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You're the head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of Maine. Your players won only four of the 28 games they played. You survive a wild ride off the highway in a driverless bus, watching the headlights of speeding cars nearing your path. You're thankful no one was killed or maimed.
Your next basketball game is canceled. You play one at home and then call it a year, opting out of the conference tournament.
What happens next, Coach?
"We're moving forward, like any other year," said Richard Barron. Even if 2012-13 wasn't like any other season he or his players will experience again.
Maybe I was asking the questions that can't be answered today, next week or next month. Maybe I was searching for a new blueprint to return this program to the success it enjoyed 10 years ago when trips to the NCAA tournament were expected goals. I overlooked the plan Barron had in place.
Or I didn't understand that Barrron was keeping a stiff upper lip while so much around him was rattled by the many defeats and the bus accident. He's continued to check on the physical and emotional health of his players while he gives them their offseason workouts.
"I'm the take-the-day-in-front-of-you kind of guy," he said. He wants to be done talking and reliving an accident more than two weeks old.
Although two days after we spoke, that horror had to hit again with news of Saturday's crash and deaths involving the Seton Hill University women's lacrosse team. Barron and his players don't have to imagine being in the shoes of those women. They were.
The decision not to play in the quarterfinals of the America East tournament last week has been second-guessed and criticized. It's the old, get-back-on-the-horse-that-threw-you argument. Man up, ladies. Show some resilience.
Actually, that's what the Maine women have been showing all season. Losing three key frontcourt players — Anna Heise, Corinne Wellington and Danielle Walczak — to season-ending injuries and surgeries was a crash of its own to one of the youngest teams in the country.
The healthy players on the court for the last game against New Hampshire were energized even if they were running on empty reserves. They didn't need to go to the conference quarterfinals for an encore to prove to themselves they had heart or courage or whatever you wish to call it. They certainly didn't need to prove it to anyone else.
Like those who weren't on that bus.
The Maine women were beat up by the losing, the injuries, and finally the crash of an out-of-control bus with an unconscious driver at the steering wheel. Hollywood makes movies about this stuff, capitalizing on our fears.
After the loss to New Hampshire, players said some teammates weren't ready to make a seven-hour bus trip to Albany, N.Y., for the tournament. That indicated a division, yes?
"I don't see that," said Barron. "They made a decision as a group. I hardly see that as divisive."
Barron got on a plane early in the past week to recruit players for the future. "I talk about our great school, great team, great fan base and we want them to be a part of it.
"There are a lot of challenges here. I like challenges. That's why I wanted this job. Hopefully we'll attract more kids who are the overachievers."
He had a team of mostly freshmen with a few sophomores and a junior. Wellington was the lone senior. Barron looks at the emergence of Lauren Bodine's outside shooting and Liz Wood's all-around play. Heise, until a sprained ankle became a broken ankle, was a strong player under the basket. Walczak was coming on. Courtney Anderson, the lone Mainer, was the glue.
How is this team moving on? Barron gave each player an offseason workout schedule. He told them what he expects next season when the healing is finished.
"I'm not going to make excuses," said Barron. "Neither will the players. We expect to win more. When we get this thing going there'll be a huge payoff."
He's not deaf to the disappointment or the discontent of a state that's had so little to cheer about this winter. He has to tune it out. He's got work to do.
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In December, Old Republic Automotive Services Inc. (ORIAS), a provider of aftermarket products for the auto industry, welcomed Larry Graves as its new senior vice president of sales and marketing.
ORIAS was purchased by Old Republic in 1992. It originated as an insurance agency and warranty administrator formed in 1972. Today, they still write and administer service contracts; however, their product line has grown to include the administration of GAP as well. They are part of the Old Republic International Corp. group of companies, which is one of the nation's 50 largest publicly held insurance organizations.
Graves has full responsibility for sales, marketing and the management of current and future products and services. He is the primary contact for all of ORIAS's agents and brokers, and his knowledge of the dealer-agent service business is a real asset for ORIAS. As senior vice president, ORIAS is looking to Graves to strengthen and enhance the company's growth opportunities in the automobile dealer/agent business, OEM trade and unaffiliated third party arena. And Graves is excited by the prospect of it all.
Graves is originally from Chicago. He got his start in the industry when he was recruited by Pat Ryan & Associates right after college, where he earned a degree in business administration. The company was one of the first to sell services that managed and improved F&I performance in dealerships. Ryan sent Graves through a two-year training program, where he was afforded the opportunity to learn the car business while simultaneously working in insurance. During his training, he had to sell cars, work deals and consult with the business office about ways to increase profits. "They taught me the business, by making me actually work the business." said Graves.
He stayed with the company for about five years, until he transitioned into management, working with several insurance companies over the course of his career. Overall, he has more than 30 years of experience in the automotive/insurance industry.
Just prior to re-joining ORIAS, Graves served as COO for a third party administrator. His experience ranges from managing a diverse product portfolio – including GAP, credit insurance and automobile warranties – to conducting market analysis studies, product feasibility research and customer satisfaction management. His wide range of areas of specialization are a result of the various facets of the industry his positions have focused on.
When asked what he likes most about the industry, Graves said, "I love the changing industry we are in. This is my 31st year in this business – most of the time working for insurance companies offering or insuring products which are sold in the F&I office in dealerships."
In his experience, Graves has found that the bottom line in being successful is not determined primarily by having the best product. "Virtually every product that every customer sees on a service contract appears the same – regardless of what company the contract is with – service contracts all say the same thing. What is different, are the people you work with. You have to make a difference and separate yourself by the quality of service you provide."
Earlier in Graves' career, when serving as as a district manager for another insurance company, he recalls what was involved in securing a deal. "You couldn't just tell a dealer that you had better prices; you had to sell service and get them to buy into your promises. You got permission to look at dealer data and then you could say, 'here's where you are, here's where the rest of the industry is and here's how we can get you from here to there.'"
As to the future of the industry, Graves predicts there will be change in the way certain products are sold. He sees current regulations and rules being reviewed and perhaps changing over the next few years. "With more and more regulations, it's probable that in the future, everyone will be told how much they can sell products for."
At ORIAS, Graves sees the company continually looking for new products and new ways to do things. They also invest in finding new ways to approach existing products. Currently, they are working on revamping GAP to be structured as four tiers, rather than the current three-tier arrangement.
In his free time, Graves frequents football and hockey games as often as he can. He also has three daughters - all of whom, he affectionately says, keep him on his toes.

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Costume jewelry is perfect for pulling looks together and creating fashionable statements. From rhinestones to silver appearances, protecting your jewelry in advance is key. You can prevent stones from miscoloring, and silver and gold from rubbing off, by applying protective coating. Here's how to do it.
Step 1
Know what type of jewelry you're dealing with. For custom pieces that may be made of beads, protective coating is usually not needed. However, if you have rhinestone jewelry or pieces that are coated in silver or gold, it's best to apply a coat right after purchasing.
Step 2
Prepare your station. It's best to lay the piece of jewelry on a flat surface while it's spread out. Pour clear nail hardener into a separate container if needed.
Step 3
With the brush that was included with the polish (or a small paintbrush), start to apply a thin coat only to the chain itself. (This is the most important part, as it's prone to tarnishing.) Let it sit for 10 minutes, then turn over the chain and repeat the step for the other side.
Step 4
Take a look at the casing, or the holder, of the rhinestones or other beads that are being held in place. Apply a more generous amount around these holders, as they tend to tarnish even more than the chain. Allow to sit for 20 minutes. Pay close attention to the openings within the casing as well, but remember to avoid the stones.
Step 5
After all sets have dried, remove any excess with a wet paper towel. Do not use nail-polish remover at any time during this process.


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After being away for a few weeks in March, I returned to Carrall Street to see evidence of the progress of spring. The trees are all red with bud/blossoms, and there is more construction down by Pender Street. The Terminus development now has their sales office open, very minimalist. The garden in the Van Horne courtyard is showing daffodils, and in the park by Expo Boulevard the willow tree is greening. People are walking outside without coats.
The other night we walked over to Video Monster for their 7pm show for members, sat in comfy retromodern chairs and ate popcorn while watching Capote.
I wonder when Prime Time Chicken will open again, or if it will ever will. I'm just not sure if their "closed for renovations" sign is for real. Over the past few years, the crows have taken the chicken bones all over the place!


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By Robert Morrow
Is HUMA ABEDIN a de facto LESBIAN PROSTITUTE for Hillary Clinton?
Who funds Huma's extravagrant lifestyle of different designer clothes every day? How in the world did Huma Abedin buy a $649,000 condominium
(on 9-18-06) while working for peanuts for Hillary and after starting out as an intern, just like Monica Lewinsky, in 1996?
If Huma is so hot and sexy, where is her husband, boyfriend or fiance?
Gennifer Flowers once asked wild Bill if Hillary was a lesbian (really bisexual as she was screwing BOTH of her law partners Vince Foster and big-lipped Webb Hubbell, who is probably the biological father of big-lipped Chelsea):
"There's something you need to know. I've been hearing tales around town that Hillary is having another thing with a woman." I watched his face to see his reaction, and couldn't believe it when he burst out laughing. I was stunned! I asked him what was so funny.
"Honey," he said, "she's probably eaten more pussy than I have." Bill said he had known for a long time that Hillary was attracted to women, and it didn't really bother him anymore. His first clue came from her lack of enjoyment of sex with him.
She didn't like to experiment and insisted on the missionary position and nothing else. Because she wasn't enjoying herself; neither was he. Sex with her became a duty; nothing more."
[Flowers, Passion and Betrayal, p.42]
In fact, Bill would often respond to his buddies who questioned his massive amounts of affairs by saying "Hillary has eaten more pussy than I have."
Huma Abedin sure is pretty. Ok, where is her boyfriend, husband, fiance or significant other? In my opinion, Huma is in a lesbian relationship with Hillary.
If Hillary were not rich and powerful, do you think Huma would be spending all that time with that bitter, old, angry, fat-ass, battle-axe Hillary? Does Bill like to hang around Hillary?
Here is what James Carville says about Huma:
"Have you seen Huma?" asked James Carville, the former advisor to President Clinton. "Her appearance is just like, 'Hoh my God!' She takes your breath away. She's an unbelievably, stunningly gorgeous woman.
Nobody in that position can be that good-looking; it just doesn't happen." He added that she is also "damn smart."
Good point, Carville. Now if Huma is so hot, gorgeous and sexy, where is her MAN? You know, husband, boyfriend, fiance. According to you, it seems like it would be very easy for her to "snatch" one.
This is the same James Carville who said about Paula Jones: "Drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you might find" after pervert Bill had exposed himself to, degraded and humiliated Paula. Here is what Philippe Reines, Hillary's press secretary says about Huma:
"I'd call Huma one in a million," said Mrs. Clinton's press secretary, Philippe Reines, "but that would mean there are 5,999 others in the world just like her, and there simply aren't. She is truly one of a kind, one in a billion.
We are all in awe of her poise, grace, judgment, intellect and her seemingly endless reserve of kindness, patience and energy."
Good point, Philippe. If Huma is so hot, why don't YOU ask her out? If Huma Abedin is that super duper, don't you think one of you boys in the Clinton campaign would be all over that? Or what that not be cool if Huma Abedin was a de facto LESBIAN PROSTITUTE, best friend and sexual lover for Hillary?
More on this:
Bull dyke Hillary is probably having a lesbian affair with her aide Huma Abedin
And they have probably been a lesbian "item" for many years now. Here are some links:
1) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921983/posts
2) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919649/posts
3) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=huma%20abedin
The gossip blog Big Head DC reported an anonymous confirmation of the rumor by an official in the Justice Department in November, 2007:
We're still a bit incredulous on this one, but a top level U.S. Department of Justice official is telling Big Head DC that Michael Musto's rumor about Hillary Clinton fooling around with one of her top female aides Huma Abedin is based in reality!
"I am close enough to Hillary and Huma to tell you that this 'rumor' is true," the official says. "It is well known inside her campaign that Hillary and Huma are an item.
"If you call Hillary's residence in DC first thing in the morning, Huma answers the phone," the official continues. "Same thing late at night and on the road. It's a closely guarded secret that Hillary's inner circle guards at all costs."
[Big Head DC, November, 2007]
Who is funding Huma Abedin's lifestyle? Looks like Hillary's "lipstick lesbian" to me
Huma (age 32 in 2007) as recently as March, 2006 was making a base salary UNDER $30,000 per year, perhaps with a $10,000 (maybe) bonus from Hillary.
Huma's parents were university professors and I do not think she comes from family wealth. Huma's dad died when she was age 17. Huma went to work in the White House as an intern in 1996 and for 10 years she has worked for peanuts.
She is now Hillary's traveling chief of staff and "body person" and not getting paid a whole lot to do that. So HOW IN THE HELL did Huma make enough money to afford to buy a condominium for $649,000 on 9-18-06?
On that salary she can't afford the mortgage payments and if you work for peanuts for 10 years, you definitely don't have the assets to pay CASH for an expensive condominium.
And how does Huma afford to wear different designer clothes every day from the likes of Oscar de la Renta, Catherine Malandrino, Charles Nolan, Prava?
How does she pay for her weakness for Marc Jacobs bags? I think that Hillary is her Sugar Momma and Huma Abedin is her lovely lesbian lollipop.
Hillary's Mystery Woman: Who is Huma? By Jason Spencer of the New York Observer, 4-1-07:
Huma is an attractive 32 year old lady (2007). James Carville raves about how pretty Huma is. So where is Huma's boyfriend, fiancé or husband?
And where have these guys been the last 5 or 10 years? There are probably a lot of men who would like to go out with an intelligent, well dressed, attractive lady with style.
So where are these men?? It is puzzling unless Hillary and Huma Abedin have been in a lesbian relationship for years. That is my guess.
More links on lesbo Hillary:
1) http://www.lesbianstudies.com/hillarysgirlielovers/
2) http://www.dcdave.com/article5/070729.htm
Bill Clinton confirms it: Hillary is a lesbian:
"She's probably eaten more pussy than I have."
[Gennifer Flowers, Passion and Betrayal, p.42]
People ask: Is Hillary a lesbian? Yes. More precisely she is a bisexual, although some folks would describe her as more of an anger-filled, androgynous witch at this point. In Arkansas, back in the 1970's, folks thought for sure Hillary was a lesbian.
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and acts like a duck ... it's a duck! Hillary made a point of dressing down, had an abusive, sewer mouth like a sailor or drill sergeant and tolerated, even covered for Bill's gargantuan womanizing.
There have been many, many "rumors" over the years about Hillary being a lesbian. She is a lesbian; more precisely Hillary is a bisexual. Hillary was screwing her law partners Webb Hubbell; she even once said to the Clinton inner circle "I gotta get in Rose ... I'm gonna fuck Hubbell."
[Why the Clintons Belong in Prison, MelroseLarry Green, p.270].
I have every book EVER written on the Clintons and in my opinion Chelsea is probably the seed of Webb Hubbell, NOT Bill Clinton. Probably. Both Webb Hubbell and Chelsea have unusually big lips; Bill does not.
Secondly, after Hillary was screwing Webb Hubbell, she had a long and very intense affair with Vince Foster who was Hillary's lover, best friend, teacher, confidant and most importantly emotional husband while wild Bill was out screwing every woman within a 15 foot radius.
A lot of people think Hillary was some sort of a victim of Bill and Monica and she "stood by her man." What they are going to find out is Hillary is a bisexual who has had many affairs with women, probably had Chelsea with Webb Hubbell and definitely was screwing Vince Foster her closest friend.
One reason Vince Foster committed suicide in July, 1993 was because Hillary shunned him when they got to Wash, DC and would not even talk with Vince the last month as he was spiraling down into a suicidal depression.
After a couple of Wall Street Journal editorials about him, Foster was mortified that his very long affair with Hillary might become public.
Hillary's response: give the stiff arm to Vince, rejecting him in his time of greatest need as he spiraled down into a suicidal meltdown. Vince was so depressed he could barely function and was like a walking zombie at work in the White House.
His wife Lisa was mad at him 90% of the time. He was under intense work pressure, unable to solve all the legal problems that Hillary and Bill get into every 5 minutes. Worst of all, Vince's longtime girlfriend, lover and emotional wife Hillary was rejecting him, refusing to talk with Vince the last three weeks of his life as he spiraled down a black hole of depression to his death.
Vince he blew his brains out on July 20, 1993. Another victim of Clinton black widow spiders.
Gennifer Flowers wrote a book, Passion and Betrayal, which came out in 1995. Bill Clinton emphatically and very clearly told Gennifer that Hillary was a lesbian.
So, is Hillary a lesbian? Gennifer Flowers describes Bill's response when Gennifer asked Bill if Hillary were a lesbian:
"There's something you need to know. I've been hearing tales around town that Hillary is having another thing with a woman." I watched his face to see his reaction, and couldn't believe it when he burst out laughing.
I was stunned! I asked him what was so funny.
"Honey," he said, "she's probably eaten more pussy than I have." Bill said he had known for a long time that Hillary was attracted to women, and it didn't really bother him anymore. His first clue came from her lack of enjoyment of sex with him.
She didn't like to experiment and insisted on the missionary position and nothing else. Because she wasn't enjoying herself; neither was he. Sex with her became a duty; nothing more."
[Flowers, Passion and Betrayal, p.42]
In fact, Bill would often respond to his buddies who questioned his massive amounts of affairs by saying "Hillary has eaten more pussy than I have."
Hillary was also outed at the "1993 March on Washington for Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Rights and Liberation" rally which was held on 4-25-93. [By the way, Bill had raped Juanita Broaddrick on the same day April 25th fifteen years earlier in 1978. Hillary helped to cover up that rape.]
Nancy Pelosi read to the gay marchers a letter of support from Bill:
At some point a lesbian activist stood on the main stage on national TV CSPAN - in front of thousands of homos - joyfully outed Hillary as a fellow lesbian! She said:
"I'm going to tell you a secret. Hillary Clinton has had a lesbian affair. At last we have a First Lady in the White House that we can fuck!"
[Texe Marrs, Big Sister is Watching You, p.52]
Later Rush Limbaugh had a field day discussing this on his radio show … with NO denials from the White House (as if it would matter).
Republican insider Jack Wheeler had reported very early in the Clinton Administration that his Secret Service sources were telling him that Hillary was a full blown bisexual. Jack Wheeler said:
"My sources indicate that Hillary Clinton is bisexual and fools around more than her husband. The stories you hear from the Secret Service, detailed to guard her, are mind boggling … It is Hillary that is pushing the White House's homosexual agenda."
[Jack Wheeler, Strategic Investment newsletter, 2-10-93]
Wheeler was saying this a mere 20 days into the first Clinton Administration back in 1993 and before the April gay rights rally. Of course, the folks back in Arkansas had known since the 1970's that Hillary was a switch hitter.
Also, then there was a prominent Washington, D.C. veterinarian who was visiting the White House to treat Socks the cat and "had opened the wrong door and discovered Hillary locked in a passionate embrace with another woman." [State of a Union, p. 218] The person spreading this story was a Bill loyalist who had defended him to the max during impeachment.
Back in Arkansas in the early days, when Paul Fray had confronted Hillary with the lesbian "rumors" about her, Hillary tellingly did not deny them and only responded "Fuck this shit." [State of a Union, p.219]
"You will never believe what the motherfucker did now, he tried to rape some bitch!" - Hillary Clinton, spring 1978, referring to Bill's rape of Juanita Broaddrick
[From Robert Morrow Clinton expert 512-306-1510 Austin, TX]
Hillary knew about and helped to cover up Bill's rape of Juanita Broaddrick (4-25-78). Hillary found out about it through the grapevine and came running into a room with a handful of Bill's inner circle and says "You will never believe what the motherfucker [Bill] did now, he tried to rape some bitch!" according to Larry Nichols who was in the room.
Hillary and Bill hate Larry Nichols. They hate Larry Nichols because he, as a member of the Clinton inner circle for 10 years from the late 70's to the late 80's, knows the Ugly Truth about Hillary and Bill and he has revealed some extremely ugly and embarrassing things about them.
Larry Nichols SWEARS that Hillary and Webb Hubbell were having an affair and that Chelsea is probably the seed of Webb Hubbell, NOT Bill Clinton. Larry Nichols tells about the time in early 1978 when Bill was having a meeting with his inner circle of supporters. Hillary barges in - "Hillary yelled "Bill, what are you doing?" Bill replied "Hill, I'm gonna run for governor!"
Without missing a beat Hillary said "Well I gotta get in Rose ... I'm gonna fuck Hubbell!" [Melrose Larry Green, Why the Clintons Belong in Prison, p. 270]
After screwing Webb Hubbell (probably), Hillary then began having an affair with Vince Foster who became her best friend, lover, confidant, teacher and most importantly, emotional husband. James Carville, Hillary's close friend, say this about Paula Jones who pervert Bill had exposed himself to in May, 1991
"Drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you you'll find." Hillary and Bill are 2 Yale-educated lawyers who have chosen to live a wildly dysfunctional Jerry Springer lifestyle for 36 years.
Hillary and Bill are the ultimate in white trash.
Check out post #207 on this FreeRepublic web link to see a photo of the strikingly similar Webb Hubbell and Chelsea:
Webb and Hillary sure have left a lot of clues over the years that Chelsea is the seed of Webb and not Bill. Webb and Chelsea have BIG lips; Bill has thin lips. I am one of the top experts on the Clintons in the USA (world) and in my opinion Chelsea is probably the seed of Webb Hubbell.
Among Bill's hundreds of affairs ranging from 5 Miss Arkansas, a possible date rape of Liz Ward Gracen, he was also picking up crack whores from the projects with Buddy Young driving Bill and the girls to his mother's cabin, where Bill would have cocaine fueled sex orgies with crack whores.
Both Bobbie Ann Williams, Gennifer Flowers and Juanita Broaddrick (who Bill raped) all say Bill does NOT use condoms. Bill paid Gennifer Flowers $200 to have an abortion in Jan. 1978 after he got her pregnant [read about it in Gennifer's book Passion and Betrayal]
There is no question that Bill was having sex with Bobbie Ann Williams and I think that it is very likely that No Condom Bill is the deadbeat dad of Danny Williams, the only child Bill has every sired [Chelsea is probably the seed of Webb Hubbell, NOT Bill Clinton.]
Article on Danny Williams
[pictures of Bobbie and Danny Williams, from a racist web page) God bless Danny Williams!]
Bill was literally making out with another woman - kissing her on the mouth and fondling her breasts - in the bathroom at the "wedding" reception of Hillary and Bill on 10/11/75. A longtime friend of the Clintons saw
"Bill passionately kissing a young woman.
He was fondling her breasts. I was so shocked I just closed the door quickly and quietly. They never knew I saw them." [Bill and Hillary, p. 150]
The reality is Bill was having tons of affairs with women before, during and after they got "married" and Hillary was completely aware of this.
Only a psychological cripple, someone with a very low self esteem, would marry Bill. Bill married a campaign manager and chief of staff, not a wife.
Not just 5, 6 or 7 affairs. Or even 50, 60 or 70. But hundreds of women from crack whores to affairs with 5 Miss Arkansas and a possible date rape of Miss America Elizabeth Ward Gracen in 1983. Judy Stokes, who was a good friend of Liz Gracen, thinks Bill raped Liz Gracen.
Bill has been screwing hundreds of women before, during and after his "marriage" with Hillary. Bill was even fucking the night manager at the McDonald's in Little Rock. She said his penis was "iddy biddy" but that Bill was a wild man for oral sex ...[I can only imagine the yeast flying ...]
Bill raped Juanita Broaddrick in 1978. He probably raped Eileen Wellstone in 1969 while he was a Rhodes Scholar. Bill probably raped or date raped [same thing] Liz Ward Gracen while she was Miss America in 1983.
There have been serveral other vicious sexual assaults with Bill biting the lips and bruising women. Bill exposed himself to Paula Jones in May, 1991 and told her to "Kiss it" when he dropped his britches and displayed his penis - "crooked, hard and gross" according to Paula Jones.
Bill also exposed himself to Carolyn Moffett in 1978 and told her to "Suck it." She ran out of the room. Here are 2 good links on Bill's LONG history of sexual violence:
1) http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Feb1999/022599/clintonwomen022599.htm
2) http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/janedoe.htm
Vince had a wife, Lisa, and three kids. Too bad for them, because Vince was obsessed with Hillary. Vince was the one who recruited Hillary to the Rose Law Firm in about 1976.
Then Hillary probably screwed Webb Hubbell and had Chelsea with him. Then Hillary reverted back to Vince as her main squeeze, best friend, lover, confidant, teacher and most importantly, emotional husband.
State troopers Larry Patterson and L.D. Brown report that Hillary was definitely screwing Vince Foster. Ditto Paul Fray and Mike Galster, who says it was an open secret in Little Rock.
Hillary was definitely screwing Vince. And I think it is very likely that Chelsea is the seed of Webb Hubbell, NOT Bill Clinton. This puts the Monica Lewinsky affair in a bit different light, doesn't it? Hillary is not a victim of Bill; Hillary is a partner in crime, accomplice and victimizer with Bill.
Gennifer Flowers describes when Gennifer asked Bill if Hillary were a lesbian:
"There's something you need to know. I've been hearing tales around town that Hillary is having another thing with a woman." I watched his face to see his reaction, and couldn't believe it when he burst out laughing. I was stunned! I asked him what was so funny. "Honey," he said, "she's probably eaten more pussy than I have."
Bill said he had known for a long time that Hillary was attracted to women, and it didn't really bother him anymore. His first clue came from her lack of enjoyment of sex with him.
She didn't like to experiment and insisted on the missionary position and nothing else. Because she wasn't enjoying herself; neither was he. Sex with her became a duty; nothing more."
[Gennifer Flowers, Passion and Betrayal, p.42]
Dear American Friend,
I have attached my "Hillary file" which is culled from the 205+ books and other media that I have on Hillary and Bill. The Clintons are thugs.
On the campaign trail in 2007 Hillary and Bill are play acting as the loving, respectful couple – singing each other's praises on stage and engaging in public affection as they troll for votes.
In order to understand Hillary and Bill, one must first understand the wildly dysfunctional Jerry Springer lifestyle they have lived for 36 years. Hillary has covered for Bill who not only has had HUNDREDS of women, but also perpetrated several rapes and vicious sexual assaults, often involving biting the lips of the women victims.
In order to cover up this Jerry Springer chaos, Hillary has often used Sopranos tactics: a secret police and criminal intimidation tactics to harass, intimidate and terrify Bill's sex victims and girlfriends.
These tactics include the savage beating/almost murder of Gennifer Flower's neighbor (Gary Johnson – 6/26/92), criminal harassment campaigns on Kathleen Willey (1997-98 car vandalism, stole or killed her cat Bullseye, witness tampering), Liz Ward Gracen (who Bill probably raped [1983] while she was Miss America – harassed/threats, 1997), Gennifer Flowers (break-ins, threats, 1992), Sally Perdue (car vandalism, threats, 1992), Bobbie Ann Williams (break-in), Christy Zercher (a flight attendant, groped 1992, break-in, 1994), Patrick Knowlton (extreme harassment campaign Oct. 1995; witness tampering), Suzi Parker (a journalist harassed off Arkansas tainted prison blood scandal 1999, fearing for her life), Connie Hamzy (lying campaign, 1991) and Juanita Broaddrick (raped by Bill 1978, break-in and IRS audit when she went public in 1998).
It is not a stretch to say that Hillary, Bill and Buddy Young may have organized the murder of their former contract employee Jerry Parks on 9/26/93 because he knew too much about the Clintons.
Hillary and Bill were well on the way to crucifying Monica Lewinsky as an unstable stalker, liar and fantasist - – and would have done so if Bill's semen had not been found on Monica's blue dress. Hillary's private eyes were already digging into Monica's past, when the real story was the Clintons' criminal track record.
Additionally, biographer Roger Morris describes a vicious sexual assault by Bill on a woman (around 1980) on p.238 in his book Parters in Power. Journalist Michael Isikoff details a extremely crude sexual advance by President Bill in 1996 on a lady married to a Democratic VIP on p.162 of his book Uncovering Clinton.
Additionally, pervert Bill exposed himself to Paula Jones in May, 1991 and also to Carolyn Moffet in 1979.
Other Clinton dysfunctions include Bill's cocaine addiction as governor, Hillary's lesbianism and the fact that Chelsea is probably the seed of Webb Hubbell, NOT Bill Clinton. Bill's only offspring is probably Danny Williams, the product of deadbeat dad Bill's cocaine-fueled sex orgies with (no condoms) drug-addicted street hooker Bobbie Ann Williams and her girlfriends back in 1983-84.
Bill paid $200 to Gennifer Flowers so she could have an abortion in Jan., 1978, just 3 months before Bill's double rape of Juanita Broaddrick on 4-25-78. Bill severely bit Juanita's lip to disable her during the rapes. Also, wild Bill, brother "Roger the Dodger" and best friend Dan Lasater were partying with high school girls and providing them cocaine when Bill was governor in the early 1980's.
And, of course, there is Hillary's long and intense affair with Vince Foster who was her emotional husband while Bill was screwing everything in sight. Hillary has a long record of fomenting domestic violence with Bill. The Secret Service, fed up with this insanity, leaked to the press Hillary smashing a lamp during an argument with Bill. Hillary has often thrown objects at victim Bill.
Hillary has used criminal tactics such as a secret police and illegal IRS audits to go after both political enemies and Bill's sex victims and girlfriends. It was probably Clintons' FBI who put a rotating harassment team of 25 people on Patrick Knowlton, a witness in the Vince Foster investigation, on October 26, 1995, and continuing for a week.
What the Clintons did to Patrick Knowlton was Clinton street fascism as well as witness tampering.
This was a prelude to the intimidation campaign waged on Kathleen Willey in 1997-98 before her deposition in the Paula Jones case. Paula Jones who Bill exposed himself to, rape victim Juanita Broaddrick, probable rape victim Liz Ward Gracen, and mistress Gennifer Flowers all got audited by Clintons' IRS in the late 1990's.
Floyd Brown's offices were burglarized in 1992 and only his Clinton files were stolen. Brown's private phone conversations were illegally wiretapped by Hillary's goon Jack Palladino.
Another one of Hillary's thugs, Anthony Pellicano is in jail in LA for the same kind goon tactics he did for the Clintons in 1992.
Clinton biographer Emmett Tyrrell also had his offices twice broken into and his NY apartment invaded once. The manuscript of Tyrrell's book Boy Clinton was stolen when he couriered it to Robert Novak for a blurb. Clintons thugs tried to intimidate 2 of Tyrrell's researchers in Little Rock.
Also, at least one independent counsel in the 1990's took to carrying a gun after being harassed by Clinton goons in yet another intimidation event.
Many people close to the Clintons describe Hillary as rude, vulgar and abusive, not just with staff and co-workers, but especially with Bill who she made a sport of ridiculing, according to L.D. Brown, Bill's favorite state trooper.
Hillary is well known for making mean, vicious and personally degrading comments often towards people who work for and with her. She probably got that from her dad Hugh Rodham, a deeply disturbed man.
Hillary and Bill are sociopaths, not unlike serial killers such as Ted Bundy. Seemingly personable and normal while brown nosing wealthy contributors or opinion makers, Hillary and Bill have no regard for the integrity and well being of others. They disregard rules and lie with practiced ease, not feeling guilt or empathy for others.
Bill is the kind of guy who can rape your sister upstairs and then come down to the living room and tell you what a great book he has read about women's rights.
Hillary is the kind of person who can be in the kitchen calling up a secret police to terrify your rape victim sister into silence, and then come out to the living room and ask what do you think about her latest speech on women's and children's rights.
Some of the goons that Hillary has used to cover up her and Bill's Jerry Springer lifestyle and criminal activity include Ivan Duda (1982), Jerry Parks (1980's), Jack Palladino (1992) and Anthony Pellicano (1990's).
Pellicano is now in JAIL in Los Angeles for the same kind of thug intimidation tactics that Hillary hired him for. Also, Buddy Young, the head of Bill's trooper detail and who Bill made #2 at FEMA, is additionally a dangerous criminal that Hillary and Bill has employed in their black operations. Terry Lenzer is also someone Hillary has used extensively.
Hillary will break your kneecap to get to the White House; the others will not.
Thank-you and have a great day!
Robert Morrow Clinton expert Austin, TX 512-306-1510
Sunday, March 23, 2008
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The 49ers used their 11th pick of the draft on Boston College defensive end Kaleb Ramsey.
Ramsey (6-foot-3, 285 pounds) started his college career in 2008, missed all but two games in both 2011 and '12 with injuries, then finished up last season with two sacks in eight starts.
Ramsey was selected No. 243rd overall. The 49ers' only other defensive linemen from this draft has been outside linebacker Aaron Lynch, a fifth-round pick.


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Fifty Years Later, a Jazz Funeral for Dr. Mary• http://www.lewrockwell.com, Renée Peck
It's a traditional jazz funeral, being held for a woman murdered 50 yeas ago, who, some say, had a mysterious connection to the man who assassinated John F. Kennedy.
Only in New Orleans.
"Mary Sherman was a beautiful, educated, and successful woman, beloved and respected by those who knew her," says Ed Haslam, whose book about the woman's murder, "Dr. Mary's Monkey," has been something of an underground classic for 20 years. "It is time we gave her a better send-off than the vicious rumors that swarmed around her death in 1964. Here in New Orleans, the dignified way to show respect is with a jazz funeral. This is only a 'faux funeral,' but the jazz and the respect are real."
Haslam, a former New Orleanian who now lives in Florida, will be on hand for the jazz funeral. On Monday evening, he will talk about his book and his years of research at "An Evening with Ed Haslam" at the Jefferson Parish library (details below).


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The reviewer who felt uncomfortable with the "old people" customers at John Boys needs to get a grip. When I'm at John Boys it's like sitting down at my grandparents country farm table. I'm always well-fed at John Boys.5
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The journal of the young Oregon school shooter described as a "devout Mormon" reveals he was determined to kill "sinners" who "smoked cigarettes and took the Lord's name in vain."
Jared Michael Padgett, a 15-year-old freshman, terrorized his suburban high school last Tuesday in yet another tragic school shooting.
Padgett killed fellow student, 14-year old Emilio Hoffman, in the boys' locker room, and also shot and injured a teacher, before taking his own life after exchanging gunfire with police.
Padgett, a member of of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, was described as being very active in the church, along with his father and older brother. According to Church elder Earl Milliron, the shooter was "highly regarded for his spirituality."
Reports indicate that young Jared Padgett was a deacon of the church, while his father was a church elder, and acted as a spiritual adviser to his church community.
There were no specifics in Padgett's journal about how or when the shooting might occur. No specific students or teachers were named as potential targets.
Police say the journal discussed plans to kill classmates, though it's not clear when the entries were written, and they do not give a specific date for the intended reign of terror. The journal did, however, contain passages targeting "sinners" who smoked cigarettes or took the lord's name in vain.
On Tuesday morning, Padgett arrived at Reynolds High School carrying a guitar case and duffel bag. He was armed with an AR-15 type rifle, a semi-automatic handgun, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a large knife.
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Oklahoma Trails has several counties and projects up for adoption. If you would be interested in adopting a county or project look at the Oklahoma Trails. If you find one that you would like to adopt e-mail the State Administrator or Assistant State Administrator.
[ Being a County or State Administrator is fun and rewarding. If you have an interest in the history of Oklahoma and the genealogy of it's residents please consider it. If you think "there is no way I can do this" there are many people ready, willing and able to help you. It's not near as difficult as you might think. ]
| After a dispute over the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819, both the governments of the United States and the state of Texas claimed ownership of some 1.5 million acres (6,100 km2) in what was then operated as Greer County, Texas. Litigation followed, and in the case of United States v. State of Texas 162 U.S. 1 (1896), issued on March 16, the Supreme Court, having original jurisdiction over the case, decided in favor of the United States. The county was then assigned to the Oklahoma Territory on May 4, 1896, and when Oklahoma became a state, in addition to forming a part of Beckham County, the region was also further split into Greer, Harmon, and Jackson counties.
After the Cheyenne-Arapaho land opening, six counties were established, one of which was F County (later Roger Mills County). Before Beckham County was created at 1907 statehood from Roger Mills and Greer counties, early towns were initially situated in those areas. Beckham County's boundaries have changed several times. In 1910 a portion on the south was annexed back to Greer County. On March 17, 1930, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, based on a survey accomplished by Samuel S. Gannett between 1927 and 1929, that the true 100th Meridian, the boundary between Texas and Oklahoma, was actually thirty-eight hundred feet further east. Thus, Beckham County's western boundary was changed, further reducing the county's size. Beckham County came to comprise 904.14 square miles of land and water area.
At 1907 statehood Sayre was temporarily selected as the county seat. However, Sayre continued to host county offices after winning by a small margin over Erick in a June 1908 election. A two-story, brick building served as the first courthouse until a three-story replacement was completed in 1911 and dedicated in 1912. Designed by the Layton, Wemyss Smith and Hawk architect firm, the structure was a blend of Neoclassical and Second Renaissance Revival styles. It featured a dome with a colonnade that supported a roof with a smaller, replica dome. The courthouse (NR 84002968) was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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An assortment of C9 outdoor type large bulb Christmas lights from the 1950s and 1960s. There's a boxed 15-light set of Murphy's Outdoor Christmas Lites, unused with light cord and 3 packs of Paramount bulbs. The box is in poor condition from age and storage, but the lights have never been used and the string is still in it's original wrapping.
Also included is a second 15-light string, 20 feet long and of course working, plus 26 additional C9 light bulbs. Seven are loose, used but working white bulbs, the rest are packaged from Westinghouse and GE. All bulbs and both strings have been tested and work. Some of the white bulbs have some paint wear.
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Tom Smith
A strange one today, folks.
Following on from yesterday's post about a road north of Maze Hill, Gemma has just moved into Tom Smith Close (just South of the station) and she's understandably wondering who the hell Tom Smith is/was.
Of course, it's a bugger to Google as there must be about twenty million Tom Smiths online at any point in time.
One, 18th Century Commodore Thomas Smith is in some paintings in the NMM – but it would seem a bit casual just to call a Commodore 'Tom.'
The only other Thomas Smith I found in local books is a rather obscure schoolteacher who taught at the Paragon School in Blackheath in the mid 19th Century. I'd say it was unlikely it was named after him…
My best guess is that he was a councillor of great merit and/or influence around the time the block was built – what – thirty years ago? And indeed, I have found a Labour councillor, Tom Smith, who was elected in the Marsh Ward in 1968, though I can discover no more about him than that – just what his deeds were to have a close named after him is now shrouded in the mists of history.
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It has been a long time since customs issues featured so prominently in the news. With the G20 meeting around the corner and suggestions that the Australia - China Free Trade Agreement negotiations will be concluded around the same time, customs and global trade is likely to remain a hot topic. To help you stay on top of the latest developments, below is a summary of five topical issues.
Russell Wiese,
Lynne Grant,
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The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) has released its annual report which contains some very interesting statistics:
If increased penalties and potential liability for brokers is not incentive enough, the requirement to be compliant in order to take advantage of the proposed Trusted Trader Scheme should motivate importers and exporters to increase customs compliance levels.
The Australian legislation implementing the Korea Australia FTA has been passed. The legislation has a start date of 1 December 2014. However, this can only occur if Korea passes its enabling legislation. The Korean legislation is before their parliament, but is one of 7,000 bills caught up in a backlog. Before that backlog can be cleared there is the Korean budget to be dealt with.
Against this backdrop, commencement of the FTA in 2014 seems unlikely. Should the FTA fail to commence, it would result in the loss of the double tariff reduction much desired by Australian agriculture exporters.
Please see our Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement update on steps to take to prepare for the FTA.
While there is a lot of enthusiasm about a possible China FTA, there should also be excitement about the fact that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations are close to concluding. The TPP involves 12 nations including the US, Japan, Canada, Mexico and Australia and covers 40% of the world's GDP.
While it was hoped that negotiations would be concluded by the end of 2013, negotiations in Australia this week put the finish line firmly in sight. Stumbling blocks seem to be agriculture and automotive negotiations between the US and Japan.
Given we in Australia have, or will have, individual FTAs with most TPP members, the main benefits of the TPP will be non-tariff issues such as trade in services, international investment and consistency of standards.
While negotiations have progressed, parties stress that "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed".
The Anti-Dumping Review Panel (ADRP) has upheld findings by the Anti-Dumping Commission (ADC) that dumping duties be imposed on wind towers from Korea and China and prepared or preserved tomatoes from Italy. In both cases there were significant additional factors that could have caused injury to the Australian industry, such as the high AU dollar and cheap non-dumped imports.
The approach by both the ADC and the ADRP demonstrates the difficulty exporter/importers face to prove that dumping (regardless of the margin or other contributing factors) did not cause material injury to the Australian industry. Exporters must put significant effort into the exporter questionnaire and, if possible, prove that dumping has not occurred. Short of protracted legal battles, this seems the only way to avoid dumping duties.
The decisions by the ADRP are consistent with the lessons learned from the power transformer investigation, as detailed in our recent update, Power Transformer Anti-Dumping Investigation update.
From discussions with brokers and our engagement with the ACPBS we have noticed a much stricter approach by the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACPBS) when it comes to importers relying on tariff concession orders (TCOs). This approach is characterised by the ACBPS clamping down on the application of broadly worded TCOs and ruling that any product that is wider than the TCO wording or comes with additional features or accessories is not covered by the TCO.
The difficulty for importers is that for many years they have been permitted to use wide scope TCOs without issue. A witness from the ACBPS admitted in a 2013 Administrative Appeals Tribunal case that previously officers had been instructed to make TCOs with "super generic" wording and the approach had been changed to require a detailed description of the goods.
While TCOs can be used by the world at large for any product that fits within the terms of the TCO, we recommend that importers identify the TCOs they use the most and either obtain a tariff advice that the TCO covers their particular import or apply for a new TCO that describes the features of their particular product. Obtaining a ruling will not stop prevent inconsistency by the ACBPS, but it will bind the ACBPS in respect of past imports.
To learn more about the Hunt & Hunt Customs and Global Trade team please see our national capability document.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this e-alert/update is not advice and should not be relied upon as legal advice. Hunt & Hunt recommends that if you have a matter that is legal, or has legal implications, you consult with your legal adviser.
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Auto Insurance, Chronologically Speaking
Out there on the streets you never really know what will happen. You will pride yourself in being an excellent, careful driver who follows the rules, never ever takes the wrong turns, stops when needed, and even all the other things good drivers should do. However, there is no telling whenever you will get into any sort of accident. Specially on roads where the majority of drivers aren't as conscientious as you're. That's where having Auto Insurance will come in very usefully.
So while most of us can have it, some of us may not be aware of what to do with our Auto Insurance policies once we get into an actual accident. Let's analyze a variety of the steps and find out how much we really know related to how the process originates.
You're in the car, driving home, and seemingly out of nowhere you smashup into another car. Don't worry.
Keep in mind there are a few things you will need to perform before anything else:
1. Usually, you shouldn't move your vehicles unless absolutely necessary. The police will have an easier time determining whose fault it was, and if you're assured you're in the right, then there is obviously no need to fear.
2. Before heading away and surveying damages, make sure that you and all other passengers in your vehicle are fine, and afterward look and as well as find out if the people in the other car are ok. In the vent that anyone of you are hurt, call and notify the proper authorities right away.
3. Study damages which had been done to your car. It is better that you've the damaged appraised as this may help you with your insurance claim afterwards.
4. Make a note of information like the other vehicle's car number and as well as names of witnesses.
Now so you are done with the first quotes of the actual damage, you have to do the following:
1. Call up your Vehicle Insurance provider soon after the accident. This needs to be done regardless of who caused the accident to happen. Your provider can offer you assistance on that garage is nearest in your place, and also possibly will give you reference number for later procedures.
2. Ask for what forms or documents they'll need from the authorities as a result of the investigation. Most companies, if not all, will need the official police report and moreover other relevant documents when a claim is filed.
3. In case you are asked to pay for anything related to the accident, it is advisable to keep a record as well as receipts of what you have invested. You will be able to reimburse this depending on your coverage.
When you have satisfied all needs for a claim, the car insurance company will have to undergo numerous steps in order to process your claim.
1. A case ID or even reference number is generated once the claim request comes through.
2. As soon as they receive all documentations from you, the Insurance Company has got the to initiate an investigation of their own to confirm details.
3. If there's any damage caused, then representatives for the firm will appraise the damage and also give spot consent for the repair amount.
4. Depending on your policy, the insurance company will then pay their share of the expenses.
During theses precarious times, car insurance is a definite must for all of us who are on the road all the time. If you really think it over, your insurance policy mustn't be just another piece of document sitting in your glove compartment, it would be the thing which stands between you and a devastating fiscal damage during unforeseen road incidents.


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I merely ready about policy based management (PBM) through short snippets here and there, but never really got that in-depth with it as I normally do with other subjects. I think the major factor was due to the name Policy. Mistakenly I automatically associated it with Active Directory. PBM was introduced with SQL Server 2008 and offers great benefits with administering SQL Server. I was conducting some research on the subject and found a post by Ashish Kumar Mehta titled: "Identify Databases Not in Full Recovery Model Using Policy Based Management" which steps you through the process of creating a simple policy and runs you through the evaluation process. Ashish covers the steps rather well so be sure to visit the post for more details. If you want to get deeper into the terminology, scheduling and such then visit a post by Ray Barley titled: "Using Policy-Based Management in SQL Server 2008"
After walking through Ashish's post I wanted to make one similar but I wanted to return all Windows Accounts and such, though his use for the Recovery Model is more practical. So fire up your SSMS 2008 and let's get started. This is just a quick run down of how to create one. This does not get into the deep details that others like have. More of a pre-primer primer if you will.
Open SQL Server Management Studio and double-click or expand Management.
Right click on Policies
Select New Policy…
Give your policy a name
Click the Check Condition and Select New Condition…
Give your Condition a name… I know it requires a lot of naming
Select the Facet drop down and Select Login
In the Expression section click on the Field column and select @LoginType
Select the Operator (=)
Select WindowsUser for the Value and hit Enter
Click Ok to create the Condition and the Policy
Policies should be expanded now and you should see your newly created policy. Expand Condition and you should see the condition you just finalized.
Now let's test the Policy. Right click on the newly created Policy and select Evaluate.
And this brings us to the end results
The green marks are the Windows Accounts and the Red marked rows are not.
In the event you are working on a server that may or may not have policies in place Ken Simmons provided me with the following select statement that will return information about all the existing policies.
SELECT * FROM msdb.dbo.syspolicy_policies
In the event you incorrectly spelled a policy here is a method that will allow you to rename it. Again thanks to Ken Simmons with the #sqlhelp tweet.
SELECT * FROM msdb.dbo.sp_syspolicy_rename_policy @name = 'OldName', @new_name = 'NewName
Ken Simmons (website | @KenSimmons) is also a published author on this very subject so check out his book titled: (Pro SQL Server 2008 Policy-Based Management) with was co-authored by Jorge Segarra (website | @SQLChicken) and Colin Stasiuk (website | @benchmarkIT)


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|The Spirit of Ramanujan Math Talent Initiative is presented by Ken Ono, Asa Griggs
Candler Professor of Mathematics at Emory University; Expii, the open, personalized
learning platform; and the Templeton World Charity Foundation, in conjunction with IFC
Films and Pressman Film, producers of the motion picture The Man Who Knew Infinity.
The Spirit of Ramanujan Math Talent Initiative strives to find undiscovered
mathematicians around the world and match them with advancement opportunities.
The creators of the Spirit of Ramanujan Math Talent Initiative were inspired by the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a gifted mathematician and the subject of the film. In 1913, Ramanujan, a poor Hindu college dropout who was self-taught in mathematics, reached out to renowned British mathematician G.H. Hardy in his search for mathematical peers and colleagues. Hardy was so astonished by Ramanujan's mathematical theories that he invited Ramanujan to Cambridge to study and collaborate. From the start, Ramanujan was fighting against the odds because of his poverty, his location, and the inflexibility of formal schooling. Yet with his brilliant mind, his dreams, and the support of the mathematical community, he defied those odds and went on to change the future of mathematics. Together with Hardy, Ramanujan innovated vast tracts of mathematics before returning to India in fragile health. Tragically, he died at 32, leaving three enigmatic notebooks that drive cutting-edge research to this day.
Selected individuals will be awarded Templeton-Ramanujan Scholarly Development Prizes to use for furthering their educational pursuits and development.
In the spirit of Ramanujan, up to 10 participants will be offered financial support to attend and participate in approved summer research in mathematics such as the REU in Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory at Emory University or programs suggested by successful applicants.
Applications Include:
(*) Cover Letter which summarizes a candidate's dreams, goals, and wishes. This letter should explain how an award would be used.
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It's easy to plug Cloud CMS to provide backend services for your iOS applications running on iPad, iPod and
iPhone. This page provides details about how iOS developers can plug Cloud CMS into their new or
existing mobile applications to quickly spin up apps using XCode and Cocoa.
If you haven't already signed up for the Apple Developer Program and downloaded the XCode Developer Kit, you will need to do so in order to build iOS applications.
This guide will assume that you've done this and that you're familiar with XCode as well as Objective-C which form the foundation for building any iOS applications. If so, here are a few simple steps you can follow:
Sign up for Cloud CMS
If you already have a Cloud CMS subscription, you can skip ahead.
Otherwise, be sure to sign up for a trial account first, in order to use Cloud CMS.
API Keys
Every mobile app or web site that you build will need to have a set of API Keys that it will use to connect to your Cloud CMS platform on behalf of your code. These API keys consist of client and user key/secret pairs.
- Log in to your Cloud CMS tenant at https://<yourdomain>.cloudcms.net
- From Manage Platform -> API Keys
You will now see your API Keys for all of your platform's Application instances.
You can create as many Application instances as you'd like and each will have their own set of API Keys.
For more information, visit Configuring your API Keys.
Getting Started
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Don Mee Choi & Yi Yon-ju
Don Mee Choi
Yi Yon-ju
In Korea's traditional Confucian times, the only women who were allowed to produce poetry within the public domain of men were kisaeng (courtesans/entertainers) who were one of the marginalized groups of people in Korean society. The division of public (intellectual, social, political) space of men and private (domestic) space of women was strictly observed. However, in the 1920s, Korean women poets challenged and violated the traditional divisions of space and gender roles by publishing their poetry publicly. By the 1930s, yoryu ("female") poetry was established and imposed on women poets. Yoryu poetry, still upheld today as the norm for women poets, is characterized by gentle, refined, and philosophical language that speaks about women's passivity within the natural world. Korea's traditional gender-role expectations also still persist today. Women are expected to fall into the defined roles of ch'onyo (a young unmarried woman/virgin), ajumma(married woman/middle aged woman with children) and halmoni (grandmother). Therefore, women who participate publicly in literary production still occupy a marginalized position in Korean society, especially if they resist patriarchal literary conventions.
Yi Yon-ju's work has been acknowledged by the renowned feminist critic and poet, Kim Chong-nan. According to Kim, Yi's poetry has a crucial place in contemporary Korean feminist poetry like the works of Cho'e Sung-ja and Kim Hye-sun. Yi resisted the conventional literary expectations imposed on Korean women by completely departing from the tranquil and beautiful realm of metaphysical nature on which women poets are still expected to reflect. The realm into which Yi ventured was the realm of the oppressed. Yi depicted in her poetry women who live on the fringes of South Korean society, marginalized by rapid industrialization of the 70s and 80s, which, in part, was made possible by exploitation of young women from poor rural areas. Yi's poetry displays a penetrating awareness of Korean women's oppression that intersects gender, class, and nation.
Not much is known about Yi's life. According to her brother, Yi Yong-ju, the night Yi committed suicide she asked him not to reveal anything about her life except for her date and place of birth. For many years, Yi had expressed her wish to end her life as she was in much despair from witnessing political and economic oppression of people during South Korea's dictatorships supported by the U.S. Yi was born in 1953, in Kunsan in the Northern Cholla province. She worked in Seoul and various parts of South Korea, including Uijongbu, a U.S. military camp town north of Seoul where women and children live trapped under devastating conditions of military prostitution, environmental pollution, and poverty. Yi excelled in various arts and was well known outside of literary circles by painters, filmmakers, singers, and dancers. Yi painted a great deal and was working on a collaborative video art project before she ended her life.
These poems were selected from Yi's A Night Market Where There Are Prostitutes(Maeumyno ka ittnun pam ui sijang, 1991).--Seattle, December 2003
Yi Yon-ju
Festival of Waste
We sell useless kitchenware, old gas furnaces.
Crinkled bills and discolored coins, we are.
No transmission, no reception.
(Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi)
Yi Yon-ju
A Family Photo
Father stays up all night playing cards.
Sister drinks Bond glue,
The three year-old baby of the family limps, limps, grows up
Every night cities cave in one by one.
(Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi)
Yi Yon-ju
A Crossroad
(Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi)
Yi Yon-ju
A Report on the Unconsciousness of the Masses
(Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi)
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Empathy and Conflict
What strikes me reading this book is how much impact negotiation has on our everyday lives. For instance, if I learn how to negotiate better with my family I can have a happier life. If I learn how to negotiate better with my workmates I can have a more relaxed workplace existence.
As a kid, I loved to argue with my family. I loved to get into a heated debate, with each side fighting for their points. I firmly believed I was right all the time (of course, ha ha) and therefore it was in my best interests to present my points vehemently. I thought if I was just willful enough, they would see my point of view.
When I tried to do this with strangers or co-workers, I was met with anger. Presenting my position seemed to be the quickest way to tick people off. For example, if someone asked me the question, "Why are you a vegetarian" my response would be to present my position:
- what reasons I used when I chose a vegetarian lifestyle
- what things I saw (and continued to see) that encouraged me to choose this lifestyle
- the benefits of this choice that I saw (and continued to see) for myself
This kind of stuff would really get people angry. They would fight and argue with me, as if what I had said to them was an attack. They would yell, or otherwise express anger, and try to tell me what I was doing was wrong. I have always had a hard time understanding why people would react this way.
This book I'm reading about the ways to negotiate has made me see these interactions differently. If a person is starting a conversation by stating a position, according to the book, this person's comments can be interpreted as a personal attack or an attack on ideas. It is (as a result) natural for a person to respond to an 'attack' with a defensive posture, and to get angry. Not that everyone responds this way! But many people do.
What does all this have to do with empathy? Well one of the ways that the book talks about approaching a possible conflict is to have empathy for the other person. To start by trying to see things from their point of view, to put yourself in their shoes. Here's how I would redo the above 'vegetarian' conversation with empathy and with the ideas in this book:
Q: "Why are you a vegetarian?"
A: "That's an interesting question, I get that quite a lot. I'm wondering what is driving your question, can you tell me more about your understanding of vegetarianism?"
What are your hot-button topics, what ideas have you tried to present that have set people 'off''?
P.S. I've been asked recently 'how's Lucy' and I would just like to say that she's handled the winter just great. The ground is getting soft and her claws are getting muddy, but she seems to love being outside on these early spring days.
2 comments:
- susan thom said...
hi janet,
i have been on a constant journey, trying to improve myself to the point of knowing how to think, act, and react in a better, more positive way.
when i read exactly what you were saying about the tone of your voice, the way you choose your words, not starting a sentence in a threatening or aggravated way, etc., it changed me for the better, with all concerned, kids and adults.
"clean your room now" was not the proper way. "your room is getting kind of messy, please straighten it up a little when you're done with your homework" or something to that affect.
"hand me that remote" doesn't sound as friendly and agreeable as "would you please hand me that remote?"
it doesn't seem like a lot, but it truly does make a big difference.
and it's something that becomes easier with practice, and before you know it, you are more pleasant and agreeable to all, and there is more peace and self confidence and self esteem.
do you have a kitty?
my best to you,
- March 11, 2013 at 1:54 PM
- Janet said...
Hi Sue,
Thanks for your comments!
I don't have a kitty, I used to though. I grew up in a cat family.
- March 11, 2013 at 2:17 PM
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It's a new year.
I wonder if I'll remember to blog more this year.
I doubt it!!
It's a new year.
I wonder if I'll remember to blog more this year.
I doubt it!!
***Tomorrow*** I am doing a triathlon to raise money for LINC (The Leukaemia And Intensive Chemotherapy Fund).
I am trying to raise £1500, and am almost getting close! You can sponsor me here http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/SianG or if you'd rather not use online payment, please PM me asI have a 'paper' sponsor form too and I can add you there.
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese if you haven't sponsored me, can you pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese. 🙂
I am temporarily blogging elsewhere because the people who might read my temp witterings are people who I'd probably rather not read this one!!
I seem to write a great deal of posts which say 'I must blog'… doesn't make it happen though!!
Life update… signed off sick.
Yup. That's pretty much it.
Am I alone in thinking they're different? I'm undoubtedly severely depressed at the moment, but I don't think I'm particularly unhappy. But trying to explain that to someone yesterday was difficult.
How many things can I do today… which I can only do today and not again on this day for four years?
Balaam is doing '40 Posts of Lent'. I've thought about doing this too. But I haven't decided if I should or not. Because, well, why.
I had a great idea about writing a book yesterday. So maybe if I do do the 40 posts… they could eventually be part of my book (yeah, right, like that'd ever actually happen!).
Since it's Ash Wednesday today, I really ought to decide very soon… like… today.


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The Beast, a 7,359-foot wooden coaster at King's Island in Mason, OH, might just be the greatest roller coaster of all time. As a teen, the thrill of this fast, rough ride kept me coming back for more – waiting in line over and over again. As an adult, I've exited the coaster feeling bruised and battered, wondering why on earth I subjected myself to such a punishment.
I read an article this week comparing the stock market to the first hill of a rollercoaster. Gains in the market can sometimes be slow, like each click up the first hill of the track. Suddenly, as you cross the peak, speed picks up and so begins the rapid decline with the force of gravity pinning you against your seat. That's exactly what has happened the last few weeks in the stock market, with losses triggering a host of negative headlines and panic among investors.
According to Goldman Sachs' economics research, in the first 12 trading days of 2016, $1.6 trillion in market value was wiped off the S&P 500. For the month of January, after a slight correction, the S&P 500 shed 5.1%, and the Dow industrials lost 5.5%, for the biggest January declines since 2009.
China is in distress, the Middle East is at war, oil prices are reaching historic lows, business lending is down, industrial production is declining, and our retail spending growth rate is at a seven-year low. Now headlines are claiming that The Bank of Japan is adding negative interest rates on central banks deposits. Negative interest rates? What is going on? It can be easy to lose sight of which way is up when the market feels like it's upside-down.
If you have time before you need to retire, stay on the coaster and keep your long term goals in mind. Time is your friend and long-term investing only works its magic if you leave your money untouched over a long period of time.
But if watching your investments ride the rollercoaster of the stock market is causing you to feel battered and bruised, maybe it's time you reevaluated how your money is invested. If you are nearing retirement it is especially important to take a closer look at your investment goals and begin to minimize your exposure to risk.
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"I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world." – Jesus


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LOOK is a hand crafted publication completed in 2013. It was a self exploration assignment on how one sees the world. As a designer, my world is made of basic elements like lines and shapes. They converge to form images and patterns that are subjectively named to create connotations in the human mind. My world is made of fragments of the imagination and the simplest of logic. Thus, this short illustrated patterns book was created for a reader to feel lost in translation - not in words, rather in nonsensical horizontal and diagonal lines that may or may not mean something to him.
amanda adventures is an ongoing iphonography project that involves travelling and wanderlust. because of amanda's ever present need to explore the world, a hashtag #amandadventures was created to fuel her enthusiasm for exploring.
the wood project is a compilation of items designed with wood.
The Bitesize font for Cacao7, a chocolate company, is part of a display typeface family, customarily designed for a local chocolate company called Cacao7, which speciality is dark chocolate. It is not a traditional modular typeface. The purpose of this vintage font marries the idea of nostalgia, classic and light-heartedness using two different variations of weights: Filled and Stroked. It is identifiable by the sharp angles of each letter form, which is created by joining four distinct shapes that are representational of the store's chocolate shapes. Each letter is modelled after the letter "O" as it most resembles the shape of Cacao7's chocolate.
lb highlights : valentine's day 2017 edit
this project is a lookbook shot and conceptualized by manda olivia to shout out for love, bonito's valentine's day outfits. it is published on social media (facebook and instagram).
art direction, photography, editing: manda oliviastyling: rid
project shirakawago is a humanitarian initiative that aims to bring awareness of a hidden UNESCO site in Japan. in 2011, the gifu prefecture was hit by a earthquake, therefore, devastating its tourism sector. deliverables for this project included a tourist booth design, 2 publications of shirakawago and other wooden collaterals. refer to "wood" project on main page for photos on collaterals.
mousa is a publication inspired by experimental jetset's typography style. this magazine is about music. it draws relations to the quickening of pace and rhythmic typographic designs through colour and visual hierarchy.
branding ad for love, bonito's 2017 social media (facebook & instagram). the concept of the ad is to showcase the different aspects and usps of love, bonito as a brand. these include "quality material", "asian fit", "313@somerset pop up store" and "affordable prices". the art direction is in line with the brand's minimalist image.
art direction, photography, set styling, photo editing by manda olivia
a collaboration between innisfree x nicole then photography and manda olivia. the objective of the project was to promote innisfree's new line of pink cushions during their launch.
the concept of the shoot was to play along the lines of "pink" as a colour of femininity.
photography & art direction: manda olivia and nicole then
led by passion and fervour, the owners of garcons are two skilled chefs who have collaborated for their love for food. since 2012, the brand has evolved with multiple identities (Enoch's and Le Petit Paradis). Below shows the logos designed for their store.
a short photoshoot done with Rachel Lim, co-founder of Love, Bonito for a collaboration with SONY.
photography: manda oliviaclothes: love, bonito
illustrations is a collection of hand drawn doodles that have been compiled over time. some were done on commission, while others, free hand style exploration.
taipei is a city of pink.this photography project is fuelled by the colour"blush".it is the pantone colour of the year (2016).the project aims to portray the city of taipei as a blush city.
remarkabelle is an outdoor photoshoot done for mark & belle for their pre-wedding photos.
ffion/williams is an indoor photoshoot for ffion williams's EP and Singles artworks.
joie is a series of photos for Singaporean singer-songwriter Joie Tan (@tanjoie) as promotional material.


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Thursday, June 25th: Fisher Cat K.C. Hobson
Thursday, June 25th: Fisher Cat K.C. Hobson
Most New England sports fans know the name Butch Hobson, well now the former Red Sox son KC is working his way to the big leagues playing for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. Jamie Staton caught up with him in the dugout.
Plus, see how the "On Belay" program is giving kids who are facing the challenge of having a parent or loved one diagnosed with cancer, a chance to be part of a community.
On Fritz Wetherbee's New Hampshire: Binky and the Meatfest.
For more information on tonight's stories:
New Hampshire Fisher Cats
Manchester, NH
(603) 641-2005
On Belay
Durham, NH
866 44 Belay (866 442 3529)
Hosting this week from:
Distant Hill Gardens
Walpole, NH
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It's Finally Here!
We have been waiting...and waiting...and waiting... in anticipation for this up and coming artist to bless our walls with his artwork. Welcome, Daniel Ng, to Essential Glass Works Art Gallery and Fine Gifts! The color and perspective that this artist uses is so unique and inspiring, it almost makes me want to sit down and work! (Almost--because my ADD is keeping me very busy doing a lot of other things besides making jewelry right now!).
We currently have a wonderful selection of Daniel's landscapes and interiors in 12" x 12" Framed Giclee Prints. This fall, we hope to carry some of his originals.
We also have a collection of his "Minis" which are a 7" x 7" framed miniature portrait that is within any art collectors budget. He puts on 5 layers of varnish to his prints making them safe to hang anywhere--even bathrooms! I think Santa is going to be ordering lots of these for Christmas gifts.
During Daniel's visit to Moscow, he discovered--and was inspired by--the unique terrain of the Palouse. We are ecstatic to see what he paints next!
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With the beginning of the NFL season coming tomorrow, for a lot of people, that also means the beginning of the Fantasy Football season. Now, I fancy myself a bit of a Fantasy Football Guru. Been playing for years and never went to more than than a year or two without winning a championship. Last year I played in three leagues, I won the championship in two and runner up in the third, only losing the championship game by less than 10 points.
I am in only two leagues this year. One in a 10-team league I am running, and the other in a 12-team league. These are also the two leagues I won last year, so of course I returned to defend my titles. I am also a pro on draft day and it's honestly one of my favorite things about playing. I love preparing and this year I had a draft board 204 players deep.
My drafted squads this year:
Scum and Villainy
QB- Collin Kaepernick
RB- LeSean McCoy
RB- LeVon Bell
WR- Brandon Marshall
WR- Pierre Garcon
TE- Dennis Pitta
FLEX- Michael Floyd
D/ST- Seahawks
K- Mason Crosby
Bench- Danny Woodhead
Bench- Sammy Watkins
Bench- Phillip Rivers
Bench- Hakeem Nicks
Bench- Heath Miller
Bench- Markus Wheaton
Bench- Carlos Hyde
Insta Graham
QB- Cam Newton
RB- Jamaal Charles
RB- CJ Spiller
WR- Julio Jones
WR- Michael Floyd
TE- Julius Thomas
FLEX- Marques Colston
D/ST- 49ers
K- Robbie Gould
Bench- Danny Woodhead
Bench- Andy Dalton
Bench- Ladarius Green
Bench- Mike Evans
Bench- Markus Wheaton
Bench- Mike Tolbert
Bench- Dexter McCluston
How do you feel about your team this year? Have any draft day coups that you are proud of this year?


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Dan Rather nails it.
The real Donald Trump has stood up, once again. Let no one ever be fooled. Let there be no doubt. The man who sends out a twitter tirade accusing a former President of crimes for which he provides no evidence, the man who doubles down when everyone with any sense pushes back, that man is our Commander in Chief. Every one who normalizes Mr. Trump now, or has in the past, will have to answer to future generations for their acquiescence, silence or sophistry—if, indeed, not outright cowardice.
How hollow do all those pundit plaudits (including from many progressives) sound now for an average and disingenuous speech of someone else's words read from a teleprompter to Congress and the nation a week ago? A "presidential" Trump is a punchline to a joke no one wants to have told. Conspiracy theories are corrosive in society at large. When they dictate national policy, they can be lethal.
This is a man who challenged the citizenship of President Obama, with lies, innuendo, and no evidence. This is a man who claimed widespread voter fraud with lies, innuendo, and no evidence. This is a man who has taken a rhetorical blowtorch to our Constitutional principles with lies, innuendo, and no evidence. Those who rose in Congress to applaud his turns of phrase bear responsibility. Those who cynically use his presidency to push forward unpopular giveaways to the rich and well connected bear responsibility. Those in the press who meet insults with explanations bear responsibility.
Even the most grounded of presidents must fight to keep themselves moored to the real world. The Oval Office can be a bubble. Power attracts sycophants and cynics. But I have never seen anything like this. The sheer level of paranoia that is radiating out of the White House is untenable to the workings of a republic. I have a real question if President Trump actually believes what he is saying. Even Richard Nixon, the most paranoid president to date, ruled for years with a relatively calm hand. This Administration has been an off kilter whirlwind since the inauguration, and news reports suggest that seething anger from Mr. Trump is only getting worse. There is a growing consensus that the President may be "unhinged." It's a serious allegation, but even if it is not the case, Mr. Trump only has himself to blame.
To call a drama Shakespearean or operatic is usually an overreach. But I imagine artists of the future, and even the present, will find ample inspiration in our moment in history. Doesn't Steve Bannon strike you as an Iago whispering in the ear of an Othello-like Trump, consumed by jealousy and paranoia?
As the questions mount around Russia, as the circles of defense begin to falter, the determination to create diversions will escalate. But if the President hoped he could create a distraction, I think he misjudged the will of the American people. We have woken. We are paying attention. And we love our country too much to let it falter without a fight.