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A Touch of Crimson
by Sylvia Day
Published October 4, 2011 by Signet Eclipse
An angel with immense power and insatiable desire, Adrian Mitchell leads an elite Special Ops unit of the seraphim. His task is to punish the Fallen--angels who have become vampires--and command a restless pack of indentured lycans. But Adrian has suffered his own punishment for becoming involved with mortals--losing the woman he loves again and again. Now, after nearly two hundred years, he has found her: Shadoe, her soul once more inhabiting a new body that doesn't remember him. This time he won't let her go.
With no memory of her past as Shadoe, Lindsay Gibson knows only that she can't help being fiercely attracted to the smoldering, seductive male who crosses her path. Swept into a dangerous world of tumultuous passion and preternatural conflict, Lindsay is soon caught between her angel lover, her vampire father, and a full-blown lycan revolt. There's more at stake than her love and her life--she could lose her very soul...
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From Bondi Beach to Woolloomooloo Bay, outdoorsy Sydney is the coolest town Down Under
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WHEN THE FIRST EUROPEAN SETTLERS WASHED ASHORE IN SYDNEY, they found it so inhospitable they weighed anchor, making camp ten miles north, where downtown now stands. There, battling famine, drought and disease, they nearly died off trying to farm the sun-baked land and tame the elements. If only those beleaguered pioneers could see Sydney today. Ferries and pleasure boats cruise the azure waters of a harbor framed by skyscrapers and, beyond that, leafy suburbs that roll like breakers to the coast. In few major cities is the natural environment and its raw beauty so fully on display as it is here; it's as if the city understands how remote it is from the rest of the world and has amplified its charms to catch our attention. Natives of restrained Melbourne might consider Sydney too flashy, but where else but in this beach town–with-brains do bankers and hard-bodied surfers coexist in such harmony? (The secret: As often as not, they're the same people.) And while the local motto may be "No worries," a measured, hardworking temperament keeps the city from slipping into resort-town frivolity. It's the right of locals the world over to champion their city as the most beautiful in the world, but when a Sydneysider says it, you might find yourself agreeing.
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4Culture and King County Metro present Poetry on Buses 2007. We are seeking poetry written by residents of King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish Counties. The theme for Poetry on Buses 2007 is Dreams. Selected poems will be displayed on interior bus placards, published in a book and featured at a poetry reading in November 2007. Selected poets will also receive an honorarium of $125 for use of the poems on the bus.
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• All residents of King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish Counties in Washington State may submit except for the following: 4Culture staff, board members or advisory committee members, selection jurors, and the immediate family members and business partners of any of the above.
• Copyright for published poems remains with the authors.
• Poems must be submitted at www.4culture.org/publicart/poetry/index.htm on or before April 30, 2007 to be eligible.
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Now that the thrill of watching the Olympic Games is over, my 17-year-old son and I sat down to witness the predictable mayhem inherent in the premier of the Lifetime TV series "The Week the Women Went," where it seems natural to root for the men to fail and provide entertainment after all the women of the town have gone on a seven-day mass vacation. However, as the parent of four boys, I have to root for these hapless men left holding the kids and family businesses to rally and show us men can parent, albeit in their own spray-paint-the-pageant-dress and feed them Ramen noodles fashion.
I know this series has all the hallmarks of playing to the cheap seats as a feel-good marathon for the Lifetime female audience, but I think men are much more capable and resilient when put to the test. If they fail, it will be more attributable to the one-week "experiment," which was previously produced for TV in England, Canada, and Morocco.
Because if you give the men much longer than a week, they will find a work-around and then the whole feel-good format is gone along with the women. I tell you this as a mom who went away for a week last year and came home to controlled hysteria, but after having to leave again the next week, returned to the male version of Martha Stewart and felt superfluous. Week one was a train wreck, but the second time my husband found his feet and reinvented himself, our family structure, and my workload in a meaningful and lasting way.
So it's possible that we could see shades of that in the unscripted Lifetime series narrated by comedian Jeff Foxworthy and billed as a "social experiment of Biblical proportions."
The show opened with two fiery sermons: one delivered by a man and the other by a woman in the town of Yamassee, S.C., population 1,000.
"Women! Can't live with 'em and can't live without 'em," the male preacher quipped to his congregation.
While the female pastor cried out, "It was God's idea that every man needs a woman. Woman was not created as an afterthought, He had something in mind!" My suspicion is that this plan was not a reality TV show, but who am I to say I know the mind of the Lord?
So the men are left holding the kids and the bag on everything from a coffee-drinking toddler to a beauty pageant. In two cases, young girls are left to run their mothers' businesses, which should be a whole series in itself.
My son's favorite quote came from an unidentified man who moaned, "A washing machine is an intimidating machine!" To which my son Ian shouted at the TV, "Amen!"
I looked at him and said, "You just used the washing machine to wash your jiu-jitsu gi. What are you talking about?"
He had the decency to look embarrassed when he said, "Well, come on, men are expected to be idiots when it comes to that stuff. It's funny when they are."
It's funny in a movie or Bill Cosby routine, but not in a real life "documentary."
Everybody loves the Bill Cosby comedic moment when he, "Dad," is asked by the kids to give them chocolate cake for breakfast when Mom sleeps in. His brain looks up the recipe for chocolate cake and returns with: eggs and milk and flour. "You want chocolate cake?" he asks the children. "You got it!" All's well, the children are singing songs of praise to him, until the mother comes stalking down the stairs and demands to know who gave them the cake, and they all rat on Dad.
Yes, in the first episode of "The Week the Women Went," kids ate corn dogs, Ramen noodles, and lollipops. Some dads actually formed alliances like on the show "Survivor" as a means of coping.
It's painful when life repeatedly imitates sitcoms and a grown man can't buy proper food, cook the meal he worked to provide for his children, or cope with the common use of a machine he can probably take apart and rebuild, but not operate to wash a load of laundry.
I don't want to raise my boys to be unable to live without me. As Tammy Lane, the domineering mother of a 21-year-old son still living at home, told the camera, "I still do everything for him except wash him, and if he asked me to, it might be a different story." She said that last bit implying that she would consider it if asked.
The man, Justin Lane is the town's fire chief, the guy responsible for many other lives in that town, yet his mother is still working hard to make him incapable because she needs to feel indispensable.
We expect our men to lead the world, care for their children, their wives, and others. And to do that, we need to teach them to use the washer, buy more than peanut butter, bread, and beer and know more about the washing machine than how to rewire it.
Yet it is because they can take the machine apart that I believe these men can rebuild our image of them and their potential. Whether Lifetime takes us there remains to be seen. I, for one, will be watching.


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CHICAGO (May 22, 2014) — The Chicago Fire Foundation is set to host its third annual "Fire, Brews and Bites" beer tasting event at Carmichael's Steakhouse (1052 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Ill., 60607) on Saturday, June 14 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The event will consist of an afternoon of beer, soccer, food and fun as guests will have an opportunity to taste a variety of samples from local breweries, snack on tasty appetizers provided by Carmichael's Steakhouse and socialize while catching some exciting international soccer games on the big screen.
This year's beer tasting is highlighted by samples from Revolution Brewing, Chicago's new hometown craft brewery located in Logan Square, 3 Floyds Brewery Co., and many other local favorites.
Tickets, which include a beer tasting, appetizers and a commemorative gift item, start at $40 and can be purchased here. Guests must be 21 years or over to attend. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Chicago Fire Foundation, the charitable arm of the Chicago Fire Soccer Club.
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Coach Tom Thibodeau says Deng remains hospitalized in Chicago with an illness and is unable to travel for Saturday night's game.
Hinrich has missed the last two games with a bruised left calf, and the Nets won both to even the series. He has done little besides shooting, but Thibodeau says the point guard will warm up and see how he feels.
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Ken North is an author, consultant, and analyst. He chaired the XML DevCon 200x conference series, Nextware, LinkedData Planet, and DataServices World 200x.
The emergence of cloud computing raises a host of questions about the best database technology to use with this new model for on-demand computing. Ultimately, the cloud approach a company chooses determines the data management options that are available to it.
When evaluating the suitability of a database manager for cloud computing, there are three basic steps:
- Consider the class of applications that will be served: data asset protection, business intelligence, e-commerce, etc.
- Determine the suitability of these apps for public or private clouds.
- Factor in ease of development.
The database manager you choose should be a function of the mission and the applications it supports, and not based on budgets and whether it will run in the enterprise as a private cloud or as a public cloud from a service provider. For instance, some companies turn to a cloud provider to back up mission-critical databases or as a disaster recovery option. Database-intensive apps such as business intelligence can be deployed in the cloud by having a SaaS provider host the data and the app, an infrastructure provider host a cloud-based app, or a combination of these approaches. And popular solutions for processing very large data sets, such as Hadoop MapReduce, can run in both the private and public cloud.
Databases, data stores, and data access software should be evaluated for suitability for both public and private clouds. Public cloud security isn't adequate for some types of applications. For example, Amazon Dynamo was built to operate in a trusted environment, without authentication and authorization requirements. At a minimum, database communications and backups to the cloud need to be encrypted.
Security in cloud environments varies based on whether you use SaaS, a platform provider, or an infrastructure provider. SaaS providers bundle tools, APIs, and services, so you don't have to worry about choosing the optimal data store and security model. But if you create a private cloud or use an infrastructure provider, you'll have to select a data management tool that's consistent with your app's security needs. Your database decision also will hinge on whether the environment supports a multitenant or multi-instance model. Salesforce .com hosts apps on Oracle databases using multitenancy. Amazon EC2 supports multi-instance security. If you fire up an Amazon Machine Image running Oracle, DB2, or Microsoft SQL Server, you have a unique instance that doesn't serve other tenants. You have to authorize database users, define roles, and grant user privileges when using the infrastructure-as-a-service model.
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Database app development options for public cloud computing can be limited by the providers. SaaS offerings such as Google App Engine and Force.com provide specific development platforms with predefined APIs and data stores. Private cloud and infrastructure providers including GoGrid and Amazon EC2 let users match the software, database environment, and APIs to their needs. Besides cloud storage APIs, developers can program to various APIs for data stores and standard ones for SQL/XML databases. Programmers can work with SQL APIs and APIs for cloud services. For Amazon, that involves using Web Services Description Language and invoking specific Web services. For projects that use the cloud to power Web 2.0 apps, developers can use JavaScript Object Notation and the Atom Publishing protocol.
For new applications hosted in the cloud, developers look primarily to classes of data stores such as SQL/XML databases, column data stores, distributed hash tables, and tuple spaces variants, such as in-memory databases, entity-attribute-value stores, and other non-SQL databases. Choosing the right data store depends on the scalability, load balancing, consistency, data integrity, transaction support, and security requirements. Some newer data stores have taken a minimalist approach, avoiding joins and not implementing schemas or strong typing; instead, they store data as strings or blobs. Scalability is important for very large data sets and has contributed to the recent enthusiasm for the distributed hash table and distributed key-value stores.
One interesting approach is the ability to configure fault-tolerant systems and hot backups for disaster recovery. A private cloud can be configured and operated with fairly seamless failover to Amazon EC2, for example. You'll have to rep- licate data in the private and public cloud, implementing the Amazon APIs and availability zones, as well as IP assignment and load balancing for the private cloud. You'll also have to use server configurations compatible with Amazon instances to avoid breaking applications and services because of changes in endianness, the Java heap size, and other dissimilarities.
In short, the cloud is an effective elastic computing and data storage engine, but matching the right platform with the right database is critical. Doing this correctly requires evaluating the job and its security needs, as well as assessing how easy it is to design and implement the software. Carefully weighing these factors will lead you to the right conclusion.


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Includes a self drive rental car with pick up on arrival at Auckland International Airport and for all touring and sightseeing with a choice of five vehicle types, a choice of three standards of accommodation, sightseeing and entrance fees as specified, and daily buffet breakfast at hotel. Daily departures year round.
Pick up your self drive rental car on arrival at Auckland International Airport. Transfer by self drive rental car to your hotel in the "City of Sails". The rest of the day is at leisure.
This morning depart your hotel and travel north over the Auckland Harbour Bridge and along the Hibiscus Coast with endless golden beaches and clear waters. View native Kauri trees enroute. Continue north through the city of Whangarei, the capital of the Northland Province and the largest city in this area, to the small township of Kawakawa and on to Paihia, the jewel in the beautiful Bay of Islands. Check in to hotel and relax at leisure.
Today we have included Fuller's Bay of Islands "Flexi-Choice Ticket" which allows you to choose from one of the following tours: the Supercruise; Dolphin Adventures; Hole in the Rock Cruise; Cape Brett Cruise or Cape Reinga Wanderer. Also included today is a free return ferry ticket from Paihia to the historic settlement of Russell across the bay. Enjoy your day in the bay with its history and the beauty of this part of New Zealand all around you.
This morning is at leisure with time to explore on your own. Perhaps an Optional visit to the Waitangi Treaty House with a tour through the Treaty Grounds where the founding document of New Zealand, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 between the British Crown and local Maori Chiefs, or perhaps a round of Golf at the Waitangi Golf Club with the stunning views from many of its fairways across the spectacular Bay of Islands. (Please note that Optional activities mentioned are not included in the tour cost.) Return to Auckland in the afternoon and the rest of the day is at leisure to relax.
Travel south from Auckland to Rotorua through the lush green dairy farming region of the Waikato Province to arrive at the Waitomo Caves. Enjoy a guided tour through this famous underground grotto and see the limestone formations with staligtites and stalagmites and thousands of tiny glow worms. Continue on to Rotorua following the Waikato River for part of the way and then via the bushclad Mamaku Ranges to arrive at the "Thermal Spa City" of Rotorua, set on the shores of Lake Rotorua.
Today enjoy a self drive sightseeing tour of some of the highlights of Rotorua including a visit to Te Puia Thermal Reserve to see boiling mudpools and geysers,and learn about Maori culture. Also visit the Paradise Valley Springs to see New Zealand trout, birds and wildlife before continuing on to the Agrodome where you will watch a New Zealand Farm show featuring sheep dog demonstrations, cow milking and learn about the New Zealand sheep farming industry and the different breeds of sheep. The afternoon is at leisure for Optional activities or exploring on your own. Options today may be to visit the Polynesian Pools and relax in the thermal waters which are sourced from the earth directly below. (Please note that Optional costs are not included in the tour costs. This evening enjoy an authentic Maori Concert and Hangi Dinner.
This morning is at leisure for some shopping or Optional activities. Depart Rotorua and return to Auckland via the Waikato Province and follow the Waikato River through Cambridge with its many thoroughbred horse stud farms to Hamilton and Ngaruawahia. Continue on north to Auckland arriving in the late afternoon. Check in to hotel and rest of the day is at leisure to relax or to explore some more of the "City of Sails" on your own. Enjoy your last night.
Your arrangements conclude today with the drop off of your rental car at Auckland International Airport prior to boarding your departure flight. Bon Voyage! We trust that you have enjoyed your New Zealand holiday with Adventure Pacific.


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Mariah Carey performs at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace to launch her residency "Mariah #1 to Infinity" on April 27, 2015, in Las Vegas.
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Singer/actress Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon arrives at the 82nd annual Academy Awards on March 7, 2010, in Hollywood, Calif. The now former couple, who married in 2008, welcomed twins on April 30, 2011 (which was also their third wedding anniversary) - a son named Moroccan and daughter named Monroe.
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Mariah Carey poses with actor Jack McBrayer, who co-stars in Carey's new video, during an appearance on MTV's Total Request Live, Feb. 27, 2008, in New York. Carey was promoting the release of the first video, "Touch My Body," from her new album E=MC2.
Mariah Carey arrives at a Paris hotel, June 27, 2007. Carey was in the French city to perform at European debut of One Mighty Weekend in Disneyland Paris.
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Mariah Carey poses beside a 16-foot tall replica of her legs, revealed as she was named the first "Celebrity Legs of a Goddess," for Gillette in New York on May 30, 2006.
Mariah Carey holds her three Grammys for best female R&B vocal performance, best contemporary R&B album, and best R&B song at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 8, 2006, in Los Angeles.
Mariah Carey accepts the award for female entertainer of the year at the World Music Awards on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005, in Los Angeles. Her 10th studio album, "The Emancipation of Mimi," became the biggest selling album of 2005 and won a Grammy Award in 2006 for "Best Contemporary R&B Album."
Mariah Carey performs during 5th annual BET Awards, June 28, 2005, in Los Angeles. Following a decline in her popularity, Carey signed with Island Records in 2002 and returned to the forefront of the music scene in 2005.
Despite difficult times, Mariah Carey smiles during an interview Jan. 31, 2002, in New Orleans. She was in town to sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl. Her popularity was in decline when she left Columbia in 2001, was dropped by Virgin Records in 2002 and suffered a highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown, as well as the poor reception to "Glitter," her film and soundtrack project.
Mariah Carey arrives at the American Music Awards, Jan. 17, 2000.
Luciano Pavarotti, left, and Mariah Carey Carey sang her hit "Hero" during the "Pavarotti & Friends" concert in Modena's Novi Sad park Tuesday, June 1, 1999.
Fresh-faced Mariah Carey in 1996. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, (who she married in 1993) and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Carey and divorced in 1998.
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Christopher Corr was born in London and studied at The Royal College of Art. His round the world travels are a huge inspiration for his paintings, with the colours and characters he sees translated into fantastically uplifting prints.
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Following with last week's tradition, we're opening this thread up to you to nominate this week's best comment.
We rounded up last week's best content, but in preparation for tomorrow's reveal of our weekly Best Of, we'll need input from the community. Was it something witty, controversial, or smart that caught your eye? Let us know in the comments with a link to your favorite.
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2012 Jeep JK Wrangler Unlimited
It's Better Than We Thought it Would Be
Readers may remember that I was underwhelmed when I first drove a vehicle with the Pentastar 3.6L VVT V-6 that everyone else was gushing about. Now that I've spent some time driving a 2012 Wrangler with the 3.6L and the A580 five-speed automatic transmission, I'm eating my words.
The 2012 JK Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon is a great improvement over earlier models. The 3.6L VVT V-6 produces 80 more horsepower than the 3.8L V-6 it replaces, but does so at high rpm. The 2012's low-end performance is better than earlier JKs, though. The real star, I suspect, is the A580 automatic.
The transmission is a gem. With a 3.59:1 first gear, 2.19 2nd, 1.41 3rd, 1.0 4th, and 0.83 overdrive 5th (Reverse is 3.16), the new Wrangler never has a problem finding the right gear. Manual shifting is easy. With the selector in D, the shifter is rocked side to side to shift down (or back up). The A580 is so strong it's also used in trucks and Hemi-equipped vehicles.
The 3.6L's relative lack of low-end torque is overcome with the automatic's low 3.59 first gear. Ledge climbing and crawling is accomplished without a whimper.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State has honored 10 students with the 2013 Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Awards.
The award recipients are Lindsey Aloia, communication arts and sciences; Sankha Basu, mathematics; Michelle Decker, comparative literature; Brenna Hill, physiology; Jarrod Jonsrud, kinesiology; Jared Rife, American studies; Sandra Rousseau, French; Sarah RudeWalker, English; Juliane Schicker, German, and Sarah Summers, English.
The Office of the Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President and Dean for Undergraduate Education co-sponsor the awards to recognize excellence in teaching by graduate students. Recipients must have served as a graduate assistant for at least two semesters within the last two years. The award is named for Harold F. Martin, who earned his doctoral degree in education in 1954 and retired as a director in the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
Aloia's teaching experiences include small class of 18 students, lecture-hall classes of 150 and online classes. "I believe that learning requires a deep understanding of the course material that results from students internalizing the material, actively applying that material in creative and meaningful ways and being critical of the material," she said. According to one nominator, "She is incredibly hard-working and dedicated to the success of her students, spending many hours working with them on multiple drafts of case papers and finding creative ways to illustrate the information from the lectures."
Basu believes that mathematics is a "weave of patterns, just like painting or poetry," and that a math teacher's responsibility is to help students learn to appreciate the patterns. One nominator said, "Sankha has truly taken ownership of the courses he teaches, offering suggestions regarding the curriculum and course resources." A student who struggled with "even the simplest algebraic problems" wrote that Basu "never lost his patience with my confusion of mathematics and embraced my slow learning process."
In addition to courses in African and world literatures, Decker also has taught Introduction to Kiswahili, a first-level language and culture course. As a teacher, she said she asks students to see learning "not just as a means to gaining a career (important as that is) but the beginning of a lifestyle of curiosity about ideas and generosity toward others." One nominator called her a "beloved instructor" and said "students regularly praise her enthusiasm, dynamism and creativity" as well as her "preparation, expertise and intellectual engagement with the material."
As a graduate teaching assistant in biology, one nominator said, Hill has "exceeded the standard TA duties" by revising student study aids, improving pre-lab lectures and revising a lab manual. As a senior teaching assistant, she leads a TA lab meeting every week, explaining the following week's procedures to teaching assistants who will be teaching sections of the course. "Brenna has a genuine love for biology and physiology," a nominator said, "and she combines this passion with a personal style that undergraduates find fun, non-threatening and respectful."
Jonsrud has employed a team-learning, peer-responsibility model of teaching that emphasizes group work. A student said, "He demonstrated a natural talent to communicate with us students, clearly and honestly." In addition, one nominator said, he "strives to maintain accessibility and relevance by constantly reevaluating the technology he uses," from setting up a Facebook page for online discussions to offering in-class surveys where students use their cell phones to text responses.
American studies teaching assistant Rife "shows marvelous creativity in his teaching methods," a nominator said. "His class has been a showcase of creative work, including websites, videos, artifact exhibitions and audio broadcasts." He helped introduce a class on American Masculinities, and "with his outreach to students and his creative pedagogy, it has been wildly popular and has been fully subscribed every semester it has been taught."
In the Department of French and Francophone Studies, native French speaker Rousseau has taught courses at all undergraduate levels, from the beginning language sequence to an upper-level capstone course on contemporary France. As assistant coordinator for beginning French, a nominator said, "her ability to mentor less-experienced teaching assistants was particularly notable." She also designed a syllabus for her French Oral Comprehension and Reading course in which consecutive thirds of the semester were devoted to French art, film and literature as a means of engaging students.
In both literature and rhetoric and composition classes, RudeWalker said she strives to "deeply respect the experiences and knowledge my students bring with them" and hopes to "give them the tools to engage in critical discourse." Students called her "passionate," "diligent," "knowlegeable" and "very open to giving help to everyone." One student nominator said, "She not only wants us to learn but also to understand and develop healthy habits."
Schicker has taught a wide variety of German language courses, from elementary to upper-level intermediate, including online instruction as well as intensive summer courses. She consistently uses German for classroom communication, even at the beginner level, and integrates cultural information into language instruction. "Juliane is clearly eager to communicate her native German language and culture to American students and has been highly effective in doing so," one nominator said.
As a teacher of writing and rhetoric, Summers said she encourages her students to "constantly seek out authentic reasons to write." Her goal is to build a classroom community "where students not only learn to write confidently about what they know, but also where they write to learn about new topics and ideas." Student nominators lauded her "absolute dedication to student engagement and understanding" and said she "truly cared about helping us to improve our writing on a personal level."


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Summary and Keywords
The global political divides of the Cold War propelled the dismantling of Asian exclusion in ways that provided greater, if conditional, integration for Asian Americans, in a central aspect of the reworking of racial inequality in the United States after World War II. The forging of strategic alliances with Asian nations and peoples in that conflict mandated at least token gestures of greater acceptance and equity, in the form of changes to immigration and citizenship laws that had previously barred Asians as "aliens ineligible to citizenship."1 During the Cold War, shared politics and economic considerations continued to trump racial difference as the United States sought leadership of the "free" capitalist world and competed with Soviet-led communism for the affiliation and cooperation of emerging, postcolonial Third World nations. U.S. courtship of once-scorned peoples required the end of Jim Crow systems of segregation through the repeal of discriminatory laws, although actual practices and institutions proved far more resistant to change. Politically and ideologically, culture and values came to dominate explanations for categories and inequalities once attributed to differences in biological race. Mainstream media and cultural productions celebrated America's newfound embrace of its ethnic populations, even as the liberatory aspirations inflamed by World War II set in motion the civil rights movement and increasingly confrontational mobilizations for greater access and equality.
These contestations transformed the character of America as a multiracial democracy, with Asian Americans advancing more than any other racial group to become widely perceived as a "model minority" by the 1980s with the popularization of a racial trope first articulated during the 1960s. Asian American gains were attained in part through the diminishing of barriers in immigration, employment, residence, education, and miscegenation, but also because their successes affirmed U.S. claims regarding its multiracial democracy and because reforms of immigration law admitted growing numbers of Asians who had been screened for family connections, refugee status, and especially their capacity to contribute economically. The 1965 Immigration Act cemented these preferences for educated and skilled Asian workers, with employers assuming great powers as routes to immigration and permanent status. The United States became the chief beneficiary of "brain drain" from Asian countries. Geometric rates of Asian American population growth since 1965, disproportionately screened through this economic preference system, have sharply reduced the ranks of Asian Americans linked to the exclusion era and set them apart from Latino, black, and Native Americans who remain much more entrenched in the systems of inequality rooted in the era of sanctioned racial segregation.
Keywords: Cold War, model minority, refugees, 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, civil rights movement, international education, transnational adoption, Korean War, War Brides Act, decolonization
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KDE Ships October Updates
KDE has released version 4.5.2 of the desktop and netbook Workspaces, the applications and the software development platform. These releases are the second monthly updates to the 4.5 series and contain nothing but bugfixes, translation updates and performance improvements. This release further stabilizes the newly (in 4.5.0) introduced KSharedDataCache and fixes a number of visual glitches, seen for example in Dolphin. Another area of stabilization focus has been KWin, further improving support for desktop effects. More changes can be found in the changelog (which might, as usual, not be complete).
The 4.5.2 updates are making their way into your preferred distribution as we speak, but of course you can also get the source from KDE directly. Happy compiling and updating!
No Kubuntu-packages for Lucid :-(
It is really a shame that there will be no Packages for Kubuntu Lucid:
Apart from the face that the RC-CD does not even boot on my system (yes, bug is reported some days ago) from my experiences it takes usally 2-3 month to have a stable system after a new version of (K)ubuntu is released. I do not blame the Kubuntu team for this, because the problems are mostly Ubuntu generic problems. But then it is a really bad decision to cut Kubuntu Lucid users of from KDE-updates, especially since Lucid was meant to be a LTS version.
By Mark at Tue, 2010/10/05 - 6:16pm
Kubuntu instructions - use wisely
For Kubuntu packages, check out Softpedia's article on how to add a repository with updated packages:
An important factor to remember when updating packages from new repositories is that these updates can sometimes affect stability and/or usability of the computer. These issues are generally rare (even more so with minor updates) and are usually minor and easy to fix. As well, if you do have a problem, it should be easy to roll-back the updates.
I only bring up the point because you mention that you're using a LTS (long-term stability?) release.
By Vivek Prakash at Tue, 2010/10/05 - 8:13pm
Re Kubuntu instructions - use wisely
Please ignore the above linked softpedia article. It is factually incorrect.
By Jonathan Riddell at Tue, 2010/10/05 - 9:59pm
No Kubuntu-packages for Lucid
It takes a lot of time to package a whole KDE SC release and with our 10.10 release due this week I'd prefer to spend that time making sure 10.10 is in as good a shape as possible.
Of course we're a community distribution so we'd welcome anyone helping to make backported packages.
By Jonathan Riddell at Tue, 2010/10/05 - 9:58pm
Packages for 64bits
Any chance that this time, there will be fully supported 64 bits packages available?
I really appreciate all the work you put in getting KDE packaged for Kubuntu!
By andresomers at Wed, 2010/10/06 - 8:54am
Packages for 64bits
Yes, as always we have packages for i386 and amd64
By Jonathan Riddell at Wed, 2010/10/06 - 2:56pm
Lucid is, also for Kubuntu a
Lucid is, also for Kubuntu a Long Term Support version. To promote KDE, and Kubuntu, it seems important to provide backported packages to this LTS version. Kde's version of Lucid is a quite bugged so, provide bugfixes to a LTS will be nice and strategic (a lot of users will not upgrade to 10.10 and will wait next LTS or switch to other gui)!!
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By Sam at Wed, 2010/10/06 - 4:51am
Lucid LTS cont. :-(((
I cannot believe Lucid is not going to have 4.5.2! This is a Kubuntu *LTS* release,
There are many folks out there that are using Kubuntu to get real work done and
There is always hype and momentum about the next *buntu release, but
Please, take the time after 10.10 is released and package 4.5.2
BTW. Interesting to see blogs about (non-existent) upgrade instructions to 4.5.2 for Lucid that , seemed a no-brainer for many.
By od at Wed, 2010/10/06 - 9:00pm
PCLinuxOS is a good alternative with up-to-date KDE
I enjoyed Kubuntu/Ubuntu for some years, but got tired of waiting for updated software, needing to upgrade full distro every 6 months. For me, the network manager never worked on laptops.
With PCLinuxOS I found desktop performance (smooth video play!) and up-to-date software on all major software packages. You will get latest versions of major multimedia apps within 1-2 weeks.
PCLinuxOS' network manager is flawless compared to Kubuntu.. (my experience)
Latest example: KDE 4.5.2 were ready to be updated on PCLinuxOS's repository a few days before KDE made it public (I of course have donated money to the project, so I have access to updates a few days earlier in another repo).
By concept, PCLinuxOS is continually upgrading packages, and releasing a snapshot every once in a while to the public..
I have found my Linux desktop harbour.
By Gunther Strube at Thu, 2010/10/07 - 6:10am
Dolphin fixed but...
First of all thanks to the KDE team for the long awaited bug fixes. The scroll and crashing problems that Dolphin had seems to be fixed but the desktop start up is still too slow. I am using openSuse 11.3 and the operating system itself starts up much faster than the desktop. If this performance problem could be fixed then I would have a system up and running in 10 seconds.
By Bobby at Wed, 2010/10/06 - 10:20pm
KDE4-4.5.2: mega bug in the Help Window
The Help Window of any KDE4 application displays correctly only the first page; the following pages show an error message.
As a workaround, you can select the help of an application by clicking "Applications Manual" on the left side of the same Help Window.
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Stalker Prince 41Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 11:25.
Act 2 Scene 15
Lisonse is snooping around in the Recycling Center.
Lisonse: "Bag"
Sim: "Fair enough. There's a burlap sack."
Lisonse: "Awesome"
Lisonse begins to grab everything and put it in the sack. He checks the cell phones for batteries and pulls the batteries out before putting them inside. Lisonse then exits and proceeds to climb the building. Halfway up, a window opens.
Child 1: "Santa Claus?"
Lisonse: "Not exactly."
Child 1 closes the window.
Child 1: "Burglar?"
Lisonse: "No. I'm not a burglar."
Stalker Prince 40Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 12:13.
Act 2 Scene 14
Lisonse puts his thumb drive in the computer and load the recording. He cuts most of it out.
Sim: "Going to try and splice his "destruct" and "Unit four, deactivate system"?"
Lisonse nods and plays it. Nothing happens.
Sim: "Doesn't sound right. Flow or something. Check the HELP thing for pitch."
Lisonse types away.
Lisonse: "Says a subscription is required."
Stalker Prince 39Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 00:31.
Act 2 Scene 13
Lisonse jumps from the roof tops, landing relatively softly on the ground.
Waitress 1: "This is my apartment building. It's not much, but it's home."
Lisonse: "It'll certainly do. Do you have a computer?"
Waitress 1: "Yes, but what do you want it for?"
Lisonse: "It's complicated. Suffice to say, nothing illegal."
Wiatress 1: "Alright then… I'm going to get something to eat. Want anything?"
Lisonse: "Sure, I'd…"
Waitress 1: "You alright?"
Lisonse: "Sure. Probably never better."
Stalker Prince 38Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 10:42.
Act 2 Scene 12
Alpha, Beta, and Gamma begin circling Waitress 1.
Beta: "Yo, baby. That purse's looking might heavy. Maybe too heavy for you."
Waitress 1: "You know…"
There's a thump in the background.
Waitress 1: "You're not going to get away with this."
Beta: "Catch phrase of my life. I'm on my eighth strike. Two more and I get switched to a different kind of community service. Guess I'll have
to make this one semi-special…"
Stalker Prince 37Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 09:38.
Act 2 Scene 11
Sim and Lisonse lay on the roof top.
Lisonse: "Alright, who do we know?"
Sim: "The reporter seemed down with it?"
Lisonse: "I'd rather not."
Sim: "Mr.Chesney?"
Lisonse: "Mabye."
Sim: "Mr.Richards is pay roll."
Lisonse: "Granted, but he might want
revenge or something."
Sim: "Nope, too cowardly."
Lisonse: "That's not very nice."
Sim turns to Lisonse, then throws up on him. Lisonse twitches as he tries to scrape it off. He closes his eyes and it's gone.
Stalker Prince 36Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 11:12.
Act 2 Scene 10
Lisonse: "That would've been helpful to know."
Lisonse gets up.
Lisonse: "What now?"
Sim: "I'm sure folks in here have already sent something out alerting the authorities, so first we need to leave. Maybe, make an example out of somebody."
Lisonse: "I'm not doing that."
Lisonse goes to walk out but stops at Librarian1. She looks scared.
Stalker Prince 35Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 10:47.
Act 2 Scene 9
Lisonse: "We need to find a public place to snag the file."
Sim: "Library's closed. What about the college?"
Lisonse: "Maybe. We need another directory though. I've never checked out the one here."
Lisonse takes to the building tops until he can find another directory. He looks up the local college and disappears again.
Once at the college, Lisonse looks around.
Sim: "Just go in. The stealth stuff's probably just brainwashing or something. If you're making me stupid, I'll take us both down."
Stalker Prince 34Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Sun, 10/24/2010 - 18:47.
Act 2 Scene 8
Lisonse waits for about half an hour.
Lisonse: "Jeez, why are they so slow?"
Sim: "Maybe they're calling for reinforcements? Maybe they're alerting The Organization. We might need to kill them and their families just in case."
Lisone: "It's unfortunate that you're the only person I can semi-trust right now."
Stalker Prince 33Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 23:50.
Act 2 Scene 7
Santi: "Unit 5, activate."
Santi transforms into a seventh unit.
Lisonse: "We don't have to do this."
Santi: "Yeah, we kinda do."
Lisonse: "We've been brainwashed."
Santi: "Yeah, we know. Knowing's
kinda part of it."
Santi punches Lisonse. It doesn't do much more than push him back a little.
Santi: "Fair enough."
Stalker Prince 32Submitted by metaphorical_cowboy on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 13:26.
Act 2 Scene 6
Lisonse: "Unit 4 deactivate system"
Nothing happens again.
Lisonse: "Deactivate system, Unit 4.
Unit 4 system off. Unit 4 power down system. Unit 4 system power down."
Sim: "Looks like we have a problem."
Lisonse: "It won't work."
Lisonse begins to breathe hard and
pace around.
Sim: "That doesn't help."
Lisonse: "Shut up!"
Juppin: "I didn't say anything."
Lisonse: "I wasn't talking to you!"
Juppin backs against the wall.


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Now where must I begin...
Oh yes...
Greetings, Salutations, Bonjour, Hola, 今日は, Gutentag, 여보세요, 您好, مرحبا, Ciao and
My name is Lor, but my alias is Genesis and I'm pleased to make your aquaintance.
Now what?...
Um, about myself?
Well, I'm of a spanish hertiage and call beautiful Canada my home. I'm in my mid-teenage years, with a love for Language. (While English comes naturally, I currently am pouring into studying Italian, Japanese, Korean, French, Chinese and of course Spanish, which I'm quite good with.)
This among other things, I love to read, dance (Hip-hop and Latino), sing, listen to music non-stop, (I listen to music in eight different languages and
can't live
without it. Meaning there's always an earpiece stuck in my ear or a stereo pumping somewhere if I'm around...), Dark magic/Tarot/Runes, sketch and write. Writing no doubt improves my handle on the English language too, it's something I throughly enjoy. ^^ Oh and
. But we won't diverge into Genesis's mind on that matter. O.o
Hm, what else...oh yes.
I'm terribly split. I have three sides of me. ^^;;
The one you see most of on the interent is the girl who has studies and reads...but outside that I'm quite...different. But we won't get into that.
In a good mood you see myself with a more childish exterior, and infortuitusly, use the suffix "su"... I'll try to not in such a manner. Hehe... ^^;;
Whelp, can't think of much more to rant about, so I suggest I take my leave. I bid you all adieu. *bows*
Ps. I proofread for DV. whoo~
haha nice to meet you, genesis. i'm impressed by your multilingualism :]_________________Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Oh my... Too much language... You trying to kill me.. How old are you genesis?
Lessee.. English, english, french, spanish, japanese, german, korean, chinese, arabian, spanish and english?
you forgot swedish!
wow~~ so many languages.. i wish i could speak that many..
Wah O.o you can speak so many languages. So cool :p
Im also addicted to music when I haven't my own music with me I always start to sing myself xD not that I can sing pretty O.o
Wow!! You know so many languages!! I wish I knew that much!! I only know English and Korean . How long have you been studying the different languages?
wait, genesis speak all those languages?
not even my dad speaks that many languages
*slaps forhead* i never said I speak them all, (well not fluently) i said I'm [i:2643600360]studying[/i:2643600360] them all. ^^;;;;
I can speak, write and understand English, Spanish and French. I'm studying (very hard! ) Korean, Chinese, Italian and Japnanese.
Oh as for how long I've been studying. Well, I've been studying French for five years (It's mandatory for a period of time in schools here in Canada, but I study outside class too) and Spanish, well, I try to whenever I can in my house. O.o and Japanese for four years (I haven't attempted much Kanji/Hiragana/Katakana too much yet, mostly grammer and speaking) But I can hold a decent conversation, and understand a great deal in raw anime. Chinese, on and off for two years. (Hanzi is so hard! I mean, if Kanji is hard and it's a simplified version of hanzi then... ) Italian, studying for the last year or so and Korean is fairly recent, last six months. It only took me two weeks to be able to recognize/read the Hangeul alphabet which is cool. I can read aloud the words, it's [i:2643600360]understanding[/i:2643600360] them which is hard. *sweatdrop* I'm not all that old, so besides mother tounges, it's hard to build experience on different languages.
I'm trying to study lots, but it's hard between all this schoolwork and other stuff in my life. PLus, it's a lot to learn. I even wanted to start Arabic, but...my brain. TwT
Ugh, now look... Now you've got me started, and I'm ranting like a weirdo T.T now everyone probably thinks I'm some bookworm freak, (I'm not, really, just language! O.o) who rants on about useless stuff. TTwTT
still amazing
i think i'm taking too many languages and it's only english, swedish, japanese and 2 different chinese dialects...
oh and i took spanish for 4 years so i understand a little
STILL, you're AMAZING! How old aaaaare you?!
Oh, I'm fifteen. (well fifteen in just a bit less than two months, whoot. *marks calender*) I know I'm such a little kid and I'm so weird, I know.
(ooh which dialetcs are you learning in Chinese? Cantonese and Manderin? 8D)
Is Mandarin a dialect? I thought that it was more a official language of China... but now I think about it, it is a dialect of Beijing...
Yes. It is a dialect. Theres lot of chinese dialect from cantonese, mandarin, hakka, etc. Even though they are called cantonese, some cantonese dialect in hongkong(or mandarin? i forgot) for example is diff from the one in Malaysia.
@Genesis: i'm learning both cantonese and mandarin, well i know how to speak it but i take classes to learn reading and writing,. The dialect i speak at home is cantonese and i understand the dialect hakka which my grandfather speaks, can't speak it though.
@linachan: yeah, mandarin is a dialect but it's kind of official too since everyone has to learn it in school in china
@rin: yeah, the cantonese in hong kong and malaysia are kind of different, the way to pronounce things and that they sometimes use different words for the same things, otherwise it's not that different. it's comprehensible at least
From which region is Hakka, I never heard about that dialect...


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As cotton farmers bask in the glow of another record-breaking crop, Delta and Pine Land Co. is preparing to roll out several new varieties that promise to produce higher yields and even higher fiber quality.
Among those is DP 393, a conventional variety with high-yield potential for growers who face less insect and weed pressure than in other areas. The lineup also includes DP 432 RR, DP 434 RR, DP 494 RR and DP 488 BG/RR.
All will have fiber quality equal to or greater than DP 444 BG/RR, Delta and Pine Land's new standard-setting variety.
"Fiber quality has become a primary issue for U.S. cotton producers," says Dave Albers, D&PL's director of technical services for the western United States and Mexico. "The increasing export market demands quality, but U.S. cotton producers need yield with quality."
Speaking at a media event in Phoenix, Albers said D&PL believes its new varieties — the results of several years of aggressive plant breeding and testing in on-farm and university trials — will meet both those criteria.
"We're trying to get the word out that more than one company has quality fiber," said Albers. "These new varieties have a combination of yield, uniformity and fiber quality."
DP 393 represents something of a departure from the breeding efforts of most companies in recent years.
"None of our competitors are releasing any more conventional varieties," he said. "This variety may not go on a large number of acres, but growers still want a choice. We think this will be an outstanding product for them."
An early maturity, smooth leaf variety, DP 393 has produced an average staple length of 37.1, strength of 32.3 grams per tex and micronaire of 4.3-4.5 in fiber quality tests conducted in a number of locations across the Cotton Belt.
The improved fiber characteristics and higher average yields of DP 393 could earn growers an average of $31 per acre in loan value over a competitor variety of comparable maturity, according to test results.
The new variety is widely adapted to conditions ranging from the Southeast to Arizona, according to Albers. It has produced an average of 1,211 pounds of lint per acre in tests across the Cotton Belt.
DP 432R is an early maturity, hairy leaf variety with storm resistance, improved fiber quality and high yield potential. Along with DP 434 RR, it will replace DP 436 RR, Sure-Grow, 521 RR and Paymaster 1199RR.
Albers said the variety consistently produces a staple of 36, strength of 31 grams per tex and micronaire of 4.4 and yields around 1,200 pounds in tests across the Cotton Belt. Its fiber package and higher yields give growers a loan value of $36 an acre above that for one competing variety and $62 an acre over another.
DP 434 RR, on the other hand, is an early maturity, smooth leaf variety with reduced micronaire average of 3.97, staple of 36.9 and strength of 29.9 grams per tex. It has averaged 1,106 pounds of lint in 84 U.S. trials.
"DP 434 RR has fiber quality similar to DP 444 BG/RR," said Albers. "With its fiber package, it has a 1.5-cent higher loan value than competing varieties and could provide $27 to $75 per acre in higher returns than competing varieties"
DP 494 RR is a mid to full maturity, semi-smooth leaf with a 37 staple, 32 grams per tex strength and 4.4 micronaire. It has a yield average of 1,075 pounds of lint per acre across 88 tests. It also has an average loan value about 1.5 cents higher than competing varieties and could return growers from $24 to $41 more per acre than the other varieties.
"Its strength average of 32.6 grams per tex is a pretty strong step up over this many locations," said Albers referring to the 88 sites in which 494 RR was compared with other varieties.
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Television programming refers to a wide range of non-news, entertainment-oriented productions provided by the broadcast networks and by cable providers, including talk shows, entertainment programs, prime-time serials, soap operas, and programs directed toward young people. Much, although not all, of television programming is driven by market forces in the United States, with financial rewards as the principal goal. Given the amount of time many Americans and others in the developed world spend watching such programming, television is generally considered to be one of the most powerful media for the communication of cultural norms. AIDS issues have appeared across the entire spectrum of the medium, with portrayals varying according to the type of program and resulting in representations that differ in accuracy, sensitivity, and integrity.
Critics often cite television's reluctance to deal accurately with taboo issues in AIDS stories and its reliance on familiar dramatic formulas for the stories that are portrayed. Aspects of gay sexuality and life are only rarely represented and, when presented, are tightly circumscribed. For example, gay partners are often marginal figures who are allowed little or no affectional or emotional range. Similarly, issues such as social stigmatization are typically over-moralized and safely resolved by program's end. The complexity and variety of thought, feeling, and experience are routinely reduced to oppositional images such as those of victim and victimizer. In short, the range of experience and depth of pain and loss associated with AIDS finds limited expression in television programming.
Most of the major daytime talk shows have produced segments that take a distinctly "human interest" approach to AIDS. During the June 21, 1995, Day of Compassion, for instance, Geraldo, Jenny Jones, Marilu, Rolonda, Montel Williams, Richard Bey, and Mike and Maty joined the leaders of the genre, Oprah, Sally Jesse Raphael, and Donahue, with programs dedicated to AIDS. Driven by their need to be provocative, talk shows typically traffic in tension created by guests chosen for their opposing viewpoints and antagonistic attitudes. In these settings, emotions routinely overwhelm information, creating shows that are noted more for their cathartic effect than their insight. For example, a rather sensationalized installment of Charles Perez (May 23, 1995) featured a 21-year-old college student who received his HIV blood test results on the air.
Reflecting the interest in AIDS causes among some musical celebrities, AIDS entertainment programs began appearing in the latter half of the 1980s. In 1987, the A&E channel aired the first of several benefit concerts entitled Reno's Cabaret Reunion. In 1988, the Showtime cable channel taped That's What Friends Are For, a Kennedy Center AIDS benefit. The first of the Red Hot series appeared in 1990 on ABC. In April 1992, Fox and MTV broadcast the Concert for AIDS Awareness from Wembley Stadium in London, and in July of the same year, ABC premiered the first of three annual information and entertainment specials entitled In A New Light. VH1 joined the lineup with Lifebeat in August 1995. Although most of these programs included brief expository segments that were well crafted, and although celebrity interest created positive role-modeling and aided in raising funds, these programs were constrained from doing little more than increasing the level of awareness.
Much AIDS-related television programming has been directed at young people. A January 26, 1988, CBS afternoon special, An Enemy Among Us, told the story of a teenager and his family's ostracization after word spread that he was infected with HIV from a blood transfusion. CBS's 1991 entry, Dedicated to the One I Love, tackled teenage drug abuse and AIDS. PBS's 3-2-1 Contact, a science-for-kids series, opened its 1988 season with "I Have AIDS: A Teenager's Story," a report about Indiana teenager Ryan White, who contracted HIV as part of transfusion treatments for his hemophilia, told through direct interviews and sequences from his daily life.
Cable channels have also made contributions. The USA network aired Youthquake: AIDS Special (August 18, 1990), a half-hour of Saturday morning programming that featured a 19-year-old, heterosexually active youth dying of AIDS. In 1992, Nickelodeon presented a frank discussion about AIDS in A Conversation with Magic [Johnson] (March 25).
MTV led the way in bringing AIDS messages to young people. Its Sex in the '90s series (1992-1994) dealt with changes in attitudes and practices among young people precipitated by AIDS. Its 1994 half-hour special, Smart Sex, was a serious and frank program designed to break through the "it can't happen to me" attitude of young people. In 1995, The Goods Presents: Think Positive took AIDS programming a step further by focusing on the courage and dedication of young people with HIV/AIDS.
MTV's most compelling entry came in its third season of The Real World (1994), a "reality-based soap opera," featuring Pedro Zamora, a Cuban-born 22-year-old whose charm and candor about being gay and having AIDS clearly affected his housemates and viewing audience. Zamora's death shortly after the series was aired brought the reality of AIDS to millions of people who came to know him through the program's frank installments.
Television's evening entertainment has provided consistent inclusion, if uneven portrayals, of AIDS in its prime-time serial lineup with over 50 programs and close to 100 individual episodes. Television's dramatic programming vacillates between AIDS narratives that privilege heterosexuality and promote notions of "innocent victimhood" and those that reinforce images of prurience, fatality, and criminality. Industry reticence in dealing with taboo issues appears to have constrained television's dramatic reach and narrative integrity.
The first serial program to include an AIDS plotline was St. Elsewhere (NBC), with an episode broadcast on December 21, 1983, and entitled "AIDS and Comfort." Several noteworthy episodes followed, beginning with one on January 29, 1986, entitled "Family Feud," where a heterosexually active hospital physician learned he had HIV during a routine preoperative blood test. In a later episode, "Family Affair" (February 6, 1986), he abandoned treatment and moved to California to live out his apparently numbered days, reflecting the popular presumption of the swift fatality of AIDS. Another early medical drama, Trapper John, M.D. (CBS), presented an episode, "Friends and Lovers" (November 3, 1985), that was curious for its treatment of HIV seropositivity as cause for celebration because the condition was not full-blown AIDS. Ten years later, NBC's ER included AIDS in eight of its 25 first-season (1994-1995) episodes. These episodes contrasted with early AIDS portrayals on medical dramas by the routinized, fact-of-life treatment AIDS received.
The earliest crime drama to deal with AIDS was Hill Street Blues (NBC) with an episode entitled "Slum Enchanted Evening" (March 27, 1986). A widely noted episode of Midnight Caller, "After It Happened" (NBC, December 13, 1988), sent the show's retired-detective-turned-radio-talk-show-host searching for a man on an HIV-infection spree. A leaked script caused San Francisco AIDS activists to interrupt production and gain script alterations of the episode's portrayal of an AIDS-infected person as a sociopathic murderer. A subsequent episode, "Someone to Love" (November 14, 1989), was noteworthy for its consultation with AIDS organizations while drafting the script. A 1990 episode of Law and Order (NBC), "The Reaper's Helper" (October 4), included a problematic portrayal of a gay man who unrepentantly committed euthanasia for friends dying of AIDS.
In the legal genre, LA Law (NBC) contributed several AIDS episodes after 1986, most involving fear and blatant prejudice. An exception was a March 15, 1990, episode, "Blood, Sweat, and Fears," which raised issues about the comparative worth of a relatively late-stage AIDS patient and that of a doctor who risks infection by performing surgery on the patient. Another episode, "Since I Fell for You" (May 16, 1991), took on a medical insurance company's refusal to pay for "experimental" drug treatments.
Several drama series have weighed-in with AIDS stories. The best was the family drama Life Goes On (ABC), which devoted much of its final season (1992-1993) to the story of a high school senior's romantic relationship with a classmate who became infected from a prostitute. The series' extended treatment developed numerous issues with sensitivity and accuracy. Two episodes of the 1992-1993 season of Sisters (NBC) and thirtysomething's "Closing the Circle" (ABC, April 16, 1991, cowritten by Paul Monette) explored issues of privacy and supportive friendship with AIDS-infected people.
Situation comedies have also taken on AIDS issues, the first being Showtime's cable comedy Brothers (October 23, 1985). Designing Women (CBS) took on homophobia and safer-sex education in "Killing All the Right People" (October 5, 1987), an episode about a gay man who asked the women to design his funeral. A 1990 episode of Golden Girls (NBC), "72 Hours" (February 17), presented the agony of waiting for HIV test results. The December 1, 1990, final episode of Hogan Family had AIDS interrupting the free-spirited adolescence of one of the show's lead characters. "If I Should Die Before I Wake," the April 11, 1991, episode of Different World (NBC), took a frank look at sex and AIDS.
Prime-time serials directed toward young people have also made entries. FOX's 21 Jump Street took on both AIDS-phobia and homophobia in "Big Disease with a Little Name" (May 14, 1989), an episode about a high school student with AIDS who claimed he was a hemophiliac to hide his gay identity. Other AIDS entries included Beverly Hills 90210 (FOX) in "Isn't It Romantic" (January 3, 1991) and several episodes of PBS's DeGrassi Jr. High/DeGrassi High.
Since the late 1980s, daytime serials have presented AIDS plotlines within their ongoing stories. In 1988, CBS's The Young and the Restless, ABC's All My Children, and NBC's Another World added AIDS story lines. All three programs have presented women as the exclusive embodiment of AIDS, and each portrayal has reinforced conservative mores. More positively, One Life to Live presented a show in 1992 about homophobia that used 248 panels of the NAMES Project Foundation's AIDS Memorial Quilt as part of its set; and in 1994, General Hospital became the first soap to employ an openly HIV-positive actor to play the role of an HIV-positive character.
The history of AIDS coverage indicates that television representations frequently fall into two extremes. AIDS portrayals either emphasize the sensationalistic aspects of the disease that elicit fear and anger, or they favor palatable scenarios that evoke pity and regret. The resulting picture of AIDS presents two often antagonistic classes of citizens: the "guilty" -- gay men and injecting drug users -- and the "innocent" -- white women and children. Although exceptions exist, they remain too few to counter the composite and distorted message communicated by "the most mass of the mass media."
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Further Reading
Baker, R., The Art of AIDS, New York: Continuum, 1994.
Hartinger, B., "TV Takes the AIDS Test," Emmy 15:5 (October 1993), pp. 36-43.
Landers, T., "Bodies and Anti-Bodies: A Crisis in Representations," The Independent 11 (January/February 1988), pp, 18-24.
Rist, D. Y., "Fear and Loving and AIDS," Film Comment 22:2 (March/April 1986), pp. 44-50.
Treichler, Paula A., "Seduced and Terrorized: AIDS and Network Television," in A Leap in the Dark, edited by Allan Klusacek and Ken Morrison, Montreal, Quebec: Vehicule, 1992.
The Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic, Raymond A. Smith, Editor. Copyright © 1998, Raymond A. Smith. Carried by permission of Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
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