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The series highlights individuals in the communities Arvest serves who are uniquely making a difference in the lives of others. The idea came from the bank's mission statement: "People helping people find financial solutions for life." Arvest won a Platinum Award for its overall People Helping People series.
The bank won a Gold Award for its video featuring Steve Ebert, a volunteer cross country coach for Central Junior High School in Springdale, Ark.
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A total of 12 Arkansans, five Missourians and eight Oklahomans have been featured to date. Arvest's entry was among roughly 6,000 submitted to the MarCom Awards for consideration.
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A voter-approved Constitutional amendment barring campaign contributions from unions and some state contractors was today ruled unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court.
The 4-1 decision affirms a lower court ruling and potentially wraps up a 16-month-long fight over the constitutionality of a law that opponents said curbed free speech rights and which threatened to chill donations to political candidates.
The majority called the provision overly broad in numerous instances, saying it was "so incomplete or riddled with omissions that it cannot be salvag[ed]."
Dissenting Justice Alex Martinez agreed with amendment supporters that the new rules could be preserved with a few key edits. Justices Allison Eid and Nathan Coates recused themselves.
The amendment, which passed with 51 percent of the vote in 2008, bars from any political giving holders of large no-bid state contracts, their families and members of boards of directors.
Among the problems the court found with the amendment:
– It wrongly defined labor unions as no-bid contractors, limiting their political contributions
– It barred a contract holder doing business with one government agency – a county government, for example – from giving to any candidate anywhere in Colorado.
– It disproportionately punished contractors and their families by prohibiting political contributions for two years following a no-bid government contracts
The state lawyers defending the amendment in court said the voter initiative faced an uphill battle from the start.
"When we took up this case we knew it was going to be a tough case to make. Clearly Amendment 54 had some Constitutional issues from the get go," said Attorney General's Office spokesman Mike Saccone. "The Supreme Court decision today was not unanticipated."
Denver lawyer Bob Liechty, who filed an amicus curiea brief supporting the amendment, said he was disappointed with the ruling and his clients, who he declined to name, were still considering whether to pursue the case through a trial or with the U.S. Supreme Court should the state bow out.
The state's top court also threw out provisions that would have required the state to compile a public database of no-bid government contract holders.
Jon Caldara, head of the free-market thinktank The Independence Institute, urged lawmakers to move forward with the database during the legislative session.
"The amendment was overly broad, but the idea of having a database to provide some transparency about sole source contractors, that's not a bad thing," Caldara said. "I want to see more competition for contracts."
The plaintiffs – an amalgam of labor unions, civic leaders and political candidates – felt a sense of relief at today's ruling, according to one of their lawyers, Doug Friednash.
"The decision came down in enough time that it won't create any kind of cloud or ambiguity over the 2010 election," Friednash said. "Boards and non-profits won't have to choose between civic service and being able to make political contributions."


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After battling grandiose villains and teaming up with other superheroes, it's back-to-basics for "Iron Man" in the third installment of the multi-million-dollar franchise featuring Robert Downey Jr.
"Iron Man 3," which opens in most of the world this Friday and on May 3 in the United States, has Downey reprising his role of superhero industrialist Tony Stark from the first two films as well as last summer's "The Avengers."
Collectively, the three films have made about $2.7 billion at the global box office in the past five years.
"Iron Man 3," which continues Stark's storyline from both sets of Marvel franchises, centers around the evil extremist known as The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) who is hell-bent on destroying the United States.
When The Mandarin destroys Stark's personal world as well as his superhero suit, Stark must begin from scratch, rebuilding his suit, freeing the woman he loves and saving the country from destruction.
Bombs go off in crowds of people and buildings are destroyed in the film that the cast says reflects real-life threats.
"We do live in an unsafe world, that's the truth," Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays Downey's love interest Pepper Potts, told reporters at a news conference this week.
"I don't think there is anything wrong with presenting that idea. We can't lie to our children and pretend the world is perfect."
Marvel's first self-financed film, 2008's "Iron Man," became a global phenomenon, transformed Downey into a superstar and set off a chain of action movies that spawned other franchises, culminating in last year's crossover film, "The Avengers."
But in 2009, Walt Disney Co. bought Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion, and "Iron Man 3" is Disney's first release in the franchise.
In a first, "Iron Man 3" teamed with China-based DMG Entertainment and shot additional scenes that will only run in the Chinese version of the film, a nod to the growing importance of the Chinese movie market to Hollywood.
The cast and filmmakers have kept quiet on details of the extra scenes. But director Shane Black, who also co-wrote the script, said he was thrilled to work with "one of the single, fastest-emerging box office environments in the world."
Promotional duties have also become more creative, with Downey doing a two-week global tour for the film by making stops in Korea, Beijing, Moscow, Munich, Paris and London.
Downey said the storyline took other risks, including 11-year-old actor Ty Simpkins playing Stark's sidekick - the first time a child has been prominently featured in the "Iron Man" films.
"(Black's) idea of a superhero running into a little kid in heartland America, I think, wound up being a wise choice, and a calculated risk," said Downey.
He acknowledged the pressure that follows two successful films, saying "usually the third of any (movie) struggles to even meet the first two, let alone the first one."
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Imagine you had a home somewhere in the middle of Longmont, and some mob decided to erect something similar to the Berlin Wall around the city blocking access to your property. If Ballot Question 300 passes you won't have to imagine it if you are a mineral rights owner.
A more appropriate example would be a business owner at Twin Peaks Mall subject to a wall blocking access to the entire mall. Not only would you effectively be put out of business, but your employees would be out of a job and the city would be out the taxes and fees you pay to it.
The common denominator in both of these scenarios is that your property has effectively been taken from you without compensation, and it's become essentially worthless, a total loss. For what? A poorly written social engineering experiment based on emotion, a questionable film, and propaganda?
Now the anti-fracking group's leader Michael Bellmont says that if it gets too expensive we can have a special election later to repeal 300! Sounds like the unintended consequences of this poorly written and devised ballot issue is even being question by those who poorly wrote and devised it.
If 300 passes we can look forward to more costly lawsuits. The state has already proven they'll sue over regulations, any logical person would conclude a total ban would get the same response. Who's going to reimburse these mineral rights property owners? Did the anti-fracking and anti-property rights advocates think about that? Are we going to saddle every taxpayer in Longmont for their short sighted movement? How about we send the first bill to those who push this ban and those who signed the petition?
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It is easy to point to the rate of change in scientific development. I read the other day that 1915 marked the median year in the history of scientific development; that is, roughly half of the development has taken place since 1915. For example, one sees figures like this: One-half of all the metals and minerals taken from the earth have been lifted since 1915, one-half of the energy used by man has been used since 1915. It has been asserted that 25 per cent of the people who ever lived are now living. I have not investigated this, but I am confident that 90 per cent of the public accountants who ever lived are now living.
The rate of change around us is so marked that it affects everything we do. The paradox is that we know this, we hear it, and still we do not conduct ourselves accordingly. It seems to be a frailty of man that the human mind cannot project upward along a curvilinear path. Even the most educated and intelligent people project upward along a straight line.
Now you ask what relevance this has to my subject. The mere fact that man knows this but does not act accordingly means that he finds himself at a given point in time at a different place from where he thought he would have been looking ahead from any point in the past. This gap causes what somebody has described as future shock. And so we find people shocked and indignant about things that are being dome in accounting in recognition of change. The Accounting Principles Board finds itself at the mouth of an outpouring of indignation.
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However, the use of tomato spread in European kitchens fairly recently: although it was first introduced in the 16th century, the vast majority of people treated it as a pretty, but possibly poisonous, decorative plant for at least the next two hundred years. In Peru, Mexico and Chile, where it originated from, the natives also treated it as unedible.
While nobody was stirring Marinara, alchemists were concocting plenty of potions featuring the new fruit, which was believed to have aphrodisiac powers when ingested in small amounts. This accounts for the romantic names the plant was given, from England and France (Love Apple, Pomme d'Amour) to Italy Pomo d'Oro, Golden Apple) .
It's still unclear where and when, in Baroque Europe, someone first tasted the mysterious fruit. Maybe it was a brave and hungry farmer in Southern Italy, in times of famine. Maybe the Sephardic merchants of Livorno, who had first imported the seeds (this may be the reason why many tomato-based local dishes are called "Jewish-style" or "Moses-style"). Or it could have been a bored aristocrat in France, where tomatoes were only eaten at the Royal Court until well into the 18th century.
In any case, once Europeans actually bit into it, there was no way back! According to Neapolitan screenwriter Luciano De Crescenzo, " The discovery of tomato represented, in the history of food, a revolution comparable to what the French Revolution constituted in social history".
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Ah, of course. So when the AFA promotes boycotts against Home Depot and JC Penney for supporting equal rights for gay people, that's okay because they were "attacked first." But when liberals promote boycotts against companies for supporting discrimination against gay people, that's economic terrorism designed to terrify people. Bryan Fischer must be beaming with pride.
Rios: This is the other striking thing Jim, because Chick-fil-A has been in the news so much lately and I haven't had a chance to even explain to my audience the conclusion of all that but let me just say that they did come out and their policy is that they will not give to any organizations that are working on marriage amendments or marriage initiatives but they will support marriage. OK my point is organizations, foundations are scared to death to give to the FRC's, the American Family Association's, the CWA's, but they're not scared to give to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the list on here is amazing to me.
Simpson: It is economic warfare against their political enemies, that's the only way to describe it, it is literally economic warfare against their political enemies; it is nothing more than that, nothing less than that. The left is almost universally unscrupulous, they are amoral—that's part of their philosophy—so they feel free to attack anybody and anything that they don't like and they have legions of lawyers willing to go into court and sue and sue and sue again. They're organized base is willing to uniformly engage in economic boycotts of companies so it's a highly organized, almost a military type of organization, very monolithic that gets behind the leaders on any issue and they attack people, and they attack people and terrify people. We don't have anything like that we are not inclined to do that because we are not that immoral, we just don't do those kinds of things unless we are attacked first.


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The company's maintained its position through enviable research and development activities, which in 1975 created the first digital camera. Since that time it has amassed more than 1,100 patents involving electronic sensing, digital imaging, electronic photo processing, and digital printing. These developments, however, continually created innovations damaging to its core film-based business.
Digital photography created a strategic dilemma for the company. It could move into digital photography and destroy the highly profitable film-based business or it could exploit the film-based business while it slowly declined and then--when it was no longer profitable--try to leap out of the business into digital world. It was an ugly choice and the company chose the latter.
Today, the company has just 15% of the employees it once had and its stock prices are about 15% of what they were before it finally stripped out its production capacity and distribution systems. An enduring benefit of its research and development activities is that the company now owns patents on much of the underlying technology used in all digital cameras including those in mobile phones. It is building a new digital revenue stream on licenses and infringement payments for use of those technologies. Those alone now account for 10% of its turnover.
Eastman Kodak's situation is not unlike that of legacy media firms, especially those in print, whose uses of digital technologies two decades before the arrival Internet and whose experiments with teletext and other telecommunication based information distribution systems foreshadowed the arrival of the Internet.
Today, newspapers and magazines—and increasingly broadcasters—are faced with dilemma of whether to keep exploiting their base legacy product or to dump the old business and jump fully into digital. It is as ugly a choice as that faced by Eastman Kodak in the 1980s and 1990s. So, what lessons can be learned from its experience?
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Use your R&D efforts and make strategic acquisitions to acquire the technologies and services that competitors will need to employ in the new market so they must turn to you and share the benefits of their growth. Unfortunately, few legacy media companies invested in research and development to early exploit opportunities in digital media by creating the underlying hardware and software for content control and distribution online and in phones, tablets, and computers. Thus, they own few intellectual property rights other than trademarks to their legacy media names and most are not benefiting as Eastman Kodak from patents being used by those eroding the business base. However, the new products still need content products and content management services that legacy media have long produced and companies need to be open to cooperating with the new competitors rather than giving them incentives to go elsewhere or to develop their own content capabilities.
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Mosca, Stanton, Zarrella and Doran will take flight at the NCAA Zone Diving Championships (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Four members of the Harvard men's diving team will travel to Buffalo, New York to compete at the 2012 NCAA Zone A Diving Championships. The meet, hosted by Buffalo University, will be held Friday, March 9 through Sunday, March 11 with diving to start at 12 p.m. each day.
The Crimson's team will be made up of Mike Mosca, Michael Stanton, Joe Zarrella and George Doran. The four will attempt to become the first Crimson diver to qualify for the NCAA Championships since Greg Walker '01 did so in 2001.
Mosca, a freshman, broke the school records in both the one and three meter events in his first campaign. He opened the season against Dartmouth with a record setting score of 367.25 in the one meter, and posted a total of 363.8 points on the three meter at HYP. Mosca went on to win the one meter at the Ivy League Championships while placing second in the three meter to earn himself a pair of All-Ivy League honors.
Stanton will be making his second appearance at the zone championships, after finishing 11th in both the one (572.65) and three meter (582.95) events in 2010. The junior placed third on the three-meter board at this year's Ivy Championships with a score of 356.45 and took sixth on the one meter with 304.80 points.
Zarrella and Doran will also be making their first zone appearances. Zarrella finished fourth in the one meter and 11th in the three meter diving events with scores of 315.10 and 311.80 at the Ivy League Championships this past weekend, and recorded his best three meter score of 328.35 against Brown on Jan. 19. Doran also performed well at Brown, finishing with a score of 303.53 in the one meter, while his top three-meter score of 319.80 points came at Ohio State on Jan 21.
Qualification for the NCAA Championships is dependent on a diver's performance at the zone meet. In this year's Zone A there will be four spots available to earn a NCAA berth. Claiming a title on either the one meter, three meter, or platform dive gives a diver an automatic ticket. If a diver is to place first in two events, the second place diver will receive a bid. If three individual divers claim each event and there are no ties, the fourth bid will go to the highest cumulative score.


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This is one of the clarifying moments in a brotherhood. Andy is defending Terrell Owens? For crying?
Hayes, T.O. was not crying because he lost a relative. He was not crying because of genocide in Darfur. He was not crying because he tore his ACL and will not be able to play in the playoffs. He was not crying because a teammate died in a tragic blimp accident.
No. He was crying because a reporter — doing his job — asked about a vacation that T.O.'s quarterback
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By the time you read this, you will have missed the opening act—unless, of course, you were in the know. The halls have been abuzz for awhile now beneath Popejoy Hall on UNM campus. The costumes have been hemmed, the stages built, the props have been set and reset again. All the lines have been fumbled and are now gracefully recovered. The graduating MFAs of the UNM Experimental Theatre department's Dramatic Writing program have pulled the curtain again. Words Afire! is the program's annual send-off for graduate students in the Theatre Department, and for the graduating playwrights, it is now their turn to sit in the audience and watch their works come to life.
Currently in its 13th year, the Words Afire! Festival is seeing three graduate students from its three-year-long program end their studies with new productions of original plays. This year, the graduates are Kevin R. Elder, Zee Eskeets and Christina Hjelm. Each has a unique background and each has come to this point through a different path—but all share a common love—the power of theater.
Fadeaway is Zee Eskeets' play. It comes from a personal place for the playwright and addresses a subject that is sadly familiar to many of us. Ms. Eskeets' play is drawn from real life and follows a Navajo teen named Jason Black as he struggles with his darkening demons. The title of the play is drawn from the fade away move in basketball, a jump shot from which the player recoils or fades away. The arc of the play closely follows this theme. Early in the story's construction, Jason Black takes a personal effect from the coffin of his dead sister; it is an act for which he is haunted ever after. His sister's ghost plagues him and leads to his mental destruction and finally to an act of domestic violence. This is a story that is close to the experience of the playwright herself as her cousin was a victim of domestic violence perpetrated by her cousin's boyfriend.
Ms. Eskeets fought with her identity for a long time leading up to Fadeaway. Being a Native American herself, she was worried about being typecast as a "Native Issues" writer. Recently, however, the rising level of domestic violence in Native communities has alarmed her. She views it as a crucial issue that demands attention, particularly in the case of violence perpetrated upon women. "I didn't want to be a Native writer but the violence issue made me want to give voice to my people," she said.
Christina Hjelm's play comes from a similar place. The Invasive Kind is about two sisters who struggle with the absence of their father and their estrangement from one another. It is also a searching look at our memories and how they differ from one person to another. Themes of memory are explored in different ways, but the most startling and unique is through Polaroid photographs which are a continuing motif throughout the play. Hjelm's characters start off at odds, but through the course of the play they find a common ground.
Hjelm's previous play, entitled Casualties of Dreams and Sand, won her the National Latino Playwriting Award, a very prestigious honor given by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. "I'm interested in making roles and stories from Latino women but which can be broad enough not to alienate anyone," said Hjelm. "There's a need for plays by women playwrights about strong women characters and the bonds created between women."
Kevin R. Elder's offering is called Disposable Boys. Elder is a vetted theater personality and has had a long and rich career as an artistic director for the Tricklock Theatre Company. His work previous to his enrollment in the Experimental Theatre program at UNM was action-based. Inspired by Harold Pinter's use of silence and action-based Eastern European theater companies, Elder has worked on several very experimental forms.
Disposable Boys is a newer direction for Elder who, during his time at UNM, has become interested in the more dialogue-heavy works of playwrights like Tennessee Williams. His play focuses on two brothers living in a trailer park somewhere in the Midwest. Abandoned by their mother, the two brothers are forced to care for their drug addicted father.
Elder's play focuses on the dialogue of his characters. Realistic tones of voice, stutters, impaired speech, and half-finished sentences carry a stilted, yet realistic dialogue of how two characters in an intimate relationship speak to one another.
The three playwrights have operated in cohort throughout their three-year program, so it is no wonder that their plays have a common turning point around family issues. The three have discussed their works with one another from beginning to end and have learned from each other throughout the process.
"I bang [the plays] out at 5 a.m., battling with the keyboard, writing and crying and watching the sun come up," said Eskeets. "Plays are too often all dialogue while movies are all action, and I want to strike a balance. I want to keep the audience on their toes."
This season of Words Afire! differs from previous seasons in that it is a send off for long time faculty member Jim Linnell. Linnell has been with UNM since 1975. His book of poetry, The Menu, is subject matter for short vignettes that will supplement this season's play. The Menu is being brought to life by Elsa Menéndez and the Tricklock Company. Mr. Linnell plans on continuing to teach playwriting and to find a publisher for his book.
Words Afire! is a must-see theatrical festival filled with talent and excitement—and a studied eye towards what it means to be a family and a community—both off-book and in real life.
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The good news: Last night's reading went incredibly well. Jaclyn Friedman and Toni Amato were fucking awesome (Jessica Valenti had strep and couldn't make it, unfortunately), I met loads of Boston fatties and a few Shapelings — including, finally, Miss Conduct! — and got way more positive feedback than I deserved. And we sold out of books! Yippee!
Thanks so much to Jaclyn and the Center for New Words for setting it up and inviting me. I had an awesome time — except for one thing.
So, I brought this pair of heels along with me to wear for the reading. Very sensible heels, mind you — thick and sturdy, with a pronounced rubber sole. I've worn them many times and never had a problem, except for the occasional heel blister.
Unfortunately, everyone I talked to in the greater Boston area was flipping out about the weather, to the extent that I somehow forgot I live in Chicago and manage snowier, icier, slushier streets than that on a regular basis (albeit not uneven cobblestone ones). This, plus the fact that I've been looking for an excuse to buy some slightly dressy brown boots anyway, meant I could not possibly wear the THICK, STURDY, TESTED heels I'd brought with me. I had to go shopping!
As soon as I saw these, I was done shopping. They were exactly what I wanted — casual but stylish, heel not too high, comfy, great color. As a bonus, since they're slouchy on top, they don't rub anywhere — no blisters!
You know what else the slouchy top means, though? No ankle support. This will become important later.
Here, I need to rewind and tell you the story of the Mary Janes That Made Me Fall. The story is: I had these mary janes that made me fall all the time. Otherwise, they were perfect — incredibly comfortable, cute with jeans and skirts, no blisters, etc. — but something about the design of those shoes and the shape of my feet meant that about one out of every 3 times I wore them, one of my ankles would collapse, and I'd take a header. I never did more damage than an ankle twist that hurt for an hour or so, though, and I loved everything else about those shoes, so it didn't really faze me. (Here, I should rewind and mention that between 1987 and 1989, I sprained my ankles badly enough to need crutches no less than 5 times. So I do have a history of weak ankles/not being so slick at walking — but because I hadn't had a serious ankle incident in so long, I figured all the scar tissue had toughened them up or something.)
So, one day Al puts it together that every time I fall down (he's there about half the time it happens), I'm wearing those same mary janes. And he's having none of it. Over the next few months, we have many conversations like this:
Al: When are you going to get rid of those fucking shoes?
Me: I'm not. I love these shoes.
Al: THEY MAKE YOU FALL DOWN.
Me: But I never really hurt myself! And they're cute and comfy!
Al: BUT THEY MAKE YOU FALL DOWN.
Me: Small price to pay.
Then comes the day when I'm wearing the mary janes as we're crossing the street, and I fall down. Hard. Purse and glasses go flying, so Al has to scramble to collect them and me before the light changes and I get run over by a car. I'm still not actually hurt, but I really no longer have a leg to stand on, so to speak.
Al: YOU ARE GIVING THOSE FUCKING SHOES TO PAULA! OR GOODWILL! OR THE DUMPSTER! I DON'T CARE WHICH, BUT YOU ARE NEVER WEARING THOSE FUCKING SHOES AGAIN!
Me: All right. You win.
Shortly thereafter, The Mary Janes That Made Me Fall went to Goodwill.
And here's the thing I didn't take into consideration when I bought the cute new boots yesterday: The heels are shaped exactly like the ones on The Mary Janes That Made Me Fall.
So. I get to the venue, settle in, meet some people, all is well. Then I go out into the hallway, hit the edge of a rug, and fall down. Hard and loud. A bunch of people scramble to see if I'm OK — which I am, at this point. It wasn't fun, but I'm not hurt, no biggie. Except that I now know from the way it happened that these are going to be forever known as The Boots That Make Me Fall. My left ankle just totally collapsed out of nowhere, and it felt exactly like it did when I went down in the Mary Janes That Made Me Fall.
But oh, well, nothing I can do about it — and hey, at least I've already had my fall for the night, right?
So. I read. I make it on and off the stage without falling. It's all good. Then I head out for a smoke.
Same rug. Same ankle. Katy go boom. Landed on the same knee, too. Which sucked, and hurt a little more than the last time — but it's still no big, nothing that's going to hurt for longer than 5 minutes.
Then I come back in from smoking. SAME RUG. SAME ANKLE. SAME KNEE. Now, my ankle is officially twisted — like, it's-gonna-hurt-tomorrow twisted — and my knee officially hurts. But still, I'm mobile — if a little slow — and there's an after party to get to.
Did I mention that up to this point, I've been drinking nothing but water? Yeah. (I have a feeling that by the third fall, and the third time I screeched, "It's these goddamned boots! They're just… something about the shape… weak ankles… I used to have these mary janes my husband made me throw out… goddammit!" people weren't really buying that. But it was true!)
Anyway, I get to the after party, and all goes well for a couple hours. I have two cocktails and do a lot of talking with Miss Conduct, Marina, Colleen, Cornflake, Monkey, and various delightful others. It's a blast. Then Miss Conduct and I get up to leave.
You'll never guess what happened.
This time with the power of two martinis behind it (on an empty stomach, no less). And yep, same ankle, same knee.
And this time? I can't even get up right away. This time, my left ankle and right knee are both like, "FUCK YOU, LADY. EVERY TIME WE LET YOU GET UP, YOU JUST DO THIS TO US AGAIN." So I'm sitting on the floor of a bar, trying not to cry, with a bunch of people around me wondering if they need to call an ambulance, which is always an awesome place to be.
Eventually, I get myself up (with a little help), and I immediately realize I can't really walk, to speak of. But my hotel is only a few blocks away, so it seems ridiculous to call a cab. Miss Conduct kindly offers to walk me home, and after the first block or so, I can make it without wanting to scream in pain, but I'm still wincing a lot. It's official: My goddamned ankle is sprained. Didn't happen the first time, or the second, or THE THIRD, but the fourth was the charm. Furthermore, my other knee is bruised and swollen all to hell, what with having +/- 200 lbs. come down on it 4 TIMES IN ONE NIGHT — the knee actually hurts slightly more overall, but it's easier to put weight on that leg, so it's kind of a draw.
Get back to hotel. Call Al. ("YOU'RE GOING TO THROW OUT THOSE BOOTS IMMEDIATELY, RIGHT?") Take 3 Advil. Go to bed.
The more-or-less happy ending is that today's air travel went as smoothly as possible (verrrry much unlike Wednesday's), and I'm home now. Fortunately, I had a pair of much more sensible boots with me — flat snow boots with excellent ankle support — which got me through the airports slowly but surely. But both legs still hurt like a bitch, walking still sucks, climbing the stairs to my apartment really sucks, and I suspect those things will remain true for at least a few more days.
There is something sort of poetic, I guess, about the combination of doing my most well-attended and well-received reading ever, meeting loads of people who gushed about how fabulous I was — and literally falling on my face. Four times. Instead of a swelled head, I got a swelled knee and ankle. That seems about right.
So, yeah. That's how Boston went. Ow ow ow ow ow. But fun! Thanks a bazillion to the Shapelings who came out.


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USAID hosts women's agricultural credit council
USAID hosts women's agricultural credit council
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) hosted the Women's Agricultural Credit Shura in Mazar-e-Sharif on Wednesday to increase knowledge of the opportunities for women to secure agricultural credit.
Bringing together top microfinance institutions along with financial experts to work with Shura attendees, the event focused on practical training for women to apply for and manage credit, a statement from USAID said.
USAID's Regional Agricultural Development Program-North (RADP-N), in partnership with Agricultural Credit Enhancement Phase-II project (ACE-II), hosted the shura.
In accessing credit for female farmers and women-owned agriculture-related businesses, challenges have often forced the operations to close because of a lack of understanding how credit works, the USAID said.
Women's economic rights, the types of credit available -- traditional and Islamic and how credit could help them grow their business or farm --came under discussion.
The participants also worked in group activities, which included discussions about challenges women face in accessing credit and were able to discuss those challenges with women who have had experience with taking loans.
USAID Mission Director Herbie Smith said: "This is a critical program in giving women the financial means to provide for their families, but also gain the educational skills to understand how credit works and why it's crucial to their success."
Smith added: "We will continue to support women entrepreneurs in agriculture and provide them with the tools to improve their lives."
RADP-N is a five-year program focusing on wheat, high-value crops such as grapes and melons, and livestock. It helps producers, associations, traders, and agribusinesses to respond to market demand and help create market links between farmers and businesses that allow the private sector to improve and grow.
The USAID Agricultural Credit Enhancement (ACE) project established and managed the Agricultural Development Fund (ADF) until it was transferred to the Afghan government in 2015.
The follow-on project, ACE-II, seeks to build on results achieved by the previous initiative and expand access to agriculture-related credit to increase commercial viability of small and medium-size farms and agribusinesses as a necessary condition for a thriving agricultural economy.
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The Central City Opera's 82nd Summer Festival began as it has since 1932, with the presentation of the Flower Girls in the Teller House Garden.
Starting with the traditional blast of dynamite, detonated on a nearby hill, little has changed in the ensuing years: The Flower Girls, representing families with deep roots in Colorado and/or strong ties to the arts, wear identical gowns and descend the stairs leading to the garden as master of ceremonies J. Landis (Lanny) Martin recites their name and the names of their parents and grandparents.
Once the presentation has ended, the Flower Girls and their escorts make the short walk to the front of Central City's historic opera house for the introduction of dignitaries, the ceremonial presentation of the key to the opera house door and a rendition of the traditional "Usher's Song."
Then, the Flower Girls and their fathers share the evening's first dance, The Yellow Rose Waltz, on Eureka Street, which has been blocked off for the occasion.
Dinner in the Teller House follows, and then it's back to the opera for the opening night performance. This year, it was "The Marriage of Figaro."
The 2014 Flower Girls, and their escorts, were:
McKenna Adams, Samuel Alyn Petre; Larissa Babiak, Samuel Richard Biermann; Kathryn Chase, Tyler Lee Kelly; Abigail Clark, Connor Gray Clark; Anne Clinton, James Bristow Giltner; Sarah Dinegar, Charles Dinegar; Tatiana Goderstad, Jackson Alfred Overstreet; Jessica Grewe, Tristan Lawrence Isaacs; Madeline Hantman, Austin Fortier Colby; Hannah McDaniel, Adam Erick McDaniel.
Lindsey Mygatt, Ivan Nicholas Buss; Jennifer O'Brien, Austin Campbell Glass; Rebecca O'Brien, Vaughn Oliver Ferguson; Burgandi Owens, Andrew Michael Greco; Caroline Raeder, John Preston Raeder III; Madeleine Ripley, Matt Miao; Eliza Samuelson, Taylor Patrick Bombardiere; Elizabeth Smedley, John Snowden Trueblood; Marigny Strauss, Tyler Jeffry Strauss; Emily Toltz, Baylor Bradae; Sarah Tyree, Thomas Burdick Tyree III; and Grace Wilkins, Chadwick Francis DeLine.
Meg Deline was the opening night chair; Karin Woolley was the co-chair.
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The struggle to save the Arctic is getting more urgent! As we take action against Gazprom's drilling in the Russian Arctic today, scientists have just announced that Arctic summer sea ice has just reached a record low. Help us to send a message to companies like Gazprom that the melting ice is not a business opportunity ! Read more : Arctic Sea Ice minimum - new record is set in 2012
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Our tiny boat is facing massive ship with huge water cannons. One of our RIB attached to the anchor has been flipped by hoses... Activists were in the water. They are now safe, and well, in another boat. Action is going on as another team is moving into position ... stay tuned !
Kumi's boat is now attached to anchor chain of this vessel - it's not moving anywhere and so the platform workers can't get on-board, effectively stopping its preparations to drill for oil in the Arctic.A Russian Coast Guard vessel is nearby, and presumably assessing the situation.A second load of activists have been brought to the scene - now 14 in total.
Prirazlomnaya. It's certainly a mouthful, but it's also the new name – and face – of Arctic destruction today. It's a giant Russian platform, set to be the first to try and commercially produce offshore Arctic oil anywhere on the planet.
Make no mistake: the Russian oil industry is not one to be trusted. Currently, on land in the Komi Republic, 30 million barrels of oil are spilt every year.
This is why, at 70 degrees North in the Pechora Sea, activists are protesting this monster platform and preventing it from drilling.
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