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Tiger and Chris: What Can We Learn from Their Many Failings? (Conclusion)December 21, 2009
Indeed, what can we learn from the spectacular fall from grace of Eldrick "Tiger" Woods, and the tragic, senseless death of Chris Henry?
Sadly, some of the most poignant lessons we can gather are damning evidences that as a nation, a people, and a society, our values are hopelessly twisted as the first decade of the 21st century ticks away.
The United States of America was once an outpost founded on the ideals of freedom from tyranny, tolerance of fellow man, acceptance of diverse ideas about living, and raising up of the downtrodden.
Yet now, in this bustling, ever-evolving Internet Age, "we the people" breed our own cruel form of electronic despotism, spawn hatred and intolerance (sometimes unwittingly), decry as wicked those who are different for any reason, and generally ridicule those who, for whatever reason, are less fortunate than we are.
Such as Chris Henry.
How in the world was he less fortunate than anyone? Well, as I said in Part I, Henry was clearly the victim of a pervasive mental or emotional disorder. This disorder led him to a state of lowered impulse control, most likely at times when he felt somehow threatened, alone, or powerless.
In such times—which might last a few minutes, or at most, just a few hours—Henry was vulnerable. He was liable to do just about anything, no matter how illegal or depraved, and no matter how diametrically opposed to his own core moral beliefs. He would have retained little or no memory of it.
Now, am I saying he shouldn't have been punished for these things? Absolutely not! To my eye, in part because he was a famous, high-profile athlete, he got off very lightly for some of his criminal offenses. That's one of the privileges of fame.
The curse, though, is a co-creation of the delusions of immortality and infallibility that youth so often have, combined with the power to do most anything with virtual impunity.
It's an intoxicating confluence of mistresses, the combination of which led directly to Chris Henry's death.
In Part I, I suggested that someone should have advised Henry to seek professional help for his disorder. However, do not believe me to be naïve enough to think that such an admonition would have ever been uttered or, if it were, taken seriously.
For Chris Henry to come out and admit that he was disordered and that he was seeking psychiatric health would have slain the Golden Goose that snatched him up from his humble roots in Belle Chasse, La. (2007 population: 7,934), and plunked him into the rabid shark tank that is the NFL.
It recalls the lyrics of Elton John's iconic "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road."
So goodbye yellow brick road / Where the dogs of society howl / You can't plant me in your penthouse / I'm going back to my plough / Back to the howling old owl in the woods / Hunting the horny back toad / I've finally decided my future lies / Beyond the yellow brick road.
We raise our kids and instill in them this dream of becoming "rich and famous," and encourage them from a young age to chase that ball—a little white one with dimples, the pigskin spheroid known as a football, perhaps a basketball or a soccer ball—and tell them it's their way out of a life of poverty.
We tell them to "follow the yellow brick road" to that magical world that we think we know exists, even if we personally haven't been there.
But that world is cruel, and has chewed up and spit out more Chris Henrys than any of us will ever know, or care to admit.
Then, when their discarded carcass is left twisting in the wind like chaff left behind from a thresher, who's there to console the failed athlete and his or her family?
The media?
The media is the biggest blade in the machine, and cuts the deepest.
Just ask Tiger Woods.
Woods is not some unwitting victim; let me get that out of the way right now. Not in the sense that Henry was. Right now, Tiger is not acting like a very good human being.
But Eldrick had advantages that Chris Henry never did. Eldrick had Earl Woods, a wily, worldly, military man. Earl Woods sheltered his youngest (he had three older children, from a previous marriage, two boys and a girl, Cheyenne, who also became a competitive golfer) and molded him into one of the greatest golfers the world has ever known.
At the tender age of two, Eldrick "Tiger" Woods was broadcast live to an amused, captive television audience, hitting golf balls with Bob Hope on The Mike Douglas Show, and by the age of three, shot a 48 over nine holes at the Navy Golf Club in Cypress, Calif.
I can't shoot a 48 over nine holes today, and I'm 40.
Quick now, without thinking: What were you doing at age two? Age three?
If you're anything like me, you were eating mud cakes (yes, I actually ate some of mine, didn't you?), watching Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and getting into mischief when your mother's back was turned.
Tiger Woods was becoming famous at the solitary sport of golf, where it's just you, the course, a ball, and a scorecard.
Sounds like a recipe for a self-centered, hopelessly myopic life.
The only other force in that life was Earl Woods, who had lived all over the world, and seen anything this planet might have to offer—including women of all races, shapes, and forms.
Young Tiger learned much from his father Earl, including, I believe, how to cheat and get away with it.
Think about it: When Earl Woods excused himself at the country club to take a phone call, you don't think Tiger, over time, figured out that wasn't always mother Tida Woods on the other end?
You don't think that this boy, who was molded with militaristic fervor from infancy to play golf, could tell when the twinkle in good ole daddy's eye had nothing to do with familial affection, and had everything to do with carnal lust and infidelity?
It has been said that there was a time that Tiger virtually hated his father, because he could not bear the way Earl was cheating on Tida. There was a period of estrangement—the media at the time rather kept it hush-hush, but it is well documented now.
So let's take Tiger Woods, who has idolized only Earl and golf from the age of two, and let's put him on the yellow brick road to fame.
Let's make him into the new, improved Orenthal James Simpson.
Simpson was so iconic that a 10-year-old Leroy Watson, Jr. knew "the Juice" from Hertz Rent-a-Car commercials, jumping over luggage in the airport.
And when I found out he played for the San Francisco 49ers, a team that had just drafted a Notre Dame prodigy by the name of Joe Montana, who had led a stirring comeback from a 34-12 third-quarter deficit to win the 1978 Cotton Bowl, 35-34...
Well, I had a team to slide into my No. 2 slot, behind the dynastic Pittsburgh Steelers. When the Steel Curtain collapsed, and the Niners went on their incredible run, I switched allegiances.
Hey, I was a kid, okay? I remain a Niner fan to this day and I still consider the Steelers of that era to be the best team in NFL history.
Anyway, Madison Avenue and the media took O.J. and made him the biggest thing since sliced bread. It was a great story, too, because at first he could barely speak coherently. He was a child of the streets; football was all he knew.
But they pounded out the dents, polished the chassis, and propped him up as the ultimate crossover ad campaign. 30 years later, I clearly remember O.J. endorsing Florida orange juice, milk, Wheaties, and Hertz. That's just off the top of my head.
For a time he co-hosted The NFL on NBC and did some commentary on Monday Night Football. (Not very well, I might add.)
He played a bit part in Roots, starred in several other movies, and even owned his own film production company, Orenthal Productions, which dealt mostly in made-for-TV fare.
We still feel the residual pulses from the collapse of that empire.
Woods would be different, though. He was fiercely intelligent, already well spoken, and obviously disciplined. The son of a military man, remember.
But he was also human. And all those solitary years of self-absorption and suppression eventually took their toll.
I will let Christopher Maher speak for me now, as I certainly cannot say what I feel any better than he did in the comment thread to Part I:
"There is no way any (internally flawed, as we all are) human being could have lived on the pedestal Eldrick Woods was placed on."
"When anyone reaches a position of excellence in their endeavor that also brings fame with it, be it sport, politics or acting, the pedestal is placed under them."
"But when that person slips off of the pedestal, the media will film every step, it will be all over at least one 24-hour 'news cycle' if not longer, and the media will tell itself it is giving its audience and readership what it wants."
Why does this happen?
My brilliant friend, and fellow Bleacher Creature J.A. Allen, explained it pretty well in her gritty, cathartic "Bleacher Banter in B Flat...," originally published on Nov. 22, 2008:
"For as we pour out our expectations, our dilemmas, and our constant frustration, we are denied our quest for perfection. Supremely gifted athletes are paid exorbitant salaries to perform for us and we cannot forgive a loss or worse yet an uncaring attitude…even at the amateur level."
"We feel compelled to criticize the man, his motives, and his methods—all for the sake of what?"
"Partially, we do it in order to appease disappointment in ourselves and in our lives. If we can reallocate our inadequacies to athletes we do not and cannot know, it alleviates our perceived sense of failure."
"If we can assign our loyalty, our enthusiasm, and even our love to a man or to a team, then we don't have to locate or deal with these emotions in our real life. We subjugate our desires, we hide from commitment and we run like hell."
Or, put another way by JW Nix, in the comment thread to Part I: "Most of the media who sensationalize events are folks who don't want you to look into their closets to find skeletons."
"They cry freedom of the press in the other breath, but is stalking really journalism?"
"We won't know these two, no matter how hard the media tries to capsulize [sic] their lives into a neat little package with a bow on top."
Here's the media's dirty little secret; buy into it at your own risk:
When you're on top of the world, they will make you into a demigod. Hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of articles will blow smoke up your bum, minimizing your failures and extolling your successes to a comedic degree.
But that's just the setup for the fall.
Before you can say, "Ding, dong, the witch is dead," let your human missteps and failings become public, and the media will portray you as evil, selfish, and two-faced.
Paparazzi will snap your picture leaving the toilet at Exxon, people will go through your trash, and your every location will be tracked on the Internet for junkies and psychotics to follow you.
And then, you go from the toast of the town to the butt of the joke.
You are the worst person to ever be a product pitchman.
How long is it before someone tells a cruel, off-color joke on late night television about Chris Henry and his plunge off the back of a moving pickup? Or has it already happened?
I wager you that right now, some cheating husband is getting caught, and he's telling his wife, "Well honey, it was just one indiscretion. At least I didn't pull a Tiger Woods and f*ck ___ women all over the world."
Fill in the blank with whatever the latest convenient number is. Somewhere between 10 and 18, unless I haven't kept up (not that I'm really trying).
One of the tragedies I take from the Woods and Henry affairs is that, as a society, we've got to stop using athletes as cure-alls.
If your favorite team wins a game, it doesn't solve your problems, and if "your guy" is the hero today, you still have to pay your own mortgage tomorrow.
Conversely, when you get into a place where you feel like you can't do anything right, I know how tempting it is to find someone else and play the "at least I'm better than him" game. And the more famous he is, well, the better you feel about yourself.
It's easy to look at Chris Henry's arrest record, his untimely death, and think, "At least I didn't do all of that."
It's easy to say, "I will never be as arrogant, duplicitous, and entitled as Tiger Woods."
And we might write an article about it, how terrible this guy is, and put it on the Internet for the world to see. When others agree, we'll feel so good that we forget about our own failings for a fleeting moment.
But what of the children? I beg of you to think about this, the other tragedy in the wake of these seemingly disparate events.
Because, when researching a recent tennis article, I found a web page that was 15 years old, still hanging around on a server, and I was immersed in a treasure trove of information that kept me enthralled for hours.
In that amount of time Chris Henry and Tiger Woods' children will all be teenagers, old enough to fully absorb every painful jab—whether rooted in truth or falsehood (many the latter)—thrown at their fathers' legacies.
Would you be proud to look them in the eye and say, "I wrote that about your Daddy?"
How would you feel if it were your teen-aged children reading the exact same thing about you?
As writers, and as members on the cusp of the new media revolution, we have an obligation to ask and satisfactorily answer those questions before we press the "Publish" button.
I'm not here on a soapbox preaching "peace and love and understanding." I'm not saying that we should excuse or even forgive Tiger Woods, nor am I minimizing Chris Henry's past crimes and foibles.
I'm just suggesting that we all exercise a little common decency.
Is that too much to ask?


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Theater Vertigo's current "dramedy," Escape from Happiness, focuses on one family—a mother, Nora (April Magnusson), and her three daughters—who have an ambiguous relationship with reality. Deserted for 10 years by Nora's husband, Tom (Erik James), the women have been forced to find their own way in the world. Their coping mechanics include, variously, delusion, motherhood, and a raging sense of injustice.
Tom has since returned, sick and old, to try to make amends with his family. Coinciding with Tom's return, his daughters find themselves caught up in a crime ring that forces into them into direct conflict with the outside world that they've been avoiding for so long.
George F. Walker's script is seriously funny; it's also smart and quite profane, two attributes that never fail to reassure me that I'm watching something culturally relevant. The script tackles all manner of heavy topics, from domestic abuse to police brutality. It would probably do better to avoid the heavy stuff altogether, seeing as how the weighty, carelessly addressed issues do nothing but muddle an already complicated script; but apparently the playwright felt compelled to write something that mattered, and his production suffers for his conscientiousness. Most of the show is cheeky and fun, so when the plot takes the occasional turn for the pedantic, it comes off as an irritating surprise.
The show's direction shares some of the writer's heavy-handedness; during a few scenes, comedy is squeezed out of the material like blood from the proverbial stone. While some of the comedic bits go unnecessarily lowbrow, seriously competent actors flesh out the challenging script: Keith Cable is scene-stealingly hilarious as an unimaginative, prototypical cop, while Yolanda Suarez collects her rightful share of laughs as the therapy-happy sister.
Theatrically speaking, comedy is an easy sell, and Escape from Happiness is a pleasant reminder of just how much fun it can be to share a few laughs with a room full of strangers: This show is funny. Genuinely fucking funny. The plot is convoluted and the ending feels a bit haphazard—but honestly, I don't think anyone will remember this play's plot after seeing it. They're much more likely to walk away feeling pleasantly surprised and generally entertained—not a bad night's work, as far as Vertigo is concerned.

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Office Dates: Jan 10, 1921 - Jan 14, 1929
Born: Jun 16, 1862
Passed: May 17, 1936
Birth State: Illinois
Party: Republican
Family: Married Ida Morre; three children
School(s): Northern Indiana Normal School
LENNINGTON SMALL, Illinois' twenty-eighth governor, was born in Kankakee, Illinois, on June 16, 1862. He was educated in the public school system of Kankakee and later attended Northern Indiana Normal School (Valparaiso University today). Small entered politics in 1901, as a member of the Illinois State Senate, a position he held until 1905. He also served as Illinois State Treasurer from 1905 to 1907 and again from 1917 to 1919, and was assistant U.S. Treasurer in charge of the sub treasury at Chicago, serving from 1908 to 1912. Small won the 1920 Republican gubernatorial nomination and was sworn into the governor's office on January 10, 1921. He was reelected to a second term in 1925. During his first term, he was indicted on conspiracy and embezzlement charges that had occurred during his earlier tenure as state treasurer. In 1922, the trial was held and a jury found him not guilty, however, in a civil suit he was mandated to reimburse the state treasury the sum of $650.000. Also during his gubernatorial tenure, Illinois became known for having the best road system in the country, with over 400 miles of paved roads built in 1921, and over 1,200 miles in 1924. The Illinois state police department was initiated, and waterways, building construction, and flood relief were all advanced. After leaving office on January 14, 1929, Small ran unsuccessfully for reelection to the governorship in 1932 and 1936. Governor Len Small died on May 17, 1936, and was buried at the Mound Grove Cemetery in Kankakee, Illinois.
Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo, eds. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978, Vol. 1, Westport, Conn.; Meckler Books, 1978. 4 vols.
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The Pacifica Beach Coalition cleans up the beach, teaches people about litter, replants the dunes, and has reduced litter overall on Pacifica's beaches and streets.

But perhaps the most important function it serves doesn't get recognized -- and that is the opportunities afforded to everyone, but in particular young people, especially teenagers -- to participate in, contribute to, and learn from society.

Providing constructive activities, and social and learning opportunities, for teens is worth so much more than the tiny amount of money the city spends to fund the Beach Coalition each year.

The tiny amount of funding gives back a thousand more by contributing to the overall health of the community in the cleanup of litter, sure, but more in the constructive activities for teens and other children.


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Université de Montréal hosts two of the world's most influential philosophers.
City of Québec launching a digital court to be developped in partnership with the Cyberjustice Laboratory.
Université de Montréal researchers are available to speak with journalists reporting on the recent events in France, the issues involved and the outlook.
Professor Serge Brochu of University of Montreal's School of Criminology would support this policy change and has answered several questions to clarify the rational and nuance surrounding his opinion.
Preschoolers working memory can forecasts teenage dropout risk
Founded in 2003, UNESCO Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design at Université de Montréal (CUPEUM) has been renewed by UNESCO.
Study compares the stress reactivity of homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and heterosexuals.
Université de Montréal's Faculty of Law will welcome eighteen Chinese judges for an introduction to the leading principles of Canadian law and their judicial application.
Strategic voting is practiced by 8.3% of Quebec voters
It is possible that women tend to focus on feelings, while men remain somewhat less 'passive' toward negative emotions.


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Fantasy Baseball Rising Stars: Top 5 Third Basemen 25 Years Old or YoungerFebruary 22, 2012
We all know that third base is among the shallowest positions in fantasy sports, but the future appears bright. Not only are two of the game's biggest stars transitioning there (Miguel Cabrera and Hanley Ramirez), but there are several youngsters either already in the majors or on the cusp of getting there. Who is the future of the position? Let's take a look:
1) Brett Lawrie – Toronto Blue Jays – 22 years old
Acquired from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for Shaun Marcum, injuries delayed his major league debut in 2011. When he finally arrived he showed everyone just what was possible, hitting .293 with nine HR, 25 RBI, 26 R and seven SB in 150 AB. The fact of the matter is, those looking for a reason to be skeptical are really going to have to dig deep to find something.
- His average came courtesy of a realistic .318 BABIP and 18.1 percent strikeout rate
- He has stolen as many as 30 bases in a season (at Double-A in 2010)
- The Blue Jays lineup is deep and, even if he hits sixth, he is going to get ample opportunities to both score and drive in runs
The only potential issue is his 17.0 percent HR/FB, which could regress. Obviously we don't want to read too much into his 18 HR at Triple-A prior to his recall, having come in the Pacific Coast League. However, while he hit just eight HR in '10 he also had 35 doubles and 16 triples, so it is not a stretch to think that, as he gets older and stronger, more balls will fly over the fence.
He has the potential to routinely hit .280 with 20/20 production or more. He has a bright future ahead of him and is a great player to target in all formats.
2) Pablo Sandoval – San Francisco Giants – 25 years old
We are consistently going to be concerned about his weight, which is going to be the albatross hanging over him. If he can keep himself in shape, he has proven that he can be a consistent .300-plus hitter as he makes contact and can carry a BABIP of .320 or better.
He also has shown more than enough power, hitting 20-plus HR twice in his career. The big "if," however, is if he can keep his weight in check and stay healthy. There have been reports from Henry Schulman that, "Pablo looked good to me, but Bochy said, 'He knows he's got a few pounds to lose. We had a good talk.' Gained 25 pounds."
It's worth keeping an eye on the situation, but the fact is that Sandoval brings too much to the table to ignore.
3) Mike Moustakas – Kansas City Royals – 23 years old
I have already given my projection for Moustakas for 2012 (click here to view), so I am not going to go into too much detail on him here. The fact is that Moustakas has consistently started off slow at a level only to figure it out and prove how good he can be.
It was no different in the major leagues last season, having hit .352 with four HR, 12 RBI, 10 R and two SB in 88 September AB. Sure, the skeptics will point to a .370 BABIP over the month, but that really was the only number that looks out of place. He also posted a 10.8 percent HR/FB and 12.0 percent strikeout rate, both numbers he could potentially maintain.
It's easy to write Moustakas off due to his poor start, but that would be a mistake. He has proven time and time again that he can be a productive player and his September explosion could just be the start of things to come.
4) Nolan Arenado – Colorado Rockies – 20 years old
A second-round pick in 2009, Arenado put his name on the map in 2011 at Single-A by hitting .298 with 20 HR, 122 RBI and 82 R over 517 AB. He followed that up by running roughshod over the Arizona Fall League, hitting .388 with six HR and 33 RBI over 121 AB. Talk about opening up some eyes.
Those numbers are impressive, but what may have been more impressive were his 53 strikeouts vs. 47 walks at Single-A. The fact that he can produce such lofty numbers, at any level, with the ability to make consistent contact gives us reason for optimism. Throw in the fact that he'll be playing in Coors Field and you have to wonder what will be possible.
He will likely open the year at Double-A and, with a hole at third base this season, could conceivably reach the majors late in 2012. If it is '12 or '13, he has the potential to become one of the better options at a weak position extremely quickly.
5) Anthony Rendon – Washington Nationals – 21 years old
Many would argue that the Nationals netted the best player in the draft for three years running in Stephen Strasburg, Bryce Harper and Anthony Rendon. The sixth overall pick in the 2011 draft, Rendon has not yet made his professional debut, though that hasn't stopped the hype machine.
With Ryan Zimmerman currently at third, someone will have to move to accommodate both players, but time will tell who ultimately shifts (or is dealt). From the Nationals perspective, they needed to add as much talent as possible, regardless of the position, so you have to regard them for that.
We'll also have to wait and see how aggressive Washington chooses to be with Rendon, but if the talent matches the hype, Rendon will be helping the Nationals before we know it.
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Her Turn
At long last, it was her turn, and she woke the Body early, bursting with energy like a kid on Christmas morning.
She got up, and looked at the Body in the mirror, and frowned as she felt whiskers on the face. She went and grabbed the electric shaver, and put it to the face, but then the hands started shaking, and she cried to Him for help.
He sighed, and said, "Let me."
He took the hand and steadied it, and then shaved the face with practiced ease, and then gave the hands back to her.
"Thank you." she whispered, and then went to the bathroom to have a bath. She made it a long one, taking time to clean and shave the rest of the Body, while chastising him on his lack of hygiene the last while.
"Sorry. Just didnt feel up to it." He said.
She sent him a mental hug, knowing full well why he had been like that. It had been part of a pattern he fell into when memories came back strongly, and he relived the torture both of them had been forced to endure.
Back then, not bathing had been a pathetic attempt to make the Body less ... appealing to their abuser, and so when the memories were fresh, he'd go back into the habit again, as if he could ward them off with a whiff of body odor.
He'd done much the same thing with the Body, eating a great deal and not exercising, trying desperately to create a body armor of fat to keep them both safe.
She finished the task, dried off, and then went back to the bedroom to put on her outfit for the day.
Relishing her freedom to do so, she picked out a bra, panties, nylons, skirt, and blouse, and got dressed, drinking in the sensations she experienced as she did so.
"Makeup?" She teased him once she was finished dressing.
"Do you have to?"
"Not right now. but if we go out today, I want at least to have lipstick and blush and eyeshadow on."
"If you must." He sighed.
"I love you, you know that, right?" she asked."For letting me do this, it took a lot of courage."
"We were breaking down, not longer functional because we were fighting all the time. This is better than that."
"Yeah. Love you too."
She mentally sent him a kiss, and then left the bedroom, picking up her purse as she went.
"What's your plan for the day?" He asked.
"Don't really have one. Make a bite of breakfast, and then maybe go out for a stroll at the mall. "
"Girls and shopping. I guess they go together."
"Sexist." she laughed, and mentally sent him a raspberry. .
"But its true. I never liked the mall, and you cant seem to get enough of it."
"I just enjoy getting out. I was pretty cooped up for a long time, you know."
"Sorry. You scared me, made me think I was going insane when I wasnt worried I'd go to Hell for letting you out."
"I know. We hurt each other a lot in those days. And what good did us fighting each other ever do? None, as far as I can see. "
"But its behind us now, agreed?"
"Of course. We're both part of the Body. It needs us both to work right, and besides...."
"I really do love you."
"Yeah. I know."
"Dont go being all macho on me. Real men have feelings too, you know. Unlike the cartoon types we grew up with."
"Sorry. I guess I picked up some of their bad habits. And I always worried about my feelings because ....""
"Because I was there. And you couldn't tell where you ended and I began."
"Yeah. But you know how I feel."
"I do. You're showing me now, by letting me have my turn."
"Least I could do. Just be careful, Not everybody is going to be nice to you."
"I will. Now, breakfast?"
"Something light and good for us. Or isnt there a dress in a shop window you'd like to look nice in?"
She sent him a huge hug and kiss.
"Bless you, brother."
"My pleasure, sis." He said, and then deliberately retreated to deep within the Body.
"After all, its her time" He thought, as he pulled inward.
"Her turn."
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Her Turn
That's a different take than usual.
I sometimes feel like that a little. Although my masculine and feminine selves aren't so sharply demarcated. And I never really tried to extirpate my feminine side.
thanks, Lisa
Super big angel hugs hon, and thanks for the comment.
I like how you separate the feminine and masculine into personas. I think it works pretty well to show some of the problems we have with fighting ourselves, and how nice it can be when we finally accept "her."
I've never had many male personality traits but I do have some - perhaps not enough to make a separate persona. Still, I like this little story.
Thanks and kudos.
- Terry
thanks, terry
Glad you enjoyed this one.
so familiar!
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Ms. CHU. Sequestration wasn't written to be good fiscal policy. It was never intended to be policy, period. These automatic cuts would deeply hurt our environment. This Congress has already tried to roll back our strongest environmental laws. Now we're on the verge of setting a new low.
Sequestration could force the national parks and forests to turn away visitors. Our Forest Service, which fights wildfires, might not have enough money to put out all the flames. Agencies protecting us from harmful toxic waste may have difficulty going after our worst polluters. This is no solution to our deficit problems.
Now is the time for both sides to work toward a responsible compromise. As I said before, sequestration was never intended to happen, so let's not let it.
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David Finkle • New York City • Apr 24, 2008
The only element that raises the so-so tuner -- which features a book by Tony Award winners Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell and an all-new score by Adam Schlesinger and David Javerbaum -- to wowee level is Rob Ashford's choreography, which the creative team has at least been savvy enough to rely on from start to finish. Indeed, director Mark Brokaw's main contribution seems to be getting out of Ashford's way.
Throughout the story of Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker (James Snyder) -- a bad boy who's truly good -- and Allison (Elizabeth Stanley) -- a good girl who wants to be bad -- the ensemble's extraordinary dancers are in constant propulsive body-motion. The paces Ashford and associate choreographer Joey Pizzi put them through goes a long way towards keeping audience attention focused. The absolute standout sequence takes place in a jailhouse, during which the ultra-athletic terping-and-tapping contingent attaches license plates to the soles of their shoes. Something this disarming hasn't been spotted on Broadway since Michael Bennett staged a show-stopping clog dance in the 1966 flop, A Joyful Noise.
The show's faults also can't be laid at the feet of its hard-working cast. The prime scene-stealer is Alli Mauzey as Lenora, a wacko teen so obsessed with landing Cry-Baby that she even feigns pregnancy, and who also gets points for putting across a ditty called "Screw Loose" that Javerbaum and Schlesinger seem to have plotted as a parody of Patsy Cline's "Crazy." The other scene-grabber is Harriet Harris as Mrs. Vernon Williams, Allison's uptight grandmother, who can always land a laugh when it's there to be landed, but has trouble with the too many lame gags she's been handed.
Snyder and Stanley give their evident all, but come off as watered-down Waters. Christopher J. Hanke does well as Baldwin, a warped square who expects Allison's hand (but is ultimately prepared to settle for Lenora's), while Carly Jibson, Lacey Kohl, and Tory Ross register nicely as bad girls whose only goal is to be worse. And a salute to Chester Gregory II as Cry-Baby's best pal Dupree. The actor, who toured not that long ago in The Jackie Wilson Story, reprises some Wilson mike-stand calisthenics when blaring a James Brown-inspired number dubbed "Jukebox Jamboree."
Scott Pask's sets, which come and go like ships passing in the night, include an inordinate number of regular and makeshift stages to accommodate the many songs that Javerbaum and Schlesinger have written to be delivered from them. Indeed, it's conceivable that the biggest waste on the Marquis stage is the quality -- not quantity -- of the songwriters' talents. Every once in a while a lyric that strongly suggests promise pokes through; for example, rhyming "failure" with "genitalia" is a sign of genuine wit. So theatergoers concerned with the future of the musical might want to watch for what Schlesinger and Javerbaum do next. On the other hand, should their Cry-Baby meet an early demise, it's likely few tears will be shed.
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|Historic Cash Flow Analysis
|Understanding How Cash Flows in a Business
|p. 3
|Understanding Cash Flows Properly
|p. 21
|Start-up, Growth, Mature, Decline
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|Restating the Cash Flows of a Real Business
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|Restating US GAAP Cash Flows
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|Analysing the Cash Flows of Mature Businesses
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|Analysing the Cash Flows of Growth Businesses
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|Growth and Mature - Further Analysis Issues
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|Analysing the Cash Flows of Start-up Businesses
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|Analysing the Cash Flows of Decline Businesses
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|What to do about Bad Cash Flows
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|Cash Versus Profit as a Measure of Performance
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|Cash Flow Analysis and Credit Risk
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|Cash Flow Analysis and Performance Measurement
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|Analysing Direct Cash Flow Statements
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|Generating a Cash Flow Summary from Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet Data
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|Summarising Historic Free Cash Flow
|p. 247
|Forecasting Cash Flows
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|Spreadsheet Risk
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|Good Practice Spreadsheet Development
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|The Use of Assumptions in Spreadsheet Models
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The idea of Rainbow Six: Siege is one of criminals holing up in half-destroyed buildings, usually with hostages, and elite troopers busting in to shoot them. As the latest trailer for the game shows, it sounds a whole lot cooler when Idris Elba says it.
The new, multiplayer-only Rainbow Six is due out in a December, and developer Ubisoft presumably spared no expense with this pretty spectacular live-action trailer, with Elba adding a significant level of badass to the proceedings. If Batman was to become a video game salesman, one assumes the results would be roughly this.


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Did you know that there are 102 Days until Christmas?
I am excited to announce a feature this holiday season here at FTM. My sister Natalie and I will be scouting out 101 deals from now until Christmas Eve!
Each day I will post a deal on anything from toys, electronics, household items, magazines and more.
You will be able to check out the deal each day here. You can also follow the 101 Deals of Christmas on Facebook or choose to get the daily newsletter by signing up here at the bottom of the page. You can also follow along on twitter @101XmasDeals.
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The Atlanta cheating scandal has put the focus on administrators and teachers. But what about the role of the parent in a childs education? Should they be held more accountable? Some schools are requiring parents to sign a contract. And some counties are jailing parents who fail to keep their children in school.
It may look like an average day in a DeKalb County courtroom, but its anything but. Parent after parent face a judge. Their crime: educational neglect.
State law in Georgia says parents can face stiff penalties including jail time if their child has more than five unexcused absences.
But DeKalb County Solicitor General Sherry Boston says putting parents in jail is the last resort. She says her department makes several attempts to reach out to parents. When they dont respond to letters, phone calls or visits from social workers, she says she has no choice.
Some of the parents arrested have children with more 40 or more unexcused absences. So far this year, her department has had over 700 cases of educational neglect referred to them.
I dont want to see any child not have an opportunity in life because their parent chooses not to take them to school, Boston said.
Georgia is now one of several states that has laws forcing parents to be responsible with the threat of arrest. Parents in California face misdemeanor charges for too many unexcused absences. And in Alaska, mothers and fathers are fined.
But Tim Callahan of the Professional Association of Georgia Educators isnt so sure its the best practice. You cant legislate being a good parent, Callahan said
In many cases, teachers may need to play the role of parent, he said.
Some of our students who are in most need of teacher affection, teacher support are those who dont get it at home, and so teachers sometimes have to almost be a parent to some of the students, Callahan said.
At Ivy Preparatory Academy in Gwinnett County, a successful student requires an involved parent. And administrators mean just that. Parents must sign a contract. So do the teachers.
Our parents are the heartbeat of our school because if they dont commit to getting their girl here and making sure shes prepared and ready to learn when she gets here, then we wouldnt be successful as a school and our girls wouldnt be as successful as they are, Principal Nina Gilbert said.
Ivy Prep expands to its first ninth-grade class this year. Traditionally, that is when moms and dads can lose some contact with their teen. Therese Aleman, whose daughter will be a freshman, says the key is finding a balance.
I think parents struggle with how do I stay involved and how do I help them, but also how do I not over-architect for them because at some point we have to let them go, Aleman said.
Principal Gilbert said its a model thats working. In the most recent testing, her students were in the 90th percentile in math, science, social studies and language arts.
We have to have the commitment from our parents that if we say your scholar needs additional academic support, it is expected that she is going to remain here until 5 oclock to get that, Gilbert said
As for the CRCT test, Gilbert said they dont even talk about it until they are close to taking it. Instead of learning to be good test-takers, they concentrate of being great thinkers.


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Procurement for new framework likely to be launched early in the New Year
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) is to hold an event next week to discuss the future of GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC), the scheme through which the NHS funds the provision of clinical IT systems in GP practices in England.
The event, on 12th December in London , is aimed at current and prospective suppliers to the primary care IT marketplace with the current GPSoC framework coming to an end at the end of March 2013. The new framework being planned is likely to involve a much broader range of suppliers, CfH said.
According to CfH, GPSoC has successfully delivered a flexible mechanism for contracting for GP clinical IT systems in GP practices since 2007 and 81% of practices currently use a system provided through the framework.
"NHS CFH has been engaging with a wide range of stakeholders over the last year, including GP representatives and suppliers, to identify the requirements for a replacement framework and it is expected this will involve a broader range of suppliers than at present," said Tim Kelsey, National Director for Patients and Information at the NHS Commissioning Board and GPSoC senior responsible owner.
"Subject to us gaining the required approvals, a procurement for a new framework may be launched early in the new year. It's important the supplier community understands the proposed direction of travel, has an opportunity to ask questions, gives feedback, influence and starts to consider whether they would like to be involved."


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Skip to comments.Ford regains credit rating and blue logo (Investment grade again)
Posted on 05/22/2012 6:41:05 PM PDT by taildragger
Ford Motor has regained its investment grade rating from Moodys, triggering the release of all the assets the US carmaker put up to secure its loans, including its iconic blue oval logo.
Alan Mulally, Ford chief executive, called the upgrade an important milestone for the carmaker, which emerged less scathed than rivals from the 2008 crisis that led to bankruptcy and government bailouts for General Motors and Chrysler.
(Excerpt) Read more at ft.com ...
It is funny the same day Fakebook tanks which makes nothing and Ford which makes something gets back to Investment grade and that is not big news.
Go here for a ton of links to other stories on the subject...
It's simply because AMERICANS will NOT BUY FROM OBAMA MOTORS, and his Union Extortionist/money-laundering buddies.
Good for them.
Hey...GM... how ya doin' YA TOADS!
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That helped, but the real reason is that Ford worked their butts off to earn the business and put out good product.
It's the difference between a Privately directed, vs. a Union/Socialist/Govt. directed business. Bailing out the UAW (and thus buying the Blue Collar votes, and laundering Taxpayer money via Union Dues to the DNC) does NOT sit well with Americans who pay attention.
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Comprehensive list of Clarksville, Arkansas based companies and technicians offering computer repair and maintenance services (PC, laptop or notebook). Fix your computer problems now!
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Full computer repair service for Clarksville Arkansas. Laptop, desktop and dc jack repair, virus removal. River Valley Computers was founded in 1997 by local resident, Josh Hern. The business was initially run from Josh`s home in London, Arkansas but by the summer of '2004, the business was growing a great deal. Since that time, Josh has been the sole proprietor of the company, and has learned a great
System Resources Has been selling and maintaining equipment for over 24 years. Fulltime Staff At System Resources we supply a fulltime team that is committed to giving prompt service. Hardware Technician Fulltime hardware technicians that specialize in upgrading and repairing AS400, RS6000, Printers and Item processing equipment.
We specialize in delivering complete technology solutions for tiny business. Instead of using one firm for networking and another for software development, we supply all services - without the frustration of using multiple vendors. We are seeking applicants for project management and website/software programming. If you've been by here before, please let us know if you are interested.
- Kirkham Systems actually listens to your needs and helps you acheive your requests. They
Whether it is a single computer or multiple office locations, GCM will work with you from the planning stage through the installation and fine-tuning of your system. Although our knowledge in the computer industry dates back to the dawn of the individual computer, we continue to implement the latest technologies in order to supply our clients with practical and effective solutions.
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Newsflash: Architects have given up on designing dynamic-yet-uninhabitable buildings, lower focus to unwearable clothing!
The 3D Printer has long been in use to produce children's toys or machined parts, so it was only a matter of time before architects latched onto it as the panacea for their collective ignorance. Two recent articles describe the depth of their hubris; via the 3D Printer, architects are now attempting to design anything from Clothes to Moon Bases. Now, we're all about exploiting advances in technology, heck we've been exploited all our lives! But we can smell a fake a mile away, and this shit smacks of "first time at the rodeo-itis". So for the good of mankind, to absolve us of the collective future sins architects will most definitely commit, 3D Printer we're calling you into The Principals Office, it's our only hope!
3D Printer, you should have seen the desperation in their eyes, the hungry look in their faces. When the endless line of Arab Sheikhs commissioning big-dick towers finally dried up, they were willing to try anything. And you 3D Printer, with your promise that anyone can use you, even an architect, were just too tempting. 3D Printer doesn't care if you don't know how to sew, 3D Printer don't give a SHITE if you've never been to space camp (3D Printer ain't never been neither). 3D printer loves you no matter how little you know about anything! Just 3D model some crazy shit, press print and sit back and space OUT, you are now on the bandwagon and will soon enough have a "design firm" and hi-level collaboration with an up-and-coming fashion star, or even NASA! 3D Printer, we know you have a lot to offer, but a long way to go first. Truth be told, even in our deepest darkest moments we've been guilty of using you. But we don't brag about it. I mean, we only use you when we can't "perform" on our own. So the question remains: if you can only "perform" using the 3D Printer, are you really doing anything at all? Another question remains: what the fuck do architects know about fashion design or moon bases? Answer: Apparently not much.
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Travel Iron
Should we invest in a wee travel iron or will their be one in our cabin like hotels today.
Traveling on the Infinity tomorrow to Alaska and my wife will need to ;touch up' her dresses.
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Irons , for safety reasons, are not allowed in the cabins. Most ships have a laundry room with an ironing board for the passengers to use. A steamer is a better idea.
Re: Travel Iron
As Pam commented, irons are not allowed. Her suggestion of a steamer is a good idea. You may also ask your cabin person to take care of the pressing for you. Celebrity does not have a self servie laundry or ironing area.
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Echoing the others, NO IRONS.
You can begin to imagine the problems if someone left an iron on (using the bed as an ironing board) and sorta forgot to turn it off in the rush to get down to dinner.
Just pack everything in an individual dry cleaner's bag and you won't have any wrinkles, anyway.
pamda -- CM First-Time Cruises Editor who cruises wrinkle-free
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In addition to a steamer, I use the steam from the shower to take out wrinkles. I just hang the garment in the bathroom while taking a shower. This usually takes out the wrinkles. I have also found that going on deck will make wrinkles disappear!
Lots safer than an iron.
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Hi Rob,
I'll second Pam's idea with the dry cleaner bags, they do work, be sure to tell you wife to pack all her dresses in them, then no need to iron.
Have a great cruise!
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Thanks All..
We did buy such a nice travel iron today BUT it will be left at home.
Will have to be extra nice to our Cabin Steward
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Thanks ALL
We did buy a nice one today BUT it will be left at home.
Over to the Cabin Steward
None of the material said no..
ah well
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I bought a bottle of "Downy Wrinkle Releaser" before our last cruise . Careful packing in plastic bags and this new product, used according to directions, made my cloth wrinkle free.
Happy Cruising!
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Hi Ginnie,
I was wondering how that new Downey worked, thanks for letting us know. I will be sure to pick some up before the next cruise :-) I too swear by packing in the plastic cleaner bags, that really works too.
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Leave the iron at home. Everyone will have a few wrinkles. You'll blend right in.
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Thanks for the advice I might have taken one with me. I am a first timer and will be century bound Sept 22,2001.
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We came back from our trip.. it was great on the Infinity
Sent all my wifes dreses to ship's service and for $15 it was done and she was happy !
Just remember to send by 9am for return the next day and phone your cabin steward to remind of situation
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Couple of you have noticed I've been unusually silent over the past few days here, in the forums and on facebook. Well, it appears that whatever horrific offense my city has committed against mother nature, whether real or imagined, hasn't quite been paid for by the 2 blizzards, the hurricane, the tornado or the earthquake we've been stricken by over the past 9 months. This past weekend she once again bent us over her knee and provided a good spanking in the form of a nor easter, which has knocked out 100%, yes 100% of the power in my city and 80% of the power in the surrounding ones.
Luckily the building in which I work a few cities over was originally a bomb shelter and was nto affected, so I'm able to get online once in a while here to follow up on emails and charge my trusty smartphone.
Nonetheless, all Talismans and other orders will be shipped on time tomorrow, so no worries there and everyone who has ordered one can expect it without delay. That goes for the books I promised a few readers as well. I'm hoping the electric co. has us up and running again this week.


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Short lines – perhaps due to pictures – or long words as in German – like »Blumenstraußbinden« – ask for hyphenation (Silbentrennung). Without hyphenantion the text will look ragged, incoherent, and become difficult to read.
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When you write your texts into Blogger, as I do here, an easy way to add possible hypens is to insert the invisible character shy (soft hyphen) at places with possible hypenation.
You can do that directly into the plain text, you don't have to switch to HTML!
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West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper Boaz Myhill is a target for Bristol City.
The People says Bristol City boss Derek McInnes wants to grab unsettled keeper Myhill from the Baggies for £750,000.
Myhill, 29, is first choice to replace David James - who has been released.
McInnes hopes to beat off Myhill's former club Hull City for the signature of the Wales international. McInnes has also looked at QPR veteran Paddy Kenny.


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Thread: Women should wear skirts to box
1/19/2012 8:35pm, #1
Women should wear skirts to box
according to the AIBA
Canadian female boxer tries to KO skirts in ring
A Canadian boxer has her shorts in a knot about wearing a skirt in the ring.
Elizabeth Plank, an amateur boxer from Montreal, has come out swinging at a proposal that female boxers wear skirts rather than shorts when women's boxing makes its Olympic debut later this summer in London, England.
"Forcing women to wear skirts, I think, it's sexism," she told Teddy Katz of CBC Radio Sports.
Plank has received more than 52,000 signatures of support at Change.org, where she has created an online petition protesting the Amateur International Boxing Association's willingness to consider skirts in the ring.
How could the AIBA favour a skirt's elegance?
The online petition is here, thanks to a friend for this note.
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1/19/2012 8:41pm, #2
i love the people who run things in the boxing community, hours of entertainment.
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There was something on the news just the other day that the tennis bigwigs are going to try to get the women players not to grunt or yell when making shots. Not "ladylike," I guess.
1/19/2012 9:12pm, #5
isnt that the only reason to watch womens tennis though?
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I am all for it if they'll allow the Scottish men's team to compete in kilts.
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Judoka can also follow, since the no leg grabbing rules.
No grabbing bellow the skirt.
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If someone thinks forcing skirts on female boxers is going to sell more tickets they'll only end up confused and disappointed and the move will most likely end up hurting women's boxing in the long run.
Serious dick move from whatever body this is being passed down from.
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Skirts? Why not ballet tights?


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So much for one post per chapter.
First, a little background. There is a general consensus among scholars that Revelation was written in about 95CE, which puts it during the reign of Domitian, a persecutor of Christians. The book is a strong polemic against Rome, as we'll see. It addresses the discrepancy between God's power and the church's weakness. The author is named John and while this is traditionally believed to be the same person who wrote the Gospel of John, this is not something that we can prove either way. As is always the case, the title of the book is not part of the original text but a latter addition. (Many scholars believe Rev 1:1 was the original title.) There is no scholarly consensus regarding an overall structure of the book, but there is a clear structure to certain sections, which we'll see as we go.
As one scholar said, "the revelation is not abstract, but pictorial" (Beale, NICGNT). In other words, Revelation is painting a picture for John (and for the reader) of reality. But that doesn't imply that the picture painted is reality, but rather that it represents reality. Here's an example one of my professors used once: imagine a painting of man sitting in his library. The flames of the fireplace form haunted faces. The man is cast in shadows. The dog at his feet is snarling. Other shadows in the room appear to be ghosts. Is this an accurate representation of reality? If accurate means "historical," then, no, probably not. But if the subject of the painting is Adolf Hitler and the goal of the artist was to portray his nature, then the painting is accurate even if it is not historical. Similarly, the moon does not need to turn to hemoglobin to mean that the Book of Revelation is accurate. Like parables, the use of symbols signifies judgment on the majority of the audience (but not you, Ardis) that doesn't "get" them. Note that the immediate audience of the book is described in chapters 2-3 (so more on them later).
Revelation has more Old Testament references than any other NT book. Here is a partial list of Old Testament references in just the first chapter:
Dan 2:28-30, 45
Ex 3:14-15
Isa 11:2
Zech 4:2-7
Ps 89:27:37
Ex 19:5-6
Dan 7:13
Zech 12:10
Dan 10
Isa 6
Ezek 1
Ex 19:16
Ex 20:18
Ex 25:31-37
Zech 4:2, 6, 10
Dan 7:13
Dan 10:5
Ex 39:29
Dan 7:9
Dan 10:6
Ezek 43:2
Dan 12:3
Judg 5:31
Isa 11:4, 49:2
Dan 10:5-20
Isa 4:14, 44:6, 48:12
Dan 2:47
An excellent exercise would be to look up each one and to see how John uses it in Revelation. Note that almost all of the references are from other apocalyptic, visionary works.
Old Testament references are the key to understanding the symbolism. I generally don't think it kosher to pull random associations out of a hat when reading Revelation; the symbolic association should come from the Old Testament. (There are also some references to things that would have been part of the cultural currency of the first audience.)
1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
The word translation as "Revelation" is the Greek apokalupsis, from which we get 'apocalypse' and which carries the sense of disclosing something. While I don't think the author understood it as a genre, we certainly now see the Book of Revelation as part of the genre known as apocalyptic. If I could get LDS scripture readers to do just one thing, it would be to pay more attention to genre when they read; you shouldn't read scriptural poetry the same way that you read a letter or a historical narrative, etc. What does the genre of apocalyptic ask of the reader? Well, probably the biggest mistake a modern reader makes is to treat it as if it were a history textbook written before the events happened. That isn't how apocalypse works. Rather, apocalyptic writings present material symbolically. (Often, this is done for the pragmatic reason of avoiding persecution.) As one scholar put it:
The Bible includes a variety of different genres. When we read . . . Jesus' story about the good Samaritan . . . we are not inclined to check the story against the police blotter for the Jerusalem-Jericho highway patrol. We recognize that Jesus is telling a story to illustrate a moral point, and that such stories often don't claim to correspond to actual events. . . . Texts often provide clues as to their genre. When a story begins, "Once upon a time…" we expect a fairy tale. When we flip on the television and see someone saying. "A guy walked up to a man in a bar…" we know we're watching a comedy club, not the evening news. But sometimes, particularly when encountering a text from a different culture, it's hard to recognize the genre. For example, Data, the android on Star Trek, can't recognize jokes. He takes them literally, and often finds himself puzzled. Similarly, when we read an apocalyptic text like Daniel or Revelation, we often
find ourselves puzzled, not knowing how we are supposed to understand these particular texts. We're not taking their truth more seriously if we take them as literal predictions about the future, any more than Data is interpreting more accurately when he misses the joke. To misunderstand the genre is to misinterpret the text.
More on this as we go; I'd rather derive evidence of this from the text than impose it from the outside.
The "of" is interesting (no, really!) because it could mean that the Revelation comes by, from, or about Jesus Christ–each would have a slightly different nuance of meaning.
"Gave" means made known and is the same word as Dan 2:28-30, 45. While this verse is patterned after Dan 2, Daniel has "in the latter days†and Rev. has shortly. "Shortly" seems somewhat ironic for something written 2000 years ago. One thought is that the events might have begun shortly after the text was written and continue to and through today. (Again, I'll make this argument more as the text suggests it.)
"Servant," any time you see it in the NT, could be translated as slave. Maybe a little jarring for modern readers, but I think servant may be too easy to gloss over. What would we think of visualizing ourselves as slaves of Christ?
I explained the significance of "signified" here and in the subsequent comments. The general sentiment among scholars of the Book of Revelation is that the word carries the connotation of figurative (and not literal) representation. I believe this word served as a heads up to the audience, signaling to them what kind of information was to follow.
2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
"Testimony" can also be translated as "witness."
Again note the emphasis on things that are seen. This will be a very visual vision and must be interpreted that way.
3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
This is a prophecy: it does tell of events that will happen in the future (it just doesn't tell of them literally).
Note the chain that v1-3 sets up: God->Jesus->angels->John->reader->hearer. (For the first audiences, they would have been lucky to have had one person in the congregation who could read and the rest would be hearers.)
Of course, they have to "keep those things," too. An overarching question while reading Revelation should be: "What does it mean to "keep" it in a text where commandments are few and far between?"
V3 is one of seven beatitudes in Revelation. (That probably isn't an accident; the number seven is a symbol for completeness and the list of things that there are seven of in Revelation is truly staggering. If the Book of Revelation were made into an episode of Sesame Street, it would definitely be brought to you by the number seven.)
This ends what can be seen as kind of a prologue–an introductory (or title) verse (verse 1) and then including information about author and audience and a blessing on the audience. I bet most of us are feeling like we need a blessing to get through the Book of Revelation. The next verse begins in the more-or-less normal format for an epistle.
(This post comes off–even to me–as a little frustrating with all of the "as we shall see"s and "more on this later"s. I felt the need to do that to give you a heads-up to major themes, but I need to let the text make its own case when we get to it. So please bear with me.)
Summary thoughts: You can't hang out with Mormons very long without seeing one of those charts that shows the lineage of someone's priesthood authority. These first three verses serve that same function by linking God to the audience through the angel, John, and the visionary experience. This is big stuff; a text with only a few degrees of separation from God! With that in mind, the promise in verse 3–that you'll be blessed for reading–is even more powerful. Don't you want to read more?


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GlobalFoundries may get approval tonight from the Malta Planning Board to start clearing trees and soil from the site where it plans to build a $4.2 billion computer chip factory.
GlobalFoundries, which was spun off last week from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., wants to start clearing the site at Luther Forest Technology Campus in Malta (right) by next month.
Anthony Tozzi, building and planning director for the town, said the planning board is meeting tonight, and approval for GlobalFoundries could be granted.
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Euro-area exports decreased in April for the first time in four months, as the 17-nation currency bloc struggled to emerge from a record-long recession.
Exports declined a seasonally adjusted 0.8 percent from March, when they increased a revised 2.6 percent, the European Union's statistics office in Luxembourg said today. April imports grew 0.5 percent after a 1.2 percent drop, and the trade surplus narrowed to 16.1 billion euros ($21.5 billion).
"These numbers are a small setback," Carsten Brzeski, senior economist at ING Group in Brussels, said by telephone. "You cannot say that exports are a real growth driver at the moment. To see a more sustainable recovery of the euro zone, we'll have to wait for the second half of this year."
The European Central Bank this month cut its forecast for the euro area's economy to show contraction of 0.6 percent this year from an estimate of minus 0.5 percent made in March. ECB President Mario Draghi said that while the economy should stabilize "at a subdued pace" this year, "downside risks" remain, including possible weaker-than-expected domestic and global demand for euro-area goods.
Exports from Germany, Europe's largest economy, grew 3 percent in April to 41.9 billion euros, today's report showed. French shipments increased 0.2 percent, while Italian and Spanish exports decreased 2.9 percent and 0.8 percent, respectively.
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Today's trade data followed a discouraging report on euro-zone retail sales, which fell 0.5 percent in April. While an index of manufacturing activity based on a survey of purchasing managers rose to a 15-month high in May, it has been below the level indicating contraction since July 2011, according to London-based Markit Economics. Unemployment (UMRTEMU) is at a record 12.2 percent.
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Nominal hourly labor costs in the euro area rose 1.6 percent in the first quarter from the year-earlier period, a separate Eurostat report showed today. In Germany, labor costs were up 3.9 percent, with wages rising 3.5 percent.
The international economic environment "remains extremely volatile and uncertain," Patrizio Bertelli, chief executive officer at luxury goods maker Prada SpA (1913), said this month after the company reported first-quarter profit growth that decelerated to the slowest pace in at least a year.
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Daimler AG (DAI) Chief Executive Officer Dieter Zetsche said on June 12 that the European car market is "bottoming out" and a "slight recovery" is possible in the region in the second half of the year. Luxury-car demand in China will continue to outpace the industry-wide growth in the S-Class sedan's biggest market, he said.
PSA Peugeot Citroen, Europe's second-biggest carmaker, said on May 22 demand for new vehicles in the region has started to stabilize at a "very low level" after deliveries increased in April for the first time in 19 months.
Maxime Picat, head of the manufacturer's Peugeot brand, reiterated the Paris-based manufacturer's forecast that industry sales in Europe will fall 5 percent this year in the sixth consecutive annual decline, and said it's too early to predict a rebound.
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to bad the suns own u guys...... made history on u guys....embarrased u guys... made fun of u guys....... dnt even respect u guys.... and all u could do is brag about the past how about when we almost swept u guy n 05 talk about that geek u guys lucked out that one game....Oh my bad thats right lol u guys didnt even MAKE THE PLAYOFFS sorry ass team traded shaq for ODOM???????
hmmm dnt kno....n since u like to brag about the past talk about how u guys got swept in 99 from the spurs lol nah das some good past ....lakers and clippers are bunch of goans its all about the present now if u didnt get that memo already....... if u ask me who own the lakers i'll say DETRIOT....n BOSTON since u wanna go in the past.......04 u guys got embarrased again in the finals talk about that......... i hate u laker goans cant u see y boston isnt talkin about the past???? cuz they no it doesnt count ne more dufas....... but hey wat eva rocks u to sleep go ahead try make the playoffs this rush and stop
crying about the past... Be like a real team and make the playoffs 8 consec yrs back to back ...which i may add we were a losing team and!!!! 8 consec year we embarrased the clippers which is a LA!! team dnt worry. this world is round what goes around always comes around lakers ...yall time is now hahahahaha Score 81 verses Artest kobe!!! jackass
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Stop inching your way into desktop publishing -- plunge into picas for page layout measurements. For many, the measurement system of choice for typesetting and publication design is picas and points. If your work involves complex, multi-page designs such as books, magazines, newspapers, or newsletters, working in picas and points can be a real timesaver. And if you plan to work in the newspaper or magazine publishing industry, you'll likely be required to stop thinking in inches or millimeters for page layout. So why not start now. In fact, you're already halfway there if you use type you already work with points.

Newsletter layouts frequently involve small pieces that are difficult to measure in fractions of inches. Picas and points provide easily for those tiny amounts. Have you heard of the magic of thirds in design? Here's an example: divide an 8.5-inch by 11-inch piece of paper into thirds horizontally. Now, find 3.66 inches on the ruler. It's not the simplest concept, but just remember the rule that 11 inches is 66 picas, so each third is 22 picas.

More points to remember:

Points are the smallest unit of measurement. Type and leading are measured in points with 72 points to the inch.

Use picas for measuring column width and depth, margins, and other larger distances.

Picas and points have a direct relationship to each other. There are 12 points in a pica.

If you're a metric maven, you may have a bit more trouble with the conversion to picas but for those of us raised on inches it's simpler. There are 6 picas to an inch. A standard US letter size page is 8.5 by 11 inches or 51 by 66 picas. (6 picas are approximately 25 mm.)

The letter "p" is used to designate picas as in 22p or 6p. With 12 points to the pica, half a pica would be 6 points written as 0p6. 17 points would be 1p5 (1 pica = 12 pts, plus the leftover 5 pts).

More Mathematical Tips and Tricks

Your software can solve some of the math for you. For instance, with picas as your default measurements in PageMaker, if you type 0p28 (28 points) into the control palette when setting indents or other paragraph settings, it will convert it to 2p4 automatically.

If you're converting existing designs to pica measurements, you may find it necessary to know the size of fractions of points (for example 3/32 of an inch converts to 6.75 points or 0p6.75).

If you want to create dummy layouts for a design, remember that depth is measured in picas. So if you want to know how much vertical space a 48 point headline occupies divide 48 by 12 (12 pts to the pica) to get 4 picas of vertical space. You can read about this in more detail in an article from an online journalism related course. Hopefully, you'll have at least a slightly better understanding of how picas and points are used in desktop publishing.

While they may not make you a Pica Professor overnight try these exercises to help you become accustomed to working in picas and points. One involves old fashioned division, multiplication, addition, and subtraction. The second exercise uses your page layout software (it must be a program capable of using picas and points as the measurement system). Enjoy.

Picas and Points Exercise #1
Using paper and pencil do some of these calculations (put that calculator away!).

Divide an 8.5" by 11" piece of paper in even thirds vertically using inches. What is the width of one-third of the page?

Divide an 8.5" by 11" piece of paper (51p by 66p) in even thirds vertically using picas. What is the width of one-third of the page?

Add 1 inch margins (sides, top, and bottom) to that 8.5" by 11" piece of paper, how much horizontal and vertical space remains? Express it in inches and in picas.

Divide the live page area (paper size minus margins) from Step 3 into three columns of equal size with .167" between columns (That's the default space used by PageMaker when creating column guides). How wide and deep is each column, in inches? How wide and deep is each column, in picas?

Calculate how many lines of body type will fit in one of those columns if you use 12 point leading for your type (assume no space between paragraphs).

Using the calculations from Step 5, how many lines of body type will fit if you add a 36 point 2-line headline at the top of the column with 6 points of space between the headline and the start of the body copy?

Picas and Points Exercise #2
This exercise requires that your page layout program be able to use picas and points as the measurement system. If you prefer to skip Exercise #1, use the solutions to the calcuations found at the end of this page to complete Exercise #2.

Using inches as the measurement system (the default in many programs) set up an 8.5" by 11" page with 1 inch margins. Don't use any automatic column or grid setup. Instead, manually place guidelines to define three columns of the width you calculated in Step #4 of Exercise 1 (that should be four guidelines since the guidelines for the margins define the outer edge of the 1st and 3rd columns).

Remove the guidelines and change the measurement system and rulers to picas. The margins should be 6 picas (1 inch). Manually place guidelines again to define the three columns from Step #4 of Exercise 1. Which measurement system made it easier for you to manually and precisely place the guidelines where they needed to go? I find it easier to use the picas system. Do you?

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Solutions to the calculations from Exercise #1 and placement for guidelines in Exercise #2


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Global Economic Value of the Amazon Rainforest -
A Delphi Contingent Valuation Survey of European Environmental Valuation ExpertsBy Stale Navrud and Jon Strand
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Chair: Jon Strand, DECEE
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12:30-2:00 pm
The Amazon Rainforest can be considered as a global public good, benefitting all of mankind. About 15 % of the Amazon forest area has already been lost since the 1970s. Households worldwide could potentially be willing to pay substantially to avoid the additional 15-25 % loss of Amazon rainforest area that is predicted by 2050, if no policy measures are taken to halt forest losses. A set of worldwide Contingent Valuation (CV) or Choice Experiment (CE) studies, to precisely measure these values globally, would be very costly and time consuming. In the present study we have applied a Delphi technique to come up with preliminary estimates of parts of this value. 48 European environmental valuation experts responded to a 2-stage internet survey asking them to provide their best guess for the outcome of CV surveys where European households would be asked about their willingness-to-pay (WTP) to preserve the Amazon Rainforest. The survey results indicate that the average WTP for preservation of the Amazon rainforest among the European population is likely to be substantial, and could add greatly to the aggregate global value of preserving the Amazon Rainforest. New original combined CV and CE population surveys are planned for this and other high-income regions, to more precisely measure such global values, and permit comparisons between this Delphi CV survey and actually elicited population values.
Bio, Stale Navrud:
Ståle Navrud is a professor of environmental and resource economics at the School of Economics and Business at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He specializes in environmental, health and cultural heritage valuation, value transfer and cost-benefit analysis, and has published extensively on a wide range of topics involving economic valuation, including on terrestrial, aquatic, marine and coastal ecosystem services. He currently serves as a Review Editor on the economics of adaptation for the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC.