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Visitors to Sprinkles Cupcakes' new Cupcake ATM, which opened this week, declared the desserts worth the wait.
The company opened a pink 24-hour Cupcake ATM on Tuesday outside its Lexington Avenue location, giving people the chance to swipe their credit cards and choose from a variety of flavors, vanilla to banana chocolate, delivered in boxes to a window. The cupcakes cost $4.25 apiece with a limit of four per person and can also be purchased in the store when the store is open. (But really, why would you?)
Shenel Wright, 21, goes to Hunter College nearby and is a regular at Sprinkles. She said the best part of the ATM was that it would allow her to get cupcakes after-hours.


text: I recently noticed petroleum smell when at stop light and when I got home and put bike on side stand gas began leaking down left side of bike. I immediately contacted my local BMW shop and took the bike over to be looked at. They found a defect in my fuel pump which was causing the gas leak. The whole pump had to be replaced at a cost of $460 plus labor. I contacted BMW of North America as I felt this was a potentially dangerous situation with gas leaking on hot engine but they would not help me as warranty was expired. I would like to know if anyone has had a similar experience or could give any advice as to possibly attempting to get BMW to rectify the situation.

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Spore designer offers post-mortem on project, team was essentially making five games at once
Spore designer Soren Johnson has reflected on the game's five-year anniversary over on his blog. The post discusses what went wrong with the game, and how its lofty ambitions perhaps grew too vast for the team. It's an interesting reflection on the polarising strategy game.
Spore headlines
Origin offering Mass Effect, Dead Space for £3, Bulletstorm for £7.50
EA's sounded the bargin siren, pricing the original Mass Effect and Dead Space for £3 on Origin, while its sequels are £10 and £7 respectively. Dragon Age 2 and Mirror's Edge are also in on the deal at a fiver a pop, while Spore's available for £6 and Bulletstorm at £7.50. The deal's available for […]
Darkspore trailer shows loads of gameplay footage
EA has released a new trailer for Darkspore full of gameplay footage. It's below the break.
EA Maxis to reveal Spore RPG at Comic Con on July 24
Organizers of San Diego Comic Con updated the event's website today with panel information for Saturday, July 24. Interestingly enough, one of the panels will reveal the new game in the Spore series.
EA trademarks Darkspore
Another day, another gaming trademark filed. This time, it's EA and the trademarks filed are for something called Darkspore.
Spore coming to consoles
EA confirmed in its Q3 FY10 financial release Spore will be coming to the consoles in Q4 FY '11, which means it'll be out between January-March next year.
Dr Pepper teams up with EA to hand out gaming codes
EA and Dr Pepper are teaming up to offer people gaming codes for chugging the popular soft drink.
EA and Fox working on Spore CG-animated film
Twentieth Century Fox plans to make a CG-animated movie based on EA's Spore, according to a Variety report. Ice Age's Chris Wedge is set to direct, and scriptwriters Greg Erb and Jason Oremland are on board as well. Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age, Robots) will handle the CG bit, while EA's Patrick O'Brien and Maxis' […]
EA confirms round of layoffs at Maxis
EA has confirmed that it has laid-off staff members at Sims and Spore developer EA Maxis. "Often in the video game industry, the size of a studio fluctuates in response to business conditions," read an official statement. "In this case, EA has taken action to reduce the workforce at Maxis as we focus the business […]
Spore: Galactic Adventures to have Robot Chicken DLC
EA has announced that Spore: Galactic Adventures will have downloadable content made available from the wacky Robot Chicken folks. The content will contain everything from angry yetis, exploding poo, librarians with rulers, and who knows what else from the demented minds of co-creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich. "We're big fans of Spore, so teaming […]
Spore sells 2 million copies
Spore has sold more than 2 million units, EA just confirmed as part of its full-year financials. The Maxis game was tipped as a driver in a year that saw revenue grow 15 percent to to $4.2 billion. Spore has now seen more than 100 million creatures created for the game. While Maxis may be […]
Spore hits 100 million creations
More than 100 million creations have now been made in Spore, SporeIllustrated reports. The milestone was hit yesterday at around 5:10pm EST. Give or take a minute or two. Mental. Have you killed more people than the entire population of planet earth, though, Mr Spore? We don't think so.
Wil Wright still involved in the Spore franchise, is now an EA consultant
Will Wright has confirmed to GameDaily that his involvement with Spore is ongoing, despite leaving EA. When asked if he had plans to revisit his hold franchises, he said he has entered into a consulting agreement with the publisher. "I don't think it was widely reported, but alongside this whole [Stupid Fun Club] thing, I […]
US PC charts, February 1-7
Blizzard leads the US PC charts this week, which makes a nice change. Steam and Direct2Drive results are included this time, in case you're interested. NPD Sales Charts February 1-7 World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King The Sims 2 Double Deluxe Spore World Of Warcraft Battle Chest Fallout 3 World Of Warcraft Left […]
Four new Spore titles announced
EA has announced four new Spore titles EA – two for the DS and one for the Wii, and the new PC expansion – to be launched this year. Spore Creature Keeper (DS) should be here in the summer and appears to be aimed at a younger audience. The next DS title, "Spore Hero Arena" […]
Spore 360/PS3 would have to have the "right design" to be considered, says EA
Spore senior producer Morgan Roarty has told CVG that in order for a console version of Spore to be considered the design would first have to be in place. "I think first and foremost we'd have to have the right design," said Roarty. "The obvious out of the box thinking would be to port the […]
NYT names Spore as 2008's "best disappointment"
In a feature titled, "The Zombies Look Better Every Year," the New York Times has named Spore as its biggest disappointment for 2008. "If Electronic Arts has learned anything from its experience with Spore, it ought to be that a software company should just let its games do the talking, rather than relentlessly hyping a […]
Top-line EA roster hits Steam
Following a pretty conclusive rumour that Spore was about to go live on Steam earlier this week, Valve's just confirmed that Wright's latest, the Creepy & Cute add-on, WAR, Mass Effect, NfS Undercover and FIFA Manager 2009 are now all available on the download service. Mirror's Edge, Red Alert 3 and Dead Space are all […]
Spore for Steam?
Simply, probably. A license agreement's been pointed out to us by reader Chris, featuring the word "Spore" and being hosted on Steampowered.com. No official announcement's been made on this as yet, but it would be fairly astonishing if it were bollocks.
Will Wright working on new project
Will Wright's confirmed to Joystiq that he's already working on a brand new game. "I'm working on a big new project that I'm very excited about, but I don't want to talk about it yet because if it takes three years to come out I don't want people saying 'Wow, he's been talking about that […]
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OK. Well all is not well in the deep dark underbelly of this blog. Sometime soon I'll get to the bottom of it. Regular blog posting will resume tomorrow (noon? night?). Tonight I've got to head to bed early to catch an early plane home. Things went successfully and the next job is local. I've started reading a bunch of things on which my regular discussion fellows likely have read more than I, that is neuroscience and evolution … and I still want to write more on the Ratzinger/Habermas discussion.
The rss feed works … but google is ignoring it and I'm trying to figure out why. Well, that should shake out.
Can anybody explain why Mr Obama (and his Democratic) supporters believe that the "regular grassroots" $5 contributor had (and will) be the mainstay of his fundraising efforts when there are 72 million voters (of both parties) eligible, 60% of those vote and only half of that 60% for the Democrat … and he is expected to raise 1 billion? How's that logic work out?


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Modeling is not nearly as glamorous or lucrative for men as for women. The boys make less money, so they often don't have the luxury of, say, a black car to ferry them between shows and fittings. Also, male models can be filthy, filthy creatures. Russian-born Matvey Lykov ranks in the top 25 male models working today (he recently landed the spring Jil Sander campaign). He tells the L.A.Times he prefers not to live in agency male-model housing:
"Before my first show in Milan, we were staying in this apartment that belonged to a male model," Lykov recalls. "I was staying with these Canadians; they were like animals. They destroyed all the furniture, they were throwing chairs and beer bottles out of the window from the fourth floor onto cars, and one guy [relieved himself] in the oven." He said he took his suitcase and checked into a hotel that night ... "Male models are messy -- it's not sexy at all."
The financial compensation hardly makes up for the pain and suffering. Lykov walked 34 shows in Milan, Paris, and New York. The eleven shows he walked in New York this season paid him in clothing rather than cash, something that's called a "trade" and not allowed in Europe. So if he makes around $1,000 a show, he netted about $16,400 this show season, after a 20 percent agency fee and couple grand for travel expenses. In a year, doubling that figure and adding in a few one-off shows and an exclusive job, he makes around $40,000. Before taxes. Including human excrement in the kitchen. (It is, however, considerably better than a starting salary at Conde Nast.) Lykov is hoping for some fall campaign bookings, where the real money is. In the meantime you might find him in the Williamsburg apartment he shares with four roommates, none of them models.
Male models: from subway to runway [LAT]
Previously on NYmag.com's The Cut...
- Topshop Will Open Quietly, Possibly With Her Mossness Present
- Our Favorite Looks From Milan
- Essential Elements of Teddy Boy Style


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What are Mathematical and Statistical Models
These types of models are obviously related, but there are also real differences between them.
- Mathematical Models:
- grow out of equations that determine how a system changes from one state to the next (differential equations) and/or how one variable depends on the value or state of other variables (state equations) These can also be divided into either numerical models or analytical models.
- Statistical Models:
- include issues such as statistical characterization of numerical data, estimating the probabilistic future behavior of a system based on past behavior, extrapolation or interpolation of data based on some best-fit, error estimates of observations, or spectral analysis of data or model generated output.
As a way to clarify the above ideas, here is an example of the development of a simple mathematical model.
Why use mathematical and statistical models to teach introductory courses?
Mathematical and Statistical models can be used to help students obtain a better grasp on a variety of topics.
Learn more about the benefits of using mathematical and statistical models
How can these models be used effectively in class?
In addition to the general discussion about how to use models effectively, there are a number of considerations, both pedagogical and technical, that have to do with using mathematical and statistical models specifically.
More about How to Use Mathematical and Statistical Models
Issues Related to Teaching Quantitative Skills: This page is part of the Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences website and includes a discussion of the relevance of mathematics and statistics in geoscience education.
Zachary, D. (1989). Teaching, learning, and using mathematical models in physics. Physics Education. 24(6), 339-343.
Edelstein-Keshet, K. (1988). Mathematical Models in Biology. McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 0075549506
Building the Quantitative Skills of Students in Geoscience Courses: This special issue (v48 n4, edited by Macdonald, Srogi, and Stracher) of the Journal of Geoscience Education has several examples of how mathematics and statistics can be used in geoscience courses.


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ELMONT, N.Y. – After Belmont Stakes morning-line favorite Ice Box and stablemate Fly Down schooled in the gate and galloped this morning, Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito was asked if his late closers would be closer to the pace in Saturday's 1½-mile race.
"It depends," said Zito. "Obviously, Ice Box has a great kick. I don't want to do anything to compromise his style of running. I've seen that before, changing styles, and it never works. Never, never, never. I hope he gets in position where he can run his race; that's all we can hope for. And, basically, he and Fly Down are the same type of horse.
"I guess everyone is going to pay attention to First Dude," he added. "He's got a good post [11] because he'll probably try and gallop out there. But I wouldn't change my horses' styles. I just hope my horses run the same way they have been."
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As First Dude galloped around Belmont Park's 1½-mile oval, trainer Dale Romans did nothing to refute the perception his horse is going to the front on Saturday.
"We're definitely going to be on, or close, to the lead," he said. "If someone wants to get out of their game and set him down inside of us, we'll let him go and sit right off.
"This horse doesn't have to be on the lead. If they let him get three-quarters in 1:14 like Seattle Slew, he'll be tough to catch. I don't think there's anyone in there that wants to sacrifice themselves and get out of their game and go chase him."
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Interactif will break from the far outside in Saturday's Belmont Stakes, which could give his rider Javier Castellano options on where to place the Wertheimer and Frere homebred in the field of 12.
"It's a 1½-mile race, and there's an eighth of a mile run into the first turn," his trainer Todd Pletcher said. "We'll have to secure some kind of position. On paper, First Dude (post 11) is the speed, so we hope we can just follow him over. Or maybe we'll just go to the lead."
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Kiaran McLaughlin coveted Uptowncharlybrown since seeing the colt win his first two races by a combined 15 lengths at Tampa Bay Downs. The trainer, however, had no desire to take charge under the subsequent circumstances — the sudden death of his friend, Alan Seewald, on April 12.
"I had offered to buy the horse through Alan Seewald after his first two races," McLaughlin said Friday morning at his Belmont barn. "I thought he might be a good 3-year-old, maybe a Derby horse."
Seewald, the long-time New Jersey-based conditioner, had purchased Uptowncharlybrown out of an Ocala 2-year-olds in training sale in April 2009 and run him four times at Tampa, culminating with a close-up fifth-place finish in the Tampa Bay Derby in which the colt was crowded much of the race.
Five days after Seewald died on April 12, Uptowncharlybrown ran third in an emotional Lexington Stakes at Keeneland, saddled by Seewald's assistant trainer, Linda White.
All of Seewald's horses with Fantasy Lane Stable were turned over to White, but McLaughlin said a mutual friend of him and the stable's manager, Bob Hutt, suggested he call about Uptowncharlybrown.
"Being that I did make an offer on this horse might have helped me get him," McLaughlin said.
The connections, however, were even closer: Althea Roy, the girlfriend of McLaughlin's assistant, Art Magnuson, is best friends with White and helped her saddle Uptowncharlybrown at Keeneland.
McLaughlin said he paid close attention to the race, in which Uptowncharlybrown had a slow start but was closing fast at the finish.
"I liked what I saw," McLaughlin said. "He was the best horse making up a lot of ground, flying late. I was in the race with my own horse, Krypton."
McLaughlin, who won the Belmont in 2006 with Jazil and finished fourth last year with Charitable Man, said he wished the race wasn't his first with Uptowncharlybrown, "so I'd learn a little from a race with him. But we're ready to go, and I think we'll get the distance."
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Trainer Michael Maker sat serenely is his barn office Friday morning while Tom Conway, the co-owner of his Belmont entry Stately Victor, relaxed outside, catching some morning sun.
"Everything went according to schedule, and he's done everything we've asked," Maker said of the Blue Grass winner's preparation for the final leg of the Triple Crown. "You couldn't ask for more than that."
Conway owns the colt, a son of Ghostzapper, with his son, Jack, the Kentucky attorney general who recently won a pretty big race himself — the Democratic primary in that state May 18 for a U.S. Senate seat.
Tom Conway said he had been in town since Tuesday and marveled repeatedly at Belmont Park's beauty and grandeur. "I love it here," he said.
Son Jack, however, is yet to make it out to the track. "He's in New York raising money," Tom Conway said.
Alan Garcia rides Stately Victor, 15-1 in the morning line, and Maker said he has no plans to offer instructions. The jockey first took the colt's reins at Keeneland and won the Blue Grass at 40-1. In their next outing, Garcia and Stately Victor finished eighth in the Kentucky Derby after a bumpy journey.
"Alan knows the horse, and there's nothing we could tell him he doesn't already know," Maker said.
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When Joel Rosario rides Make Music for Me in Saturday's Belmont Stakes, it will be the first time the 22-year-old jockey has competed over Belmont's expansive 1½-mile main track.
Trainer Alexis Barba is unconcerned.
"This kid is going to be a superstar," Barba said of Rosario.
Rosario and Make Music for Me closed from last of 20 to finish fourth at 30-1 in the Kentucky Derby. On Saturday, Rosario has one other scheduled mount at Belmont Park, as he is named on Kells Blues in the third race, a maiden event on the Widener turf course.
Rosario, who rides year-round in Southern California, is currently third in the jockey standings at Hollywood Park and was the second-leading rider at Santa Anita during the meet that concluded in April.
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Horses rarely race 1½ miles on the dirt, but WinStar racing manager Elliott Walden – who saddled Victory Gallop to a Belmont Stakes win in 1998 – has been waiting for the opportunity to stretch Drosselmeyer out.
"We're really excited about the mile and a half," Walden said of Drosselmeyer, who is trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott. "We wanted to get past the mile and an eighth threshold for a few months. We were hoping it was going to happen in the Kentucky Derby, and it didn't, so we're real excited about the Belmont."
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To Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, it's simple.
"Either you can go that far, or you can't go that far," he said after Belmont contender Game On Dude galloped Friday. "You can't get fit in a few days. I just want to keep him happy and fresh."
Baffert said he is pleased with the way Game On Dude has progressed in the weeks he's had him.
"He's a very laid-back horse. He's got a good mind. He's very plain. But he's matured since I've had him, and, he gets over this track really well. It only took him one time around to get used to it."
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Belmont long shot Stay Put galloped 1½ miles on the main track Friday morning in preparation for the Belmont Stakes. Jockey Jamie Theriot, who has ridden the homebred colt, owned by Bertram, Elaine and Richard Klein, in each of his seven races, will arrive Saturday morning, trainer Steve Margolis said.
"We will talk tomorrow," Margolis said. "Everything went well this morning, and we're excited and looking forward to it very much. We haven't plotted out the strategy, and we'll see what the weather looks like and figure out what we want to do."
Stay Put finished a close-up fifth in his two stakes tries and comes off an allowance victory at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day.
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John Sadler, trainer of Dave in Dixie, was scheduled to arrive in New York at 5 p.m. on Friday.
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There is no other race Larry Roman would rather win than the Belmont, and the owner believes his entrant Spangled Star could have a pedigree edge over his 11 opponents.
Roman noted how his long shot colt has the highest Tomlinson pedigree rating (386) for the 1½-mile distance in this year's Belmont field, but he also knows genetics are often inexact science.
"My mother was beautiful and my father was handsome, and look at how I turned out," quipped Roman.
Spangled Star is by Distorted Humor, the sire of Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Funny Cide. His dam Spangled won twice going 1 1/8 miles on the turf and is by Kris S., a notable stamina influence. The horse with the second highest Tomlinson in the field is First Dude with a 352.
Roman, a graduate of nearby Hofstra University, will be accompanied by 16 guests on Saturday.
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Doesn't seem anything really that offensive to be honest. You pushed him and most likely killed him. I bet it's more of a "oh man fuck you haha" than a "fuck your whole family I hope your sister gets raped and you get to see how they put her down motherfucker".
Just a game. We aren't the military, we won't punish for something that isn't that harsh on someone. At least, that's how I see it.
You're completely wrong. You do not understand the situation as you were not even there. Stop making assumptions about the situation please. My car spawned on him and it got stuck with his car and as you can see in the screenshot; my car exploded afterwards.
Also, you can't speak for everyone can you? That's your opinion about how you would react to what he said however is it that necessary to start insulting your mother over a game? Like come on it sounds a bit stupid doesn't it? Obviously this person decided to insult me by going as far as he did. It's pretty much very common when a person delivers an insult it's usually related to your family, which in this case was my mother.
Your assumptions about the situation is pointless. I'm offended by this..
Thanks for your comment but I see it quite meaningless for you to be here if you don't like this complain. The fuck are you even doing here? You're the one wasting your own time lmfao. Kappa
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I can write when and wherever i want.
And yes indeed, I really don't like this complain because it's just not worth writing it.
You act like you never got insulted with "fuck your mom". Normal people would not react.
But there is "SeeZ", takes Screenshots, upload them and writes a complain about a simple sentence that appears about 1 Million times per day.
You guys just should ignore those "idiots", although it's not that cruel what he said.
When he get's angry because of you, then just laugh. You seem to be better them him.
And guess what, my first post was a troll. But u triggered me.[img]http://signature.rocketleaguestats.com/normal/steam/76561198058456568.png[/img]
FerskeN wrote:Also, you can't speak for everyone can you?
I actually can. I can because I have been chosen as a Section Leader of this Section, Neon United.
FerskeN wrote:is it that necessary to start insulting your mother over a game?
No, it is not necessary. However I believe we can agree on that "motherfucker" is an insult universally used and depending on the situation it can mean a whole different thing. Based on your comment, I still stand by my first example. I don't think it was used with the sole meaning of insulting you.
FerskeN wrote:Obviously this person decided to insult me by going as far as he did.
Nah. That's a bit of an overreaction on your part.
FerskeN wrote:It's pretty much very common when a person delivers an insult it's usually related to your family, which in this case was my mother.
Which makes it lose its whole meaning.
FerskeN wrote:Your assumptions about the situation is pointless.
Again, not. Because I talk for the Members, along with my other two Section Leaders, Barbawix and Rio. What I think, I see, and what I say, is to take from my very own, and their vision as well. That's my role. If they don't agree with it they can start a demotion vote against me, and if it ends in favour, I will be demoted. Until then, or until I leave, I have but to assume they are in this with me, and with my other two mates.
FerskeN wrote:I'm offended by this..
You can be offended all you want, but I still stand by very first impression. This report does not need a punishment to be taken.
We have actually come to the point as society that calling someone a 'motherfucker' is normal and filing the report abnormal...
But then again: the internet is the only outlet for retards and fuckfaces who -lacking social skills- are ignored in the real world. So basically we are judging the people in need of attention.
We better ban them or mute them, time to hit them with some reality bitch
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I guess I have finally matured, and asa muture person I don't give an actual ass because one is a little pissface and the other is a crybaby and I'm not a babysitter. Later bro's
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In my age the word motherfucker, meaning someone who fucks mothers, can be a compliment.
Anyways, "fuck your mother" or motherfucker is actually a pointless insult. The person who says it actually achieves nothing with this. Or did you ever run to your mother, doing as he said?
Just stay over it and don't be butthurt by some kiddo who acts like a 9-years-old. Fuck his mother instead.
Coming to a point:
Get over it, ignore such a behaviour and stay away from such people. They are not worth any time, not even a report.It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - Albus Dumbledore
Passwords are like toilet paper. Don't reuse, don't share ones you've used, and no one should be asking to see what you've used. - Unknown
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Cory Doctorow
Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author
Cory Efram Doctorow (born 17 July 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist and science fiction author in favor of liberalizing copyright laws.
- I'm not a lawyer— I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.
- Microsoft Research DRM talk(17 June 2004)
- It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
- There's something to the idea of the autonomous character. Big chunks of our wetware are devoted to simulating other people, trying to figure out if we are likely to fight or fondle them. It's unsurprising that when you ask your brain to model some other person, it rises to the task. But that's exactly what happens to a reader when you hand your book over to him: he simulates your characters in his head, trying to interpret that character's actions through his own lens.
- I'm of the opinion that science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. We mostly go around describing the present in futuristic clothes - (such as) Mary Shelley, Bill Gibson, and many others.
- Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.
- The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror. Every London cop who stops someone from taking a picture of a public building, every TSA agent who takes away your kid's toothpaste, every NSA spook who wiretaps your email, does the terrorist's job for him. Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.
- Open platforms and experimental amateurs … eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. … Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.
- A tablet without software is just an inconveniently fragile and poorly reflective mirror, so the thing I want to be sure of when I buy a device is that I don't have to implicitly trust one corporation's judgment about what software I should and shouldn't be using.
- As someone once said, "Just because you're not interested in politics does not mean that politics won't be interested in you." And staying away from politics either because you think tech will make laws irrelevant or because there's no good way to influence laws just opens the field for people who don't cherish either of those illusions to make things very bad indeed.
- It's impossible to overstate how bonkers the idea of sabotaging cryptography is to people who understand information security. ... Use deliberately compromised cryptography, that has a back door that only the "good guys" are supposed to have the keys to, and you have effectively no security. You might as well skywrite it as encrypt it with pre-broken, sabotaged encryption.
- One form of math denial is the belief in the ability to make computers that prevent copyright infringement. Computers only ever work by making copies: restricting copying on the internet is like restricting wetness in water.
- The FBI wants a backdoor only it can use – but wanting it doesn't make it possible in The Guardian (24 February 2016)
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- First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers don't have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us. Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth.
- "A note about this book, January 9, 2003
- P2P nets kick all kinds of ass. Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about everything online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever.
Yeah, there are legal problems. Yeah, it's hard to figure out how people are gonna make money doing it. Yeah, there is a lot of social upheaval and a serious threat to innovation, freedom, business, and whatnot. It's your basic end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenario, and as a science fiction writer, end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenaria are my stock-in-trade.
- "A note about this book, January 9, 2003
- I released this book a little over a year ago under the terms of a Creative Commons license that allowed my readers to freely redistribute the text without needing any further permission from me. In this fashion, I enlisted my readers in the service of a grand experiment, to see how my book could find its way into cultural relevance and commercial success. The experiment worked out very satisfactorily.
When I originally licensed the book under the terms set out in the next section, I did so in the most conservative fashion possible, using CC's most restrictive license. I wanted to dip my toe in before taking a plunge. I wanted to see if the sky would fall: you see writers are routinely schooled by their peers that maximal copyright is the only thing that stands between us and penury, and so ingrained was this lesson in me that even though I had the intellectual intuition that a "some rights reserved" regime would serve me well, I still couldn't shake the atavistic fear that I was about to do something very foolish indeed.
It wasn't foolish.
- "A note about this book, February 12, 2004"
- I lived long enough to see the cure for death; to see the rise of the Bitchun Society, to learn ten languages; to compose three symphonies; to realize my boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World; to see the death of the workplace and of work.
- First lines
- The Bitchun Society has had much experience with restores from backup—in the era of the cure for death, people live pretty recklessly. Some people get refreshed a couple dozen times a year.
- The Bitchun Society had all but done away with any sort of dull, repetitious labor, and what remained—tending bar, mopping toilets—commanded Whuffie aplenty and a life of leisure in your off-hours.
- I'd talk to him about the vast carpet of the future unrolling before us, of the certainty that we would encounter alien intelligences some day, of the unimaginable frontiers open to each of us. He'd tell me that deadheading was a strong indicator that one's personal reservoir of introspection and creativity was dry; and that without struggle, there is no real victory.
This was a good fight, one we could have a thousand times without resolving. I'd get him to concede that Whuffie recaptured the true essence of money: in the old days, if you were broke but respected, you wouldn't starve; contrariwise, if you were rich and hated, no sum could buy you security and peace. By measuring the thing that money really represented—your personal capital with your friends and neighbors—you more accurately gauged your success.
- I think that if I'm still here in ten thousand years, I'm going to be crazy as hell. Ten thousand years, pal! Ten thousand years ago, the state-of-the-art was a goat. You really think you're going to be anything recognizably human in a hundred centuries?
- I swore I'd be done, and that would be the end of it. And now I am. There isn't a single place left on-world that isn't part of the Bitchun Society. There isn't a single thing left that I want any part of.
- Lying on my hotel bed, mesmerized by the lazy turns of the ceiling fan, I pondered the possibility that I was nuts. It wasn't unheard of, even in the days of the Bitchun Society, and even though there were cures, they weren't pleasant.
- I'd seen how Imagineering worked when they were on their own, building prototypes and conceptual mockups—I knew that the real bottleneck was the constant review and revisions, the ever-fluctuating groupmind consensus of the ad-hoc that commissioned their work.
Suneep looked sheepish. "Well, if all I have to do is satisfy myself that my plans are good and my buildings won't fall down, I can make it happen very fast. Of course, my plans aren't perfect. Sometimes, I'll be halfway through a project when someone suggests a new flourish or approach that makes the whole thing immeasurably better.
- The universe gets older. So do I. So does my backup, sitting in redundant distributed storage dirtside, ready for the day that space or age or stupidity kills me. It recedes with the years, and I write out my life longhand, a letter to the me that I'll be when it's restored into a clone somewhere, somewhen. It's important that whoever I am then knows about this year, and it's going to take a lot of tries for me to get it right.
Eastern Standard Tribe (2004)Edit
- Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005)Edit
- Larry poured himself a coffee. "I hate when they come in here with computers. They sit forever at their tables, and they don't talk to nobody, it's like having a place full of statues or zombies."
- "Christ, you're dragging me out for that? I can tell you what they'll say. They'll drag out the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse: kiddie porn, terrorists, pirates, and the mafia. They'll tell us that any tool for communicating that they can't tap, log, and switch off is irresponsible. They'll tell us we're stealing from ISPs. It's what they say every time someone tries this: Philly, New York, London. All around the world same song."
- All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
- No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
- It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
Little Brother (2008)Edit
- Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
- Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.
- This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
External linksEdit
- Encyclopedic article on Cory Doctorow at Wikipedia
- Works related to Author:Cory Doctorow at Wikisource
- Media related to Cory Doctorow at Wikimedia Commons
- Cory Doctorow's personal website
- Works by Cory Doctorow at Project Gutenberg
- Cory Doctorow at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Doctorow, Corey at DMOZ
- Presentation of Cory Doctorow "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free" at the CopyCamp 2014 conference
- "How to break the Internet, destroy democracy and enslave the human race (or not)" Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (17 March 2014)
- "How to break the Internet: Cory Doctorow at TEDxOxbridge" (17 June 2014)


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Most health clubs offer yoga classes at no additional charge. You can find a wider variety of styles and techniques at yoga-only studios, which charge $8 to $25 per class. You'll likely also find classes aimed at different experience levels.
Choosing a yoga class or instructor
If you're a yoga novice, make sure that you take a beginning class, and don't try to keep up with anyone else. Yoga can be extremely demanding, both in terms of flexibility and strength. Even if you can bench-press a heavy load in the gym, you may find yourself lacking the strength to hold a yoga pose for a minute. Yoga requires a different type of strength than weight lifting does.
In the yoga world, it usually means a lot if you've studied with a certain yogi master, but most people have trouble evaluating this type of credential. Rely on your own judgment and word-of-mouth recommendations. A good yoga instructor wanders around the room correcting class members' techniques and offering variations that allow less-flexible people to accomplish all the poses.
Yoga offers an active time-out to energize your body and calm your mind. Most yoga classes end with several minutes of lying facedown on the floor. This come-down time, called shivasana, is low-key enough to make some people fall asleep, but after you get up, you feel recharged.
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Yoga doesn't require a large commitment of equipment and clothing. Some people wear leotards; others wear baggy clothes; still others go without clothing altogether (an option if you're working out at home, but you won't find many clothing-optional classes).
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Central Scheduling offline until Monday
The R25 room scheduling system will be offline today through Monday, June 25. Central Scheduling will still be able to receive room requests submitted via the Intranet, but will not be able to process requests until the migration of R25 to the R25 hosted environment is complete. In addition, the Events Calendar will not reflect any changes during this time. Central Scheduling anticipates the system to be up and running on Tuesday, June 26.
Voluntary Cash Separation Incentive explained
The Columbus State Board of Trustees approved year two of the Voluntary Cash Separation Incentive at their March 15 meeting. Eligibility for voluntary separation is based on retirement eligibility in accordance with the following Ohio public retirement systems STRS, SERS, or ARP. The qualifications are:
Thirty years of public service at any age
Twenty-five years of public service with a minimum age of 55
Five years of public service with a minimum age of 60
If you think that you meet the eligibility requirements to take advantage of this opportunity, or you have questions about whether you meet them, please plan on attending a meeting on Wednesday, June 27 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. in CT-107.
The meeting will detail the procedure to sign up for the incentive, what paperwork you will need for certification, how the incentive will work, and next steps to take.
For more information, contact Twila Wiley at ext. 2422.
Freeze period for Switch2Semesters starts July 1
As Columbus State moves closer to semester conversion, the Switch2Semesters Steering Committee will institute a "freeze period" for the addition of any new functionality to the Colleague and Degree Audit systems. The freeze will begin on July 1. The institution of a freeze for new development does not mean that critical, non-S2S work will be halted altogether, but the college will need to exercise appropriate analysis to determine critical (mandatory and time sensitive) vs. non-critical (enhancements and increased functionality) system change requests.
This freeze period is important to help stabilize the production and S2S testing environments leading up to the switch, and to ensure a stable production system by the start of semesters in autumn 2012. We appreciate your understanding of this important decision which will help the overall success of Switch2Semesters. If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Carol Thomas or Jennifer Anderson.
TRiO Office receives five-year $1.4 million grant
The U.S. Department of Education's TRiO Office has awarded continued funding for the Columbus State Upward Bound program. Stephanie Albrecht and staff will spend $1,398,680 over the next five years to assist 68 students with intense services and strategies to increase the number of low-income, first-generation college students who successfully pursue and complete postsecondary education.
More grants received
Columbus State received $110,000 from the State of Ohio Department of Development for the Small Business Development Center at Columbus State (SBDC) to provide assistance and support to small businesses with a focus on manufacturing and technology. Known as the Manufacturing and Technology Small Business Development Center, the program is under the direction of Michael Bowers and Jeff Schick.
Also, the Ohio Child Care Resource & Referral Association has awarded Columbus State a Step-Up to Quality Achievement Award for the Child Development Center. Jennifer Perkins, director, and her staff will spend the $38,500 award on toys, learning resources, craft materials and crib safety devices.
Fulltime employee Annual Reviews now in progress
Managers have two options for completing annual reviews for fulltime employees:
Option One (COOL): Managers begin the reviews in COOL and submit them to their employees. Directions for beginning reviews in COOL and completing them, for both employees and managers are available at this link: http://www.cscc.edu/about/hcd/performs/review.shtml
Option Two (Fillable Forms): Forms can be found on the Columbus State Forms Page under Human Resources at the following link: http://intranet.cscc.edu/forms.htm or on the Human Resources webpage under Forms at the following link: http://www.cscc.edu/HR/forms.shtml.
As part of the process, all employees complete a Self-Review and submit it to the Reviewing Supervisor. Please check with your manager regarding his/ her deadline for these to be completed. The suggested deadline for these to be complete is Friday, June 22, but managers may provide employees with a different deadline.
All Annual Reviews for fulltime, non-bargaining unit employees must be completed by July 31 at 4:00 p.m.
If you need any assistance, please call your Human Resources Employment Representative at ext. 2408 or Mary Francis McLaughlin at ext. 5220.
Career development courses offered:
Discover Your True Calling - Are you still struggling to find an answer to the question: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Are you interested in learning more about the concept of vocational identity? Would you like to learn more about your vocational design? If so, then this class if for you! Discover Your True Calling is a highly interactive class to help you better discern your vocational design and understand how vocational identity fits into your life plan. Prerequisite: "Win with Your Strengths" (recommended but not required)
Course Number: Career Development 103 Register
Date: Wednesday, June 27
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: WD 402
Win With Your Strengths - Everyone has strengths. Recognizing and tapping into them to reach larger goals can lead to increased job satisfaction, performance, productivity and success.
In this course you will learn:
An introduction to strengths-based language
More about your own strengths
More about others' strengths
Your own top five "Signature Strengths"
Course Number: Career Development 101 Register
Date: Thursday, June 28 12:30 PM
Time: 12:30- 4:30 p.m. (please arrive ½ hour early to register)
Location: WD 402
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Columbus State walks for NAMI
At the June 2 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Walk, Columbus State co-captains Jackie Teny-Miller (kneeling left) and Angie Fry (kneeling center) led 45 walkers, raising $1,531 for the organization. Dianne Fidelibus, right, also joined the walk. NAMI is the largest grassroots mental health organization in the country, and is dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. This was the largest attended walk in the history of NAMI Franklin County with more than 1,000 people participating.
Weight Watchers at Work offered this summer
The next session of Weight Watchers at Work will start Tuesday, July 10. The sessions will be held at 12:00 p.m. in the DX conference room on the 3rd floor. The cost is $110, which can be paid through payroll deduction for your convenience. There will be an informational meeting for those interested on Tuesday, June 26 at 12:00 p.m. in the DX conference room. If you are interested, please contact Nichole Bowman-Glover at ext. 3989 or email email@example.com. To continue this valuable wellness program, the college has to enroll a certain number of participants, so join now!
New form available for contracts
For those who work with college contracts, a revised version of the Contract Routing and Approval Form can be found on the Intranet (not available off campus). Through a collaboration of Business and Campus Services, the Legal Office, the Grants Office, and Community Education and Workforce Development, the new form has been designed to facilitate contract routing, review and approval, and timely payment. This form replaces previous versions of the Contract Routing and Approval Form, and Contract Checklists and must accompany all contracts.
Upcoming ITDL seminars:
Turn your PowerPoints into videos
Have you ever viewed a PowerPoint that has been posted on-line? It seems one-dimensional. There is no voice behind the slides to provide context and feedback. Consequently, a posted PowerPoint may lose some of the point of the presentation.
Why not convert your existing PowerPoint to a video (with audio recording) that can be embedded in your Blackboard course? Think it's too difficult? Absolutely not! We can actually accomplish a conversion from PowerPoint to video in just ONE click!
In this hands-on workshop, participants will convert one of their own PowerPoint presentations (so don't forget to bring one!) to a video by using a free software called iSpring. During the presentation, attendees will learn how to download the appropriate software and will discuss best practices regarding creating voice recordings on PowerPoint, as well as editing, saving, and uploading recordings into Blackboard.
When: Wednesday, June 27 (9:30 - 11:30 a.m.) - Register
Where: Innovation Center, CT 106
Presented by: Melissa Logue, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages
Introduction to SoftChalk (2 Hours)
SoftChalk is a powerful web lesson editor that lets you easily create engaging, interactive web lessons for your e-learning classroom. During this introductory session you will learn the basics of how to use the SoftChalk Lesson Builder to convert your existing content into engaging and interactive web lessons that can easily be placed into your Blackboard course.
Please join us and learn from one of the most knowledgeable and creative instructors that is actively pioneering the use of SoftChalk at Columbus State.
When: Friday, June 22 (1:30 - 3:30 p.m.) - Register
Where: Innovation Center, CT 106
Presented by: Melissa Logue, Modern Languages
Getting Started with Blackboard (3 Hours)
This seminar will introduce the Blackboard 9.1 course management system. The goal of this seminar is to provide a solid foundation of Blackboard 9.1's essential know-how topics so participants will be better prepared for further Blackboard 9.1 sessions.
Topics Covered:
What is Blackboard?
How to navigate the Blackboard portal and class shell.
How to setup/customize a new Blackboard course shell.
How to post/modify/delete an announcements.
How to add a course syllabus to a course shell.
How to create folders for separating content.
We will also look at a few other new content related items.
Who Should Attend?
All faculty/staff who do not know anything about how to use Blackboard 9.1.
Anyone interested in learning the very basics of how to use Blackboard 9.1.
Saturday, June 23 (9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.), CT 106 - Register
Monday, June 25 (6:00-9:00 p.m.), CT 106 - Register
Thursday, June 28 (8:00-11:00 a.m.), CT 106 - Click here to register
Building Blackboard Tests Using Respondus (3 Hours)
This seminar is designed for the faculty members who are already familiar with the basics of the Blackboard, and are ready to start developing online quizzes, exams, or surveys. This seminar will focus on the use basic use of a software tool called Respondus.
During this seminar, participants will take documents in the form of a Word document and bring it into Blackboard using the Respondus. Respondus will save you considerable amount of time when developing exams, quizzes, or surveys for your Blackboard course.
Learn more about Respondus features!
Note: Please do not bring any exams, quizzes, or surveys that you have developed to use during this seminar - a training exam file will be provided.
Date: Friday, June 29
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Register
Grade Center (2 Hours)
An introduction to the Blackboard Grade Center, including creating a manual column and manually entering grades, creating a Total column, creating a Weighted Total column, downloading grades, modifying and creating custom grading schematics, modifying and creating custom categories, organizing columns, and sending email through the Grade Center.
Prerequisites for this session: BB9 101 Introduction to Blackboard 9.1
Date: Friday, June 29
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Register
Articulation Update and Tutoring Symposium: "Supporting the Millennial Student"
A symposium will be held Friday, August 10 from 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. or 1:00-4:30 p.m. in the Columbus State Conference Center. The symposium will offer focused support for adjunct tutors, advisors, faculty, and staff. A roundtable discussion --Integrating and Sustaining Title III Activities-- will be held from 12:15-12:45 p.m. Bring a lunch and participate! For more information, please email Dr. David Reedy.


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The Soundtrack Of Summer in Seattle
A typical PawSox home game ends around 10:00 pm and by the time we've wrapped up the post-game show and I've taken care of some stats and notes that I'm responsible for, my 48-minute drive home usually begins around 11:00.
Thanks to XM radio, Seattle Mariners' broadcaster Dave Niehaus not only made the late night commute bearable – he made it enjoyable. If the Mariners had a home game, I knew I'd have the pleasure of listening to a master at work.
Niehaus was the Mariners' primary play-by-play announcer from the team's inception in 1977 until his passing of a heart attack at the age of 75 on Wednesday. He received the Ford Frick Award in Cooperstown for his "major contributions to baseball" in 2008 and is unquestionably one of the greatest broadcasters in history.
The thing that stood out to me about Niehaus was his incredible enthusiasm. Every time I tuned in, Dave sounded as happy as my 4-year-old son Sam was last week when I brought home the Toy Story 3 DVD he had been asking for.
Keep in mind, that's how Niehaus sounded after calling more than 5,000 Mariners games.
There's a tremendous lesson there for anyone in sports broadcasting. If you can't have a blast when you're sitting in the best seat in the house while getting paid to talk about a sporting event, you're in the wrong business.
Dave's calls of famous moments in Mariners history are priceless, and usually ended with his signature phrase, "My oh my."
Some of his most memorable calls can be heard here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/flatpages/video/mediacenterbc3.html?bctid=30741168001
But I plan to go to MLB.com's Gameday Audio section, pick out a random Mariners game from last season and listen to Niehaus weave his magic on an average night in the middle of a losing season. I know I'll laugh, marvel at his descriptive abilities, and feel like I'm listening to the most exciting game of the year.
My commute home won't be the same next summer.
I'd love to hear from you. Please take a moment to tell me who you are and where you're from in the comments section or you can e-mail me at email@example.com.
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03-Nov-2002 -- At the end of a week's trip along the desert coast of West Africa I had spotted a Confluence not too far from the main road some 60 kilometres northeast of the big city of Dakar. My trip thus far had involved a 150 kilometre drive on the beach and 300 kilometres off-road in the open Mauritanian desert with only a GPS for a guide, and I had hoped to get some Confluences along, but the fact that we didn't pass within 20 kilometres of any points and that I was with others and wasn't driving (and also the fact that I had already bagged the first Confluence 18N 16W in Mauritania) dissuaded me and encouraged me in my dedication to bagging the first Confluence in Sénégal.
After crossing the ferry back into Sénégal at Rosso, taking a rather harrowing bush-taxi ride and picking up a borrowed vehicle we had parked in Richard Toll, we drove on to Saint Louis, an interesting town at the mouth of the Sénégal River, which has a well-preserved colonial section. There we spent the night in a nice French hotel and had a good meal of fish in the restaurant. The next morning we left about ten o'clock, passing through the towns of Louga, Kébémer, and Mékhé before turning off the main road at Tivaouane. There were supposedly some dirt roads leading west to the area of the Confluence 15N 17W, but we were not able to find them.
The road in Tivaouane was paved and well-marked, although it was necessary to backtrack to the north towards Mboro. Along the way we saw huge piles of mine tailings and some sort of chemical plant. In Mboro we found the road heading south towards Noto and the Confluence, but decided to go on some five kilometres further to the coast just to check it out. There was a small town called Mboro-sur-Mer, but our hoped-for restaurant did not materialize. There was only a snack bar. In turning around our truck got stuck in the sand and I had to lock the hubs and put it in four-wheel-drive to get out. So we decided to continue south.
The road was paved but uneven, so we just took our time, arriving in the area around 1pm. It looked like the Confluence would be located in a village and I was wondering about how to explain what I was doing. As we approached the Confluence, I saw that it would not be in the village, but to my dismay the road turned away from it and there was a barbed-wire fence stretching far into the distance. It enclosed a new mango-tree orchard. We came abreast of the Confluence with the GPS reading 310 metres to go, and the fence ended right there! So I parked the truck and hiked up a sandy hill into a pasture. To the west I could see the line of tall dunes marking the coast. There was a herd of cows and goats grazing but no one seemed to be around, so I took out my confluence flag (made for me by Rachel and Andy, who accompanied me to 14N 2E) but I couldn't find a stick upon which to mount it, so I just laid it over a detached thorn bush and put it on the Confluence, which was in an open, grassy pasture.
As I was shooting pictures along came a young Wolof man, trotting towards the town of Noto. He had been to his garden to harvest some bissap (a plant used to make a sweet drink the colour of grape juice, which is favoured in West Africa). We talked some and I found his name was Moussa Faso. He had been a welder in Dakar but business was not good so he had come back to the village to garden. He had very bad French but we were able to communicate and I photographed him at the Confluence, holding his bissap flowers. We walked back to the truck together and he jogged on down the road towards the village of Noto (still about 1 kilometre distant) while I picked the burrs out of my socks and shoes. After we left the Confluence we headed further south to the resort town of Saly and spent a couple of hours before heading back to Dakar, where we spent the night and caught a flight out the next day for our home in Niger.


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As the flashes of hundreds of cameras lit the room, the first lady unveiled an unprecedented initiative intended to draw the entire nation together in support of military families.
This is about "the extraordinary military families who serve and sacrifice so much every day," Obama said. One Marine wife, tightly gripping her husband's hand, wiped away tears.
The event marked not only the launch of the "Joining Forces" campaign, but also the culmination of a long journey to improve military families' lives. Over the past two years the first lady, with Dr. Jill Biden at her side, has traveled to bases -- stateside and overseas -? to meet with military spouses and to advocate for funding on their behalf.
"This is the moment that we've been working toward for such a very long time," she said.
For Obama, it's a journey that began even before her husband took the oath of office. Just over two years ago, she hit the campaign trail and met with working women to discuss the challenges of balancing work and family while "staying sane."
During those talks, she heard from a segment of society she hadn't heard from before, the first lady told American Forces Press Service in a recent interview.
"They were military moms and grandmothers and sisters who were handling all of the stresses that we were handling, only adding on the multiple deployments, multiple transfers, trying to finish education," she said.
Obama heard from mothers who were trying to keep their children settled as they moved from base to base, and from spouses who were having trouble with job certifications. She recalled one military couple that was trying to adopt. Each time they moved, they had to fill out new paperwork, needlessly drawing out the process.
The first lady was taken aback by what she'd heard. Growing up in Chicago, she'd had little contact with military families. Her father had served in the Army, but that was before she was born. She had little knowledge of the challenges associated with military life, including the frequent moves and school transfers, and multiple deployments.
The stories she heard "took my breath away," Obama said, and also sparked a passion for military family support.
"One thing I vowed on that campaign trail as I got to know these women ?- and some men, of course ?- [was] that if I had the privilege of serving as first lady, I'd use this platform to shine a light on these issues," she said.
Obama said she was thrilled to find out that the vice president's wife shares her passion. Biden is part of a military family with first-hand knowledge of the challenges they face. Biden's son, Beau, is a member of the Delaware Army National Guard and, as a military mom, she had her own struggles when he deployed to Iraq a few years ago.
"The first time we met, I asked her what she wanted to work on, and it was military families," the first lady recalled.
Obama and Biden together set out to first "shine a light" on military families, then to call on the nation to take steps to increase the support offered to them.
Just last week, Obama and Biden embarked on a two-day, nationwide tour to promote military family support. They made stops in Colorado, Texas, North Carolina and Ohio during their whirlwind trip. They attended a math and science competition and an employment event, and stopped by a celebration for pregnant military spouses.
At an event in Ohio, the first lady talked about the impact of frequent moves on spouses seeking jobs. "We see them trying to build seniority at their jobs, but seeing that they have to keep starting over every time that they move to a new duty station," she said at a national retailer's distribution center. "And that's not easy, particularly when so many employers see a resume with multiple jobs as a red flag, rather than as a reality of military life."
To assist, Obama is calling on businesses to recruit and hire military spouses and veterans, and asking them to make their workplaces more military-spouse-friendly, with flexible work schedules and portable jobs.
In Colorado, the first lady focused on education at the Fountain-Fort Carson High School in Colorado Springs. She spoke of a national math and science initiative that's working with the Defense Department and partners in the private sector to expand a program called the "Initiative for Military Families." This program, she explained, provides advanced placement courses in math and science to schools and areas with high military populations.
Military life equips children with special skill sets such as responsibility and flexibility, she noted at the event. "And when you use that knowledge alongside with what you'll be learning in these math and science courses and other classes, there's no telling what you guys will be able to do and what you'll be able to achieve," she told the students gathered there.
Their last stop was in Columbus, Ohio, where they hosted a concert-style event for local military families and community members. First up was teen idol Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers, followed by the cast of Sesame Street. Both were tough acts to follow, especially with an audience of primarily children and teens. But their introduction by Elmo was met by a thunderous round of applause.
As in their other stops, the first lady asked the audience a few simple questions. "Jill and I believe that everyone -- everyone -- can do something, even boys and girls. Everyone can do something to support a military family. And everyone can ask themselves, 'What can I do? How can I give back?'"
Following her remarks, the first lady stepped off the stage and into the crowd to mingle with military families. She shook hands and shared hugs, taking time to greet each person with a warm smile and a few words of gratitude. Their aim, Obama said, is to connect troops and their families -? who make up only 1 percent of the nation ?- with the other 99 percent of Americans. "I think that most Americans are like I was -- not aware," she said. "But I believe that if we're made to be aware, that we step up."
Obama said the best way to raise awareness is to pass on military families' stories. She cited a few that have remained at the forefront of her mind.
One young woman she met stepped up to care for her family after her father was severely burned. While her mother tended to her father, the 15-year-old girl cared for her younger brothers and sisters. She cooked, cleaned and helped them with their homework, the first lady said.
That young woman is now in college, she said, marveling at "the strength and maturity that it took for her to change her life."
"She did it because, in her own words, 'My family needed me,'" the first lady said.
In another family, a sister gave up her career as a nurse to move in with her brother and take care of him after he was injured and lost both of his legs, she said.
And many of these families are serving not just in the military, but in the community as well, Obama said. "They're the coaches, they're the heads of PTA, they're the ones leading the bake sales, they're the ones supporting each other," she said. "In addition to all the burdens they already have, they're finding ways to reach out and be the best Americans that this country has to offer."
Obama said she's touched by the stories she's heard, but now it's time for the rest of the nation to hear them.
"These aren't stories of sadness," she said. "They're stories of success, triumph and coming together and unifying. These are the stories the country needs to be motivated by."
In the coming months, companies, businesses, nonprofit groups and individuals will be rolling out new initiatives and programs for military families to assist them with everything from employment and education to mental health and wellness. Federal agencies also will continue to pursue the nearly 50 commitments they made earlier this year through the Presidential Study Directive 9, a governmentwide effort to improve military families' lives.
And Obama will continue to showcase the nation's efforts to improve military family support. The first lady said she would like to weave her efforts into the fabric of the nation so "when we're long gone and the next president has taken office, this is just something we do, that all sectors of society will have figured out how to incorporate this into their mission now and forever."
Above all, Obama wants military families to know their nation will support them over the long haul.
It's "making sure that you know that from the president of the United States on down, we're behind you," she said. "Hopefully, families will see they live in a nation that truly cares."
*Related Sites:*
Special Report: Joining Forces [ http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2011/0411_joiningforces/ ]
Joining Forces Campaign [ http://www.whitehouse.gov/joiningforces ]
First Lady Aims to Improve Military Families' Lives [ http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=63668 ]


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Lakeland College senior Michelle Fromm expects long-simmering emotions to bubble to the surface this weekend.
"I know I'm going to cry at least once, if not more," she says.
Fromm's tears will represent a jumbled collection of feelings, ranging wildly from joy and pride to deep sadness. Because no matter how many people attend and enjoy her original play, she will think about the one person who won't be there.
"I know my dad would be proud of me," she says softly. "Even with as little of the show that I had finished, he was already talking it up to anyone who would listen."
Fromm's production of "The Writing Desk," a play about the universal human pursuit of love through the ages, will debut Friday night at 7:30 at Lakeland's Bradley Theatre. Additional performances are offered Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Admission to this wholly student-produced and performed play is free for Lakeland College students, faculty and staff. The cost is $3 for all other students and children, and $5 for adults. All proceeds go to the Theatricians, Lakeland's student drama club.
"I think this is a great reflection of what Lakeland College is capable of," Fromm says. "This play was born here and raised here, and now it's going to graduate here. It's really exciting to me. I really like Lakeland College, and so much of Lakeland College is embedded in this project."
Fromm was about a year into writing what would eventually become a 65-page script when she received a phone call on Sept. 28, 2013. Her father and biggest fan, Ron, had passed away suddenly at the age of 52. One of Ron's passions in life was writing mystery plays, and his excitement about Michelle's project inspired her.
"It was really hard on me," Michelle says of her father's death. "I had been going to him for advice, and he was so good about troubleshooting and suggesting different things, or having me take out twists that just didn't work.
"I didn't touch the play for weeks. I just couldn't. But when I finally did go back to it, I had a new energy in me, a new need to push this through to the finish line. I am dedicating this to my father. Actually, I'm dedicating it to both of my fathers: God, and my earthly father who's now in heaven."
"The Writing Desk" is a story about how people from three different eras perceive and pursue that universal need, love. In Fromm's piece, the spirit of the writing desk recounts its view of that quest for love in three eras: 1866, 1922 and 2014. The first year was post-Civil War while the second year represented the Prohibition era and the third year covers the present.
"The story is about what people are going through in order to achieve some sort of love," says Fromm, who will direct the performances. "I tried to get away from society's ideas of love. I think society puts too much stress on romantic love, and not enough on love between friends, sisters, family members."
Fromm, who disliked history until taking a class with Lakeland College professor Rick Dodgson, did hundreds of hours of historical research. She also spent many more hours clacking away at drafts on an old-school manual typewriter before honing the story via more modern word processing. Last summer, she recalls, the play was "like a fulltime job some days; eight hours with a lunch break."
She says it's important to her that the piece is as historically accurate as possible. For example, one character attempts suicide, and Fromm wanted to be sure the method of death this character chose fit the time period.
"Michelle really made this her baby," says Charlie Krebs, Lakeland's associated professor of theatre and speech. "The fact that she wrote it and is now directing it is pretty outstanding."
Some of the topics covered in the roughly 90-minute play are serious. In addition to the suicide attempt, Fromm delves into murder, abortion and arranged marriage.
What started as a senior writing project has blossomed into a production that will include 15 current student cast members and a handful of other students who will contribute in roles ranging from set design to assistant direction to working the spotlight.
"I believe that art forms should not stand alone, so this show carefully incorporates acting and lighting (performance art), set design and costume design (visual art), and of course my writing," she says. "The show is being put on entirely by students, plus two recent Lakeland alumni. We even have a Lakeland art student who is doing the set for internship credit."
Krebs, who gave Fromm advice but took care to let her run the show, has been impressed with his standout student's effort and execution.
"I'm extremely proud of her," Krebs says. "She's very, very talented, and works so well with other people. I just can't say enough good things about Michelle."
Getting "The Writing Desk" off the ground wasn't easy. There were setbacks, like when three cast members quit for various reasons early this semester. Their replacements had to memorize their lines in a week.
"They didn't complain," Fromm says. "I'm so proud of the cast. They have worked so hard. I'm not so great with leadership skills, especially since I'm an introvert. But the students have been so great to work with, and the sense of community they've built around this show is amazing. Everyone has such a passion. I think it will be a great show because of their dedication and hard work."
The Writing Desk
- Assistant Director — Karissa Anderson
- Spotlight — Zach Purser
- Period costumes — Della Janke (alumna)
- The Spirit's costume — Michelle Fromm
- Featured poem — Sean Gilligan
- Set construction — Stagecraft students, Bradley staff
- Set design, finish — Lori Smith
- Script critique, copy editing — Leah Ulatowski
- Support — Lakeland Theatricians
- Critiques, support & advice — Charlie Krebs
Cast — Sara Pfile, Brittany Beckmann, Leah Ulatowski, Katherine Zielsdorf, Elizabeth Plotka, Stephanie Rebek, Skyler Walkowski, Becca Eliott, Chris Callan, Miranda Miller, Andy Kay, Matt Troyer, Greg Heinen (alumnus), Rae Siehs, Irvin Colon