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It's a trade that is more likely to be considered in your fantasy baseball league or on your new version of MLB 2K10, but ESPN's Buster Olney has reported that the Philadelphia Phillies have "internally discussed" a deal that would send Ryan Howard (and presumably multiple prospects) to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for Albert Pujols.
Pujols, 30, is widely considered the best player in the game and possibly the greatest hitter of this generation. He is a free agent after the 2011 season, and there is concern that the Cardinals will not be able (or willing) to resign him, as he'll likely command somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 million per year.
Howard, who is also 30, is due to make $19 million in 2010 and $20 million in 2011, and is also a free agent after the 2011 season. Although Howard will likely receive a very lucrative contract, he will be considerably cheaper than Pujols.
Howard, who won the 2006 National League MVP award, is from the St. Louis-area, and some have speculated that while trading Pujols would be an incredibly unpopular idea in St. Louis, the Cardinals could hope to minimize the damage by bringing in hometown-favorite Howard.
On the surface, this deal seems to almost make a tiny amount of sense, but once you look a little deeper, it's incredibly absurd how little sense this makes.
The Cardinals signed outfielder Matt Holliday to a seven-year, $120 million deal this offseason, which appeared to be part of a plan to show Pujols that the Cardinals are dedicated to putting a winning team on the field. If St. Louis had any intention of trading Pujols, then overpaying for Holliday's services this offseason made no sense. In addition to that, it's generally a bad idea for a franchise to trade away one of the top three players in the world, who is under contract for two more years at a well below market value.
Although this deal may have some fans in Philadelphia salivating at the mere thought of Albert Pujols in the already potent Philly lineup, this deal also makes little sense when given general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. and his apparent philosophy that he's not willing to mortgage the future of the franchise for short-term gains. If Amaro didn't think that way, Philadelphia would have likely kept Cliff Lee in red pinstripes for the 2010 season along with newly acquired pitcher Roy Halladay, instead of trading him to Seattle in order to replenish the suddenly depleted farm system, in an effort to win their second World Series title in three years. For Philadelphia, in order to obtain Pujols through trade, they would likely have to include multiple prospects in the deal, and that would go against everything that Amaro has been working for.
An idea like this is fun to think about (if you're a Phillies fan), but it appears that there is absolutely no validity in this rumor, which should make Cardinals fans breathe a sigh of relief.


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Size of IS shop: 66
PCs: 2150
Mobile PCs: 500
Terminals: 250
Hand-held devices: 80
Total screens: 2980
Industry: Wholesale and retail trade
PC environment: Windows 98, 2000, XP, 7; Dell; HP
Server environment: Dell, Unisys, IBM, AIX, Windows
DBMS: Informix, SQL, DB2
Address: 57 Kiln Street, Silverstream, Upper Hutt
Website: www.foodstuffs.co.nz
Key IS projects this year: Not disclosed.
Foodstuffs (Wellington) Co-operative Society, which covers the Wellington, Wairarapa, Manawatu, Taranaki and Hawkes Bay regions, is testing Windows 7 on some of its PCs, although the company continues to operate Windows XP and Vista on most desktops.
Whilst DB2 and Informix are in use, the dominant RDBMS remains MS SQL and this is used extensively to replicate data within the Foodstuffs environment. A project has recently commenced to replace MS SQL2000 based systems with SQL2008.
Ongoing innovation in retail systems sees further deployment of automated re-ordering systems, electronic shelf labelling, self-checkout facilities, as well as enhancement of retail point-of-sale platforms.
A price optimisation system is currently in pilot phase and will go live later this year. This application will utilise sophisticated pricing models and historical data to determine the most effective pricing strategies for the group. In many cases, newer systems are proving to be viable candidates for virtualisation, and Foodstuffs take advantage of this technology where appropriate.
The Wellington Co-op supplies 46 New World and 14 Pak'nSave retail supermarkets, 96 Four Square, two Shoprite and three Write Price stores. Foodstuffs continues to invest in modernisation and development of new retail sites on an ongoing basis, and all upcoming development and completed stores will require ICT support of varying degrees.
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This episode of Guru Jagat's series, Kundalini for Vitality of the Body and Mind, will create the internal heat to burn away the deep toxins in your subcutaneous fat cells. Strengthen your nervous system while simultaneously getting a high caloric burn. In a culture where there is heavy psychological pressure on the shape of people's bodies it is so important to have a full educational foundation around how to keep yourself vital and naturally fit at all ages - start reaping the benefits!
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The Tri-Creek School Corporation accepts for enrollment students who do not live within the school corporation boundaries. Please contact Central Office at 219-696-6661 if you have any questions.
Throughout the year Tri-Creek School Corporation hosts open houses for Out-of-District families interested in attending our schools through open enrollment. Tours and presentations are held at Lowell High School, Lowell Middle School, and Oak Hill Elementary with three choices of tours: morning, afternoon, or evening. Families interested in learning more about scheduling a tour of Tri-Creek Schools for open enrollment purposes are encouraged to contact Central Office at 219-696-6661.
Within these visits, you will have the opportunity to speak with building principals, teachers, and students. We want to showcase the engaging academic settings our students experience on a daily basis while highlighting our 1:1 technology initiative, providing insights to our project-based learning instructional model, and emphasizing the programs we have in place to ensure college and career readiness.
2019-2020 Application for Open Enrollment
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FC: Life as a star!! | By: Nicole Yang
1: To my loving family! | Dedication Page!
2: Resource Page | Born in the sky picture: http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn11717/dn11717-1_600.jpg Born in the sky Information: http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/star_life/nebula/nebula.html Astronomy text book Main Sequence star Information: http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/star_life/starlife_sequence.html Astronomy text book Main Sequence star Picture: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/files/2007/galaxytail_stars.jpg Astronomy text book
3: Resource Page | Super giant star picture: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/files/imagecache/news/files/news/20080923_vanishing_stars.jpg Super giant star information: http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/stars/red-supergiant-star/ White Dwarf Information: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/MichaelErber.shtml http://www.peripatus.gen.nz/astronomy/WhiDwa.html http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/astronomy-and-time/astronomy-facts/stars/white-dwarfs
4: Resource Page | Red Giant Information (Extra): http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/R/redgiant.html
5: Resource Page | White Dwarf Information (Extra): http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/dwarfs.html
6: Born in the sky! | Dear Diary, Today, I was born in space. This stage of life is known as a protostar. When I heard another star exploded near-by, a ball of gas and dust gathered. That was when I began to form. There were clouds around me and then they got smaller. Then the clouds collided together and I got hotter and hotter and hotter until I was at least 10 million degrees. I finally shone like a bright star.
8: Main Sequence Star! | Dear Diary, I am in my second and longest stage of my life as a star. I am collecting energy and is generated in the core. I am slowly getting hotter and denser because I am extending away energy. I also let out an enormous amount of energy but I keep restoring hydrogen.
10: Super Giant Stars | I am finally in the third stage of my life as a star. I am a cooling and expanding because I am losing my hydrogen. My core is shrinking and the atmosphere is growing very large and is cooling. Because this is happening, my core is beginning to collapse. So I am now 10 times bigger than the popular and famous sun.
12: White Dwarf Stars | Dear Dairy, I am at the last stage of my life as a star. I am using up my nuclear fuel. I have exhausted my hydrogen and helium. I am growing faint and I am not bright enough to see with a human naked eye. My hydrogen is cooling down very slowly. But eventually I will be unable to generate any more energy.
14: Red Giant Information Extra! | A Red Giant is an evolved giant star. Its temperature is 2,500 to 3,500 Celsius. It is 10 to 100 times bigger than the sun. It is also in its late stage in evolution and the largest red giants are the red super giants. A red giant has exhausted its core of supply of hydrogen. The closest red giant from the sun is Gacrux.
16: White Dwarf Information Extra! | White Dwarfs are stars that have used all their nuclear fuel. Near the end of it burning stage, it takes the outer material of the star. Only the hot core of the star remains. The core becomes very hot and dense and slowly cools down over a billion years. This star will finally will unable to generate energy.


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I think winter is finally HERE!
The wind outside today is fierce.
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I made a big pot a few days ago, and I don't want it to go to waste.
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Ana Nemec, DVM, PhD, Dipl. AVDC, Dipl. EVDC; Ana Rejec, DVM, PhD, Resident, Veterinary dentistry
Animal Hospital Postojna, Cesta v Staro vas 20, 6230 Postojna, Slovenia
Case history and clinical signs
A 4-year-old 30-kg female spayed German shepherd was presented due to rapidly growing rostral maxillary mass. At presentation, the proliferative mass, located around right maxillary third incisor and canine tooth was ulcerated and bleeding (Fig. 1). The patient was otherwise healthy with physical exam findings, CBC and biochemistry all within normal limits. Staging options were discussed and the client elected computed tomography (CT) of the head and neck as well as chest CT together with biopsy of the lesion and an abdominal ultrasound.
Imaging and histopathology findings
Pre- and post-contrast CT images revealed an invasive lesion, located primarily around the maxillary canine tooth and extending from the right maxillary second incisor tooth to the mesial root of the right maxillary second premolar tooth, occupying majority of the right nasal cavity and crossing the midline (Fig. 2). CT of the neck and chest revealed no metastatic disease to the regional lymph nodes and lungs, and abdominal ultrasound was also within normal limits.
Histopathology of the lesion revealed spindle-cell neoplasm, with differential diagnoses being fibrosarcoma or spindle-cell amelanotic melanoma, and further immunohistochemistry using Melan A and PNL-2 antibodies was performed and was suggestive of amelanotic melanoma.
A stage III (with no detectable metastasis based on the diagnostics performed) amelanotic melanoma was diagnosed.
Treatment and follow-up
Due to an extensive involvement of the nasal cavity, wide resection was impossible to achieve without significantly impairing the cosmetic appearance and function of the animal, and the client elected palliative-intent extended unilateral rostral maxillectomy to reduce tumor burden (Figs. 3-5), followed by a course of adjuvant hypo-fractionated radiotherapy of the surgical area (6 x 6 Gy twice weekly) 3 weeks after the surgery (Figs. 6-9).
Melanoma vaccine treatment (4-dose, biweekly protocol, then boosters in 6-month intervals) was added to the treatment protocol as an immunotherapy approach to multimodal treatment approach. At all re-checks, the patient was clinically healthy and the most recent re-check head and neck and chest CT revealed no metastases 5 years after the diagnosis (Fig. 10).
Malignant melanoma (OMM) is the most common nonodontogenic oral tumour in dogs. Clinical signs may vary greatly; the tumour is not necessarily pigmented (black). Histopathological diagnostics may be complicated as a tumour may present as amelanotic variant and/or as epithelioid-cell OMM, spindle-cell OMM or mixed-cell OMM. Therefore, immunohistochemistry is often needed to determine the diagnosis. OMM is locally invasive, with 50% of tumours being associated with surrounding bone invasion. Metastases are also common: in 74% of cases, OMM metastasise in regional lymph nodes and in up to 92% of cases in the lungs.
Hence, before any treatment is attempted, a patient with an OMM needs to be properly staged. To evaluate local disease, tumor location is noted and the lesion measured. Diagnostic imaging of the local lesion should include pre- and post-contrast CT of the head, as skull radiographs and/or intraoral dental radiographs will underestimate the extent of the lesion and especially invasion of maxillary tumor into adjacent structures. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can also be considered and PET/CT is becoming available in veterinary medicine as well.
Evaluation of regional lymph nodes may be challenging. Although palpation of the mandibular lymph nodes should be routinely performed, it needs to be realized, that 40% of palpably normal lymph nodes contain metastases. Fine needle aspiration of the regional lymph nodes may be helpful, but reaching the main draining center of the head – retropharyngeal lymph nodes – requires ultrasound-guided approach. Also, it has recently been described, that consensus between cytology and histopathology for staging of lymph nodes in patients with melanocytic neoplasms is poor, and negative result does not rule out metastases. Evaluation of size and contrast-enhancement pattern on post-contrast CT images can be very helpful in evaluating regional lymph nodes for metastases, and PET/CT is also very promising. Excisional biopsy of the lymph nodes is debatable, as complete staging requires removal of all lymph nodes of the head and neck. Excisional biopsy of the sentinel lymph node – technique which is well developed in human medicine – is the goal and determination of the sentinel node will hopefully become easier with advanced imaging techniques.
Staging is completed with evaluation of distant organs for possible metastatic disease, where chest CT is much more sensitive to diagnose pulmonary metastases compared to thoracic radiographs. Full body CT may be recommended, if involvement of abdominal organs is suspected, which is rare in cases of canine OMM, and abdominal ultrasound is usually performed.
Once the stage of the OMM is determined, the treatment approach(es) and prognosis can be discussed with the client. It is worth mentioning here, that scientific data on treatment outcomes for specific stage OMM, especially when several treatment approaches are combined, are scarce. Hence, proper communication with the client is extremely important to present as much as possible information and keep realistic expectations. Generally, prognosis for animals, especially if the tumour arises from dentate areas, is guarded due to early and common metastases. Dogs with small OMM (smaller than 2 cm in diameter, stage I) located rostrally and those without metastases, have the best prognosis. With radical tumour resection (tumour with associated 1 cm of healthy tissues as determined by CT) median survival time was reported to be 723 days and related to tumor stage. It has also been reported, that even incomplete tumour resection (dirty margins) increases survival time. When complete resection cannot be achieved (as was expected in the presented case), or the client declines surgical treatment, or when surgery has resulted in incomplete removal of the tumor, or when regional metastases are present, other treatment options exist, although some studies questioned the benefits of adjuvant therapies. When recommending an adjuvant treatment, most commonly suggested is radiation therapy, which can also be the sole treatment for OMM (local and regional disease). The outcome of radiation therapy depends, as with surgery, on the stage of the tumor as well as on the radiation protocol; most commonly hypo-fractionated radiation protocols are recommended and, when used as a sole treatment of OMM, can result in median survival times a bit shorter than those achieved with surgical treatment. Acute side effects, such as radiomucositis are common, expected and usually resolve with supportive treatment, while late life-threatening side effects, such as osteoradionecrosis or secondary tumors, are rare, but need to be discussed with the client in advance, especially when long-term survival of irradiated patients is expected.
OMM is considered poorly responsive to chemotherapy, but is a highly immunogenic tumor. Although the exact immune mechanisms are not completely understood and are likely individually-specific, several immunotherapy and/or gene-electrotransfer therapy approaches have been suggested for canine OMM patients. Most (clinical) research has been performed on a canine melanoma vaccine (xenogeneic plasmid DNA with a cDNA insert encoding human tyrosinase), which has been shown to be safe, but data on its' efficacy are conflicting. Although it remains unclear, what (if any) role melanoma vaccine and other treatments played in the prevention of metastatic disease in the case described in this report, it is important to realize, that the outcome of canine OMM treatment may not neccessary be poor. In addition, new multimodal approaches are being developed to treat canine OMM and are changing this disease with historically poor outocme into a chronic disease, at least in selected cases.
Clinical study at Animal Hospital Postojna
At Animal Hospital Postojna we recently began a study titled "Evaluation of immune system response to hypo-fractionated radiotherapy in canine non-operable oral, cutaneous or digital melanoma' together with the Oncovet Clinical Research Centre in France. The study aims to evaluate immune system response to hypo-fractionated radiotherapy in canine non-operable oral, cutaneous, or digital melanoma and to assess the ability of this therapy to improve the response to immunotherapy in combined treatment. With the client's agreement, we include dogs (males and females) with malignant melanoma when the tumour cannot be surgically removed, either due to its localisation preventing the recommended wide excision, or the client's refusal to approve such a procedure. In that case, hypo-fractionated radiotherapy remains the preferred treatment. If you or anyone you know are interested in participating in the study and would like to know more about the study protocol and obligations, risks and potential constraints as well as benefits that we offer if you decide to participate, please, contact us at email@example.com


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Euromonitor International: Insights into Global Markets
By Beatriz R. Poloney, Free Trade Agreement Specialist,
Illinois SBDC International Trade Center
Euromonitor International is a data source for consumer markets used for conducting international market research. (www.euromonitor.com)
The Americas, Australia and Oceania, Africa, Asia, and Europe are all part of Euromonitor's network. Euromonitor focuses on the economic process with specific attention to consumer behavior.
Euromonitor offers statistical information related to the consumer goods market. This includes analysis examining the influence in consumer behavior, competitor intelligence, consumer lifestyle indicators, income and expenditures determined by market segmentation, market size, market share, projections, and company profiles inside each country.
The in-depth data is compiled from national statistical sources, private industry, and trade associations. Euromonitor covers the diverse sectors of consumer goods to travel and services. It has the capability of providing industry reports that contain statistics for processed foods, alcoholic drinks, automotives, beauty and personal products, consumer appliances, electronics, consumer health goods, home and garden, home care, industrial needs, luxury goods, packaging goods, pet care, retailing goods, toys, and more.
Euromonitor is useful for manufacturers when their final product is targeted to consumers. For example, by typing "pet industry in Argentina" into the search engine, one can find statistical data for sales, key trends, and developments. The search will also lead to summaries related to consumer behavior in response to pet care, pricing, involved companies at the national level, government regulations, pet food options, and so forth. This process is no different in relation to items for personal care, healthcare, and medical investment per country. For example, when it comes to the automotive industry, and for those is producing parts for cars, Germany would be one of the target markets. Euromonitor can provide information on volume of sales, maintenance and repair, retail sales, and a summary about the country.
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GWEN IFILL: Donald Trump continues to consume the post-debate debate, Hillary Clinton lashes out at the Republicans, and Bernie Sanders draws huge West Coast crowds.
You may have heard Trump sparked an uproar when he described FOX News moderator Megyn Kelly as having "blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever." She was — he said, "In my opinion, she was off-base."
The next day, he said he meant blood coming out of her nose.
Today, Hillary Clinton, campaigning in New Hampshire, said Trump was outrageous, but that Republicans who oppose all abortions are just as bad.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Democratic Presidential Candidate: While what Donald Trump said about Megyn Kelly is outrageous, what the rest of the Republicans are saying about all women is also outrageous. They brag about slashing women's health care funding. They say they would force women who have been raped to carry their rapist's child.
GWEN IFILL: Sounds like a perfect time for a Politics Monday.
We're joined from New Hampshire tonight by Tamara Keith of NPR, and here in the studio by Susan Page of USA Today.
Tamara, you were in New Hampshire with Hillary covering Hillary Clinton today. Tell us a little bit about this whole idea, this broad idea of women's issues. So far, we're talking about the slur was that Donald Trump did or didn't intend. We're talking about abortion, but women's issues, it seems to me, especially when it comes to an unknown candidate like Donald Trump, is much broader than that.
TAMARA KEITH, NPR: Certainly.
And Donald Trump, over the weekend, said that he's huge on women's issues. It's not entirely clear what that means. Trump, before he was pro-life, was pro-choice. And, of course, that's one of many issues where there are lots of substantive questions that could be asked of a candidate, but, typically, he spends a lot of time feuding instead.
GWEN IFILL: Has the Clinton campaign decided this is an opportunity for them?
TAMARA KEITH: Oh, absolutely. Hillary Clinton was having a lot of fun in that media availability today, though — and you also got the sense that she would have been perfectly happy if someone, anyone, had asked her a detailed policy question about her college affordability plan, which is what she was there for.
But, clearly, Clinton is using this to go after the Republican field as a whole, to tie them to Donald Trump, and also, in particular, today, she was talking about Marco Rubio. That's the Florida senator who many say performed quite well in that debate last week, and she was talking about his position on abortion to not include incest or rape, and making the argument that that was the more extreme position than any of the entertaining things that Donald Trump said. And she described him as an entertainer.
GWEN IFILL: OK, Susan, let's talk about Donald Trump. It's — we have to. He's still leading the polls. He doesn't appeared to have been hurt at all by whatever happened in that debate or people's interpretations of it.
But when we talk about Donald Trump and we talk about where he stands on issues, we know about the things he says. What does he believe, especially when it comes to these issues?
SUSAN PAGE, USA Today: Not a conventional candidate, and not someone who has ever served in public office, so there's no voting record that we can go look at, as we can with people who served as governors and senators.
And, in fact, if you go on DonaldJTrump.com, his Web site, as I did just before we came on board, there are ways to buy T-shirts with Trump's name, there are a lot of news stories posted about how well he's doing in the polls, you can contribute to his campaign, but there is not even a tab that takes you to his policy positions on issues.
There's nothing on his Web site up to this point that explains where he stands on issues like education, or health care, or jobs or terrorism. These are all issues that of course women care about, as do men.
GWEN IFILL: Well, that's the thing. We're talking about — when we say women's issues, we're also talking about health care and education and college affordability.
But we have heard nothing from him on any of that.
SUSAN PAGE: And you know what? I think, for his core supporters, it doesn't matter. They're endorsing kind of an attitude that has served him well so far.
But if he wants to grow his support, if he wants to become somebody who is actually taken seriously as a potential nominee, he's going to have to take positions on some of these big issues.
GWEN IFILL: Tamara, we saw how Hillary Clinton has been responding to this. How about the others, especially all the Republican candidates? How have they been responding? They have obviously been trying to fight to get themselves heard in all of this.
TAMARA KEITH: Yes, any number of candidates have said things like, well, don't you just want to ask me about what I want to do, John Kasich being one of them. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina came out with another strongly-worded statement saying, come on, let's just ditch this guy, basically, more or less.
And I think what's going on here, what's interesting though is that Donald Trump keeps going from feud to feud to feud. He said mean things about Megyn Kelly. Then he moved on and said mean things about Carly Fiorina, one of the other presidential candidates, and he keeps doing that, keeps sparking these feuds. It's kind of like rap feuds of the '90s, where they're feuding and actually the feud gives everybody more publicity. So some candidates are embracing the fight with Trump.
GWEN IFILL: It's true. I have been following this feud between Meek Mill and Drake over the last week. I have no idea what it's about, but I know it's a beef.
OK. So, we have the same thing happening here. But here's what I'm curious about, Susan. There's power in this, isn't there? He was mad at FOX News, but now it appears he's going to appear on FOX News because he made up with Roger Ailes.
SUSAN PAGE: So, here's the amazing thing. Not only does he lead in the polls, but Donald Trump is defining the entire conversation.
So the other nominees, the other candidates either try to get into the story, like Rand Paul criticizing him as not really a real conservative or Bobby Jindal saying that he's going to just say Trump's name randomly through his speeches in an effort to get attention, or they're trying to figure out how to talk about something else.
That's what you see with Marco Rubio and John Kasich, where they are really desperate to try to break through on the issues that they want to talk about and avoid having to respond every day in every way to outrageous comments by Donald Trump. And I don't think that they have quite figured out how to do that at the moment, because Donald Trump is still, as he likes to be, right at center stage.
GWEN IFILL: OK, Tamara, let's talk about Bernie Sanders. He was on a West Coast swing this week and he attracted tens of thousands of people to his rallies in Seattle, in Portland, Oregon. And he's on his way to Los Angeles today.
Is this something — first of all, what is the appeal for Bernie Sanders? Why is he getting these massive crowds at this time, in August, for heaven's sakes? And what are the Hillary Clinton people thinking about this?
TAMARA KEITH: Well, and, also, he was endorsed today by the nurses union. That's what he was doing in L.A., was picking up this big national endorsement.
So Bernie Sanders has captured something. He's really captured a desire among many people to fix income inequality. He's talking about college affordability. He has been talking about that for months. He really, in stark terms, spells out the feeling that a lot of people have that it's just harder to get ahead, and that's what he's capturing, and people are showing up to see him.
Now, I can't tell you what portion of the people in those arenas are just there to say, hey, who is this guy and how many of them would go out and, say, caucus for him in Iowa or volunteer for his campaign. It's not clear to me what the share is in those people that are showing up.
GWEN IFILL: That's the same question that could be asked about Donald Trump at this stage.
But what I'm curious about, Susan, also is whether the Hillary Clinton people are worried about it. She was asked about it today and she just said, oh, he's a nice colleague. She didn't have anything negative to say about him.
SUSAN PAGE: There is no percentage for Hillary Clinton to attack Bernie Sanders.
There's every — because everything she wants to do is to get Bernie Sanders supporters to support her either now or later. She's really focused her fire on the people she thinks will be her potential opponents, Jeb Bush and today Marco Rubio.
But, certainly, Bernie Sanders is underscoring some of the vulnerabilities that Hillary Clinton has. I don't think the Hillary Clinton thinks he's going to take the nomination, but when he gets 28,000 people to come to a rally in Portland, Oregon, it underscored — could she get 20,000 people to come there with no organization, with no money for ads, with no infrastructure?
So I think he's concerning in that way, not so much that he takes the nomination, but he shows the kind of energy that she has yet to show.
GWEN IFILL: You begin to wonder if, at this stage of the campaign, what we're really watching for is the cumulative effect of either the negative or e-mail questions which don't go away, of the outrage from Trump or even just the crowds building on themselves for Bernie Sanders. Maybe that's where we are.
SUSAN PAGE: And, of course, we're pretty far away from the election.
GWEN IFILL: No, we are?
SUSAN PAGE: Yes, we are. We are going to be talking about this for a long time.
What we're looking now for is kind of what the baseline is going to be, what the landscape is going to be, who has got strengths and weaknesses and how they might play out. But, a year from now, we will still be talking about some of these same characters.
GWEN IFILL: And a year from now, Tamara Keith will probably still be in New Hampshire, but maybe we will see you here this next week.
TAMARA KEITH: Maybe.
GWEN IFILL: Tamara Keith of NPR, Susan Page with USA Today, thank you both.
SUSAN PAGE: Thank you.


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Apparently this principle was first formulated for left modules over the group algebra $A=kG$ of a finite group, where $k$ is a field of characteristic $p>0$ dividing $|G|$. (See Exercise 2 on p. 426 of Curtis & Reiner, Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Associative Algebras, 1962.) Here the Hopf algebra structure of A yields a natural left module structure on the tensor product of two left modules over k.
By the mid-1970s similar tensor product behavior was observed in other special cases for left A-modules and their tensor products, where A is a Hopf algebra over a commutative ring k: (1) the (finite dimensional) restricted enveloping algebra of a restricted Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ over a field of prime characteristic; (2) more generally the hyperalgebra of a higher Frobenius kernel when $\mathfrak{g}$ is the Lie algebra of a reductive algebraic group; (3) the universal enveloping algebra of a Kac-Moody algebra in characteristic 0; (4) the full hyperalgebra of a reductive algebraic group in prime characteristic (with "projective" replaced by "injective" as in J.C. Jantzen's book Representations of Algebraic Groups, I.3). Relevant references:
B. Pareigis, Kohomologie von p-Lie Algebren, Math. Z. 104 (1968); Lemma 2.5
J.E. Humphreys, Projective modules for SL(2,q), J. Algebra 25 (1973); Thms. 1, 2 (and note added in proof referring to Pareigis)
J.E. Humphreys, Ordinary and modular representations of Chevalley groups, Springer Lect. Notes in Math. 528 (1976); Appendix T (following Sweedler's suggestion)
H. Garland and J. Lepowsky, Lie algebra homology and the Macdonald-Kac formulas, Invent. Math. 34 (1976); 1.7 and Remark
J.E. Humphreys, On the hyperalgebra of a semisimple algebraic group, in Contributions to Algebra, Academic Press, 1977; 3.1
The arguments here typically involve special cases of a general theorem suggested by Sweedler (and closely related to the "tensor identity" discussed in a recent MO post 37709 ): Let $A$ be a Hopf algebra (with antipode) over a commutative ring $k$, with Hopf subalgebra $B$ (possibly k). Given an $A$-module $M$ and a $B$-module $N$, there is a natural $A$-module isomorphism: $$(A \otimes_B N) \otimes_k M \cong A \otimes_B (N \otimes_k M)$$ On the left side, A acts via comultiplication, while on the right it acts on the first factor.
Is this the optimal generality, and if so is there a textbook reference?


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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Diary of an emetiphobe
Emetophobia is an intense, irrational fear or anxiety pertaining to vomiting.
And I have had experienced it, on varying levels, since I was a junior in high school.
I know what some of you are thinking - NO ONE likes to get the yuckies. NO ONE likes to witness the yuckies. NO ONE likes to clean up after.
That's not what this is.
My phobia grew as my depression and anxiety increased. The definition above really gets to the heart of it: "intense and irrational."
It is extremely embarrassing, now, to talk openly about how this has played out in my head over the years. I'm saying some of this out loud because I know there are plenty of you out there that know exactly what I'm talking about, and also keep it to yourself.
If someone talked about having been sick anytime in the previous week, I completely avoided them. If they had already shaken my hand, I created an invisible barrier around that hand. Until it could be properly washed, I made sure it did not touch any other part of my body, or any object.
When my kids were young, I would avoid travel and certain situations, for fear they may come down with something while we were away from home.
When someone in the house had been sick, I would put myself on the BRAT diet, barely eating for days. My thought process was that hopefully I would "only" have diarrhea, because my stomach would never be too full. When a big virus swept through the house, I would be utterly emaciated by the end of it all.
When feeling sick, I would do whatever it took to keep anything from making its way back up. Always kept Phenergan pills and suppositories on hand. I discovered my pediatrician would prescribe them if the kids had a really bad bout that was lasting for more than 12 hours. So, by the time we filled the prescription, they no longer needed them. I kept them on hand for myself.
Again, I told you. This is embarrassing. But it's true, and it was the way I functioned for years. I know it made no sense. That's the problem with phobias and panic attacks and severe anxiety. They don't make sense, but they are just as, or more real, than any other emotion you have ever experienced.
If I witnessed someone being sick, my entire body flushed. I didn't feel nauseous. I felt terrified. I had zero empathy for that person, but only cared about personal survival. Yeah, I just said survival. I felt as though I could die if I caught a virus. I mean, I KNEW I wouldn't. I knew how rare that was. But it didn't take away that fact that I thought I may actually die. It was sheer terror.
And after that flush, once I could get myself separated from the situation, I always had diarrhea. Adrenaline rush. I still do this. It's my last residual effect from my now diminishing phobia.
Last night my 11 year old son woke us in the middle of the night. He was sick for several hours. Good, old fashioned stomach bug, hitting him from all angles. Once we got everything cleaned up, had him settled in the bathroom ...
*note, I just returned to finish this post after yet another child went down for the count ... cause that's how we play this game in a house full of kids ... moan*
So, anyway. As I was saying ...
We had him settled in the bathroom with a movie, and I crawled back into bed, I had time to reflect. This particular child rarely gets gastrointestinal issues. In fact, the last time he had something like this, was six years ago.
Yeah ... SIX YEARS AGO! I remember it well, because it was one of my worst experiences with this whole phobia thing. I can look back now and understand that I was having panic attacks. Hearing him get sick. Waiting for the next round. Cleaning it up. Every little cough or wiggle or clearing of his throat sent me straight back into this frightening pit of despair. I was a mess. Pacing the floor. Could not sleep. Could not calm. My husband had a big event that weekend, and had to be gone the next morning. I called my mom and begged her, through tears, to come over and help out with the other two kids.
I could not be alone.
Have I mentioned it was "intense and irrational?"
I honestly have feared death ... over ralphing.
But last night, my sweet middle child came into our room during the night to wake us. He apologized for tossing his cookies away from any appropriate receptacle (yeah, he really is that kind and sweet ... he was apologizing!). I loved on him, in that awkward way a mom does with her now-11-year-old son who wants his Mommy but also doesn't necessarily want her in his business in the bathroom. I stayed up to help him with whatever he needed for the next few hours. Once I knew he was dozing off, I let myself fall asleep.
I slept. Like a rock.
Then, in the middle of this post, when my youngest got that look on her face and everything went into slow motion as I yelled, "Ruuuuuuuun tooooooooo theeeeeeeeeeee battttttttthhhhhhhhrooooooooooommmmmm!" ..... I just went into Mommy mode. Got her settled. And kept trucking.
Don't get me wrong. If I catch this, I will be MISERABLE and hate the whole process. But I won't think I'm going to die. I'll WANT to die, but not think I'm GOING to.
It may not seem like a big deal to most, but it is huge for me. To be sitting here typing away and checking in on everyone, and getting lunch made and EATING A FULL PLATE ... it is huge. In finding healing for my anxiety and depression, I have found healing from this, as well.
Now, off to disinfect something!
(photo by Michael Chambers, used with permission)
16 comments:
- Chantelle said...
I have dealt with exactly the same level of "irrational, intense" phobia - not over this, but over medical issues/surgery, etc. And now I'm parenting a child with HIV. :) Cracks me up and fills me with thankfulness when I think about how far God has brought me!
I really appreciate your honesty on the subject. ((hug))
(I'd love to hear more about HOW exactly you overcame this phobia sometime.)
- November 11, 2010 1:14 PM
- ~Christina said...
Christine!! THIS. IS. ME. !!!! I spent many years feeling like the worst mom, friend, wife, etc when it comes to any one sick with stomach problems! "What honey? Oh, you would like to take a card to your friend who is home sick recovering from the stomach flu? Oh sure honey just as soon as PIGS FLY!" or they have been completely well for two weeks, whichever comes first!" Great way to teach kindness and compassion! It got to a point that my kids would hide the fact that they were sick because they knew how bad I freaked!! Great mothering! I too am overcoming this slowly but surely. :)
I really thought I was the only one!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing!!!
P.S I am in your Orlando house..... Do you want to bring the Xanax or should I?? You know, just in case somebody else starts puking. Totally kidding:)....... Maybe:)
- November 11, 2010 1:52 PM
- Marcy said...
I feel nauseous just reading your post. That said, I just cleaned dry "you know what" on my son's rug b/c I didn't see it until it was dry. It was behind the door.
Good for you for pushing through. You have come a long way!
While I have never had a phobia about it, I definitely HATE it with a passion. I have an ultra sensitive schnoz and it just makes me not want to eat for a very long while if one of mine has to be sick.
- November 11, 2010 2:02 PM
- Julia said...
I ALWAYS have Phenergan in the house and in my purse when I travel. I won't tell you how long it's been since I last threw up because I'm afraid I'll jink my long standing record. I really don't see the problem in letting it work it's way through and come out the other end at a later date! LOL. Gross but true.
- November 11, 2010 2:13 PM
- Rachel said...
Thank you for being so honest. I have the same phobia, and I never realized how it tied in to my depression. My depression is in remission (does it ever really go away?) and my phobia is *almost* in check. One of my greatest fears in becoming a mother is how to handle it when my kiddo gets sick.
I still avoid situations and people if I know there has been sickness. If I let myself think about it (which I don't) I wouldn't go anywhere from October to April :(
Congrats to you on handling it well. And I will definitely pray you don't get it, too!!
- November 11, 2010 3:18 PM
- LoriG said...
THIS IS ME! Only I carry Zofran. I, too, starve myself for days and weeks when someone else is sick. I too run in the other direction...fearing not of the puke but for my life. I also had not aligned it to anything but an irrational fear of death...which I have in no other way...I mean, I'm not afraid of dying except by means of vomit. I always chalked it up to the fear of the Karen Carpenter demise.WOW.So much company in this. See...we are never alone...in any of life's seemingly one in a million customized little adventures.
- November 11, 2010 5:27 PM
- Jess said...
While this has never been an issue with me reading this and so many other things on your blog so helps me. I sometimes slip back into compulsive eating - a lovely residual from my bulimic days!! I have been trying to explain this to my family for years and my husband, while he doesn't truly GET it, now understands that it is not disrespect, selfishness or greed that make the bulk of the fridge contents and the kids sweets disappear occasionally, it is just a sign that things aren't OK with me. Reading your blog helps ME to understand that too. It helps me understand that I am not a bad person and it helps me surrender that little bit more to God's healing in my life. It helps me understand that feeling guilty that I am not as "damaged" as some does not actually help those other more damaged people, it just hurts me more and makes me less able to minister to them. Thanks Christine! Plus you make me laugh, which is always good.
- November 11, 2010 6:05 PM
- Sunday Kofffon Taylor said...
I also have also suffer from terrible anxiety attacks and a germ phobia (partly because I really do catch everything that goes around), not only do I have 3 kids of my own I work with about 75 kids each week, last winter I asked my boss if I could work with a surgical mask on…"um no, that might freak out the kids and their parents" well, they freak me out. Thanks for making me laugh!
- November 11, 2010 11:08 PM
- Me. Us. She. said...
Strangely I am not so afraid of puking myself. I was just sick with the flu recently and hated it but dealt with it. But I am PHOBIC about being around vomit. I once RAN WAY from my husband on our anniversary while he puked his guts out in a public park. (Diabetes - high blood sugar.) The sound of someone vomiting traumatizes me. If I even sense someone is going to be sick in my general vacinity I have no empathy. I will plug my ears, not breathe through my nose, whimper, etc. Airplanes are the worst. I have a huge fear of being vomited on in an enclosed space. What is this about?? I have to warn travel companions ahead of time when I travel internationally for work. Just so they know that if they are ill I am NOT the right person to tell, ask for help, nothing. In fact, if I am sharing a hotel room and someone starts feeling ill I will immediately check into my own room. I didn't know anyone else on earth had this phobia. And I am wondering if it can be treated?
- November 11, 2010 11:22 PM
- Barb G said...
Congratulations, Christine!!! Vanquishing those 'monsters' in our lives is huge, and deserves celebration!! Just keep the kiddies away from the chocolate, since of course, their tummies can't handle it . . . and Mommy deserves it all!! ;-)
Hoping you don't catch the crud too.
- November 12, 2010 6:54 AM
- Ericka said...
oh my goodness. I thought I was the ONLY one! Seriously!
How timely too, S was sick last night. Unbelievable!
Thank you for this post = needed it big time!
- November 12, 2010 7:01 AM
- Brenda said...
Not afraid of it. Just vomit too. Wimpy Wimpy Wimpy!!! Glad you are coming to grips with the fear though. Funny how those things can follow us for so long until we say "enough".
- November 12, 2010 9:03 AM
- coffeemom said...
NIce to read another person who has issues w/ vomit. I have half jokingly said I'd rather break my foot than vomit or deal w/ the stomach flu in my house. And that of course is the real reason I now have 8 kids and one of them has reflux (still) and the other has recovered tb and a hair trigger stomach and I could go on.....but you get the idea. UGHHHHH> I am not the compassionate mommy when my kids start up....I shout "run run to the potty" and frantically look for or call their dad (bc that will help somehow). Really, I'd rather deal w/ ghastly open wounds than puke. "tis the season for the stomach flu and I"m beating back the anxiety......pretending it won't happen to us this year. Right.
thanks for the (empathetic) laugh, hang in there through these next few days or more!! prayers flying your way.
- November 12, 2010 1:33 PM
- Varda said...
Hey Christine, just realized it had be eons since I've stopped by to say hello. I noticed a tweet of yours and came over to visit & catch up w/ you via your posts.
Saying hello now! Sorry you got sick kids, hope it skips you.
Time to go (attempt to) put some kids to bed.
- November 12, 2010 8:21 PM
- Essie the Accidental Mommy said...
Your description of panic and dread is how I imagine my daughter feels when she has to approach something new or unexpected. Which is daily, since she cannot control the world. I think it used to be how she felt all the time, but she is getting better, much better these days.
Hope everyone gets well quickly! Over here we have all been dragging for weeks, but very little you-know- what, thankfully.
- November 12, 2010 10:55 PM
- Misty said...
Me too! I haven't thrown up for 16 years! I know exactly how you feel.
- November 14, 2010 8:14 PM


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Monday, December 31, 2007
Time to freeze the donuts
The only thing I miss about the Chicago area is Dunkin Donuts. So last night as we were waiting to board our plane at O'Hare, I bought a half dozen: two Jelly, two Boston Creme and two Chocolate Frosted Cake. Those are my three favorites; I got one to eat now and one of each to freeze. Call it the Great Donut Experiment of 2008. I wrapped each of the three donuts separately in foil, sealed them in their own container and put them in our freezer, which reads 0 degrees F. Check back in a week or so, when I'll thaw the first of the precious discs of doughy, creamy goodness and find out if it's possible to enjoy them more than a day or two back in California.
Monday, December 24, 2007
2007's rant of the year
Saturday, December 22, 2007
"Automatically becomes portable when carried."
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Sobering stats on teen pregnancy
Beyond that here's some old but still staggering news:
* Half of pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned. Yes, HALF. You read that right. HALF! One out of every two!!!! Sadly, 40 percent of these end in abortions.
* Three in ten females will have had at least one pregnancy by the time they turn 20. Again, yes, you read that right: 30 PERCENT. THIRTY!! Three-zero! Nearly a third of these end in abortions.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Yeah, this is what we need
"The law says we are to serve the public interest," Adelstein continued. "And the public has repeatedly told us they are not interested in further media consolidation."
Sunday, December 16, 2007
One in five Americans...
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Aerosmith's actually making news!
Sunday, December 09, 2007
What I want for Christmas
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Holiday madness
Today: an afternoon open house with our friends in San Jose
Tomorrow: "glugg" (some kind of authentic Swedish beverage) fest at our
friends' house here in RC
Tuesday: auction/holiday party at Open Gate
Thursday: hubby's company party
Dec. 15: the mothers' club annual holiday extravaganza (games, crafts,
cookies, pics with Santa, etc)
Dec. 17: playgroup cookie exchange
We're contributing to the madness by having a NYE party at our house, but only so that we don't have to find a babysitter.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Saturday, October 06, 2007
That was one of the most pathetic displays I have seen. And in 25 years of Cubfandom, I have seen some pathetic displays.
On the plus side, I won't have to worry about changing my license plate.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Monday, October 01, 2007
The Cubs are, um, in the playoffs?
Sunday, September 30, 2007
You know the fan. Leave him alone.
The Cubs are in the playoffs for the first time since 2003, when an anger-mismanaged left fielder named Moises Alou, a flustered pitcher named Mark Prior and a jittery shortstop named Alex Gonzalez brought Chicago to its knees in new and acutely painful ways.
But outsiders and dumb locals who should know better will put the blame on Bartman this week when the Cubs start their division series....
It will be lazy, cheap and mean-spirited.
Don't give in to it.
Friday, September 28, 2007
This lady needs a kick in the head
The head of transportation in this country said this live, on an actual news show, while talking about transportation funding:
MARY PETERS: Well, there's about probably some 10 percent to 20 percent of the current spending that is going to projects that really are not transportation, directly transportation-related. Some of that money is being spent on things, as I said earlier, like bike paths or trails. Some is being spent on museums, on restoring lighthouses, as I indicated.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Identity theft victim chases down theif
Thursday, June 14, 2007
What wine goes with Clif Bars?
Monday, June 11, 2007
Another reason lawns are bad
It all adds up
As spring turns to summer, across America millions of small engines are coming to life, cranking out power and puffing out smoke as they mow America's lawns, whack its weeds and trim its borders. Each engine by itself has little effect on the atmosphere, and most are operated only for short spells. But together they contribute a lot of air pollution, a matter on which the federal government and the states are starting to focus.
Small engines--those under 25-horsepower--are much cleaner than they were 20 years ago. But unlike cars and lorries, they are largely uncontrolled; and their carbon-dioxide emissions, combined with escaping fuel vapours and leaking oil, make them remarkably dirty machines for their size. For example, regulators in California estimate that using a chain-saw for two hours produces as much pollution as ten cars each driving 250 miles--though the outdoor-power-equipment lobby, of course, vigorously disagrees.
Under the federal Clean Air Act, California is the only state that can set its own regulations, although other states may adopt them. California has been phasing in regulations for small engines since 1990. For years Senator Kit Bond of Missouri, determined to protect jobs at two factories in his state, blocked an effort to apply those standards nationally. But recently a compromise, allowing the federal Environmental Protection Agency to proceed with proposed new regulations, was reached. The small-engine lobby concedes that stricter regulations were inevitable, and that a national standard would make sense.
Other tactics are being tried as well. The South Coast Air Quality Management District, which covers Los Angeles and Orange County, is offering residents a $399 electric-powered lawnmower for $100 if they trade in an old petrol-burning lawnmower.
Alternatively, America could always give up lawnmowing altogether. Las Vegas residents are encouraged to abandon the unnatural practice of growing grass in a desert and let native plants re-establish themselves. And some have done what so many sweat-drenched people pushing a lawnmower in a Midwestern heatwave long to do; they have paved over their lawns and painted the concrete green.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Sopranos series finale (SPOILER!)
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Too many tests
We've just finished test time again in the schools of California. The mad frenzy of testing infects everyone from second grade through high school. Because of the rigors and threats of No Child Left Behind, schools are desperate to increase their scores. As the requirements become more stringent, we have completely lost sight of the children taking these tests.
For 30 years as a teacher of primary kids, I have operated on the Any Fool Can See principle. And any fool can see that the spread between what is developmentally appropriate for 7- and 8-year-old children and what is demanded of them on these tests is widening. A lot of what used to be in the first-grade curriculum is now taught in kindergarten. Is your 5-year-old stressed out? Perhaps this is why.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
America's greatest thinker speaks out on BushCo
Bob Costas: 'Inescapable Fact' That Bush Presidency 'A Tragically Failed Administration'
Some people may wonder about the [political] feelings that I've expressed, and I won't get into all the particulars. I think it is now overwhelmingly evident, if you're honest about it, even if you're a conservative Republican, if you're honest about it, this is a failed administration. And no honest conservative would say that George W. Bush was among the 500 most qualified people to be President of the United States. That's not based on political leaning. If a liberal, and I tend to be liberal, disagrees with a conservative, they can still respect that person's competence and the integrity of their point of view. This administration can be rightly criticized by a fair-minded person smack in the middle of the political spectrum on a hundred different counts, and by now they're all self-evident.
The blogger who posted this goes on to talk about how incredibly qualified Dubya is because he
1) got a degree from Harvard
2) got a degree from Yale
3) flew planes in the National Guard
4) is married and never divorced
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Don't eat Chilean sea bass
TSA missing thousands of badges
Monday, June 04, 2007
The Creation Museum
The Creation Museum
Friday, June 01, 2007
We, as Bay Area news consumers, are completely screwed
From Grade the News:
Sixty more newsroom positions – almost one in four -- are to be eliminated at the San Jose Mercury News this summer after a layoff moratorium negotiated with the local Newspaper Guild expires, Grade the News has learned.
John Bowman, executive editor at the San Mateo County Times until last week, said the staff reductions were discussed at an April meeting he attended at the Mercury News along with top editors of MediaNews, which now owns every paid daily newspaper around the San Francisco Bay but the San Francisco Chronicle. The proposed cuts would affect 24% of the 250 member Mercury News staff.
Mr. Bowman said he disclosed the layoff plan and resigned as executive editor of the Times because he was fed up with MediaNews' policies of trying to run newspapers short-handed.
"They're way past the point of diminishing returns, of penny-wise, pound-foolish," Mr. Bowman said of MediaNews' operations in the Bay Area.
MediaNews' cuts at The Oakland Tribune have deprived citizens of an effective champion against city corruption and mismanagement.
"The Tribune is actually doing a pretty good job of covering things that are important to me, but there are some really important things that aren't being covered right now," (Mercury News business reporter Elise Ackerman) explained. Among those are corruption in city hall and a soaring crime rate. The FBI is investigating a "pay to play" atmosphere in city government, she said, but not the newspaper.
"The Tribune reporters are good and hardworking, but this stuff doesn't get covered in the newspapers because they don't have the staff."
"When a newspaper becomes so weak it's not an effective counterbalance to the incredible arrogance of some public officials, it can't play watchdog for the public," Ms. Ackerman added. "I'm afraid the same thing will happen in San Jose."
Monday, May 28, 2007
We need a new commissioner
This Ann Killion column puts it perfectly.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
My relatives on a reality show!
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Another "Day", another $10 mil for Kiefer
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
The Green Mall?
There's no such thing as a "green" shopping mall. Developers in Chicago are building the first "environmentally sensitive" mall. Yes, nothing says "I care about the planet" quite like a vast, air-conditioned temple to disposable consumerism. Surrounded by 300 acres of concrete. "Look, honey, the Wetzel's Pretzel has organic salt!" Some things are just never going to be easy on the environment.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Chronicle to cut staff by 25 percent
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Security theater
The TSA must be operating under the assumption that the average person equates hassle with safety. "The more of a pain it is to get on a plane, the harder it must be to hijack/blow up/fly into a building!" So far, the effect on me is that they've unrepentantly stolen one of my son's shoes and confiscated a 4 ounce travel bottle half full of sunscreen.
Friday, May 18, 2007
More evidence that plastic bags are evil
The Saint Louis Zoo is sad to announce that our male polar bear, Churchill, died on May 27 (2005). Our long-time resident had undergone stomach surgery by the Zoo's veterinary staff to remove an obstruction...Surgery showed that a piece of cloth and bits of black plastic trash bag had obstructed the pyloric region.
UPDATE: Nice blog by commenter Michelle!
Monday, May 07, 2007
Brief hiatus
Thursday, May 03, 2007
O'Reilly uses name-calling about once every seven seconds
An Indiana University study finds that Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly calls a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night. "It's obvious he's very big into calling people names, and he's very big into glittering generalities," says IU j-prof Mike Conway . "He's not very subtle. He's going to call people names, or he's going to paint something in a positive way, often without any real evidence to support that viewpoint."
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Top Ten Signs Your Newspaper is in Trouble
10. Covers all news that happens within one block of the office
9. Today's exclusive -- "Nixon Dead!"
8. Reporter sent to jail for refusing to divulge a source... Oh, and he also killed a dude
7. All horoscopes: "Now would be a good time to get out of the newspaper business"
6. Paper's motto: "Suck it"
5. Every "hot" gossip item is about Jack Klugman
4. Managing editor and guy who wheels around breakfast? Same guy
3. Under "Weather," it just reads "Yes"
2. Instead of "Garfield," has a comic strip called "Garfunkel"
1. It endorsed Dennis Kucinich
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Outrage over Reilly case misplaced
In the days following the historic settlement of Clint Reilly's lawsuit against the Bay Area's newspaper barons, the local dailies, the media blogs, and the trade publications such as Editor and Publisher were buzzing with debate and speculation over a few of the agreement's terms.
Would Reilly actually get space in the local papers to make his political points every month? Where would that space go? Would it be paid ad space, or would he get it free? Would he be able to appoint a citizen member to the editorial boards of Dean Singleton's dailies (including the San Jose Mercury News and the Contra Costa Times)? Or could the papers' managers reject his nominations?
Back and forth, back and forth. And all of it entirely missed the point.
This was the fine print of the deal, the stuff that, a few months from now, nobody will remember or care about.You could get the real news from the headline in a blog post by former Chronicle city editor Alan Mutter: "Hearst-MediaNews deal scuttled."
That's what happened here: Reilly, acting with his own money, with no support from the federal or state regulators, broke up a deal that would have put the owners of the Chronicle directly in business with Singleton's MediaNews Group, the owner of almost every other major daily in the region. It would have been the end of daily newspaper competition in the Bay Area.
The Hearst Corp., documents that came out during the suit showed, wanted to combine some printing, distribution, and sales efforts with MediaNews Group. And Hearst wanted to convert an investment in MediaNews into direct stock in the company's local papers. That would have, in effect, made one of the last non-MediaNews papers in the area part of the same business group.
As G.W. Schulz reports in "Beyond the Reilly Settlement," on page 11, if Reilly hadn't intervened, nobody would have known about it until it was over and too late to stop. That's the point here, and that's what journalists, political scientists, and critics ought to be talking about.
Instead, we've heard outrage from some editors over the fact that Reilly might get some space in the papers. It's really a nonissue; he could have bought ad space for his opinions anyway, and all that the settlement did was give him that space free. And a lot of papers ask citizens to serve on advisory boards; Reilly's nominees are very unlikely to change anyone's editorial policies.Meanwhile, where is the outrage over the original Hearst-MediaNews deal, which would have ended editorial competition the same way the 1965 joint operating agreement between the Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner did?
Monday, April 30, 2007
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: Won the Pulitzer for fiction, understandably. I just can't say enough about this book. It draws you into the lives of the protagonists and takes you from Prague to Brooklyn to Antarctica to Manhattan and along the way makes you care about them deeply. With one or two exceptions, it never crossed my mind to doubt that such truly amazing adventures could be happening to real people. (This was a selection from my mothers' club book group.)
The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War: Dobson has been one of the most powerful non-elected men in politics over the last two decades. This is an unbiased (really) examination of how and why he got there, and also how the Christian Right became so powerful that it was able to pull off feats like winning Dubya the 2004 election.
Three Cups of Tea: I'm only about a third of the way through this book, but I'm totally hooked. The writing is wonderful and the story is truly incredible. It follows an incredibly fascinating person that I can't relate to at all to a place I can't imagine but makes me want to be along for the ride. (Our latest book club selection.)
Saturday, April 28, 2007
More meat = more heat
As Bigdra points out over at NoE, transportation and electricity aren't exactly the only bit culprits in global warming.
American meat eaters are responsible for 1.5 more tons of carbon dioxide per person than vegetarians every year.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Quote of the Day
Seen on a sign over the bar at Jersey Joe's, where, apropos of nothing, male customers outnumber women 10 to 1.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
2007 deadlier than usual for drivers, pedestrians in San Jose area
The trend runs counter to what is happening statewide, where highway deaths fell 9 percent in 2006, the biggest drop in 14 years. Yet deaths on Bay Area freeways rose 9 percent last year.
"If there were that many homicides, people would wonder, `Where is this crime waving coming from?' But we seem to accept it," (police Lt. John) Carr said.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
More proof the Bush Admin. is evil and dumb
Ah, spring in Yosemite!
This was the view from our tent Sunday morning in the Upper Pines campground. We were not really prepared for snow, so we packed up fast and came home.
Matthew woke up in a tent covered in snow and went wind surfing the same afternoon!
Friday, April 20, 2007
Off to Yosemite!!
Thursday, April 19, 2007
'Most E-Mailed' List Tearing New York Times' Newsroom Apart
I also love how the Onion homepage has been redesigned to more closely resemble the NYT homepage.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Guns vs. cars: No contest
And yet 41,000 Americans are killed each year in automobile crashes. That's about three-and-a-half Virginia Techs a day. And millions, of course, die each year of diseases caused by obesity and inactivity, which can be largely attributed to the sedentary lifestyle our car culture has enabled. Yet no hand-wringing there. No calls for more public transit or fewer roads. No outcry for expanded bike lanes or walkable cities. I guess it's easier to call for stricter gun laws when only 38 percent of American households own firearms, while 60 percent of American households have at least two cars. For most Americans, you'll have to pry the steering wheel out of their cold, dead hands.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Retailers drop invasive species
Monday, April 16, 2007
More on the values of Religious Right politicos
Regent University, founded by the televangelist Pat Robertson to provide "Christian leadership to change the world," boasts that it has 150 graduates working in the Bush administration.
Unfortunately for the image of the school, where Robertson is chancellor and president, the most famous of those graduates is Monica Goodling, a product of the university's law school. She's the former top aide to Alberto Gonzales who appears central to the scandal of the fired U.S. attorneys and has declared that she will take the Fifth rather than testify to Congress on the matter....
Consider George Deutsch, the presidential appointee at NASA who told a Web site designer to add the word "theory" after every mention of the Big Bang, to leave open the possibility of "intelligent design by a creator." He turned out not to have, as he claimed, a degree from Texas A&M.
Or there's the case of Claude Allen, the presidential aide and former deputy secretary of health and human services, who stepped down after being investigated for petty theft.
Divorce vs. Gay Marriage: The Dobson perspective
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Good forbid some college kids have fun!
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Score one for the reader (finally)
MediaNews and Hearst had sought to dismiss Reilly's suit, arguing that individual readers have no stake in antitrust laws because they suffer no harm from any alleged reduction in newspaper competition.Oh that's interesting. As a reader, I shouldn't give even a little rat's ass if my local paper is going down the crapper.
But U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said federal law recognizes the public's concern in maintaining competition and diversity in the news media....
law shows that "Congress values the existence of separate sources of newspaper content in a community, and that loss of separate sources injures consumers," Illston wrote.
More generally, she said, a consumer in a market that is threatened by anti-competitive activity has the right to sue for antitrust violations.
So, good luck to Clint Reilly, who should get a plaque or something for trying to help the rest of us get decent news coverage of our area.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Terry Gross sucks
She is the queen of the painfully obvious statement. Such as saying something to Sacha Baron Cohen like: "Your humor is based on making other people feel uncomfortable." And that's not nearly the worst.
She is so freaking pretentious and overrated. The way she says "Frr-ESH Aairr" is enough to deserve banishment from the airwaves.
I would love to have someone comment on why they (or others) think Terry Gross is such a great interviewer.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Cubs snowed out
By Paul Sullivan
Tribune staff reporter
April 11, 2007, 11:27 AM CDT
With a fresh blanket of snow on the field and the aisles as slushy as a convenience store drink, the Cubs opted to cancel Wednesday's game with Houston and reschedule it for the night of July 12.
A Cubs spokesman said the team is able to add another night game to the schedule because it kept one date open in case ESPN wanted to add a Sunday night game.
Manager Lou Piniella, holding his first press briefing in his new office at Wrigley, was realistic about the decision to cancel the game.
"You couldn't play today," he said. "And the weather for (Thursday) doesn't look all that promising. … You'd like to play, but you can't do anything about the weather."
The Cubs already have a scheduled off-day for Thursday, so Piniella and pitching coach Larry Rothschild decided to rearrange the rotation, moving Carlos Zambrano up to start Friday's game against Cincinnati, with Wednesday's scheduled starter, Rich Hill, moving to Saturday.
Ted Lilly will now pitch Sunday instead of Saturday, and Jason Marquis and Wade Miller will round out the homestand, starting against San Diego on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.
"What we're trying to do is keep everybody pitching as much as we possibly can," Piniella said.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Baseball announcers
Of course, part of the problem is that many color men are former players, and as a rule, those guys just aren't that bright (see yesterday's post -- and if you have ever heard Ron Santo on the radio, you know what I'm talking about). But still. There are only 30 major league teams. Assume there are a couple TV guys, and a couple radio guys, and throw in a couple more for the middle innings or whatever, and that's only 180 guys. One hundred and eighty people get these jobs, out of the 300 million Americans. And we baseball fans have to listen to people like Bob Brenly butcher the English language?
Granted, I get exposed to the low end of the curve because Chicago's teams have arguably the worst announcers in the biz (the Sox have un-arguably the worst announcers EVER). I know this because I pay the extra cash every season to get the satellite package that lets me watch every single ballgame, so I have listened to pretty much all of them. And listening to the Giants game the other day I noted that those guys can barely put a sentence together.
What must it be like to listen to a minor league game on the radio? It has to reduce your IQ by a point an hour or something. Then again, maybe something is keeping the good ones out of MLB, something like the chuckle-head ex-players getting these sweet gigs.
Monday, April 09, 2007
Sliding into first base
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
More problems with the Merc
To summarize: at this point, the Merc is about one step above the Fremont Argus.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Something fishy at the Murky News
Friday, March 23, 2007
"I support separation of church and hate"
Also on the same car: "Partnership for an idiot-free America."
Alas, I fear both are pipe dreams.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Baltimore Examiner publisher uses his paper to sell his home
The Baltimore Examiner recently ran a full-page piece (with four color photos) on a home that's selling for $606,000. What the paper didn't disclose is that the person trying to sell the "prime property," as it's called, is Examiner publisher Michael Phelps. The paper called on the guy who owned the house before Phelps to describe all of its charms, reports Laura Vozzella.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Drain Hetch Hetchy, Lungren says
"Rep. Lungren is the first member of the U.S. Congress to come out in support of this," said Ron Good, head of Restore Hetch Hetchy. "It's a breakthrough."
Lungren's endorsement of draining the 360,000 acre-foot reservoir is being announced in an opinion article the conservative Republican is sending to area newspapers. The cost of the valley's restoration is estimated at as much as $10 billion, although Good said environmentalists believe the cost will be far less.
Congress would have to approve the work, however, and that's where the big rub is. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has been longtime opponent of the restoration idea. No other Bay Area Democrat in Congress has endorsed the idea, especially House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco.
But Lungren is not exactly striking out on his own, either. The Bush administration has included $7 million in the Interior Department's 2008 budget to study restoration.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Celebrity sighting!
Friday, March 09, 2007
Movie reporters too neat
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Judges go after reporters
The Midwest is a scary, scary place.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Two words: Box turtle
Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum says his talks with the Inquirer are "informal" and the column "may or may not happen." Publisher Brian Tierney confirms "low-level discussions" with Santorum, but puts the chances of the politico's column ever appearing at "one out of 1,000. We'd probably be more likely to have Dan Rather write a column for us. Seriously. And I'm not being facetious."
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
The Fang's prove once again to be bumbling idiots
To read an excerpt of the column, click here and scroll down to the 2.24.07 post.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Lost sucks
"Next Wednesday! If you miss this episode, you won't know what everyone's griping about the next day!"
Does anyone give a crap about Jack's tattoos or the Thai chick he nailed on vacation? I didn't think so. "Secrets revealed" my ass.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Global warming will flood airports, parts of SF and 'burbs
Friday, February 16, 2007
Airlines are evil
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
West Wing gets it right (as in correct)
I'm also still waiting for someone to explain to me how my marriage is damaged when gay people get married.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
More dumb abstinence stuff
The administration also has budgeted another $241.5 million for abstinence-only programs in 2007. Kirby compared California and Texas, two states he said were similarly populous and were home to many Hispanics, a group whose teen pregnancy rates are high.
"California took a very progressive approach," he said. "Texas pushed abstinence and made it a little more difficult for teens to receive contraceptives. Pregnancy did go down between 1991 and 2004, but Texas had the second-lowest decline of all states, 19 percent. California had the second-greatest decrease, 46 percent.
"What's really sad is that Bush is trying to take some of the policies that didn't work in Texas and implement them nationwide."
Claire Brindis, a professor of pediatrics and health policy at UCSF ... believes comprehensive sex education should be required, rather than merely permitted, by the state.
"Because there are so many myths out there," Brindis said, and teens grow up in a culture dense with sexualized mass media.
"One myth I've heard is that a person can't get pregnant the first time, and by the way, 20 percent of teens do. I've heard that if your boyfriend drinks Mountain Dew you won't get pregnant, or if you have sex standing up. Or if you sit on a cold sidewalk after you have sex -- I heard that in Southern California.
"I see in my work how early childbearing is both a result of poverty and how it contributes to an endless cycle of poverty. There's a lot of people who believe knowledge is dangerous, that if you give kids more information about condoms they'll go out and have sex.
"But isn't it better," Brindis asked, "to give young people and our large immigrant population the tools to plan? I can't think of anything more moral."
Saturday, February 10, 2007
News Flash! Morons run the Examiner
As a resident of San Mateo County and a consumer of Hetch Hetchy
water, let me respond to your sarcastic editorial implying that
proponents of Hetch Hetchy Valley restoration all live outside the
Hetch Hetchy service area.
Your editorial demonstrates a gross misunderstanding of the facts.
First, the O'Shaughnessy Reservoir isn't "mammoth." It's the 20th
largest reservoir in California, and one of nine in SF's system.
Second, draining the reservoir will not reduce the amount of water
flowing to customers. Advocates of Hetch Hetchy restoration propose
moving the water closer to the people who drink it and returning the
valley to its originally intended purpose – the enjoyment of every
Third, you are incorrect in saying Hetch Hetchy is "adjacent" to
Yosemite. It is, in fact, INSIDE Yosemite National Park. Uncovering
Hetch Hetchy Valley, which John Muir considered a second Yosemite
Valley, is doable and would right a century-old wrong.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
America's favorite architecture
Then there's the Astrodome. Please.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Something good in the federal budget!!!
Immigration officials harass moms at school
And Redwood City schools didn't need the ADA money those kids were bringing in. Not at all.
Update Feb. 8: Immigration officials claim it's all lies.
Monday, February 05, 2007
The redder, the greedier
This graphic from The Economist is pretty interesting. Sure, you could say that the red states are cold, but so are a lot of the Eastern blue states. When it comes right down to it, this is evidence of the red staters buying into Bush's ridiculous argument (until the State of the Union) that global warming doesn't exist, or isn't man-made. I'm amazed at how people have bought into that, since it's purely economic on his part, and not in any rational way ideological or Biblical.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
MediaNews considers buying SF Chron
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
More legislation in search of a problem
And, in fact, time and again I have witnessed this phenomenon of reporter-as-therapy. People are almost always more than happy to talk to someone about their loved one and any crime or injustice that resulted in their death.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Sergey wants the world to have more reporters
More on "pilotless drones"
Friday, January 26, 2007
"Correct me if I'm wrong..."
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Studio 60
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
As for the previews for next week, why couldn't they get Donald to play Jack's dad??
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Pressure -- pushin' down on me, pushin' down on you...
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Quite a gaffe, Mr. Morford
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Bush administration hopes all the reporters' hands fall off
"David LaGrande, health and safety director for the Communications Workers of America, the Guild's parent union, argues the Bush administration and its congressional allies succeeded in burying the issue by preventing the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from promulgating ergonomic standards. The precipitous drops in reported MSD injuries in industries such as meat-packing and telecommunications, he says, are evidence only that employers are no longer required to document these kinds of injuries.
Union priorities have shifted, too. LaGrande notes that two of the Guild locals most active on ergonomics, Philadelphia and San Jose, Calif., have been preoccupied more recently with preserving jobs under the old and new owners of their members' biggest newspaper employers."
Monday, January 15, 2007
Marin County-ites show their ignorance
Habitat is perhaps the most well-run non-profit I've become acquainted with. The homes are high-quality, the owners are chosen with great care, and safeguards are put in place to make sure the families who live there are stable. Anyone would be lucky to have a Habitat home in their neighborhood.
Friday, January 12, 2007
This is the all-time greatest blog post EVER
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
If you don't use your turn signal...
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Snorter In Chief
Friday, January 05, 2007
Pro-lifers whif again
If right-to-lifers really wanted to make a difference, they'd be handing out condoms in high schools and funding ad campaigns telling people how to use birth control. For reasons I can't fathom, they skip over this step in their head.
We somehow managed to convince people that smoking is bad -- even people who won't quit know it's bad for them. Why can't we convince people that having sex without birth control results in pregnancy?
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
I hate the freaking TSA
If you're unfamiliar with Robeez, they are soft leather and openings are stretchy and the soles allow for a little bit of traction for those just learning how to stand up. Again, these are totally soft, nothing hard or stiff or metallic or even rubbery in any way involved.
Enter the Transportation Security Administration.
The TSA chuckleheads at all the airports we flew threw last week actually made us take Arthur's shoes off. Yes, the little soft leather Robeez could be the apparel of the world's youngest shoe bombers. As we come out of the assembly line of terrorist victory (aka, airport security at St. Louis) only one shark shoe comes down the conveyor belt. One has apparently been eaten by the x-ray machine. Bastards.
Grandma will be going home through there tomorrow, and she will check the lost and found, but I'm not holding out much hope...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Examiner (in Baltimore) hires disgraced journalist
(yes, this Examiner is affiliated with the SF version)


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On a cold and wet November day, a group of carpenters hammered away at the roof of St. Michael the Archangel Greek Catholic Church in the village of Ladomirová in northeastern Slovakia. Built in 1742, St. Michael's stands out as perhaps Slovakia's most beautiful and celebrated historic wooden church. Surveying the men's work, the church's pastor, Father Peter Jakub, explained that after 40 years, it was time to replace the worn hand-cut spruce shingles.
Only some 50 wooden churches, most dating back two centuries, survive in the modern central European republic of Slovakia; historians estimate more than 300 may have been built between the 16th and 18th centuries. Approximately 30 belong to the Slovak Greek Catholic Church. A handful have been closed and restored as museums, while the remaining churches are used by Evangelical Protestant or Latin (Roman) Catholic congregations. In recent decades, the Slovak government has designated 27 of these tserkvi (Slavonic for wooden churches) as national cultural monuments.
These wooden structures are inexorably fragile, vulnerable to decay and fire. But as architectural achievements constructed during a tumultuous and religiously volatile era, they now galvanize significant interest in and support for their restoration and preservation.
The lion's share of Slovakia's wooden churches clusters in the eastern region of Prešov, a mountainous and heavily forested area bordering Poland and Ukraine. Rusyn Greek Catholics — who inhabited tiny hamlets scattered throughout the Carpathian Mountains — constructed most of these churches.
A distinct Slavic ethnic group of poor peasant farmers, foresters and shepherds, early Rusyns followed the Byzantine form of the Christian faith even as the churches of East and West parted company after the Great Schism in 1054.
Rooted in the rites and disciplines of the Church of Mukačevo, now a town in Ukraine, Orthodox Rusyns attracted little attention from their predominantly Roman Catholic neighbors, if for no other reason than because of their isolation.
But in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, sociopolitical and religious events — the Protestant Reformation, the Ottoman Turkish invasion of central Europe and the rise of the Hapsburg Dynasty — prompted these Rusyn Orthodox communities to enter into full communion with the Church of Rome. As Greek Catholics, Rusyns maintained their liturgical rites, customs and privileges, including a married clergy, while professing union with the papacy.
Gifted loggers and carpenters, Rusyns preferred wood when building sacred and secular structures. Both practical and ornamental, woodwork adorns church towers, gates, doors and beam supports. Hand-forged wooden hinges and locks on hand-carved doors also characterize many of the churches. In place of nails, the Rusyns fashioned square wood pegs to hold together their elaborate wooden edifices.
Pointing to the heavy square pegs that fasten St. Michael's wood frame, Father Jakub explained that Rusyn custom at the time forbade the use of metal nails in building churches. According to tradition, Jesus had been crucified with iron nails.


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Yael Farber's Mies Julie is a hard but worthwhile night in the theater. Based on Strindberg's Miss Julie, Farber's rewrite tracks the original fairly closely, diverging in two fundamental ways: It is set in South Africa nearly two decades after the end of apartheid, and the character of Jean (or "John" in Farber's adaptation) is more of a victim than a trickster and thus more sympathetic than the manipulative servant in Strindberg's play. The update is often brutal and difficult to watch, but it honors its inspiration by refreshing the social context in which the thwarted love affair between the privileged Julie and the socially ambitious Jean takes place. And yet at times history overwhelms the basic trajectory of the earlier play: The violence and dead-end cultural dysfunction of contemporary South Africa becomes the subject of the drama, more than the interaction of the two characters. John and Julie are reduced to puppets in a larger narrative of hopelessness and despair.
Translating the drama into South African terms also makes it difficult for Farber to negotiate the occasional lyrical interludes in the Strindberg text. At the end, with everything having turned horribly bloody and sad, Julie tries to jump to the lyric plane. The effect is operatic, in a bad way. Poetry can't be woven into this world, which is too harsh and too honest accommodate a final aria.
And yet it's powerful drama, and it makes one take the Strindberg more seriously. Few productions of Miss Julie will hit you as hard as Mies Julie.


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In this charming, poignant, and uproarious follow-up to Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl, Susan McCorkindale chronicles the continuously harrowing journey of what happens when you leave the big city for the land of wide-open spaces.
When Susan's husband dragged her from the 'burbs to the back of beyond, she thought she'd never live to see hers sons approach redneck status—and be happy about it. But after four years of living among the cows and goats instead of fashionistas and Wall Street tycoons, Susan has almost adjusted to life on the farm—even if she does miss the occasional grande soy mocha latte.
But "City Suzy" hasn't gone completely country. In fact, she's made farm life fit her, not the other way around. That's why you'll find her attempting to put pink collars on her sons' bull calves, and campaigning hard for pair of Hampshire hogs ("They have black bodies with white 'belts' around their shoulders. Pretty snazzy for swine, no?") She'll never be a real farm girl, but as you'll see from her sidesplitting confessions, she's faking it just fine.
"Self-deprecating and funny… This second memoir is grounded by the author's husband's diagnosis of terminal cancer. Unexpectedly, the book's mood does not darken after this revelation. Instead, in the same very personal, very honest voice that characterizes her lighter passages, she shares how the ridiculous, the annoying, and the sublime are interwoven against the stark reality of his illness. It is this honesty and her bravery in the face of paralyzing fear that readers will admire."
— Publisher's Weekly
"500 Acres and No Place to Hide will just as easily make readers laugh as wipe tears from their eyes."
— Kirkus Reviews
"Silly, funny, poignant and heart breaking all at the same time."
— BigRedCouch.com
"Real, refreshing, and a total riot."
— WoMom.net
"Saucy, but deeply honest. McCorkindale's wit and wisdom are amazing."
— Laura Collins, Author, Eating with Your Anorexic