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Don't count the boll weevil out yet. It is a curious fact that as we began to eradicate this infamous pest from the United States, it began to spread in earnest across South America. In fact, its geographic range today is greater than ever before.
Its invasion into Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina now threatens 10 million acres of cotton.
One begins to agree with W. D. Hunter, an early entomologist, who once described Anthonomus grandis as "the evil spirit that dwelleth amongst us." Or maybe, as the Brook Benton song says, it's just "lookin' for a home."
Brazil used to be an exporter of cotton, but now, because of the boll weevil, is a net importer. Many farmers there have been driven out of business.
On a recent visit to Argentina, fellow entomologist Bill McGovern and I were briefed on the status of the boll weevil in that country by Ingineer Jorge Vartparonian, president of the FULCPA (foundation for the fight against the boll weevil). Jorge's main business is in the textile industry, where his mill employs 800 workers.
The weevil arrived from neighboring Paraguay in 1994. The area infested was in the sub-tropical Province of Formosa, where there are mostly small farmers with fields of less than 10 acres. Aggressive control measures were instituted, consisting of pheromone traps and insecticide sprays, similar to eradication procedures in the United States.
The goal was to prevent the spread of the weevil into the adjoining Chaco Province, where most of Argentina's million or so acres of cotton are grown.
The boll weevil containment program was successful for 12 years. But this year (it is spring now in Argentina) weevils have been captured in pheromone traps in several isolated small fields in the Chaco region nearest Paraguay. It is believed that the weevils arrived from Paraguay, since there has been a recent buildup of weevils there, and the prevailing winds favor the westward spread.
Argentina has done a remarkable job in containing the pest for the last 12 years, and savings to the farmers are counted in the millions of dollars.
So Argentina now stands at a crossroads. An aggressive program is needed to contain the weevil and prevent its spread into all of the cotton of the Chaco region. Its presence now is limited to several comparatively small fields closest to the Paraguayan border.
One option being considered is a prohibition on planting cotton in that region for one or two years. Obviously such an approach has social, political, and economic ramifications that will have to be carefully considered. But technically, it offers hope of preventing the spread of the boll weevil further into the Chaco Province and wreaking havoc there like it has done everywhere else it has visited.
Argentina has an opportunity to do what no cotton-growing nation in the Western Hemisphere has ever done — permanently halt the spread of the boll weevil.
Jorge and I sipped wonderful South American espresso in the hotel restaurant in beautiful Formosa, where we could look out over the city adorned with red blooms of the chivato trees.
"If the cotton crop in Argentina is destroyed by the boll weevil, I'll have to buy cotton on the world market and pay a lot more for it", he said. "I'll survive, but I don't know if the same is true of the farmers in Chaco."
Gerald McKibben is a retired research entomologist who used to work at the USDA Boll Weevil Laboratory in Starkville, Miss.


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Harry Styles Has a Breakdown, But It's Not What You Think
The well-coiffed Harry Styles of One Direction had a breakdown. But not the kind that would require him to drop out of public view and deal with his issues after throwing a hissy fit and shaving his head. Ahem. As if.
If anything, Hazza appears to be very well-adjusted young chap. He merely had a vehicular breakdown in L.A. and had to call AAA to rescue him from his plight.
We know, Directioners, we know. You'd have volunteered readily to help Hazza in his predicament.
H. Styles was tooling around L.A. when the bike broke down. He managed to get out of traffic and get the vehicle to the side of the road. He had to rely on the towing service to move the bike and take it to the repair shop, as well as to give him a lift.
The 1D heartthrob later tweeted that he was stoked to rehearse for the band's upcoming tour.
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ADDISON COUNTY — A new law requires electric utilities give a credit to their customers who produce some of their own power through home solar power panels. The credit is 20 cents for every kilowatt hour their units produce.
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At least one potential buyer of the Snö Mountain recreation complex has surfaced.
Arthur Berry III, president and principal owner of Camelback Mountain Resort, said he is considering bidding on the debt-strapped Scranton attraction.
"Being in our backyard, it would be foolish not to do the due diligence on it," Mr. Berry said. "It's a little premature. It's a very speculative situation."
Camelback's interest surfaces just weeks before Snö Mountain is scheduled to be sold at a bankruptcy auction Feb. 28. The skiing and water park complex filed for Chapter 11 protection in October and a bankruptcy judge in December ordered the auction to address its $24 million debt.
About 12 confidential potential buyers have made formal inquiries into Snö Mountain's prospects, said Gary Seitz, the court-appointed trustee overseeing the complex's operations.
"There were only four actual tours," Mr. Seitz said.
He also believes there have been undisclosed, unofficial visits among potential buyers.
"We think there's a lot of interested parties that are just buying a lift ticket," he said.
Mr. Berry said he will continue to investigate Snö Mountain's prospects before determining whether he will bid.
"I'm very very familiar with the property. I've skied it over the years," he said.
Numerous inquiries about Snö Mountain have been directed to SSG Advisors, a Montgomery County investment banking firm appointed by the court to market the property.
"There is a strong level of interest in the assets," said Terry Kohler, a director at SSG Advisors.
However, no party has surfaced yet as a "stalking horse," which would establish a base bid to prevent potential buyers from making unacceptably low offers.
"We are working with parties that may want to be the stalking horse," Mr. Kohler said. "We expect to get more than one bid, but there is nothing certain."
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Hubble Discovers 67 New Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies in the Distant Universe
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalog of gravitational lenses in the distant universe. The catalog contains 67 new gravitationally lensed galaxy images found around massive elliptical and lenticular-shaped galaxies. This sample demonstrates the rich diversity of strong gravitational lenses. If this sample is representative, there would be nearly half a million similar gravitational lenses over the whole sky. The COSMOS project, led by Nick Scoville at the California Institute of Technology, used observations from several observatories including Hubble, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the XMM-Newton spacecraft, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Very Large Telescope, and the Subaru Telescope. A team of European astronomers, led by Cecile Faure (Zentrum fur Astronomie, University of Heidelberg) and Jean-Paul Kneib (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille) utilized three key data sets of the COSMOS survey: the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys high resolution imaging, the Suprime camera Subaru Telescope imaging, and the Megacam camera Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope multicolor imaging.


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Thanksgiving Misconceptions
When we think of the Pilgrims Thanksgiving, we have been fed images of men with black clothes and hats with buckles on them and tables of food with turkeys, corn, potatoes, cranberries and such. Wrong. The buckled had look came decades after the first Thanksgiving. As for foods.. potatoes had not yet been introduced here. The only corn, called Indian corn was only good for grinding into cornmeal. And the big lie.. Turkeys were not the big item on the menu. Fish and seafoods like cod, bass, eel, clams and mussels were plentiful in coastal New England.


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STAMFORD — Corporations, developers in the South End, along with East Side businesses and residents, all want to clear hurdles and make a long-sought East Main Street train station a reality, said James Grunberger, chairman of the nonprofit East Side Partnership.
New commuters at NBC Sports at Chelsea Piers, as well as long-standing residents and business owners, want to access Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line without going to Stamford's downtown station, he said.
"What we need is train relief in the city, and it is clear the main station is overwhelmed," Grunberger said. "We want a train station and not a bus station or depot."
Residents will get the chance next week to hear about possible options for the East Main Street rail station, expanded bus service, and other information from a study on improving transit links to the East Side.
A South Western Regional Planning Agency public presentation on the city's ongoing $180,000 East Main Street Transit Station Study will be held at 7 p.m., Wednesday in the fifth-floor auditorium of the Stamford Government Center, 888 Washington Blvd.
Craig Lader, SWRPA's senior transportation planner, said the study begun in 2012 is evaluating the feasibility of three general areas for train station that could be linked to the New Haven Line or the New Canaan branch between Stamford and Glenbrook.
A concept for a rail station on Culloden Road, in a residential neighborhood, might have less area economic influence but could accommodate a station on either the main or branch line without reconfiguring tracks, he said.
A branch line station on East Main Street at the railroad trestle would put a rail connection in the center of the neighborhood and, presumably, result in a larger economic benefit, while a New Haven Line station there would face resistance from the Federal Railroad Administration because it would require a disruptive track realignment, Lader said.
Choosing that location would also almost certainly include the extra expense and process of acquiring residential and commercial properties, he said.
"In theory, it would be more of a catalyst, but we're very sensitive to residents whose homes would be threatened by this," Lader said. "We don't believe the community supports residential takings."
A third location, south of East Main Street under the Interstate 95 overpass, would not require any property acquisition or realigning tracks, but would require relocating overpass support pillars and crash walls to accommodate a main line station, he said.
"Following the meeting, we'll be taking into account the input we hear and determine how we want to move forward in terms of creating more detailed plans for our station and for the neighboring community," Lader said. "There will be more planning on considering economic opportunities and transit oriented development in the context of the options that we'll move forward analyzing."
The study will also consider how to add bus service to improve area mobility while building a train station.
"We want to take an incremental approach to show how we can address transit needs in the short-term while building towards a rail station," Lader said. "Buses could be part of that interim solution."
Steven Wise, a partner in development of the 300,000 square-foot Chelsea Piers, said the rail station would make the East Side more appealing for residential development and also benefit existing businesses.
Wise, who also developed Glenview House, a 146-unit luxury apartment development at Glenbrook Road and East Main Street, said real estate firms would also be more likely to create similar projects with a new station's improved transit access.
"We're one of several stakeholders in that area that saw the opportunity to really make great improvements in that area and it continues to get better and better," Wise said. "Any kind of transportation initiative can only help that."
Jonathan Hoch, chief community officer for the nonprofit Domus organization, said area families see a train station as an important economic spur and critical amenity for an up-and-coming area.
"On the East Side, if you are travelling to the train, you often need to take the bus which is an additional cost," Hoch said. "To have pedestrian access to the station, I think, is very important to many in the community."
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ESSEX — Host Essex pulled away in the late innings for a 13-3 win over the Mount Abraham Union High School baseball team on Tuesday. The Hornets improved to 3-2, while Mount Abe dropped to 1-3.
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Monday, May 9, 2011
Postcard from the Kaisha: nuclear apocalypse edition
9 comments:
- TheOctopus said...
I've been avoiding the office like the plague as some of my female colleagues have got various earthquakes and alarms set up to go off every time a fish farts off the Tohoku coast, and it's been driving me slowly crazy.
FWIW we have nothing as sophisticated as a Sound Princess in our modest office, and for added lulz the single toilet is separated from the main office by nothing more than its door and a partition, so the aforementioned colleagues have got the art of peeing during a single flush down to a fine art. (By unspoken agreement any larger activities are delegated to the quite nice facilities in a nearby office block).
- May 9, 2011 at 4:21 PM
- Japan Australia said...
It was a scary time for many people in Japan at the time. Hopefully Japan is on the road to recovery.
Japan Australia
- May 9, 2011 at 4:33 PM
- Green-Eyed Geisha said...
Octopus how I love your comments. "Every time a fish farts off the Tohoku coast" is solid gold! Clearly some of the ladies at my office could learn from those at yours.
- May 9, 2011 at 10:00 PM
- Chris said...
"If similar shit had gone down overseas, you can bet the Japanese living there would be on the first plane out."
I said this to my adult students because of a possible Tsunami in Hawaii 10 years ago the Honolulu Int Airport was flooded with Japanese...almost exclusively as it was a big next day story. The Hawaiians have always felt used and been treated like a vacation home by the Japanese...they spend money so... but that was NEWS because the Hawaiians pointed out rightly......first to come is first to go. Koreans...Chinese...Filipinos...?? Nope just JTB scrambling to send the Japanese home and fucking up the airport in the process.....the tsunami was about 2 inches tall and i couldn't see it among the other waves.
- May 10, 2011 at 1:13 PM
"If similar shit had gone down overseas, you can bet the Japanese living there would be on the first plane out."
Yes, this is what I keep thinking when I hear people going on and on about the disloyalty of "Flyjin".
And I did end up going home for about a week after maybe the 4th explosion at the nuclear plant. Officially, it was a waste of money, but only because nothing happened. If, God forbid, they hadn't been able to keep things just barely under control like they did then everyone would say going back home was the smartest decision I could make. So, I mean at the end of the day you gotta do what you feel comfortable with.
- May 10, 2011 at 7:14 PM
- Jhunas Tillero said...
I saw this activity featured in National Geographic once.
And I think it showcases how wonderful and rich Japan's heritage is.
I haven't been to Japan but would surely want to visit the place someday.
- May 20, 2011 at 12:38 AM
- Green-Eyed Geisha said...
Chris: Exactly. Depending obviously on where you come from, dealing with stuff like this is even harder in a country not your own. I remember how freaked out Japanese people overseas got during bird flu, pig flu etc. There's no wrong reaction but to expect everyone to just lay down and take it is ridic.
jskoolisin: Love your blog!! You do have to be comfortable with your own decisions and at the end of the day, all that matters is feeling you made the right choice at the time for you personally.
Jhunas Tillero: And which activity would that be??
If that link from your name is your blog, you are apparently already here...
- May 20, 2011 at 9:33 AM
- StarBrooke said...
I love your blog, Green-eyed Geisha. I'm also a western woman (American) married to a Japanese man and fellow blogger (japansense.blogspot.com). I wanted to comment here that every Japanese company in Tokyo took a completely different response to the crisis situation after the earthquake. At my company, for example, the entire foreign staff deserted the office. We didn't even have to take vacation, as we were permitted to engage in 自宅作業 from wherever we went. A French guy went to Okinawa; an Australian guy went to Okinawa; I went home to America; Korean staff went to Korea, etc. Management was surprisingly extremely chill about the whole thing. Despite management's flexible attitude, though, NONE of my Japanese co-workers left Tokyo, except one guy who had a planned business trip to China. Even coworkers whose 実家 is far away, like somewhere in Kyushu, took their jobs, projects, and clients too seriously to ask if they could go home. I both admired them and wondered about their sanity. I wondered if you noticed any major difference in the reactions of Japanese and foreign staff in your office to the crisis?
- June 5, 2011 at 6:16 PM
- Green-Eyed Geisha said...
SraBrooke: Thanks for commenting. You're lucky you had the option to work from home. Did they offer this to everyone, foreign and Japanese? I don't know of any Japanese at my office that took off, although who knows, some may have sent their wives/children away. A majority of our small foreign employees took off, some with no notice whatsoever.
In terms of the reaction, nothing has been directly said, but it's come down that "some people" were not happy with what had happened. They did end up making note of who left, which I believe I was exempted from because I had already scheduled my holiday with them months before. Either way, it was a shitty shitty situation and ultimately, companies were completely unprepared for something like this happening.
- June 10, 2011 at 4:38 PM


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It was a tough way, to say the least, for Ridgeland-Hardeeville to debut its football team.
The Jaguars had to visit one of the top teams in the state Aug. 24 at Bluffton. The players, who were on rival teams until Jasper County consolidated its high schools a few months ago, took on a veteran Bobcat squad coming off a state runner-up finish.
The final score - 67-0 Bluffton - was somewhat predictable. The Bobcats beat Ridgeland and Hardeeville by similar margins last season.
With that out of the way, now the Jaguars can really get down to business.
Don't read too much into the blowout that transpired two Fridays ago at Bobcat Stadium. I suspect Ridgeland-Hardeeville is going to be just fine this season.
The deck was stacked against the Jaguars in their opener, and they shouldn't face that kind of adversity the rest of the year. No one else on the schedule will be as deep, talented or explosive as Bluffton.
Ridgeland lost to the Bobcats 60-14 in 2011, then regrouped to win nine of its next 10, including a SCHSL Class A playoff game.
The Jaguars are now in a difficult Region 6-AA, but they won't be so physically outmatched in the remainder of their games. They showed some flashes against Bluffton, particularly on defense. An athletic front seven put some pressure on the Bobcats' offense early, even if things fell apart in the second quarter.
The most important thing is that this team, thrown together by necessity over the summer, has now been through the fire together.
The offense was sloppy in its execution, as should be expected, and turnovers set up four of Bluffton's touchdowns. But things are only going to get better from here. The game is going to slow down for the Jaguars, because they now have in-game experience together and because they won't see a faster defense all year.
I still believe, as I wrote over the summer, that Ridgeland-Hardeeville will be stronger as a combined program than the two teams were apart. They just need some time.
The Jaguars' opener had to be frustrating, but it's going to be uphill from here.
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On the fence about an advanced degree?
Looking down the road at the stress, juggling and homework and not always being able to see where that road leads can be a deterrent. But, adults in a variety of fields who have returned to school to pursue their advanced degrees have found it rewarding — both professionally and personally.
A whole new world
Frances Kraft worked in corporate communication, but saw in her daughters' schools an educational achievement gap between races. She wanted to do something about it and decided to pursue her Master in Teaching (MAT) degree at Dominican University. Her connections with faculty combined with the power of her degree have helped her realize a dream. She developed a Power of Partnerships (PoP) program as part of her master's program with support of the dean and several professors. The program partners the school with a high school and college. They train older students in need of experience and they help students with homework and working on academic skills. Kraft approached Suzie Hackmiller, the principal of O.W. Holmes Elementary School in District 97 with the idea for PoP and she completely supported it and invited Kraft to complete her student teaching at Holmes in the fall of 2009. That led to a job as a fifth-grade teacher at Holmes and she is in the fourth year of coordinating the PoP after school program serving elementary age children struggling academically.
"My MAT degree from Dominican allowed me to make the career change into education," Kraft says. "Instead of attending meetings about the achievement gap, reading newspaper articles, and trying to understand it as an outsider, I have been able to work directly with students who are struggling. With knowledge from the Dominican classroom and 100 hours of field experience, I feel I had an excellent foundation when I accepted the position at Holmes as a fifth-grade teacher."
A step ahead
Although Jim McDermet's undergraduate degree is in education he took a corporate job with Burger King in the 1970s and the fast food chained experienced major growth for the next two decades.
"One thing led to another," McDermet says. "It was growing so rapidly and my career latched onto that."
He climbed the ranks and eventually became regional vice president of Burger King Corp. in the Midwest and moved to Naperville.
McDermet was interested in continuing his trajectory and began researching MBA programs — with no shortage of choices in the Chicagoland area. He landed on a program at North Central College in Naperville that was new at the time and focused on leadership and change — areas of great interest to McDermet.
"For 20 years I gained experience in operations, store development, human resources. I certainly learned a lot on the job, but I needed and desired to get more technical training."
In addition to learning more about the ways of the business world, McDermet studied leadership styles, learned to be more effective in written communication, planning strategies, being a leader during change and doing oral presentations. It gave him time to do research for his thesis.
"That's not something that I would have done in my day-to-day work — the deeper research," he says.
After graduation McDermet took a job with Burger King in Miami leading a team that looked at different retail store opportunities that eventually led to the restaurant going from free standing buildings to being placed in food courts, airports and gas station complexes.
"It was ignited by all this conversation and learning I had around embracing change," he says of taking a new position and leaving the security of his former job title. "I'm not certain I would have done that without the benefit of the (MBA) program," McDermet says. "It helped me look at the world in another way."
That new world view also gave McDermet the courage and know-how to start his own coffee company in Miami, which led to an opportunity to work as CEO and president of a sandwich and café chain in the northwest that eventually led to working with Starbucks — his current employer as senior vice president and general manager of their Seattle's Best coffee brand.
McDermet says the teachers, other students and what he learned, ignited a spark that just kept building.
Moving through the ranks
Royce Peppa wanted to advance her career in nursing and creating a plan to move forward professionally and educationally. An opportunity arose to attend a cohort group through Loyola University, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing through her employer Advocate Health Care.
The degree led to a promotion to an advanced practice nurse position as well as involvement in higher-level projects and programs. Not just a step up the ladder, through the degree Peppa was able to expand her knowledge and evidence-based practice and is considered a clinical expert in her field of neuroscience nursing.
She says she would not have been promoted without the advanced degree.
Better job prospects
Salvatore Grasso chose to go right from earning a Bachelor of Science in biology from Loyola University to a Master of Science in biotechnology from Rush University Medical Center.
"After graduating with my bachelor's degree, the job market in my field was very small and I wanted to continue my education to better my potential for a job," he says. "In addition, the pursuit of science is a process of continued learning throughout life, and in this case I can further my professional career while improving my knowledge in the subject I enjoy."
The additional degree paid off. Grasso graduated in June 2011 and began a job as a lab technician in July.
"My employment opportunity is a direct result of the networking connections and technical knowledge I gained from my advanced degree," he says adding that advanced degrees allow for greater opportunities in his field.
Moving forward
Grasso believes an advanced degree is a major asset in the job market during these difficult economic times.
McDermet believes it is helpful to shop around finding a degree program that really fits . He says he found earning his MBA fun and thrilling.
"If you're doing it simply to check a box that says 'I got my MBA' but it doesn't inspire you, what are you doing it for?"


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Snowboarder Torah Bright and Freeskier Sarah Burke Both Nominated For Best Female Action Sport Athlete ESPY Award; Torah Bright Also Nominated For Teen Choice Best Action Sports Athlete Award.
Huntington Beach, CA – (July 13, 2009) – Roxy is thrilled to congratulate snow team riders Torah Bright and Sarah Burke on their recent award nominations. Both ladies were nominated for a 2009 ESPY Award in the Best Female Action Sports Athlete category. Torah Bright was also nominated for a Teen Choice Award in the Best Action Sports Athlete – Female category. Both pros are coming off a phenomenal 2008/2009 winter season, where they both claimed Gold at the Winter X Games, and Torah went on to win the US Open of Snowboarding in March.
One of the most technical and photographed female snowboarders in the world, Torah Bright is fresh off a stellar year where she won every major contest she entered, racking up the gold medals and showing the world why she is a favorite for gold at next year's Olympics. This is her first ESPY and Teen Choice Award nominations.
A pioneer in women's freeskiing, Sarah Burke is no stranger to the ESPYs, in 2007 she was the first skier (male or female) to ever win an ESPY Award when she took home the trophy in this category. 2009 was a marquee year for Sarah, which saw her claim her third consecutive X Games Gold medal in the Superpipe competition.
The ESPYs gather top celebrities from sports and entertainment to recognize the past year in sports by noting their major achievements and remarkable performances. The 17th annual ESPYs will be hosted by Samuel L. Jackson and televised on ESPN on July 19, 2009 at 9pm EST. Visit http://promo.espn.go.com/espn/specialsection/espys2009/#/vote/ for more information and to vote for your favorite athletes. The Teen Choice Awards celebrate the hottest teen icons in film, television, music, sports and fashion in the choicest, star-studded two-hour event airing Monday, Aug. 10 on FOX. Visit www.teenchoiceawards.com for more information and to vote for your favorite athletes.
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The reputation of Quiksilver's brands is based on different outdoor sports. The Company's Quiksilver, Roxy, DC and Hawk brands are synonymous with the heritage and culture of surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding, and its beach and water oriented swimwear brands include Raisins, Radio Fiji and Leilani. The Company continues to make snowboarding equipment under its DC, Roxy, Lib Technologies, Gnu and Bent Metal labels.
The Company's products are sold in over 90 countries in a wide range of distribution, including surf shops, skate shops, snow shops, its proprietary Boardriders Club shops and other company-owned retail stores, other specialty stores and select department stores. Quiksilver's corporate and Americas' headquarters are in Huntington Beach, California, while its European headquarters are in St. Jean de Luz, France, and its Asia/Pacific headquarters are in Torquay, Australia.


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A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
Hi guys and gals,
I need a serious facelift on Surefiremarketing.com. Our umbrella site for most of our business building products. We got a good amount of traffic there and the winning designer will get a link at the bottom of the site to them (for a min of 1 year). Check our history we always award a winner. Please read the full description for exactly what I'm looking for.
As I mentioned - the site needs a serious facelift. I want to keep most of the elements but they look haphazardly placed right now. Couple big points I want to key in on -
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2.Maverick Business Adventures more prominent placement and room for more copy about it.
3. I'd like the opt-in placed 'above the fold' somewhere. And the form is way too big right now.
3. Take the press logos from http://www.maverickbusinessadventur…press.html
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4. Remove the phenomenon banner in the middle and the ebook vending machines banner on the bottom
5. Apprentice program - can just be a link on the left-hand side
6. The 'top 10' business performer could be a lot smaller and placed somewhere else.
7. Add image and a place for a little info about new book 8. "Moonlighting on the Internet" (you can find it on the right-hand side of Internetlifestyle.com
9. I'd also like to add some nav bars and pull down options under the main nav bar options.
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Intel shares slid early Tuesday in the wake of a report Apple is considering replacing the chip giant's products in its popular Mac personal computers.
Apple wants to use technology similar to that in its iPhone and iPad products in its Mac lines, Bloomberg reported late Monday.
Intel referred questions on the report to Apple. Apple did not immediately have a comment.
Intel shares fell 0.6% in recent action to $21.71 after earlier falling as low as $21.63.
Evercore Partners analyst Patrick Wang said that, if the report is true, then it would indeed be a major shift. It would also be a victory of sorts for Intel rival, ARM Holdings.
According to the report, Apple was exploring using its own chips used for the iPhone and the iPad. The chips are based on ARM's technology, Wang said.
"I think it would be several years before Apple could switch from Intel to their own ARM-based Ax chips, currently A6X," he told MarketWatch. "But if true, it would definitely be an epic event in PC history and perhaps mark an inflection in the ongoing battle between Intel and ARM."
Intel and ARM have been battling it out in the mobile market where ARM-based processors, which are known to consume less power, are dominant. The rivalry is seen spreading to the PC and even server arenas.
For Intel, Wang added, "the industry implications would be much more significant than the lost dollars in my opinion…It would speak volumes that the most forward thinking PC innovator makes the switch."
In addition, it would validate ARM's ability to scale up its performance to address mainstream PCs, up from today's relatively lightweight smartphones and tablets.
"Based on their current trajectory, I think we'll cross this inflection over the next few years," Wang said.
In a note, Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu also said a move by Apple to merge its Mac and mobile architectures to an ARM-based system is "inevitable but not likely anytime soon."
For one thing, he argued, Intel chips "are much more powerful for running compute-intensive Mac applications and for development." But Wu also added, "We believe this is a challenge to Intel to deliver stronger battery life."
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Other languages starting to add binary literals.
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"I enjoy traveling and occasionally during my travels, I will try to engage in discussions with the local pharmacists," Tolu said. "Once I went into a Boots pharmacy in England and I asked the pharmacist questions about how they run their pharmacy. I wanted to educate myself and get an idea of how their practices compare to the U.S. system."
As a native of Nigeria, Tolu has a unique perspective on pharmacy practice in the United States and continually seizes new opportunities to learn more. Since relocating to the Chicago area in 2004, he has worked as a pharmacy technician, as a quality assurance analyst in the Walgreens' corporate office, and recently completed a corporate internship in healthcare innovation and pharmacy technology services.
It was while working as a pharmacy technician that Tolu first learned about the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) program at Midwestern University. "I worked with graduates of CCP and one of the things that immediately caught my attention was their strong interpersonal skills in dealing with patients. It's one thing to have the knowledge of pharmacy as a practice; but it's another thing to be able to relate to patients and help them make the necessary changes to achieve a better health outcome," Tolu said. "I could see the skill that was imbedded in them and I knew I wanted to be part of something like that."
Tolu has been pleased with his decision to enroll in Midwestern University. He cites the peaceful campus environment and the many spaces designated for student relaxation - the fitness center, music room, and the beautiful campus - as a way the University has created an ideal environment to promote both academic excellence and a balanced life. He also has become involved in a number of professional organizations on campus to further his experience and has volunteered at diabetes and immunization clinics. "Most of the students in the pharmacy program here are involved in some sort of professional organization," he said. "Midwestern has done a great job in putting together a program that really helps students."
An important part of that program is the group of caring pharmacy faculty members who support students throughout their rigorous coursework. "The professors are passionate about student success and that really means a lot. Recently, one of my professors spent a considerable amount of time outside of class talking to me about some concepts that weren't clear. The positive result was that I wound up getting an A on that particular exam. There is a sense of encouragement you feel as a student, when you know that your professors are available and always willing to help," he said. "Going to Midwestern is the best decision I have made in my professional life."
"I'm really excited about the endless opportunities that lay ahead."
— Tolu Akinwale, CCP Class of 2013
While he has enjoyed his studies at Midwestern University, Tolu is also anticipating both future educational opportunities, such as an upcoming hospital rotation, and his career after graduation. "I'm really excited about the endless opportunities that lay ahead. When you get into the program, you realize that you have so many options and various areas of practice, even including academia," he said. "Just the thought of having so many avenues where you can function in the pharmacy system is something that has me really excited about the future."
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Karen Hart did not sleep for two weeks, except for the occasional nap. She barely ate, because going without food made her feel "superhuman.''
Hart, then a junior at MIT, was juggling course work with a heavy load of activities; she was an actor, a set designer, and technical director for the school musical. She had no problem doing it all.
"I would be lonely because I felt that everyone else could reach the same level as me, this level of transcending humanity . . . [but] they just weren't there yet. And so I was stuck by myself here,'' the 22-year-old said recently.
Hart's high-energy act was more than just youthful enthusiasm: It was an emerging pattern of mental illness called bipolar disorder that affects 10 million Americans.
The late nights, flexible schedule, and socialization of college can often trigger a person's first episode, with more than 50 percent of all cases starting between the ages of 15 and 25, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Colleges in New England are now offering a variety of services for afflicted students, including therapy, support groups, and referrals. But students with the disorder, medical experts, and advocates believe the help is not enough. They say that these young people can feel a deep stigma if others find out about their disorder and that few of the students' peers have a real understanding of their affliction.
"A lot of people with bipolar disorder can finish college over time,'' said Andrew Nierenberg, director of the Bipolar Clinic and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. "But on average they're employed below their level of education, and compared to their matched peers they make a lot less money.''
It begins with recognizing the illness. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive disorder, is characterized by episodes of elevated mood, euphoria, and irritability, contrasted with periods of deep depression.
It affects men and women equally.
A number of students also face a critical dilemma: stay on their medicines to try to gain stability or skip the drugs and their side effects, which include significant weight gain and what some describe as a sense of numbness.
Hart said that for a two-week period she was in a "mixed state,'' feeling depressed and manic at the same time. Occasionally, she broke down and everything would go black. And as the set designer for the musical, she was working with power tools and kept fighting the urge to hurt herself, she said.
"That was the first time in my life where I think I actually got seriously suicidal,'' said Hart, of Pennsylvania.
Approximately 25 to 56 percent of people with the disorder try to commit suicide at least once in their lives, Nierenberg said.
A study published in the 2006 Journal of Affective Disorders, the most recent available study of its kind, compared 60 adults with bipolar disorder to 60 demographically matched adults without the affliction. Despite very similar IQ levels, 47 percent of the healthy adults received a college degree, whereas only 16 percent of the adults with bipolar disorder completed college.
'I am very bitter about it. It's one extra thing I have to deal with that other people don't. And my life is harder because of it.'
Jessica Feldish, 22 and also from Pennsylvania, is a junior at Northeastern University with the disorder. She said that in a typical month she feels normal for only a week and a half. The rest of the time she is either depressed or manic.
"My depression makes me feel isolated and alone and dead inside,'' she said. "And my mania makes me feel too alive, too excited, and it's scary.''
At Northeastern, students with bipolar disorder are eligible for long-term therapy at the school's health center.
Also, Active Minds, a mental health advocacy organization geared to college students, has chapters on campuses in New England, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, and Simmons College. The University of Massachusetts Amherst has an Active Minds chapter, as well as a bipolar disorder support group.
"For the most part, colleges have been putting a lot of resources into mental health services and have identified this as an important issue,'' said Harry Rockland-Miller, director of the Center for Counseling and Psychological Health at UMass Amherst.
Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, describes the depressive periods of bipolar disorder as "a slowing down of one's thoughts and moods'' that lasts an average of two months. Mania is when an individual's mental capabilities are increased, he said.
Those in a manic state may not need to sleep, and they may engage in risky behavior such as reckless driving, extramarital affairs, and excessive spending.
Sarah Savage, 19, who is bipolar and attends Simmons College, had periods of depression during her high school years in Maine, but it was not until college that she experienced her first manic episode. Although she is usually careful with money, she went on a two-week spending spree, she said, buying an excessive amount of clothes and jewelry, spending $50 on a hair brush and $400 on DVDs.
This year, Simmons formed an Active Minds chapter, and Savage saw her quality of life improve.
Although the exact cause of the disorder is unknown, scientists believe it to be genetic, Ghaemi said.
Treatment options are limited and work only some of the time. Nierenberg, at Mass. General, said the last time researchers developed a drug specific to the disorder was 60 years ago, and that was lithium.
Feldish recently decided to go off her medicines. She said that last summer she gained 20 pounds from the drugs, and "I felt so listless and depressed and numb.''
Instead, she is taking a more holistic approach and does acupuncture, yoga, massage therapy, and other relaxation techniques.
Despite the challenges of bipolar disorder, Feldish has done well at Northeastern. An environmental studies major, she has had several prominent internships, is active in campus groups like the Progressive Student Alliance and the Social Justice Council, plays water polo, and is a waitress.
But she still feels the pain of bipolar disorder.
"I am very bitter about it,'' she said. "It's one extra thing I have to deal with that other people don't. And my life is harder because of it.''
As much as those with bipolar disorder can resent their condition, some students see a way to put their manic phase to good use.
Patrick Maudlin, 24, a classically trained pianist from Arizona who attended Berklee College of Music, said that being bipolar gives him a creative boost.
When he first became manic, he said, he started hearing new types of music in his head and found that his piano skills had drastically improved.
"I was blown away with myself,'' he said. "I used to really like that I had'' bipolar disorder, he said. "I don't want to have it anymore, but I don't want to lose the gifts that I have.''
Maudlin was eventually expelled from Berklee after a dispute with the school's president.
For Hart, manic episodes helped fuel her academic success, she said.
"I knew how to use it to be superproductive, and productivity was really an addiction for me at that point,'' she said. "I loved the feeling of getting things done.''
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Congressional intelligence leaders said on Sunday that authorities are pursuing "persons of interest" in the United States in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, and asked for more help from Russian spy agencies.
Congressman Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Of Representatives intelligence committee said better cooperation from Russia was needed in Washington's probe of the two suspected bombers' recent contacts and activities.
Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Rogers said he believed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, the elder of two ethnic Chechen brothers suspected of carrying out the April 15 blasts in Boston, clearly changed during his visit to Russia in 2012, becoming "radicalized."
"I think they (Russia) have information that would be incredibly helpful and that they haven't provided yet," he said.
New details of the unfolding investigation emerged following reports on Saturday that Tamerlan Tsarnaev spoke to his mother about "jihad" in a 2011 phone call secretly recorded by Russian officials.
U.S. authorities learned of the wiretapped discussion between Tsarnaev and his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, within the last few days, CBS News reported. Tsarnaev died in an April 18 shootout with police, three days after the bombings that killed three people and injure more than 260 others.
Asked about the information Russia might have, Rogers said of Russia's spy service, "The FSB is a hostile service to the FBI and the CIA and there is cultural problem there between where the Russians are and our folks. So they sent a letter, didn't have a lot of information." Rogers added that subsequent U.S. requests for assistance have not been met.
"We still have persons of interest that we're working to find and identify and have conversations with," said Rogers. The Michigan lawmaker declined to say how many "persons of interest" there were.
"We are looking at phone calls before and after the bombing," the intelligence committee's senior Democrat, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, also said on ABC.
The revelations that others are being sought for questioning came as the suspected bombers' father told Reuters on Sunday that he has abandoned plans to travel to the United States. Speaking from a village in southern Russia, Anzor Tsarnaev said he believed he would not be able to see his surviving son, Dzhokhar, 19, who is being held in a federal prison in Massachusetts on charges he also carried out the bombing.
"In every investigation we have seen" when suspects carried out attacks, Rogers told ABC, they had at least "affirmed" their plans to others.
In each case, Rogers said, "there was outside affirmation of their intent to commit an act of jihad." In the Boston bombing, "I believe that happened in the United States," he said.
Attention has turned to whether U.S. officials missed signs that Tamerlan Tsarnaev may have posed a security threat, including a warning from Russia that he might be an Islamic militant. Jihad can refer to a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty, or to a Muslim's personal struggle in devotion to the faith.
The FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 but did not find enough cause to continue an investigation. His name was on the U.S. government's highly classified central database of people it views as potential threats, sources close to the bombing investigation have said.
Law enforcement authorities do not closely monitor the list, which includes about 500,000 people.
(Reporting by Maria Golovnina, Chris Francescani, Mohammad Zargham and Rachelle R. Younglai; editing by Barbara Goldberg and Jackie Frank)


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Google Inc. reported fourth-quarter results after the market closed on Thursday, a day after announcing that it was selling its Motorola business to Lenovo. MarketWatch technology reporter Benjamin Pimentel (@benpimentel) live-blogged the earnings call from San Francisco. (Photo: Bloomberg)
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Stock is up 3% as the Thursday trading session draws to a close. Google's stock got a lift from news that it was selling Motorola Mobility to Lenovo.
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It's unclear if CEO Larry Page will be on the earnings call. He had announced a few months ago that he will not be on every call due to problems with his voice.
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Google profit and revenue rose in the fourth quarter, but its earnings fell short of Wall Street estimates.
But stock is up about 1% after-hours on expected gain from the sale of its Motorola business to Lenovo.
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In a prepared statement, CEO Larry Page said Google "ended 2013 with another great quarter of momentum and growth."
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Google said paid clicks, the number of times users click on ad and generate revenue, rose 31% year-over-year. Topeka Capital's Victor Anthony said that's "a very positive sigh of the health of the business."
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However, cost per clicks, the prices paid for Google advertising, fell 11% year over year. That was worse than expected, analysts said.
But Wedbush analyst Shyam Patil told MarketWatch, "But you have to look at the net effect which is core Google ad rev and that was modestly above estimates."
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Operating loss for Motorola business was $384 million in the fourth quarter.
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Arora cites trend in online advertising "towards private ad exchanges in which a premium publisher uses our technology to make ad space available to a small number of hand picked, quality and highly qualified advertisers."
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Most capital expenditure is focused on data center infrastructure expansion, says Arora.
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Google shares are now up 2.5%.
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Question on the decision to buy Nest Labs. Google exec: "Our goal is to help them scale. It's a terrific opportunity."
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Stock has been climbing. From mostly flat when the call started, it is now up nearly 4%.
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Question on the Motorola sale.
Google sees Motorola as having strengthened the Android ecosystem. "This is a great transaction where everybody wins."
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One issue Google struggled with in buying Motorola was that it turned them into a competitor with device makers that were using the Android platform. That is no longer a major issue with Lenovo acquiring Motorola.
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Pennsylvania hospitals' ban on hiring smokers prompts debate
With just days to go before two of Philadelphia's most prestigious hospitals refuse to hire smokers, the ban has relit a debate about the wisdom of regulating workers' behavior away from the workplace.
Both the highly rated University of Pennsylvania Health System, which includes the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, named by US News and World Report as America's top children's hospital this year, will join dozens of hospitals across the country when they implement their policy on Monday, July 1.
The move has generated criticism among civil liberties activists, hospital employees and even doctors who fear that smokers will lie about their habit - and therefore become less likely to seek help in stopping it.
"It's not all slopes that are slippery, but this one really is," said Lewis Maltby, a former American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who now runs the National Workrights Institute in Princeton, N.J. He is critical of an employer's intrusion into the private time of employees.
"What you do in your own home on your own time is none of your boss's business unless it affects your work," he said.
Maltby noted that drinking alcohol, eating lots of junk food and not exercising are also bad for you. "Virtually everything you do in your private life affects your health," he said, wondering what other kinds of hiring restrictions could come to pass.
Desonia Mapp, 52, who has worked as a nursing assistant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for 13 years, said she was "dumbfounded. I couldn't believe they were doing this," she said as she took a cigarette break in the shade near bicycle racks outside the hospital last week. "If I drank, if I do whatever I do outside of the workplace, where does it end?" Mapp will not be affected by the new policy, which only applies to new hires.
Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, also has serious doubts about the policy. "It is blatant employment discrimination," he said. "Employment decisions should be made based on a person's qualifications for a position.
"Once you step over that line and you start making decisions based on the group to which a person belongs that has no bearing on their actual qualifications, I think that's really dangerous," he said.
Ralph Muller, the chief executive of the sprawling University of Pennsylvania Health System, said the system was focusing on the health ills of smoking rather than issues like obesity because of the "50 years of science" behind smoking research.
The policy at Penn, with more than 28,000 employees, will extend to all of the university's health centers, including three large city hospitals, a center for advanced medicine, and six other clinics and medical practices. UPenn's clinics and offices in New Jersey will not be affected, because New Jersey is among 29 states and the District of Columbia that have passed smoker-protection laws preventing employers from discriminating against employees or job applicants because they do or do not smoke.
Penn and the children's hospital, which are affiliated but run as separate corporate entities, will have similar programs, with one exception. Penn will rely on an applicant's word on tobacco use, while the children's hospital will test applicants to determine if they're smokers. Those who admit to having started smoking after hiring would be offered a smoking-cessation program but would also have to pay higher health insurance premiums - about $30 more a month, said Robert Croner, senior vice president for human resources at the children's hospital, known locally as CHOP.
Whether the policy will shrink the available labor pool so that hospitals end up with vacancies they cannot fill does not seem to be much of an issue. CHOP has some 12,000 employees.
"It is something we have on our minds, but we don't think it will have that disruptive of an impact," Croner said of the applicant issue. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 43.8 million adults (19 percent) in the U.S. were smokers in 2011.
The Cleveland Clinic, with 42,000 employees, said that fears of a shrinking labor pool had proved unfounded when it became one of the first and biggest medical centers to impose its no-smokers policy in September of 2007.
"It really never reduced our pool," said Dr. Paul Terpeluk, the Cleveland Clinic's medical director for employee services.
Statistics on how many hospitals nationwide have the policy are hard to come by, but Boston's Siegel estimates the number at 50 to 60 health care systems around the country.
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Vashon's local farmers, nursery owners and "green" entrepreneurs have diverse ideas and products, but could be even more powerful if they worked together, say a group of Islanders hoping to strengthen the Island's local food system and green economy.
From produce and plant starts to jam and cheese, the Island's edible economy is thriving — and Vashon's food system working group hopes to increase collaboration among each venture for the good of all.
To this end, two renowned authors and activists are coming to Vashon to take a look at the Island's food production output and potential. Ben Hewitt and Kevin Danaher will share their informed perspectives on the Island's unique food system in the hopes that Vashon farmers and businesspeople can work together in the future to best use all the Island's resources — including each others' talents and wares.
Hewitt, the author of "The Town That Food Saved," explored the small former mining town of Hardwick, Vt., which had an agricultural revival thanks to a few visionaries there. Hewitt spoke to the "agrepreneurs" of the town and compiled their stories and wisdom into the popular book.
And Danaher, the cofounder of human rights nonprofit Global Exchange, will discuss his recently released tome, "Building the Green Economy." Through his work at Global Exchange and his prolific writing and editing career, Danaher has seen the actions of many people and communities working to protect and enhance their local food and water systems.
Thanks to local pilot Al Paxhia, Danaher will be treated to an aerial tour of the Island, featuring its food production hotspots and potential centers for food-based activity. Armed with insights from his tour, Danaher will join with Hewitt to discuss Vashon's unique food system and its potential for growth and improvement.
"The issue of local food is more nuanced than you might think, and (Hewitt) puts that into a good focus," said Merilee Runyan, a board member for Vashon Island Growers Association, a sponsor of the speaker event. "And (Danaher's) book shares the story of a variety of people working to make a change — the complexities of working toward a more locally based economy."
The effort to fortify Vashon's edible economy is a result of the Vashon Food Summit, held in March, when Islanders gathered to discuss the local food economy.
"We have a tremendous opportunity to bring together these networks of people working on various aspects of the green economy, both the food and the tech end," said food activist and Islander Mark Musick.
"Vashon has a long and deep agrarian history and a history of home-based enterprises," he added. "This is just an opportunity to showcase what we're doing on the Island and also get perspective from Ben and his experience in Hardwick, Vermont, and Kevin and his experience with Global Exchange."
From "bio-cycling" of food waste on Vashon to converting gas-powered cars to electric so they can transport Vashon's farmers and their wares in a more environmentally responsible way, the Island's green economy has much potential for growth, said those involved.
"Our Island has immeasurable tangible and intangible assets," said Bill Moyer, executive director of the Backbone Campaign, a sponsor of the speaker event. "We're interested in celebrating the richness of our community and our assets and finding ways that those things can enrich our economy in a more coordinated fashion."
Meet author and activist Kevin Danaher at the Open Space for Arts & Community at 3 p.m. Monday, June 7. Hear Danaher and fellow author Ben Hewitt discuss Vashon's green economy from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, June 7, at the Vashon High School theater.


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Help! I'm having a little bit of an identity crisis. I told the barista that my name was "Rosa" but apparently, I'm "Posa". Now, was he saying my name is "Posa" or is this a new slang/spelling for "poser"? I'm a poser? Who/what am I posing as? Rosa? I'm not Rosa? Obviously… But if I'm not Rosa, then who am I? Oh dear. At least I have some caffeine in me to fuel me as I sort out this existential quandary.
Seriously… "Posa"? Do I look like a "Posa"? Is that even a name?