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Reputation System - Added a new system for reputations with various locations. Currently this has a few effects, most noticeably that you may pay slightly more or less at inns, blacksmiths, and shops depending on your reputation, but may also prevent you from using certain services if your reputation is too low. This system will be expanded in the future.
- Tannis now has a town marshall.
- Hexer's Wretched Oil Earth and Darkness scaling reduced to 20% + 5% per Rank (from 50% + 5% per Rank).
- Ghost's Ghostwind spell FP cost changed to 20 + 1 per Rank (from 12 + 2 per Rank). Swords and axes are now valid casting tools for this spell.
- Demon Hunter's Matador skills now deal magic damage (otherwise unchanged).
- Wound infliction notifications are now in a slightly red text to help them standout.
- Optimizations to skill selection and action list generation/lookup. (Let me know if you experience any issues with battling, skill selection, your skill lists or missing skills, etc.)
- Self-Service in the Maintenance talent now applies fully to the main hand weapon if the sub-weapon has no durability damage.
- Randomly generated battlefields are now slightly smaller to help facilitate faster battles.
* Bug Reports
- Landmarker sub-talent was not applying for the full duration.
- Activating skills from the battle bar was inconsistent with skills like Copy spells and should be have uniformly now.
- Flame Jetwing was behaving incorrectly when used by Jhunn itself.
- Mayelia was proccing way too many times when removed from battle.
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Four LumberKings Named to All-Star Game
Vinnie Catricala, Nick Franklin, Brian Moran and Erasmo Ramirez all headed to Fort Wayne on June 22
June 8, 2010 10:25 AM
Clinton, IA - Four members of the Clinton LumberKings will suit up for the West Division All-Stars on Tuesday, June 22 at Parkview Field in Fort Wayne, IN. Vinnie Catricala (starting designated hitter), Nick Franklin (reserve shortstop), Brian Moran (left-handed pitcher) and Erasmo Ramirez (right-handed pitcher) have all been included on the West roster, released by the Midwest League today.
Catricala , 21, will be Clinton's only starter in the game. Seattle's 10th round pick out of the University of Hawaii and the Offensive MVP of short-season Pulaski a year ago, Catricala is hitting .286 with 17 doubles, four home runs, 34 runs scored and 28 RBI over 56 games this season. The Sacramento, CA native is currently tied for third in the league in doubles.
Franklin has been named a reserve, edged out for the starting shortstop spot by Peoria's Hak-Ju Lee. Seattle's first-round pick (27th overall) in 2009, Franklin is amidst league leaders in total bases (2nd with 128), extra-base hits (2nd with 28), home runs (T-2nd with 12), slugging percentage (3rd at .577), total hits (4th with 70), OPS (5th at .936) and batting average (9th at .315). The 19-year-old leads the LumberKings with 20 multi-hit games, including six three-hit games this season.
Moran, 21, is 2-1 with a 1.86 ERA over 16 relief appearances this season and has converted on two of three save chances. Seattle's seventh-round pick in 2009 out of the University of North Carolina, Moran has walked just three batters while striking out 36 over 29.0 innings and leads all Midwest League relievers in lowest walks per nine innings (0.93).
Ramirez, 20, is 4-2 with a 2.19 ERA over 10 appearances, seven starts in his first season in the United States. Seattle's Minor League Pitcher of the Year in 2009 while with Aguirre of the Venezuelan Summer League, Ramirez currently ranks eighth in the league in ERA. He's also walked just three batters while striking out 36 over 53.1 innings.
This year marks the fourth-straight season in which the LumberKings have sent four-or-more players to the All-Star Game. The 2007 club sent eight players, while the 2008 and 2008 teams were represented by nine All-Stars each. Clinton's last player to win the "Star of Stars" award was outfielder Tim Smith, who helped the West to a 5-4 win in 10 innings with a solo home run on June 17, 2008 at Dow Diamond in Midland, MI.
For more information on the Clinton LumberKings, call 563-242-0727 or visit www.lumberkings.com. For more information on the 2010 Midwest League All-Star Game and festivities, visit www.midwestleague.com or www.tincaps.com.
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Rhonda Woodsmall
Quilter, 30 years of experience
Rhonda did it again! She created another amazing tutorial. This time, it's about making fabric kaleidoscopes.
What are Dresden Kaleidoscopes?
Dresden Kaleidoscope is a combination of the kaleidoscope idea and the Dresden Plate appliqué pattern. You make a kaleidoscope by fussy cutting the same design that is repeated in the fabric. You cut as many as you need, and then you sew them into a Dresden Plate, an appliqué pattern. Then the Dresden Kaleidoscope is traditionally sewn onto a back fabric to create a quilt block.
The fussy cut is really easy, especially once you get used to making kaleidoscopes. But it gives you great looking designs. No two Dresden Kaleidoscopes are ever alike! So your work will be truly unique. Instead of describing, let me show you a few pictures that will blow you away.
As you can see, kaleidoscopes are dramatic, unusual and eye catching. But it's not just about making the kaleidoscope tops. It's much more.
Dresden Kaleidoscopes can be used to make blocks for standard quilts, but Rhonda goes a step further. After explaining the technique of making kaleidoscopes so you can create your own quilts, she explains how to make 8 different items using this technique.
She gives the kaleidoscopes her own spin by using them in small projects.
You can make a great deal of crafts with this technique. As a matter of fact, Rhonda explains how to make the following items:
⢠Key chains
⢠Coasters
⢠Eyeglass cases
⢠Mouse pads
⢠Makeup bags
⢠Hot pads
⢠Trivets
⢠Tote bags
Here are the pictures of some of the items:
Not only will you be able to learn how to make such amazing block tops for your quilts, but you'll also be able to make great miniature creations such as coasters and hot pads.
Would you like to discover how to make these? With kaleidoscope designs on them? Read on!
Today, I present to you an e-book called Dresden Kaleidoscopes by Rhonda Woodsmall. As I said before, this e-book will show you not only how to make kaleidoscopes, but you will also find out how to finish complete mini projects. So by following the illustrated step-by-step instructions, you'll be able to make all the items I outlined above. That's in addition to being able to make traditional quilts with kaleidoscope tops.
Dresden Kaleidoscopes e-book contains two distinct parts. First part is dedicated to teaching you how to make the kaleidoscopes. Over 20 pages of the e-book are dedicated to explaining this amazing technique. Each step is outlined and illustrated with pictures, so that even a complete newbie can start making kaleidoscopes right away.
The second part of the e-book contains step-by-step instructions to make the following items (I already mentioned them): key chains, coasters, eyeglass cases, mouse pads, makeup bags, hot pads, trivets, tote bags. In total, there are 8 separate projects, you can finish with kaleidoscopes. All that is aside from the explanation of the kaleidoscope technique itself.
There is also a bonus part which shows some of Rhonda's kaleidoscopes, so you can get your imagination started and come up with many great designs of your own.
With over 100 pictures in this e-book, you'll be amazed at the amount of detail and the depth of illustrations accompanying each and every step. This will make mastering kaleidoscopes very easy for you.
In Dresden Kaleidoscopes, Rhonda even explains how to pick the right fabric (with pictures). So you will know which fabric in your stash is right for kaleidoscopes and which isn't. That way, you won't waste any fabric that wasn't right for such projects in the first place.
Aside from teaching you what to do, she also teaches you what not to do. There is one common mistake people make when attempting to create kaleidoscopes. It completely ruins the designs of finished pieces. And the most frustrating thing is that you'll only notice it at the very end, once most of the work is completed. Wouldn't it upset you to have to spend time creating a kaleidoscope only to find out it's ruined right before you are about to finish it?
But good news is that this mistake is easily avoidable if you know to what to look out for right from the beginning. She made it a special point to outline in the e-book so that you won't fall into this trap.
Even if you tried making kaleidoscopes before, but failed and ended up with awful-looking tops, you'll now be able to make them with ease. And your final designs will look amazing.
A few people asked me if they need templates for making kaleidoscopes. And if yes, where to get them. That's a very good question. Let me address it.
Rhonda did everything possible to make sure you have a pleasant and easy experience with Dresden Kaleidoscopes. So in the e-book, she offers the following three options for templates:
⢠You can print and trace the templates straight from the e-book (they are all included). This way, you can start making kaleidoscopes right away.
⢠You can order template plastic to cut your own templates. Rhonda explains where and how to order them. With your own templates, you'll be able to make not only the kaleidoscopes with shapes of Rhonda's designs, but your own shapes as well. You'll be able to experiment all you want. (Everything about picking and ordering template plastic is explained on page 4 of the e-book).
⢠You can ask Rhonda to mail you free bonus custom-made templates specifically for making kaleidoscopes. Information on how to request the free templates is listed in the e-book (page 5). This option is best if you don't want to make your own templates. Rhonda was kind enough to offer free kaleidoscope templates for everyone who tries her e-book.
You can even start making kaleidoscopes right away, using printouts of templates in the e-book. And later on, once you've had some practice with this technique, order template plastic to cut your own templates or ask Rhonda to mail you some for free.
As you can see, getting the templates to make kaleidoscopes is not going to be a problem.
With her previous e-book (Boston Blocks), Rhonda went out of her way to help anyone who read her guide but still had some questions. She personally helped over 60 people right here on the message board, via e-mail, and even over the phone.
Not to mention that earlier she mailed out over 450 free templates to other members of the newsletter and the message board. All that before even releasing a single e-book for sale.
She sent templates to all fifty states and a lot of places all over the world. Spain, France, Guam, The Virgin Islands, Norway, Netherlands, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, the UK, just to name a few.
Can you imagine her level of dedication? I got exhausted by simply reading that list. Yet, she keeps helping quilters out there every single day. She does everything humanly possible to help people learn her techniques and use them in their quilting.
You simply can't get that level of attention if the expert author of the tutorial doesn't happen to hang out at the same quilting community as you do.
Luckily, if you are reading this, you and Rhonda are both members of our great community, and you can always talk to Rhonda should you have any questions. Because of that , learning a new technique using the Dresden Kaleidoscopes e-book is pretty much guaranteed to be a pleasant experience for you.
On top of that, she took the feedback from the people who ordered her previous e-book (which people were raving about), and kept all suggestions in mind when writing the Dresden Kaleidoscopes. So this e-book is of even higher quality than the previous one. You -- the members of this quilting community -- told her what you want, and she delivered it! That's another great aspect of having an author who is a member of our own community. Things just keep getting better.
At first, I thought about presenting this as two separate e-books. One to teach how to make kaleidoscopes, and the other one as a guide for the 8 complete projects you can make. But after thinking about it, I decided that because of the continued support by my newsletter subscribers and message board users, you deserve to get as much value for your money as possible.
So all this great amount of information is released in a single e-book -- Dresden Kaleidoscopes.
On-line quilting classes charge $45.00 to $80.00 for similar lessons. Lessons with an instructor would cost even more. But Dresden Kaleidoscopes e-book costs only $34.95.
And unlike taking a class, with Dresden Kaleidoscopes you can study the technique in a comfort of your own home at your own pace. So you can go over the material and try out each step as slowly (and thoroughly) or as quickly (and lightly) as you want. But if you ever have a question or if something is unclear, Rhonda is right here on the message board to help you out.
Another important point to keep in mind is that a part of the revenue from the sales of this e-book goes to the author, while another part goes towards covering the maintenance of this newsletter and the message board. So by ordering, you not only get to learn an amazing new technique, but you also help this quilting community grow!
Please order below and show your support for our quilting community.
Because it's an electronic book (e-book), you will download it right away -- there is no shipping cost and no need to wait for it to be delivered.
Once you download the e-book onto your computer, you can read it on the screen or print it out. It's all up to you.
But the important thing is that you can be reading it and learning a new technique in just minutes from now.
Click the order button below to get your copy of Dresden Kaleidoscopes, and you'll be on your way to creating amazing-looking kaleidoscopes the easy way.
Order Dresden Kaleidoscopes on a secure server and download instantly for only $34.95!
As with anything I recommend, I always offer a 100% money-back guarantee, just to make sure you are completely satisfied with what you buy. The guarantee is valid for two months.
When you order, you have 60 days to try out the techniques Rhonda teaches. That gives you plenty of time, not only to simply read it, but to completely master Dresden Kaleidoscopes. You'll be able to give it a full try and experiment all you want before you have to decide if it's worth your money.
And if for some reason you don't like this e-book, just contact me, and I'll refund your money right away without any questions. You have absolutely nothing to worry about when ordering Dresden Kaleidoscopes.
So click here to order your copy today because this amazing technique will make you a better quilter, and at the same time help this quilting community grow!
Treat yourself. You deserve it. Especially since ordering this e-book will cost you much less than taking lessons, and the items you'll be able to create will provide great value.


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As the World Cup winds down, many Americans will turn from the excitement and agony of football to another beloved pastime: football. American football, to be precise. This year, six Minneapolis co-workers have combined these obsessions with their love of design into a single experience called Football as Football, which reimagines the logos of American football teams in the heraldic language of the great European football clubs. Watch as the mascots and monograms of the NFL take on German, English, Spanish and Italian accents: the design is both hilarious and spot-on.
While the crests are the star of the show, their designers lavished just as much care and attention on the site that presents them. "We wanted a brand for the project to wrap around the experience," said Garrick Willhite, one member of the team. "We started with an icon, that lead to a logo, that guided the overall look and feel." To support its vivid and varied imagery — and typography that includes fonts as far afield as Gotham and Hoefler Text — the team chose our Knockout family to use for the site's webfonts. Originally inspired by sports ephemera, Knockout's strong and athletic character makes it an apt choice for the project, and applied in a studied and subdued way, it supports the art instead of competing with it — just as a good team player should. —NW


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Dems' week of living confidently
This is what Democrats hoped it would feel like to be back on the right side of history.
Over the last week, four foundational aspirations of the modern Democratic Party converged in four days of unexpected triumph.
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The Supreme Court struck down a law barring federal recognition of same-sex marriages. President Barack Obama announced aggressive new emissions regulations to fight climate change. The Senate passed a dramatic immigration reform plan with a supermajority vote. And a Texas legislator's filibuster over abortion access turned into a national media sensation, energizing the left.
In every instance, Democrats feel they carried the day on an issue essential to the progressive identity – equal rights for gay couples, protecting the environment from global warming, tolerance of immigrants in general and Latinos in particular, and forceful commitment to women's abortion rights.
( PHOTOS: Wendy Davis's filibuster)
Also in every instance, top Democrats – including a sitting president – rallied around a stance that would until recently have been considered politically perilous. A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a national party to stake its future on solidly liberal positions on all four of those issues. Even Obama himself didn't run on such a platform in 2008.
To political observers outside the Democratic ranks, this week's exultation might look like a case study in hubris: a party led by a president with middling approval ratings, heading into a challenging midterm election framed by a still uncertain economy, shackling itself to an agenda that's plainly to the center-left of many Senate and congressional battlegrounds.
Democratic and progressive leaders shrug at such thinking. In their view, that's missing a much larger point with bigger and longer-range implications: that the country as a whole has changed, demographically and generationally, to such an extent that their value set is embraced by a national political majority.
( POLITICO Junkies: Obama faces tough political environment on climate change)
Their victory lap this week, they say, is less a matter of ostentatious overconfidence, than a recognition that despite the party's present frustrations in a gridlocked Washington, there is a political world elsewhere that is inexorably moving in a liberal direction.
"Every day, we had significant progress on issues that are at the core of the progressive task," said Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress. "My own view is that we are seeing the fruition of the changing demographics and the rising coalition that is changing the way the country thinks."
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka likened the current political moment to the 1930s and '40s, when a half-century's worth of immigration and social change – coupled with a global depression that discredited Republican economic policies – triggered a huge progressive ascendancy.
( Also on POLITICO: Is the Senate really working?)
"The solutions that we have are supported by a vast, vast, vast majority of the American public," Trumka said. "Once leaders started to understand that by standing for those principles and aggressively pursuing them, that that's a winning combination, then I think we started making progress."
The primary obstacle holding Democrats back now, Trumka said, is merely electoral mechanics – the disproportionate power of conservative states in the Senate and a creatively drawn congressional map.


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Animals as Guides for the Soul: Stories of Life-Changing Encounters
In her New York Times bestseller Animals as Teachers and Healers, Susan Chernak McElroy movingly explored the wide and enriching horizons of human relationships with animals. In this new volume of reflections and true animal stories, she invites us to broaden and deepen that relationship.
While living with her husband and animals on a farm in Oregon, McElroy pondered the ancient bonds that connect humans and animals: the healing gifts of animals, the genius of people who talk to them, and the power of animal messengers. She also asked herself the tough questions that engage every true animal lover. How can we soothe our anguish and guilt when a loved animal suffers or dies? How do we atone for our mistakes? When are animals prisoners and when are they fulfilled? Is it moral to eat other beings? And how can we go about transforming our relationship with animals?
Through daily experiences with the animals around her and those in her dreamsalong with compelling true stories sent to her by readersMcElroy began to find answers. She discovered that animals are guides in the development of our souls. A frail llama teaches lessons of joy and unconditional love; a barn cat proves that service need not be imprisonment but fulfillment; a mortally injured hawk infuses a cancer patient with renewed strength and faith; an attentive rabbit awakens an abused child from a trance of sadness; and a skinny white horse does more for a damaged six-year-old boy in one hour than any human has done in six years.
In this deeply personal yet universal testament to the profound connection between animals and humans, there is wisdom and blessing. As the author reminds us, the fingerprint of God is often a pawprint.
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A former technical writer and editor, Susan Chernak McElroy is the author of the New York Times bestseller Animals as Teachers and Healers. Susan has enjoyed a lifelong love affair with animals. Her enchantment with creatures great and small has been nurtured and strengthened through a lifetime of work with animals, first as a vet assistant, then a zookeeper, humane educator, puppy trainer, kennel and stable hand, and wildlife rehabilitator. She currently lives with her husband and animal family on a small farm in Wyoming named Brightstar.
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Teaching What We Most Want to Know
"In all things, even in the most recondite mysteries of the soul, nature is the first and finest of teachers."
After the publication of my first book, Animals as Teachers and Healers, my publisher, Maureen Michelson, had an alarming dream about me. She told me that in her dream, I told her I would be dying soon. "What do you mean?" Maureen had replied to the dream me. "There is too much work you need to do! You can't be leaving now!"
Her dream came as no surprise to me. When I completed my first book, I felt as though my life's work was finished. In fact, I was so certain that I was done that I had begun to fear my life would end soon, probably with a recurrence of the cancer that had visited me ten years before. The way I saw it, if I had done what I'd been put on earth to do, why would I expect to stay around much longer? I found these thoughts bizarre and troublesome. As a first-time author, I had no idea that it is not unusual for a writer to feel utterly "finished" at the end of a book project. When Maureen told me about her dream, I admitted to her my feeling of being "all done" and confided that I couldn't possibly imagine what work I still needed to do.
Maureen said, "Your work is just beginning. Stick around and you'll see."
That was more than two years ago, and with hindsight I can say that we were both correct. In one sense, I was finished. The part of my life that existed before my book came into being died soon after the book reached the bookstores. Instead, I was reborn into a whole new life, one that demanded that I begin exploring more deeply the values I'd espoused in Animals as Teachers and Healers. In truth, my work was just beginning.
What I had committed to paper in my first book was the rough outline of a life-path: one nourished by contemplation of relationships other than human to human, a celebration of lessons learned at the four-footed threshold. In many ways, Animals as Teachers and Healers was my personal mission statement. Creating a mission statement is one thing. Living it is quite another.
In Animals as Guides for the Soul, I explore what it means to actually live a vision that acknowledges all living beings as gifted teachers and healers. Such an undertaking can be an enormous challenge in our obsessively human-focused culture. It is a commitment that enlists the soul.
By soul, I do not use the word in its religious dress. I have come to understand soul as the unseen, oftimes disowned inner guardian of our lives, a force weaving together the threads of heart, mind, and spirit that fashions us into an integrated piece of work. Thomas Moore describes the soul in this way: "'Soul' is not a thing, but a quality of dimension of experiencing life and ourselves. It has to do with depth, value, relatedness, heart, and personal substance. ... We know intuitively that soul has to do with genuineness and depth." Genuineness: This life quality surfaces repeatedly in my writing and in my life. To live in a manner that integrates conviction and action is to me the heart of a genuine lifea soul-full life.
Descartes said, "I think, therefore, I am." That I am has never seemed to me worth ruminating about. Of far greater consequence is who I am. Who I am is a woman who loves animals. This was not a choice, mind you. My enchantment with animals was a given from the moment I was born. My enchantment with animals dates back to before I could speak. My first stuttered word was parakeet. Psychologist James Hillman writes: "Sooner or later, something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this 'something' as a signal moment in childhood when an urge struck out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is ... who I am." My soul spoke to me early in life about my connection to animals. I spent the next several decades, as many people do, conveniently ignoring its wise voice.
My first book was a fresh acknowledgment of that soul's whisper. The next task of my life, then, became twofold: First, to see how fully I could live as a woman who loved animals. Then to chart the emergence of other animal-oriented souls. Such a collection of life stories would serve as guideposts to others on a similar four-footed sojourn.
Although I am committed to living my life through an animal-based philosophy, my experience makes one thing abundantly clear: Nothing that happens between humans and animals is separate from what happens in every other aspect of human life. Who we are with animals mirrors who we areour fears, our joys, our dreams, our actionsin every other arena of our lives. "Each species is a master of a particular way of being that foreshadows something about ourselves," observes human ecologist Paul Shepard. A commitment to living a genuine life with animals cannot help but lead to richer human relationships.
Why do I think of animals as guides for the soul? Because love for animals is who I am. Each person has a unique passion or soul-voice that cannotmust notbe denied. But for those like me who have a deep affinity for animals, I believe animals offer a particularly rich and rewarding track to personal awareness and to a more genuine and soul-filled life. Animals, for example, do not allow us the luxury of complete and total projection. Unlike many other time-tested devotions such as theology, art, philosophy, or meditation, animals are living beings with soul-lives of their own. They demand of us that we be in relationship with them. They remainfor all our current attempts to rid the world of many of themin our faces. Although we can effortlessly project our ideal fantasy selves onto an evocative piece of writing, an inspired painting, or a religious icon, it is much harder to dismiss one's true nature in the presence of, say, a spewed-up hairball on the floor, an attic full of insulation-shredding racc oons, or the sixth pile of puppy poop on one's white sofa.
Animals, in their blessed state of total presence, require our presence as well. All animals possess the enviable quality of complete acceptance of the momenta quality some of us meditate on for a lifetime, only to achieve in small measure. Coming into animal presence, we may find ourselves refreshingly alert to living in the moment.
Over the centuries, many animals have achieved archetypal status, defining for us in their consistent purity of expression certain states of being. Snakes reveal to us the secret of casting off old life-skins for new ones. Crows and coyotes teach us the power of foolery and folly. No living creature defines a life of devotion and loyalty better than the dog. When we take the time to thoughtfully observe the lives of animals, these qualities speak to our spirits, inspire us, warn us, heal us.
In following an animal-inspired life-path, I find that the richest ground is often, coincidentally, the rockiest. Our relationships with animals are highly conflicted ones. "We adore them and we curse them. We caress them and we ravish them. We want them to acknowledge us and be with us. We want them to disappear and be autonomous. We abhor their viciousness and lack of pity, as we abhor our own viciousness and lack of pity. We love them and reproach them, just as we love and reproach ourselves," writes poet Pattiann Rogers. At the juncture of this conflict between humans and animals rests an enormous opportunity for self-revelation and growth. It is within the act of choosing where and how we will stand on this rough ground that our true spirit often reveals itself. When life plunges us into duality and confusion, the soul, whispering through the voice of our emotions, insights, symptoms, or dreams, encourages us to live in greater accord with what we value.
The challenges brought to my life by my animal family since the publication of my first book often feel like mine alone. However, if the hundreds of letters from my readers are any indication, these issues I claim as uniquely mine are shared by many: Is there a place in heaven for animals? Can we sometimes do a disservice to our animals in our exuberant efforts to communicate better with them? Do my dreams of animals mean anything? Why am I ashamed to share my joy of animals with other people? How can I better serve my animals, and is their service to meto humankindaltruism or bondage? Is there healing for me in tragic events with animalsanimals I am ashamed to say I have not served well? How can I help heal the relationship between humans and animals, between my animals and me?
These questions were the catalyst for Animals as Guides for the Soul. The themes they evoked became the five stations along the four-footed path explored in this book: spirituality, communication, service, forgiveness, and transformation. These are life issues common not only to animal lovers but to everyone.
Because I believe that home is where our soul work is most richly cultivated, the first chapter of this book is an intimate introduction to my home and animal family. This place, my farm called Brightstar, is the anchor point of my life and work, and we will return in story and experience to Brightstar and my animal family many times.
Next along the animal path is a journey into spirit. All of my life I have been in conflict with much of Western theology, which excludes or minimizes animals. To welcome animals back into my spiritual arena has required a revising of my personal theology. The qualities of enchantment, grace, and blessing can be treasure maps to a new, personally defined connection with the divine. Animals, in their otherness, beckon us into new modes of awareness and are adept at leading us to these three spiritual gold mines.
As a woman who twice nearly lost her voice to cancer, I have been struggling with issues of communication for a long time. Because communication is such an enormous and complex topic, I have devoted two chapters to its exploration. Chapter 2 discusses communication with animals on a direct level, while Chapter 3 celebrates communication of a more symbolic nature. This second realm of communicating embraces dreams, sudden insights, "messengers," angels, or "signs." Although we have been culturally indoctrinated to dismiss these means of ancient knowing, we would do well to tune our inner ears to these abandoned frequencies. Animals and animal images seem to thrive in this inner universe and can serve as gentle and surprising guides to alternative ways of wisdom.
Last year, I stumbled upon a quote that changed my life: "What is not given is lost." The truth of these few words becomes more evident to me every day, and their truth is particularly relevant to the theme of Chapter 4, service. Service is a critical station on the path to self-development and soulful living. But in my life, service has often been associated more with drudgery than with altruism. Animals have populated every real and imagined world of service, from the most ideal to the most tragic. Reflecting on animals' lives of ministryand bondagecan bring us to a much deeper understanding of how service relates to feelings of freedom and imprisonment in our own lives.
Those who live most fully and most joyfully also know how to grieve. Yet culturally we are denied access to our grief. My former employer allowed three days of "grief leave" if an immediate family member died. Three days to do the work of years! Most difficult to mourn are the losses for which we feel responsible, actions of which we are ashamed. I remember striking my family dog repeatedly when I was very young. The memory, the shame, stings like icy rain forty years later. To forgive ourselves for our transgressions is the work of the soul. Because animals often suffer illness or accident or die in our care, they can serve as excellent missionaries to a place of reconciliation, healed grief, and forgiveness. Often, I believe animals come to our lives specifically to deliver this intimate gift, the awesome gift of their passing. Chapter 5 provides insight for reconciling these painful losses.
At a certain point in our personal development, we mature into a sense of reverence for the greater world. Enfolding the world into our circle of compassion, we recognize that the world needs healing as much as we do. Healing the relationship between humans and animals is crucial to restoring the health of the world. For many years, I have regarded my "enemies"those who do not care for the world and for animals in the same manner that I dowith animosity. Upon reflection, I have observed that bitterness and hate are qualities I never witness in the animal kingdom. The antelope does not hate the wolf. Animals instruct me to put aside judgment, lick a wound whether it be mine or another's, give thanks for life, and make room for others at the manger. This is how the healing of the world begins, and how those committed to this transformation can go forward. The final chapter of Animals as Guides for the Soul explores the nature of peace, of vision, and of transformation. Although the focus of this chap ter is on transforming the relationship between humans and animals, the methods I suggest are universal in their application: stimulate transformation in one place and you initiate transformation in other places as well.
To travel along this five-stationed animal path to the soul, I have used the vehicle of story. When I had cancer, I learned quickly that stories were far more healing to me than statistics or information. Although stories are still frequently disparaged as anecdotal evidence in some professional circles, the winds are changing. Physician Rachel Naomi Remen "doctors" with the use of storiestelling them, listening to them. Dean Ornish, M.D., writes: "There is no meaning in facts. As a physician and a human being, I live in a world of stories. ... Stories are the language of community." Ornish also reminds us that if good information and facts were all it took to change human behavior, "no one would smoke"! Thomas Moore advises, "Stories offer a powerful way for the soul to find a space for itself."
Everyone's story is unique, yet all stories are the one story of our humanness. Not surprisingly, stories that tell of the lives of animals often seem universal as well, as though we can see the light of our dog's eyes in every creature's eyes. If we look with an unprejudiced heart, we may see our own eyes reflected in every creature's eyes, as well.
Real stories do not usually have tidy endings, or indeed, any endings. Many of the stories told in this book leave just as much untold. Animals enter, dwell for a time, leave, and become memories or dreams. Human companions are left to weave the meaning of the encounter into their hearts. As such, this is not a book of answers. It is instead an intimate exploration of issues that face us all: issues of relationship, integrity, conflict, and reconciliation, all told in the mythic form of story. All of these stories star an animal, a memory of an animal, a dream of an animal.
Each chapter ends in a storyone or two of my own and one or more from readers. These stories, some subtle and some dramatic, embody part of the essence of that chapter. Several are stories that reveal decades of accumulated life-experience.
It is my fervent hope that in reading these animal stories, both mine and others, you will be inspired to share your own. The world is hungry for stories that affirm the deep affinity between humans and animals. All of our storiesthose that ended well and even those that ended with more confusion than we would have likedoffer great hope to a world longing to heal the relationship between animals and humans.
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I actually got this book because I thought it was going to discuss animal totems, and when I started reading it I found it wasn't anything close to that. I am an animal person, so I still gave it a chance. I admit though, it just couldn't hold my interest. It could be that I didn't give it a fair chance because I was hoping for something else in the beginning. If this is a topic your arae interested in, I still recommend you give it a read.
A previous reviewer is horrified that Susan Chernak McElroy isn't a vegetarian. I have to strongly disagree with that reviewer's opinion. This book captured me and it never once bothered me that she admits she isn't a vegetarian. I can't think of any race of people more committed to understanding, serving, and being served by animals than the native Indians. Indian tribes occupied the land known as America long before we ever appeared. And even though they killed animals to eat so that they could survive, they did so with the utmost respect and love for those very same creatures. The Indian teachings are nature (including animal) based. The respect they have for all kindred spirits, human, animal, or vegetable is beyond what most people today display to one another much less to animals. The author writes about those teachings. She shares from the Indians and their heritage about the true meaning of nature, life (wild or otherwise), and spirit. Being a vegetarian alone cannot be a measure for love of animals. Many animals in the wild aren't vegetarians either! Read the whole book and you'll be amazed at what you learn about yourself too.
I ended up returning this book, and this is why: I read the first 100 pages and really enjoyed it. The writing wasn't necessarily academic or of the highest standard, but the stories were very nice and touching, and I envied the author for having the financial means to purchase her own hobby farm. However, on about page 110 or 120 she talks about how she ISN'T a vegetarian. I was totally shocked. I understand many animal advocates aren't, but everything the author writes about - about the spirituality of animals, how we should serve them more, about their intelligence - it didn't make any sense and I think it is very hypocritical. The author attempts to justify it by a weak argument along the lines that animals serve people in various ways, and some animals give up their lives so that WE can eat them (the WE bothered me, since I do not eat animals). She talks about how animals serve us and how people should serve (help) animals more, saying that seeing-eye dog trainers probably don't also volunteer at the local shelter - implying that they should and that somehow this is related to her weakness of eating animals (it wasn't very clear). She mentioned a number of times how she had changed her diet after having had cancer (making me think that "of course" she's a vegetarian now). She also is educated enough to know about how animals are treated in slaughterhouses and on big farms (she mentions this), and she has the financial means to eat vegetarian (sometimes it can be more expensive). Not everyone can leave the city to purchase a hobby farm, but she certainly could end her "struggles with vegetarianism" and stop eating the beings she publically praises so much. She also writes quite a bit about the influence her religious upbringing had on her - putting animals at the bottom of the hierarchy of life. In conclusion, everything she writes up until about page 110 prepares the reader for her to NOT say that it is okay for animals to be killed for some humans to eat. Everything she writes prepares the reader to believe that she believes that animals shouldn't die just so that humans can eat them. I am still very grateful for her healing work with the animals and any new awareness she has brought into this world through her writing, but the contradiction of her diet and her words was huge enough for me to be done with this author. In place of this book I purchased When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals. The author mentions he's a vegetarian right out front, and I am really enjoying it. His writing is of the highest standard, is very logical, interesting, humorous and poignant.


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Carine Roitfeld Remembered My Hair
I remember my first Fashion Week in Paris. I ambled into the Tuileries (oblivious to the fact that it was Fashion Week) and suddenly found myself surrounded by long-legged, designer-bedecked, blow-dried, sleek, shiny, glittering people. Parisians generally look good, but this was above and beyond. It was only then that I noticed the tents, and the PR people who—clipboards in hand—looked at me as if to say, "You're at the wrong party, frump." And indeed I was, which was fine with me.
At that point, I never imagined that I would someday be involved in the champagne-sipping, stiletto-teetering madness that is Fashion Week, that I would hold tickets to shows in my trembling little hands, that my name would actually be on some of those PR lists.
Don't worry—I'll never be a fashion insider. The industry makes it pretty impossible for any half-way rational person to take most of it seriously, especially when they start sending hoodarfs down the runway. But my skepticism didn't stop me from masquerading as a fashion reporter during February's New York Fashion Week, when I hit the town on behalf of New York Magazine.
Over the course of 9 days, I experienced quite a few "Who do I think I am?" moments. I chatted with Woody Allen, I stood awestruck in the glow of Bill Clinton's magical aura (it really is magical), I asked Cate Blanchett about her hobbit-related rituals, and I tried to remain nonchalant as I chatted with models and fashion-y people and sassy comedian Aziz Ansari.
But for some reason, the moment that stands out, the moment that really got me, was when Carine Roitfeld (former editor of French Vogue and all-around badass) remembered my hair. I had briefly interviewed her the night before about her post-Vogue plans (she was decked out in Givenchy couture; I was wearing some rag and trying to pass it off as classy, as is my custom), so when I spotted her at her son's art opening, I chatted her up again.
From afar, she's pretty terrifying—whippet thin, fiercely stylish and undeniably cool. But in fact, she's quite forthcoming, and I now suspect that she might even be human. When I re-introduced myself, she said, "I remember. You wore your hair down last night."
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When I resumed breathing and was actually able to form sentences, we chatted about her friendship with Tom Ford and her preferred drink (vodka). "I'm Russian, you know," she held up her glass. "Never mix."
And then I thought back to that moment in the Tuileries, my clunky boots covered in limestone dust, sure I was the dowdiest girl ever to have walked the face of the earth. I'm not sure how I got from there to exchanging quips with Carine Roitfeld over vodka cocktails, but sometimes life takes mysterious turns, and sometimes the most bumbling of writers moonlight as fashion reporters.
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"My character likes, falls in love, he's passionate. In general, he is the hero."
Danila Kozlovsky continues the expansion of Russian actors to the West. Recently it was held the American premiere of "Vampire Academy" – the first part of the film adaptation of the bestselling autore Richelle Mead, in which Kozlovsky played one of the main roles, Dimitri Belikov, the son of a vampire and a human woman, such called dhampirs. Dimitri works in the Academy as a mentor of real Vampiri#From Dracula to Buffy... and all creatures of the night in between. and younger dhampirs. In particular, he protects two...
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"I showed him two scenes from Richelle's 1st book. The first scene is how real a Dhampir must kill a Strigoi. I showed him some gestures and read the text. The secondo scene was about how Dimitri first understood he was falling for Roza. I must mostra how I see her (Roza), what i'm thinking, how i'm looking at her, what i'm thinking about her."
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"He deeply values his friendship with Rose, and he seems to want to protect her." - Cameron Monaghan
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Yeva Belikova is a dhampir and the mother of Olena Belikova. She was Guardian for some time, but returned home to raise her family, as she believes all dhampir women should. She is the maternal grandmother of Karolina, Dimitri, Sonja and Viktoria Belikov(a), and the great grandmother of Paul and Zoya Belikov(a) and Sonja's newborn baby.
In Blood Promise, when Rose Hathaway and Yeva first meet, she pretends that she can't speak nor understand English, however, it is later revealed that is was merely an act. She has a "gift" of being able to supposedly see the future,...
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Xander Badica is a royal Moroi boy and a student at St. Vladimir's Academy. He asks Rose what it was like when she let Lissa feed off her and claims that Danielle Szelsky let him bite her once. Xander wants to know if Rose liked it and says that he wants to bite Rose to see what dhampirs taste like. Lissa gets angry and tells him to leave her alone. Rose tells Xander that she'd have to hit him and that it would be a waste because he was pretty. Xander is offended because he thinks he is più than pretty and when Carly doesn't agree with him, he forgets Rose because...
Wards are placed on the outskirts of important buildings and homes. The ward is made with four of the elements: fire, air, earth, and water. A ward keeps out the undead Strigoi and ghosts. Wards can be broken with an Come d'incanto silver stake. Strigoi cannot touch a silver stake but throughout the series, the guardians learn that humans are working for the Strigoi in hopes of one giorno being turned. The humans can touch silver stakes, and when a silver stake is driven into the ground where the ward is, the ward is broken and the undead are able to enter the area that was once...
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The Arizona Diamondbacks pretty much know what they are going to get out of starter Patrick Corbin when he takes the mound. They hope the young hurler can pitch them to a season high-tying fourth straight victory on Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series with the Philadelphia Phillies.
Corbin has gone at least six innings and allowed two runs or fewer in each of his first six starts this season, matching Dan Haren (April 7-May 2, 2009) for the longest such streak in club history. Corbin stands at 4-0 with a 1.80 earned run average on the season ahead of his first career meeting with the Phillies.
The 23-year-old southpaw picked up his latest victory on Saturday versus the San Diego Padres, holding them to a run on five hits and three walks over seven innings. He matched a season high with seven strikeouts and was handed an early lead thanks to a six-run second inning by the Diamondbacks.
"It really helps when we come out and put up six runs early on in the game, it just lets you go out there, pitch you game and go after guys. It helped out a lot and I am glad I was able to get through seven innings," Corbin said.
Arizona has won four of its past five games and finished off a three-game sweep of the rival Los Angeles Dodgers with Wednesday's 3-2 win. Paul Goldschmidt drove in all three runs on a pair of homers, hitting a two-run shot in the sixth inning and the go-ahead solo blast in the eighth.
"I hit it and I knew it was going to be close and I kind of lost sight of it and couldn't tell, so I looked at the umpire and he obviously said home run," Goldschmidt said of his game-winner.
The Arizona slugger went deep for a third straight game and is hitting .320 on the year with nine homers and an NL-leading 30 RBI.
Wade Miley allowed two runs and scattered seven hits over 7 2/3 innings to earn the win. He struck out four without issuing a walk to earn his first win since April 10.
With closer J.J. Putz on the disabled list due to a strained elbow, Heath Bell gave up a leadoff double in the ninth, but recorded the next three outs to earn his third save.
Arizona will try to win four in a row for the first time since April 3-7.
Cole Hamels draws the start for the Phillies and has begun to round into form after a rough start to the season, even as the wins fail to come.
Hamels is 1-4 with a 4.34 ERA through seven outings this year, but has a 2.31 ERA over his last five. He has given up two runs or fewer in four of those outings, but the Phillies have scored just nine runs in the five starts while getting shut out twice.
The left-hander notched his first win of the season on April 28 versus the New York Mets before taking a tough-luck 2-0 loss at home versus the Miami Marlins on Saturday. Hamels matched a season high with eight innings pitched, allowing two solo homers on four hits without a walk.
"I went out and I was able to accomplish what I wanted to accomplish except for that part when you get that 'W' by your name," said Hamels, who is 4-1 with a 3.47 ERA in seven career meetings with the Diamondbacks.
Goldschmidt is hitless in three career at-bats against Hamels with an RBI and one strikeout.
The Phillies are trying to build some momentum and they took the first two games of their set with the defending champion San Francisco Giants before dropping a 4-3 decision in 10 innings in Wednesday's finale.
Chase Utley and Delmon Young both drove in a run during a two-run ninth frame for Philadelphia that tied the game, but reliever Antonio Bastardo allowed a run-scoring single to Andres Torres with two outs in the bottom of the 10th.
"We came back in the ninth and gave ourselves a shot to actually win it," Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins remarked. "The way we wanted to play it is what matters most. We can stand tall on that and hopefully take that to Arizona (for the next series) and throughout."
Kevin Frandsen slugging a solo homer in the fourth inning, Philadelphia's 13th straight solo home run.
Charlie Manuel participated in his 1,331st game as the Phillies' skipper, tying Gene Mauch (1960-68) for the most by a manager in club history.
The Phillies went 4-2 versus the Diamondbacks last season.


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South Dakota's Derek Miles to Track Hall of Fame
Former University of South Dakota pole vaulter and current Coyote pole vault coach Derek Miles is going into the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division II Track & Field Athlete Hall of Fame this week.
Miles is a three-time Olympian, finishing seventh in Athens in 2004, fourth in Beijing in 2008, and qualifying for the U.S. team in London in 2012. He also won three USA National Championships and has a personal-best jump of 19-2½.
He was a five-time All-American pole vaulter in Vermillion, also qualifying for the NCAA Division II Championships in long jump, triple jump and decathlon throughout his career. He was named to the Coyote Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006.
Miles will join Kirby Blackley of Findlay, and Randolph Williams of Kentucky State at the induction ceremony, Wednesday, in Pueblo, Colorado, prior to the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships.


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"Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimming'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'."
The song was from the 1960s and Bob Dylan, who is widely noted as the most acclaimed and influential songwriter of the past half century, was talking about the changes rocking the country during that era of protests, demonstrations, love-ins and generation gaps. He was right on target, saying in his music of the day what political and social analysts would discuss for the next few decades in retrospect.
"Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
Dylan, who the Associated Press recently wrote "brought rock from the streets to the lecture hall," received an honorary Pulitzer Prize last week for what the Pulitzer judges called his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."
The break through for rock 'n roll was substantial. The AP noted that "the Pulitzer judges, who have long favored classical music, and, more recently, jazz, awarded an art form once dismissed as barbaric, even subversive."
Rough, certainly, but barbaric… that's a bit harsh.
"You may be an ambassador to England or France,
You may like to gamble, you might like to dance,
You may be the heavyweight champion of the world,
You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed,
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody."
And he wrote classics like nobody else. "Tangled Up in Blue," "Just Like A Woman," "Lay, Lady, Lay," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Simple Twist of Fate," "Positively 4th Street," "Too Much of Nothing," "Shelter from the Storm," "Hurricane," "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "All Along the Watchtower" … "Blowin' in the Wind." All meaningful, and how the people loved to sing along…
"How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind."
And there were tough, bluesy love songs, like "It Ain't Me Babe."
"Go 'way from my window,
Leave at your own chosen speed.
I'm not the one you want, babe,
I'm not the one you need.
You say you're lookin' for someone
Never weak but always strong,
To protect you an' defend you
Whether you are right or wrong,
Someone to open each and every door,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe."
And he sang of the tough side of life:
"How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?"
But think of it: Rock 'n roll and Dylan nail an honorary Pulitzer! Yes, the times they have been a-changing. But could hip-hop or rap be in that distinguished class some day, too? Five years ago I would have scoffed. Today, I'm impressed. The lesson? Art excels from wherever it starts to a pinnacle, then transforms itself and reaches again and again.
Angelo S. Lynn


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A weekly feature in which author Benoit Denizet-Lewis follows the fortunes of the only BCS school to have sucked so consistently and spectacularly that it has never made the NCAA tournament, Northwestern. Current record: 10-1. Tournament prospects: Good.
Welcome to the first installment of "So You Think NU Can Dance," my poorly named weekly column following the progress of the boys from Evanston, Ill., who are gamely undertaking the most unlikely task in the history of modern sports: getting Northwestern basketball to the Big Dance.
It hasn't happened since, well, ever. Northwestern hosted the first NCAA tournament back in 1939, and that's the closest the school has ever come. When I covered the Wildcats in the mid-'90s as a student for The Daily Northwestern, the team was interesting only to the extent that it failed so spectacularly. There were three 11th-place conference finishes, a point-shaving scandal, and a coach, Ricky Byrdsong, who once left the bench during a game at Minnesota to chat and exchange high-fives with fans in the stands. (He would later be gunned down by a white supremacist on a killing spree.) These were lean years.
Today, when you open up your newspaper (not that you actually do that), you will see that Northwestern is 10-1 and ranked (No. 25, AP) for the first time since the Nixon administration. NU — not NW, in case anyone cares — has won nine straight games, including victories over Iowa State, Notre Dame, North Carolina State, and Stanford. The Wildcats open up their conference slate tonight at Illinois on the Big Ten Network, your home for conference field hockey news and the still-frightening visage of Gene Keady. The way I figure it, they'll need to go at least 9-9 in the Big Ten to get to 21 wins and a tourney bid, at which point the streets of Evanston will swarm with smiling young men and women who, for one happy moment, will forget they didn't get into Harvard. (Forgive me for that one, fellow NU graduates. My Deadspin editor wants more "snark.")
A few introductions are in order. There's head coach Bill Carmody, master of both the Princeton offense and the pithy quote ("They're not good enough to be overconfident," he once said of his team). There's senior Kevin Coble, the team's best player and one of the conference's most potent offensive weapons, who is unfortunately out for the season with a Lisfranc fracture, a rare foot injury named after a French doctor, meaning you should say "Lisfranc" with a snooty French accent. Sans Coble (pronounced "CO-bull," in case any college basketball studio analysts would like to get that right), the Cats are doing everything they can to confirm the Ewing Theory. They're playing beautiful team basketball — backdoor cuts and bounce passes and deep threes and a suffocating 1-3-1 defense. There's sophomore forward John Shurna, who looks like he's 15 and has one of the uglier shots in college basketball, but whom you can't help but love, what with his aw-shucks smile and the way he claps for himself after he makes a nice play. There's junior point guard Michael "Juice" Thompson, who never leaves the court and seemingly never commits a turnover. There's an NBA ref's kid (Drew Crawford, son of Danny), who chose Northwestern over Wake Forest, which doesn't happen very often. There's a Serb who will surely be the subject of one of those soft-focus halftime features about how basketball in a war-torn nation offered an escape.
And who am I? I'm a Northwestern basketball fan, which is like being a Cubs fan, only lonelier. I'm also a writer with The New York Times Magazine and the author of two books, neither of which are as important as the possibility of Northwestern making the NCAA tournament, but both of which you should buy nonetheless.
Every Friday (except for this week, when I'm doing this today because you'll all be hung over on Friday), I will be here, pontificating and prognosticating about the most important sports story of the new decade. I suggest you come along for the ride. Can Northwestern, a school that has turned the corner in football (three Big Ten championships since 1995 and a solid 8-4 record this year and a bid to the Outback Bowl on New Year's Day), do the same on the hardcourt? Yes, as another Chicago-area underdog once said, they can.
The bandwagon is leaving the station …
Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a writer with The New York Times Magazine. His latest book is American Voyeur: Dispatches from the Far Reaches of Modern Life. He can be reached at www.benoitdenizetlewis.com or on Twitter.


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Department of Labor Internship
DOL's 2007 Summer Interns.
From the DOL's Website:
"Welcome to the U.S. Department of Labor's Internship Program Web site. Secretary Elaine L. Chao and the Department of Labor (DOL) have welcomed students across the nation, to participate in the Student Internship Program. The Student Internship Program provides students with the opportunity to learn about how federal government agencies operate and to interact with the leaders of various agencies within DOL."
"I started this intern program at the Department to provide young Americans with unique opportunities to serve their country by learning about the federal government." — U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao
The Department of Labor (DOL) fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements. In carrying out this mission, the Department administers a variety of Federal labor laws including those that guarantee workers' rights to safe and healthful working conditions; a minimum hourly wage and overtime pay; freedom from employment discrimination; unemployment insurance; and other income support.
Students can participate in weekly brown bag lunch discussions, attend agency presentations, and work on projects assigned to them by their agency. Previous interns have had opportunities to work in a variety of areas including public affairs, speechwriting, and outreach programs. Students will also be delegated general administrative duties, and should have strong writing and research skills.