistant Director is Naya Tabie Johnson. Dramaturg is Chris Rempfer. Production Stage Manager is Tara Nachtigall.New Haarlem Arts Theatre (NHAT), a new professional theater company in residence at Aaron Davis Hall, is producing its first season this summer. In its productions, emerging professional actors from the CCNY community will work alongside the most daring, imaginative, and creative artists in their field on a high professional level. The troupe has been founded by Eugene Nesmith, with crucial support from CCNY, to establish a professional theater uptown that will rival the best college-based repertories in the country. It aims to produce bold theatrical works that express the true history, culture, and diversity of America. It also aims to attract audiences from around the city to Harlem again. NHAT is probably the only theater in New York City to offer free parking. Theatergoers can take advantage of on-site parking free in the South Campus Parking Lot, located next to Aaron Davis Hall with entrance on 133rd Street and Convent Ave. The next production of NHAT, July 27 to August 21, will be the first major NY production of "It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues" since its Broadway debut in 1999. This musical revue, written by Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor and Dan Wheetman, will be directed by Alfred Preisser and will feature well-known guest artists. More info will be forthcoming on NHAT's website, www.newhaarlemartstheatre.org.Eugene Nesmith, director of "Blues for Mister Charlie," is the Founding Artistic Director of New Haarlem Arts Theatre and the Chair of CCNY's Theatre Department. Mr. Nesmith approaches this new cultural entity with over 25 years of experience in professional theatre as an actor, director and educator, and with a passion to bring great live performance to the community of Harlem. For years he was a member of New York Theatre Workshop's Usual Suspects Group. He was selected to be a member of Lincoln Center's first Directors Lab. Most recently, he was selected to be a member of ATHE's Theatre Leadership Institute. Mr. Nesmith has directed various productions at regional theaters and Off Off-Broadway theaters in New York City. He has published critical essays in The Village Voice and in such scholarly journals as Yale Theater, American Theatre Magazine, and Black Theatre News, to name a few. His critical writings can also be found in such book length projects as "A Source Book on Black Performance," edited by Anna Marie Bean, and "Black Comedy," edited by Pamela Faith Jackson. Mr. Nesmith has also been a judge for The Village Voice Obie Awards and a panelist for the Theater Grants and Policy Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts. Most recently, he served as a speaker and interviewed James Earl Jones at the International Indian Diaspora Film Festival in New York City. As an actor he has performed in various roles Off Broadway and in Regional Theaters, in such roles as Brutus in "Julius Caesar" with Shakespeare and Company, Aaron in "Titus Andronicus" with Target Margin Theater and Baylen in "Glenn Garry Glen Ross" for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. In 1993, Mr. Nesmith was co-founder with Victoria Norman of The African-American Theatre Program at the University of Louisville. "Blues for Mister Charlie" will be presented June 23 to July 17 at Aaron Davis Hall, 160 Convent Ave. (at W. 135th St.). Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:00 PM with matinees Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 PM. Tickets $25 general admission, $15 students and seniors and $10 with CUNY ID. To buy tickets, visit www.newhaarlemartstheatre.org or call SMARTTIX, (212) 868-4444.


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Colorado's top 5: keying the defense
BOULDER — Third in a series of Colorado's top 5 players in different categories, this time the top 5 as keys to the defense. Reporters were prohibited from watching practices, so these lists were developed after interviewing dozens of players and coaches during fall camp.
Colorado's Top 5 as keys to the defense:
1. Free safety Ray Polk — The senior must direct traffic in a secondary that has four true freshmen in its two-deep, including starting left cornerback Kenneth Crawley. A three-year starter, Polk (6-1, 205) eagerly took on that task and spent additional time in the film room during the offseason so he could learn the responsibilities of every position in the secondary, including the nickel-back and dime-back.
2. Defensive end Chidera Uzo-Diribe — Quarterbacks in the pass-happy Pac-12 will pick you apart when they have time. The Buffs absolutely, positively need a big junior year from Uzo-Diribe (6-3, 250), their best pass rusher.
3. Linebacker Doug Rippy — Before being felled last fall by a knee injury, the senior from Ohio was CU's best defensive player. If he hasn't lost a step or any aggressiveness, his return will be huge for the Buffs.
4. Cornerback Greg Henderson — After earning a starting job last season as a rookie, it's imperative that the 5-11, 185-pounder have an even more consistent season year as a sophomore. If Henderson can be a shut-down corner on the right side, it will enable CU safeties to help out true freshman Kenneth Crawley on the left size.
5. Defensive tackle Will Pericak — The Boulder native, perhaps best known for the odd "Pre-check" pronunciation of his last name, has been solid throughout his career. Colorado needs him to take the next step and be spectacular. If Pac-12 teams find they can run the ball on the Buffs, it opens up infinite options in the passing game. That's trouble.
Honorable mention: outside linebacker Jon Major, nickel-back Parker Orms, inside linebacker Derrick Webb, inside linebacker Brady Daigh.


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For over a year now, I have been suffering from severe break outs of the hives. I have been working with the doctors for a solution (GP,dermatologist, and next an allergist). But, I am not the type of person to completely leave my fate in the hands of doctors. They are always prescribing some sort of pill for something and they just keep adding pills until they think they may have solved the problem.
I get hives that have sent me to the doctors office or urgent care every couple months for over a year now. These are serious hives that cover a T-shaped area on my back and chest that spread and turn into patches of red irritated hives. The hives have gotten so out of control, they come out in huge bumps that look like my back was attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes. Nothing seems to work, I have been on steroids, off and on for over a year, steroid cream, and now two different kinds of allergy pills and an anxiety pill, because they also crop up when I am feeling stressed out. All the steroids are not helping me lose weight, They are making it very difficult for me to control my weight.
I have finally found a fix that keep my hives at bay. EPSOM SALTS, they work fantastic for keeping my hives at a very minimum, almost non-existent. After doing some online research, I found that Epsom salts can work wonders for hives and they are gentle enough to use up to three times a day. Epsom salts provides vital minerals for healthy skin. They work fantastic and it is so relaxing. Not to mention, Epsom salts leave your skin looking healthy and feeling very soft. We look for all these expensive solutions to beautiful skin and the solution is good old fashioned Epsom Salts.
I started by using the recommended dosage of 2 cups of Epsom salts in a hot bath 1-3 times a day and with in a few days, you could see the hives disappear. I now take a bath in Epsom salts once every day or so. The doctors have been running tests, adding more pills and creams and can not find a cause of the hives. I hate taking all those different pills and it is so expensive to run to the doctor every couple of months for a temporary solution, then in a couple of weeks the hives are right back. It is easy enough of a solution to take a nice hot relaxing bath in Epsom Salts. I look forward to locking myself in the bathroom with the lights out, burning a candle and a hot cup of tea while soaking in a bath of Epsom salts.


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The all-new spy drama 'Hunted' debuted in the UK on BBC One last night, featuring a world-reknowned cast and the production team from the hit spy series 'Spooked', with a top writer from the 'X-Files' series. If you were watching carefully, you would have seen the Savage XS driven by one of the characters in a pivotal scene!
If you're in the UK and have access to the BBC's online iPlayer website, you can watch the episode by clicking here! If all you want to see is the scene with the Savage XS, you'll need to skip to about 37 minutes in (but you may not understand why the action in the scene it taking place!) Filming for the scene took place on location in the Regent's Park area of London (an area of large homes and expensive cars) over two days and involved dozens of film crew and extras, stunt drivers, cars that were wrecked...and 2 RC drivers from HPI Europe! Hopefully you enjoy the scene, even though it seems quite short - and keep a lookout for other HPI RC vehicles in future episodes! In the UK, the series is shown at 9 PM Thursdays on BBC One. The series will also be shown in the US on the Cinemax movie channel on Fridays.


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Don't worry, baby boomers, Chevrolet hasn't forgotten about you.
GM's everyman brand has in recent years launched one impressive small car after another. The compact Cruze, subcompact Sonic and tiny Spark have all done well for the company, both in terms of sales and in capturing younger buyers.
Photos: First drive of 2014 Chevy Impala
Now Chevy brings us the all-new 2014 Impala, a full-size, front-wheel-drive sedan. The Impala is aimed at competitors such as the Toyota Avalon and Hyundai Azera, both of which were recently overhauled.
All three cars have been redesigned with the goal of attracting younger buyers -- not necessarily young, but middle-age instead of old. So the interior and exterior designs are becoming sharper and more contemporary.
Chevrolet says it put an emphasis on making the Impala less cumbersome to drive than the land yachts of yesteryear.
But after spending a day driving several versions of the 2014 Impala east of San Diego, it's clear this car will still find more love in retirement communities than anywhere else. In some ways, it checks all the right boxes: it's handsomely designed, has a robust V-6 engine and a competitive price.
But it still drives like a boat.
To be clear, this car can comfortably devour hundreds of highway miles at a stretch. The suspension soaks up potholes and can handle lazy curves. But the Impala's connection to the road is remote at best. The body rolls in turns, and the six-speed automatic transmission takes its time hunting for the right gear.
The Impala's 305-horsepower V-6 didn't seem like it had that much power, nor did it seem eager to put this power to the front wheels. Though the Hyundai Azera and the Toyota Avalon have less grunt, both manage it better and more effectively.
Chevy says Impalas with the 3.6-liter V-6 we tested will go on sale in April. These models have been rated by the EPA at 19 mpg in the city and 29 on the highway. In a day of mixed driving, we averaged 23 mpg.
Soon after, Chevy will offer models with either a 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine or a 2.4-liter four-cylinder eAssist engine, a mild hybrid. Both will come with a six-speed automatic transmission.
As for the Impala's styling, Chevy redesigned both the interior and the exterior, and both are assets.
The outside is handsomely conceived, if a bit generic. At the front, trapezoidal headlights flank a larger grille in the same shape. The roofline slopes gently toward the short trunk lid, a subtle nod to the coupe-like styling among sedans today.
A contour line emerges out of the rear door and extends over the rear wheels on either side, giving the Impala confident shoulders. On certain trim levels, there are a pair of chrome-tipped exhaust outlets also in the trapezoid shape. At each corner, every Impala will have at least 18-inch alloy wheels, which fill up the wheel wells nicely.
Inside, the Impala is an exceptionally comfortable place. Throw a TV Guide on the driver's seat and you might mistake it for a La-Z-Boy. Soft-touch materials cover every surface.
The buttons on the center console are thoughtfully arranged to avoid clutter, and all Impala's come with an 8-inch touch-screen infotainment system called MyLink. This system uses the same software as the Cadillac CUE system, but it's far more responsive and intuitive than its higher-priced cousin.
As you'd expect, the amount of sound deadening is matched only by the amount of interior space. Same with the trunk, which can swallow more golf bags than you have golfing buddies.
Standard on all Impalas are goodies such as dual-zone climate control, the MyLink screen, power driver's seat, a 4-inch color display in the instrument panel, XM satelite radio and 10 airbags.
The base Impala LT with a V-6 starts at $30,760. That's cheaper than the Hyundai Azera, but read the fine print and you'll see the Azera comes with a navigation system, leather seats and a backup camera as standard. Add all that to the Impala, and the price gets a $600 bump.
The options list is lengthy and can set you back $41,600 if you check all the boxes. For that money, you get the Impala LTZ, with features such as heated and cooled leather seats, adaptive cruise control, backup camera, lane departure warning, forward collision alert, a sunroof, Bose stereo, 20-inch wheels and a navigation system.
Of the roughly 170,000 Impalas it sold in 2012, about 70% were fleet sales to rental car companies, government agencies or corporate clients. With the 2014 redesign, Chevy hopes to flip that proportion, with just 30% fleet sales.
That's an ambitious goal, especially as competition in this full-size sedan segment heats up. The Impala's success will hinge on whether baby boomers like the same kind of cars their parents did.
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Cadillac unveils engines for all-new CTS ahead of N.Y. debut


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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Tuesday Text: Parentexting™
18 comments:
- Caution Flag said...
Based on those text exchanges, I'm a boy. Wish I'd known that a little sooner.
Enjoy your babies this week :)
- November 23, 2010 at 8:34 AM
- LL Cool Joe said...
Rejoice in their differences, but I'm not sure they are gender related, but just expressing their uniqueness.
- November 23, 2010 at 8:38 AM
- These Nine Acres said...
I am experiencing the same thing with my older two and am sure the twins will be the same way. They are so different already at 2! It keeps life interesting ;0)
P.S. Have I told you I miss you lately?
- November 23, 2010 at 9:08 AM
- The Incredible Woody said...
Clearly she got all the communication genes;)
@Caution - I had the same thought yesterday as a pair of F/A18s flew over. Jets excite me. I am such a guy.
- November 23, 2010 at 9:24 AM
- Laura~peach~ said...
they are too fun!
- November 23, 2010 at 9:48 AM
- TSannie said...
That pasta sound delish!
- November 23, 2010 at 10:08 AM
- Keetha said...
I'm crazy about these kids! So different and so fun.
I wish you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving!
- November 23, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- Hilary said...
I hope she cooks for you. My older away-from-home son is a wonderful cook. It's quite fun sharing kitchen space with him. I wish you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving.
- November 23, 2010 at 11:15 AM
- Daryl said...
I need her to cook for me
- November 23, 2010 at 11:15 AM
- Country Girl said...
Know what's worse? FORGETTING your son is coming home. Like I did on Sunday when I called and asked when he'd be here Thursday. And he reminded me he was coming Tuesday night. Lord, help me!
And I want that pasta dish, too.
- November 23, 2010 at 12:18 PM
- Paxie Panicker said...
It balances out. You have one of each. I think it's that Mars Venus thingy that even applies to kids :)
I see mine texting away with friends and all I get is Huh? Yes. Love you.
I asked him Sunday "You okay?" and he said that's the 4th time. Quit hovering and you're getting on my nerves." Okay...excuse me, I've been in this habit 24 years..let me work on that one.
- November 23, 2010 at 1:45 PM
- lakeviewer said...
Communication with teens has never been easy.
- November 23, 2010 at 3:16 PM
- Grandmother said...
I only know about daughters but I LOVE the communication! Happy Thankgiving to you and the family.
- November 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM
- Chesapeake Bay Woman said...
Maybe it's a Mars/Venus thing. Or a Myers-Briggs thing.
No matter what it is, like Caution Flag I just discovered I am a boy.
Enjoy your time together.
- November 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM
- Flea said...
Dude. Will you share? Because that sounds really yummy. :)
- November 23, 2010 at 9:18 PM
- judi said...
I read this and observe people who have two kids and all I think is; Oh thanks be I only had one!
- November 23, 2010 at 9:21 PM
- yogurt said...
Was an interesting story on NPR this week (Monday?) It was about siblings / different personalities / why? I've got twin girls who are so different it hurts.
- November 24, 2010 at 12:16 AM
- Deep in the Heart of Happy said...
Artichokes and I just became friends...how have I gone this far without them?
- November 24, 2010 at 7:07 AM