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Random Thoughts on an Angels Off Day
Extra Innings
It could be my memory playing tricks on me, but the number of extra innings games played out so far this season seems unusually high, considering it's only April 14th. The Angels alone have already played in three extra innings game and we're set to play the White Sox this weekend who have already played in five extra innings games. At the moment, the Angels extra innings record (2-1) is better than the White Sox (2-3) but the Angels' one loss was the only extra innings game where they were the visitors. So what does this mean for the weekend? Will the Angels and White Sox mutual flair for the dramatic cancel one another out so the game lasts a mere nine innings? Or should we Angels and White Sox fans brace ourselves for a couple of 14th innings stretches and beyond? Hmmm, I wonder. Do they do a 21st inning stretch? 😉
Vernon Wells
Like a lot of Angels fans, I am disappointed that Vernon Wells didn't come on board and instantly light the scoreboard on fire with the heat of his mighty bat. However, while I certainly didn't expect him to be at 5 for 49 on April 14th, I wasn't really counting on the other scenario either. I know that sometimes bats warm up right away and sometimes they take a while. I mean, Kevin Youkilis, Carl Crawford, Victor Martinez and Juan Uribe are all hitting at or below the Mendoza line at the moment. At the beginning of any season you can pick a list of similarly big hitting names with temporarily hibernating bats. Does anyone seriously believe these guys will stay batting that far below their career averages for the rest of the season? Didn't think so. I'm not saying we can all expect Vernon Wells to bat .400 this season or anything like that, but the man's career average is .278, so assuming anything less than a productive batting average for the season seems equally silly.
Booing him already, as some have done, is outright ridiculous to me. I loved Angles Live Radio Host Terry Smith's response to a particularly annoying fan on this front. The fan called in berating Wells and how much we're paying him for a batting average just above .100 and had already written the whole thing off as a failure. Smith sounded weary and annoyed with the caller's argumentative tone and asked if he honestly thought that Wells' batting average would not improve this season. The caller said he really didn't believe Wells would improve his average and Smith responded in a deadpan voice. "Well then, you clearly don't know very much about the game of baseball. But you got on the air this evening so I guess you should be proud of that." Well said, Terry Smith, well said.
My thoughts? By all means, be disappointed Angels fans. It's disappointing. But also cut the guy a little slack. It's April 14th. Wait and see what he can do in a few more weeks. Oh, and ignore the stupid contract. It will drive you crazy and think about it – yes, it's a ludicrous contract, but why should we care? Personally, unless I hear that the Angels are unable to spend money they need to spend to keep or obtain new players, that the other players are upset by the contract or Vernon Wells never makes it above the Mendoza line, I really don't care how much they're paying him.
Starting Rotation
I didn't think I would be saying this when the season started but our starting rotation is a little scary right now. Certainly not Jered Weaver and Dan Haren. They've been amazing so far this season and show no signs of stopping. And Ervin Santana has been alternately good and a trooper, battling through a less than stellar start where his speed just wasn't there to at least keep the Angels in the game for the bullpen and the bats to take over. Hey, some days are like that and there is a lot to be said for not crumbling and continuing to fight your way through it. It's just that after Santana our rotation gets a little…um…improvisational.
Our number 4 and 5 starters are on the DL – where Kaz can stay indefinitely in my opinion barring miraculous improvement! – so the Angels have been using off days as a phantom start day and hosting a revolving door for the other spot. Tyler Chatwood is supposed to get his second major league start this Saturday but for the next vacant start, who knows? Matt Palmer again maybe? Chatwood showed a lot of the poise under pressure and ability to battle through a bad start that I just praised in Santana on Monday. Now that he's gotten the obligatory Welcome to the Big Leagues, Kid homerun and an extra one just for good measure out of his system, hopefully Saturday will be more like his later innings and Chatwood will prove a useful replacement.
Regardless, so far the season is going reasonably well and it's been anything but dull. Occasional anxiety attacks interspersed between periods of contentment and even euphoria seldom are. 😉


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This is a story. The story of a young woman, brown of hair and unsure of heart, and her new dress. This is also the story of another woman in the dressing room, heart full of cocaine and smartphone love.
Have you ever seen a face like that? What brought on her joy? Why is the other girl so morose? This photo is like staring into a prism—no amount of scrutiny will answer anything. But we can't look away, just like blonde crazyface couldn't pull her eyes from her phone screen as she snapped a pic of this pouting beauty. What was the dress for? A sacrifice? Combat? A Bat Mitzvah? What challenge awaits her? Is this her last day on Earth? We'll never know—and that's why this JPG, encapsulating everything it means to be young, terrified, and an AT&T subscriber in modernity, will haunt us for the rest of our conscious years. [Reddit]

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The seventh president of the United States set some traps. That was certainly true if you were one of the members of the Cherokee or Chickasaw sent off down Andrew Jackson's signature Trail of Tears. And while the stakes cannot be compared, his slippery nature also applies to "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," the cheerfully anachronistic 2010 Broadway rock musical about this complex American figure, a show that sold its ducats on the back of the tres outre tag line, "History just got all Sexypants."
When I first saw "Bloody Bloody" on Broadway, it struck me as the ideal musical for the Wikipedia age. As historical research — of a certain basic level — has become as easy as a Google search, so opinion and attitude have gained in currency. The cleverness of this hipster musical, which was written by Alex Timbers with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, is that it understood that change in the pervasive discourse. It doesn't even try to tell us anything new about Jackson, it just tries to tell his story in the freshest and most opinionated possible way, mostly using wildly contemporary language and reimagining this 19th-century chief executive as a flawed, sexy rock star in eye shadow and tight jeans.
The self-consciousness of images such as cheerleaders making out in the White House notwithstanding, "Bloody Bloody" does try to explore an interesting central question, which is, in essence, whether Jackson was an aberrant, amoral, American anomaly or a savvy, self-aware guy who did what he had to do to move a young, precarious country forward — and thus was little more than an embodiment of America itself. That's what lies behind all the post-punk ballads, the groping scenes with wife Rachel Jackson, the trendy anachronisms, the songs with the self-aware titles like "Populism Yea Yea" and "Illness as Metaphor."
On Broadway, this show survived, for a while, by offering up sex, sardonic wit, a magnetic star, soaring vocals and the blackest humor on the Great White Way.
The big problem with director Scott Ferguson's admirably ambitious but mostly disappointing new Bailiwick Chicago production at the new National Pastime Theater (this is the show's first outing in Chicago) is that it misreads the tone of the piece, further camping up the material when this kind of snark requires a production that plays it absolutely straight.
To put this problem another way, it feels like the young Bailiwick cast knows they are in the baddest, wildest show in town and is determined to show us just how far they can go, when the material actually is going plenty far enough already. What "Bloody Bloody" needs is a production that goes in the opposite direction from intensifying the obvious, and actually roots this stuff in the kind of truth and dramatic tension that could give the show a real hook and some actual stakes.
The aptly sexy star of the night, Matthew Holzfeind, certainly has his moments in the title role, especially when what's generally a vocally uneven performance (among many vocally uneven performances) finally pays sufficient careful attention to the notes. But Holzfeind struggles nonetheless to take total charge of the show and pull us through the story, which should be Job One, and thus allow us to wallow a little in all of the disturbing aspects of his dude in the White House. As his wife Rachel, Samantha Dubina could dial it back about a dozen notches and still be plenty big enough for a first lady. Dubina and Holzfeind are both decent young talents; their chops are just not applied here with the right fundamentals. Time and again, the show stomps on the jokes. One of the gags here is the presence of a "Rocky Horror"-like storyteller (played here by Judy Lea Steele). It would be far funnier if Steele played against what we're all laughing at, instead of milking the character like it were a Tennessee cow.
When you first walk into the grungy, inherently deconstructive space — which looks, sounds and feels very exciting, thanks to the rockin' live band (one of the production's great strengths) and to Nick Sieben's deliciously toned design work — you think the Bailiwick is going to nail old Andrew to the floor, right where he belongs. There are moments of capture. But total bloody surrender would require a big change in attitude, from "look at us" to "look at him and thus see yourself."
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Hope senior basketball players Will Bowser (Midland, Mich./Midland HS) and Carrie Snikkers (Jenison/Unity Christian HS) have received All-Region honors.
Both been been named to the All-Great Lakes Region team by the website d3hoops.com and Bowser has received first team recognition on the Great Lakes Region team of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).
Both players led their respective teams to the championship of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) and a berth in the NCAA Division III tournament. Snikkers is All-Region first team honoree for the three consecutive years.


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AFCON 2013: Ike Uche's Hat-Trick,Uzoenyi Assist Help Super Eagles Trash Farense 5-0
The Super Eagles ended their training camp in Faro, Portugal in style on Tuesday when they trounce, Portuguese second division side, Farense 5-0, in a game described by Head Coach Stephen Keshi as dress rehearsal for the team's opening game against Burkina Faso on January 21.
The match, which was again played at the Browns Sports and Leisure Club in Faro, where the Nigerian side stayed throughout its sojourn in Portugal, was barely five minutes old when right back, Efe Ambrose surging run into the danger area of the Portuguese was met with a vicious hacking. Centre referee Luis Costa wasted no time in pointing to the spot.
Chelsea star, John Mikel Obi, stepped in to coolly slot home the opener. But Farense made things difficult for the Eagles as Senegalese born striker, Sone Diop, Falardo and dangerman Fabio Texeira attacked sporadically in search of an equalizer that never came till the end of the first half. The Eagles on the other hand had plenty of chances to have buried the game in the first but Nosa Igiebor hit the cross bar thrice, Mikel followed suit with a fiery shot that also hit the bar and Emmanuel Emenike also missed a sitter.
In the second half Head Coach Stephen Keshi made sweeping changes. Kenneth Omeruo was in for Joseph Yobo, Juwon Oshaniwa for Elderson Echejile, Ogenyi Onazi for Mikel Obi, Sunday Mba for Igiebor, Obiorah Nwankwo for Fegor Ogude, Ikechukwu Uche for Brown Ideye, Gabriel Reuben for Efe Ambrose mid-way into the half, same as Vincent Enyeama was replaced by Chigozie Agbim.
There was no immediate impact with the changes until in the 75th minute when an Emenike's furious onslaught down the left wing of the pitch was clinically finished off by Ikechukwu Uche for one of his three goals of the evening. Goalkeeper Agbim must be credited for his quick counter-attack throw to Emenike.
Uche was to score another in the 80th minute after nice footwork by Ejike Uzoenyi left him face to face with goalie Sergio Serrar. He blasted into the roof of the net. He completed his hat-trick of the evening after a fine interchange of passes between him, Onazi and Ejike.
Just as the referee was about blasting home the final whistle Ejike was to set up Emenike for the final goal on the dot of 90minutes for a comprehensive whitewash of the Farense side. The referee did not even allow for a restart after the fifth goal.
Farense Coach Antero Afonso said at the end of the encounter that his side has learnt useful lessons from the Nigerian national team and predicted that the Super Eagles will do well at the championship going by the quality of players he saw in the friendly. "You have what it takes to win the championship, but you must take each game as it comes and adopt different styles for different opposition. You have very quick players so don't allow yourself to be under pressure at any time in the tournament. I may not know the teams that will be at the tournament but the team I saw today should be among the favourites to win the African Cup", he said.
The Nigerian side will depart Faro by 12:30 Portuguese time for Lisbon from where the team will connect a flight to Paris, France and from there to Johannesburg, South Africa. The team is expected in Nelspruit, venue of two of its first two group games on Thursday morning.


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It's time to clean out the office in anticipation of a productive and prosperous 2008. Here are a few items of interest for your consideration.
Are you familiar with the Willard Suitcase Project? This fascinating project began when the Willard Psychiatric Center in New York was closed in 1995 after 126 years. Left behind in a pigeon-infested attic were nearly 400 suitcases, dusty testaments to long-forgotten former residents of the facility that began as the Willard Asylum in 1869.
In the years since, researchers have examined the contents of the suitcases and have pieced together the stories of their faceless owners. The result is a traveling public exhibit, "The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic," which will be at the New York City Public Library through Jan. 31. A book by the same title will be available in January.
People do the darnedest things to their data. To learn about the guy who sprayed his hard drive with insect repellant or the woman who took her flash drive for a tumble with her laundry, check this out.
Hopefully this won't happen to you, but some people have taken to selling family heirlooms to pay off their medical bills. Descendants of abolitionist John Brown found themselves in this predicament recently.
Many newspapers charge for obituaries these days. That's the downside; the upside is that you have more control over what you can say since it's essentially a paid ad. But, if you want to avoid bad word choices, like "gone to live with the angles," or factual errors such as "Grandma was a descendant of [the childless] George and Martha Washington," you might want to hire a pro. Here's an article on the perils of paid obituaries.
Oh, to be a farmer. Chris over at The Genealogue reports that a study by Drs. Leonid and Natalia Gavrilova of Chicago shows that trim farmers with more than three children were more likely to live to see 100 than overweight city boys without kids. In fact, living on a farm "more than doubled a man's odds of living into the triple digits."
Larry Lehmer is founder and president of When Words Matter, a company that specializes in collecting stories and writing family stories. Check out his web site or send him an e-mail.
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SKF rebuilt rocker housings raise ROI by 633%
The challenge
The SKF solutionWorking closely with mill technicians, an SKF paper specialist determined that the machines' conventional self-aligning bearing system and rocker housing - which were designed to deal with shaft elongation - could not accommodate the significant changes in shaft behaviour caused by increasingly higher machine speeds.
SKF recommended incorporate a CARB toroidal roller bearing in a rebuilt rocker housing to accommodate misalignment and axial displacement. The rocker housing was also redesigned as a fixed housing.
The resultThis new arrangement resulted in a 663% return on investment, through reduced downtime and increased productivity.
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- Savings per machine by avoiding speed loss: €528 000
- SKF rocker housing rebuild and CARB bearing investment: –€72 000
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After seven years in custody at Guantanamo Bay, a former top Al Qaeda commander and confidant of Osama bin Laden was arraigned Wednesday by U.S. military authorities there, pushing his case into the troubled military tribunal system.
Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi faces non-capital murder charges for his suspected role in a series of high-profile terrorist attacks. If convicted, he could be imprisoned for life.
Prosecutors say Hadi spent nearly two decades running Al Qaeda training camps and orchestrating assaults in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They say he sat at Bin Laden's side when Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four U.S. passenger planes and killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001.
Hadi appeared in court in a white turban and robe, stroking a long silvery beard and looking older than his 53 years. He declined to enter a plea to the charges.
Speaking in Arabic, he complained that one of his attorneys was leaving the case and demanded a replacement. The judge, Navy Capt. J. Kirk Waits, granted his request.
The arraignment came a day after the Obama administration announced it would try a suspected ringleader of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in a civilian court in Washington, not in the special military courts set up to try terrorism suspects since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Hadi is considered a high-value detainee, and the military's 14-page charge sheet alleges he played a role in 63 separate acts of terrorism as he rose through Al Qaeda's ranks. A man of many aliases, he oversaw suicide bombings, roadside attacks by improvised bombs, and other campaigns in which he swore "there shall be no survivors," the document says.
Hadi is believed to have taken over Al Qaeda's Al Farouk training camp in eastern Afghanistan in 1996. He became Bin Laden's liaison to the Afghan Taliban as they rose to power, and later was assigned by Bin Laden to run Al Qaeda's insurgency in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, the charge sheet says.
Prosecutors say Hadi met repeatedly with Bin Laden in the early summer of 2001 to discuss the coming assaults on New York and the Pentagon.
Bin Laden gave him $20,000 "to purchase weapons and ammunition" that Al Qaeda knew it would need once the United States retaliated, the charges say. In the spring of 2002, he received an additional $100,000 from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, to further fund Al Qaeda's operations, the document alleges.
Hadi "directed, organized, funded, supplied, and oversaw Al Qaeda's operations against U.S. forces, coalition forces, and civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan" from 2002 to 2004, the charges say.
His mission was "to kill Americans and their allies wherever found, to kill everyone encountered on the battlefield and to take no prisoners," the document says.
Hadi is the 12th prisoner at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be charged under the Obama administration.
Mohammed and four suspected Sept. 11 co-conspirators, as well as Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, who is charged with organizing the deadly 2000 attack on a U.S. destroyer in a Yemeni port, are still awaiting trial. Five other defendants have pleaded guilty.
During the George W. Bush years, military prosecutors charged 27 Guantanamo prisoners and convicted three. One case has been overturned. The others are under appeal.
Hadi's arraignment, held at Guantanamo Bay, was simulcast for reporters at Ft. Meade.


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Jun 25th, 2012 @ 1:37 pm | Author: Dr. Steve Shirley
Dr. Steve Shirley, VCSU President
Last week, Dr. Vitaliano Figueroa began employment at Valley City State University as the new Vice-President for Student Affairs. In this role, Vitaliano replaced Mr. Glen Schmalz who resigned his position earlier this year.
Glen has served the VCSU campus wonderfully during a career that spanned more than three decades. Glen and his wife, Sharon, recently relocated to Fargo. Not only did Glen graduate from VCSU (and was a student-athlete during his college days), but he also served in a variety of important positions during his VCSU tenure including coaching, admissions, counseling, Dean of Students, and ultimately Vice-President for Student Affairs. Glen was a tremendous asset to VCSU and positively impacted many students over the years; he will certainly be missed on campus and throughout the community.
The Vice-President for Student Affairs (VPSA) function at VCSU is integral to both the daily operational activities of the campus as well as with the long-term goals associated with various strategic objectives. The VPSA role has responsibility for several important university functions related to student success, and requires an individual with the appropriate breadth and depth of skill sets to successfully carry out the required duties.
The VPSA is responsible for such areas as Enrollment Services, Financial Aid, Residence Life, Career Services, the Student Union, the Bookstore, Counseling Services, Student Academic Services, New Student Orientation, the Student Senate, and other important student life areas throughout campus. The VPSA also works closely with other entities such as the North Dakota University System office, the campus Dining Services contractor (Sodexo), and local authorities with any student conduct matters that might arise.
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Vitaliano Figueroa to VCSU as he transitions here from the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas where he served for the past seven years as the Director of Student Life, Leadership Development, and Student Conduct. Prior to his tenure at the College of Southern Nevada, Dr. Figueroa also served in various student affairs capacities at Santa Ana College (CA), American Career College (CA), and the University of Rhode Island.
Vitaliano earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees at the University of Rhode Island, and he earned his doctorate in Educational Leadership from Argosy University. Please join me in welcoming Vitaliano, his wife Daisy, and their children Vitaliano and Isabella as they transition to North Dakota and the Valley City community. Welcome Dr. Figueroa and Family!


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This year, Slate asked Buck Loughlin, last seen co-hosting the climactic dog competition in Best in Show, to talk with me about this year's Oscar race. Below is an edited transcript.
Buck Loughlin: Live from Hollywood, this is Buck Loughlin, here with David Edelstein, for the second biggest day of the movie year—the penultimate lap of the Oscar race. David, your thoughts on this great, great competition?
David Edelstein: Well, Buck, I just want to say at the outset that I don't really like to do this sort of racing commentary. I'm a serious critic for a serious magazine, and I have little interest in trying to fathom the middlebrow taste of the Academy–
Loughlin: So you're a pretentious two-bit whore is what you're saying?
Edelstein: Well …
Loughlin: Hold on! They're out of the gate! Actors, actresses, directors! All in the running for that golden statuette. Whatever happened to his genitalia, by the way? I'm just kiddin' ya. David, you gotta like the legs on that Julia Roberts.
Edelstein: Well, she does have certain coltish, equine–
Loughlin: And there's Russell Crowe in his souped-up chariot! Backed by those big DreamWorks bucks. Oh, you don't wanna mess with that big dog! Go get 'em, Russ! Rrrroooof!
Edelstein: Just a laughably crude movie—a high-minded splatter picture.
Loughlin: And he's flattening everybody, isn't he?!!! Billy Elliot, watch out! Whoa, that was ugly!
Edelstein: I thought Billy Elliot was a pretty limp movie.
Loughlin: Speaking of limp—I gotta ask ya—you think Billy was a little light in the loafers? Maybe that hurt him with the Academy?
Edelstein: Well, his sexuality wasn't really the point.
Loughlin:Almost Famous, GET OUTTA THE WAY!!! Oooh, too bad.
Edelstein: You don't like to see that … that was a sweet picture …
Loughlin: That's gotta hurt, huh? The darling of all you critical ay-leets …
Edelstein: Looks like two supporting actresses and a screenplay slipped through, though.
Loughlin: That little Goldie Hawn girl, she can be my groupie any time. Hey, who's that driving the Wonder Boys car? Robert Downey? It's off the track—and mowing down bystanders!
Edelstein: Well, I thought that movie didn't work.
Loughlin: I guess you could say Downey lost by a nose, eh? Anyway, Traffic moves into the lead. They've got a whole bunch of cars on the track!
Edelstein: I think Hollywood respects that film's multiple subplots and vast ambition—as do I.
Loughlin: But that Steven Soderbergh guy—how can he be driving two movies? You know what I think? I think he's carrying Traffic, and Brockovich is running on those Julia Roberts legs. You know who gets my vote.
Edelstein: Well, there is a kind of thoroughbred charm to Julia Roberts. A sort of equine grace.
Loughlin: Look out! Here it comes, down the middle of the road—the Miramax mobile!
Edelstein: A shocking come from behind, I'd say.
Loughlin: Y'know, Harvey Weinstein had his ticker go kerflooey this year; he lost some speed, but the drive is still there, I'm tellin' ya! Kick some ass, Harvey!! Spend, baby, spend!
Edelstein: I'm still stunned that Miramax has forsaken risky, low-budget movies for the middlebrow art house market. I thought this year they'd get their comeuppance.
Loughlin: Yeah, those pretty horses didn't even get out of the gate, huh? I guess they only looked pretty.
Edelstein:Vatel—what a wreck.
Loughlin: Stoppard him before he writes again! I'm just punning. But here comes Chocolat. The dark horse—dark chocolate. You must've liked that picture?
Edelstein: Uh … no. It celebrated the fearless morality of self-gratification.
Loughlin: Sounds like a Hollywood theme to me! And there's Cast Away, fast out of the box! Hey, Cast Away, look out for Gladiator!!! Pow! Cast Away pancakes the inside wall! It's marooned! Cast Away is marooned!
Edelstein: I'm surprised.
Loughlin: What do you think? Too much weight?
Edelstein: That's my guess.
Loughlin: But Hanks is fast, boy! He's in there with a Best Actor nomination!
Edelstein: He did suffer for his art.
Loughlin: Hey, if you paid me $25 million to go on a diet … That guy didn't have to act hungry! What's that up in the sky? Holy Hong Kong, it's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon! It's flying over everything! Is that allowed?
Edelstein: I think all's fair in this race.
Loughlin: Yowza, that little Chinese girl sure can fight!
Edelstein: She deserves a nomination, don't you think?
Loughlin: What's her name?
Edelstein: Zhang Ziyi.
Loughlin: Zagnut? Zing Zang Zooley? I think the 80-year-olds just said, "Screw it, let's vote for Judi Dench." A great old Dame! Julie Walters, is she a Dame, too? Can we petition someone for a Dameship for Julie Walters? I'm kiddin' ya.
Edelstein: I suppose it could be worse. It looks like a good day for Javier Bardem.
Loughlin: Doesn't he play for the Phillies?
Edelstein: I do feel sorry for Mark Ruffalo.
Loughlin: Gesundheit.
Edelstein: They look upset at the Village Voice table. Gillian Anderson was a favorite for House of Mirth.
Loughlin: Legs too short to compete against Julia Roberts.
Edelstein: Ellen Burstyn did.
Loughlin: Hey, let me ask you something. Did Burstyn really get electroshock therapy? When they had the camera in close on her face and she was just rattling around there—how'd she do that?
Edelstein: I guess she was acting.
Loughlin: Now that's acting! Boy oh boy. Rattling your brains for the sake of art.
Edelstein: My life as a movie critic.
Loughlin: A joker! Good luck to you! Hey, thanks for watching, everybody. See you all in March! Julia—slow down!


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BALTIMORE – With just two weekends remaining until the 2014 America East Indoor Championships, the UMBC track and field teams head to the Big Apple for the 2014 Armory Collegiate Invitational on Friday and Saturday. The meet will be held at the New York Armory track, the same facility which will be used for the conference meet (Feb. 23-24). In addition, the Armory Collegiate Invitational has been selected as the USTFCCCA Division I National Meet of the Week.
UMBC put on another record-breaking display last weekend at the Penn State Nationals, led by senior Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley). The Retriever captain, who broke the school record in the 800m at the NYU Team Challenge on Jan. 24, reset the record in Happy Valley with a new top time of 1:49.15. He was named the America East Male Track Performer of the Week on Tuesday and leads the conference in the event, in addition to tying for the 13th-best time in the nation. Smith will compete in both the 800m and 1,000m events in New York.
Though she did not break her own school mark, junior Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) captured the top spot in the 200m dash at Penn State to earn the America East Female Track Performer of the Week award. Jackson bested the field with a time of 24.50 after advancing to the finals of the 60m dash on Friday evening. She currently holds the top time in the conference for the 60m dash (7.48) this season, and sits second for the 200m race with her time from Penn State. Jackson will race in both sprint events this coming weekend.
ECAC qualifier Kirsten Jones (Brentwood, Tenn./M.L.K Magnet) will join Jackson in the 200m race, in addition to competing in the 400m dash and 4x400m relay at the Armory. In Pennsylvania, Jones posted a season-best time of 24.87 in the 200m event while reaching the ECAC standard in the 400m race as well (56.44). Both times rank third in the America East entering the weekend.
Junior Alisha Beeman (Bridgeport, Conn./Bunnell/Hartford) took over the school record for the pentathlon last weekend, scoring 3,277 points at Penn State. Beeman is also the school record holder in the high jump, having cleared 1.71m (5'0.75") at the Terrapin Invitational in January and will compete in that event, as well as the long jump, in NYC. Her high jump mark sits third in the league behind Tori Shaffer of Binghamton and Brittany St. Clair of Vermont, both of whom have cleared 1.73m (5'8") this season.
Sophomore Vincent Rentzsch (Oranienburg, Germany) competed for the Retrievers for the first time this season last week and set a new personal-best in the heptathlon. An NCAA Outdoor Championships qualifier in the javelin last spring, Rentzsch scored 4,184 points in the two-day competition after winning the shot put and placing second in the long jump, 60m hurdles, and pole vault. In New York, he will focus on the 60m hurdles and the long jump.
The men's distance team has continued its success indoors following a championship cross country season. Senior Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley) lowered his personal-best and IC4A qualifying mile time down to 4:08.97 last weekend which ranks as the second-best mark in the league this season. Sophomore Hassan Omar (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson), meanwhile, missed out on the UMBC school record in the 5,000m by less than a second at Penn State with a personal-best time of 14:40.20 which leads the America East. Albino is scheduled to compete in both the 1,000m and one-mile race this weekend while Omar is preparing once again for the 5,000m event.
Senior Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) and junior Sarah Daly (Lake Orion, Mich./Lake Orion) have paced the women's distance squad, and both rank in the top-five in the conference for the 800m run. Mezebish, who broke the school record in the 1,000m (2:56.58) earlier this season, recorded a new personal-best in the 800m last week (2:14.71) to hold down the fourth-best time in the league, while Daly is right behind her in fifth (2:14.97). Both athletes are set to run in both the 800m and 1,000m in New York this weekend.
In the throws, junior Thor Serafenas (Olney, Md./Good Counsel/Clemson) will compete in both events at the Armory. He currently ranks fifth in the weight throw (17.06m; 55'11.75) and sixth in the shot put (14.73m; 48'4") in the league.


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01-11-19 Julie is a Westie Cross Cav who has come to us from a breeder to find her forever home. Poor Julie is absolutely terrified of people and does not like being handled. She will nip out of fear and is going to need a very experienced owner who has had scared dogs before. Julie has had an awful start in life and struggles to trust us humans. She will definately need another resident dog or dogs to live with to teach her all about house training and how to walk on a lead but most of all who will help her learn that hands can be kind and hearts loving. Julie needs a quiet adult only home with plenty of time, love and patience to turn her world around and make it a wonderful place for her to live in.
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Fox Sports Cancels Show That Made Fun of Asian Students
Recently the Fox Sports show The College Experiment did a segment (above) in which they basically said Asian students at USC are weird foreigners because they don't care about football. Well, they will be not be making fun of anyone, of any kind, anymore.
The hook or the gag of the bit seems to be that, ha ha, silly Orientals don't know anything about good old all-American football. So therefore they are a strange and mysterious peoples who are not Americans like Joe McWhitesuit with the mic. Which, OK, maybe the Asian kids shown in this video don't know anything about football, but lots of people don't know anything about football, and lots of Asians do know things about football! There is just no joke here!
Hey guys, USC has a pretty big acting program, why not go ask some theater kids to talk about the Trojans. You'll likely get a lot of blank stares and a few hissy condom jokes. Anyway, the point is that this segment was stupid and made no sense and was really pretty offensive, so now Fox Sports has taken action by cancelling the show, saying that the bit was "clearly offensive and inconsistent with the standards FOX Sports believes in, and we sincerely regret that it appeared."
So, sucks to be you, College Experiment staff who let through a shitty joke made by a few people and are now all out of a job. Blame the Asians! Though they're probably too busy playing violin and doing math problems to have any idea what you're talking about. [LAT]


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Drake seeks upset of undefeated Wichita StateJan 25, 2014 - 4:06 PM Des Moines, IA (SportsNetwork.com) - One of only three teams still without a loss this season, the Wichita State Shockers pay a visit to the Drake Bulldogs on Saturday night for a Missouri Valley Conference showdown at the Knapp Center.
The Shockers have faced 20 teams and all 20 have failed to knock them off. The overwhelming success has pushed Wichita State to the fifth spot in the most recent AP poll, and to a 7-0 mark in the MVC. The Shockers play their next two games at home against Loyola-Chicago and Evansville.
Drake snapped a five-game losing streak on Wednesday, escaping with a 57-54 road win over Southern Illinois. The Bulldogs improved to 11-8 overall with the victory, although it was just their second triumph in seven league tests. A home date against Missouri State is next on the schedule.
Wichita State swept the season series with Drake a year ago, and has won five of the last six meetings overall. The Shockers have dominated the all-time series, with a 96-47 record against the Bulldogs.
Cleanthony Early scored 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Wichita State to a 70-55 win over Illinois State on Wednesday. The Shockers had a massive scoring advantage from beyond the arc (33-3), while limiting the Redbirds to 32.2 percent shooting efficiency.
Not only does Wichita State lead the MVC in the standings, it also tops the league in scoring (75.2 ppg), rebounds (39.8 ppg), points allowed (59.8 ppg) and opponent field goal percentage (.389). Early (15.8 ppg, 6.5 rpg) is the top scoring option for the team. His double-double against Illinois State was his fourth of the season, and second in league action. Ron Baker (13.1 ppg, 3.1 apg) and Fred Van Vleet are steady performers in the backcourt, with each shooting well while limiting their mistakes when handling the ball.
Aaron Hawley scored a game-high 19 points as Drake held off Southern Illinois the last time out. The Bulldogs limited the Salukis to 34.5 percent shooting, while outscoring them 24-12 from beyond the arc. Drake also claimed a 40-32 edge on the boards, although they had 10 more turnovers than their opponents.
Hawley (10.3 ppg) is one of three players averaging in double figures for the Bulldogs, although he is certainly not the team's first option. That distinction belongs to Richard Carter (17.9 ppg), who is third in the league in scoring. Carter finished with 12 points and four assists against SIU for his third straight double-figure performance. Jordan Daniels (12.7 ppg) can also knock down shots, but he had only eight points last time out. As a team, the Bulldogs are scoring 71.7 ppg and shooting 45.5 percent from the floor, ranking fifth in the MVC in each category.
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Jacob Arden Pennington and Katelyn Ann Joughin were united in marriage Sept. 10, 2011, at the home of the groom's parents. Pastor Dennis Owens performed the ceremony.
Dana Joughin, twin sister of the bride of Reed City, Mich., served as maid of honor.
Bridesmaids were Jade Pfund, friend of the bride of Morenci; Ashley Joughin, sister-in-law of the bride of Morenci; and sisters of the groom, Jessica Pennington and Averi Pennington, both of Nashville, Tenn., and Roxanne Pennington of Indianapolis, Ind. Evelyn Joughin, niece of the bride of Morenci, served as flower girl.
Glenn Kesterson, friend of the groom from Nashville, served as best man.
Groomsmen were friends of the groom Micah Borton and Doug Mohr, both of Morenci, and Tom Ewen of Terre Haute, Ind.; Zacari Pennington, cousin of the groom of Franklin, Tenn.; and Justin Joughin, brother of the bride of Morenci.
A reception followed at the home of the groom's parents.
Katelyn is the daughter of Dan and Carrie Joughin of Morenci. She is a 2009 graduate of Morenci Area High School and is working on a bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design with a concentration in web development. She is employed as a pet assistant at Belmont Pet Resort and Daycare in Nashville.
Jacob is the son of Keith and Sheri Pennington of Morenci. He is a 2006 graduate of Lenawee Christian School and is working on a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography. He is employed as manager of Computer Pros in Nashville.
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A lot of people are probably rejoicing at the announcement. For high end raiders and casual players this is one of the few times they agree on something. Both are thinking: "WOOT!!! NEW CONTENT".
However, there is another group out there for whom this is a very depressing announcement. We are a group of people with unfulfilled goals. For whatever circumstances we have not been able to complete a couple of tasks for which we have been striving.
Some of you may be saying: "Hey, we still have 2 months. That is plenty of time to finish things up." Well, that's not completely true. Some time between now and Nov 13th, Patch 3.0.2 will drop. If you weren't here for the release of BC, this is the patch that gets WoW ready for the expansion. It will change everything. All of those changes to the talent trees, abilities, and other things will take affect with Patch 3.0.2. Also, some of the rewards from BC will become unavailable. That means no more Bear Mounts from ZA. No more titles from completing the Attunments for SSC, TK, Hyjal, and BT.
After the patch drops the game will change completely. If you raid, there are some bosses you've had on Farm that you won't be able to kill anymore. Blizzard has completely changed the way tanking works. and the current raid bosses are not tuned for those changes. Some of the fights require a lot of Mana, and all of those Spriests you've stocked your raid with may not be as effective. DPS has changed quite a bit for many classes, will your high DPSers still be so far up there?
I wouldn't be surprised if the game screeched to a halt, and every one just sat around waiting for the expansion.
So, When is the patch going to drop? That is a very good question without a good answer. We have a couple of things to go on, but none of them are definitive.
1. Patch 3.0.2 just hit the PTR over the weekend. Most large "content" patches like this one are on the PTR for a month or two. However, much of these changes have been tested on the beta so don't be surprised is this patch is tested for less time then normal.
2. The background downloader started downloading the patch late last week. In most cases the patch comes 2 weeks after the background downloader starts downloading the patch. However, there have been instances where the background downloader was running for more then a month before the patch was released. These things usually include the big graphics files that don't change much while a patch is being tested.
3. Lets look at past experience. The Burning Crusade was released 42 days after patch 2.0.1 dropped on Dec 5th 2006. If the same timeline is used this time then the patch will probably be released on Sept 30th just 44 days before the release.
4. This is pure speculation on my part, but I wouldn't be surprised if blizzard released this patch a little closer to the release date then last time. There is a little more at stake here, and blizzard may delay it a little to try and not upset people.
So, If I had to guess when the patch will drop, I would say Sept. 30th. It is in line with the last expansion. It gives blizzard a little over two weeks of having it on the PTR, and I think we can ignore the background downloader because it is graphics files that have already been tested in the beta. I hope the patch date is Oct 14th or even a little later, but I doubt that will happen.
My Pre-Patch Goals:
These are ranked in order of priority.
1. Kill Kael - I want the freaken Hand of Ad'al title, and I feel like I have been cheated out of it a little by guild issues and blizzard dropping the attunments. It may be misleading but this title will probably been seen as what kind of raider you were in the Burning Crusade.
Chances of Success: I'd say 50%. I was in a Kael pug over the weekend that was run by a couple of guildies. We got in to phase 4, but couldn't advance because we lost people to stupid stuff. Hopefully we can get the pug going again this weekend with the same or more experienced people.
2. Clear BT and Hyjal - I just want the experience. Again, I feel like I was cheated out of progression due to guild break ups. I just want to see everything I can before the expansion.
Chances of Success: I'd say 85 - 90%. My new guild has cleared both instances. I have been included in tonight's raid, which will start with Illidan and then end with a clearing of Hyjal. Hopefully, I do well enough to be included in more raids in the future. If I do get into raids, I should achieve this goal.
3. Get a Bear Mount - I am not one of those people that tries to collect all of the mounts, but these things are awesome by them selves. The good news is I was involved in a raid that got a bear mount with 4 minutes to spare. I was allowed to roll on the mount but I passed because the only other person who didn't have the mount was a long time guild member, and I didn't want to piss anyone off.
Chance of Success: I'd say 50%. It really depends on if the raids happen and who else in the raid doesn't have a mount. It sounds like the raids will continue to happen. There are several scheduled on the calender, but obviously my chances go down if there are other people in the raid that want the mount also. At the very least I can say I completed the timed loot, but I would still like the mount.
4. Kill some boss in SWP - I don't know how to evaluate this one and to be honest is isn't all that important to me. If we had more time then it would be pretty big but I'm resigned to the fact that it isn't likely.
Chance of Success: I'd say less then 10%. Sunwell was tuned for guilds that had been clearing BT for a while. Lords of Eternity have only been clearing it for a month. On top of that I am well behind most of the guild in terms of gear. Therefore I don't think I have much chance at getting into a progression raid at this point. I would love to experience it, but lets face it. The cards are stacked against me.
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Sites and apps such as Ask.fm, Snapchat and Kik are gaining in popularity among school-aged children and bullies alike.
They're the kind of hateful comments parents read about when a high-profile bullying case makes national news. But it's not what North Canton resident Michelle Amos expected to find on her child's profile page.
"If you killed yourself no one would care."
"Do the world a favor and just jump off a bridge."
"You're fat."
Amelia Zerbe, her 13-year-old daughter, describes herself as "positive" and "outgoing." She has a slight frame, mid-length blonde hair and a passion for singing, acting and writing.
The eighth-grader joined Ask.fm last summer when it became popular with her classmates. At first, it was fun and new.
"Then people started realizing that since it was anonymous, they could say whatever they wanted," Zerbe said. "Whether it was mean or nice."
The social media site allows users to ask questions of a specific person with the option of anonymity, but more often than not people simply leave messages, Zerbe said. It took only a few months before her page was filled with hateful comments.
She tried to ignore them and didn't respond, taking solace in the knowledge that her situation was not unique.
"Everybody pretty much has hate on their Ask.fm," Zerbe said.
The frequency of cyberbullying in Stark County has remained fairly steady in the past five years, but the tools are constantly changing, according to Stark County Juvenile Prosecutor Michelle Cordova, who oversees criminal charges filed against minors. Prosecutors try to keep up with the shifting popularity of social media sites — from Myspace to Facebook to Twitter, and so on. But it's not easy.
"It's always something I haven't heard of," Cordova said.
Zerbe uses Instagram, Vine, Snapchat and sometimes Facebook. She deleted her Ask.fm account after her mother discovered the negative comments and left Twitter when Amos objected to users' language. She checks her social accounts daily on a cracked and well-used iPhone 4.
At Perry Local Schools, Superintendent Marty Bowe said Twitter and Instagram have surpassed Facebook in popularity.
Plain Local Superintendent Brent May said the shift in student preference also is apparent in Plain Township. Yet the social media landscape is rapidly changing, and May said Kik is growing in popularity.
"I think that may be starting a little bit lower in grade levels, but it is starting to gain some momentum as another site for our kids," he said.
Karen Slovak, associate professor of social work at Malone University, has researched cyberbullying and said bullies constantly find new sites to use. Increasingly, the sites or apps make it easier to be anonymous, which can embolden bullies and make them more difficult to track.
Social media is just that — a platform. Slovak said the sites don't cause suicide or create bullies, but hateful comments can distress a person who may already be depressed. The anonymity and instant "virtual playground" takes bullying to a whole new level.
"Here it's getting out of control, spiraling very, very quickly with the viral nature of the Internet," she said. "It's a lot harder to detect and stop it and prevent it."
That's because the fast and far-reaching nature of social media makes it easier to bully someone without gaining the attention of non-users, Bowe said. Hundreds of the victim's peers, though, can be notified instantly.
"It's become one of the most serious things we deal with on a daily basis," Bowe said.
Physical bullying, equally damaging and often combined with cyberbullying, requires a face-to-face element. It's much easier to hide behind a screen name and hurl insults from afar.
"No one really bullies people verbally at school anymore because they have the Internet to do that," Zerbe said.
Her mother said she learned of Ask.fm after it gained notoriety for being linked to a number of teen suicides, most recently that of 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick. The 12-year-old Florida girl reportedly jumped to her death at an abandoned concrete plant on Sept. 9 after nearly a year of bullying on sites such as Ask.fm and Kik. Two girls, aged 12 and 14, were arrested and charged with felony aggravated stalking in connection to her death.
Zerbe initially denied having an account when her mother asked because she thought it would make the situation more complicated. Amos saw the comment notifications in her daughter's e-mail and immediately made her delete the Ask.fm account. Most parents, she said, have never heard of some of the sites.
"It's a problem that needs to be addressed," Amos said.
Most schools have policies about how to deal with harassment, but administrators say their disciplining options are limited.
Ohio's Jessica Logan Act, an anti-bullying law passed in 2012, makes schools responsible for bullying that occurs beyond school walls if it affects a student's academic life. Determining whether out-of-school bullying qualifies or if enough evidence exists for prosecution is done "case by case," Bowe said. Perry schools have a zero tolerance policy and have referred some students to police, but not all cases elevate to that level.
"We can't always do something about each one of them," Bowe said.
May said Plain schools have policies that cover any electronic or non-electronic act that creates an "intimidating and threatening or abusive environment for learning." He also said the punishment depends on the severity of the offense and could include suspension or expulsion.
Prosecutors don't have a "cyberbullying" charge at their disposal, but Cordova said there are a handful of misdemeanor charges that can be used in relation to online bullying.
Cordova said first-time offenders generally face teen court or an informal hearing that can result in letters of apology, donations to charity, community service and other forms of penance. Serial bullies risk up to 90 days in detention, probation, fines and other diversion programs.
Prosecutors in the juvenile division occasionally help law enforcement investigate cases, although the anonymity and impermanence of newer sites make it difficult. Cordova said an application such as Snapchat, which deletes photos shortly after they are sent, is impossible to trace.
The only sure way to avoid cyberbullying is to avoid social media, something not feasible for most school-aged children.
Slovak said education and communication can help. It's unrealistic to try and shut down a site because more will pop up to replace it.
"Creating a culture of nonviolence is one of the best ways to combat this, but again, that's really hard to do," she said.
Bowe said schools are working to build empathy and promote a bully-free environment. Perry Local tries to impress upon students how harmful it can be by teaching what is and is not acceptable online.
"I think some of them think it's a joke," he said. "Some of them don't think it's that big a deal, but it's a very big deal."
Both Slovak and May said part of the responsibility falls on parents. The Plain superintendent, who has three children, said it helps when parents police social media, even though that may be difficult.
Slovak said there's no need to go overboard because students often keep bullying secret for fear of losing access to technology, but parents should maintain a trusting relationship with their child.
"I don't think kids necessarily need to share the passwords with their parents, but they need to be comfortable in talking to their parents about what's going on online," she said.
Amos said she considers it her job to monitor her daughter's online activity. She limits Zerbe's Internet use and encourages more parents to be vigilant about what is said online.
"You need to have rules on social media sites," she said. "I don't send you out to drive a car without rules. I shouldn't send you out to troll the Internet without rules."
Ask.fm - A site that can be integrated with other social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and allows users to post and answer questions with the option of anonymity.Snapchat - an application that allows users to share photo messages that disappear shortly after their sent.Kik - an instant messaging application that can be used to share text, photos and video with others who have the app.Voxer - a walkie-talkie style text, photo and voice messaging application.Reach Kelly at 330-580-8323 or
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No worries. I checked out a cool sushi place called SugarFish in downtown LA, it was crazy tasty!
Things are good for the most part. Been working on running a larp and lots of disc golf. Holly's applying for residency now, so by March we should know where we'll be living for the three or four years.
Sounds like things have been up and down on your end. I always run into that weird mix of rebellious american spirit and old world values myself. Moving away solved much of that, but it helped that my dad was a bit of a rebel himself.
HEEEEY. Sorry we didn't get to hang when you came down to Cali for a bit. Hope everything's great with life and the wifey!
Technical heebeejeebees for work, creating automated monitoring and such. Not sure yet what the night of the 20th is going to look like.
sounds good to me what are you doing out here, anyway?
Hey yourself!
So, I'm going to be in LA for work July 20-21. Not sure what my schedule is that night, but maybe we should meet up when I get out and have a nosh?
hey! :]
just sayin'.
Enh, my dad was perpetually late driving me places. "5 o'clock" meant anywhere from 4:55 to 5:30ish. Once I could get around on my own, to school/etc., I started being 15-30 minutes early.
On the plus side, he once wrote me a "please excuse John from being late to class" note that implied I was on a Klingon battlecruiser trying to secure the Genesis device. On the minus side, that meant spending an hour in the principal's office as he accused me of forging a letter. On the plus side, it meant when he said "Would you like me to call your father?", I got to pick up the phone for him and start dialing as a response.
nice. i think when i was 5 my dad drove me to school. sometimes.
Yeah, he's pretty cool. When I was five, he built me a replica helicopter in our basement that I could play in, and did a lot of the typical outdoorsy dad things: taught me to hunt, fish, rappel, fly kites, all the good stuff.
your dad sounds awesome, just sayin'. i think it's cute how he shows he cares and is all "YAY MY SON AND HIS WIFE "


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The Daily Word 9.3.2010: No sex for China, scamming the system, the voting habits of young people
Funds for flicks in New Mexico.
Kitties aren't supposed to live in walls.
Been scamming unemployment? Watch out.
A dude with crazy hair was arrested after his ex-gf's body was found yesterday.
Gypsy Fest! Damn, it's in Serbia.
Oh how Twitter grew.
Abstinence education works so well it's being imported to China. They're gonna love it.
Young'uns won't even pick a political party.
Oh NIKE? Why must thee be so dickish?
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Assia Djebar was born in Algeria. She was the first Algerian woman to attend the Ecole normale supérieure in Sèvres and the first to become a professor of history in North Africa. 'A Sentence of Love' (Granta 59) is taken from the collection of short stories Oran, Langue morte (Actes Sud).


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Friday, March 17 @ 8:00pm
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ProudSpoken brings spoken word in all its forms, from beatniks, bush poetry and slam, out in Warnambool.
A night for the poetic sweepings of the inner north to degenerate into vitriol and confusion. And rise into revelation, liberating confession and poetic wisps of the sublime. A feast of clashing waters. All in a cozy artsy pup. No features, no list, no limits. Just put your hand up and come on up. Is your piece not really ready? It is for this gig. None of us know what will happen on the night, yet 100% of people performing spoken word here for the first time in their lives have survived so far, and often return for more.
In its 5th year, the Arts Queensland XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word is Australia's only national arts award that recognises the growing field of spoken word and is named after the former 2010 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence, Emily XYZ, who left a deep impression on many of today's Queensland spoken word artists. It is open to applicants Australia-wide.
This year, the winner of The 2019 XYZ Prize is Fable Goldsmith and the highest placed QLD entry is Rae White.
Home – Fable Goldsmith
I kiss her first.I wait I hold my breath, in this moment reciprocation means everythingI do not know if I can take another breath without it.I draw breath as she kisses me back I take her in, Holding on to each breathAs If I have only ever breathedunderwater,
How light she feels,How she fills the empty spaceinside my chest,How she navigates her way into my veins,turns question to meaning, meaning to answer.I surrender.my body to hersnaked and honest, tremblingThis is the first time I am not afraid. The first time another body has become a safe space.
We find each other in the dark,as our hands reachwe find ourselves in each othernavigating new worlds under bed sheets.
She tells memy body is a poemshe will never get tired of readinga trailshe will never tire of taking She tells me homeis where we both stand.
Years pass, Every time I touch her feels like the first time, I still catch my breath from her kissesHer skin is always new
Years pass, I kiss her firstShe stallsHolds her breath,hands trembling as if holding a trigger she just can't bring herself to pull
She fires.
BangHer honesty becomes a rain of bulletsand I the only target
She tells me her heart is needy,never full
she tells meher hands are travellers,that have wandered from my touch.
She tells me her mouth is hungr
Rania, I remember seeing you and your fellow artists in the very first performance of Bukjeh at the Immigration Museum. I understand that the show has been developed since and performed at various venues and festivals. A 'bukjeh' is a bag or sack that a refugee carries throughout their journey, containing all of their belongings that can be carried. What was in your bukjeh?
My memories mostly. I was an 11-year-old at the time that I arrived in Australia. I couldn't bring my cabbage patch doll, but I would have loved to. I brought as many of the objects and treasured possessions that inhabited my 11-year-old world as I could.
What was it like for you at that age, arriving in a new place?
It was a shock! I was astonished at how quiet it was here. Back then, all the stores closed at 5pm and on weekends. In Egypt, everything was open until midnight, so you would hear cars beeping late into the night and constant human activity. Most people lived in flats and you could hear the sounds and conversations of your neighbours. If you opened the window, you could hear a couple's argument. I would open the window the next day to hear the sequel to the argument from the day before.
Like watching a soap opera or a radio play?
I used to call it Streets FM – you learn a lot!
What did you see and hear and learn?
I often heard women manipulating their men, actually! Egyptian women are very smart about getting what they want. I used to say that I was never going to get married.
What were your first impression of the new language and the landscape you found yourself in?
It was greener. The shapes of the leaves were different. Here the leaves were long, not wide. In Egypt we had a lot of palm trees, mulberry and fruit trees. It really was desert and the trees were largely not native. Many of the tree trunks in Australia were smooth and grey, not brown with thick bark. I had never see


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April 23, 2011
DANBURY, CT-Host Western Connecticut State scored the final six goals of the first half, took an 8-1 halftime lead, and went on to defeat the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's women's lacrosse team, 13-2, in a non-conference match at the Westside Athletic Complex Saturday.
After the Colonials took a 2-0 lead, senior midfielder Samantha Wonson (Lowell, MA/Lowell HS) scored UMass Dartmouth's first goal of the game with 19:48 remaining in the first half. WCSU scored six times during the next eight and a half minutes to take a seven-goal lead into the halftime intermission.
Lindsay Gorman scored early in the second half to make it 9-1, but senior midfielder Larissa Basque (Plainville, MA/King Phillip HS) countered for UMD with 18:19 remaining. WCSU blanked the Corsairs for the remainder of the game.
Kaitlyn Arconti and Devon Edwards each scored three goals for Western Connecticut, while Lauren Poppe and Lindsay Gorman each scored twice. Sophomore midfielder Denise Gates (Feeding Hills, MA/Agawam HS) and junior midfielder Allison O'Rourke (Weymouth, MA/Weymouth HS) each had an assist for UMass Dartmouth.
"Our offense was very ineffective today," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Jerry Jennings. "Our defense played a very good game, but we have to play well both offensively and defensively to be successful, and we didn't do that today."
The Colonials outshot the Corsairs, 30-18. Sophomore goalkeeper Angelina Donovan (Medford, MA/Medford HS) made eight saves for UMD, while Karli Portnoy stopped 11 shots for ECSU.
The Corsairs dropped to 4-9 and 0-4 in the Little East Conference with the defeat, while the Colonials improved to 7-7 and 2-2 in LEC play with the victory. UMass Dartmouth will return to action when they host Rhode Island College Wednesday. WCSU will visit Eastern Connecticut State Wednesday.


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FORT MYERS, Fla. — The shared dream was that the doctors finally would figure it out and the two brothers would play together, Bryce in the outfield and Jared as the catcher.
They are fraternal twins, born minutes apart in a Tennessee hospital in 1988. But they were identically competitive, driven to swing a bat, throw a football, or just wrestle in the front yard until somebody came along and broke it up.
The bigger they got, they more determined Bryce and Jared Brentz became.
"I'd throw a ball at him as hard as I could and he'd throw it back at me even harder," Bryce said. "He was the best athlete I ever saw. He could pick up any sport and be good at it right away."
But the doctors never had the right answers. Jared was born with bilateral clubfeet and arthrogryposis, a condition that stiffened his joints and caused his leg muscles to develop abnormally. He had three surgeries by the age of 9 but still had to use a wheelchair.
"None of us could push it for him," Bryce said. "He'd insist on doing it himself. Or he'd just walk in braces no matter how much it hurt him."
Bryce grew up into one of the best baseball prospects in the Knoxville area. He hit .465 with 28 home runs as a sophomore at Middle Tennessee State and was drafted by the Red Sox in 2010, the 36th overall pick.
The right fielder is 8 of 20 in spring training, leading the team with three home runs and six RBIs. After a difficult 2013 season that included an accidental gunshot wound in his leg, Brentz looks like a player who could help the Sox at some point this season.
"You see the raw power," manager John Farrell said. "He's got all-field power. He's by no means a finished product but there are skills there that certainly translate. That makes him a strong prospect."
If the story ended there — athletic brother motivated by disabled twin — it would be a decent one. But Jared threw the ball back even harder.
In 1990, doctors told the family that Jared had three options. He could stay with the wheelchair, endure another surgery that would fuse his ankle joints, or get a double amputation and use prosthetic limbs.
"I was 12 at the time and those were my choices," Jared said. "I wasn't going to stay in the wheelchair, and the surgery would have had me walking like Frankenstein. I asked the doctors about amputation and they said I would be able to do anything I wanted to do with the prosthetics. I wanted to go back to playing baseball."
Jared was convinced. But Charlie and Cindy Brentz weren't prepared for such a radical solution for their son right away. It wasn't until he was 13 that the amputation was done after countless hours of prayer and soul searching.
"They wanted to make sure I knew what I wanted," Jared said. "But I knew. Once I had the surgery, I was lucky. I was able to keep more of my legs than they thought."
Jared, free of his wheelchair, became a varsity golfer and wrestler at South-Doyle High. He could stand at the plate and hit a baseball over everything.
"He had a walk-off homer to win a game once and it took him five minutes to get around the bases," said Bryce. "We all went crazy.
"He was a better hitter than I was. I honestly think he could be playing for somebody right now.
"Football was my sport when I was a kid, and baseball was his. He had a natural affinity for it. The only thing he couldn't do was run. I can't tell you how many times he crushed a ball off the fence and got a single."
Over time, as Bryce made baseball his sport, Jared turned to golf. He won the national Amputee Long Drive Championship last year with a 367-yard shot. He won another event in Nevada and is training for a competition coming up in May.
Dean Jarvis, who organizes the events, said Jared quickly became a star in a growing segment of golf. He even has equipment sponsors.
Just like his brother, Jared is a power hitter.
"It's the same swing on a different plane," he said. "There's technique but also strength. Bryce is a pretty good golfer and he thinks he can outdrive me. But that's comical."
Bryce, who routinely hits baseballs 450 feet, ducked his head and admitted defeat.
"My brother is a monster," he said. "He's 6-4 and he can bench 405 pounds. The guy can't go to a normal driving range because he hits it out on the street.
"I never saw him as handicapped person. Even in high school, he didn't want to park in the handicapped space. He'd rather walk no matter how hard it was. He was a tough guy and still is. You would never look at him and consider him disabled."
During his struggles last season, Bryce drew strength from his brother's triumphs.
"It would motivate anybody," he said. "My brother would give anything to have two normal feet. How can I get upset about striking out? For him to be that strong and such a good athlete, that drives me. He inspires me."
Jared lives in Nashville and is a regional manager for a security company and engaged to be married. He tries to practice his driving at least a few hours every week. Around Nashville, he is in high demand for best-ball tournaments.
Jared also follows Bryce's career, catching games in person when he can or looking up box scores on the Internet.
"I can't wait for him to get called up," Jared said. "I told my boss that I'm going to be getting on a plane to go see that game.
"Bryce and I were always competitive with each other and fighting all the time. We made our parents crazy. But I'm proud of him."
The brothers who wrestled in the yard are now better friends than they ever imagined.
"I love the guy," said Bryce. "I may want to wrap that golf club around his neck sometimes but I admire him.
"I'm here chasing my dream and he's chasing his. It worked out the right way."
Peter Abraham can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @PeteAbe.


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Toyota and Ford may be working on hybrids, but now General Motors and LG Group will jointly design and engineer future electric vehicles, expanding a relationship built on LG's work as the battery cell supplier for the Chevrolet Volt and Opel Ampera extended-range EVs.
The agreement, signed Wednesday, will help GM expand the number and types of electric vehicles it makes and sells by using LG's expertise in batteries and other systems. For LG, the arrangement represents a widening of its portfolio as an automotive solution provider.
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