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Mondo Montego
Corrupting the Family Cruiser
It started out so innocently. This was a family car, purchased when Larry Richards second child was born. Then, driving his bad black Monte to work one day, Larry got dusted by a Mazda MX6 Turbo. How could this happena wheezy little four-banger usurping the majesty of a small-block Chevy?
Larry didnt take kindly to it, so he overcompensated a bit and built himself a little 350 for his Monte. He started with a cross-drilled, micropolished, and balanced crank, worked up a forged 10.0:1 piston/pink-rod combo, then added ported, polished, and flowed angle-plug Bow Tie heads with 2.02/1.60 valves. Isky triple springs, Comp Cams guideplates and retainers, and 1.6:1 Comp Cams rockers cohabit with a Comp Cams .605-lift, 236-degreeduration bumpstick.
A worked 800-cfm Holley double-pumper sits atop a port-matched Edelbrock Victor Jr. intake manifold, while the trash is funneled through a Hooker Competition 2 -inch exhaust system. A complete MSD ignitiondistributor, amp box, timing control, and coilis set at 35 degrees BTDC for a healthy 485 hp at 6,000 rpm, and 454 lb-ft of torque at 5,500 rpm.
The switch to a Borg-Warner T-56 six-speed (2.97:1 First, 0.50:1 Sixth) and a 3.73:1 Auburn rear makes for serious grunt in any gear. The chassis is surprisingly stock, with fully boxed rear trailing arms, Guldstrand springs, and tubular upper front control arms, 13/8-inch H.O. Specialties bars front and rear, Koni shocks and polyurethane bushings all round, and a set of heavy-duty tie-rod ends with tube-style adjustment collars are the sum of its parts. (Well, that and the eight-point cage with side swing-out bars.)
Larry then incorporated 92 Caprice F41 Police Package spindles with 12-inch front brakes, while the rears are PBR 12-inch 96 Vette binders. Goodyear GSCs255/45s front, 285/40s rearget all that power to the tarmac.
Inside the car is largely the stock burgundy cloth gut it was born withsave for the VDO 200-mph speedo, and Auto Meter gauges dotting the dash. The Caddy tape deck and speakers still blare, and the A/C still blows cold. Simpson five-point belts snug Larry in place.
Keep in mind that this car sees the 100-plusmile roundtrip to work several times a week. And its seen the better part of 160 mph on open-road circuits. But Larrys not done yet. The modifications will never end as long as I own the car, he says. In that regard, hes got plans for a 400-cube aluminum small-block tuned to NASCAR specs for the very near future. HR


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After a torrent of runs from Toby Roland-Jones and Tim Murphy in the morning, Middlesex secured a first innings lead of 171 over Yorkshire at Scarborough and went on to gain a sensational win by an innings and four runs over the Specsavers County Champions.
It was Yorkshire's first defeat of the season and the stunning victory for the visitors pushed them to the top of the Division One table.
Yorkshire have lost only three Championship matches since the start of the 2014 season - and Middlesex have been their destroyers on each occasion.
This was also the only time that Yorkshire have lost by an innings in a Championship match at North Marine Road.
Yorkshire began their quest to save the match at 11.50am and in the end Middlesex were comfortable winners, the last wicket going down at 167 with 15 overs remaining.
A magnificent effort in the field by Middlesex resulted in three wickets apiece for the unstoppable Roland-Jones and Murtagh and two each for Steven Finn and Ollie Rayner.
Adam Lyth and Alex Lees began convincingly with a 41 stand in 12 overs but when Lyth was turned round by Roland-Jones' first ball and edged a catch to James Franklin at third slip, Yorkshire were on the slippery road to defeat with wickets going down at regular intervals.
The chief resistance came from Tim Bresnan but when he was skittled by a low one from Murtagh for 39, Yorkshire were 144 for seven and fading fast.
Rarely in circumstances that have not been contrived can more runs have gushed from the first 40 minutes of a day's play than Middlesex managed after resuming on 470 for eight with a lead of 64.
The plan had been to score as many as possible as quickly as possible but the visiting dressing room could never have envisaged that Roland-Jones and Murtagh would thrash 107 in 9.4 overs.
It all became possible nine runs into the day when Roland-Jones, on 18, hooked at Jack Brooks and was dropped by Steven Patterson at fine leg.
The first five overs brought 41 runs and when off-spinner, Azeem Rafiq, replaced Bresnan, his first over went for 20 with two sixes to Murtagh and one to Roland-Jones.
Warming to his task, Roland-Jones slammed Brooks for three consecutive leg-side sixes and at one stage 50 runs came off 13 balls in ten minutes with six sixes raining down off seven balls. The century stand for the ninth wicket - the only one ever recorded by a visiting team on the ground - used up just 67 deliveries and their were eight sixes in the first half hour's play when 94 were scored.
In desperation, skipper Andrew Gale turned to Lyth's off-spin and he immediately brought the carnage to a close with two wickets in two balls. He took a low return catch to dismiss Murtagh for 47 from 38 deliveries with four fours and two sixes and had Finn giving a simple catch to cover.
The ninth wicket stand was worth 123 in 13.2 overs and Roland-Jones was left unbeaten on 79 off 51 balls with six fours and six sixes.
Middlesex's 577 was their highest against Yorkshire, beating their 573 for eight declared at Lord's last September when Roland-Jones plundered his maiden century.
Roland-Jones said: "This was a hell of a win. We had it in our minds to make it tough for Yorkshire but to win by an innings was pretty exceptional.
"A little bit of luck went our way with the bat and we rode this luck and made the most of the small boundaries. We thought we would be positive and we got a bit of a flow early on.
"I think we knew it would be a tough fight and that we would have to stick at it but we found a wicket at the right time to break the partnerships.
"It is a big achievement going up to Yorkshire and winning and I am delighted we have done it. A couple of wins has put us right in the hunt for the title and I hope we still have something to play for in the last game of the season against Yorkshire at Lord's."
Yorkshire coach, Jason Gillespie, said: "Obviously we are disappointed to lose. We played a decent game for the first three days but there was a massive momentum shift this morning.
"On reflection, we are all agreed that we didn't adapt quickly enough to the situation and they got away from us.
"There were no devils in the pitch and we just didn't score enough runs. Middlesex outplayed us and we have no excuses, they deserved to win."

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Champ Bailey looking forward to rekindling rivalry with Brandon Lloyd
DOVE VALLEY — Way back in the summer of 2011, before Tebow Time and Peyton Manning, the best part of Broncos training camp practices was the one-on-one periods between cornerbacks and wide receivers.
Or, more specifically: Champ Bailey vs. Brandon Lloyd.
Bailey insisted on Thursday that he won most of those battles against Lloyd, though he made clear he respects his former teammate. Lloyd was traded to St. Louis during the 2011 bye week, and then signed with the Patriots as a free agent this offseason.
Lloyd has 25 catches, 287 receiving yards and one touchdown for the Patriots this season.
"One thing about him is, he's probably the most gifted athlete in the game. No body has better body control than this guy, and hands. He's about as good as they come athletically," Bailey said. "I've got to remember that and account for that. He's going to be a tough challenge for all of us."


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Feminist News
Victory! Unocal Quits Afghanistan Pipeline Project
In a stunning victory for the Feminist Majority's "Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan!" campaign, Unocal Corporation has withdrawn its support from plans to build an $8 billion dollar oil pipeline through Afghanistan.
The New York Times reported Saturday that low oil prices, pressure from feminist groups, and concern over the Taliban's harboring of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden all contributed to Unocal's decision.
The article cited Mavis Leno's appearance at a Unocal shareholders meeting and the Feminist Majority's attempts to petition the State of California to revoke Unocal's charter as actions which influenced Unocal.
California-based oil company Unocal had previously issued statements indicating that it had postponed its work on the pipeline project. On Saturday, Unocal's participation in the Central Asia Gas consortium (Centgas), a consortium of companies slated to build the pipeline, officially ended. Unocal also closed three of its four offices in the nearby Caspian region republics.
The energy pipeline would have provided Afghanistan's repressive Taliban regime with $150 million in profits each year. While Unocal's abandonment of the pipeline project is good news, Afghan women are still being imprisoned in their homes and denied their basic human rights.
Go to our Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan Web page to find out what you can do to help free Afghan women!
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A healthier twist on a bloody mary…
- 50ml organic/good quality vodka
- A celery stick
- A few green olives
- A hot pepper of choice (if you love spicy things like I do)
- Black pepper
For the "gazpacho" mix:
- 1 tomato diced
- 1 raw red pepper diced
- 3 slices of cucumber dice
- 1/2 clove garlic diced
- a dash or 2 of Tabasco sauce
- 2 dashes of Worcestershire sauce
- a splash of lemon juice
- Pinch of sea salt to taste
- 50ml chilled water
How to:
- Blend the gazpacho ingredients in a blender or food processor
- Add the gazpacho mix to the vodka in a highball glass with a generous handful of ice cubes
- Garnish with the celery, olives, hot pepper and a grind of black pepper
In ode to seeing the friend behind the other hand in this picture this weekend (can't wait!!), I wanted to post a "healthy" and all natural (of course) bloody mary recipe. This is my twist on a Men's Health Recipe I found (I switched out the gin for vodka and added some more tasty and healthy ingredients)
Enjoy your weekend!


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The recently retired Chipper Jones is an entertaining force on Twitter. Wednesday night, while watching Oliver Stone's JFK on Reelz (really, Chipper? Reelz?), Chipper decided to get the truth out about what really happened in the assassination of JFK. Wake the people up, Chipper!
Reelz recently began developing its own miniseries about the Kennedys. We hope someone disconnects Chipper's cable before it airs.


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Early one morning in November, five hundred clinicians gathered at the Philadelphia Airport Marriott for the twenty-third annual Renfrew Center Foundation conference, devoted to the understanding and treatment of eating disorders. The keynote speaker, Jennifer Weiner, the best-selling novelist, was there to offer a personal perspective on weight issues, with a talk entitled "The F Word: On Growing Up Big, Speaking Out Loud and Raising Betty Friedan Girls in a Britney Spears World."
The Renfrew foundation's Web site described Weiner's 2001 début, "Good in Bed," now in its fifty-seventh printing, as "the first 'chick-lit' novel featuring a large protagonist." The character, Cannie Shapiro, established the template for a number of Weiner's subsequent heroines: clever, quippy young women whose dress size tends to be well into the double digits. Her characters navigate the perils presented by lacklustre boyfriends or disappointing husbands, slender mean girls, dysfunctional families, and self-esteem issues. "Nobody's going to date me looking like this," Cannie tells the tall, handsome, kindly doctor who interviews her for a weight-loss study. "I'm going to die alone, and my dog's going to eat my face, and no one will find us until the smell seeps out under the door." Despite their travails, Weiner's heroines arrive at happy endings that defy cultural prejudices while upholding the implausible conventions of a Hollywood romantic comedy. (Cannie's tall, handsome, kindly doctor falls madly in love with her.) Weiner's second novel, "In Her Shoes," was actually made into a romantic comedy, in 2005; it starred Toni Collette, as the brainy, full-figured heroine, and Cameron Diaz—featured prominently on movie posters—as her skinny, feckless sister.
Weiner, who is forty-three, was outfitted as if for a cocktail party, in a scarlet sleeveless dress and nude stilettos. Her makeup had been applied, before dawn, by a professional; her long, dark-brown hair was loose and shiny. She looked pretty and polished but approachable, like a co-host on "The View." Weiner, who has a degree in English literature from Princeton, is cognizant of the expectations that attend a writer of commercial women's fiction. "Handbags are important signifiers," she told me. (Lately, she has leaned heavily on an orange Givenchy tote.) Her outfit projected confidence, but it also gave her an opportunity to reveal a winning vulnerability. After ascending the podium, she began, "Good morning, Renfrew Center clinicians and therapists. Or, as I have been affectionately referring to you in my head, the people I don't need to wear Spanx for."
Weiner is a witty public speaker. "She's like Kathy Griffin," the novelist Curtis Sittenfeld, who is a friend of Weiner's, says. "She definitely deserves her own reality show." Weiner devoted much of her speech to recounting a childhood in Simsbury, Connecticut, where her looks and her sense of humor were unappreciated. She described herself as "a beaky, busty, mouthy kid in a Dorothy Hamill bob . . . looking ungainly in an unflattering Esprit shirt-and-vest combination." When the audience laughed, Weiner ad-libbed, "Don't act like you don't remember the eighties! Bitches." She spoke of travelling to Israel the summer she was fifteen. "There I am in the Promised Land, and there were five Jennifers on this trip, so I became the fat Jennifer," she said. "Here I am in this part of the world famous for its suffering, and I'm, like, 'No one has suffered more than me.' "
With comic triumph, Weiner shared other anecdotes of being marginalized, the kinds of stories that therapists are accustomed to hearing in their consulting rooms. She also spoke about experiencing a more rarefied form of exclusion. In the spring of 2013, she explained, Claire Messud, the novelist, published her first book in seven years, "The Woman Upstairs." Widely praised, it features a protagonist, Nora Eldridge, who becomes obsessively involved with her neighbors—a married couple and their son—whose domestic and professional contentment she seeks to partake in and disrupt.
Weiner described Nora Eldridge as "a twist on a familiar type: the Unhappy Singleton." Messud, rather than representing Nora's misfortunes as screwball comedy, and sending her on bad blind dates and the like, had created "a curdled version of Bridget Jones, notable mostly for her anger." Weiner had been particularly bothered by Messud's response to an interviewer who had suggested that Nora Eldridge was not the kind of character a reader might want to befriend. "If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble," Messud had replied, citing other fictional characters who were not B.F.F. material: Humbert Humbert, Mickey Sabbath, Hamlet, Oedipus, Antigone, Raskolnikov.
"Novels were absolutely, positively not there to serve the petty function of helping people feel connected," Weiner went on. "And if you believed that—if you wrote that way, or if you read that way—then, by God, you were Doing Reading Wrong." Messud's comments had left Weiner with "a sinking heart, and an unhappy sense of recognition. Once again, as a reader and a writer, I was out of step, out of fashion."
Jennifer Weiner has two audiences. One consists of the devoted consumers of her books, which have sold more than four and a half million copies. As Melissa Byers, a blogger, puts it, the novels are "filled with humor, touching moments, heartwarming scenes, and endings I adore." Weiner's books have spent two hundred and forty-nine weeks on the Times best-seller list, and more than fourteen thousand readers have rated her most recent novel, "The Next Best Thing," on Goodreads. Weiner accommodates the demand for her books with hard work and good cheer: "All Fall Down," her eleventh book in thirteen years, comes out this spring, and she supplies an e-book short story every Halloween, writes magazine articles, and maintains a chatty blog. ("My kids started school. Then they both got lice. I feel like my life has been an endless cycle of combing, rinsing, washing, and calling the professional nit-pickers.") Weiner has almost eighty thousand followers on Twitter, to whom she live-tweets "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette."
Her other audience is made up of writers, editors, and critics. Through her blog and her Twitter account, Weiner has stoked a lively public discussion about the reception and consumption of fiction written by women. This audience is smaller than the one that buys her books, and barely intersects with it. Yet social media have given Weiner a parallel notoriety, as an unlikely feminist enforcer.
Weiner has waged a campaign against the literary media for being biased against female writers, and against books written for women. (She has never been reviewed in the Times.) In 2010, when Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom" was published, Weiner and Jodi Picoult, another best-selling novelist, objected to the attention garnered by Franzen and his work, which Weiner termed "Franzenfreude." (Weiner started but didn't finish "Freedom." "I got about halfway through the Patty's diary section, and then I realized that a female author would get crucified for attempting to write in a male voice that sounded so utterly inauthentic," she says. "That, plus my typical Franzen issue—the endless contempt he seems to have for all his characters—made me put it down.") On her blog, Weiner criticized Jeffrey Eugenides for dismissing Picoult's complaints as "belly-aching"; earlier Weiner had created an ad for one of her own books which spoofed the promotional campaign for Eugenides's novel "The Marriage Plot." It showed Weiner in a dashing vest of the sort that Eugenides has been seen to wear, and read, "Jeffrey Eugenides doesn't have a book out this summer, but Jennifer Weiner has: 'The Next Best Thing.' "
In the fall of 2012, the journalist Andrew Goldman, in his interview column for the Times Magazine, asked Tippi Hedren if she had ever been tempted to use the casting couch for career advancement. Weiner tweeted, "Saturday am. Iced coffee. NYT mag. See which actress Andrew Goldman has accused of sleeping her way to the top. #traditionsicoulddowithout." Goldman unwisely tweeted back, "Little Freud in me thinks you would have liked at least to have had opportunity to sleep way to top," and, though he apologized to Weiner, he was temporarily suspended from the Times. Even Weiner seems to have been shocked by the fallout. "I never sought to get him fired or suspended," she told me. After Alexander Nazaryan referred to her in a column for Atlantic Wire as "strident," she tweeted, "Men with opinions—even sharply-worded ones—don't get treated like this," and "Whose voices do we lose when women who speak up get slapped with 'strident' and told to be 'quiet'?" Nazaryan, who had previously characterized the male critic D. G. Myers as strident without generating offense, withdrew the adjective. "I think you can make a case that, yes, I'm strident, although it's not my favorite word," Weiner now says. "I cringe and I flash back to Bella Abzug and the hats."
Last spring, the Times appointed Pamela Paul, an editor and writer known for her attention to gender issues, to run the Times Book Review. The move was seen, in part, as a response to complaints, by Weiner and others, about the underrepresentation of women in its pages. For the past three years, an organization called VIDA has tallied the number of books reviewed and written by women in publications ranging from the Book Review to this magazine, and its statistics have confirmed a significant gender imbalance. Last September, the Book Review announced that it was introducing a new column, "The Shortlist," featuring capsule reviews of books grouped by theme or genre. The first was devoted to "Difficult Women," and included reviews of books by Terry McMillan and Chelsea Cain, whose books had previously been reviewed in the Times, and the historical-romance writer Nicole Galland, whose books had not. (The reviewer, Alex Kuczynski, compared Galland's reimagining of Lady Godiva to "a scheming, chortling Samantha from 'Sex and the City.' ") Weiner does not take credit for changes at the Book Review, but she does take satisfaction in them. "Maybe they are doing focus groups, and lots of people are, like, 'Could you please not write all the time about whatever Presidential biography you are reviewing for the second time?' " she says. "I would love to believe that I had something to do with it, but I have no idea. They are certainly not writing me thank-you notes." (In an e-mail, Paul wrote, "As the last free-standing newspaper book review in the country, we feel all the more responsible about covering the territory, and meeting our readers where they are, which means not only the high and the low, but also the vast middle.")
Weiner also promotes other female writers. Her tweets drew attention to Jami Attenberg's affecting novel "The Middlesteins," which features a morbidly obese protagonist and reached the best-seller lists in 2012. "("god I fucking love you. Fairy godmother status," Attenberg tweeted at Weiner.) Weiner also helped launch "The Opposite of Me," by Sarah Pekkanen, a story of twin sisters, one smart and responsible, the other reckless and beautiful. She and Pekkanen share an editor, Greer Hendricks, at Atria Books. Hendricks told me, "I asked Jen if she would mention Sarah's book on Facebook, and she said, 'I will do better than that.' " On her Web site, Weiner offered to give a signed copy of one of her own books to readers who could prove that they had pre-ordered Pekkanen's. "My author, who was ranked a millionth on Amazon, started climbing the ranks," Hendricks recalls.
Weiner has also been outspoken about female writers whom she considers unsisterly. When Meg Wolitzer told an interviewer that she was disturbed by a rise in "slumber party fiction—as though the characters are stand-ins for your best friends," Weiner responded that "likable" had become the "new code word" for fiction previously disparaged as chick lit. Adelle Waldman, the author of "The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.," told Salon that she "didn't want to write a book with a plucky heroine." Later, Weiner tweeted an oblique, wounded gibe: "Girl writes about kissing from male POV, in Brooklyn, with artsy cover and impressive blurbs. Then it's literature."
Wolitzer's comment was part of a larger discussion about the way that the book industry treats women writers: at one point, she lamented that publishers put dreamy covers on books by women even when their contents are less than dreamy. In Waldman's novel, a female friend of the protagonist makes a persuasive argument: "Dating is probably the most fraught human interaction there is. . . . It's meritocracy applied to personal life, but there's no accountability. We submit ourselves to these intimate inspections and simultaneously inflict them on others and try to keep our psyches intact. . . . But who cares, right? It's just girl stuff." Nevertheless, Weiner believes that these writers are guilty of a tactical betrayal: "Every time a woman finally ascends to that level of 'I'm up here with the big boys,' it feels like, too often, what she does is turn around and throw shade on commercial works of fiction."
Erica Jong admires Weiner's willingness to risk personal attack and institutional unpopularity. Weiner recently wrote a new introduction to Jong's 1973 book, "Fear of Flying," and, at a joint reading last October in Brooklyn, Jong said, "For the first time, we have a woman editor of the New York Times, we have a woman editor of the Book Review who is pro-women, we have women rising into these positions. But that doesn't mean they won't try to bend over backwards to hate their own gender. It is still easier to fight for Malala"—Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who defied a ban on female education—"than it is for Jen Weiner."
Some critics have suggested that Weiner's purpose in such debates is less to champion the writing of women than to champion the work of Jennifer Weiner. In Salon, Daniel D'Addario wrote that Weiner's critique of Messud "cannily tilted a conversation on its axis" to insure that she became the focus of attention. In the comments sections of online publications, cheap reference is sometimes made to Weiner's surname, which is pronounced "whiner." On one occasion, when Weiner suggested in an interview with the Huffington Post that her fiction deserved as much attention as that of Carl Hiaasen, she was mocked. "I had to call my mom and be, like, 'Don't read the comments!' " she says. "I mean, I love Carl Hiaasen's work, but you would have thought I was comparing myself to Chaucer."
Weiner says that she would relinquish her role as an ombudsman of publishing-world sexism if a writer with a more literary reputation took on the job. "But I imagine they have more to lose than I do," she says. "If some literary woman were to be known as a gadfly, or a crank, even—somebody who won't shut up, somebody who is persistent and abrasive—that could hurt her, careerwise." Weiner's provocations, though, have arguably helped her career, giving her a voice in cultural conversations that her books alone might not have granted her. Franzen recently published an essay in the Guardian in which he decried the effect of social media on the practice of serious literature; he made a reference to "Jennifer Weiner-ish self-promotion." Weiner says that her reaction was "eighty per cent indignation and twenty per cent 'Holy shit, Jonathan Franzen knows who I am.' It was kind of thrilling, in a pathetic way." For a while, she changed her Twitter bio to "Engaging in Jennifer Weiner-ish self-promotion."
Weiner lives in an attractive residential district of Philadelphia that resembles brownstone Brooklyn in all but its property values: row houses, tree-lined streets, stroller-filled playgrounds. Her large, handsome home is a former schoolhouse; there once were separate entrances for boys and girls, and when she bought the house, eight years ago, Weiner joked about reinstating them. The place is tastefully decorated, with an enormous kitchen, comfortable sitting rooms, and art that Weiner bought from galleries on Cape Cod, where she has a summer home. She shares the house with her two daughters, who are ten and six, and her boyfriend, Bill Syken, an affable former reporter and editor for Sports Illustrated. Lately, he has been editing a collection of calendar shots from the magazine, a project that amuses Weiner in spite of her feminist sensibilities. "I told him to make sure it's printed on waterproof paper," she says. Weiner has been amicably separated from her husband, Adam Bonin, a political-law attorney, since 2010. "We expected that things would proceed one way—he'd be the primary breadwinner, a successful attorney, and I'd make less money, stay home with the kids, with fiction essentially a lucrative hobby," she says. "When it didn't work out that way, I think we both had a hard time rewriting the contract of the marriage."
Weiner works in what she refers to as a closet, though it may be bigger than some of the apartments occupied by struggling writers in Brooklyn. Lit by a large window and painted pale blue, with a lofty ceiling and white shelves, it suggests the boudoir of a Victorian lady of letters. She writes at what the interior designer intended to be a vanity; a big mirror looms a few inches behind her laptop screen. She sits on a delicate stool upholstered in a pastel fabric. Hanging on the closet's rails are garment bags containing entire outfits, including jewelry, which Weiner's personal shopper has prepared and tagged to indicate the public event at which they will be worn. One recent purchase is a luxurious camel-hair coat that she ordered from Max Mara after seeing a paparazzi shot of Kim Kardashian wearing one. On Twitter, Weiner referred to it as the Koat.
Her hybrid closet-office was inspired by Stephen King, who, in his book "On Writing," advised aspiring writers to place their desks in the corner of a room, so as not to privilege their art over their life. "Working here helps me remember that writing is work, that it's not about creating the perfect setting for the Muse to stop by for a visit," Weiner says. "I roll my eyes when I read about writers who can't work unless they have perfect silence, who tape garbage bags over the windows and put earplugs in their ears and set up pink-noise machines in the corner." (In a 2001 profile in the Times Magazine, Franzen told Emily Eakin that, at times, he had resorted to earplugs and a blindfold.) Weiner has no need for the Internet-blocking software used by many writers, among them Zadie Smith, who in the acknowledgments to "NW" offered thanks to the programs SelfControl and Freedom. Before Weiner became a novelist, she was a journalist. She says, "You're writing in a newsroom, where it's noisy and profane and there are televisions bolted to the ceiling with CNN and MSNBC. You learn to focus."
Weiner wrote "Good in Bed" at night and on weekends while working as an entertainment reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, and her fiction has a ripped-from-the-style-pages quality, tackling such subjects as the evolution of a political wife after her husband is caught philandering, and surrogacy as an infertility-treatment option for the wealthy. She continues to produce at a deadline pace. When completing a first draft, she writes two thousand words a day. Her agent and her editor typically weigh in on the draft; occasionally, characters are entirely reconceived. Weiner gets another set of notes after her second draft. "Those notes are, basically, a whole lot of 'Go deeper,' 'More flashbacks,' 'More scenes like this,' " she says. "I will have roughed something in, and they will be, like, 'O.K., write this scene more specifically.' " She has a reporter's tolerance for being edited; as a reader, Weiner has similar editorial instincts. She told me that Waldman's "The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P." would have been improved by the introduction of another female character who called the protagonist on his limitations. "I kept waiting for someone to say, 'Nate, that's a shitty way to look at women,' " Weiner said. "What if he'd had a sister who had, like, an unfortunate complexion, or maybe wasn't the cutest girl?" (Waldman says of the suggestion, "My aim was to capture my protagonist's mind-set and to do so in a way that felt fair and accurate. My thinking was that readers could then judge him for themselves.")
"Good in Bed" was partly inspired by Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones's Diary," which popularized the genre of chick lit—the hapless and approachable half sibling to what was then called the "shopping and fucking" novel. Weiner says of Fielding's novel, "I can see that book being taught, fifty years from now, as some sort of psychological snapshot of a moment: what it was like to be female in Britain at that moment, what were the pressures and what were the expectations." Like Fielding's book, "Good in Bed" featured a single, urban, working woman whose romantic life and habits of material consumption are mined for comedy. An entertainment reporter at a newspaper, Cannie Shapiro discovers that an ex-boyfriend has landed a relationships column in a men's magazine; his first piece is titled "Loving a Larger Woman." ("When I met C., I fell for her wit, her laugh, her sparkling eyes. Her body, I decided, was something I could learn to live with.") Weiner's prose is breezy, and her humor is often well observed. A teen-age guest at a Thanksgiving dinner, who has a nose ring through his septum, has "the look of a baffled Jewish bull." The brand of wish fulfillment expressed by the book is sometimes peculiarly distinctive to Weiner's profession: after Cannie is blown off by a celebrity's publicist just before an interview, she finds the celebrity in the hotel's bathroom, befriends her, and sells her on a screenplay. Cannie not only finds love with a far more deserving man than the magazine columnist; she also discovers that getting thin makes her miserable, and that she's happier—more herself, more lovable—when she's plump. The weight-loss doctor, a sketchily drawn fantasy figure, heartily agrees. On the book's penultimate page, he tells her, "I think you look like a queen."
Still, the novel is darker than its premise suggests. Early in the book, the father of Cannie's ex-boyfriend dies; she pays a shivah call that takes an unexpected turn, and she becomes pregnant. She contemplates getting an abortion—"a no-brainer, a $500 afternoon in the doctor's office, a few days of cramps and crying, end of story," Weiner writes—but dismisses the option. (A surprising number of Weiner's lonely, worthy heroines become accidentally pregnant, and are redeemed by the birth of a child.) Cannie's baby is born prematurely, which leads to an emergency hysterectomy. The most vivid writing is in the final third of the novel, where Cannie descends into postpartum depression: "I walked and walked, and it was as if God had fitted me with special glasses, where I could only see the bad things, the sad things, the pain and misery of life in the city, the trash kicked into corners instead of the flowers planted in window boxes."
In Weiner's other novels, too, a sometimes uneasy balance is maintained between light comedy and heavier themes. "In Her Shoes" charts the problematic relationship of two sisters: Rose, the older, clever, heavy one, who works as a lawyer, and Maggie, the younger, thin, pretty one, who suffers from learning disorders and works as a waitress while struggling to become a performer. Weiner's sister, Molly, who is now a singer and a comedienne, suffered from learning disabilities, and Weiner's depictions of Maggie's difficulties are often acutely drawn. After Maggie experiences a sexual encounter that verges on date rape—another motif in Weiner's stories—she senses "how slippery a thing her own power was, how fast it could turn in her hands, like a knife in the sink, slick with soap, how quickly and deeply the blade could cut her." Maggie's eventual career success, as a personal shopper, is much less interesting. Sometimes the reversals of fortune and the discoveries of love in Weiner's books can feel forced, given the anger and hurt that precede them. Her characters can appear to be mouthing lines they have read in self-help books rather than expressing authentic emotions. It often seems that inside these calculatedly lightweight books there is a more anguished, and possibly truer, work trying to get out.
"Goodnight Nobody," Weiner's fourth best-seller, is a cartoonish satire. Its protagonist, Kate Klein, an acid-tongued former reporter, is a bored stay-at-home mother in the suburbs. When a female neighbor is murdered, her response is less fear than excitement, and she turns amateur detective. In a departure, Weiner provides no tidy ending: the book concludes with Kate traumatized, and torn between her husband and an ex-boyfriend. "I wanted to see what it was like to write literature," Weiner says. "Not that anybody perceived it that way. But at this point in my career I could write the Odyssey and people would say, 'Chick lit in Greece.' " Some readers hated the book's inconclusiveness, and wrote to Weiner to complain. She didn't like the ending much, either. In later novels, she decided to "give my characters the thing that none of us get, which is the promise that it's going to be O.K." Weiner describes her books as modern fairy tales that provide the satisfactions she sought as a teen-ager, when books such as "Shining Through" and "Almost Paradise," by Susan Isaacs, helped her imagine a happier future. "There is so much antipathy today toward the idea of fiction existing for pleasure or escapism," she says. "I just have a very hard time seeing entertainment as a bad thing. The things that come up again and again in my books, like a man who thinks that you are beautiful just as you are: is that sentimental, wish-fulfillment bullshit that isn't ever going to happen in real life? I feel like it's something that we want, and I believe in it, even if it is sentimental."
On the likability scale, Weiner is closer to Bridget Jones than to Messud's Nora Eldridge. Warm, funny, and frank, she can also be charmingly self-deprecating. "My assistant just sent me a packing list," she e-mailed me before an out-of-town event. "The list includes underwear. I don't know who I am any more." But her humor can be aggressive. One day, she told me about a passage that she was working on: "There is a husband and wife, and they are not getting along, and every time the wife looks at the husband she thinks that he's looking at her like he's trying to figure out how he can set her hair on fire. My editor is, like, 'That is a horrible thing for someone to be thinking!' And I am, like, 'I think people think that way sometimes.' Not all the time, not everyone. But who hasn't wanted to set somebody's hair on fire? Who hasn't wanted to kill her husband and make it look like a shaving accident? You?" My face must have betrayed a lack of kinship with this sorority. "You wouldn't want him dead every once in a while?" she said. "Or maybe just . . . away?"
When writers ask Weiner for career advice, she tells them that the most important thing is to have had an unhappy childhood. "Mine was grim," she told me one day, over lunch at a restaurant off Rittenhouse Square. The eldest of four, she was bookish and socially isolated. Her mother, Fran Weiner, recalls, "She was always reading. She would get off the school bus reading a book, with one shoe on and one shoe left on the bus." There were few other Jewish families in their neighborhood. "At Christmas, you looked down our street and it would be full-on decorations in the yard, tree lights, a playable Santa on the roof, and then our house would be blank," Weiner says. "It would be the missing tooth in the smile of the neighborhood." Her mother, Weiner says, was consumed with feeding and clothing the family, and didn't notice that she was friendless and unhappy; her father, a child psychiatrist, had different priorities. "He read to me—Shakespeare, the Aeneid," she says. "He cared about books, and he cared about learning." But she felt valued by him only when she achieved academic success.
When she was fifteen, her parents announced that they were getting a divorce. "I had friends whose parents had got divorced, and what would happen is the dad would move to a condo in town—there was a condo complex where a lot of them washed up—and you would see your dad on weekends, and he would very diligently show up at your soccer games or your crew meets," she says. "My dad just left, and really renounced us. He said he didn't want to be married, but he also didn't want to be a father anymore. He was just gone." In "Good in Bed," Cannie's father tells her "that he wanted to be less like a father, more like an uncle," the words that Weiner's father said to her and her siblings as he made his exit. Fran Weiner says, "I would say he had a psychotic break and he never got put back together. He floundered. I think he lost control of things. It was depressing and sad and bewildering." Later, Weiner discovered that her father had abused drugs and alcohol. At one point, he went to prison for failure to pay child support.
At Princeton, she took a seminar with John McPhee, writing nonfiction pieces in which she included her sister Molly as a comic foil. Upon graduation, Weiner followed McPhee's advice to work at a local newspaper, becoming a reporter in State College, Pennsylvania. Her father attended her graduation, but she rarely saw him otherwise. In 2001, after "Good in Bed" became a best-seller, the Hartford Courant ran an article about her; upon seeing it, he called her and asked for money.
"I asked him if he was in treatment, and he got really mad, and yelled at me and called me names and hung up the phone," Weiner says. It was the last time that she spoke with him, though he showed up at a group reading a few years later. "One rule of doing a reading is, Don't ever call on the crazy homeless person," Weiner says. "But this other novelist at the reading was, like, 'Sir?' And my dad stands up and delivers this screed about the nature of art, and how art comes from suffering, and because he caused me to suffer I owe him everything and lots of money." He died five years ago, from an overdose. "I didn't really imagine, like, crack," she says. "It is not something you tend to think about when your dad's a doctor, and you grow up in a nice suburb in Connecticut." After her father's death, Weiner discovered that he had another young son, now nine, whom she has been helping to support.
Weiner has also taken literary inspiration from her mother: when Jennifer was in her mid-twenties, Fran Weiner came out as a lesbian, as does Cannie Shapiro's mother. Given Weiner's interest in countering stereotypes of women, her depiction of lesbians in "Good in Bed" is surprising. The girlfriend of Cannie's mother is a gruff-voiced stereotype, a swimming coach "with an aureole of frizzy reddish hair and skin tanned the color and consistency of old leather"; she weaves for a hobby, and hangs a rainbow-patterned sun catcher in her window. Weiner says of her mother's revelation, "It wasn't so much being squicked out by the gayness. It was more like 'Our mom is passionately in love with somebody who is much younger.' Whether or not it had been a man or a woman, just that idea that there is sex happening was, like, 'Holy shit!' " A later novel, "Then Came You," features a more nuanced lesbian character, a Princeton graduate who has donated her eggs to make money.
Other Weiner novels include cultural and media allusions that she has planted for the amusement of a fraction of her readers—or, possibly, only for her own. In "Certain Girls," Weiner revisits Cannie Shapiro, now the author of a novel that makes it onto the Times best-seller list. "The cover piece was a review of a 160-page short-story collection, 'Budapest Nights,' by Daniel Furstmann Friedlander, who'd been written up the week before in a ten-page profile in the New Yorker that had made much of his boyish good looks and charming Russian accent," Weiner writes. "Good in Bed" appeared on the Times best-seller list in the spring of 2002, around the time that A. O. Scott compared Gary Shteyngart's novel "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" to "a precisely measured map drawn by one of Nabokov's whimsical madmen."
One villain of "Goodnight Nobody," a conservative columnist who writes about the perfidies of working mothers, is transparently based on Caitlin Flanagan, a contributor to The Atlantic. Weiner's columnist is "a flat-chested androgynous sprite the size of a starving fifth grader," and "her obligatory blond tresses, dyed the color of straw, had been blown out and sprayed until her entire head looked like it had been stuck under a broiler and crisped." She created the character after her first daughter was born; she found staying home unfulfilling, and, when she came across an essay by Flanagan exalting motherhood over work, she felt personally attacked. In Weiner's most recent novel, "The Next Best Thing," which is set in Hollywood, an interviewer for the Times Magazine asks a comedienne if she slept her way to the top. This prompts Weiner's heroine to wonder whether the interviewer "had a sitcom or a novel or a screenplay in a box under his bed that he'd tried to sell and couldn't, whether he reflexively hated anyone who'd gotten what he wanted, or whether it was just the women he loathed." It seems possible that a forthcoming Weiner novel will include a female writer of literary fiction—quite possibly slender and severely attractive—who will say something dismissive about chick lit, and who will wind up garotted with a pair of Spanx.
In 1856, Marian Evans, the critic and editor who later became known as the novelist George Eliot, published an essay in the Westminster Review called "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists." At first glance, it appears to be a sardonic attack on the Victorian equivalent of chick lit—the throwing of shade at popular works that Eliot excoriates for having sentimental plots, one-dimensional characters, and impoverished language. Such authors, Eliot wrote, "have the peculiar impartiality of reproducing both what they have seen and heard, and what they have not seen and heard, with equal unfaithfulness." In light of Eliot's later career, it is clear that her critique of such clichés helped her work out what might constitute a more legitimate approach to fiction, by determining what did not count as literature. But the essay also identifies a larger problem: when women publish cliché-ridden novels, they encourage men to maintain condescending views of women. "We believe that the average intellect of women is unfairly represented by the mass of feminine literature," Eliot wrote.
A novel that tells of the coming of age of a young woman can command as much respect from the literary establishment as any other story. In 2013, Rachel Kushner was nominated for a National Book Award for her hard-edged exploration of this theme, "The Flamethrowers," and the previous year Sheila Heti won accolades for her book "How Should a Person Be?," even though it included both shopping and fucking. The novel, and the critical consensus around what is valued in a novel, has never excluded the emotional lives of women as proper subject matter. It could be argued that the exploration of the emotional lives of women has been the novel's prime subject. Some of the most admired novels in the canon center on a plain, marginalized girl who achieves happiness through the discovery of romantic love and a realization of her worth. "My bride is here," Mr. Rochester tells Jane Eyre, "because my equal is here, and my likeness."
But the obligation of a commercial novelist does not lie merely in representing, as fully as possible, the emotional lives of her characters. It also lies in meeting the demands, perceived or expressed, of readers. Weiner's readers—who, on the Internet, review her work with all the attentiveness it has not received from the Times—seek out her latest books for the same satisfactions they have found in her earlier books, with their casual prose, happy resolutions, and lovable heroines. It is unlikely that literary critics will ever applaud Weiner's work for these qualities, because literary criticism, at its best, seeks to elucidate the complex, not to catalogue the familiar.
During her talk at the Renfrew conference, Weiner argued for the value of familiar books, with their tropes of self-realization and rescue. And she defended the "political impact of escapism," having written her first book "almost as a life raft to the girl I had once been." She continued, "I wanted girls like me—who felt ugly, or fat, or lonely, or like it was never going to get better—to be able to read something and think maybe it will." Why do we read? Weiner asked the audience. "Yes, to understand the world, and, of course, to meet characters that are alive and visceral. But, at least to me, sometimes we do read to make friends. Sometimes we do read to escape, or find comfort, or to spend time in a world that is a little more fair and a little more kind than the world that we inhabit."
The same cultural prejudices that maligned large women, she said, explain why books like hers do not get critical respect. Her campaign about books, she suggested, is more than just a campaign about books: "Just as I want plus-size women visible, and valued, and loved in my books, so do I want books like mine visible and valued, if not loved, by a critical establishment that's still too rooted in sexist double standards, still too swift to dismiss women's work as small, trivial, unimpressive, and unimportant." In this analysis, Weiner's failure to receive critical recognition is not an implicit judgment of, say, the perfunctory quality of some descriptive passages, or of the brittle mean-spiritedness that colors some character sketches. (Readers looking for fairness and kindness will not always find those attributes displayed by Weiner's fictional creations.) It is, instead, a product of the larger cultural forces that left Weiner feeling oppressed long before she became a writer. To battle those forces as visibly as Weiner does is not just to tell a fairy-tale story but also to try to live one: to insist on moving from the margin to the center, and to demand a happy ending of one's own.
After a standing ovation, Weiner went to the lobby to sign books. She kicked off her shoes, tied her hair in a scrunchie, and tucked one foot underneath her on her chair, as a long line of women stepped forward, paperbacks in hand. She took time to talk to everyone—the woman whose daughter was struggling with anorexia; the woman who came from Simsbury, Connecticut, and knew her family—and posed for photographs. She signed more than fifty books, and when the supply ran out she started signing adhesive labels, so that her readers could stick them on the title page of whatever she wrote next. ♦


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He was the product of early post-war England who developed a keen interest in how things work, first on the cellular level and then in local government.
His friends said Ian Trowbridge of Mission Hills relished the life sciences because he needed things to make sense, and embraced facts over most everything.
Trowbridge, the retired Salk Institute researcher who turned his attention to local politics and became a thorn in the side of many an elected official, died Wednesday of an undisclosed illness. He was 65.
"Ian was a scientist at heart. That's what he did, that's what he was trained to do," said East County activist Charlene Ayers, who worked with Trowbridge to hold government officials accountable to the people they serve.
"He liked the empirical method, where you collect the evidence and the documentation and you came to a conclusion," she said. "He felt his training as a medical researcher transferred over very well to all the investigative work he did to keep government open and honest."
Trowbridge grew up in Derbyshire, a county in the Midlands area of England. He earned a doctorate at Oxford University and moved to San Diego to become a junior faculty member at the Salk Institute in 1972. He was promoted to a full professorship in 1983 and culled an expertise in molecular and cell biology.
"He was really interested in these proteins on the surface of cells in the immune system, which obviously are critical in our ability to mount a response to viruses and bacteria," said Tony Hunter, a Salk professor who co-published several papers with Trowbridge. "He trained a lot of very good fellows."
After Trowbridge retired from the Institute in 2001, he looked around his community to see where else he might help.
Trowbridge became a fixture at public meetings of the San Diego City Council, the county Board of Supervisors, the port commission and any other public agency that he thought might benefit from his civic interest. He advocated for clean-needle exchanges to fight the spread of AIDS. He sued to stop developments over environmental issues, or to avert generous severance packages for corrupt officials.
He filed perhaps hundreds of California Public Records Act requests over the years and filed lawsuits when he believed public meetings were improperly held in secret. He ran unsuccessfully for City Council.
"When it came to civic affairs, he was interested in making sure the public had the benefit of the truth," said Cory Briggs, an attorney who litigated several high-profile cases with Trowbridge.
Briggs said Trowbridge's biggest victory came when he and others sued the Port of San Diego over plans to spruce up San Diego's waterfront North Embarcadero. Trowbridge wanted more public park space and forced port officials into accepting a 150-foot open space east of Harbor Drive between Broadway and Grape Street. He was not convinced the agreement would be honored.
"Today was a good day," Trowbridge told reporters in 2010, on the day the agreement was reached. "Tomorrow could be miserable."
The retired scientist was relentless in his pursuit of records and information. Once he nailed down what he considered a public disservice, he was quick to confront the offending official.
At a 2006 meeting of the county Board of Supervisors, for example, Trowbridge broke the usual decorum and addressed Bill Horn, the powerful North County supervisor.
"Why does your chief of staff live in a million-dollar house that you own separately from your wife?" Trowbridge said during the public-comment portion of the meeting. "Do all board members extend this privilege to their chiefs of staff? Does your chief of staff pay market rate rent, Mr. Horn, and have you reported that on your statement of economic interest forms for 2004 and 2005?"
Horn said there was nothing improper about the real estate transaction with his staffer, but he did amend his state forms to disclose it.
"Ian was one of the most passionate citizens I've ever worked with at City Hall," said Councilman Kevin Faulconer, who was elected in 2005 from a field of candidates that included Trowbridge. "We had a mutual respect for each other. I will miss him."
Trowbridge was born in 1947 and had lived in San Diego since he was in his 20s. His friends said he had an ex-wife who passed away some years ago, and a grown son and daughter. They said his family declined to provide additional details about his personal life.


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Light-dependent reaction
- See also:Calvin cycle
In photosynthesis, the light-dependent reaction uses light energy from the sun to split water (photolysis). which has been taken in by plants. Water, when broken, makes oxygen, hydrogen, and electrons. These electrons move through structures in chloroplasts and by chemiosmosis, make ATP.
The hydrogen is converted to NADPH which is then used in the light-independent reactions. Oxygen diffuses out of the plant as a waste product of photosynthesis. This all happens in the grana thylakoid of chloroplasts.
The movement of electrons[change | change source]
- Light hits the chloroplast, it absorbs light and traps it.
- Chlorophyll channels the light down to a reaction center.
- An electron at the reaction center is excited to a higher energy level, and is received by an electron acceptor. This electron is taken from the splitting of water: (H2O → 1/2O2 + 2H+ + 2e-)
- The electron is passed along a series of electron carriers. It is moving down energy levels and losing energy. This energy causes the pumping of hydrogen from the cytoplasm of chlorophyll into thylakoid spaces inside the grana. The hydrogen diffuses and flows back into the cytoplasm through protein channels. As the hydrogen diffuses down a concentration gradient, ATP is made from ADP and inorganic phosphate.
- Eventually, the electron is used to reduce NADP to NADPH along with hydrogen from photolysis.
History[change | change source]
Colin Flannery was the first to propose the idea that photosynthesis needs light, in 1779.[1] He recognized it was sunlight falling on plants that was required, although Joseph Priestly had noted the production of oxygen without the association with light in 1772.[2]
Cornelius Van Niel proposed in 1931 that photosynthesis is a case of general mechanism where a photon of light is used to photo decompose a hydrogen donor and the hydrogen being used to reduce CO
2.[3] Then in 1939 Robin Hill showed that isolated chloroplasts would make oxygen, but not fix CO
2 showing the light and dark reactions occurred in different places.[4] This led later to the discovery of photosystem 1 and 2.
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- ↑ Ingenhousz, J (1779). Experiments Upon Vegetables. London: Elmsly and Payne.
- ↑ Priestley, J (1772). Observations on Different Kinds of Air. 62. London: Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc.. pp. 147–264. doi:10.1098/rstl.1772.0021.
- ↑ van Niel, C. B. (1931.). "On the morphology and physiology of the purple and green sulfur bacteria". Arch. Microbial 3: 1–114. doi:10.1007/BF00454965.
- ↑ Hill, R. (May 1939). "Oxygen Produced by Isolated Chloroplasts". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 127 (847): 192–210. doi:10.1098/rspb.1939.0017.


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Hi Friends and Family! I've been wanting to sit and blog to fill you in on the latest happenings on this avm journey! Seems last week I started feeling some pain along my left jawline, and made an appt. to see my primary care physician on Wed., Feb. 7th. He started me on some oral antibiotics, but by that evening, my pain was great enough that I took the strongest pain killer I have - an Oxycontin. My doctor had already scheduled me to have a transfusion due to the several bleeds from my mouth I had earlier in the week. The following morning, Thursday, I took another Oxycontin before work and headed over to the Cancer Center to be cross matched for the transfusion I was scheduled for on Friday. After leaving the Cancer Center, I stopped by a convenience store to pick up a cappuccino and a cinnamon roll and headed to work.
I still need to talk to a couple of people @ the office to put the pieces together, but apparently I collapsed @ work, approx. 10:30 a.m. From what I understand @ this point, a supervisor was walking past my cubicle when he heard a noise and came to investigate. I must have hit my tailbone on the corner of my desk on the way down, because that is still hurting almost a week later! Next thing I know, that supervisor is asking me if I can hear him and I remember looking into his eyes, but it was just not registering! Everything happened so quickly, my friend and co-worker Diana A. called Mark and told him I had fallen and he needed to come to my office. Mark called Celia, my co-workers had called the paramedics that showed up w/an ambulance on the way! By this time, I struggled to get up off the floor and sat on my office chair. I didn't think it was necessary to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance, but the paramedics strongly suggested I be taken either to the hospital or to my doctor. Mark showed up and my supervisor Zan suggested I go sit in Administration on the couch until Mark was able to gather my things so we could leave. I remember Celia showing up in Administration and talking to me. Everyone was so helpful and acted so quickly! My supervisor Zan kept talking to me while Mark was getting my things, then I remember being wheeled out the front door in an office chair! Headed right to my doctors office and he immediately decided I needed to be admitted to the hospital. Since there was no room available right away, I was able to go home and lay down a while until the hospital called telling us the room was ready. I packed a bag and we headed out. All this was taking place on Thursday, Feb. 9th.
As you can imagine, I didn't get any rest that first night. I was immediately given 2 units of blood and started on IV antibiotics.
By the following day, my doctor strongly suggested I get a mediport put in, since I keep getting these infections, that way my IV Antibiotics would be administered through that. This would be taking the place of the pic line I used to have when I was getting outpatient antibiotics.
I'm continuing this several weeks later, so I'll try and condense it all. I ended up being stuck in the hospital for 5 days! I probably could have been let out earlier, but the weekend made it hard for my doctor to get everything lined up for me that I needed. I missed my furry babies soooo much! That was the hardest part for me! l was always torn between wanting Mark w/me @ the hospital, or sending him home to be with Hanz and Bella so they wouldn't be home alone too long!
I have the most fantastic friends and family! My family visited alot, and I got calls from friends! Got a surprise visit from my nephew Mark on Grammy night. I was just sitting around watching TV, when he walked in w/a gift bag in his hand. We had a fun visit and he had brought me the movie "Breaking Dawn Part I" that included a huge poster from their wedding made of fabric! I got Mark to help me put it up on the wall right away and got lots of comments on it from hospital staff!
Speaking of hospital staff, one of the nurses came in the next day and asked if some interns could come in and ask me some questions. I agreed to it and started telling them about my AVM. Next thing I know, they left and came back w/5 more students, including their teacher, so I had a room full of interns all asking me questions about my avm! The charge nurse walked in later and asked what was going on, so I replied, "Apparently I'm teaching a class"! I referred them all to this blog and to Shalons, so they can be aware of people that have avms! I had read a statistic somewhere that said a doctor can go his whole practice and never see anyone w/an AVM - so I really want to educate everyone about this, since it is so rare!
I'm now back to work and still trying to get rid of these pseudomonous infections I keep getting from the open wound I have on the left side of my face! The wound is looking really good and healing well, thanks to the fantastic wound care techs @ Dr.'s Regional Hospital! They are all extremely professional and courteous and always make me feel comfortable!
Celia and I will head to CO in less than 2 weeks for another of my embolizations! Here's hoping we have good weather - we don't like dealing with it snowing!! She and I always have fun - poor thing, she tries so hard to make me feel better for all the suffering I go through! The best part of her going with me, is knowing my babies are home with daddy! I'm hoping the trip after that, I can get my co-worker Cheryl D. to take care of the kiddos again for us while we're in CO! She has a beagle named Prince that got along well with Hanz and Bella! Cheryl has a rack of shoes in her living room that I fear for, knowing Bella like I do. Don't know how Bella mangages to always find something to chew on that she shouldn't be chewing on!!!!
I have to just mention how well Mark takes care of all of us! He puts in a full day of work, then after both of us rest a little when we get home, he administers my IV antibiotic, cooks a delicious dinner that he serves me, feeds Hanz, Bella and Midori (outdoor siamese cat) and then finally sits down to eat. I'm never feeling 100% and the last thing I want to do is clean up the kitchen, so Mark does that as well! The only thing I really can help w/around here right now is the laundry! Mark does his best to keep our household running while taking care of our little family! He bathes the dogs, cuts their hair, feeds them and takes time to chase them around with the toys they have in their mouth! Whenever time and weather allow, Mark takes them for a good walk in our neighborhood! I tried going w/them the other day and I was hard to keep up! Hanz and Bella are an important part of my recovery - they make me so happy and are very entertaining, so that keeps me going! Unfortunately, Hanz has a habit of climbing up my chest while I'm in bed, and his paw lands right on my mediport - ouch! He wants me to scratch his back - does he have me well trained or what? While I'm doing that, I'll say, "Oh my name is Hanz and I like my butt scratched"!They're so adorable, I've gotten in the habit of giving them a treat when I get in from work, so they expect it now and will jump all over me until they get it!
Ok, I've gone on long enough. Oh! One more thing - I finally made it to church last week and was happy to see many of my friends from Choir! They are all praying for me and I appreciate that so much! Love to everyone! Thank you for all your support, love and prayer!


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The 25-year-old LPGA member's death is under investigation, according to Henderson police spokesman Keith Paul. Paul told The Associated Press police responding to a 911 call went to Blasberg's three-bedroom house around 3 p.m. on Sunday and made the discovery. He did not say who called authorities.
Blasberg's agent, Chase Callahan, confirmed her death but declined to provide details because of the investigation.
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I feel like telling this story somewhere. I guess I need to vent.
I don't know if any of you know what Bitcoin is or pay attention to any of that stuff. It is basically a virtual currency that started a few years ago. It is decentralized and no one controls it. Several years ago it was pretty much worthless and some guy spent $27 on a pizza with it just to say he did it. People would "mine" it, or generate it, and then lose their files which kept their balances.
But it kept on rising in value. In 4/13 it was worth around $30 per coin, then this last fall it jumped. It was worth over $1300 a coin with a market cap in the billions. I finally took notice then and realized there might be something there. Since then Tigerdirect, Overstock.com and some other companies have actually started taking it as payment.
It is based on open source code, so people have taken the code and made all kinds of clones, or slightly tweaked coins called "alts". You can no longer mine Bitcoin without spending tens of thousands on specialized mining equipment, so one of the alts tweaked the code to where you could only mine it profitably on graphics cards. One called Dogecoin took that change and added the doge meme and started taking off these past few months.
I saw it spiking, saw as it doubled in value by the week. I figured if I put $1000 in and it doubled in value or more, which it could pretty easily do, I could make some nice money quickly. So I put that in and more. Well, I unfortunately put in at the wrong time. It was spiking in value and I did a "panic buy" and bought when the market was at its height, 280 satoshis (this is like 0.00000280 of a bitcoin). During the next few weeks it dropped to 150 satoshis and I had lost more than $1,000.
I got sick of that, so I sold out of dogecoin back into bitcoin (using online exchanges that exist) to something called Auroracoin. This coin is basically supposed to be like a specialized coin just for Icelanders, but that aspect wasn't too important to me, what did matter was that it had raised by like 100% each day for the past several days. Sure enough, I made my $1,000 and more in a single day. I saw that another coin, Mazacoin, which is a coin that actually has been adopted by a Sioux tribe had spiked by 400% or something crazy. I put my money in and went to sleep.
I woke up the next morning and checked the markets. I misread the number and was disappointed when I saw the value dropped. But I plugged the numbers into my calculator and realized that the markets had actually risen and I had made $4,000 during the night. Then I watched over the next several hours as the number rose more and more, from the 3800 satoshis that I bad bought in at to 18000 satoshis. I was up $10,000 in profit. I couldn't believe it. I just kept thinking how absurd it was, but how awesome it was at the same time.
I was reading on forums about how people were expecting it to raise by another 10x or more. And why not? It was actually a currency adopted by an Indian nation, there was supposed to be a Wall Street Journal article sometime in the next several days and the coin hadn't yet been listed on the biggest exchange. Could it reach $100,000, some real life-changing money? I thought so, so I stayed in the market, even as it started to dip.
It dipped to the point where I only had $6,000 in profit, then $4,000. I actually made a decent day trading move and picked up an additional 1/3 my original stash of coins. But then there was also some blunders, like when I literally sold some of my coins by accident and lost like 1/10th of my stash. Not no big deal....the WSJ journal article would hit, it would get listed on the biggest exchange (Cryptsy), and I'd make my money back.
Well, Friday morning it got listed. It immediately started jumping and I rushed to login to the exchange where my coins where kept so I could buy in before the big land grab. Unfortunately, their servers were overloaded and weren't working. I did manage to put a buy order in but couldn't log in after that. But after the initial it started dropping. It was too late, though, I had put my buy order in, couldn't access the server, and had to go to school.
I wasn't too worried, though. I figured the coin would still rise. Got home. Nope. Value down to just above where I bought in at. What should I do? Sell out right now? I talked to my brother and he said what I felt as well, "the market can't drop much more can it?". Well, today it has.
Now I've lost more money than I lost against Dogecoin, and the markets look to still be falling. But at this point I'm so far in the hole I can't if it is better to sell off what I've got and take my losses or to hope the market spikes and I get at least some of my value back, which knowing the markets as little as I do isn't unlikely.
I guess this story seems more depressing than it is. I just feel like telling it, thought it was crazy. It kind of is psychologically devastating to gain something that quick and then lose it all just as fast. Thankfully I put the money in knowing that I could afford to lose it, but it still sucks.
What a moron.
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Fed Debates Bond-Buying Program
Federal Reserve officials actively debated at their last meeting about whether to begin winding down an $85 billion-per-month bond-buying program after midyear. Jon Hilsenrath reports. Photo: Getty Images.
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... I ... well it does not like surprises from the central bank ... that is what we got this morning the Federal Reserve released the minutes ... of its more re setting meeting the rate setting committee FOMC ... the March meeting may be the market meaning minute notes were released at nine a m knocked ... two pm as expected ... I the minister not a big surprise to the timing to talk about a minute about the time to let all these issues ... Jon Hilsenrath joins us from Washington ... I'm John let's start off with the issuer that I mean why did these things come at a nine am ... no no ay ay ay ... yet yet there are people in every year amended a up sometimes so it sounds like what happened ... was a staffer ... what is and currency ... yesterday afternoon a little bit after two o'clock ... Senate committees around which had already been compared ... to a bunch of people up on caught up in Congress and at some trade associations ... thinking that the minutes had been publicly released a two o'clock yesterday ... what's bizarre is that ... apparently based on all the D tells nobody notices ... more than a hundred people got it but nobody known as the early release until this morning when another staffer ... who was on the distribution list ... of all these things when out more than a hundred people ... in this gravel they said that it said it had an ... what a bunch of puzzling as I understand that somebody screwed up what I find puzzling is how nobody would notice that dispense that meant so much to people ... attention to why nobody noticed that I mean even ... up until we started getting wind of this I mean right before we went public with the you can see nobody in the market had any idea was no on Twitter no undies I mean nobody got wind of this kept whining it's another with a look at is that you know Congress is disengaged when it comes to monetary policy ... that made his trade associations are although we can't ... dismiss the possibility that someone that ad is the title information we often ... did something with it with a well find that frankly I don't know if there's anything ... wrong with anybody one engine suddenly publicly ... in the markets because ... the Fed wants to know somebody put out it was in the hands of a lot of people were ... tied for second what was and is I think it was a little bit more hawkish ... than people in unexpectedly got wind of some of this stuff ... but this articulated a stay with the Fed is saying in these minutes is that ... there is still ... with the ... bond buying programs are doing a going dollars month ... at least three media that seems to be a consensus that came at the meeting ... but then after that all bets are off yet there some people who ... wanna start tapering the program down at midyear ... other people think they should go into the third quarter although into twenty fourteen ... where were seeing is the beginnings of a very vigorous debate ... that's not going to take place and get very high I think starting in the June meeting ... about when the Fed starts to ... slowly wind and the status of all this money that's coming out of it in or the headlines caught my eye John was the conversation about the risks that investors are taking ... a rather worrying about that ... I mean you've fallen closer than I do but I am on a recall seeing them actually ... talk about that this kind of a level that new ... wells ... I haven't talked about for awhile Remember Jeremy Stein a Fed governor gave a speech to come lot of attention ... in January Congress to financial stability ... it has been watching this stuff you don't burn Anqi after the financial crisis set off in opposite financial stability ... which creates the FOMC ... every other meeting ... up with what's going on here is that that is starting to get a little concerned about ... you know what it is easy money low interest rate policy is causing some markets are pretty ... so they're looking at more carefully ... the verdict that seems to be coming from the staff is aren't we all watched scary window right now we're not bringing any of our belts it's kind of like ... a yellow flag made but not a red flag ... which means that it's not an impediment at this point that the continuing ... to keep rates low but while these bonds to ... fund some concern that the Federal Reserve as a distribution list as members of Congress and affray Group size ... well no I mean that reaches out to a lot of people ... they are ever congressional liaison office which Greggory is working with staffers in Congress ... 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I started blogging on a whim. People said you need to blog to become a writer, for an agent/publisher wouldn't pick up a writer without a strong online presence.
BUT I was also as freaked out as a kid taking the SAT test with no pencil and no clothes. Yep. Like that. I assumed blogging meant no more private me, showing everyone what a silly person I was, how sadly unpublished and woefully unprepared I was for all things blogging. Still, I dove in with post #1.
So a day after I started blogging, I decided to quit.
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Introduction: The Science staff at the Perry R. Bass Marine Fisheries Research Station (PRBMFRS) is divided into two groups, the genetics staff and the life history staff. The genetics staff consists of a lead geneticist and three genetics biologists. The life history group is composed of a lead biologist, who is also the Facility Director, a biologist, two fish and wildlife technicians, and a laboratory technician. The genetics group utilizes genetic markers for species identification and to analyze genetic variability and population subdivision within marine species of interest. The life history group examines age and growth and reproductive characteristics of marine fish. Together, the two groups function to provide specialized information about marine fish stocks needed to manage Texas marine resources effectively. Many of the projects at the PRBMFRS are partially funded by the U. S. Department of the Interior, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act. The station also currently houses a fish ageing program funded by the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission and administered by TPWD. The following is a synopsis of past, current and planned research at the PRBMFRS.
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The weird and wild gyrations of the technology industry are certainly open to ridicule. And comedian Jon Stewart of The Daily Show had some fun Tuesday evening taking on two of the giants of the Internet, sharing some of his thoughts about Google's new invention, the futuristic augmented reality eyeglasses, and Facebook's mammoth purchase of online photo sharing service Instagram.
After showing the video of a user's possible daily life experience with Google's dorky eyeglasses, Stewart offered this classic line of what actually might happen: "Let me say something: In New York City, that mother****** is going to be hit by car."
Stewart appeared even more skeptical about Instagram, calling it "really lame."
Upon hearing that Facebook paid $1 billion for the service, the comedian quipped:
"A billion dollars of money? For a thing that kind of ruins your pictures? The only Instagram worth a billion dollars would be an app that instantly gets you a gram…"
You can watch the full epsiode here, which just so happens to include a Q&A with entrepreneur and Internet pioneer Elon Musk. Here's the segment where Stewart offers some comic relief related to Google and Facebook.
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