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Friday, September 14, 2012
Authors Behaving Badly: The attack on Pam van Hylckama
Less than 24 hours ago, agent Pam van Hylckama was attacked in her car. The guy came up and knocked a side mirror off, then when Pam unrolled the window to talk to him, he began slamming her head against the steering wheel. Luckily Pam's dog was there to help protect her, biting the man and causing him to flee. Pam later called the police at the urging of a family member.
Then they realized that it might not be a random attack. As stated above, Pam works as an agent and as such, both declines and accepts manuscripts and authors on a regular basis. The police believe that the guy that assaulted her (who is unnamed so far) was someone that she turned down. A look through her email showed that she'd received emails that said "The normal I hate you and I want you to die and I'll kill you". Pam had sort of just ignored those for the most part since agents get these all the time, but apparently the guy who sent these also had priors against him. The police then used the address the guy gave in his query to go to his house, where they discovered him with a bite mark on him from Pam's dog. The guy is now officially in police custody.
To put it frankly, this is pretty terrifying. Pam was just doing what agents do, yet she got attacked for it. I know that most of the irate and badly behaved authors would not stoop to physical violence, but this still is pretty scary. You never know when someone is going to take the information they discover about you, track you down, and try to physically assault you. Seriously, this is messed up.
Pam has been fantastic enough to give me a little mini-interview! Click here to go there!
I just logged on and noticed that there's been a fuss in the comments. I've deleted two of the remarks that were only made to be mean spirited and hateful. One made remarks while pretending to be someone else. Another insinuated that someone's sexuality affected their judgement. Neither contributed to the conversation at all.
But let me make this one point clear: it doesn't matter how Pam may or may not have acted towards the writer when rejecting his manuscript. Do I think she was rude? No. I don't. I think she probably gave him a form letter or something along those lines that she's given to countless other authors. She doesn't strike me as the type of person that would be rude or nasty. However even if she'd set his manuscript on fire, let her dog pee on the ashes, and made up a list of things she'd rather do than read any more of his book (such as rinsing her eyes out with lemon juice), that does NOT give him the right to attack her. That also doesn't mean that she "deserves" to be attacked. That it was fairly easy for the loon to track her down doesn't mean that she deserves the attack either. Rather than saying that she's at fault for having her personal information easily detectable, people should be lamenting that there are enough people with poor impulse control to where such things are necessary. That's blaming the victim and up to that point Pam had no reason to hide her information. She had no way of knowing that one of the people submitting to her would be that crazy.
As I can tell, the guy that attacked Pam had priors. That means that Pam was likely not the first person he lashed out against. This also means that no matter how polite Pam was, how much pains she took to spare his ego, or how kind her words might have been, this guy probably would've gone after her. It doesn't take a lot to set off someone who is mentally unstable. He might have attacked her even if his manuscript had been accepted, just because he didn't like the terms she was offering him. My point here is that the people who do this sort of thing are the type of people that would see anything as an invitation to an attack. Some of these crazies do it just because their shoe laces came untied. That anyone would ever think that for a second Pam might have done something to "deserve" this or that this crazy freak's attack was in any way justified is incredibly messed up.
THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR PHYSICAL VIOLENCE. How Pam may or may not have acted is irrelevant. There is no excuse for violence. We're human beings, not animals. The person that attacked Pam stalked her and then proceeded to smash her face against her steering wheel. The only reason that's all he did was because her dog defended her against the other person's assault. That anyone would think that a physical assault is an appropriate reaction to a manuscript getting declined is rather disturbing. Again, even if she was the rudest person on earth, which I doubt she was, that doesn't make physical violence acceptable. I'm going to assume that this person was coming on here to troll, but I wanted to make this statement because unfortunately there's always a group of people who will try to blame the victim in all of this, regardless of the circumstances.
I don't usually censor or delete posts on here, but I'd much appreciate it if people didn't make it necessary.
I've noticed that on some of the various news sites about this, people are questioning Pam's apparent retraction of the statement that the guy had been apprehended and that it was likely to be the same guy that she rejected manuscript-wise.
I do want to make a brief statement on this, saying that until the case has been through the court system and everything has been 100% proven in a court of law, you have to be careful about how you discuss things. It's fairly normal for a lawyer to tell someone that they should refrain from making any absolute statements saying "this person did this" or "I believe it's someone I rejected at work". If this goes to court then those statements can be used in the case against the guy that attacked her. The guy's lawyer can say that she "poisoned the well" against the client and so on. There's a lot of ways that a good lawyer can twist this around, which is why she's more than likely being vague about everything now. This does not mean that the attack didn't happen or that the guy that attacked her isn't the same one whose manuscript she declined. It just means that Pam probably lawyered up and is being told that being vague right now is her friend.
Now as for the allegations that she's too calm for someone that has been attacked, people respond to things differently. We also have no way of knowing exactly how frantic Pam actually was at this time. It's very, very common for people to kind of detach themselves from everything. It's a form of denial and it's fairly common. I've known a few people who have had some pretty awful stuff happen to them and they discuss everything with a minimum amount of fuss and screaming. It doesn't mean that the trauma didn't happen, just that they hadn't fully processed everything yet. Everyone deals with things differently and just because Pam wasn't ZOMG-ing on various social sites doesn't mean that the attack didn't happen.
Further reading:
*Pam's Twitter account
54 comments:
Oh my God! That's horrifying. Also horrifying that she gets "normal" hate mail.ReplyDelete
I saw her posts last night, and was like, "Oh my God, I can't believe it." There's no excuse for someone to act in such a manner. Given, this guy already has problems, but really? Over a rejection? I'm glad she had her dog with her to protect her and that it wasn't worse, but why did something so stupid have to happen in the first place?ReplyDeleteReplies
This is what I thought. It's all so terrible and scary.Delete
Men do that sort of thing over romantic rejections often enough that it's one of the top causes of death for women under 50. I don't see it as being such a stretch for one to do it over a literary rejection; it's still delusions of ownership.Delete
This is awful, just awful. I hope Pam's okay and this guy is dealt with appropriately. I well remember the frustrations inherent in getting published but it blows my mind someone would stoop to this.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 14, 2012 at 6:28 AM
...and now that I'm over my initial horror and sympathy, I'm desperately curious to see his query letter.ReplyDelete
This guy can't be called an author until he's published. But maybe he'll be able to hone his skills behind bars. What a nightmare.ReplyDelete
This is just so completely not okay, I don't even know what to say.ReplyDelete
Why is it that people don't understand that publishing is a business, and none of this is a judgment on their personhood? You can improve your writing. It's not an end-all-be-all that this query got rejected.
And count me among the people who are appalled that agents get normal hate mail. I know it's the case, but still. It just makes the world worse for everyone else who isn't crazy.
It should be noted he was able to track her down by Twitter and Four Square stalking her. She usually only checked in when she was leaving places but said recently she'd become lax about that. So he was able to track her down via her check ins. Sad this is something we need to be vigilant about now.ReplyDelete
Thank God for the dog, and the evidence trail left because of the dog.ReplyDelete
Oh my god! I'm so glad they caught that SOB. Seriously stupid that someone would stoop to something so violent over a query rejection. *Hugs* To Pam and her dog is a super hero for saving her. So glad the pup was there.ReplyDelete
Seriously, rejections suck, but if you are psychotic enough to attack someone over it, you're the lowest form of life.
- AnonymousSeptember 14, 2012 at 7:29 AM
I am horrified that there is a "normal" hate mail. Her dog needs a special cookie treat :)ReplyDelete
...and had he not been caught so quickly, he might have ended up stalking/attacking other literary agents as well... those who sent on a rejection slip.ReplyDelete
After a couple decades in the business, I was still naive, I guess, figuring the worst agents suffered was the legendary manuscript under the bathroom stall wall. Agents like Pam didn't sign up for physical danger any more than teachers. What did the criminal hope to accomplish? I'm just hoping he isn't rewarded with a jailhouse book contract.ReplyDelete
Awful, horrible thing, and my thoughts are with Pam. But I wouldn't call this an "author behaving badly." I'd call this a *crime.* In spite of the apparent trigger (rejection), this attack had nothing to do with the attacker being a writer and everything to do with him being a criminal, and obviously mentally unstable.ReplyDelete
I agree with Rachel. This was an awful, horrible thing to have happened, and I wouldn't call it an author behaving badly. This is a crime, and this guy is a criminal who needs to be off the street.ReplyDelete
All my thoughts are with Pam and her heroic doggie.Replies
- Jan HarrisSeptember 14, 2012 at 1:20 PM
I can't say it any better than Julie. I hadn't heard of Pam, and it never occured to me that anyone would attack an agent until I saw this on our RWA chapter loop. Let's hope this is the last incident of its kind now that the perp is in custody.Delete
Good dog!
Pam is my agent, and one of the most amazing things to me was that I spoke with her that same night (book-related stuff) and she was calm and professional as ever. She is a truly amazing woman!ReplyDelete
Good lord! I've been Tweeps with Pam for a long time & I saw her tweeting about the incident, but I didn't realize how bad (or how premeditated) it was... this is horrifying.ReplyDelete
Wow, very scary! This guy seems to have more than a simple grudge--he seems mentally ill. It's just lucky she had her dog with her!ReplyDelete
Oy, why can't he just cry himself to sleep and pig out a few days like the rest of us.ReplyDelete
Or, maybe that's just me.
Seriously though, as someone who has (and lives with) mental illness myself, jerks like him make us all look bad and it really ticks me off like few things will.
I certainly don't condone what he did, yet I'd be lying if I didn't say I get the feelings behind it, but violence never solves anything, it's only a cheap thrill that will cost you in more ways than one.
Glad your okay, Pam, wherever you are.
Yikes. I've seen some stories about authors behaving badly, but this one takes the cake. When I started looking into publishing, I told myself that reject would happen. In the end, I decided to do it all myself, so I mostly skipped reject but I knew there were still reviews to contend with. With writing, rejection and bad reviews were going to be a fact of life so I accept them good and bad when they happen. I can't wrap my head around these people who don't get that.ReplyDelete
I hope Pam is doing okay and healing from this horrible event.
That is so scary. I hope Pam feels better soon. What a creepy thing.ReplyDelete
Saw her post about this on Twitter last night and feel awful for her.ReplyDelete
We can't stop crazy people, I suppose, but this is well beyond the pale. I'd like to believe this is an isolated incident; with tempers flaring across the Internet and access to locale it could easily happen again. Perhaps it is time for all of us to take a step back and consider how we might contribute to stopping the insanity.ReplyDelete
Thoughts and best wishes to Ms. Van Hylckama. She sound like an amazing person. So glad she was not seriously injured.
- AnonymousSeptember 14, 2012 at 12:50 PM
Kudos to the dog. I hope he really dug those teeth in.ReplyDelete
Here's to the dog!ReplyDelete
Virtual porterhouse to go!
Why do I see a movie in this?ReplyDelete
As a writer with a WONDERFUL agent, I can't understand that people don't understand that this is a business... of course an intensely personal one in which all of ones hopes and dreams rely on someone saying yes and that it's so easy to break:)!!!! Seriously, glad to hear that she's okay and able to write about it!! Think: film agent!! ! Truly, author of LIE.
'"The normal I hate you and I want you to die and I'll kill you". Pam had sort of just ignored those for the most part since agents get these all the time...'ReplyDelete
WHAT?! Agents get that a lot? This is horrible! >_<Replies
Isn't it frightening that people send those? I can understand someone getting angry at not getting accepted and maybe sending off a "you don't appreciate my talent" e-mail. It's a stupid and childish move, but I can understand the hurt feelings that would do that. But to completely jump the crazy train to looneyville and tell people that you want them to die and that you'll kill them? It's really crazy that agents get these and view these as normal.Delete
This world is a scary place sometimes. Social media makes it easier for someone to trace us. That's why I never point out places around me, where I am other than the state, and I don't let my children do so either. Better to say you're somewhere else than to run into someone out to hurt you. I hope Pam is okay and this is just a shame. Yes, we writers get rejected but that's no excuse to threaten someone. Instead, deal with it by honing your craft and writing a great query and book.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2012 at 8:57 AM
Not one person here made a comment about how the agent might of treated the writer. Agents can be mean and nasty, but I guess from your comments writers should just take it. Should agents treat writers like crap and expect no retribution?ReplyDelete
I know this comment will not be posted. Comments are asked for and then some little person behind the scenes( that is you reading this now) selects which ones get posted. So much for freedom of speech.Replies
WTF is wrong with you?? You're saying an agent who gets death threats from unstable people who think they can write, who is a mother and wife, who loves authors and wants them to succeed deserves to be attacked and hurt to the point she could have been killed all because some deranged individual couldn't handle a rejection? That's you're answer? Use violence as retribution??Delete
At least I don't hide behind the label of anonymous you poor, deluded person.
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 5:53 AM
Go fuck yourself You are an asshole. You don't have a clue.Delete
Really? Enlighten me then. And real classy to curse and call me an asshole to get your point across.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2012 at 10:24 AM
I see your comment, Anonymous, so I guess "big brother" let it slide. There are many things I could say about this but I will simply say this. A culture that considers retributive violence to be not only normal but desirable (cough *IRAQ* cough)will eventually find that violence turned back on itself. Even if Pam told this writer to go shove his lame manuscript up his ass (which she didn't) there is no excuse for meeting words with violence. EVER.ReplyDelete
Wow, Anonymous. Just wow. I've never been treated badly by an agent and do not understand why people think this is the case. A rejection is not a form of abuse, no matter how much it hurts your ego. No one deserves to be treated the way Pam was treated. She is a very sweet woman and I follow her on Twitter, because she is a genuinely cool person.ReplyDelete
It isn't normal to send mean/threatening e-mails in response to rejection and it sure as hell isn't normal to attack people. Rejection should be met with a re-evaluation of material, query letter, and then a fresh packaging and e-mail to a different agent's submission box. If you're upset, have a glass of wine and a good cry. Have a piece of cake or a pint of Ben and Jerry's.
I'm afraid I don't understand why people do not know how to conduct themselves professionally in a business setting. Publishing is a business, the old rules of etiquette still apply.
I'm guessing 'Anonymous' is the same type of person who feels bad for those poor catholic priests getting 'seduced' all the time by those little boys. Disgusting.ReplyDelete
Furthermore: I love free speech. I'm all for it. But that means you get to say what you want and stand by what you said or wrote. Put your name on it if you want your free speech. It does NOT mean you get to cowardly engage in victim-blaming while hiding behind the anonymity of the internet. That is NOT what free speech is about. That's what being a total asshole is about.
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2012 at 4:31 PM
I posted earlier and I am not surprised by your shallow comments.ReplyDelete
Did you ever ask how Pam treated the writer? No Did you ever ask what she said to the writer? No Why? Because your emotions have taken over your thinking. It is true that agents can be nasty and mean, and to think that all authors are just going to lie down and take is unrealistic.
Pam's picture is prominently displayed on the agency's website and the agency'a address is easy to find. Really dumb. She leaves herself wide open for an attack,then posters here complain about how she was treated. Give me a break. Let's say that you were walking down the street in a bad neighborhood with your wallet or purse in full view. You are then robbed. If you complained about it, I would not have any sympathy for you because you contributed to your own theft. Understand my point?
I have not had any dealing with Pam, but I have had dealings with Mike Larsen. I sent him a query letter years ago and he called me on the phone. What a total jerk. What a complete asshole. I will never forget it. Did I feel like kicking his ass? No But will I ever do business with his agency? Nope.
The next time you complain about how an agent is treated, think about how authors are treated. Think about how authors are taken advantage of by agents who charge them 15% on all that they make. Perhaps then, you will feel differently about the author/agent relationship.
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2012 at 6:22 PM
I'm going to post this anonymously, because Anonymous up there seems to think any public airing of things like, I dunno, your FACE and your BUSINESS address is some kind of invite to murder. And like, you know, having a purse...it's just ASKING people to, you know, take your purse.ReplyDelete
Like getting your ass grabbed is what you get for having one. And letting people see it with nothing between your eyes and the flesh but a thin sheet of clothing.
Anyway, Anonymous, get therapy.
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2012 at 7:48 PM
Hey show some respect for other people's views.Just because he/she does not agree with you does not mean that he/she is a bad person.ReplyDelete
I work as a carpenter, so go screw yourself Mr. Therapy.Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2012 at 12:17 PM
two of you anonymous commenters need to get help. serious help.Delete
1) a book is not your entire life. stop buying into that romantic bullshit right now. if you, mr. carpenter, believed that everything thing you did as a carpenter WAS THE BE ALL TO END ALL OF YOUR WORLD, how in the HELL do you deal with customers who are not satisfied with your work?
go to their house and mash their face in? because that's exactly what happened. this man stalked her, tracked her down and went up to her to attack her.
that's creepy and if you don't think so, someone is in need of serious help and it's not the rest of us, just sayin'.
2) saying that the agent invited this horrible attack is perilously close to saying the 11-year old girl who was gang raped deserved it. because yes, saying that the agent MIGHT have had it coming due to POSSIBLE 'mean' behavior (omgwhat? are we still in highschool? I thought we were adults here) is saying just that.
you both disgust me and I'm so very VERY sorry for your wives/husbands for your vile attitudes. YOU are what is wrong in this country today, not agents who are just doing their job.
-None of the anonymous above
I am not surprised. Pam was just doing her job, but society as a whole has become more self-centered and lawless in the last 60 years. Personally, I believe this is because our code of justice/morality/what's right was mostly based on the Bible before that time.ReplyDelete
In an open chat room filled with people from various backgrounds about ten years ago, I asked, "Who decides what's right?" Instantly, the screen jumped to life as almost every person in the chat room said, "I do." Of course, there are a lot of potential problems with each person interpreting "what's right" himself. I pointed that out. Some people became thoughtful at that point. They obviously hadn't thought it over before. But about three became openly hostile and abusive. They no longer were addressing the issue, but attacking me directly (and vehemently). (I hadn't made any references to religion/Bible/moral codes, which can be touchy topics of late, but had just asked a couple of questions.)
In the mind of the man who attacked Pam, he probably thought he was doing what was right or just for himself. Was it actually? No. But if people decide they can cherry pick what is right or not, this is what we end up with. We're seeing more and more of it, and that's going to continue.
- dont fear the lemurSeptember 22, 2012 at 6:28 PM
Anonymous is an obvious troll. Just not a funny one.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 12:42 PM
o_O Damn, I had no idea that people get violent over their work not being accepted for publishing. I mean, I'm a writer in my spare time, and eventually (if I ever get around to finishing a book in my spare time between college and work, lol) would like to seek a publishing agent. I was under the impression that the agent will suggest improvements, you do a revision at least once or twice, and then after sending the finished copy to about 3 different agents at least one will say yes. The 15% you give to the agent only seems fair and expected to me - if you make a ton of $$ off of it, they helped you get started! It's like paying a meal prep tax when you go to McDonald's and pay a small tax for them making your food. It's just expected as part of the job, and you still get your fries. I'm not sure if the "Troll Anonymous" is being serious or just trying to get a reaction out of people...ReplyDelete
This is most reprehensible. Once I got bopped on the noggin while waiting in line at the P.O. because I said something like "This is taking too long..." and the dude behind me (a nerdy looking white male), just stepped up and struck me. I was so stunned on how to react...and he had already escaped by then. I don't understand why he would stand in line at the P.O. and then run away...other than he was a psycho like this attacker and was looking for the slightest excuse to set him off. I guess the fact that I look Latino didn't help any.ReplyDelete
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I found this while Googling to discover whether Pam van Hylckama is actually a gold medal gymnast. I suspect she isn't but wanted to know for sure. That said, every writer knows that rejections are a part of the scene. Violence is completely unacceptable, except when actually writing about it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2016 at 9:14 AM
This lady made up this story. She is a real wacko. She has changed her name is out of the agent,pr business now. She calls herself Pamela Anderson now and works at a bookstore.ReplyDelete


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By Kristopher Blankenship
Week 5 at Fayette County Speedway was again threatened by Mother Nature last Friday night but again overcame.
With rain showers in the area the night before and in the afternoon shutting down tracks in Belleville and Granite City, Fayette County Speedway was spared, providing a great opportunity to showcase the track to other drivers in the region.
Cool weather and gloomy skies last Friday night worried track officials at Fayette County Speedway.
With rain possible, promoter Charlie Depew decided to push ahead and race, and the teams and fans who showed up were rewarded with another great night of racing.
Getting four weeks into the season with no rain outs yet is certainly abnormal and that's great, because racers hate rainouts.
UMP Modifieds
This week, Fayette County Speedway fought Mother Nature and won.
Rain that hit the area on Thursday night tried to wash out racing this week but track promoter Charlie Depew and his crew worked on the facility to make for another great night of racing.
Although, it wasn't easy.
The pits were muddy, and the track was soft. Early races had to deal with some rough areas and a bit of a slimy surface, but as the night wore on, the track slowly took shape.
Week No. 2 at Fayette County Speedway is in the record books, with several great battles on the track all night long last Friday.
The UMP modified division was a dogfight all night, ending in heartbreak for some and a victory for only one driver.
The night started fast, with an outstanding duel in heat No. 1 between front row starters Michael Meyer and Craig Kern. The race quickly became an all-out battle, with Meyer edging Kern for the win.
Opening night at Fayette County Speedway went off without a hitch last Friday night, as the UMP modifieds, B-Mods, street stocks and hornets all hit the track.
The track was smooth and fast all night, and fans were treated to great racing in all classes, which featured 65 cars. A mix of old cars, new cars, new drivers and drivers changing classes should make for an exciting season in the points standings.
In the UMP modified class, Brian Bielong and Robbie Eilers put on a show, with both drivers winning his heat race.
Fayette County Speedway promoter Charlie Depew opened the track for practice over the weekend to prepare for the 2014 racing season.
Several drivers were in attendance to test and tune their race cars in preparation for this Friday's opening night. The pits and grandstand open at 5 p.m., with hot laps beginning at 7 p.m. Racing immediately follows hot laps.
Admission is $30 for a pit pass, $10 for ages 13 and older, $5 for children ages 8-12 and free for children 7-and-under who attend with a paying adult.
The Slideways RC club is seven weeks through its indoor points series at the Fayette County Fairgrounds in Brownstown.
The final races will be held this Saturday night, with all four points champions still to be determined.
Current leaders are Dawson Barker (Kidz Modz), Justin Short (Adult Stock), Rob Gwinn (B-Mods) and Jerod Ramsey (Outlaw Modifieds).
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Kidz Modz
1. Dawson Barker
2. Jason Struble
3. Dalton Davison
4. Levi Barker
5. David Linville
6. Zane Ulmer
7. Caleb Lurkins
8. Noah Sugg
9. Jarrett Pasley
1. Dawson Barker, 530
2. Jarrett Pasley, 514
Saturday, Jan. 25
Kidz Modz
1. Dawson Barker
2. Jarrett Pasley
3. Cade Tester
4. Dalton Davidson
5. Levi Barker
6. Jason Struble
7. Chaz Smail
8. David Linville
T-1. Jarrett Pasley, 385
T-1. Dawson Barker, 385
3. Jason Struble, 300
4. Dalton Davidson, 289
5. David Linville, 243
T-6. Noah Sugg, 231
T-6. Cassidy Anderson, 231
8. Cade Tester, 220
9. Lucas McElroy, 215
T-10. Chaz Smail, 207
T-10. Levi Barker, 207
1. Steve Mayberry
2. Eric Holaday
3. Rob Gwinn
4. Don Hatfill
5. Blaine Pruett
6. Justin Short
7. Bryce Pasley
8. Dawson Barker
Points (through three weeks)
1. Steve Mayberry, 210
2. Rob Gwinn, 203
3. Blaine Pruett, 200
4. Don Hatfill,194
5. Eric Holaday, 173
6. Dawson Barker, 171
7. Bryce Pasley, 169
8. Justin Short, 110
T-9. Stacey Stewart, 70
T-9. Kirk Forbis, 70
11. Mike Clark, 53
12. Jerod Ramsey, 49
Kidz Modz
1. Barker
2. Pasley
3. Stewart
4. Struble
5. McElroy
6. Davidson
7. Lambert
8. Whitten
Outlaw Modifieds
1. Stewart
2. Ramsey
3. Gwinn
4. Lofland
5. Putnam
6. Mouse
7. Clark
8. Holaday
1. Hatfill
2. Mayberry
3. Stewart
4. Pruett
5. Barker
6. Short
7. Gwinn
8. Pasley
Adult Stock
1. Mouse
2. Clark
3. Rauch
4. Putnam
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We may be picking a bit here on Android, but as many Windows Phone users know we are not familiar with getting games first or second. That's why when we see Brotherhood of Violence and now Puzzle Craft go to Windows Phone 8 (and Windows 8) ahead of Android, we get a little excited.
Puzzle Craft is made by popular game makers Chillingo (though ported by SYZYGY Deutschland GmbH for WP8/Windows RT) and has been described as "…if The Simpsons: Tapped Out and Bejeweled had a baby". If you've ever engaged in Farmville-like online games and happen to like the easier aspects of Bejeweled, this game is for you.
It's also completely free with no ads. Yowza.
Loading up the game on our ATIV S with that nice long 720 aspect ratio, we were greeted with the game perfectly using up all of the display. Featuring HD graphics, excellent sound and really well-paced tutorials, the game feels like it should be an Xbox LIVE title. It's very polished.
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We've only been playing it for 20 minutes are thoroughly engrossed in it. If you enjoy paced, casual games whereby you build up towns and infrastructure you really can't go wrong with Puzzle Craft either for your Windows Phone 8 device or Surface (but unlike the amazing and addictive Galactic Reign, the two won't sync with each other…so play pick wisely if you want to avoid duplication).
A new trend?
Dare we say, nearly five months after Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 launched, things for Microsoft may finally be shifting? Either these games are exceptions—studios that Microsoft asked to create titles—or developers are finally taking advantage of the RT framework and overlapping developer tools, including native gaming engine support for easier ports from iOS.
All we know is that in the last few days, we've had numerous games or features land on Windows Phone before Android, and for once, we feel good.
(For fun, tip your Surface to portrait mode with the game and see what happens).
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About milrtime83
Once he gets off the plane, he is still in a "secured" area and could potentially get on another plane without having been searched (if he really wasn't searched before his flight).
At least that's the plausible explanation TSA could have given him instead of the no answers.
"gave the lawyers hundreds of thousands of dollars "
and won $27 million.
I would guess that they anticipated an award at least in the millions in which case this could have simply been a good business decision instead of the "right thing to do".
Looks like they're taking the IBM approach from the 80's? of seeing who can get the most ridiculous patent approved.
At what point do you start to think he might just be doing most of this for the publicity?
There's plenty of open ended questions or questions with "other" as an option that you can fill in an answer. Only the 1 ranking question was loaded.
That list was circulated in 2005 as the list of words/phrases the NFL doesn't allow on custom jerseys. Hence "neon deon" and "he hate me" being on it.
Or did Pakistan just copy the nfl's list as their starting point?
Doesn't Microsoft make more (total) money from Android simply because there is so many more phones? I doubt they really make more money per phone.
"and now Amazon has made a big splash by releasing its Kindle app as an HTML 5 web app rather than through Apple's app store. "
They didn't release this instead of using the app store. It is an alternate app. They already have a Kindle app in the app store.
Sounds like they need a gmail type feature that shows what IP's accessed your account and when so people can tell if they were affected.
It would be a better story if they broke down the guys door at 6am in the evening.
All kinds of 3D Modeling programs (Solidworks, Autodesk Inventor, etc) do this as well. Part of the reason may be forced obsolescence, but there are some valid reasons for it.
A long and costly battle for both of them essentially means higher prices for consumers....how is that a good thing?
If they want to call it a class action lawsuit, I hope the result are about the same. Something along the lines of a $10 "reverse" gift certificate that you promise to buy services from that company and may or may not ever use.
"But labeling a TSA agent a sex offender for doing what the TSA requires seems like a pretty extreme response. "
I don't know if it is necessarily extreme. I bet you would label any number of German's as murderers for just doing what their government told them to in the early 40's.
They were going to fight any rules that were put in place just to shift what the perceived "center ground" is.
It seems like a situation where I say you should get paid $10 and you think you should get $100. The compromise would be somewhere around $55. I can only go as low as $0 because I can't make you pay me for you doing the work, but you can go as high as you want. If you say you should get $1000, the middle is around $500 and if you settle for $200 it looks like a compromise but is still way above the $55 you should have gotten.
Seeing how ISP's are just as corrupt and always looking for an excuse to raise prices, they could just be using HADOPI as one of those reasons whether it is really a significant cost to them or not.
Placebo effect. Same reason a plain sugar pill "cures" headaches, arthritis, or just about anything else in some people who think they are getting an actual drug.
Grandstanding seemed to work for Andrew Cuomo in the latest election.
I thought that was amusing too how it became all about the money once people voted to get rid of the camera's.


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Reader Jared Wieseler recently found and scanned some school records pertaining to his grandmother, Laurentia Keiser, who grew up in Nebraska. What you see above are the inner and outer panels of her sixth grade report card from 1932.
Lots of interesting details here, beginning with the near-perfect handwriting of Laurentia's teacher, Edith Billerbeck. What was it about 20th century schoolteachers that gave them such perfect penmanship? Like, were they hired strictly on that basis or something? And do today's teachers still have great handwriting, or has that gone to hell in the computerized era?
Other items of note:
• It's also interesting that a report was sent to Laurentia's parents every month (when I went to school in the 1970s, it was quarterly).
• Laurentia's father, Stephen Keiser, must have had a strong preference for pencils over pens: He used a pencil every time he signed the report card. (Or maybe he simply couldn't afford pens -- this was during the Great Depression, after all, and inexpensive ballpoint pens wouldn't come into common use until the mid-1940s.)
• Too bad Ms. Billerbeck didn't fill out the graph on the back of the card. That would have made for a great visual.
• Laurentia didn't study arithmetic; she studied mental arithmetic. I love that.
• I don't think I've ever seen orthography listed on a report card before. In academic terms, orthography covers a wide range of subject matter; given the other topics already listed on Laurentia's card, however, I believe it referred simply to spelling. Anyone out there know more?
Here are the front and back of a card from two years later, when Laurentia was in the eighth grade (you can click to see a larger version):
Laurentia still had the same teacher, so it must have been a very small school. Good to see Mr. Keiser was sticking to his pencils, too. But what I really love about this card is the little "If You Wish to Succeed in Life" tutorial. Interesting that the very first attribute they chose to stress was caution.
Laurentia eventually graduated from the eighth grade, at which point she was given diploma, which was produced in its own little folder (again, you can click to enlarge):
I especially like the seal at the top, with the books on the left, the stagecoach on the right, and the wreath of wheatstalks sprouting from an ear of corn. The seal at lower left complete with two different colored ribbons, is a nice touch as well.
Jared -- Laurentia's grandson -- says there's lots more where this came from. "I also have an eighth grade diploma for Laurentia's sister, Teresa, that seems to be actual felt affixed to cardstock, wrapped in gold fabric that's sort of like the lining of a suit jacket," he says. "It has an added matching ribbon tied around the diploma."
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Sarah Lim: New image of Merced springs from a fountain
Merced was also known as "Fountain City" in the late 19th century.
The following is an excerpt of "Greetings from Fountain City: Historic Postcards of Merced," which explains the origin of the name. This pictorial history book was published by the Merced County Historical Society in 2002 to celebrate Merced's existence.
In 1872, the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad was a catalyst for Merced's expansion. Overnight, a rural settlement along Bear Creek became a prosperous railroad town.
Charles Henry Huffman, a property holder and successful wheat farmer in the area, was responsible for the founding of Merced. He was an associate of Charles Crocker, one of the Big Four of the Central Pacific Railroad.
Crocker had made him a railroad agent and town planner. His business partnership with Huffman led to the organization of Crocker-Huffman Land and Water Co., the earliest irrigation system operator in the Merced area.
In addition to his other work, Huffman also built a public fountain next to the El Capitan railroad depot that became synonymous with Merced. This marble fountain and granite base was built in 1888 to honor his third wife, Laura Kirkland Huffman.
As this description from an 1892 history book describes the fountain made quite an impression on visitors:
"Merced is called the Fountain City, and there is evidence of the appropriateness of the title to every passenger on the railroad trains passing through the city, as the waters of the Crocker-Huffman canal, playing from the large fountain in the park maintained by the canal company, close by the El Capitan hotel and railroad station, working under pressure from Lake Yosemite, make a beautiful display which attracts all beholders."
Local businessmen soon took advantage of this new title and named their businesses after the fountain.
There were such businesses as Fountain City Flour Mills and Fountain City Creamery. Remaining at the location near the El Capitan Hotel for more than 40 years, the fountain was moved to Applegate Park in 1935. The fountain is a lasting symbol of Huffman's contributions to Merced.
The postcard book records the birth and growth of Merced by telling the stories of its transportation development, downtown business district, city landmarks, recreation facilities, schools, churches, homes and streets from the late 19th century to the 1960s.
Since postcards were made to advertise and promote the area, the history that they recorded is not complete. Groups such as the poor, ethnic minorities and women are often missing from these images.
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Doesn't an extra day off in the middle of the week feel so luxurious? We were fortunate to have a public holiday this week, so I wanted to make a light dinner to celebrate. It's been scorching hot here in Sydney, so something light and summery was definitely in order!
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I while back I created a system called the Uber-synchronous N-dimensional Information Visualizer and Extrapolator with Reduced Speed Extension. Recently I decided that the Reduced Speed Extension, along with a few other things, might have been a bad idea, but since I can't change those things now that the system is live, I've been thinking of creating The Admittedly Complex and Hard Yet Obviously Necessary System to sidestep some of the issues I've found. This add-on is currently in alpha testing.
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Supertech is a research group in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The Supertech Research Group investigates the technologies that support scalable high-performance computing, including hardware, software, and theory. The goal is to make scalable computing simpler, faster, and more effective. The group is currently engaged in a major effort to develop architectural and system-software support for unbounded transactional memory. The group also is studying adaptive computing, race detection, cache-oblivious algorithms, and distance-education technologies.
In the News...
"Milestone for MIT Press's bestseller", MIT News Office, August 16, 2011
What began as lecture notes for an MIT computer-science class has become the standard text in the field, selling half a million copies in 20 years.
"Retooling Algorithms", MIT News Office, February 25, 2011
Charles Leiserson and his team are experts at designing parallel algorithms - including one for a chess-playing program that outperformed IBM's Deep Blue.
Research Support
Support for Supertech is provided in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grants
- 1017058 (CSR: Small: Using Thread-Local Memory Mapping to Support Memory Abstractions for Dynamic Multithreading), and
- 0937680 (HECURA: Collaborative: Multidimensional and String Indexes for Streaming Data).
Previous NSF grants have included 0324974, 0305606, 0540248, 0541209, 0621511, and 0615215.
We are also grateful to Intel Corporation, which is supporting the Pochoir project in part.
Opportunities for Students
Current Positions:
MIT undergraduates interested in working in the Supertech group on parallel programming and algorithms should submit the following materials:
- Resume
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- Sample of your code (preferably C/C++)
- Sample of your technical writing
- Cover note with any additional information
Please send these materials to Professor Leiserson.
Summer Internships:
We get quite a bit of email from foreign students looking for summer internships in our research group. We have no positions available, and we request that you refrain from sending us email requesting special treatment.
Prospective PhD Students:
We frequently get emails from prospective Ph.D. students asking if there are openings in the Supertech Research Group. We are not equipped to handle the overwhelming number of such requests. Moreover, individual professors at MIT are not involved with the application process. If you are interested in joining the Supertech Research Group, please contact the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department's Graduate Admissions directly by telephone at +1 617.253.2917 or by email at either firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com and request an application. After a student has been admitted into the Ph.D. program in the EECS department at MIT, the student will then be invited to visit MIT to discuss research opportunities with various potential Ph.D. advisors, and we will be happy to discuss research interests at that time.
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For information on Supertech or this website, please email Marcia Davidson.
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This distinction in image pertinence is based on the observation that some library portals contain images that are more pertinent to their textual content than the images and text found in other library portals.
One hundred undergraduate students searched for the answers to two ten-question information retrieval exercises using matched-pairs of HIP and LIP academic library portals. The exercises were constructed of questions similar to those asked at an academic librarys reference desk.
Data collected and statistically analyzed included: the scores from the information retrieval exercises, the time to complete the information retrieval exercises, the mouse-clicks used to complete the information retrieval exercises and the users stated portal preference. The HIP portals outperformed the LIP portals and the subjects preferred the HIP portals to the LIP portals in 3 out of 4 measures of performance and preference.
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New Orleans in line for No. 5 seed
New Orleans is back in the playoffs, but it looks like fans will be watching the games on television as the Saints go on the road.
The Saints, the defending Super Bowl champions, clinched a playoff berth Monday night with a 17-14 victory over the Atlanta Falcons in the Georgia Dome.
The Saints (11-4) are in line to be the No. 5 seed in the NFC, which would mean they would have to win three playoff games on the road to return to the Super Bowl.
"The way I feel about this team is that it doesn't matter if we play at home or on the road," Saints quarterback Drew Brees told reporters in Atlanta after Monday's victory.
"I'll take these guys anywhere and play anybody, anytime," Brees said. "I feel like we we're battle tested. I feel like we're playing with a lot of confidence. We trust one another and there's no task that we don't feel we can accomplish."
The Saints still could end up with the No. 1 seed, but that appears unlikely. The Saints would need to finish the regular season Sunday with a victory at home over Tampa Bay while Atlanta (12-3) would have to lose at home to 2-13 Carolina.
"You just want to punch your ticket to the big show, and we've done that," Brees said on ESPN after Monday's game. "Carolina needs to do us a huge favor and beat Atlanta so we can be the 1 seed."
Few expect that to happen.
If the season had ended with Monday night's game, the Saints would open the playoffs Jan. 8 or 9 at the NFC West champion, likely St. Louis, although the Rams (7-8) have not clinched the NFC West title yet. The Rams face the Seattle Seahawks (6-9) on Sunday in a winner-take-all match for the division.
New Orleans beat the Rams 31-13 on Dec. 12 and beat the Seahawks 34-19 on Nov. 21. Both games were played at the Superdome.
If the season were over now, wild-card team and No. 6 seed Green Bay (9-6) would be at NFC East champion Philadelphia (10-4) in the other first-round NFC playoff game while No. 1 seed Atlanta and No. 2 seed Chicago (11-4) have byes.
Should Philadelphia beat the Packers, the Saints, who would be heavily favored in the first round, would advance to a rematch with the Falcons in Atlanta in the second round while the Bears would be home against the Eagles. A Packers win would send the Saints to Chicago.
There is one scenario that would give New Orleans a home game in the playoffs, even as the No. 5 seed. An NFC title game between the Saints and the Packers would be played at the Superdome.
"You want to be playing you best football going into the playoffs," Brees said Monday night in Atlanta. "Here we are, having won seven of eight. Hopefully, we can continue that roll next week."
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First lady Michelle Obama visits UTSA to tout college
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio's college-going efforts got a palpable push from first lady Michelle Obama, who spoke Friday at College Signing Day at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Clad in a the t-shirt of her Princeton University alma mater, the first lady told a rowdy crowd of about 2,100 seniors from 37 area high schools at UTSA's convocation center to look ahead to finishing the college journey they're embarking upon.
"I also want to talk to you about another big day that is on the horizon for you and that is the day you graduate from college," Obama said. "Reaching a milestone like this means you've just raised the bar for yourself."
"Just getting into college isn't the ultimate goal," she continued. "You have got to stay focused once you get there and you've got to get that degree or that certificate."
The visit by Obama took its place among her national efforts to promoting the Reach Higher Initiative, which includes helping students understand their college and career options and their financial aid legibility. The effort feeds into the president's 2020 goal of landing the United States on top of the list of nations with the highest proportion of college graduates.
The first lady previously visited San Antonio in April 2011, when she met wounded soldiers and their families at Fort Sam Houston along with Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden.
Friday's event came toward the end of the city's fourth annual Destination College week, which culminates Saturday with a summit at San Antonio College for high school students to learn about college and scholarship applications and career pathways.
Friday's signing day is modeled after student athlete signing events, an approach to promoting higher education praised by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
"It shows younger students that they can aspire to more than athletic greatness: they can be great academically, too," Duncan recently blogged. "It shows them that academic excellence is just as worthy of cheers, shouts, and photo ops as athletic prowess."
Mayor Julián Castro told the crowd clad in college T-Shirts that signing day revolves around the seniors because "y'all are role models for your younger brothers and sisters and the younger folks in our community because you have worked hard from pre-k to twelfth grade to get to the moment of your life you're at now."
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With Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his top advisers visiting Washington this week, huge questions about the future of the NATO mission there consume Afghan and American minds. How fast can we draw down our current total of 68,000 U.S. troops (and another 30,000 or so from other outside countries) before the mission formally concludes at the end of next year? And how many forces do we have to keep in Afghanistan afterward? These questions come on top of other decisions we have been making lately, about the long-term size of the Afghan army and police and about foreign aid levels the international community will provide to Afghanistan for many years.
We should slow this process down. It is important that Afghans — and other interested parties in places like Pakistan — see evidence of a long-term partnership between the outside world and our Afghan friends. That much is true. So some clarity about long-term plans is useful. But we cannot and should not try to answer all questions now.
Making specific, long-term plans is unrealistic for two main reasons. First, we cannot foresee battlefield conditions in Afghanistan in 2015 and beyond. Second, we cannot foresee who will win the Afghan presidential elections next year and what kind of partner the new president will become for the international community.
This rush to decide everything prematurely has already had some unfortunate consequences. In our efforts to be sure that future Afghan security forces get enough outside aid after 2014 to function effectively, we have already begun to assume that they must downsize by one-third — after we just spent half a decade building them up. Moreover, NATO will have pulled out most of its own remaining forces by that point, making it even harder for Afghans to also scale back drastically. It is in fact doubtful that such downsizing of the Afghan army and police should occur so soon.
Another example is what happened in Tokyo in July. International donors promised large-scale aid to Afghanistan for four years. At one level, this has some very beneficial effects, allowing long-term planning. But it also creates the bizarre situation in which, even if Afghans elect a poor leader in 2014, we have promised in advance that Washington will give Afghanistan more foreign aid than any other country receives from the United States for several more years.
In fact, for all his flaws and the corruption of many of those around him, Hamid Karzai has his strengths and is far from the worst Afghan leader we can imagine. He is not believed to be personally corrupt. He does not run his own death squads. He is the legitimate, popular and democratically elected leader of his country (despite the fraud that occurred in the 2009 presidential elections, which did not change the outcome). He respects the constitution and intends to step down from office in 2014. And Mr. Karzai, a Pashtun, has tried to unite the country ethnically. His top peace negotiators with the Taliban have been Tajik. In various periods his foreign and interior ministers have had Tajik roots, his two current vice presidents are Tajik and Hazara, and his minister of mines is Uzbek.
If the next leader of Afghanistan has less popularity, integrity or respect for the constitution than Mr. Karzai, we could be in trouble. No aid package promised now could be expected to be honored in full if a warlord or blatantly corrupt leader became president of the country next year. Again, long-term plans are OK as long as they are kept flexible and notional.
President Barack Obama, war commander Gen. John Allen and other administration officials are currently trying to decide how many American forces should stay in Afghanistan starting in 2015. Independent analysts like retired Lt. Gen. Jim Dubik have argued for 30,000 GIs. Former war commander Lt. Gen. Dave Barno has argued for fewer than half that number; press reports suggest that some administration officials favor a number in the range of perhaps 5,000 to 8,000.
Of course, these disputes do not come out of thin air. Much of the disagreement is over strategy. Should our remaining forces just carry out commando raids and provide limited training for Afghans after 2014? Or should they also help with air power, logistics, intelligence, mentoring in the field, and even some limited ground combat capability in one or two parts of the country?
This debate rapidly becomes very ideological and very political. Those most tired of the war lean toward minimalist options. Those most worried about future possible threats to U.S. security emanating from Afghanistan tend to lean toward the larger forces. And the desire to design the "permanent" U.S. force now, so that we can establish it within two short years, adds a lot of pressure and tension to the debate.
Let's take the pressure off. We should aspire to a small U.S. presence in Afghanistan of no more than 10,000 troops — but be in no hurry to move to that number immediately. Afghanistan's military is still developing, and it will not be completely built by the end of next year. For the period of 2015 to 2017 or so, it will need help with a broader range of tasks. I would suggest a U.S. force of around 20,000 to 25,000 troopers for 2015, phasing down toward about 10,000 by 2018 — subject to conditions on the ground.
There is a surreality about long-term scheduling of big decisions and milestones in war, which after all is a competitive process in which the enemy's actions and the behavior of one's own allies have great impact on the future course of events. We do not have a crystal ball for Afghanistan; let's stop pretending we do. And let's let the Karzai visit focus more narrowly on discussion of the next key steps for this year and next, rather than trying to solve everything all at once.
Michael O'Hanlon, a Maryland resident and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is coauthor with Martin Indyk and Kenneth Lieberthal of "Bending History: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy," and coauthor with Hassina Sherjan of Toughing It Out in Afghanistan. He can be contacted at email@example.com.


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i have a confession. i've been cheating on my vintage sheet inspired quilt with a new one. i know, i feel guilty. i try to work on only one quilt at a time but this time i've cheated. i blame it completely on lotta jansdotter. yep, it's all her fault. why did she have to come out with such a lovely line that i just could not absolutely resist making a new quilt for myself out of? it lured me over to the dark side. i quickly bundled up my other quilt and put it aside to jump head first into the frenzy of lotta sewing. the line - bella. the result? can't show you yet...hehe. but i loooooove it. i think it's my fave quilt to date. why? because it was completely spur of the moment and i just winged it.
sometimes my most favorite projects are the ones that are totally unexpected and not on my schedule or list at all whatsoever. it feels wild and freeing to do this once in a while. i'll just drop everything and immerse myself completely in something new and unplanned. i just lose myself in it and boy is it fun. even though i feel guilty for dropping my other quilt faster than a hot potato i feel that it's worth it to have this new baby to snuggle up under.
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i simply love the feeling of getting lost in a quilt and watching the time fly by while i'm having a heckuva lot of fun. there is something so soothing and relaxing about quilting that i just can't put my finger on it but man is it good for the soul and oh so rewarding when you are done. i even have to admit that this is the first time i'm actually looking forward to the binding process. i usually detest it but have started to grow a fondness for hand sewing my binding. i sew the first side by machine and hand sew the binding down. this works great for me and i love snuggling up under the quilt with my trusty thimble. it's starting to become fun for me and i'm so looking forward to this evening. that is exactly what i'm going to be doing tonight. i can't wait to show you all the finished product and share the tutorial.
what quilt are you working on right now? do you love or detest the binding process? which part of quilting is your favorite? do you find yourself getting lost in creative bliss while quilting too? let's chat m'dears! it's monday and it's finally not raining here! yay!!!


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Twitter lights up with sightings of the Twilight star at her friend's Arizona nuptials
Something about those Twilight stars: They love a good wedding – even if the odds of it being their own keep dwindling.
A week after Robert Pattinson crashed a wedding rehearsal with Katy Perry, his off-again girlfriend Kristen Stewart attended nuptials for an actor friend.
Stewart, 23, was on hand Saturday for the wedding of Bates Motel star Max Thieriot to longtime girlfriend Lexi Murphy.
Stewart, who costarred with Thieriot in 2004's Catch That Kid, showed up solo, mingled with guests and posed for photos, many of which inevitably ended up on Twitter and Instagram.
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US Audio Feature: Assessing Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State...and as a Presidential Candidate --- Scott Lucas with the BBC
I spoke with BBC Radio 5 Live's Morning Reports about US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as she steps down today as Secretary of State --- and, probably, as she soon prepares a run for the Presidency in 2016.
"Clinton was most effective where she was a known quantity and where America was a known quanity. She was able to maintain a stable relationship with China, She was able to maintain a stable relationship with Europe.
Where Clinton has come up short, and indeed the entire Obama Administration --- I don't think they get it on the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. They keep trying to position America at the centre of what's happening, and America doesn't necessarilyn hold that power to change everything. Clinton can't wave a wand and make this a US-led world."
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In case you didn't already know it, August 10th is both National S'more Day andNational Banana Split Day.
And in celebration of this momentous day, here's a dessert mash-up which allows you to go above and beyond your civic pastry eating duty: the Banana Split S'more Whoopie Pie. It combines all of the key flavor points of both the banana split and s'mores, but the delivery is a bit of a curveball: cakey banana-marshmallow cookies are lined with chocolate before sandwiching ice cream flecked with graham cracker bits.
Just more proof that if some is good, s'more is better.
Note: Don't like the idea of cold cookies? For an easy variation, sandwich toasted marshmallows or marshmallow fluff between the sandwiches instead of ice cream for a treat that doesn't have to be chilled.
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Alfred B. Hilton (1842 – October 21, 1864) was an African American Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions at the Battle of Chaffin's Farm.
By September 29, 1864, Hilton was serving as a Sergeant in Company H of the 4th Regiment United States Colored Infantry. On that day, his unit participated in the Battle of Chaffin's Farm on the outskirts of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. During the battle, Hilton carried the American flag as part of the unit's color guard. As the 4th Regiment charged the enemy fortifications, Hilton grabbed a second flag, the regimental colors, from a wounded soldier. When he was himself seriously wounded by a shot through the leg, he called out "Boys, save the colors!" Two of his fellow soldiers stepped forward; Sergeant Major Christian Fleetwood took the American flag and Private Charles Veale grabbed the blue regimental flag, each before the colors could touch the ground.
Hilton died of his wounds nearly a month later, on October 21. Six months after the battle, on April 6, 1865, he was posthumously issued the Medal of Honor for his actions at Chaffin's Farm. The men who had taken the flags after he was wounded, Fleetwood and Veale, also received the medal.
Hilton is buried in Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, Virginia.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company H, 4th U.S. Colored Troops. Place and date. At Chapins Farm, Va., September 29, 1864. Entered service at:------. Birth: Harford County, Md. Date of issue: April 6, 1865.
When the regimental color bearer fell, this soldier seized the color and carried it forward, together with the national standard, until disabled at the enemy's inner line.


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For Vitor Faria, my third Intergalactic Megafauna HVA. Fill 'em up!
(He's got a lot going on)
My original idea was to have him wearing the station like a sombrero, but it really hurt the character of the figure (and he's an octopus, not a nautilus!) and I didn't have the right round parts anyway. Instead I figured on him clutching the station and hauling it along like a toy, and providing some of the services himself. Hope you enjoy!