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With just a few hours remaining before Tahiti make their grand entrance at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013, their fans may be forgiven for feeling that they have a mountain to climb.
In their first-ever match in this tournament, the team from the diminutive Polynesian island must lock horns with Nigeria, giants of the African game, on Sunday in Belo Horizonte. As they meet this challenge head-on, the Toa Aito will at least be able to count on someone accustomed to attaining summits, Teheivarii Ludivion, who describes his full-time job as 'climber'.
While mountaineering may not be the first thing that springs to mind in connection with Tahiti, the player in question clarifies what his job entails to FIFA.com: "The kind of climbing I'm involved in is specialist construction work carried out at heights," he explained, unable to hide the pride in his voice.
Bridge building, pylon installation and roof repair all constitute daily duties for the Tahitian. "In my life, football is just a leisure pursuit. It will always take second place to my work, which is more important."
That said, as the Polynesians' debut in a major senior tournament draws ever closer, the AS Tefana centre-back, who admits to still harbouring dreams of a professional career, cannot hide his delight.
"The Confederations Cup is a huge event; it's obviously a great honour to take part in it. It's even bigger than four years ago. This time, we're playing against the best, and there's no age limit," he said, referring to his participation in the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2009 with Tahiti.
I remember a particularly powerful and very lively team. They impressed me at that level. I'd like to think we can do better than we did four years ago.
Ludivion was one of five players in Eddy Etaeta's squad to break new ground by competing at the prestigious youth event in Egypt. Heimano Bourebare, Steevey Chong Hue, Alvin Tehau and Lorenzo Tehau accompanied him on the north African adventure, which concluded with a group-stage defeat to Nigeria, as fate would have it.
"It's fantastic to be playing the Nigerians in our opening game. It gives us a chance for revenge. And we'll be able to see if we've made any progress," said the defender.
"I remember a particularly powerful and very lively team. They impressed me at that level. I'd like to think we can do better than we did four years ago, " he continued, hopeful there will be no repeat of the 5-0 loss of 2009, which had the dubious distinction of being Tahiti's best result in Egypt.
"The objective and the pre-match advice we've been given are the same: defend. That's the key word. We'll see as the match develops if we have a chance of getting anything from it," said the rangy centre-half.
"I wasn't the same footballer after the U-20 World Cup. A competition like that changes you. Undoubtedly, the experience we gained over there helped us to get to where we are today. And perhaps it also enables us to face what's coming with more confidence."
Sights set on Russia 2018
The challenges facing Tahiti Nui, a local nickname meaning 'big Tahiti', do not come any tougher. After Nigeria, they are scheduled to play Spain, the European and world champions, followed by Uruguay, Copa America winners.
"Spain were also in our group four years ago. It's excellent that we're crossing paths again," stated Ludivion. "Venezuela are the only ones missing, but Uruguay are a fine replacement," added the construction worker, showing no fear of the imposing obstacles ahead.
A commanding, robust presence in the heart of defence, he has developed into a crucial player for Tahiti over the past three years. National coach Etaeta has even handed him the captain's armband on occasion, like in their 2-1 win over Chilean second division side Deportes Magallanes at the beginning of June, the only victory the team has recorded in their warm-up matches for Brazil 2013.
In addition, Ludivion featured in eight of Tahiti's 11 recent qualifying matches for the 2014 FIFA World Cup™, and was instrumental in their historic triumph against New Caledonia in the final of the 2012 OFC Nations Cup, a result that qualified the islanders for this FIFA Confederations Cup.
If tournaments like Egypt 2009 and Brazil 2013 represent peaks in world football, Ludivion is eager to conquer others. "We'll see what kind of targets our FA ends up setting. But obviously, the 2018 World Cup and the next Confederations Cup will form part of our goals," he said.
In the meantime, a top-level duel with Nigeria awaits the climber and his team-mates in Belo Horizonte. If the Tahitians were to somehow achieve a positive result against the Super Eagles, it would doubtless represent the crowning moment of their careers.


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FSU Lacrosse is proud to announce Matthew Doyle will lead the Seminoles to success as Head Coach going into the 2014 season.
With an outstanding background, Doyle has been invested in the sport for 26 years. Most notably, he was an All-American attackman and a part of two national championship teams during his tenure at Syracuse. "We know he will run our team at that highly competitive level and coach the players to have a winning mentality," said Senior Team Captain, Tyler Selman.
During the last three weeks of Fall Ball, Doyle was invited down to meet the team and ensure a smooth transition going into the Spring season. Quickly stepping into a coaching role, he helped lead the team to a 19-15 victory over rival UF. With the past 6 months of the team's future being uncertain, Doyle's presence has given players confidence going into the upcoming season. Senior Andrew Kiggen states, "I don't think we could have found a better candidate for this program. I know he has what it takes to make this team a championship caliber team again." Being a former player himself, Coach Doyle established a quick connection with the players, "We will play hard and also play a fun brand of lacrosse."
Read the full story here - http://mcla.us/news/2013/12/new-coach-new-direction/

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Here is another comic book character that I will be adding to the 'easy' drawing collection. This is "how to draw Storm easy" from Marvel Comics. I have an awesome tutorial on Storm in her full bodied form which can be located in the Comic category under Marvel Comics. She is part of the X-Men and is one of the oldest comic book heroes to date. She is unique and beautiful so I wanted to convey that in my drawing. I love how this lesson came out because her look is so piercing and strong. The hair, face, coloring, and everything is exactly what I was going for. Drawing Storm easy is going to be tons of fun because it's always exciting to draw female superheroes. Anyways, that's all I have to say for now, but I will be back in a bit with more for you all. I hope you enjoy drawing another easy lesson on one of your favorite comic book characters. Peace folks.
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FOCUS MISMATCH COMPENSATION AND COMPLEXITY REDUCTION TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIVIEW VIDEO CODING by PoLin Lai A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) May 2009 Copyright 2009 PoLin Lai
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The Eclipse Graphical Modeling Project (GMP) provides a set of generative components and runtime infrastructures for developing graphical editors based on EMF and GEF.
The GMF Notation Project provides a standard EMF notational meta model.
The notational meta model is a standard means for persisting diagram information separately from the domain model.
It can also be used as a basis for diagram interchange and was based on the principles in the OMG Diagram Interchange Specification
The GMF Tooling project provides a model-driven approach to generating graphical editors in Eclipse.
The GMF runtime is an industry proven application framework for creating graphical editors using EMF and GEF.
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Earned All-Ivy League honorable mention ... Named to SGI/NFHCA National Academic Squad ... Limited an opponent to one goal or fewer seven times during season ... Ranked fourth nationally with an .806 save percentage and seventh with 9.06 saves per game ... Ranked in the top 50 nationally with 2.20 goals-against average ... Registered a season-high save total, 18, in 1-0 loss to Northeastern (Oct. 10) ... Notched 12-save shutout against Brown (Oct. 1) ... Recorded double-digit saves in consecutive games, 13 at Massachusetts (Sept. 10) and 12 at Yale (Sept. 17) ... Made nine saves in 3-2 overtime win against Lafayette (Sept. 4).
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Named to the All-Ivy League second team and SGI/National Field Hockey Coaches Association National Academic Squad ... Received team's Most Valuable Player award ... Played every game in goal ... Ranked 16th nationally with 6.82 saves per game ... In Ivy League games, ranked second in the league in save percentage (.754), third in saves (43) and fourth in saves per game (6.14) and goals-against average (1.87) ... One of three goalies to record a shutout in an Ivy game with three-save blanking of Penn (Sept. 25) ... Held three other opponents to a single goal ... Recorded eight or more saves on eight occasions, reaching double digits four times ... Stopped a season-high 11 shots three times: at New Hampshire (Sept. 15), against Northeastern (Sept. 22) and at Stanford (Oct. 8).
Freshman • 2009
Selected to the SGI/NFHCA National Academic Squad ... Ranked seventh nationally with 8.82 saves per game ... Played every minute in goal as a rookie ... Notched double-digit save totals several times late in the season with 11 stops against New Hampshire (Nov. 3), 10 at No. 9 Boston College (Oct. 28), 15 against No. 4 Princeton and 12 against Boston University (Oct. 14) ... Posted first shutout with eight saves in 1-0 win at Cornell (Oct. 17) ... Named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after picking up 10 saves against Michigan (Oct. 10) and 12 against No. 10 Massachusetts (Oct. 6) ... Recorded a high of 23 saves at No. 5 Connecticut (Sept. 23) ... Recorded five saves in 4-1 win over UC Davis (Sept. 9) … Picked up first collegiate win in season opener at Holy Cross (Sept. 5).
Before Harvard
A four-year letterwinner in field hockey and softball at Hockaday High School … Captained both teams senior season … Named first team All-SPC Tournament in 2007 … Recipient of the Zoe Cavalaris Outstanding Female Athlete Award as well as the Nan McGarr Athletic Sprit Award in 2009 … Participated in Model UN and Student Council throughout high school … President and representative of Athletic Board.
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ORLANDO – Houston Dynamo academy product Francisco Navas Cobo could not have come up with a more dramatic or spectacular way to score his first ever goal for the Houston Dynamo.
His late equalizer on Saturday night in the Disney Pro Soccer Classic against FC Dallas came with just two minutes remaining in regulation, after the Dynamo failed to see a single bounce go their way near goal.
WATCH: Match highlights and reaction
"It was a tight game," Navas Cobo told MLSsoccer.com. "They were good at the back, and I told myself with three minutes left, I'm going to get the ball and go for glory. I was going to take guys on like I usually do. Then I saw a clear shot and I shot it."
Navas Cobo, who entered Saturday's match as a right midfielder with a half-hour remaining, proceeded to unleash a swerving right-footed blast that found the top left corner of the goal. The effort even left his teammates in awe.
[inline_node:329498]"We were all a bit surprised," manager Dominic Kinnear said. "He does have good individual ability at times. But to see him score a goal like that, we're all surprised and very happy for him."
The strike helped the Dynamo reach a PK shootout, although they lost to FC Dallas.
The 19-year-old Navas Cobo dedicated his goal to his late grandmother, Flor Maria Arbolera, who passed away several years ago.
After a 2010 season in which he saw a single regular season minute of playing time, the US Under-20 international hopes there are a lot more dedications on tap for this year.
"I want to always be in the 18, that's my first goal," Navas Cobo said. "And then I want play a lot of minutes. I hope I get on the field and do well for my team.
"Day to day I am fitting more into the team and I'm working on this," he added. "This year I hope that [Kinnear] considers me and I'll give my best every time he gives me the chance."
Navas Cobo says Kinnear's instructions for him whenever he takes the field are always simple: go out and enjoy yourself.
On Saturday, he took that advice to heart.
Check out the Feb. 24 edition of the ExtraTime Radio podcast, featuring D.C. United's Charlie Davies, Real Salt Lake's Nick Rimando and league executive Nelson Rodriguez talking about the new playoff structure.


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Antigen: ETV7; Ets variant 7
Hybridoma Cells Available: Yes
Antigen Species: Human
Depositor: Protein Capture Reagents Program, produced by JHU/CDI
Isotype: MIgG2b
Depositors Institution: Protein Capture Reagents Program, produced by JHU/CDI
Host Species: mouse
Depositors Notes: This antibody recognizes a transcription factor expressed predominantly in hematopoietic tissues.
Positive Tested Species Reactivity: Human
Gene: ETV7
Antigen Molecular Weight: 39 kDa
Alternate Gene Names: TEL-2, TEL2
Immunogen: Recombinant protein
Clonality: Monoclonal
Myeloma Strain: SP2/0-Ag14
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That being said, how do we make use of images in Django on Jython? Since the ImageField is not usable from Django on Jython, we need to use an alternate method for uploading and displaying images. The following is a solution I've been using for one of my applications. This is certainly not a perfect solution, nor do I think we should modify Django on Jython to support this solution out-of-the-box. However, it works and gets the job done.
In order to use images with Django on Jython, you need to make use of the FileField. Since the FileField does not display in a template as an image, it is also a requirement to tweak the template which will be displaying the images with an ordinary "img" tag. Also, to make things work nicely, it is important to code a variable...we'll call it "image_src"...with the path to the image that will be displayed. This is done within your views in views.py. Of course, images will take the name attribute of your FileField, but you must prefix that name with the path to your web server. So my solution for this is to create another variable, say PHOTO_ROOT, in the settings.py and we will set it equal to the web server's MEDIA_ROOT location.
Lots of steps to make a usable image? Not really, it may seem daunting at first glance, but it does work easily once you've got it down.
Steps for using images with Django Jython:
1) Create a FileField in your model to contain your image information. Be sure to indicate where you wish the image to be uploaded to by specifying the "upload_to" attribute.
For example, in the following case the "images" directory which is specified by the 'upload_to' attribute exists directly under the MEDIA_ROOT root:
class MyTestModel(models.Model):
photo = models.FileField(upload_to='images', blank=True)
2) Create a variable within settings.py to contain the path to your web server's MEDIA_ROOT location. Please note that this will need to be changed when you deploy to different environments (ie: development or production).
PHOTO_ROOT = 'http://localhost:8000/site_media/'
3) Add a variable to your views through which the image path will be exposed. This variable will need to contain the PHOTO_ROOT you specified in settings.py, as well as the appended file.name for the FileField containing your image. Therefore, you will need to code a line in each view you wish to expose the image through.
In order to make your UI slick, it is a good idea to use a default image for any records that may not have an image uploaded. You can assign the path for that default image to your variable if your FileField does not contain anything.
# Be sure to import your settings file
from django.conf import settings
# This code contains relevant portions of a detail view for displaying or modifying
# a record
def detail(request, record_id=0):
record = get_object_or_404(MyTestModel, pk=record_id)
form = MyForm(instance=record)
# Check to see if the FileField (photo) contains anything
if record.photo:
image_src = '%s/%s' % (settings.PHOTO_ROOT, record.photo.name)
image_src = '%s/images/nophoto.jpg' % settings.PHOTO_ROOT
return render_to_response('detail.html',
4) Add an "img" tag to your template in order to display your image. You must also add the "form.photo" field to the template in order to have the ability to upload an image.
{{ form.photo }}
<img title="Photo"
src="{{ image_src }}"/>
That is basically it. When you view the record initially, the default image should appear. After an image is uploaded successfully, it should replace the default image.


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Most of us have or have had this syndrome "I need X to do Y".
- I need to join X course to learn Y
- I need to X training to start doing Y project
- I need a Laptop to start programming Python; Desktop doesn't make me productive
- I need an iPhone to start learning iOS programming; Simulator doesn't make it feel real
- I need to join Gym to workout; Workout at home doesn't work 🙂
Get over with it this syndrome:
- Start learning/doing as soon as you get curious about anything, we don't have to wait to do X to start doing Y by ourself.
- We can always do X, but who is stopping us from starting with Y?
- Wouldn't it be better to get our hands dirty and try to learn more about Y by ourselves?
Eventually we have to do it by ourselves, doesn't matter if we do X or not. It is more fun and engaging when we do Y by ourself; it is also a litmus test, if we really want to do Y.
Discipline and Passion matters. I wish, I had more of these in me.


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McNichols Building chops hours; more renovations coming for Denver's party spot
The McNichols Building in Civic Center has reduced its public hours. Instead of being open four days a week, visiting will be limited to Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Despite a roster of top-notch art exhibits over the past year, the building hasn't been a big draw during the day, according to the Arts & Venues department, which moved its offices to the site last summer. Maintaining security Thursday through Sunday didn't seem reasonable.
McNichols has been aggressive in its exhibits programming, aiming high and turning its three floors into some of the city's better gallery spaces. Arts & Venues plans to keep up the effort; the building is a busy spot for parties, meetings and other events, so plenty of people get inside to see the work on a regular basis.
McNichols is a swell piece of architecture, but a work in progress and a bit isolated since not so many folks are comfortable walking through Civic Center, where it's not uncommon to be offered a little pot from enterprising drug dealers during the day.
There's good reason to be optimistic about its future, though. Renovations will start soon, restoring the building's grand staircase and making it a more welcoming place. Arts & Venues says it might expand hours if all goes well.
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What's your favorite TV show to turn on if you're looking for a laugh? We've decided a list of the funniest shows is needed, so have a look and judge which ones give you the best comic relief. Spread out between the top current best sitcoms, the animated series that keep us laughing, and those news-style or sketch comedy series, these are the absolute funniest programs on television today in 2019.
Some of the funniest and best comedy shows currently on the air are new takes on the classic sitcom. Modern Family has won numerous awards for it's hilarity while other sitcoms like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Shameless, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine enjoy strong followings and great ratings.
Aside from traditional sitcoms, there are many other funny shows on television today. Animated favorites remain among the funniest on TV such as The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, and Archer while news-style shows like The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight poke fun at recent events and do so hilariously. Let's not forget how funny other shows like Saturday Night Live and Tosh.0 are as well. There is little doubt that many of these choices will be remembered among the greatest TV shows of all time and the funniest series of the decade.
What's your go-to show for laughs? Vote for your must-see comedy shows below, and although we think every good show currently on television is on this list, there are new ones debuting all the time so please add any not listed or re-rank this list into your own top 10 or more of the funniest shows on TV right now! Happy laughs, TV watchers!


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You know how you just love the way your guy's sweaty T-shirts smell? Well, there's a real scientific reason for that: Our immune systems put out chemicals designed to help us attract compatible mates.
Now, scientists have figured out a way to recreate these natural smells. The idea is to eventually add these chemicals into perfumes to help us easily attract the right kind of guy—you know, one with a killer immune system. According to scientists, some people's immune systems aren't compatible, which can lead to weaker babies. But if you meet a guy whose immunities match up with yours...well, you can make a super-baby.
But our big question: Will these perfumes actually work? It looks promising, thanks to a new study conducted by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Germany.
In the study, researchers asked participants to dab four types of perfume—each with the same detectible smell—under their arms for two nights. The results: The healthy women in the group all preferred the perfume that smelled the most like their natural body hormones.
Seriously, how cool is this? Dating is hard enough, so why not let biology—and our scent—influence our love lives in the right way. We'll take a big bottle right now, please.
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On May 26, 1956, two female students from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson, sat down in the "whites only" section of a segregated bus in the city of Tallahassee. When they refused to move to the "colored" section at the rear of the bus, the driver pulled into a service station and called the police. Tallahassee police arrested Jakes and Patterson and charged them with "placing themselves in a position to incite a riot."
In the days immediately following these arrests, students at FAMU organized a campus-wide boycott of city buses. Their collective stand against segregation set an example that propelled like-minded Tallahassee citizens into action. Soon, news of the boycott spread throughout the community.
Reverend C.K. Steele orchestrated the formation of an organization known as the Inter-Civic Council (ICC) to manage the logistics behind the boycott. Steele and other leaders created the ICC because of unfounded negative publicity surrounding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The NAACP faced persistent attacks from segregationists who claimed that the organization was a front for communist activity. Despite the local origins of the boycott, segregationists seized upon the notion that outside agitators, meaning communists from the NAACP, intended to use the case of Jakes and Patterson to inflame racial tensions in Tallahassee.
The ICC devised a car pool system to provide transportation for African-Americans during the boycott. City officials quickly charged ICC leaders with operating an illegal for-hire operation without a franchise. Reverend Steele was among those later arrested in connection with the car pools. The slogan for the movement, attributed to Steele, became "I would rather walk in dignity than ride in humiliation."
As the boycott dragged on into the summer, the Tallahassee police continually harassed its organizers as well as rank-and-file members of the ICC, many of whom were FAMU students. Segregationists smashed windows at Reverend Steele's house and burned crosses on numerous occasions in an attempt to intimidate the African-American community.
The legislature, concerned that the example of Tallahassee would spread beyond the capital city, initiated investigations of civil rights organizations and leaders under the auspices of the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (FLIC), also known as the Johns Committee. The FLIC maintained extensive files on organizations such as the ICC and the NAACP, but paid little more than lip service to curtailing violence committed by white terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Many historians believe that the sole purpose of the Johns Committee was to manufacture links between the Civil Rights Movement and an imagined international communist conspiracy. Indeed, the FLIC became the Florida manifestation of McCarthyism. However, this witch hunt took on the decidedly Jim Crow era southern angle of both anti-communism and anti-integration.
The strategy of the ICC had an immediate impact on bus fare revenues. On July 1, Cities Transit, the company that operated the Tallahassee bus franchise, announced that it was forced to suspend all routes because of the financial impact of the boycott. The ICC won its first major victory in early August when Cities Transit announced that the company would resume service and hire African-American drivers on the predominately black FAMU and Frenchtown routes.
On October 21, as the boycott entered its fifth month, Tallahassee judge John A. Rudd convicted 21 ICC members of operating a transportation business without a franchise approved by the city. Jail sentences for the car poolers were suspended, but the court levied $11,000 in fines against the ICC. Reverend Steele traveled extensively at this time, garnering support for the Tallahassee movement and raising funds to pay fines and legal fees.
The Tallahassee Bus Boycott received a boost when, in December 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in a case that originated from the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Alabama's segregated busing laws were unconstitutional. Shortly thereafter, the court ordered Alabama to desegregate its public buses.
ICC leaders in Tallahassee decided to test whether the U.S. Supreme Court decision would be enforced in Florida. In late December 1956, Steele and several other prominent Tallahassee civil rights leaders, including Reverend Daniel Speed, boarded segregated buses and sat in seats reserved for whites without incident. Larger "front ride" demonstrations were called off when armed whites threatened to confront the integrationists.
In the midst of growing pressure from all sides, Governor LeRoy Collins suspended all bus service in Tallahassee as of January 1, 1957. Days later, on January 7, the city repealed the segregated seating ordinance, citing the recent federal ruling in the Montgomery case. The city then enacted an "assigned seating" ordinance that, while not violating the decision by the high court, maintained a measure of segregated seating to ensure "maximum health and safety" for the public.
By the summer of 1957, all city buses in Tallahassee were fully integrated. According to Tallahassee historians Mary Louise Ellis and William Warren Rogers, "City commissioners and protesting blacks never achieved a formal settlement, but gradually the sight of blacks riding at the front of the bus became more common, and the battle moved to another front."
Through courageous nonviolent protest, boycotters in Tallahassee achieved an important victory in the struggle for civil rights. The case of Tallahassee proved that Montgomery was not an anomaly and that a commitment to nonviolence could achieve significant results towards equality.
For more photographs and documents, see The Civil Rights Movement in Florida: The Tallahassee Bus Boycott.
4th Grade Lesson Plan: The Tallahassee Bus Boycott
Standards: SS.4.A.1.1, SS.4.A.8.1
Tags: 4th grade lesson plans, Carrie Patterson, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, integration, LACC.4.RI.1.1, lesson plans, Reverend C.K. Steele, segregation, SS.4.A.1.1, SS.4.A.8.1, Tallahassee Bus Boycott, Wilhelmina Jakes


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An extraordinary creature transfixes the town and a race to capture the beast ensues. Silas must face the consequences of his attack on Yeardley, whilst Opechancanough makes a bold political move. Jocelyn finally weakens the unfathomable Willmus.
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Greater reliance on technology could see the rise of the Chief Financial and Technology Officer (CFTO) in 2014, says the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Institute of Management Accountants at the start of CFO Month.
For what is the second ever CFO Month, ACCA and IMA are marking the annual campaign, which champions the work of the chief finance officer role, with a technology-focused theme.
CFO Month recognises the central role finance chiefs play in business strategy, as well as raising awareness of the challenges and opportunities they face now and in the future.
"ACCA and IMA's futures research in 2013 has pointed to greater technological involvement for CFOs across the world," says Leong Soo Yee, Head, ACCA Singapore. "Their involvement in big data and technology trends is critical to business growth and profit. As CFOs take on a more strategic and globally-focused outlook within business, technology will loom larger in their remit."
Cyber security, cloud technology, virtual and augmented reality, digital service delivery and even artificial intelligence and robotics are featuring more and more in business strategy, according to Leong.
"Chief finance officers are agents of change within today's businesses, which means they are at the forefront of technological. Who would have thought 10 years ago that these trends would become part of the CFO role? They are and will continue to do so. We could see the rise and rise of the CFTO as a regular seat on the board."
In 2013 two key reports from ACCA and IMA showed how technology was impacting upon the CFO's role. Digital Darwinism: thriving in the face of technology change pointed to the 10 technologies finance professionals identified as having an impact on their roles and the businesses they worked within. Mobile technology and cybercrime being just two such technology trends that were changing the role of the CFO.
A second report from ACCA and IMA Big data: its power and perils highlighted the potential for business of all sizes, governments and regulators in harnessing this wealth of unstructured information.
The report found that 62% of CFOs across the world cited big data as hugely important to the future of business, potentially giving savvy businesses an edge on their competitors.
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a resident of Menlo Park: Park Forest
on Aug 18, 2013 at 10:31 am
Opponents to the high-speed train in California have watched over the past five years as all their concerns and predictions of dire consequences went unheeded by the Democratic Legislature and Governor that many of those same HSR opponents supported.
Some of us have been railing against this project for as long as ten years. Serious critical analyses (The Due Diligence Report) were produced by Vranich and Cox in 2008 and then revised with more factual information more recently.
Bill Grindley and his team have, over the past several years, produced a series of factually based financial analyses demonstrating the disastrous and destructive cost/benefits of this project. And even the initiator and former Chairman of the Board of the CHSRA, former State Senator and Judge, Quentin Kopp has spoken harshly against the project as it evolved from its initial vague and hyper-inflated promises to the pathetic money spending train-wreck of a project it has become.
During all this time, we waited for some good news; that is, that reason would prevail, that some indication that our voices have been heard and that the stark realities of this boondoggle would become so apparent that the project would in fact become unfunded and terminated. The former State Senator, Joe Simitian, with enormous patience and persistence, sought to persuade his legislative colleagues that this project would be seriously harmful to the state. He also was ignored.
Now, with several lawsuits having gone through the pipeline, Superior Court Judge Kenny has finally -- FINALLY -- blown the whistle on this nightmare.
But, it's too soon to celebrate. The Judge has not issued an injunction to stop the project in its tracks. He indicated in his findings that there would be further review leading to actionable decisions.
So, now the question becomes, will Judge Kenny order the project to be de-funded and thereby terminated? It would mean ruling against the promise of the state of California being denied over three billion dollars, already obligated, from the Department of Transportation. It would mean ruling against the obsessive determination of the Governor, the will of the Democrat super-majority of the Legislature, and the passionate support of the project by the state's two Senators and the state's former Speaker of the House in Congress.
And, finally, it would be a terminal blow to the pro-high-speed rail policies and vision of the President of the United States and the Congressional majority of the Senate. It will take a lot of judicial cohones to make such a decision. And, it would be the right thing to do, speaking truth to power. But. . . .we're not there yet.
In short, it's not over until it's over.
a resident of Atherton: West of Alameda
on Aug 19, 2013 at 2:21 pm
This is good news.
Voters did not vote a blank check for a crossed-fingers electric train.
Proponents of the rr have not met the targets they sold.
The rr isn't needed now,and will be competing for electric power resources with the rest of us.
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A Final Post on Pitino and Sypher. . . (for now)Posted by nvr1983 on August 12th, 2009
After finishing what I thought would be RTC's last Rick Pitino-Karen Sypher post late last night/early this morning, I had a funny feeling that something seemed fishy about the story. I was a little confused about the dates that the Louisville Courier-Journal cited from the police reports. The dates on Sypher's story didn't seem to add up. I briefly mentioned it to Dan Levy, who mentioned an outline of my idea on today's podcast. I was set to put up a sensational post (actually this very draft, but with a substantially different title). After discussing it with our legal team (rtmsf), I decided to sleep on the idea and dig around a little more before doing a definitive Pitino-Sypher post. Well after sleeping on it (and finishing a day of work and sitting through a Pitino press conference), here's how it all breaks down:
Was Syphers Pregnant?
This was my original question. Without getting too technical, I was surprised at how close the dates were to the earliest accepted times for these tests to occur. Here's a brief run-down of the dates and what happened according to the C-J article:
- August 1-2, 2003: The dinner at Porcini's where Pitino and Sypher had sex. This is confirmed by both parties even if the two sides disagree on whether it was consensual.
- Approximately 2 weeks later: Sypher calls Pitino and tells him that she is pregnant and the kid is his because she claims not to have had sex with anybody else in months. Usually women don't realize they're pregnant until they have missed their first menstrual period, but women who are exceptionally concerned can have a positive pregnancy test (typically a urine hCG) as soon as a week after intercourse. Without getting into the variable predictive values of positive urine pregnancy tests in relation to menstrual periods, we'll generally agree that this is a plausible explanation.
- August 26, 2003: The date of Sypher's reported ultrasound that confirmed her pregnancy. Note that the date is a little over 3.5 weeks after the first encounter between the two. Without getting too technical about ultrasounds, there are two types: transvaginal and transabdominal. I'll let you guess where the probe is inserted on both. The transvaginal is much more sensitive at detecting a fetus early in pregnancy and can be used to detect a pregnancy as early as 4.5-5 weeks into a pregnancy. Before the alarm bells start going off in your head like they did in mine at 1 AM last night, you should remember that a pregnancy is defined by the time since the last menstrual period. I don't want to turn this into health education class (or discuss menstrual cycles in a women who could be perimenopausal) so let's just assume that Sypher's last menstrual period was 2 weeks before the night at Porcini's. At 5.5 weeks, she now falls into the acceptable window for pregnancy, but just barely to the point where one would wonder about the legitimacy of her claim. However, if she claims to have had a transabdominal ultrasound (we're assuming women can remember the difference in where the ultrasound probe is placed), that's a different story as there is no way that any medical professional would rely on that to detect such an early stage of pregnancy.
Being the responsible "journalists" that we are at RTC, we contacted Andrew Wolfson, the writer of the story, and asked him if there had been any verification of the medical procedure. He told us that the abortion had in fact been confirmed in the police report. So it turns out that Sypher was in fact pregnant at the time even if the time frame surrounding her ultrasound dates and her encounter with Pitino would make a neutral observer extremely suspicious of her story.
Health Insurance?
The big story of today was Pitino's press conference where he spoke vaguely about the incident after Andy Katz reported earlier in the day that he wouldn't speak about it until required to do so in a legal arena. While I'm sure the state of Kentucky was glued to their televisions and radios, the entire presser wasn't particularly notable. However, during the conference Pitino said something that caught my attention:
"If you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future."
On the surface, this seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to say even if it sounds like something you might find in Aesop's Fables. The reason I was so struck by this statement is because of another statement made earlier in the day by Steve Pence, Pitino's lawyer. The key assertion that Pence made was that despite reports to the contrary, Pitino hadn't paid Sypher $3,000 so she could have an abortion – he had, in fact, paid her that sum so that a 43 year-old pregnant woman could buy health insurance. Think about that for a second. . .
Done? Is your head hurting like mine did after hearing that statement? Pitino, the master BSer, expects us to believe that Sypher could get adequate prenatal care/management for the entire pregnancy of a middle-aged woman? I don't even have to start into medical jargon for you to know that a pregnancy in a 43 year-old is at high-risk for complications with the most well-known being Down's Syndrome. Obviously this kind of pregnancy isn't going to be cheap (and the insurers know that too). How did Pitino expect Sypher to find insurance for that sum? The answer is that it's pretty clear that he didn't. So, why would he lie about this, a legal, if controversial in some places, procedure? Even Red Staters in the Louisville area would be willing to forgive Pitino's indiscretions if he continues to get to Elite Eights. So who or what exactly would Pitino be afraid of? The answer may lie in a place closer to Pitino's heart than even basketball. . .
Pitino's Catholic faith is well-known and while he doesn't reach Tim Tebow levels in terms of evangelism it's pretty clear that Catholicism is a big part of his life as he reportedly "brings along close friend and spiritual adviser, the Rev. Edward Bradley — a priest in Henderson, Ky. — on many team trips". As most of you are probably aware, the Catholic Church has taken a fairly strong and unambiguous stance against abortion. Perhaps at this point in his life, Pitino is less concerned about keeping his coaching job and jeopardizing a future trip to Springfield than he is about being granted into admission into another rather select club.


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While the grocery store in Winnebago may look the same this morning, there are actually big changes going on at the Main Street business.
New owners, new manager and a slightly different name.
Bruce Mandler, who owns the Marketplace Foods grocery store in Wells, has purchased the MarketPlace Foods store in Winnebago from Jim Baldus of Austin.
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Dennis Schrader, left, and Bruce Mandler are the new owners of Marketplace Foods in Winnebago. Mandler also owns the Marketplace Foods store in Wells.
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"I'm pretty excited about this," Mandler says. "I have wanted to branch out and have another store for some time now. The Winnebago store is the perfect fit, it is a newer building and it is in a great community."
There is an added benefit to his purchase, Mandler says. Location.
The new manager of the store is going to be Dennis Schrader of Northrop.
"The Winnebago store is just a 15 mile commute for Dennis and a 20 mile drive for me," Mandler says. "We can both easily get to the store when we need to be there, since it is right in between the two of us."
Schrader, the new manager, has a lot of retail experience, Mandler says.
"Dennis was my store manager in Wells from 2003 to 2007," he says. "He also has been working at both Shopko and Sterling Drug in Fairmont."
Schrader is married and he and his wife, Jodie, have two children; a son who is in college, and a daughter who is a junior at Fairmont High School.
"I am very excited to have this opportunity," he says. "When Bruce called me I said yes right away to getting back into the grocery business again."
Schrader will be more than just a manager, as he will be a junior partner with Mandler in the business.
Mandler is also a veteran in the retail food business. The Adams native came to Wells in 1993 to manage the grocery store.
He and his wife, Amy, have lived there ever since. They have two daughters, an eighth grader and a junior at USC Schools.
In 1994, Mandler became a partner in the Wells grocery store operation with Dan Wagner, who lives in Adams. They continue to be in partnership to this day.
Wagner owns six stores in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa, with various partners. However, Wagner is not involved in the new Winnebago store purchase.
"I have helped Dan set up some of his other stores, like the one in Britt, Iowa," Mandler says. "And, we will continue to be partners in the Wells store."
Mandler says the Winnebago store will continue to have nearly the same name.
"We are going to make a little change to the name," Mandler explains. "We will spell both places as one word and use lower case letters."
Currently the store in Winnebago has the name MarketPlace Foods, with a capital 'P.'
"We will be lower casing the 'p,'" Mandler explains. "And using the logo of the Wells store for both sites."
While both stores used the same name of Marketplace Foods, there has been no connection what-so-ever between the two, Mandler says.
"We both purchased our stock from same supplier (Affiliated Foods), but we had no real connection," Mandler says. "It was just a coincidence both stores had similar names."
Schrader says he expects the staff at the store to remain the same, only he will now be the manager.
"We plan to do a lot of updating, both to the store and the systems we use," he says. "It already is a very nice store building, only five years old. We just want to improve it some. I think people will be pleased with what we have planned."
The two new owners both say they are eager to meet the people of Winnebago and the area and hope to provide a great store for folks to shop in.
"I know the community has strong support for the store," Schrader says. "I am excited to get to work, meet our customers and make the store the best that we can."
And that, he adds, starts today.


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Thunar Volume Manager (thunar-volman)
The Thunar Volume Manager is an extension for the Thunar file manager, which enables automatic management of removable drives and media. For example, if thunar-volman is installed and configured properly, and you plug in your digital camera, it will automatically launch your preferred photo application and import the new pictures from the camera into your photo collection.
The advantage of Thunar Volume Manager over other solutions (like gnome-volume-manager or ivman) is that it does not require an additional daemon to be running in the users desktop session, which means it is a very lightweight solution. In addition, the Thunar Volume Manager smoothly integrates into the Thunar file manager and the Xfce desktop.
It was designed to look and behave similar to gnome-volume-manager to get consistent removable drive and media management in Xfce and GNOME. This is to help GNOME refugees and people using both Xfce and GNOME.
The Thunar user manual explains the configuration of the Thunar Volume Manager. The user manual is also available in other languages:
However, this is still work in progress, and so the user manual may not be fully translated to your language yet.
You will need atleast the following software packages in order to install and use the Thunar Volume Manager:
Stable releases
Source tarballs and binary packages of the latest stable release 0.3.80 (and earlier releases) are available from the Xfce Goodies download page.
Getting the source from SVN
The Thunar Volume Manager - just like the other Xfce Goodies - is available from the Xfce Goodies SVN repository, which means that you will need to install a Subversion client in order to be able to check out from the SVN repository (you can use the web interface for browsing the repository).
You can download the latest version of thunar-volman using the following command:
svn co http://svn.xfce.org/svn/goodies/thunar-volman/trunk \ thunar-volman
This will create a new directory thunar-volman in the current path, which contains the latest version from the repository.
Building and installing
If you downloaded a release tarball, you can simply run
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
now. The prefix must be the same prefix where Thunar is installed. You can find out the prefix using the following command:
pkg-config --variable prefix thunarx-1
Else if you use a SVN snapshot, you need to run
sh autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
instead, because the automatically generated files are not included in the repository.
If the configure script complains about missing thunarx-1 package and you are using a binary package for Thunar, be sure to install the appropriate -devel package (i.e. for Debian/Ubuntu it is libthunar-vfs-1-dev). Next, you continue with
make make install
where the install step must be done with superuser privilegues.
Reporting Bugs
Bugs should be reported to the Xfce bug tracking system (product Thunar Plugins, component thunar-volman). You will need to create an account for yourself.


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Q: If my child's allergic to chicken eggs, could I safely cook for him using quail eggs?
Dr. Sharma: People with allergy to hen's eggs are generally also allergic to other bird eggs, including quail, turkey, duck, goose and seagull.
This is called cross-reactivity, which occurs because of the similarity in the protein structures among these various bird eggs.
While it's possible to be allergic to one type of bird egg but not others, this is rare.
Anaphylaxis to quail egg has actually been reported in those with hen's egg allergy. So the usual recommendation for someone with hen's egg allergy would be to avoid all other bird eggs.
Dr. Sharma is an allergist, clinical researcher and associate professor of pediatrics. He is Chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C. and Director of the Food Allergy Program. He co-authors "The Food Allergy Experts" column in Allergic Living magazine. Questions submitted will be considered for answer in the magazine.Submit a Question View all posts by this medical expert.


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Interview with Dr. Brett Thombs, professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University and senior investigator of the Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. He is also chair-elect of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care and chair of the tobacco guideline working group.
In their clinical guideline published in the CMAJ (open access), Dr. Thombs and the Task Force reviewed the evidence supporting behavioural interventions for prevention and treatment of smoking in children and youth. He explains their findings in this podcast.
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Even Krsna Accepted A Guru
Murwillumbah, Australia: December 4, 2002
Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja
Everywhere in Vedanta, in the Upanisads, and especially in Srimad Bhagavatam, sad-guru has been glorified. The holy name is transcendental; this is true. It is written in sastra, and we hear from so many persons, that we should chant harinama. But someone may say, "I have read here and there that we should chant harinama; so I am chanting. What, then, is the need of a guru, who is like an agent, a broker, or a mediator? Ajamila easily went to Vaikuntha without knowing in the beginning of the glories of harinama. We can chant harinama without accepting a guru."


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From ABC News : Rumsfeld making a speech in Atlanta recently.
Rumsfeld said Bush, who made the threat posed by Iraq's weapons his main justification for war, also "spent weeks and weeks with the Central Intelligence people" before making his case to the American people."They gave the world their honest opinion," Rumsfeld added. "It appears that there were no weapons of mass destruction."
McGovern shot back, "You said you knew where they were," referring to the Iraqi weapons.
"I did not," Rumsfeld retorted. "I said I knew where suspect sites were."
"You said you know where they were, near Tikrit, near Baghdad, and north, east, south and west of there. Those are your words," McGovern shot back.
"I'd just like an honest answer," McGovern added. "We're talking about lies," also mentioning the administration's assertions of prewar ties between Iraq and al Qaeda.
The article then goes on to add
A week and a half into the war, Rumsfeld was asked on March 30, 2003, on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," whether he found it curious that U.S. forces had not yet found weapons of mass destruction.
"Not at all," Rumsfeld responded, according to a Pentagon transcript of the interview.
"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat," Rumsfeld stated.
Rumsfeld on January 20, 2003, said Saddam's government had "large, unaccounted for stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, including VX, sarin, mustard gas, anthrax, botulism, and possibly smallpox," as well as "an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons."


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The Jacana Literary Foundation (JLF) is a not-for-profit organisation which seeks to promote and foster excellent writing from South and southern Africa through a number of initiatives.
Through generous project funding, the JLF is able to publish literature that otherwise would not be published due to its commercial viability. This allows the JLF's project partner, Jacana Media, the opportunity to continue to publish what we like, and support the concept of bibliodiversity. We realise that it is through the reading and writing of local creative works that the truths of our lives are best told.
The JLF aims to disperse such works to the world, and will donate books to various organisations (focusing on libraries, schools, prisons, the South African Police Service, hospitals and clinics), in order to expand the reach of regional literature.
The projects currently administered by the JLF are:
The Dinaane Debut Fiction Award
In recent times, locally published fiction has been particularly hit hard by difficult market conditions. We cannot allow it to disappear as a result. Accordingly, this first award of its kind aims to promote new southern African literature that speaks to both a local and international audience.
The word dinaane in Setswana means 'telling our stories to one another', which connotes the many strands of conversation which weave into the common language of fiction.
Formerly known as the European Union Literary Award, this award was established in 2004, and has proved to be a driving force in uncovering new and talented South African fiction writers.
The Dinaane Award is, like its predecessor, open to unpublished English-language manuscripts by debut writers.The winning manuscript is published by Jacana Media and the winner awarded a cash prize. The award-winning book is supported by Exclusive Books' Homebru campaign.
The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award
In an attempt to keep visible the voices of South African poets in the country's landscape of published works, the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award was established in 2011. It is supported by the European Union.
The annual award, named after Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1876–1932), recognises the life and vision of this highly respected political and social activist. A longlist of the strongest entries into this award are anthologised each year. Poets may enter up to three poems for consideration, in any of the official South African languages.
As Plaatje's works did in his time, these poems reveal the political and social attitudes of our time.
The Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology
The new annual Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology is made possible in partnership with The Other Foundation and through the generous funding of Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited life foundation. Created in honour of the late Gerald Kraak's extraordinary legacy of supporting human rights, this award will advance his contribution to building a South Africa that is safe and welcoming to all. The unique and vital compendium will feature English-language writing and photography from and about Africa. Exceptional works which explore, interrogate and celebrate the topics of gender, sexuality and human rights will be given a voice through publication.
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Aimee Copeland agrees to painkillers following skin graft surgery despite previous refusal
(CBS News) Aimee Copeland's pain has been so severe as she recovers from a flesh-eating infection that she is now taking painkillers despite her beliefs against it, her father said Sunday
Initially Copeland had refused medication during dressing changes for her skin grafts because of her "personal convictions." She has been battling against necrotizing fasciitis since a May 1 zipline accident. The 24-year-old's masters' thesis at the University of West Georgia focused on using holistic treatments and meditation to treat pain.
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But in a Father's Day blog post from Andy Copeland, who has been tracking his daughter's progress for the public, he said a surgery Aimee needed on Friday caused pain far more severe than any dressing change. The pain was so bad that even if Aimee had refused, doctors would have administered the pain relievers - such as Morphine - in an intravenous drip. Fortunately, Aimee did not say no.
"Please believe me when I say that Aimee's refusal to use pain medication has ceased following her most recent surgery," Andy Copeland wrote. "She is now requesting it ahead of schedule."
Andy said his daughter's pain previously had been focused on her amputation sites - a wound on her left side and her right thigh - which had been used as a skin donor site for skin grafts, procedures which take skin from another area of the body to transplant it over a wound. In her latest surgery, doctors were forced to take muscle from Aimee's abdomen to create a flap over the iliac artery in her groin for a skin graft. The procedure resulted in major pain in both those areas so severe that she cries from it.
"She says that she feels like a patchwork quilt, because her body is a collection of skin grafts and bandages," he wrote. "If I could take that pain away from her I would do it in a heartbeat... If she needs anymore 'muscle flaps,' I am going to demand that they take it from me. I so much want her to move past this stage of her illness."
Aimee has also had trouble keeping solid foods down, and the vomiting causes her even more pain.
"Amazingly, although she is suffering immensely, Aimee's presence of mind is sharp," Andy wrote. He said his daughter despite all her pain wished him a Happy Father's Day and he had to resist the urge to hug her because he didn't want to cause her more pain.
"To all those other fathers out there, hug your children and savor them," Andy Copeland wrote. "Help them to grow into fine examples of humanity for everyone around them."


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The Beauty of the Blind
A review by Nicholas Soodik
Stephen Kuusisto's recent memoir Eavesdropping begins with an astonishing question: "Why travel anywhere if you can't see?" Kuusisto, a blind English professor and poet at Ohio State, was asked the question while delivering a talk at a nonprofit agency. While Kuusisto was unprepared for the question at the time, this slim book represents a thoughtful and stirring belated reply.
The response not only helps to explain the pleasures and delights of traveling as a blind person, but also provides a thorough meditation on the many reasons for traveling at all. In so doing, Kuusisto's lyrical memoir adds volumes to the experience of being human and enriches the reader's appreciation for the manifold aspects of sensory life.
Blindness evokes a constellation of clichés, though perhaps none so pernicious as the imagined emptiness of the blind person's world. People generally imagine blindness as a life-sentence in a darkened cell, a confined universe of black space. Shakespeare, for instance, wrote of "looking on darkness which the blind do see," while Twain joked that to identify with the blind, "get up some dark night on the wrong side of your bed when the house is on fire and try to find the door." If you live near a university or college, at some point this semester you'll likely see these limited ideas in practice: a train of students, surely full of good intentions, will lead partners in blindfolds on some simulation exercise -- as though blindness were summed up and tied off with a handkerchief and a half-hour. Such activities, like the comments above show, link blindness to states of pity, panic and even madness. They undermine the blind way of life -- what Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges called "one of the styles of living." There is no beauty in the imagined nothingness of a black hole and no grace in time-stopped exercises of simulation.
Yet, as Borges observed, "the world of the blind is not the night that people imagine." In Eavesdropping, Kuusisto makes clear how colorful, even visionary, the sensory field of the blind can be. Although damaged retinas left Kuusisto legally blind at birth, he still sees slivered fragments and patterns, "jumping apertures of sight...like a myopic, darting minnow." Closer to visual nonsense than meaningful imagery, Kuusisto's kaleidoscopic visual field compels him to practice the "art of listening," an extraordinarily effortful, creative and refined practice of sight-seeing by ear: "Blind people are not casual eavesdroppers," Kuusisto explains, "we have method...Even when I listen to Manhattan traffic I'm drawing my own pictures of New York -- the streets are crowded with Russian ghosts and wheels that have broken loose from their carriages."
The memoir departs from the conventions of traditional autobiography, neglecting to narrate a linear story of childhood and maturation. Instead, a series of poetic vignettes or, what he calls, "auditory postcards," transmit the many wanderings Kuusisto makes by ear. For example, he tells of a journey to Iceland, where Kuusisto and two friends travel to hear the music of the Buena Vista Social Club. An odd pairing of steamy Cuban rhythms and North Atlantic chill, the concert leads Kuusisto to dizzying registers of auditory experience: "I felt both silly and hot and I sensed that there were thousands around me who were equally feverish... The hall thundered with cheering and foot stomping. I realized that I was happier in this crowd than I'd ever been in a public gathering."
In Venice, Kuusisto gets lost, intentionally. The writer and his piloting canine, Corky, leave behind dogmatic tour guides and ditch their printed messengers: Fodors, Frommers, and Lonely Planet. "Something strange was happening to me," Kuusisto exclaims, navigating piazzas, canales and campos with the compass of his ears. "I'd been drifting through the unfamiliar atmosphere with only the wind for a map. Was this what happened to sighted people as they wandered in churches and museums?" We're not meant to answer Kuusisto's question, only to appreciate the significance of its asking. The architecture, church frescoes and paintings of Venice are not missed without the use of his eyes; instead, Kuusisto registers their beauty in artful descriptions of Venetian sound.
Similar epiphanies on the sounds of cities and space make up the memoir's second part, while the first details Kuusisto's development in creative listening. Denied companionship as a child because of his physical difference, the young Kuusisto learns to commune with voices on the radio. He also finds symphonies in the natural world: "Alone in the woods, I could spend a whole hour listening to a single bird...The thrush produced point notes like strings played pizzicato on a violin. There was the whine of a mosquito, the slow vibrato of a bee."
A long-playing record of Paradise Lost on loan from the Library of Congress delivers the fourteen-year-old Kuusisto his life's calling: poetry. "I'd discovered, without knowing it, the difference between speaking and being. This is what listening is, true listening, the lonely but open mind...The soul's path is in the ear -- not in the mirror." In poetry, Kuusisto realizes the means to express his love for rhythm and tone, and the memoir shares many lines from his favorite poets. Like listening, poetry requires patience and imagination for meaning to emerge; it also depends on a circle of interpreters, a community of participants committed to extending and deepening a poem's reach. Likewise, we learn that Kuusisto's "art of listening" involves the creativity and care of friends, who round out his world with the occasional description of visual tableaux. Rather than a solitary singer, for Kuusisto, the poet is immersed in a network of relationships, valuing dialogue and kinship more than individualist pursuits and triumphs.
Kuusisto offers a literary triumph somewhat at odds with the form of a memoir. He discovers beauty in the conversations, sounds and ideas of people and things other than himself. Not only an issue of perception, the poetry of eavesdropping is also a practiced mode of creative reception, an openness to experience and the multiplicity of the world. To crib the words of Borges, Kuusisto's style of living conveys so much more than what meets the eye.
Nicholas Soodik is a graduate student at Cornell University, where he also teaches literature, writing, and disability studies.