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This week's Chargers Q&A is with friend of the blog Chris Hansen, Lead Writer of the AFC West blog at Bleacher Report. I enjoy his observations on football in general, and he is a solid twitter follow @ChrisHansenNFL.
Often, when you get a better sense of the opposing team, it makes watching the games more interesting, and I hope you like this as much as I did.
Q&A with Chris Hansen
What is different/same between this San Diego team and previous ones?
"The notable differences are the offensive coaching and the defensive personnel. The defensive coaching and offensive personnel is virtually identical to last year save a guy like Danny Woodhead and rookie wide receiver Keenan Allen. The Chargers are going to attempt to run the ball more effectively and aren't going to ask Phillip Rivers to throw as many deep passes as he did in Norv Turner's offense.
Defensively, the schemes should be the same with different parts. Dwight Freeney will take over for Shaun Phillips and Melvin Ingram as the team's primary pass-rusher, but the biggest changes came in the secondary. Shareece Wright and Marcus Gilchrist are now starters, with Gilchrist moving to safety next to Eric Weddle. The team also added Derek Cox in free agency to replace Quentin Jammer."
Any key injuries of note for this matchup?
"The Chargers are extremely healthy, but Manti Te'o is probably out with a foot issue. Bront Bird will take his place. Expect Bird to come off the field in nickel situations."
What do you think are the strengths of this Chargers team?
"Rivers is still a solid quarterback and is capable of carrying an offense. Ryan Mathews is also good running back when he holds onto the ball. Although the Chargers lost Danario Alexander, Rivers still has great chemistry with Malcom Floyd and Vincent Brown is a very capable second option. The Chargers might not be a great offense, but they the ability to put up some points if they can protect Rivers and run block.
On defense, the strength is up the middle. Corey Liuget and Kendall Reyes are two very good 3-4 defensive ends, Donald Butler is a stellar inside linebacker and Eric Weddle is probably the best safety in the NFL. Running up the middle and short passing can be a chore against the Chargers because of these strengths."
And the weaknesses?
"The offensive line is still a work in progress—especially in pass protection. What that means is that they aren't going to be a team that can play from behind. If the Chargers do fall behind, Rivers is going to have to throw the ball a lot and will probably turn the ball over.
The secondary is dangerously thin and a good strategy would probably be to spread them out and target the nickel and dime backs. Opposing teams should find soft spots in coverage opposite Weddle thanks to the inexperience of the two starters. The only linebacker that is solid in coverage is Butler, so tight ends and running backs catching passes out of the backfield might also be able to exploit them.
When the Chargers go into the nickel, they will also be susceptible to the run as they try to generate pressure. Freeney in particular is a player that could be exploited by the running game. If the Chargers have to roll safety help down for Freeney, opponents could have a field day with play-action passes down the seam."
Who are some Chargers players that Texan fans may not know who may have an impact on the game either in a negative or positive way?
"Corey Liuget and Kendall Reyes on defense and Vincent Brown on offense are impact players that have yet to become household names. As Texan fans are probably familiar. It takes a lot for a 3-4 end to get recognition in the NFL, but Liuget and Reyes are two of the better ones in the NFL and still young and improving. Brown hasn't really had a chance to show what he can do because he missed last season with broken ankle, but he runs great routes and most defensive backs have trouble sticking with him."
Any questions that you think fans would like to know that I didn't ask?
"We didn't cover special teams, which is an area of weakness for the Chargers. They have a great punter, but you can't be that confident in their coverage or return teams. The field position battle could be an important aspect to the game."
Thanks to Chris for the Q&A.
So what are your thoughts on the game? Do you have a sense of how this is going to go? What will you be particularly watching for? I ask these questions because often the things discussed in these pregame blog post show up in the real game.
Texans-Chargers By the Numbers.
Each year's team is different, but to get a sense of where these teams left off last season, here's last year's numbers:
Chargers: Points (20th), Yards (31st) Pass offense (24th), Rush offense (27th). Defense (9th), Pass defense (12th), Rush defense (5th).
Texans: Points (8th), Yards (7th) Pass offense (11th), Rush offense (8th). Defense (7th), Pass defense (16th), Rush defense (7th)
Football Outsiders Efficiency Ratings (Considers per play situation compared to league average factoring in opponent–more than just total yards in conventional stats. More info at FO FAQs page)
Chargers: Overall (22nd), Offense (24th), Pass offense (16th), Rush offense (28th). Defense (18th), Pass defense (18th), Rush defense (13th) , Special Teams (14th)
Texans: Overall (11th), Offense (16th), Pass offense (14th), Rush offense (16th). Defense (3rd), Pass defense (4th), Rush defense (5th), Special Teams (32th).
So what happened to the Chargers offense in 2012?
Ultimately, perhaps the Chargers (maybe 2012 Texans) should learn a lesson from John Elway's career. Quarterbacks tend to play better when they have a better supporting cast around them. That is the conclusion of an article by Chase Stuart entitled, "John Elway: The Quarterback Version of Dick Butkus."
That more offensive help around a quarterback helps a quarterback would seem to be a no duh sort of statement, but sometimes gets lost in debate format-type discussions of quarterbacks who just win.
Texans Things To Watch.
Road Game Issues. I have more optimism about the Texans offensive line than some, but it is easy to forget that a first-off-the-bus looking player like right guard Brandon Brooks doesn't have much NFL game experience.
Most Texans fans want to see the offense opened up a bit more with a 2013 wide receiver group that has some intriguing parts, but that isn't going to happen unless the Texans' trust their line more. (And it won't happen if the Texans defense is wrecking shop because why take much risk on offense, expose your quarterback possibly, if you are going to win with your defense?)
Last year, the Texans had many more penalties on the road, averaging 7.4 per game, and slightly higher numbers of stupid pre-snap penalties. Sometimes a holding call makes sense if it saves your quarterback from being killed, but nothing good comes from pre-snap penalties.
First real game of the season always has some rust to knock off. Running back Arian Foster, wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins and outside linebacker Whitney Mercilus will be the key players most will be watching. Left guard Wade Smith has been missing some games post knee-scoping, but unless he is doing very poorly, people likely won't notice. Will be interesting if they rotate for him at that spot, and whether the Texans will do the rotational offensive line concept again in 2013 like they did last year or will try to settle down one group of five.
J.J. Watt hasn't had many preseason snaps, but as his last year seemed to demonstrate with missing the preseason, he must eat rust as a fueling source.
Sometimes young players in an attempt to make plays over pursue and lack lane discipline. See e.g. some of their defense against screens in the preseason. This year's Texans defense will have to rely on some inexperienced players at key spots. Phillip Rivers may have had a down 2012, but he is experienced enough to take advantage of young players doing things that aren't defensively sound.
Special Teams.
Other than punting, kickoff length, and field goals, it can be hard to get a sense of special teams in the preseason because so many of the players doing that role on both sides of the ball are no longer on rosters.
Personally, my hope is that special teams in 2013 is a non-issue. And that fans go back to having no idea what the special team coach's name is. That it is safe to go get a beer during a kickoff because it is just a touchback. That the field goal distances that are supposed to be made are made. And that the Texans new-big legged punter, makes punt returns impossible. I don't think that is asking for too much.
Your thoughts? Questions?
I've been doing a Texans roundtable at Reply All with Patrick Starr of State of the Texans and Tim McHale of Battle Red Blog where we've discussed a lot of current team topics. Worth checking out, participating in if you like that sort of thing.
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Exaile is a music player written in python that uses the GTK+ toolkit. Exaile is released under the [1] license. Features include:
- Retrieval of album art, lyrics, artist/album information (via Wikipedia), and guitar tabs (via fretplay.com)
- Tabbed playlists
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Exaile is available in Arch's community repository. To enable the community repository, it must be uncommented in /etc/pacman.conf:
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Exaile can then be installed using Pacman:
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If You use alsa and want to use alsasink instead of the default one, install gstreamer-alsa also:
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This may solve problem if no sound is heard after installation and also when trying to play several sources simultaneously.
Enabling cover art, lyrics, and guitar tablature
While installing Exaile via Pacman will also install any needed runtime dependencies, two additional packages (gnome-python-extras & libgtkhtml) will be needed to enable the cover art, lyrics, guitar tablature, and wiki features of Exaile.
pacman -Sy gnome-python-extras libgtkhtml
Exaile 0.2.9 Album Art
On May 18th, 2007 Amazon has updated their ECS API. This update has cause the inability of Exaile <=0.2.9 to retrieve album art. A patch which restores the ability to restore album art retrieval from Amazon has been provided on Exaile's website along with instructions on how to apply the patch. This issue has already been addressed in Exaile's SVN.
Playing audio CDs
Exaile requires 'python-cddb' to play audio cd's. The correct package for this is cddb-py, located in the AUR. NOT pycddb which is available through pacman. The PKGBUILD needs the line "arch=('i686')" added to build, and the license line is empty, although it doesn't affect the build.


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Denver-based Biofuel Energy said Tuesday that it has engaged Piper Jaffray & Co. as its financial adviser to help it explore its options.
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GETTTYENTSection: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2002-07-18
Index Return to Main Contents
NAMEgetttyent, getttynam, setttyent, endttyent - get ttys file entry
SYNOPSIS#include <ttyent.h>
struct ttyent *getttyent(void);
struct ttyent *getttynam(const char *name);
int setttyent(void);
DESCRIPTIONThese functions provide an interface to the file _PATH_TTYS (e.g., /etc/ttys).
The function setttyent() opens the file or rewinds it if already open.
The function endttyent() closes the file.
The function getttynam() searches for a given ttyname in the file. It returns a pointer to a ttyent structure (description below).
The function getttyent() opens the file _PATH_TTYS (if necessary) and returns the first entry. If the file is already open, the next entry. The ttyent structure has the form:
struct ttyent { char *ty_name; /* terminal device name */ char *ty_getty; /* command to execute, usually getty */ char *ty_type; /* terminal type for termcap */ int ty_status; /* status flags */ char *ty_window; /* command to start up window manager */ char *ty_comment; /* comment field */ };
can be:
#define TTY_ON 0x01 /* enable logins (start ty_getty program) */ #define TTY_SECURE 0x02 /* allow UID 0 to login */
CONFORMING TONot in POSIX.1-2001. Present on the BSDs, and perhaps other systems.
NOTESUnder Linux the file /etc/ttys, and the functions described above, are not used.
SEE ALSOttyname(3), ttyslot(3)
COLOPHONThis page is part of release 3.32 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
This document was created by man2html using the manual pages.
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This guide explains how to install a Brother HL-2250DN laserjet printer using CUPS.
- 1 Prerequisites
- 2 Installation
- 2.1 Installing from AUR
- 2.2 Installing manually
This tutorial assumes you have already configured the CUPS printer server. There is plenty of existing information to get this working.
To install the printer you have two options: Manually or from an AUR package.
Installing from AUR
The AUR package brother-hl2250dn adds support for the Brother HL-2250DN printer.
This package basically does all that the manual installation requires you to do, but it ensures that all dependencies (eg. a2ps, cups and lib32-glibc if you are on a x86_64 system) are installed and that the driver files are managed by the package system.
For full information on installing packages from AUR, refer to the AUR section.
Building the AUR package
To install the printer driver, use the following steps:
- Acquire the tarball which contains the PKGBUILD and the patches from this page
- Extract the tarball (preferably in a folder set aside just for builds from the AUR) with
tar -xzf brother-hl2250dn.tar.gz.
- Run
makepkgin the directory where the files are saved (
makepkg -swill automatically resolve dependencies with pacman). This will download the code, compile it and pack it.
- Install the resulting package with pacman:
# pacman -U /path/to/brother-hl2250dn-version-number.tar.xz
After installation of the package, you can proceed to configure the printer as described on on this page. Follow step 5a for USB connection, and step 5b for a networked printer.
Installing manually
Download Brother HL-2250ND drivers
Create a temp directory such as
Download the RPM packages of the CUPS wrapper (HERE) and the LPR driver (HERE) and place them into your newly created temp dir
Extracting the RPM files
You'll need to grab a script to extract the files from the RPM packages, so log in as root and execute:
# pacman -S rpmextract
Then extract both RPM files:
$ rpmextract.sh *.rpm
You should now have two sub-directories: usr and var
Editing files to make them work with Arch
Arch Linux uses its own filesystem hierarchy, so you must edit some files to match it. We'll assume you created the temp directory brother in your home directory as mentioned earlier. Use your favorite text editor (i.e. kate, gedit, or vi) and open
Replace all instances of
/etc/init.d/ with
Save and close
Next, edit:
Replace all instances of
/etc/printcap.local with
Save and close
Now we're ready to copy the files to their respective places on our system (you'll need to be root for this)
# cp -r /home/username/brother/usr/* /usr # cp -r /home/username/brother/var/* /var
Installing the driver and printer
Now let's run the installation script (again, as root):
# cd /usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2250DN/cupswrapper/ # ./cupswrapperHL2250DN-2.0.4
Upon completion the script will attempt to restart the CUPS daemon if it was running. Now browse to the CUPS server : http://localhost:631/
Under the Administration category, choose Manage printers. You should now see your HL2250DN printer automatically installed and configured, for USB connection.
Configuring the connection
Follow step 5a for USB connection, and step 5b for a network connection, on this page.
Print a test page and configure the printer settings to your liking.
Auto start
You will want to edit the /etc/rc.conf file to start cups on every reboot. Add cupsd to the daemon list.
Regional Settings
Make sure to set your printer preferences to match your region. For example, if you live in North America (Canada, US, Mexico) your paper size should be changed from the Default "A4" to "Letter". Sometimes this will be done automatically by your Desktop Environment (e.g. KDE) but it's worthwhile to check it yourself or the text on your pages won't align properly.
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I failed to get the above to work for various reasons, but am having moderate success with the Generic PCL Laser Printer driver over IPP.


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The challenge is to cut the triamond into four congruent parts. The illustration gives the traditional solution. But it is said there can be different solution found. Though in that solution all four regions do not have the same shape as the larger figure, but they are identical (the parts may be turned over). Can you discover that new solution?
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That was the message of AARP as it kicked off a food drive at the Weingart Senior Center in Lakewood on Wednesday.
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"Our residents in Lakewood have not escaped the harsh realities of this recession. Many in our community have lost their homes and/or their jobs. Thankfully, we have a safety net there called Project Shepherd."
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Dr. Marli Miller, at far right, with her students from the GEO 199: Geophotography class, fall 2014.
The photographic experience teaches students to see and experience geologic features in more intimate ways than a lecture. As teachers, we are always looking for new ways to engage and inspire our students. The traditional lecture and lab format allows teachers to share material with large numbers of students, but the actual experience can be limited.
The mission of the Department of Geological Sciences is to educate and train a future generation of Earth scientists, advance our current understanding of Earth system through scholarship and research, and serve as a resource to the university and broader community of topics related to our planet.
Dr. Marli Miller is a tenured Senior Instructor of Geology and an accomplished photographer. Her images appear in most American introductory geology textbooks, the permanent collections of several museums, and on the covers of numerous journals and books. In 2009, Miller curated and provided the images for the Museum of Natural and Cultural History's "Seeing Time" exhibit.
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Name: Carl
Gender: Male
Age: 45
Location: Seattle
I am a 45 year-old gay man who has not bottomed in over 15 years (which included a 10 year monogamous relationship). I am interested in doing bottoming again. However, I am worried about my cleanliness and smell. As a top, it never bothered me that much with my bottom partners, and it was rarely a problem. I never asked them if they prepared ahead of time.
I am slightly paranoid about being clean as a bottom. Should I use an enema, and if so, with what liquid? How does diet help? I am basically vegetarian, although will occasionally eat meat if it's served to me (no pun intended). Obviously, this apprehension will not help when the time comes because I'll likely just tighten up. I know this based on past experience.
I could go on with other details but will stop here and see about your reply.
Hey Carl,
Worrying about stuff is just about the best way to mess up a sexual experience of any kind. But I'm sure that you know that already, huh? This is particularly true for someone reacquainting himself with the pleasures of being a bottom.
I've written and spoken extensively about this very thing. I'd like to direct your attention to the CATEGORIES section in the sidebar of my site. It's a pull-down menu. You will notice that the second category is ANAL. Under this is a whole bunch of subcategories. Click on any one of those you will be taken to all the posting I've made on that particular subject. Of particular interest to you would probably be my tutorial for being a good bottom: Liberating The B.O.B. Within.
In terms of douching, warm water is all you need. Never use soap. Some people add lemon juice or vinegar (1-2 Tbs per quart) of the warm water. Others dissolve (2 Tbs) of baking soda in a quart of warm water.
Stay away from commercially produced douches, most contain harmful and irritating chemicals. And trust me, you don't want that. Besides, commercial douches are expensive and all that packaging is definitely not Eco-friendly. And we all want to be green sodomites, don't we?
Finally there is always the ever-versatile shower or bath bidet option. You can find one model, the Ergo Speed Douche, in My Stockroom. Look for the Dr Dick's Stockroom banner in the sidebar of my site. (Everyone here at Dr Dick Sex Advice is a big fan of the Perfect Fit Brand line of adult products.) Look for our review of the Ergo Speed Douche HERE.
I also know that a vigorous fucking will introduce more air into a bottom's rectum expanding it and making for that "OMG, I gotta take a dump" feeling. So take it easy the first few times you get back into the saddle, so to speak, as it were.
Diet can indeed make a difference in the composition of your shit and how you and it smell. But, that being said, you have to realize your bowels are working properly when they eliminate waste from your body, so don't try and mess with that. And just so you know, there are often some unpleasant side effects to rootin' around in someone's hole, regardless how fastidious the bottom is about his hygiene. So why not just relax and if there's a little mess, clean it up with some soap and water. Its not the end of the world.
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Historically, Cincinnati was a major railroad hub, but traffic was split over five stations. A decision was taken in 1928 to construct a central station--the Cincinnati Union Terminal. The principle architects were Alfred T. Fellheimer and Steward Wagner. However, architects Paul Philippe Cret and Roland Wank were brought in as design consultants, and Cret is credited with the building's art deco style. It features the largest semi-dome in the western hemisphere, measuring 180 feet wide and 106 feet high. Although abandoned by Amtrak in 1971, the station was designated a historic landmark two years later. It lay vacant for the next couple of decades before being saved and restored by the people of Cincinnati. The building is now home to a much reduced passenger rail terminal as well as museums, theaters and a library. This architectural sculpture of the fabulous art deco entrance facade was handcrafted by the duo Chisel & Mouse in their studio in Sussex, England. It is made of strong plaster that has a reassuring weight and smooth, cool feel. The window frames are made of etched brass. See more work from Chisel & Mouse here.
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TED is auditioning for 2013 speakers. Here is an idea worth spreading!
I don't know a person, who has watched a TED video (or two) and didn't like it. It's all about passion.
UPDATE: Get details on online signups for events near you: list of opening dates for TED2013 auditions.
The best moments at TED have often come from unexpected places. But this year, we're pushing that to an entirely new level. We're staging a global talent search to bring together the most remarkable lineup in TED's history. A series of public talent searches in cities around the world will reveal voices, talents and ideas that delight and surprise. As a result, at least half of our TED2013 program will literally be crowd-sourced through what we're calling the TED2013 Worldwide Talent Search.
Public events will be happening in 14 countries on six continents — in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Doha, Johannesburg, London, Nairobi, New York, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo, Tunis and Vancouver — between April and June 2012. The talent searches will be official TED events, and we've tapped local TEDx organizers…
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Irina Shayk Makes FHM's Top 100 Sexiest Women [PHOTOS]
Irina Shayk recently made FHM's Top 100 Sexiest Women list. In fact, she is number 10 on the list. This Russian beauty is also on the cover of the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. Irina gets very high marks on the giggity meter and should run for President. Enjoy!


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For anyone that's wondered how some of the features they use every day get into the PHP language, Chris Jones has written up a post making the RFC (Request for Comments) process they follow a bit more transparent for the average developer.
The PHP RFC process has been in place for a while, and users new to core PHP development are starting to use RFCs to propose desirable features. Here are some personal observations and suggestions that show how I have seen feature acceptance and the (newish) RFC process work in practice. These notes augment the steps in How To Create an RFC. I hope they help set expectations about the PHP RFC process and feature acceptance in the PHP language.
He lists the steps in the process from start to finish including things like:
- Avoid presenting an RFC idea to the "internals" mail list with email that begins "I don't know much about ... but ...". Do some research first.
- Your RFC should talk about all PHP areas that will be affected: php.ini, different SAPIs, engine, extensions, etc. List similar features. List similar features in other languages. Link to references. Give an estimate of the actual positive impact to user code.
- If you do have an implementation, make it clear whether the implementation is a simple prototype or is expected to be the final code. This is specially important during the vote.
- There is no need to respond to every discussion email individually. You should batch up your responses and manage the discussion intelligently.
- With long, fragmented discussions, not everyone will read every email. Update the RFC at regular intervals, and let people know what has changed.
- Some areas of PHP are complex or niche. Sometimes feature suggestions will be greeted by an apparent lack of interest. Don't be discouraged. This just means you need to take a stronger leadership role, and also prove your credentials by first working on the existing code base.
- During the voting period, it is common for people to continue mail list discussion. You may need to halt the vote and address any issues.
Obviously, there's a lot more to it than that - his post does a great job of letting you know what to expect and includes useful tips on helping you get your idea across.


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In their own words
"When I think about all of the things I can do with a degree in Politics, and the changes I can make in this country, there is nothing else I'd rather do with my life."
-- Alana Aleman
"I'm a Politics major and I absolutely love it because the department is one of the most intellectually innovative at Ithaca and the faculty really stresses critical thinking and serious academic work. I feel well-prepared for graduate school and the professors are so involved and dynamic that it's hard not to feel inspired. The diversity of interests allows students to specialize in just about whatever intrigues them-whether it's Islam, feminism, law, identity, the Holocaust, or area studies around the world."
-- Jesse Katen
"Part of me has always been interested in politics--that's the part of me that wants to save the world. I believe that some of the most daunting challenges in the world today--poverty, disease, war--can be solved if people can put aside their petty differences and preconceived notions and do what they know to be right. I'm not saying that a B.A. in politics from Ithaca College will immediately lead to the end of world hunger, but for me to do my part in improving the lives of my brothers and sisters, I have to understand the causes of our problems and the institutions involved in developing any possible solutions. I think of my education as a framework for changing the planet--in ways both big and small."
-- Alexander Justice Moore
"I'm a politics major because I want to get into politics and make the world a better place."
-- Billy Robinson
"I chose the Politics Department because I plan to go on to law school following my undergraduate at Ithaca College. I feel that a politics degree from Ithaca will provide with me with excellent experiences and knowledge for when I go on to grad school."
-- Mike Hackenburg
"I came to Ithaca as a journalism major and soon realized that a journalist needs things to write about, and needs an understanding of the world and how it works in order to be an effective journalist. What I have learned through my classes in the politics department has given me just that--the ability to understand, analyze and critique world events and politics. I believe this is of the utmost importance in today's media, where too few journalists have the skills or motivation to do so."
-- Kate Sheppard
"The reason that I am a Politics major is because I am interested in giving a voice to those who have been silenced. There are millions of people in this country and around the world living and dying in poverty and sub-human standards under oppressive governments/societies and I am saddened by the fact that there are what I consider even more cruel people who are willing to look the other way. I feel that it is unacceptable to just not know that people are being systematically raped and murdered in places like the Sudan. I know that it is a cliche to say that I want to make a difference, but I feel that just learning about people whose struggles have been silenced is making a difference in itself."
-- Channon Lucas
"As a Park Scholar, I came to Ithaca College set on being a Journalism student. I was trying to decide whether to minor in either business or politics. After my first class in the Politics department (Intro to Global Studies), I knew that I not only wanted to pursue politics at IC, but that I wanted to double major and be able to take advantage of the departments full range of talent and curricula. I hope to be a political journalist for a newspaper or magazine after I graduate from IC."
-- Chris Baxter
"I am a politics major because I want to change the world. Politics is probably the most important subject to study, as it affects everyone and everything. Everything else just seems inconsequential by comparison."
-- Jared Wiener
"Politics shapes everything about our world, country, state, and city... it's everywhere; and because of this I want to be well educated in this area so that I can help shape and make these political decisions."
-- Abigail Chewning
"The Politics major is a special major not only because of the fact that everything in this world comes down to politics and power relations, but also because it can be the most depressing as well as the most inspiring thing a student can encounter, with the potential to change the course of his or her life. Whether you are interested in the sciences and technologies, the stock market and multinational corporations, social welfare and civil rights, or anything in between, a good background in the socio-political field of academia will only help you understand better all other fields of study and see the subtle connections between them.
"But more than anything, the politics major will create in you the incentive to seek the truth in life beyond the realm of norm and popular discourse; it will inspire you to be better informed and more aware of your surroundings and the realities in the world, the way that any person who claims to be living in a democratic society should be."
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Stigma: Whose Responsibility?
By Marc Kolman, M.S.P.H.
March 7, 2010
I started writing for TheBody.com to try and address issues of stigma and HIV in the Southern United States. My first blog talked about internal and external stigma. What I mean by external stigma is stigma as a result of actions directed towards individuals or groups through any form of targeted actions taken because of who they are as individuals or the group they belong to. This can be a result of race (racism), class (classism), sexual orientation (homophobia), gender (sexism), or HIV status. When I say internal stigma, it is the result of ongoing treatment that targets individuals in a way that they learn to believe that these messages are real and define who they are. Internal, or felt, stigma is thus the result of external, or enacted, stigma acting over a period of time. Though I think it can be helpful to understand the terminology to get a better understanding of how stigma operates, this is somewhat academic and understanding these terms is not really the topic of this post.
As I've thought more, I realize how critical stigma is in the fight against HIV. Bonnie Goldman, in her farewell message to TheBody.com, says that "stigma and discrimination are still the rule". Regan Hoffman, the editor of POZ, wrote in a recent cover story that stigma "is one of the defining characteristics of the disease (HIV)." She writes, "People don't fear HIV because (as some suggest) they misperceive it to be a gay or a black disease; they fear HIV and the people living with it, period." Forty-nine percent of the respondents to a survey conducted at poz.com about stigma said that fear of being stigmatized is worse than the actual stigma and that stigma adversely affects dating, relationships, disclosure, and careers.
Stigma affects us all. Stigma has damaging effects whether we experience discriminatory and stigmatizing acts directed towards us, whether we witness these acts, or even whether we participate knowingly or un-knowingly in discriminatory acts. This may not be news to any of us. The question is, what do we do about stigma?
Stigma results from people thinking that others are different than them and are somehow deserving of being treated poorly. No one would intentionally treat someone else poorly unless they somehow feel justified in doing so and unless they themselves have been treated poorly as well. Discrimination is sometimes blatant, such as a racist or homophobic remark, but is often more subtle. Can you tell when there is housing discrimination? Employment discrimination? How often does someone need to interrupt you or exclude you from a conversation before you realize it might be caused by stigma or discrimination? Is the intolerable disparity in HIV infections between Whites and Blacks in this country a result of stigma? How about the higher HIV rates in the states in the Deep South (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina)?
Stigma hurts. It hurts all of us. Stigma clearly hurts those who are targeted -- those it is directed towards. But when one is hurt, we are all hurt. We all suffer the results of stigma. When one person is targeted, it hurts the rest of us. It therefore stands to reason that addressing stigma is everyone's responsibility. And, in fact, this is true. We can all take responsibility for improving conditions in society that affect everyone, for improving conditions in the world. However, it also often falls on those who are oppressed to take initiative. To help, here are some ideas how individuals can work with stigma.
One key way is to learn how to identify and address the internalized feelings that result from stigma. As challenging as this can feel, it is extremely powerful to know how to identify stigma and its effects. It helps to understand how and when stigma happens, and how it affects you as an individual when it happens. Do you get angry, hurt, withdrawn, depressed, or infuriated? As mentioned earlier, fear of stigma is worse than the actual stigma. Learning to understand stigma, how it operates, and what happens as a result will help to alleviate the fear of stigma. One way to work on this is through sharing stories -- stories of hurts, of successes, of triumphs, and of events in your life that felt discriminatory or stigmatizing. These stories can be about HIV, race, gender, age, class, etc. Laughing, crying, and shaking while you do this helps.
Second is to build allies. Allies are helpers, those who will stand side-by-side with you, taking up the struggle, who always remember you are good and who have confidence in you no matter what. Relationships with effective allies may need to be nurtured, supported, and encouraged, just as they need to nurture, support, and encourage you. To develop allies, think about whom you trust and who you want to have close to you. Then think about what it will take to get them in your life. This, in fact, may be the biggest contradiction to any internalized stigma -- to get people who understand you, who think well about you, and who will stand side-by-side with you as you are challenged by things directed at you that have very little do with you.
A third thing is what a dear friend of mine calls "self care". Be gentle and kind with yourself. Eat well. Exercise. Take care of your body. Do things that you enjoy whether that's dancing, going to the theater, reading, walking in nature, or being with good friends. Of course, be smart about any HIV medications. Self care goes a long way towards maintaining a healthy, productive perspective on life and in gaining an understanding of what is coming at you from outside (external stigma) as compared to what comes from inside of yourself (internalized stigma).
Stigma is a key issue in the struggle against HIV/AIDS. It has resulted from a long history of issues in our culture, none of which have anything to do with the disease itself. Stigma is directed at lots of groups in our society and it gets confusing to know how it operates and whether any stigma is the result of one's HIV status, race, gender, sexual orientation, or something entirely different. Stigma clearly affects everyone and we can also take some responsibility to end stigma, whether we are the recipient of or witness to.
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Marc Kolman is a long-term public health administrator and advocate. With a passion for social justice, Marc has worked in many settings, including state and local governments and non-profit agencies. Primary interests include HIV and issues affecting the deep south. Marc is currently the executive director of the Piedmont Health Care Consortium which envisions a society in which no one is limited by oppressions, health disparities, or social injustices. Marc lives in Carrboro N.C., is an avid cyclist and is the father of three daughters.
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ST. LOUIS – After squandering a late fourth-quarter lead thanks to an ugly turnover by quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the 49ers fell to the Rams, 16-13, in overtime today after Rams rocket-legged rookie Greg Zuerlein drilled a 54-yard field goal.
Zuerlein's game-winner came with 26 seconds left and ensured the teams, against astronomical odds, didn't finish their game tied for the second time in three weeks.
As he did in the teams' first meeting, 49ers placekicker David Akers missed a field goal in overtime. Akers missed from 51 yards after misfiring from 41 yards in San Francisco's 24-24 tie with the Rams on Nov. 11.
With the 49ers leading 10-2 with just over three minutes left in regulation, Kaepernick, on 3rd-and-3 at San Francisco's 17, airmailed a read-option pitch over the head of wide receiver Ted Ginn, who was lined up behind Frank Gore in the backfield.
St. Louis cornerback Janoris Jenkins beat Ginn to the loose ball and rolled into the end zone for a touchdown. St. Louis tied the game, 10-10, on quarterback Sam Bradford's two-point conversion pass to tight end Lance Kendricks, which was preceded by a false-start penalty.
Two plays later, however, Kaepernick made some amends by zig-zagging through the Rams defense.
On 1st-and-10 from San Francisco's 36, he zoomed around right end, picked up a key downfield block from Frank Gore and raced 50 yards to St. Louis' 14 to set up a 33-yard field goal by Akers.
With 94 seconds left, the Rams roared right back.
A drive keyed by scrambles of 14 and 11 yards by Bradford set the stage for Zuerlein, who hammered a game-tying 53-yard field goal as time expired to send the game into overtime.
The eventful ending was preceded by a tame opening two quarters.
The only points of the opening half came on the 49ers' 11-play, 60-yard touchdown that was kick-started by Gore's 23-yard run on the first play. Gore capped the march with a one-yard scoring run and tied Gene Washington for fifth all-time on the franchise's career touchdown list (59).
On the drive, Kaepernick was 3 of 3 for 24 yards, connecting with fullback Bruce Miller for completions of 11 and six yards.
After managing 88 yards and four first downs in the first half, St. Louis opened the third quarter by driving 74 yards to set up a 4th-and-1 at San Francisco's five-yard line. Trailing 7-0, they eschewed a field-goal and turned the ball over on downs when Bradford's pass to wideout Austin Pettis was broken up by cornerback Tarell Brown in the right corner of the end zone.
Four plays later, however, St. Louis trimmed the deficit to 7-2 when Kaepernick was called for intentional grounding in the end zone.


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Red Hot Chili Peppers Releasing First of 7-Inch Single Series This Friday
Earlier this year, the Red Hot Chili Peppers announced plans to unleash a whole wealth of new music the old-fashioned way: on vinyl. In fact, a total of nine 7-inch vinyl singles featuring 18 previously unreleased outtakes recorded while the band was making its 'By the Way' album are due in total, and the first release -- with 'Strange Man' as the A-side and 'Long Progression' the B-side -- drops this Friday (Aug. 10).
In addition to the vinyl releases, the songs will also be available in digital formats via the band's website and at iTunes. Also, fans can purchase the complete singles collection bundle featuring all nine 7-inch vinyl records, digital downloads of each tune, plus a custom 3X3 recycled-plastic holder available for displaying each of the 7-inch vinyl records on your wall. The vinyl singles feature the art of Kelsey Brookes, and all nine covers will combine into one single piece of artwork.
This Friday's release of 'Strange Man' and 'Long Progression' will be followed by 'Magpies' and 'Victorian Machinery' on Sept. 11, and 'Never Is a Long Time' and 'Love of Your Life' on Oct. 2. The as-yet-announced titles for the forth, fifth, and sixth releases will follow on Nov. 6, Dec. 4, and Dec. 18, respectively, with the final singles expected early next year.


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I've just picked up another little InWin BM648 miniITX case, which I intend using for my HTPC. It's got a 160W PSU.
Proposed specs of the HTPC are as follows:
MSI B75IA-E33 miniITX (B75 chipset)
64GB Crucial M4
2x 2GB Kingston HyperX Blue 1600MHz DIMMs
Generic DVD drive
Sapphire HD7750 low-profile GDDR5
I think it'll run fine - I have the same case running as a server with a G2020 on an Asus P8H77-I, 8GB RAM, a 3.5" drive and 5x2.5" drives, and it copes OK. The HD7750 is the item causing concern.
What says Ars?
I've just picked up another little InWin BM648 miniITX case, which I intend using for my HTPC. It's got a 160W PSU.
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What says Ars?
The TDP of the i3-3225 is 55W, and the TDP of the HD 7750 is 55W. That leaves 50W for all of the rest of the stuff in an absolutely worst case scenario, and the rest of the stuff should draw under 20W in that worst case scenario. It should be fine as long as the PSU is decent quality.
Yeah, should be fine unless the PSU's rating is very ambitious.
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The specsindicate 10Amps on the +12V. Not awesome, but I can't recall seeing too many square PSU's like that, so it is what it is.
Bleh, I completely forgot about that. I'm used to modern quality power supplies that can put 99%+ of their entire rating out on the 12V rail, since they use DC-DC subsystems hanging off the 12V to supply 5V and 3.3V, as opposed to the older group regulated (and worse) designs.
10A gats you 120W, and everything in a modern system pretty much entirely depends on the 12V rail for power - the CPU and videocard only draw from 12V. Still, if it actually is quality, it'll work, just without much margin at worst case draw for other 12V stuff like multiple HDDs or big fans.
came up with min 120W psu recommended 170w so its close
I run a slightly more powerful Sandy-based HTPC on a 150W. When streaming back uncompressed BD rips it's only drawing about 85W from the wall.
It's running fine, as I said my other machine running a lot more drives runs perfectly OK.
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It's running fine, as I said my other machine running a lot more drives runs perfectly OK.
Unfortunately, this doesn't tell you much, as I imagine you already know. 2.5" HDDs draw maybe 3W max each, and are driven primarily by the 5V rail.
I still think you'll be fine, since as a HTPC, you probably won't be hitting both the CPU and GPU hard at the same time. Even if you do, you probably won't be hitting TDP on both at the same time.
Intel's TDP is rubbish anyway. My main rig has an i5-3350P, which has a TDP of 55W. Asus AI Suite's EPU program reports the CPU to be using 28W of power, and that's running at 100% load at 3.3GHz (slight overclock being performed automatically by the Asus P8Z77-M Pro board) mining Litecoins.
I don't mean to be rude with this question, but why do you need a discrete GPU in an HTPC? The HD4000 should be plenty for 1080p playback and casual gaming (I used mine to stream HD content from the NAS and do game emulation without issue -- I have since moved to a NUC/openelec).
Games is all I can think of. The HD 2500 plays back all my BD rips without issue.
ut why do you need a discrete GPU in an HTPC? The HD4000 should be plenty for 1080pAside from Intel's 24hz refresh rate bug, you mean? That's the one thing holding me back right now from building an HTPC with the Intel integrated graphics, I'm waiting for Haswell to see if that gets fixed (which I doubt).
My main reason is using a discrete GPU just plain looks better. I don't know if it's just a configuration problem, but everything just has less banding using a GT610 or HD7750 than it does on the HD4000.


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HANG TIME WEST – At least he'll get big money. That is what Tyreke Evans stares at — $44 million over four years from the Pelicans in a sign-and-trade involving the Kings and Trail Blazers that will become official July 10.
This settles nothing, though. Evans has a running start at lifetime financial security, but no clear path to a career fulfilled in a destination he chose. He needed solid ground after three years of constant shifting in position and importance in Sacramento. Instead, he got overpaid to become more marginalized than before.
It wouldn't have been just a Pelicans thing either. If Sacramento had matched, the Kings had already hit Draft-night jackpots by having Ben McLemore – shooting guard Ben McLemore – fall in their lap. So wanting the money and the chance at a new start somewhere else is understandable. (On the other hand, Evans could have had a new start by standing still. This isn't the same Sacramento organization he grew up with.)
By going to New Orleans in a three-team trade that also sends Greivis Vasquez to Sacramento and Robin Lopez to Portland, Evans will be on the same team, and possibly in the same backcourt, as All-Star Jrue Holiday and Eric Gordon. If the Pelicans see him at small forward, Evans is still trying to fit in an offense that also includes Anthony Davis and Ryan Anderson, while they're still working to find room for Austin Rivers.
The Pelicans also need to find help inside after trading their only true center, Lopez. While Davis may be able to play there some day, he's still at about 220 pounds and team officials are not anxious to have him turned into an accordion. That leaves Jason Smith as the best center option.
Evans' first season, 2009-10, was dynamic — Rookie of the Year, 20.1 points, 5.8 assists, 5.3 boards and signs he could become a good defender. Then it became apparent he would not develop the distributing skills to become a permanent point guard. Defenses, predictably, took away the lanes to the basket. He went from that very promising start to three consecutive seasons of a decline in shots and average minutes.
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In the week or two since "Say What?"—a three paragraph call-out of one of the most unintentionally amusing pieces of Wall Street triple-speak we've ever come across—generated the biggest response per paragraph this virtual column has ever seen, we have been considering the idea that perhaps there is a direct, inverse correlation between length and readership.
So here's another brief call-out, but of a most intentionally amusing comment buried within an otherwise dry note discussing the implications of Apple's iPhone launch at Verizon.
See if you can spot it:
The availability of the iPhone 4 at Verizon has been long considered a risk for Motorola Mobility and RIM. While it is widely expected to impact both vendors, we believe both Motorola and RIM have appropriately accounted for the risk. Motorola of course has given 1Q guidance already, which included a material downtick at Verizon. RIM has successfully mitigated the iPhone risk by cleverly ceding most of its Verizon market share to Android first.
Finally—a sense of humor on Wall Street!
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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This is the funny part of the paragraph:
RIM has successfully mitigated the iPhone risk by cleverly ceding most of its Verizon market share to Android first.
- JEFF PARTLOW: THE COVERED CALLS ADVISOR said...
How about asking your readers to submit their own favorite humorous double-speak examples. Perhaps you could even establish a financial version of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest:
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Broad conservation initiatives being undertaken by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) were given extra scrutiny at an Oct. 7 hearing on the implementation of the farm bill's conservation title.
In going after some of the bigger conservation issues, Dave White, NRCS chief, told the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research that the NRCS is using the "Chesapeake Bay (Watershed Program) as a model."
The new Chesapeake Bay effort uses resources from many conservation groups to clean up the threatened watershed and was explicitly approved in the latest farm bill. White told the subcommittee a similar effort was under way in the Mississippi River Basin and others are being considered.
This did not sit well with several subcommittee members.
The Chesapeake Bay program "was created in the farm bill for USDA to run, operate and make decisions regarding funding," said Pennsylvania Rep. Tim Holden, who chaired the hearing. "How are you coordinating with other agencies but maintaining control?"
White: "We'll cooperate and consult with anyone. But let me assure you USDA will maintain control of that. This year was pretty successful. … We'll cooperate with everyone and their brother but are not about to cede authority you gave us."
There has been broad producer interest in the program. "We have 2,037 applications and were able to fund 826 of those," said White. "We used something like 98.4 percent of all the funds. You don't want to obligate 100 percent in case there are some adjustments or modifications."
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is among the most popular conservation programs said Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte, subcommittee ranking member. That's why, during conference, "we worried greatly those carve-outs and other pet projects would erode the funding for (EQIP) and extend the backlog. Members tried to strike a delicate balance between the carve-outs and the needs of producers throughout the country.
"Now, we hear NRCS has started a Mississippi River Basin initiative above and beyond the statutory limit set by law. In fact, material about this initiative states this funding is 'above and beyond regularly CCPI (Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative) funding…'"
Where, White was asked, does the NRCS "get the statutory authority to go above" the allowed, congressionally-approved 6 percent and "why would the department use its authority to go above an obvious limitation?"
CCPI, replied White, is a "new tool you provided us in the new farm bill. It allows us to work with partners cooperatively to solve resource problems.
"You're absolutely right about the Mississippi River. In fact, we looked at the Chesapeake Bay as the kind of model to do that — target resources to solve specific issues.
"On the 6 percent, we talked to the Office of General Council and feel we're on firm legal ground. The goal isn't to take away from any state's ongoing applications — the county-based EQIP applications available nationwide.
"You provided increased funding for EQIP and many of the other programs. Assuming we get that increased funding, that's where that extra money would come from. I'm not going to rob Virginia to give it to Alabama or Mississippi."
While Goodlatte has "no doubt" there are those in the Mississippi Delta that "very much appreciate what you've chosen to do" he was unwilling to concede the NRCS has "the statutory authority to give preference in that area when there's no congressional mandate. In effect, you're taking money away from every other part of the country that's already annoyed that Chesapeake Bay already has preference. But that was specifically designated, specifically funded, specifically set aside. The rest of the country, I think, is very concerned you'll do more of these at their expense."
"Understood," said White, who also pointed to California's Air Quality Initiative (for more, see http://www.ca.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/airquality.html) as having similar funding as the Chesapeake Bay program.
Goodlatte claimed he had no quarrel with the programs "as long as you stay within those limits. But when it comes to the rest of the pot of money, the whole country is eyeing it and wants to make sure you're not exceeding what Congress intended in regards to the set-asides."
White responded by saying EQIP was created in 1996 with an annual funding level of $200 million (since raised to $1.2 billion). "Sixty-five percent of whatever money was received was prioritized. That caused a huge backlash because the money wasn't distributed, it was felt, fairly across the country."
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Annemarie O'Brien, Brown Girl Dreaming, Candace Fleming, Carol Allen, Danielle Pignataro, E. Lockhart, Eliot Shrefer, Endangered, Evidence of Things Not Seen, I'LL GIVE YOU THE SUN, Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Linden McNeilly, Lindsey Lane, Romanov: Murder Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia, Sue LaNeve, The One and Only Ivan, Varian Johnson, We Were Liars
So many books, so little time. How does one choose?
We Kid-Lit writers read books the way voracious squirrels gather acorns, consuming the precious finds to feed our passions, spitting out the empty shells to guide and inspire our work. If you're looking for a good book to read or give, here are favorites offered by my VCFA 2009 grad class–The Super Secret Society of Quirk and Quill, aka S3Q2.
Carol Allen
BROWN GIRL DREAMING by Jacqueline Woodson. I loved this memoir written in verse. Woodson is an award winning writer, and in this book, she managed to trace not only her own development as a writer but her family's participation in the Civil Rights Movement. The family, split among Ohio, South Carolina, and then Brooklyn, not only witnessed televised and personal experiences with the "Movement," but they did so from an upbringing as Jevohah's Witnesses. Woodword's poetic talent leaps off the page, and her references to the differences of Whites and Blacks in our nation's history, while not in-depth, are powerful enough to take the reader right to the scene.
Danielle Pignatarro
My favorite book this year -not including any published from S3Q2- was I'LL GIVE YOU THE SUN by Jandy Nelson. It's hard to pinpoint one thing that made it so amazing. The two different points of view, spanning years, created perfect tension that allowed things to be revealed at the perfect moments. I tried to read it slowly, but it was impossible to do so. I had to know what was going to happen next.
My favorite book of the year was BROWN GIRL DREAMING by Jacqueline Woodson. The use of poetry and well-placed line breaks allowed me to contemplate and measure each verse. The memoir was powerful but never heavy-handed. It was rightly chosen for a National Book Award, and I expect it to take Newbery gold as well.
Another favorite book is THE FOURTEENTH GOLDFISH by Jennifer Holm. The novel shows us a new take on the grandfather-grandchild relationship, but is never heavy-handed or didactic. Holm uses deceptively simple language to showcase very powerful moments for both Ellie and Melvin, her grandfather. While everyone doesn't get what they want at the end of the novel, they all get exactly what they need.
My top three were:
BROWN GIRL DREAMING, by Jacqueline Woodson: I loved its close take on life, her use of essential details without bogging down or getting ham-handed, and overall core message of strength and family. I am not always drawn to novels or memoirs in verse, but she sold me with her use of spare, poetic language that was not cloying, singsongy or trite.
ENDANGERED, by Eliot Shrefer: Vivid, excellent plotting, fantastic use of the political and personal to establish setting and tension, and authentic in its close look at life with the bonobos. I couldn't put it down, and my husband, who reads almost no kidlit, felt the same way.
EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN, by Lindsey Lane: What a book. She uses many alternate voices, and a changing time period to continually spiral around a tragic event that feels unknowable, yet affected a whole town. She is an absolute master at voice, and the way she was able to move the plot through changing narrative was very admirable.
I've just begun BROWN GIRL DREAMING, and already understand why it is such a favorite. But of the books I've completed, E. Lockhart's WE WERE LIARS gets my vote for my favorite. Emily's unique voice and opening lines sucked me in with an intense gravitational pull. Her development of setting, characters, and relationships begged me to slow my pace to savor her unique plotting. But her slow reveal of what my gut screamed would grow as dark and forceful as a black hole kept the pages turning, rapidly. The twist caught me so off guard, I shouted OH MY GOD, nearly giving my husband a coronary. This was delicious fiction.
A special 10-year-old in my life led me to another honoree published a couple years ago, Katherine Applegate's THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN. This particular boy prefers non-fiction but he inhaled this tale so consider it for your reluctant or avid reader. I was drawn to its core, the power of kindness.
My two favorite books this year were BROWN GIRL DREAMING by Jacqueline Woodson and THE FAMILY ROMANOV: MURDER, REBELLION & THE FALL OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA by Candace Fleming. I'll focus on the latter since the former is getting well deserved coverage. I've read numerous adult books about the fall of Imperial Russia and the Romanov family over the past twenty-five years. I can't think of a book aimed at young adults that is as thorough and engaging as Fleming's. Her book is so well researched and written even adults would enjoy it. Unlike most of the adult books out there, Fleming's book is the only one that also brings the peasant point of view to life with true accounts inserted in each of the chapters. If you like non-fiction, THE FAMILY ROMANOV is a gem and a story you won't be able to put down!
If you've reached this point in the post, you'll likely agree that Jacqueline Woodson's BROWN GIRL DREAMING deserves all of the honors it has already earned and will likely continue to receive. So even as we honor the work of all the authors listed above, this post is for you, Jacqueline Woodson.


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Privatization" is a new in-term, on local, state, and federal levels of government. Even functions that our civic textbooks tell us can only be performed by government, such as prisons, are being accomplished successfully, and far more efficiently, by private enterprise. For once, a fashionable concept contains a great deal of sense.
Privatization is a great and important good in itself. Another name for it is "desocialization." Privatization is the reversal of the deadly socialist process that had been proceeding unchecked for almost a century. It has the great virtue of taking resources from the coercive sector, the sector of politicians and bureaucrats—in short, the non-producers—and turning them over to the voluntary sector of creators and producers. The more resources remain in the private, productive sector, the less a deadweight of parasitism will burden the producers and cripple the standard of living of consumers.
In a narrower sense, the private sector will always be more efficient than the governmental because income in the private sector is only a function of efficient service to the consumers. The more efficient that service, the higher the income and profits. In the government sector, in contrast, income is unrelated to efficiency or service to the consumer. Income is extracted coercively from the taxpayers (or, by inflation, from the pockets of consumers). In the government sector, the consumer is not someone to be served and courted; he or she is an unwelcome "waster" of scarce resources owned or controlled by the bureaucracy.
Anything and everything is fair game for privatization. Socialists used to argue that all they wish to do is to convert the entire economy to function like one huge Post Office. No socialist would dare argue that today, so much of a disgrace is the monopolized governmental Postal Service. One standard argument is that the government "should only do what private firms or citizens cannot do." But what can't they do? Every good or service now supplied by government has, at one time or another, been successfully supplied by private enterprise. Another argument is that some activities are "too large" to be performed well by private enterprise. But the capital market is enormous, and has successfully financed far more expensive undertakings than most governmental activities. Besides the government has no capital of its own; everything it has, it has taxed away from private producers.
Privatization is becoming politically popular now as a means of financing the huge federal deficit. It is certainly true that a deficit may be reduced not only by cutting expenditures and raising taxes, but also by selling assets to the private sector. Those economists who have tried to justify deficits by pointing to the growth of government assets backing those deficits can now be requested to put up or shut up: in other words, to start selling those assets as a way of bringing the deficits down.
Fine. There is a huge amount of assets that have been hoarded, for decades, by the federal government. Most of the land of the Western states has been locked up by the federal government and held permanently out of use. In effect, the federal government has acted like a giant monopolist: permanently keeping out of use an enormous amount of valuable and productive assets: land, water, minerals, and forests. By locking up assets, the federal government has been reducing the productivity and the standard of living of every one of us. It has also been acting as a giant land and natural resource cartelist—artificially keeping up the prices of those resources by withholding their supply. Productivity would rise, and prices would fall, and the real income of all of us would greatly increase, if government assets were privatized and thereby allowed to enter the productive system.
Reduce the deficit by selling assets? Sure, let's go full steam. But let's not insist on too high a price for these assets. Sell, sell, at whatever the assets will bring. If the revenue is not enough to end the deficit, sell yet again.
A few years ago, at an international gathering of free-market economists, Sir Keith Joseph, Minister of Industry and alleged free-market advocate in the Thatcher government, was asked why the government, despite lip-service to privatization, had taken no steps to privatize the steel industry, which had been nationalized by the Labor government. Sir Keith explained that the steel industry was losing money in government hands, and "therefore" could not command a price if put up for sale. At which point, one prominent free-market American economist leaped to his feet, and shouted, waving a dollar bill in the air, "I hereby bid one dollar for the British steel industry!"
Indeed. There is no such thing as no price. Even a bankrupt industry would sell, readily, for its plant and equipment to be used by productive private firms.
And so even a low price should not stop the federal government in its quest to balance the budget by privatization. Those dollars will mount up. Just give freedom and private enterprise a chance.
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Expect a shakeup in the restaurant rankings if Janney Capital Markets' predictions for America's top 10 restaurant chains in 2020 prove to be correct. The firm expects a swift rise in fortunes for a few of the largest chains, according to a recently released report.
From a sales perspective, Chick-fil-A, Starbucks and Chipotle Mexican Grill are forecast to be some of the biggest breakout stars as measured by U.S. systemwide sales.
"It highlights how certain brands that are maybe more in line with what today's consumer wants and future consumers want are moving up the ranks nicely," said Mark Kalinowski, a restaurant analyst at Janney Capital Markets, in a phone interview.
While the industry's top sales performer is expected to hang on to its spot, Janney forecast a shuffling of every other ranking in the top 10.
Notably, the firm expects DineEquity's Applebee's to fall out of the top 10, largely because it is a full-service concept, a category which generally does not draw the same kind of appeal or frequency as quick-service restaurants. Still, it will likely stay the biggest full-service chain during the next several years, analysts forecast.
While many fast-growing chains didn't quite make the top 10 cut, Janney singled out Panera Bread, Sonic Drive-In, Buffalo Wild Wings, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Panda Express, Texas Roadhouse, Jimmy John's and Darden's LongHorn Steakhouse as concepts that should "remain impressive growers."
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Clear simple design, that is fresh yet still seems "corporate". In other words we're looking for something that provides an image of being innovative and helpful but still very solid, stable and trustworthy.
An added consideration is that we're an "oasis" in that we're a source of funds at a time when the rest of the financial landscape is a bit of a desert in terms of startup funding. That said we don't want something that is too literally an oasis... but it is an imagery you may want to keep in mind...
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OutsideSmall apartment house "Vostok Zodiaque", 17 storeys. 150 m from the centre of Corbier, 100 m from the skiing area. In the complex: lift, storage room for skis. Public parking. Shop, grocery, restaurant 50 m, bar 100 m, bus stop 250 m, outdoor swimming pool 50 m. Ski lift, chair lift, slopes, ski school 100 m, ski-kindergarten 50 m. Please note: There are more similar properties for rent in this same residence.
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