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GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — J.R. Smith may have altered a series with one poor decision. He certainly forced his midweek plans to change.
When he dropped Boston's Jason Terry with an elbow to the chin late in Game 3 on Friday night, Smith earned a suspension that left the New York Knicks without their No. 2 scorer during the regular season for Game 4 on Sunday.
The Knicks didn't have enough offense without him, losing 97-90 in overtime as Terry, not the Sixth Man of the Year, hit the big shots off the bench.
Had Smith been available, perhaps this series would already be over.
"It would've been," Smith said Tuesday. "I would've been playing golf today."
Instead, he was practicing for Game 5.
The Knicks will host it Wednesday, their second attempt to close out their first series victory since 2000.
"We want to end it," leading scorer Carmelo Anthony said. "We came this far, did our job at home first two games, did our job on the road, got one on the road. We've got the opportunity to end it here on our home court."
The Knicks won the first three games, holding the Celtics to an average of 75 points, before Boston broke out — sort of — on Sunday. The Celtics scored 54 points in the first half and led by 20 early in the third quarter before their offensive struggles returned, and they were limited to just 30 points in the third and fourth quarters.
Clean up those bad stretches, and the Celtics think they can keep climbing out of the mess they created for themselves.
"There's that one quarter where we have mental lapses," forward Paul Pierce said. "They pick up the energy. They pick up the defense, and they have us on our heels, so we have to be cautious of that."
The Knick had their own problems Sunday, shooting 34 percent from the field and making just 7 of 30 3-pointers (23 percent). Anthony, perhaps feeling pressure to force things with Smith unavailable, scored 36 points but was 10 of 35, missed all seven 3-point attempts and committed seven turnovers.
Smith averaged a career-best 18.1 points during the regular season, and his recognition as the NBA's top reserve was as much a credit to his improved maturity and decision-making as it was to his scoring streaks.
But those qualities went missing Friday when Smith threw his elbow into Terry with the Knicks 7:06 away from wrapping up an easy victory. Coach Mike Woodson appeared to be lecturing Smith before he left the court, and they had another talk Sunday.
"We had a major discussion before he left Boston to come to New York," Woodson said. "J.R.'s in a good place. We're fine with J.R."
But the Knicks' offense wasn't. Though Raymond Felton continued his excellent series with 27 points Sunday, the Knicks' bench that had dominated Boston's managed only seven points. Terry scored 18 by himself.
"We missed 18 points the other night and still put ourselves in position to win the ballgame," Woodson said. "J.R. is a big piece to the puzzle and I hope he's learned his lesson, and we've got to move on with it and he's got to be ready to go tomorrow night."
No team has blown a 3-0 lead in the NBA playoffs, so the Knicks remain confident, especially after rallying to take a fourth-quarter lead Sunday. The Celtics would send the series back to Boston for a Game 6 on Friday with a victory, and they know the only way they can get it is by coming out with the same energy they had Sunday.
"Without a doubt. We have to bring it. It's the only way we have a chance to win the game. We just have to play all out," forward Jeff Green said.
"We can't go in with the same outlook (as Game 4), because I'm pretty sure they're going to have different schemes on how they're going to attack the pressure situations and how we came at Melo."
A strong game from Smith would be the easiest way for the Knicks to address that, but they insist he doesn't owe them one after being forced to watch Game 4 from the hotel.
"We all owe each other a good game tomorrow," Woodson said. "It's not on just J.R.'s head. Everybody's got to play well to come out of here with a win."
AP Sports Writer Howard Ulman in Waltham, Mass., contributed to this report.
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Team to probe event at US nuclear site
CARLSBAD, New Mexico (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy says it has appointed a team to investigate the detection of radiation in and near a southeastern New Mexico facility that's the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository.
The department says the assessment of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant will be conducted by an accident investigation board consisting of department officials and representatives of health and safety agencies.
An underground monitor at the plant detected airborne radiation late Friday night, and an independent monitor center said Wednesday it found radioactive isotopes in an air sensor a half-mile (800 meters) away.
Russell Hardy of the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center says the detected levels are highest ever detected at or around the site but also far below those deemed unsafe by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Hot on the heels of the launch of the sleek new, 159-guest S.S. Catherine river cruise ship, Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection (Uniworld.com) has already announced plans for next year - and they involve another new ship.
When she sets sail next spring, the S.S. Maria Theresa will become the third vessel in Uniworld's "Super Ship" class of river cruise ships that began in 2011 with the S.S. Antoinette. That ship ended up being one of Uniworld's most successful vessels ever, and when the S.S. Catherine entered service this past March, she wasn't merely a clone of her predecessor, but an evolution instead. She sported a sleek new profile and an elaborate, luxurious style all her own.
Named after the Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, the forthcoming S.S. Maria Theresa will sail the very region that the real Maria Theresa ruled from 1740 until 1780. In addition to sailing Uniworld's European Jewels itinerary from Amsterdam to Budapest, the S.S. Maria Theresa will also sail springtime Tulips & Windmills voyages, in addition to special holiday sailings that include the European Christmas Markets along the Danube and Uniworld's own Christmas and New Year's voyages.
"We are delighted to name our new 2015 Super Ship after such a great historical figure as Maria Theresa who had a wonderful and long legacy," said Guy Young, President of Uniworld. "In addition, Maria Theresa was the mother of Marie Antoinette, so in the spirit of our award-winning ship, S.S. Antoinette, we are confident the S.S. Maria Theresa will be equally as magnificent."
S.S. Maria Theresa will be capable of carrying up to 155 guests in lavish staterooms that range from 162 to 410 square feet. Like every ship in the Uniworld fleet, expect her interior décor to be bold and entirely original.. "The S.S. Catherine has been sailing for a month, and we have received amazing feedback on the ship and its wonderful amenities from the first guests sailing on board," Young said. "We spend significantly more than any other river cruise line to ensure that each ship is one-ofa-kind and represents a luxury product. Our philosophy for the expansion of our fleet is built on the premise of healthy and sustainable growth with a focus on the comfort of our guests."
The S.S. Maria Theresa will embark on her maiden voyage on March 28, 2015 as she sails Uniworld's Tulips & Windmills itinerary from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Antwerp, Belgium. The S.S Catherine sails this year in France, operating Uniworld's Burgundy & Provence and Grand France itineraries.
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The BlackBerry Z10 has been available in the United States for just over a week now, and we kicked off the U.S. availability with a bang in New York City. Melanie and I travelled there for a special launch event called the BlackBerry Experience. While there were some amazing performances and special guests, the true star of the show was the new BlackBerry Z10. Don't take my word for it, watch the video below to see what fans were saying about the new BlackBerry smartphone features we showed off in NYC.
The performances by Janelle Monae, Young the Giant and DJ Z-Trip with friends Questlove & Ludacris were amazing. And as you can see people were blown away by Time Shift Camera, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) with BBM Video Chat, and of course the gorgeous hardware design. Does this video have your mouth watering for some hands-on time of your own? You can pick up the new BlackBerry Z10 from one of these fine carriers below. Not in the U.S. swing by our BlackBerry 10 Global Availability Tracker for details in your region.
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These fine folks have been using their BlackBerry Z10 for a while now — and are sharing the love on Twitter.
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You may have heard that the new @blackberry Z10 keyboard is the best virtual keyboard ever. And it is.
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Love, love, love my new @blackberry 10!! You nailed it BB!
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@blackberry the Z10 is an awesome phone. As a keyboard fan, I am surprised at what a comfortable transition its been
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Since buying my @blackberry #Z10 I never use my laptop. #KeepMoving
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Friday, 10 September 2010
Life Bumps
I waited patiently for my turn, as always, and got the sense of relief I always get when sat in front of him about to discuss various problems. I instantly feel better, usually, when I go see a doctor, having confidence that they will check everything out and not let me suffer. However, I have been frustrated on several visits and haven't always got the outcome I wanted. I have felt like the doctor has had a lack of interest in my concerns or can't be bothered to do necessary tests to sort things out. Most issues I am having are put down to having arthritis. I wonder where this will stop though, I understand that a swollen ankle may be due to my arthritis but if I walked in growing a third arm would he simply say 'Its probably due to the arthritis'. Erm, I think not.
It made me recall a slightly amusing episode a good friend of mine had whilst visiting his GP after noticing some small lumps appearing randomly on his arms. Now anyone in their right mind would go and get any significant changes in their body checked out right? Just to put their mind at ease. He explained to the female GP of Indian ethnicity that the lumps were concerning him and after examining them, through the power of sight, she diagnosed them as, and I quote, 'Life Bumps'. Yes you heard me correctly. A professional with years of medical training was now dishing out diagnoses of life bumps. When my friend questioned what, indeed, 'life bumps' were she replied (in an upbeat tone) 'You know, just BUMPS OF LIFE'. Right.
So you can understand my concern when my doctor seemed to brush off the lumps that appeared on my leg. In his defence, he did request a blood test, however nothing in the results could explain the bumps resembling the peak district on my left shin. So, leaving the surgery frustrated once again, I went on to fight for an appointment with my Rheumatologist to request further explanation for my own 'bumps of life'. My appointment is next week so I hope for some answers. For more appropriate medical terminology and diagnosis of my life bumps, watch this space.
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It is funny how much more we have to just "accept" because we have RA. We are still a person first, RA patient second. I believe, they know how much we have to deal with and just say, "it's arthritis". Frustrating as it is, they may see the outcome because they see it all the time - we don't, and are annoyed, scared, many things. Thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
Weird! My mate had weird slightly sore bumps on her leg for a couple of months and the doc wasnt helpful at all. They went away after a while, she still has no idea what they were. Hope yours are nothing serious!ReplyDelete
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(BuzzFeed/CNN) -- There's probably no wrong way to ask the person you love to spend the rest of their life with you.
There are, however, some methods that are way more awesome than others. When it comes popping the question, a special few went above and beyond to prove their love not only to their significant others, but to the world.
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The QM file system is very different and, whilst these tools can be used to a limited extent for data transfer, they are not really suited to use for system backup. In particular, note that they cannot save ECS mode files or information relating to hashed file configuration, triggers, alternate key indices, encryption or replication. There are also limitations that affect saving of binary data.
Because QM uses the underlying operating system file structures to represent the QM data files, backup is best performed using operating system level tools exactly as would be done for other system data.
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It is not always possible to get users off the system while a backup is performed. Conversely, it is impossible to create a reliable backup of a system that is changing as the backup progresses.
A backup performed by copying data while other users are actively changing it will almost certainly reveal data integrity problems if files are restored. There may also be structural problems caused by, for example, allocation of an overflow block whilst the file is being copied.
Snapshot backup technology resolves this problem by effectively taking a snapshot image of the database at a moment in time, ensuring that the backup process tracks changes made whilst it is running. Use of
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Unless the point at which the suspend occurred maps onto a business transaction boundary in every QM process, there may still be data integrity issues though there will not be structural issues. The only solution to this is for the application to include coding corresponding in principle to the suspend/resume mechanism but aligned on a business transaction boundary.
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Supreme Court Won't Hear Case Saying That You Have No First Sale Rights With Software
from the too-bad dept
In the Vernor case, the court gave a recipe for effectively destroying first sale. All anyone has to do is claim that they're licensing you something, even if it has every indication of being a full purchase. This seemed to contradict with the entire First Sale doctrine (and numerous other cases), but apparently the Supreme Court doesn't want to be bothered with this. It refused to hear Vernor's appeal, meaning the existing ruling sticks. This is one case where I could definitely see another appeals court coming to a different conclusion, meaning that, hopefully, the Supreme Court will revisit this issue at some point in the future. In the meantime, the first sale doctrine is severely limited to the point of near non-existence in software.


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Whoever can do it, please fix the broken email notification. It has not worked for about two weeks.
I second skipshot's motion.
Are there specific reasons for killing this forum in favor of its offspring?
It's not that change is difficult, that's the nature of all things… however, aren't two forums better than one? Kinda like Certs…. it's two mints in one. Very refreshing.
Does one close down one bar and grill just because it opened a new one?
Can we put it up to a vote… or is it a matter of cash flow? We don't want Sam to go broke just so we can banter on two sites instead of just one.
If this forum was going to be closed down, why havent they done it already? And I only found out about the other forum when you mentioned it in another post of this type. Not only are there not email notifications of replies, but none were issued to let anyone know about the new forum. At least I didn't see anything, but I admit I don't check the front page of this site that often.
I received an e-mail notification (at my yahoo address) for The Reason Project even prior to its official start-up and posted in one of the earliest forum threads. I also received three separate e-mails for TRP in the last three weeks or so… so I don't know what the 'splanation is.
I just wish they'd re-enable the notifications for this forum until they decide.
rab, you're an Admin. over there, can't you find out if they'll even put it up to a vote as to whether to keep both forums or not? I think my Certs argument is a pretty good one… (the new site can have Josh but we get Bad Rabbit!)
But as I said, if it's a matter of cash flow… I guess this forum is eventually doomed I tell ya, DOOOOmed!
I'm not sure what being an administrator entails over there. I didn't ask for the job but I assume that means I'm a moderator. I became a moderator here only to delete spam before the new software took care of the issue.
I like the fact that we can be more free to speak our minds here. The new forum may be more censored. I would like both to continue. But I have no idea who to ask. I don't think Sam will respond to an inquiry about it and I wouldn't want to bother him. It would be nice to know who Sam paid or hired to get this one up and running.
I like the fact that we can be more free to speak our minds here. The new forum may be more censored. I would like both to continue. But I have no idea who to ask. I don't think Sam will respond to an inquiry about it and I wouldn't want to bother him. It would be nice to know who Sam paid or hired to get this one up and running.
Have you tried contacting the administrator at TRP and pose the question to him about this forum?
I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe which is kinda cool but I do miss the email notifications.
I haven't inquired about this board being closed down. I doubt anyone knows for sure.
The new forum may be more censored.
(Andrew): Doesn't appear to be.
It has not worked for about two weeks.
Only two weeks from May 17? I gave up posting on this forum around November last year because I wasn't getting notified, and couldn't remember what I'd said or where. Came back a week ago to see if the site was still up.
If everyone has to transfer to TRP because this site is being mothballed, we will have to go over all the same ground again. Mind you there is a tendency for that to happen here. (I think I may have said that before. Ha ha.)
But I think it would be a good thing, I'm all for it. Can we invite The Champion?
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Jackets make final round of roster movesby Rob Mixer / Columbus Blue Jackets
After a great day yesterday at Double Eagle for the Blue Jackets Foundation Golf Classic, the Blue Jackets got right back to work this morning at Nationwide Arena.
They skated for roughly 45 minutes, working on a few systematic aspects of their game before wrapping up with a half-ice three-on-three game (which is always really entertaining to watch, but can't be fun if you're a goalie).
A good sign for the Blue Jackets was Curtis McElhinney's return to practice about missing roughly a week's time with a lower body injury. He participated in the full skate, looked pretty sharp and with a day off Sunday, should be back on the ice for Monday's practice.
The big news today were the cuts: Todd Richards confirmed after practice that the team has made its last wave of pre-opening night roster moves.
These players were assigned to Springfield (AHL): Jack Skille, Cody Goloubef, Michael Chaput, Ryan Craig, Jeremy Smith, Mike McKenna, Will Weber and Ilari Melart. Five of those players (Skille, Goloubef, Smith, Craig, McKenna) must clear waivers in order to be assigned. They were placed on waivers as of noon ET on Saturday, and the Blue Jackets will know on Monday whether they have cleared.
What does that mean, then?
It means the Blue Jackets expect to have a mostly-healthy roster on opening night. Jared Boll is getting closer but isn't quite ready to be cleared, Richards said, and Derek MacKenzie is on track to be ready on opening night.
Cam Atkinson, Matt Calvert, Nikita Nikitin (illness), Marian Gaborik (family reasons) and Artem Anisimov did not practice on Saturday, but aside from Gaborik and Nikitin all absences are considered maintenance for minor injuries.
Other notes:
- Richards said he plans on opening the season with Jenner on the left wing of Dubinsky and Gaborik. "I'd be foolish not to," he said, "and that's just based on their play."
- Ryan Murray made the team (as did Jenner), but Richards made it clear that they've made the team out of camp. Nothing is guaranteed going forward and they will dictate, with their performance, how long they stay in Columbus. Both players are eligible to be assigned to Springfield.
- With both goalies on waivers, the team fully expects McElhinney to be ready for opening night. But if he's not, the Blue Jackets know they have two solid options and players who had impressive showings in training camp.
- Tim Erixon and David Savard made the cut as the final two defensemen on the roster. At the moment, the defense pairs look to be: Tyutin-Johnson, Murray-Wisniewski, Nikitin-Prout. Richards said Savard earned himself a spot on the roster based on his solid play in training camp.
- We'll have an eye on the waiver wire as the deadline approaches. Skille was noticeable in training camp and played well in the preseason games, but it comes down to a numbers game in these situations. Right now, there just wasn't a spot for him. If he clears and heads to Springfield, the Blue Jackets have another option available at the ready if they need a forward.
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" Evidence of "twerking" has landed a University of the Pacific fraternity in hot water. On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, rap group The Pack had a photo shoot at Sigma Chi fraternity, and part of it made it to YouTube. Called "Twerk Like A Pro," the video shows two models the rappers brought dancing in panties, but they reportedly also asked Pacific coeds to pose and simulate sex." - California News
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This 5-year-old male porcupine was a pet in a home, and now lives at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center.
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Take a quick break from your routine with these fun, often funny, and almost always short-and-sweet items found by me on the internet. You'll see plenty of cat posts and videos. Richard Sneed, owner of Norwalk Records in Norwalk, California, commented about one cat video, "I got charlie horses in my ribs laughing at this. Thank You Carole." BTW, have you visited my new BERKELEY AND BEYOND website at www.berkeleyandbeyond.com?
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This Is Not My Story to Tell
Looking back at photos is a dangerous game. Nostalgia can be a caustic drug, particularly when loss is involved. Here in the New York winter, those August days in the South feel impossible, unreal, until a picture brings it all back, all of it, the good and the bad, and there were plenty of both.
This is the story of my introduction to the American South. I am a 29-year-old white gay man from the West, born and raised in a small town where most folks were loggers or farmers or worked at Boeing. My West is the poor white West, the rural West, the outsourced, economically depressed West that doesn't seem to exist in the minds of many.
This is the story of my introduction to the American South, but this is not a love story.
Joan Didion, claimed that in New York she was "most comfortable with the company of Southerners. They seemed to be in New York as I was." In my early years in New York I too found myself surrounded by Southerners. Maybe it was a common magnetism that drew us all to here. New York symbolized the great queer adventure, the great queer future, to those of us growing up in the great queer elsewhere. We arrived, refugees, and we found companionship and common experience.
D— was part of this circle that dominated my early years in New York.
This story would not exist with him.
I love him, but this is not a love story.
I met D— at a party years ago. He was short, cute. That night he was wearing frames with no lenses in them and was proud of himself for it. After poking my finger though the empty space that should have held the lenses, I gave D— nonstop shade about it. He gave me shade all night back. There are a lot of things that I find attractive in partners, but intelligence and wit are probably numbers one and three. I was hooked. But I was dating someone, and so was he.
Two years later I was single and he RSVPed to an event on my campus. We got a drink after. We talked, that night, about the (im)possibility of anti-white "racism." We kissed, that night, on the cheek. A week later, drunk after a happy hour, my lower lip found the space between his upper and lower lip in the tentative beauty of a first kiss with some one you could genuinely care about. His lips parted, just slightly.
A couple of months later, D— was my boyfriend. I loved this man in the real and terrifying way you love the first person you can picture as the father of your children, the first person you can see by your side in the hospital decades later.
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I have always thought that to truly understand someone you had to know where they were from. D— grew up in South Carolina. Because this part of the story is truly not mine to tell, I will simply say that D— had a hard beginning to his life but was smart and survived extraordinary circumstances. He was bright but also hard to get close to. Over our first months together, I watched D— open up, and I saw the attributes I knew and loved become clearer. We both grew better. That is exactly what I thought love would do to me. D— and I were shocked, at times, by what we had in common: a twinky white scientist/educator from the West and a fierce black activist from the South.
But this is not a love story.
A friend of mine dealt with his recent breakup by posting to Facebook three times a day about his workout routine. He had never been much of a gym guy before, and this performance seemed, to those of us watching, sad and unconvincing. Breakups can feel like vertigo, they can make one feel adrift, unmoored, as the minutiae of daily routine can no longer follow the same beat. We all have our ways of working through that particular brand of devastation.
D— and I were going to move in together. But, when I needed him most, D— told me he simply wasn't ready. The future I imagined, that I wanted, that I had built in my mind, unraveled in hours. Maybe unraveled is the wrong word. This future was demolished. I want to imply destruction. And I still see D— sitting in the seat of the wrecking car, pulling back the massive metal ball, releasing it, and letting gravity pull it toward our collective life together.
But this isn't a breakup story, either—it's a story about a place, and how I came to know it. D— traveled a lot for work. He probably still does. When a trip in late summer took him to Atlanta for five days, we started to scheme. I had never been south of Washington, D.C., and I wanted to go. We could rent a car, drive down, camping along the way, seeing the south, and end in Atlanta. On the way we would spend a few days at his sister's place in South Carolina, and he would show me his roots. It was pure coincidence that his time in Atlanta overlapped with ATL black gay pride, after which we would work our way up the coast, camping and making things up as we went.
We left in late August, driving south, inland from the coast. Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and into Virginia. Rural Virginia, where we camped our first night, was another world. The mountains looming further to the west kept the late summer heat low, especially at night, and the foothills rolled a deep, saturated green. I had a knot in my stomach pulling into the first campsite. D— had never camped before, and while I grew up with it, I had never camped as one half of an interracial gay couple in rural Virginia. D—, the good Morehouse man that he was, presented as fairly straight, but I don't. You can smell my gay a mile off, and it is not an accident. I love being perceived as queer, even if it makes people feel uncomfortable.
That night, after the tent was pitched and we were sitting around a small campfire, neither of us was at ease. I wouldn't admit it, speak it into existence, and I know that D— wouldn't either, but I think we were both waiting for some angry rednecks to come floating out of those woods. We went to bed late, with my arm wrapped around his frame. In the end, I think each of us thought the other one strong enough to handle whatever might come. In the end, nothing did.
The next morning, we hit the road. Driving was the best way to see the country. We moved through it slowly and it slipped inside us almost without being perceived. I saw thousands of forgotten miles flash by in dark shades of late-summer green at 75 miles an hour. When twilight hit, we rolled down the windows and let the humid air fill the car with the smell of trees and cut grass. Country smells, Southern smells.
The next day we stopped for a late lunch. Virginia has a lot of country, and we were deep in it. We chose a barbecue restaurant, one of the places where you order at the counter and get your food on a tray. As we walked in I was performing the straightest version of myself. It didn't matter. It's not that there were only white people in this establishment, but the tables with white people had only white people, and the tables with black people only had black people. Already as people who were clearly not from there, we probably would have attracted a certain amount of curiosity. But, as a black man and a white man, just two of us together, we were an anomaly. Perhaps we weren't great at hiding our intimacy.
D— and I were both good at powering through. We were both from places not too different from this. And we weren't the types to walk away, walk out. We got our food. We sat and ate. A white woman at a booth behind us had her neck turned 90 degrees to stare at us. She was the type of old white lady who is both so old and so white as to appear almost translucent. She sat there, head turned, for the entire time we were in the restaurant. She appeared not to eat. At a table to her right, there was a relatively young mother and her two children, a girl and a boy. The boy was rambunctious and kept getting up from the table and walking around the restaurant.
He walked past our table, time and time again, and stared at us from a foot or two away. On his third lap, I realized that on the back of his T-shirt was a drawing of a confederate flag with a growling dog in the foreground, decorated with words "Cross the Line, Your Ass is Mine." He wanted, this young man, us to see the shirt. He kept making laps around the restaurant, looking at us to make sure we understood the message. As they were leaving, his sister stood by our table for a few seconds, sticking out her tongue, bright blue from a sugary drink. She stared. We sat in silence. We sat, and we ate. We did not hurry, but we were happy to get back in the car, and get moving.
We landed in D—'s home town of Columbia, South Carolina, where we camped on the floor of his sister's spare room. She was hilarious and warm, and I loved her before I knew her for the role she had played and continued to play in D—'s life.
Columbia is the state capital, where the Confederate flag still flies, where college football rivalries are the central topic of conversation, even in August, and where Chik-fil-a makes the best damn chicken sandwich you could put in your mouth. That night, relieved to not be worried about safety, we drank Miller High Life and played cards. D—'s sister went to bed and D— and I just relaxed and talked smack and reveled in each other's company.
D— had lived in Columbia for a while after college working on local political campaigns, and I asked him to show me a Columbia gay bar. Gay bars can tell you a lot about a place. Here the windows were papered over and we had to double check the name and address. It was maybe a Tuesday night and there was a smattering of folks, a mix of gay men and women, mostly sitting at the bar, mostly alone. Nursing drinks, talking to the bartender, talking to each other.
D— and I sat and lingered over two drinks and never managed to strike up anything more than a superficial conversation. People seemed wary of anyone they didn't know, and the papered-over windows made me think they were perhaps wise for being so guarded. After our drinks, we drove home in silence. Twenty minutes later, I lay awake in my sleeping bag on the floor staring at the ceiling, my arm again finding its way around D—'s torso, but sleep wouldn't descend. I was thankful, I think, that he had survived Columbia, and I could see how this place had made him strong, and fierce, and silent, and wary.
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There is not, obviously, one south. After three hours on I-20, we landed in ATL at Bulldog's for the opening night party for black gay pride. Line around the corner. Hundreds of boys and girls. Drinking in the parking lot. Kiki-ing. Folks knew each other, but tourists flocked in from all reaches of the American south and beyond.
Outside Bulldogs, the air was alive, and you could literally hear the excitement people felt for the night, the weekend to come. Gurls being loud and acting up. In this space, I couldn't help but smile, add a little extra sashay to my own step. Especially since it was a step that had been very actively avoiding a sashay in order to feel comfortable camping in rural Virginia. D— and I were ready to drink and wile. Our drink: gin with a splash of tonic, and the grand total for two was $5.50. I laughed, and said that this sure isn't New York. We cheersed, and we drank. We mingled, moved, mixed, hopped outside and back in—this night we had no problem striking up conversation, laughing with strangers.
These types of spaces are healthy for my soul. I love being around queer folks, surrounded by them, speaking our language, using our non-verbal communication that was practiced for so many generations of hiding in plain sight. I feel the most myself, whatever that means. It's a space where I can just be, do, act. Dance, even, if the mood should strike. Flirt, talk. Where my language is understood without translation by either party.
D— and I had our worst fight ever in Atlanta. It was Sunday of pride weekend and I was hung over. It was a beautiful day and there was a live house music party and picnic in a park across town. A bunch of D—'s college friends were going and it sounded dope. We showed up at the picnic and the music was blasting from an open-air building, essentially a roof with no walls. Folks had set up tents all around the park with food and chairs. I didn't know a soul, but people were friendly and made sure I always had a plate full of food and some one to talk to. D— was drinking and smoking, and giving into his vacation mode of being. Going in. By the time we left the party, he was pretty drunk and extremely high.
Afterward, we had a chill drink at the house of a friend of mine. Let me just say that D— was still in full pride mode. He was too drunk/high for the situation and kept talking over folks. He asked if he could smoke up inside and then didn't offer to share. Nothing dramatic, but I was annoyed. By the time we got back to the hotel, he was so fucked up that I should have let it drop. But that's not something I'm great at. I was pissed and he laughed in my face. I lost it. I had been babysitting the man all day, driving him around. I screamed. I wasn't pretty. I told him to take his drunk ass to bed, that he embarrassed me, that he was so fucked up he had no idea what he was doing. I told him that he didn't respect me, that I was taking the car that night and driving home, to New York, without him. I went to sleep on the couch, that night, but two hours later there I was. Back in bed. Lying next to him. After all that time I just slept better with my one arm wrapped around him, with the back of his head being bristled by my stubble.
On our way out of ATL, we spent one day in Savannah, GA. It is supposed to be the stereotypical South. Looking back at photos is a dangerous game. There is a picture in Savannah of a horse-drawn carriage with the words "Plantation Carriage Company" written in a pleasant gold cursive on the back. There is D—, in shades, holding a sightseeing guide in front of his face. There are my feet and D—'s on the plaque demarcating "Calhoon Square" - named after the vice-president from South Carolina and which, Google now informs me, is the site of an 18th century slave cemetery. We had no idea that we were standing on the graves of black people, a hidden history. This seems to me to be stereotypically Southern. Next is a photo of the plaque in front of the home of Jefferson Davis, where I shot with a wide angle lens, in black and white, and tried to make the tree branches behind the plaque seem ominous. Finally, the reflection of a bridge in D—'s sunglasses as we got out of town. Savannah, I think, was too pretty, too picturesque, to be the site of hidden slave cemeteries and plaques commemorating the worst of our history as though it were the best. There is tension in Savannah between how things look, bright and sunny and clean and old in the charming sense, and how I felt there, confused and almost sad and very very queer and, at once, close to home and very far from it, as though my home, itself, had become shifting place, as though all places suddenly were jolted beneath my feet.
After Savannah we drove east, to the coast. Back to South Carolina. After the mess that was pride, the nights out and the acting up and the hangovers, we wanted a few days on the coast, on the ocean. Just us two, our books, cards after dinner, bed early. We decided on the lowcountry, a long series of deltas and plains extending to the ocean. My photos of the lowcountry, on Facebook, prompted a friend to comment that they made him nostalgic for a land he had never seen. This captures, more or less, my feeling. The sky seemed immense in the lowcountry, the colors saturated. At sunset everything appeared yellow and pink above the houses that dotted the planes, standing on stilts, water snaking underneath.
Our campsite was directly on the coast and it was idyllic, the stuff of postcards and corny calendars, just off a long sandy beach. The first thing we saw upon pulling into the camp site was the area reserved for long term campers, mostly RVs; the first RV we saw had, of course, a giant Confederate flag planted out front. And it wasn't alone. The notion of bringing a flag, any flag at all, camping, seemed to me entirely foreign. And this particular flag felt like an omen, a threat.
D— and I chose a campsite nestled towards the back in the woods where we could sleep in the shade until noon. We spent that first afternoon on the beach, lying in the sun, reading, enjoying each other and the relative silence, the rhythm of the waves. That night we played cards in the dark and D— complained about the animals, the raccoons and the deer, that rustled the nearby bushes.
After cards, we sat together on the picnic table at our site on the same bench, both facing forward, D— leaning with his back against my chest, my arms around his shoulders. This part of the park was empty, and we felt, both of us, tired and calm. I kissed his neck, and grabbed him tighter. Within a few minutes we were fucking, there in the campsite dotted with Confederate flags, out in the open, under the stars, under the trees that occluded that wide southern sky. I leaned back on that bench and looked up at D— above me, and the humid air enveloped us both. We felt, at that moment, like a couple, like any couple, camping, driving, fucking, fighting, loving against our will, and against all odds, against history itself, in this place. At that moment it didn't feel like anything complicated. It just felt like us.
Two days later, leaving this place, D— and I staged an act of protest. We packed the car, got every last thing ready and stopped just inside the gates of the park. We left the car running and walked to the RV with the biggest Confederate flag. I held my camera like a gun. I pointed it back at D—and myself. D— and I posed in front of that flag, hugged and kissed, taking every image possible. Me kissing his cheek. Him kissing mine. Him in my arms. The two of us hugging. And finally a daring kiss on the lips, with tongue. We ran back to the car, laughing, put her in drive, and drove. We stopped later to look at the images. I am looking at them now, as I write. I see two men who loved one another putting their mark on a place, and admitting to the mark that that place left on them. And trying, really trying, to love each other in spite of it all.
I want now, looking at these photos, to deny the anger, the pain, the hurt, and the hate. To rebuke it, to claim only the love.
There is a special blend of love and hate that we save for our immediate family, ex-lovers and hometowns. People and places that you cannot take out of yourself, no matter how hard you try. One can, as D— did, get rid of your southern accent, the external signifier of place, but getting rid of the south inside you is another story.
You can love a place, a place like the one where we took the picture in front of that Confederate flag, you can love a place for forming this man and forming this country and being an inescapable part of this story, personal and collective - mine, yours, ours - love a place for its beauty and its history and the struggle that it has been to just live there; but also hate this place for the real pain it caused, the blood that was spilled, the ways in which it has failed us and the ways we have failed others; hate it because of the culture that was built in that place that continues to fail us, all of us, even now, even today.
And you can love some one, real, present tense love, see the beauty and righteousness in them, you can know where they came from and how hard it was, at times, to survive, but also hate that same person for the hurt they caused, or the reasons they failed, or the times they came up short, especially that last, most crucial time, the only time, now, that seems to count.
Joseph Osmundson is a writer and scientist from the rural Pacific Northwest. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Systems Biology at New York University. His writing has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, and The Feminist Wire, where he is an Associate Editor. Follow him on Twitter @reluctantlyjoe. This essay will be published in the forthcoming anthology The Queer South from Sibling Rivalry Press. For additional information or pre-sales visit: The Queer South.
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The prospect of achieving thriving labor markets seems daunting for European Union member states. Unemployment, underemployment, a declining economy, changing demographics and skills shortages complicate real prospects for meaningful and sustained change. With increasing national debt in many countries, many governments have responded with knee-jerk reactions to cut budgets and, hence, jobs. The market has responded to this sentiment with downsizing or "right-sizing" to assuage the unions. The need to tackle unemployment is increasingly taking on a new urgency.
How can EU member states move away from the status quo of an anemic recovery to sustainability in employment and thriving labor markets? Accenture's point of view—derived from our analysis of key trends, data and leading practices across various EU states—is that change can happen. It demands a willingness to look at the issues anew and address them with holistic strategies that can alleviate market fragmentation, change behavior among the unemployed, close widening skills gap and transform a weak business environment.


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feeling a bit of spring.....
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by chula123
Great Yarmouth, ...
this actually started off as a dress, but I got so muddled up lengthening the pattern and then the darts on the side, it all looked very crooked. Lost my temper and wanted to throw the whole lot in the bin, but luckily I calmed down and decided to try it as a blouse first and voila, not so bad after all :-))
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viscose, zipper
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Apr 14, 2013, 06.50 PMby Vanessa Velasquez
Not bad indeed, thank God you could manage your temper because your blouse rocks…. and the zipper flower is a great detail too!!!
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Apr 15, 2013, 03.21 PMby chula123
thank you Vanessa ! I am glad I didn't loose my temper, I quite enjoy wearing it !
Apr 1, 2013, 08.53 PMby flowergirl22
lovely top,,
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Apr 4, 2013, 12.29 PMby chula123
thank you flowergirl ! I am glad now that I didn't throw it in the bin, although spring has been delayed again , more snow here today :-(((
Apr 1, 2013, 03.30 PMby Mary Athey
its a lovely top and again you used really fab fabric x
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Apr 1, 2013, 03.36 PMby chula123
And again Mary, thank you !! Your comments are coming in so quick, I am struggling to keep up with you :-))
This is a pattern from another old mag and I have finally mastered it enough to make a dress, picture will be coming soon :-))
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this has nothing to do with m.e., but i got a kick out of it so i thought i'd share. ^_^ link courtesy of the person organizing our ax trip this year.
sorry if everyone's already seen this one. i'm usually the last to find out about these things... ^^;;


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Starting in the top left corner and heading clockwise there are piggy biscuit cutters, icing decorations, Swiss cake cookbooks (in German – I'm going to have to use an online translator!), a terrine mould, marzipan carrots, and hand carved wooden Christmas biscuit moulds.
The cookbooks are by the fantastically named Betty Bossi but a little internet research has revealed that this is not the name of a real person; Betty Bossi is apparently a "fictitious cook".
I got very excited about the terrine mould as it's longer and thinner than any I'd seen before. The sticker mentioned "Terrine Weissblech" and my mind filled with ideas of what that could be – maybe something delicious involving white chocolate? I've since found out that "weissblech" means tinplate - doh!
Marzipan carrots took up a lot of space in the cake decorating section of the store and, after reading one of my Swiss recipe books, I know why – the traditional Aargau carrot cake is decorated with them. If you want to see an Aargau carrot cake here it is, I made one!
Pigs seem to feature in many European countries' Christmas traditions but not the UK's. I couldn't resist these though and wondered if it would be tasteless to use them on pork pies?
The star of the show, for me anyway, is the hand carved wooden biscuit moulds. Taking traditional Christmas images, each one was truly unique and I had to sort through the box to find the Father Christmas I wanted to come home with me!
Sunday, 7 December 2008
The spoils of Zurich....
4 comments:
- glamah16 said...
Oh I love your finds. The german cookbooks shouldt be that difficult. You inspire me to get some on my trip over in a few weeks.
- 8 December 2008 at 19:21
Dear Caked Crusader,
I decided at last to come out of lurkedom to tell you that you are truly wonderful. I would have done earlier, but was too busy baking. The 3R cake was an utter revelation, I ate nearly the whole glorious moist wonder myself.
I never baked before encountering your blog, as nothing EVER turned out right, but for some reason your recipes produce top results!! And I only found you because I looked at some gorgeous knits from your friend Soo!! Anyway, I cannot wait for the next installment, and since I am deeply indebted to you, I offer you my German translation skills for all German cake recipes to come.
Cakedly yours,
- 10 December 2008 at 15:37
Hi, Betty Bossi is an old classic, though the name is fake, there was stilla real person behind it (she died a year ago or so).
Try the Mississippi cake!
- 2 January 2009 at 13:02
I forgot - as cooking expressions are a bit different in Switzerland, Austira and Germany, online translation may not be perfect.
- 2 January 2009 at 13:06


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Opinion: Double Jeopardy for George Zimmerman?
Political Diary editor Jason Riley on Eric Holder, George Zimmerman and the NAACP. Photo: Associated Press
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... I ... these laws like to fix something ... that was never broken ... there has always been the legal defense for using deadly force gift ... and the gift is important ... if no safe retreat ... is available ... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel that was Attorney General Eric holder ... speaking to The and Double ACP in these last days in the wake of the church Zimmerman verdict ... notice how the change is changing the Suntech ... Clinical diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley is here so ... I Jason ... it was the point of that speech ... to change this up ... and ... um you know ... this is under pressure to bring civil rights charges ... against George Seminary in wake of the verdict ... aam but he doesn't have a lot to go on here and perhaps he has some secret tape of George Zimmerman yelling dive black man ... right before you pull the trigger ... but barring that ... aam there's now a lot to on your book the prosecutor said race wasn't ... unusual for the verdict the family of Trayvon Martin said race was an issue ... before the verdict so we can only assume ... that after the verdict and that is the result of the verdict came down ... that they now want find another way to go after ... Zimmerman and that's not really how our system works so ... I think Eric holder wants to change the subject ... why no one in town playing ... it means that the death of Trayvon Martin says it is a tragedy we should say that upfront ... aam but the EU raise important question of double jeopardy to ALM it is crucial Black caucus is calling for action in ... Concord they have an influence on the stocks ... they might have an influence on me ... and bring a case ... to to sort of throw them a bone ... but I don't think there's a case to me I still think ... he doesn't ... the local wet ... so though be a huge waste of time ... um and if he does bring it ... it will probably be up for reasons of political pressure which by the way what's the reason that the case was briefly brought the first place listener wanting to make a Switzerland's Brannon and the prostitute in one of her and actually so ... the heebie doubling down on on that mistake I think if he were to bring this up so bright spots not just the Reverend ... Al Sharpton can buy in the Congressional Black caucus are others out there who were calling for this case to be brought you and I spoke earlier this week at about the black civil rights leader sian ... on how they're using the death of Trayvon Martin just perfect for their own political ends ... a J C D C any of that we ... I do know that I in fact a lot of the speech that they're called a gay was focused on gun control which is aam and stand your ground lost ... again things that don't really pertaining ... to the facts the case because tourism and unclaimed ... stand your ground law and the sole shareholder and present Obama and his initial statement after the verdict also one to talk about ... gun violence and gun control but ... Mary or an inconvenient fact working against them is that that's the stand your ground law support proliferated in recent years I think about half the states have them now ... gun violence in America has gone down and not just nationally but in those states that have passed stand your ground lost so if there's a causal relationship year and I'm not suggesting the real one ... but the attorney general seems to think this when present Obama thinks that there is one of the reasons one it seems to be working against them ... extraordinary ... I he is just what you've learned in the days since your op ed came out ... in an enormous response to an on line ... the video that we did a couple of days ago also have an enormous response ... um what did you glean from from from those responses ... well a lot of the responses were of supporter of May aam and aam and and that was actually encouraging ... them to me um I'd I didn't expect so much agreement ... on than what I was saying aam I knew it would be no was a provocative things said and new aam was that say you are arguing then look at the look of the class I was like my argument was that it if you believe that perceptions of black criminality played a role ... in this case and I don't think that they didn't necessarily haven't seen the evidence that they did but if you are of that opinion then let's work on one what is causing those perceptions and that is the behavior of young black men as evidenced by these crime statistics that we happened and where we were trying to change that behavior so we can therefore change ... those perceptions and a lot of people plodded ... up on the Senate so it would change the behavior ... rather than pursue double jeopardy forget or to Zimmerman's ... diary editor Jason Riley


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World Baseball Classic has started. A couple of games have already been played by Asian teams. My three teams will be playing this weekend. U.S.A. will play today against Russell Martin and Canada (sorry Russ, you are going down!) Well that's if U.S.A. really wants to win. Cuba and Mexico will be playing tomorrow. Should be fun. Get all the info by clicking here.
Also, the WBC shop has added more items. Including this Cuba hat. It's a different design than the '06 version. I need to get a Mexico, Cuba, and U.S.A. hats.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
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its already a good start to the wbc.the super stars from the d.r. got upset by the unknowns from the netherlands.good baseball..some bad baseball from d.r.
- March 7, 2009 at 11:24 AM
- Roberto said...
I saw that. I can't wait for the Mexico game.
- March 7, 2009 at 11:32 AM
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Judaica art takes numerous forms, ranging from ceremonial objects such as Kiddush cups, washing cups and Mezuzahs to more obscure items such as miniatures and Kabbalah Jewelry. One interesting type of Judaica item that is decorative in nature is a colorful figurine.
What are Figurines?
Figurines are miniature statues of people. In terms of Judaica art, the terms refer to figurines that are shaped to look like Hassidic Jews, children, grandparents or Israeli soldiers, although they may also feature the Temple, Western Wall, Jerusalem or animals such as cats and dogs.
Figurines can be made of a wide range of materials although they are usually made of Polyresin, glass and metals such as pewter and nickel. Ceramic and cloth are seldom used, mainly due to their fragile nature. Precious metals such as silver and gold are also seldom used for the same reason.
Figurines can be any shape or design even though the vast majority of them are people. Some of the most common depictions of people include Hassidic Jews dancing or playing a music instrument such as a fiddle or flute on a roof top. Other images include Israeli soldiers waving a flag, praying by the Western Wall, a man dancing with a bottle on his head in the spirit of the rejoicing that takes place on purim or a child playing a musical instrument.
Some figurines may also depict important figures from the Torah, such as the High Priest or Moses. These figurines typically are made from silver and are extremely detailed. Depictions of Moses usually feature the greatest prophet in Judaism holding the Luchot, or the Tablets that were given on Mount Sinai.
Non-human figurines typically feature Judaica items, specifically those used on Shabbat and holidays, such as a Kiddush Cup and Candlesticks. Other items and objects such as Jerusalem, the Temple, Menorahs and a Shofar are also popular. In terms of non-Judaica items, animals that figure prominently in Judaism such as lions, sheep are popular, although other animals such as cats and dogs are also common figurines.
Colorful figures feature a metal plaque at the bottom that is engraved with text. The text can be personal and feature an engraved name or a word such as "Jerusalem."
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Mediocrity is starting to creep into the world of education and specifically into the practice of teaching. I am afraid that it might always have been there and I am just now becoming increasingly aware of it. While many might want to place the full blame on teachers, I think there might be plenty of blame to go around. There are a handful of people that are responsible for the prevalence of mediocrity in the profession of teaching.
Media perpetuates it
This is obvious in the fact that they are fixated on stories that paint teachers in a negative light rather than focusing on the great things happening on a daily basis. In a recent session at a local technology conference there were reporters from NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox and they all admitted they don't even have education reporters on staff. What does that say about their priorities? This is sad because they have some real power to sway public opinion about teachers and the current trends in education.
Administrators allow it
Most administrators encourage mediocre teaching more through their inaction rather than their actions. Lots of people feel as though teacher tenure is a problem and keeps poor teachers around. However, a tenured teacher can be let go if the administrator goes through the legwork to do so. Unfortunately, many do not put in the work to do this and the cycle of poor teaching is just reinforced. In most cases, teachers keep their heads down until their reach tenure because one they get it; they know administrators won't do anything to remove them. In some cases, the administrators have not been properly trained on what "good teaching" looks like and therefore are not good judges of it. Sadly some administrators were not good teachers themselves and therefore don't even know what a good teacher looks like. (I think they wear a tieJ) Another area is the lack of administrator presence in most schools beyond the front office. Are administrators in classrooms observing, teaching or interacting with kids on a regular basis? If not, they cannot hope to have an understanding of the quality of teaching or learning happening in their schools.
Unions protect it
In many states teacher unions have been slammed and in some cases dismembered. Now, I value the intent of a union to protect the rights of its members as well as its role in collective bargaining. There are many things teacher unions do in favor of teachers. With all that being said though, they are guilty of protecting mediocre teachers in many ways. Again, I am not suggesting we need to toss out teachers due to low standardized test scores as some have suggested. However, there are things being done in schools by teachers that should be immediate grounds for removal and not be blocked by a union. In many other blue collar unions, they uphold the highest standard of their profession and certainly don't protect those that fail to live up to that standard.
In addition, unions often create combative and adversarial situations between its members and policy makers and administrations. This leads to change being near impossible and again continues the cycle of the status quo on many fronts.
Parents are oblivious to it
As a parent and a teacher, I have a unique perspective of being on both sides of the education fence. Most parents, though, are not aware of the education their kids are receiving beyond the infrequent notes or emails that come home. They assume since school worked for them, it should be the same and often do not question much of what happens. There are too many examples of things going on in schools without parent's knowledge. Parents need to take a more active role and schools need to be more transparent and welcome parents into the schools. Also, parents should not have to "settle" for mediocre teaching for their kids.
Kids deal with it
Students are obviously the ones that hurt from the prevalence of mediocrity in our profession. On a daily basis they go through classes taught by a spectrum of teachers. In many cases, they have fabulous teachers that care for them and are outstanding in what they do. Yet, they still have a handful of teachers that in most people's opinion should not be teaching. Their response is often just to complain amongst themselves and just deal with it. This is also reinforced at home when a parent simply says, "that's school…just deal with it and hope for a better teacher next year." I am not saying kids need to rebel against their teachers, but they certainly need to exercise their voice and demand the best. In most cases, kids know what good teaching is and what is not.
Policy makers force it
From policy that ignores what is best for kids, to policy makers with no education experience, the world of educational policy is doomed to continued mediocrity. In the face of common sense and sound research, our educational policies do nothing to lift up the profession of teaching. Instead, it ranks and files teachers and students with little regard to what life is truly like in a classroom and what their policies mean for kids or teachers. The few attempts to lift up our profession are often superficial with no real intent to change but are more often a political agenda in an election year.
Teachers ignore it
Teachers are probably the biggest problem within our own profession. We don't want to confront our fellow teachers when we see opportunities for growth within them. Instead, we just shut our doors and do good by our own kids. Heaven forbid if we made a suggestion or offered criticism without fear of personally offending someone. We don't share our good lessons because we are afraid somebody else will get credit for our hard work. In some cases we are being ranked against our colleagues and we would not want anyone having an advantage. When our own teachers are lifted up and recognized we shun them out of jealousy and envy. If we have a mediocre administrator we do nothing but complain in our lounges or behind closed doors because we fear repercussions for speaking out. Many of our teachers instruct in the exact same manner they were taught when they were in school 10, 15, or 25 years ago. If we are non-tenured we take what is given to us and do exactly what we are told for fear of losing our job. We want our students to be lifelong learners and yet we fail to model this on a daily basis. In reality, many of us are just as afraid of failure as our own students. This is not totally our faults as our administrations, policy makers and in some cases the media have made it clear that failure is not an option for teachers in any way.
Teaching is what I do, and I strive for excellence in that every single day. I would be lying if I said there were not days when some of these factors get to me. Yet, I will keep teaching. I will keep pushing my fellow teachers even if they get upset with me. I will keep celebrating my fellow teachers even if it makes others jealous. I will keep challenging my administration even if it gets me into trouble. I will keep trying to get a seat at the table with the policy makers even if they repeatedly ignore me. I will keep looking at ways to make sure every student I have is given nothing but the best that I have to offer. Bottom line, I will keep teaching and keep striving to be better than mediocre and demand nothing short of that from those around me…


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The popular pension plan for state workers, teachers, firefighters and other public employees would end for new hires next January.
TALLAHASSEE — The end of Florida's traditional pension plan for government workers may be in sight.
Under a bill that state lawmakers are considering, the popular pension plan for state workers, teachers, firefighters and other public employees would end for new hires next January. Instead, new workers would be put into a 401(k)-type plan after next Jan. 1.
If approved by lawmakers later this spring, the bill would eventually phase out the current $127 billion state pension fund — which now provides retirement for nearly 600,000 state, school and county employees — in a process that could take decades.
Currently, public employees have the option of joining the traditional pension fund or opting for a 401(k)-type plan.
Moving public employees into an "investment plan" — similar to 401(k) plans used by private businesses — is a top priority for House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, increasing the chances that the measure could become law.
The change could eventually save Florida millions of dollars annually and achieve a policy goal of state leaders who argue that government benefits should be more like those for the private sector workers whose taxes pay for them.
But it is certain to face a bitter fight from public employees, still smarting from the state's decision two years ago to require government workers to pay 3 percent of their salaries toward their retirement costs.
House Government Operations Chairman Jason Brodeur, R-Sanford, stressed that the House proposal would not impact current public employees in the traditional pension fund or workers hired before Jan. 1.
"It doesn't affect anyone who participates in the system today," he said. "Whatever you have, you can keep, even if you're an employee 30 years from now."
Not all of the details of the bill have been finalized, including a plan to revamp the way future employees earn disability benefits.
"It's a work in progress," said Brodeur, whose committee heard the bill Thursday.
But some lawmakers and unions representing firefighters, police officers, state workers, university employees and teachers questioned the need to end the pension plan for new workers, noting Florida's pension program is considered one of the strongest plans in the country with the projected ability to fund some 87 percent of its future claims.
"What exactly are we trying to fix and what is the problem?" asked Rep. Irv Slosberg, D-Boca Raton.
Slosberg noted that the state could face an immediate cost in the next few years totaling more than a half billion dollars for the pension if all new workers were forced into the 401(k)-type plan rather than the pension fund.
As of last June, about 517,000 public workers were in the traditional pension fund and 105,000 were in the alternative investment plan, according to the Department of Management Services.
About one out of every four new workers opts for the investment plan over the traditional pension plan, Brodeur said. One of the reasons is that new employees are vested — or entitled to their retirement benefits — after one year of service, while vesting in the pension plan takes eight years.
Workers also can transfer their retirement savings in the investment plan if they leave their government jobs for the private sector.
Previous studies have shown that closing the pension fund to new employees would reduce future contributions to the fund — from the government employers as well as the employees — although the retirement liability would remain for the workers still covered by the pension.
Brodeur said the House is conducting an actuarial study to determine the cost and the report should be available before lawmakers begin their annual legislative session in March. He said the cost would be weighed in the decision to move forward with the bill, while arguing that the long-term benefits may trump the short-term financial challenge.
Brodeur likened the change to "turning an aircraft carrier," arguing that phasing out the pension plan would remove the potential risk for taxpayers if the fund was unable to pay all of the workers' retirement benefits in the future.
Private businesses have been switching from traditional, or "defined benefit" pensions that offer a guaranteed monthly payment — typically based on salary and years of service — for more than 20 years. But governments have been slower to change.
Lisa Henning, a lobbyist for the Florida State Fraternal Order of Police, said the pension plan "gives law enforcement officers a sense of security that no matter what happens to them that day, they know that their family is going to be taken care of."
"You're taking away a great deal of that security," she said.
A companion bill has not yet been filed in the Senate.
Sen. Jeremy Ring, D-Margate, chairman of the Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee, said his panel is considering legislation aimed at reforming local pension funds run by some Florida cities and special districts.
The renewed pension debate follows a Florida Supreme Court ruling earlier this month that upheld the Legislature's 2011 decision requiring public worker contributions toward retirement benefits. The ruling also eliminated a cost-of-living adjustment for retirement benefits earned after July 2011.
The pension talks come as legislative leaders — including Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville — have indicated their support for giving state workers a pay increase, which would be the first general raise for the workers since 2006. Gov. Rick Scott has called for a $2,500 a year raise for classroom teachers.
Public employees have complained that the 3 percent pension payment started in 2011 represented a pay cut while most have not received a raise in years because of the Great Recession and the drop in government revenue.


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Delay Trails 2 TonePrint by Lee Ranaldo
This is a warm sounding analog delay similar to the Ibanez AT80 which I have played over the years. The first knob is used not as a chorus blend, but as delay time sweep from 200ms to 700ms.
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TC: Who inspired you over the years when you were creating your own personal guitar tone? Lee: Lots of different people. Early loves would definitely be the Beatles and Keith Richards, a lot of acoustic guitar players from the 60s like Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Steve Stills and David Crosby. As to electric guitar players, I would definitely have to put Jerry Garcia in there and people from New York City like Tom Verlaine - him especially when we're talking about tone. Every once in a while you just hear someone whose guitar just has the most amazing tone and Tom Verlaine is a player like that. This guy named Mark Rebow who plays with a lot of different people, he's a player like that too. He's an amazing player, but he is also one that just gets incredible tones out of his guitar. James Damascus from Dinosaur Jr. for a certain kind of tone - a kind of knarly tone. I would put Thurston and Kim from Sonic Youth in there too. Also John Fahey and Leo Kottke when it comes to the acoustic side.
TC: What are the main ingredients in your tone in terms of effects (e.g. chorus, flanger, delay, etc.)? Lee: Well, we worked on the Flashback Delay pedal, and I would say that a delay pedal is probably the single main ingredient in what I use. I use overdrive and distortion boxes, but if I had to pick one pedal that I couldn't live without it would be delay pedals. A couple of particular ones that I use a lot – I don't know if I should mention them – the MoogerFooger, but mostly I use the Ibanez 88 or 8080 or 89 – there's a couple of different ones, short analog delay pedals, and I use this DOD 2 second delay. This thing, the Flashback Delay can do a lot of those things that the pedals I use regularly can do, but up until now, they are pretty much the pedals I've used. Delay pedals and certain kind of overdrive pedals. I use one that is handmade in Sweden called the HoneyBee, a little gold box that's one of my favorites for overdrive. I also use an old Hughes & Kettner 2 switch overdrive that is really cool. They are the ones I use a lot.
TC: Have you ever been so inspired by a tone you created that you ended up writing a tune based on ideas triggered by that specific tone? Lee: That happens for us all the time because we're playing in different tunings. This tuning here I've played with for a little bit. There are lots of C's and G's, a lot of unison notes. We sit down and start listening to the tone, especially playing with the feedback controls, and we start to get something happening on the controls and just immediately start playing something that goes with it. So I would say: that happens all the time since we are working a lot with guitar texture and less traditional rhythmic structures. We're always writing songs around a sound, a certain guitar with a certain combination of effects has a sound and we'll use it and write a song about it.
TC: Do you work on developing your tone continuously, or do you feel that you have found a fundamental tone that will last throughout your career? Lee: I feel it's a combination of the two. I definitely feel I've found some tones that are 'my voice', what I like out of a guitar and pickups. But I tend to feel like I'm always looking for new and interesting tones. I've been playing the same kind of guitars for a long time, so recently I've picked up some different instruments made by different companies and I'm finding I'm getting other kinds of tones out of them, that I haven't played around with too much before. For me it's definitely cool to both have something that I feel is a home base tone-wise and be able to feel like I can still push it in different directions.
TC: What inspired you when you created your TonePrint(s)? Lee: What inspired me is the kind of things I would like to hear out of a delay pedal starting with a particular tuning and starting to play a particular thing. I just start playing something with a lot of delay and overlays, and thinking about something like Fripp and Eno's 'No Pussy Footing' records or something like that, where they are just getting lot of heavy delay tones and using it almost to shape and create a piece. This is a particular kind of sound and you can't play anything that's too rapid with a sound that's got that long and complicated delay. Definitely we'll work something around that particular patch.
TC: Normally, do you prefer having access to many parameters, or do you like simple pedals with just a few knobs better? Lee: Normally, I don't think about combining a delay tone with choruses and vibratoes. We were playing around a little bit with that, like adding in some chorusey stuff and some vibrato stuff. There's definitely some cool stuff in there that could be worked on further.
TC: And these effects are only applied to the delays itself? Lee: You are getting a clean sound underneath the first sound, so you're not loosing some of that articulation so it's kind of layered on top of it. I kind of like that too, that you keep the clean sound right on the surface. One of the knobs is designed to mix in the sweep of the chorus, so you can control exactly how much of the wet chorus sound you want on the delay itself.
TC: How come you signed up for creating your own personal TonePrint(s)? Lee: It's an area of electric guitar sound that I'm interested in, you know, the idea of playing around with it in a particular way. Mostly, when I use simple basic pedals that are kind of: I ask them to do one thing – and that's all I really want them to do – I mean: this pedal can do a lot of different things, and probably, if I were to use this pedal, I'd probably find a few things that I liked in it, and that's all I would use it for, but the fact that it's got all these different capabilities, different players can find the things that are good for them in it.
TC: In your opinion, what is the single coolest thing about TonePrints? Lee: Well, I think the single coolest thing about it is, that as a player at home, you can download patches that different players make. Maybe some you admire, or whose sound you like. When you're a guitar player, you learn other peoples songs, you learn their changes, but in this case you'll also be able to play around with their sound patterns. I think one of the coolest things about it is the fact that it has this added aspect that you can grab stuff off the net and download it right into the pedal and work with it.
TC: How does this TonePrint fit into your current sound and setup? Lee: Well, I'm writing songs for a solo record right now, so I'm looking for different sounds and different kinds of things to do and I have some friends of mine who asked me to do some collaborative work with them. So maybe something that we've done today will lead to something I can give to them and see if they can do something on top of it.
TC: How did you go about creating this specific TonePrint? Lee: We sat together and just went about it by ear, looking for what sounded good and if it didn't sound good, we tried something else. I was asking for different things and you were manning the computer and we found a couple of things that we liked, went down some roads we didn't like, came back and went down some other roads until we found something that we were really happy with.Read more about Lee Ranaldo


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@captainfoxtrot I cried watching Logan too. Hard core.
I'm definitely more emotional. I cry super easy and quick to anger. I almost went ape shit on the insurance guy because my OB referral still isn't done even though I got my BFP two weeks ago and I have yet to schedule my first appointment because of it. Soooo constipated. I got some prune juice yesterday so hopefully that will help. Not really nauseous yet but I get bouts of it here and there.