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Over the past several years, my parents have invited us to join them at The Greenbrier for the big New Years party. Last year, I had to work, so we passed on making the trip. After a crazy busy 2014, we put some thought into how we could make the trip work this year and decided to take them up on the offer yet again.
There have been a lot of changes since the last time that we were there. Some good, some bad. The biggest thing being the required three night minimum stay if your reservation included New Years Eve night. In the past, we had just stayed two nights. This year we would have to figure out how to entertain our one year old for almost four days. We also had to figure out how to keep our workouts and food intake in check. It is very easy to lose control on a long vacation.
Well, my daughter adapted fine. The hotel has a beautiful indoor pool with an average temperature hovering in the high seventies/low eighties. Not ideal for swimming laps, but perfect for a dip with kids. Every morning, we spent at least an hour in the pool. Hours in the pool equals wearing out a baby. We were also indirectly doing exercise that was different than our routine.
However the hotel may be perceived, the staff was extremely accommodating to our situation (i.e. having a busy body one year old). We decided to attempt to take our daughter to an early family dinner in the main dining room the first night that we were there. I have had many people tell me that you either adjust your child to your lifestyle or your child makes you adjust your lifestyle to them. We are attempting to adjust her to our lifestyle (which is why we took her to dinner). Her behavior completely surprised me. She was all smiles at cocktail hour.
She joined my parents for a dance during a break from dinner.
She even sat in her big girl high chair and ate dinner with everyone. This is highly unusual for her. Note, there was a napkin under all of the berries. We did not make a complete mess of the table. The key was asking them to seat us at a table that lined the edge of the dining room that parallels the hallway. This drowned out any loud noise that she might make, gave her a clear view of plenty of activity and also gave us a quick getaway in the event that she needed to take a walk.
She loved seeing the Christmas decorations that continued to line the halls and restaurants in the hotel.
We took our annual family photo in front of the tree in the main dining room. See photo below from the last time that we were at the resort compared to this year.
Another change from years past is the dress code.
- The hotel would prefer business casual in almost all areas of the resort. That means no jeans or workout gear.
- If you are going to breakfast/tea/dinner in the main dining room this is a must.
- Dinner in the main dining room requires nice evening attire for women and a tie and sport coat for men. The same applies for the casino.
We observed the dress code in all instances (as uncomfortable as it made us at times). We are creatures that wear sweatpants on the weekends. Going to breakfast in business casual attire was a task. Due to our later dinner reservations the rest of our stay, we did take advantage of tea time in the afternoon. They now open the main dining hall for guests to sit (free of charge) and enjoy hot beverages and treats.
As hard as I tried not to, I always ate everything on my plate. It is that good. They don't skimp here. Even with temperatures being below freezing, we wandered out of the hotel for a few short walks. Trust me, in walking the grounds of the resort (and the inside) you can log some miles.
Although I gave up running last week, I did take advantage of the full service fitness center to jump on a treadmill for a few short run/walk workouts.
So how did we stay busy with a one year old the rest of the time? We walked.
We pretended to play checkers.
We figured out how to find things she could eat. Parents – pick up at Drapers from the children's menu. Save yourself time and money.
The hotel even offers babysitters on site. We reluctantly agreed to leave my daughter with a sitter in our room while we enjoyed a fancy New Year's dinner and a party in the casino. It worked out perfect (as worried as I was). I squeezed into the same formal maternity dress that I wore to a friend's wedding just twelve weeks earlier. What a change!
Special shout out to Destination Maternity at Southpark for hooking me up with some amazing maternity evening wear for this pregnancy. Designers include – BCBG, JS Boutique Collection, Hazel and Design Story. I have to say the biggest change in my wardrobe this pregnancy as compared to last is my ability to own my bump. I was almost ashamed of showing it off during my last pregnancy. This time, I am finding clothes that better accentuate my temporary curves.
When it was all said and done, we really made some great memories at an amazing place to end 2014. As difficult as it is to travel with a child, we learned how to make it easier next time. We utilized our resources and we thanked the amazing staff at the Greenbrier for accommodating our needs. Really looking forward to going back. This time maybe in the summer?


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Cleaning Up the City
On December 3, the residents of Tsukuba gathered to collect litter from around the city. Do you have any idea how many cans and bottles they collected on that one day? I'll put the answer (in TONS!) in the comments.
It's a little bit shocking. Why do people think it is okay to dispose of garbage in places other than garbage cans? It's a lesson I learned when I was little. We had a commercial that would run on television (especially on Saturday morning when the cartoons were on) telling us not to litter. It was done with a big owl — I thought his name was Hootie but a quick internet search tells me its "Woodsy". Equally unimaginative. Anyway, Woodsy would romp through the forest and other places and the kids with him would sing:
Help Woodsy
Spread the word
Never be a dirty bird
In the city or in the woods
Help keep America looking good!
Hoot! Hoot!
And Woodsy would say:
Give a hoot!
Don't pollute!
(I am from Canada, but we got a lot of American TV stations where I lived.)
Would I have been a polluter if Woodsy hadn't taught me proper civic manners? Do we need to introduce Woodsy over here? Is the problem just as bad in Canada and I just don't notice it as much?
I'm not sure, but I sure do wish people would start giving a hoot around here.


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marketing ROI
Using Customer Lifetime Value to to Improve Marketing Investment Decisions
How do you calculate CLV? There are various approaches but here is a simple way to calculate customer retention equity or CLV:
- Determine the average retention rate of your customer base.
- Compute the average expected duration of a relationship with a customer using this retention rate.
- Determine the average per period margin and costs that are associated with retaining this customer.
- Multiply the period net profits by the number of periods the relationship lasts.
Here's an example:
- Suppose for the past four years your retention rate for a set of customers has been 60%, 61%, 62%, and 61% over a 4 year period. This equates to an average retention rate of around 61% (i.e., 61 = (60+61+62+61) / 4).
- Analysis reveals that the expected relationship duration for the average customers is 1/(1-average retention). (1/1.61). In this case that is 2.56 years.
- After analyzing the historical data over the same 4 year period, the firm has determined that the average margin is $7500 and the average costs over this period $750. This equates to a net margin of $6750
- Expected retention equity is $17,280 ($6750*2.56).
Calculating customer retention equity demonstrates why it makes sense to invest in keeping customers. It's a very interesting way to get a handle on your customer portfolio and to segment your customers. By improving revenue per customer and customer retention, while lowering cost to acquire and serve, you can positively impact CLV.
3 Attributes to Extend Your CMO Longevity
As 2013 winds down and we prepare to enter 2014, there are bound to be a few changes in the CMO line up. You say, that's not news, CMO tenure is always a bit tenuous. But actually, that is less true today than ever. In SpencerStuart's 8th Annual CMO Tenure Study, it was reported that CMO tenure is now nearly 4 years, compared to just 2 years back in 2006. While CMO tenure varies across industries, there are several attributes long- tenured CMOs share. First and foremost, these CMOs can demonstrate positive impact on the company and have impact beyond the "marketing agenda." They also tend think more like business-people who are able to provide strategic direction and use data and analytics to make fact-based decisions.
In addition to being an exceptional, technically proficient marketer, there are three attributes we see among successful long-term CMOs.
1. Customer-centric. These tenured CMOs connect regularly with customers. They do more than conduct voice of customer research, review customer data, or meet with a customer advisory board. They are actively and regularly engaged in customer conversations. Do you describe your customers for example as engineers with X years of experience in Y industries, Y accreditations, who attends B events, reads Y publications, and uses Z social media? If this example seems familiar you may be missing the mark. These long-tenured CMOs have a deeper understanding of their customers' needs, wants, emotional state and motivations, what it takes to engage them, and the kind of experience that needs to be delivered. These CMOs serve as the window into the customer for their companies. They are relentless in their pursuit to know and understand the customer.
2. Outcome-oriented. It is clear to the leadership team that these CMOs have marketing well aligned to the business with metrics and performance targets focused on producing business outcomes rather than marketing outputs. These CMOs understand that outputs such as visitors, fans, followers, etc. create more contacts, connections and engagements that are important. They also understand that their job is to translate these outputs into something relevant and meaningful to the leadership team, such as how marketing's contribution is reducing the sales cycle/accelerating customer acquisition, reducing the cost of acquisition or retention, and improving product adoption and win rates. These CMOs have an excellent handle on what touch points and channels are most effective and efficient depending on the needle that needs to be moved.
3. Alliance-savvy. There's been a great deal of coverage on how important it is for the CMO to have solid relationships with their Sales, IT, and Finance colleagues, and our research shows that Best-in-Class CMOs do more than that. These CMOs have forged formal explicit partnerships with these counterparts. They invest in these alliances because they believe that the partnership will enable the organization to be more customer-centric and more competitive. As a result, these companies are able to enter new markets and bring new products and services to market faster. What is different about the alliances formed by these CMOs? They work with their colleagues to plan, form, design, and manage a formal working agreement that focuses on developing the right working relationship, taking into the account that each function most likely operates differently. They create and execute an agreement that emphasizes how the organization's committed resources will achieve a common set of objectives, how to leverage the differences to the company's advantage, and how these differences are designed to facilitate collaborative rather than competitive behaviors among all the members of each team. Performance metrics are established to support the alliance with a focus on both the outcome of the alliance as well as the process.
Whether it be the stream of green lights you hit on the way to work or the person that holds the door for you as you juggle groceries, at the end of the day, we are most appreciative of the people and things that make our lives easier. Although technological innovation and automation have given us the ability to soothe many of our woes, we cannot forget that the human element is at the center of all things marketing. In light of this, we must ask ourselves, "Would I be satisfied as a customer or colleague in this process, and if not, how could I change it?" By exemplifying these traits of a successful CMO, the outlook of your operations will shift from being self-serving to philanthropic in nature.
Tackling the "Too Hard To" Pile of Marketing Accountability
If you're like us, you probably have one of those piles on your desk that keeps being moved from one corner to another. You know that pile you need to get to but avoid because it will take some real effort to tackle. For many marketing professionals, marketing accountability, analytics and ROI are in this pile. Not too long ago at a marketing conference where Laura was speaking, the organizers had set up round tables with specific topics for discussion over breakfast. Laura was sitting at the measuring marketing ROI (return on investment) table (of course, where else would I be sitting?) which was strategically located right next to the buffet line. While she was sitting there waiting for people to join her, she kept hearing people say, "Oh measuring marketing,that's just too hard." There were hundreds of marketers attending this conference, and about 2 dozen tables of 10 were set to accommodate the early risers. Yet only four other brave souls joined her.
We must stop avoiding this topic and tackle the pile. As Sylvia Reynolds the CMO of Wells Fargo says, "Marketing must be a driver of tangible business results…we must start with the goal in mind and a clear way to measure that goal." ROI is important for accountability–besides being able to justify spending and enable us to run the marketing organization more effectively and efficiently, knowing what is and isn't working helps marketing achieve greater influence and serve in a more strategic role. Various surveys suggest that over a third and as much as 42% of marketing budgets are not adequate enough to achieve the outcomes and impact expected.
Perhaps your organization like many others is in the thick of budget planning. A key part of budget planning is to establish and validate the money you plan to spend. The more aligned marketing is with the outcomes of the organization and the more the plan includes performance targets and metrics, the more likely you will be allocated the budget you need to achieve the expected results.
So what does it take to tackle this Marketing Accountability pile? Here are six affordable steps any marketing organization can take to start whittling away at the marketing accountability and measurement pile.
1. Focus. Nothing of importance miraculously gets done on its own. To effectively tackle the marketing measurement pile will take all of Covey's seven habits: from taking a proactive approach and beginning with the end in mind, that is the outcomes you are expected to impact, to keeping the effort a priority when other things present themselves as urgencies to making marketing measurement a win/win for you, your team, and the rest of the organization. More than likely, you are going to need a cross-functional team to tackle this pile – people from finance, sales, IT, operations, etc. working collaboratively together to define the metrics and hunt down and organize the data.
2. Plan an attack. You know that age old question, "How do you eat an elephant?" The answer being, "One bite at a time." This is true for the marketing accountability and ROI question. If this is a new effort for you, you need to break it into manageable pieces. Quantify your objectives, decide how you will measure them, collect the data that you need to meet the objectives, establish a baseline, gain commitment to the measurement plan, and finally, measure.
3. Get data: "Data is the new creative," declares Stephan Chase of Marriott Rewards. Establishing metrics, determining effectiveness, understanding efficiencies, all take data. Without data you cannot monitor and measure results. And don't assume that you have the data that you need to measure your objectives. For example, if you want to measure how many new customers you interest in a new product, you may find that you need first to determine what a "new" customer is. This may require different views of your existing customer records or new strategies for evaluating.
4. Analyze: Once you have the data, the challenge is to generate insights that facilitate fact based decision making. One of the most valuable applications of data and analytics is in leveraging your metrics. The metrics are what enable continuous improvement as you strive to achieve and set new performance standards. Just looking at numbers doesn't tell you as much as evaluating trends or creating statistical models that help you identify an optimized approach to your marketing efforts. Consider looking at your measurements for what isn't immediately obvious such as what might have happened if that campaign had gone to the three bottom deciles of customers?
5. Use a systematized process: You may need to set up systems and processes that enable you to capture and track results on an ongoing basis. Many organizations put a substantial amount of energy into initiating these programs and then let them fizzle as other priorities surface. It takes both process and discipline to sustain a measurement effort. Systems help you automate a process so that the process can become a manageable part of your day-to-day operations. Today every marketing organization is moving at a breathless pace. Implementing test and control environment can keep you from having a fatal, head on collision
6. Train. Many marketers are unaccustomed to living in a metrics-based environment. You may need to invest in measurement, analytics, as well as data training and skills development. Start by taking a skills inventory. Find out who in the organization has data management, analytics and measurement skills. Decide what skills they need to perform at your expected levels. Develop training that fills the skill gaps. Doing this in-house allows you to tailor to your needs, but consider courses from universities, associations and external consultants to fill out your requirements.
Moving marketing performance metrics from the "too hard to" pile to the "we can do it" pile can reap rewards for the entire organization.
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HONOLULU — Multiracial people may be misidentified more often as being white than black and may value being accurately identified more so than single-race individuals, according to research presented at APA's 121st Annual Convention.
"Today, the distinctions among white, black, Latino and Asian people are becoming blurred by the increasing frequency and prominence of multiracial people," said Jacqueline M. Chen, PhD, of the University of California, Davis. "Still, average Americans have difficulty identifying multiracial people who don't conform to the traditional single-race categories that society has used all their lives."
Chen discussed six experiments in which participants were consistently less likely to identify people as multiracial than single-race and took longer to identify someone as multiracial compared to how easily they identified black, white and Asian people. When they made incorrect identifications, they were consistently more likely to categorize a multiracial person as white than black, the study found. Time pressure, distractions and thinking of race in either-or terms made observers significantly less likely to identify someone as multiracial. The study was conducted at the University of California, Santa Barbara and involved 435 ethnically diverse undergraduate students.
Participants identified the race of black, white, Asian or multiracial individuals in photos and researchers recorded each participant's accuracy and time to respond. Researchers used a memorization task and a time limit in two experiments to determine if either would affect a participant's accuracy. In another experiment, participants were told the study was about reading comprehension and attention. They then read news articles about scientists claiming to find a genetic basis for race and were asked to view several photographs of faces and identify them by race.
Scientists agree that the racial categories we use today are not based on biological differences but are social constructions that can change over time, Chen said, noting that until the mid-20th century, the Anglo-Saxon majority in the United States viewed Irish and Italian immigrants as different races. Previous research has found that people who identify as multiracial have as many as or more positive experiences than those who identify with a single race, regardless of that group's status in society, she said.
In another presentation during the same convention session, Jessica D. Remedios, PhD, of Tufts University, looked at how multiracial people value the accuracy of another person's perception of their race. "Our research found that multiracial people expect positive interactions with people who accurately perceive their racial backgrounds because that affirms their self-perceptions," Remedios said.
She described an experiment in which researchers took photos of participants and told them they would trade the photo with a participant located in another room. The person in the other room was actually fictional, and each participant received a photo of a white male and was asked to identify his race on a form with a list of several races and a place to add comments. The participants then read comments the researchers had developed for the fictional participant who they thought had viewed their photo and they completed a questionnaire to assess their interest in meeting that person. Another experiment did the same, but showed participants photos of a white man or woman and added questions to determine whether the participants were surprised by accurate or inaccurate identifications and how they felt about themselves after reading the other participant's comments.
Multiracial participants were more interested in meeting partners who had accurately identified them. Single-race people were surprised but multiracial people were not when their race was not accurately identified. Multiracial and single-race people had similar negative reactions to being misidentified, but only multiracial participants indicated an accurate identification would support their self-image, whereas there was no effect on self-image among the single-race participants.
This study involved 169 undergraduates in two groups. One group consisted of students with parents of different races and single-race students, but no whites. The other combined multiracial and single-race students including whites. Whites were not included in the first group because past research suggests they are not usually concerned with their race, but they were included in the second study to test whether whites and minorities react differently to others' accuracy about their race, Remedios said.
Presentations: "She's Multiracial: The Emergence of a Multiracial Category in Person Perception," (PDF, 363KB) Jacqueline M. Chen, PhD, and David L. Hamilton, PhD; and "Multiracial and Monoracial Individuals' Responses to Others' Accuracy and Confusion About Their Race," (PDF, 123KB) Jessica D. Remedios, PhD, and Alison L. Chasteen, PhD, symposium session 3004, Friday, Aug. 2, 8-8:50 a.m. HST, Hawai'i Convention Center, room 321A
Jacqueline M. Chen can be contacted by email or by phone at (925) 286-1675.
Jessica D. Remedios can be contacted by email or by phone at (857) 234-3890.
The American Psychological Association, in Washington, D.C., is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. APA's membership includes more than 134,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 54 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people's lives.


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Lake St Clair is a picturesque bass fishing location nestled among the rolling hills of the Hunter Valley region. It makes a perfect weekend getaway for Sydney anglers looking for a few days of bass fishing.
Yamba Fishing Bonanza
Some fishing destinations are so productive they make you feel like the angler you imagine yourself to be. Yamba, on NSW's far North Coast, is one of them. I was fortunate enough to spend a week at Yamba last summer, and cannot wait for the next trip.
Sand whiting are one of my favourite species to catch on light tackle. In recent years they have become a popular lure fishing target, both soft plastics and hard bodied. I must confess to being a surface lure addict when it comes to whiting fishing. It is the technique I know best, so I will focus on it in this post.
Blackfish (luderick) are a mainstay of the Australian fishing scene. They are an accessible species for anglers to target, fight well and taste great. Best of all, you fish for them with a float which makes it a visually exciting form of fishing.


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How to address a Roman Catholic Bishop?
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How to Address a Roman Catholic BishopEnvelope: The Most Reverend (Full name) Bishop of (place) (Address)
Letter salutation: Dear Bishop (surname):
To see an interesting story about a mistake addressing the Pope, cardinals and bishops, click here.
FYI, here is what's come into the Blog that relates to this office/rank. For recent questions sent in, check out Robert Hickey's Blog. For specific offices/ranks, check out Robert Hickey's On-Line Guide.
How to Write a Bishop's Name on a Document? I am preparing a 'keepsake' for a my nephew who is being confirmed - and I am personalizing the piece with my nephew's name, the date of event, and the name of the celebrant: Bishop John J McIntyre. Which is the more appropriate written form of address for this purpose?: Bishop John J. MacIntosh or The Most Reverend John J. MacIntosh ~ D.M. NovakDear D.M.N.: The formal form of written address is: The Most Reverend John J. MacIntosh The formal form to use in conversation --- or in a letter's salutation is: Bishop MacIntosh So on the keepsake use the formal written form of his name: The Most Reverend John J. MacIntosh -- Robert Hickey
Is a Roman Catholic Bishop an Excellency? How do I address my (Roman Catholic) bishop? Is he Your Excellency? Are there more and less formal forms of correct address? ~ Barbara Montgomery I taught catechism for years and when the kids prepared for a visit by the Bishop for confirmation they were always told to say Your Excellency or Bishop (Name). ~ P.D.
Dear P.D. and Ms. Montgomery: In conversation it's correct to call the bishop Bishop (Surname). A Roman Catholic bishop is not an Excellency -- he's a Most Reverend. So when you address an envelope, write The Most Reverend (full name) and on the second line Bishop of (diocese). The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops suggests to address bishops with the courtesy title the Most Reverend. See how they list their member bishops ON THIS PAGE ... their advice makes sense. Excellency is the courtesy title used with the accredited representative (ambassador) of one head-of-state to another head-of-state. The term was invented and established at the Conference of Vienna in 1814 for that purpose So a papal nuncio ... the accredited representative from His Holiness to a foreign head-of-state is addressed as His/Your Excellency ... because he holds the rank of ambassador. It is not used correctly when addressing bishops in general. -- Robert Hickey
Dear SM in California:YOUR GRACE Addressing bishops as Your Grace is a British form of address. In the Church of England bishops are granted the precedence of a Duke ... and dukes and thus by courtesy ... Anglican bishops – are addressed as Your Grace. [In the United States, the American branch of the church – the Episcopal Church in the USA – addresses its Presiding Bishop as the Most Reverend (Full Name) and its other bishops as the Right Reverend (Full Name). Both, in conversation or a salutation are Bishop (Surname).EXCELLENCY His/Her/Your Excellency is a courtesy title used by accredited diplomats who have presented their credentials to a foreign head-of-state as the single designated representative from another head-of-state. So the Papal Nuncio (who would always have the rank of bishop) is addressed as Your Excellency ... but other bishops are not. THE MOST REVEREND The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops says that U.S. Catholic bishops are correctly addressed as the Most Reverend (Full Name) and Bishop (Surname). -- Robert Hickey
Not Finding Your Question Answered?(1) At left is a list offices/officials covered and (2) below are other topics covered in my blog. Between the two I probably have what you are looking for. But after checking both lists if you don't see your question answered send me an e-mail. I am pretty fast at sending a reply: usually the next day (unless I am traveling.) If I think your question is of interest to others, I will post the question & answer – but I always change the names and specifics. -- Robert Hickey
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Daniel Radcliffe flashes a smirk on the blue carpet as he arrives at the 2019 WarnerMedia Upfronts on Wednesday night (May 15) at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The 29-year-old actor kept things cool in an all black outfit as he was joined at the press event by his Miracle Workers co-star Steve Buscemi.
Niecy Nash was joined on the blue carpet by her Claws co-stars Karrueche Tran, Jenn Lyon, Carrie Preston, and Judy Reyes.
Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs also hit the carpet alongside their Snowpiercer co-stars Graeme Manson, Alison Wright, Mickey Sumner, and Lena Hall.
News anchors Anderson Cooper, Samantha Bee, Conan O'Brien, and Don Lemon were also in attendance alongside Shaquille O'Neal, Tracy Morgan and wife Megan Wollover, Amy Sedarias and co-star Cole Escola, and Jameela Jamil.
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Stop the Train, is being developed to inform residents of the Orange and Durham counties of North Carolina about serious problems at the heart of the Durham Orange Light Rail project.
Because these problems haven't been openly debated or presented to the public they are not being addressed as the project moves toward final approval, funding, and construction. Important questions are not being asked, and therefore even many of the people working on the project appear to have no idea that these problems exist.
Please don't misunderstand: Triangle Transit is staffed by good people who want to offer the best public transit system they can get funding for, and they are clearly trying to keep their activities and decisions properly available to the public. Documents and high-tech models are posted on their website for anyone interested enough to search.
But, at the same time, it is their job to present this train in as positive a light as possible, helping to sell the idea to the public and keep the project moving forward on schedule.
We are headed towards spending billions of dollars on a project that is likely to harm more people than it helps and burdens us with ongoing costs that will seriously limit the ability of our public transit system to adapt to major changes in ground transportation that are coming in the very near future.
What Don't You Know About This Transit Project?
A great deal, most likely. Many important issues have not yet been brought to the public's attention. Please take the time to review a few of the short articles on this site, then bookmark us because a good deal more is coming. As this site is further developed, we'll fill you in on topics including:
- The tremendous cost-per-rider built into the system, even when calculations are based on GoTriangle's own inflated predictions.
- Why this rail system will fail to take cars off the roads or relieve traffic in any way.
- The new transportation technology that will cause massive changes in both public and private ground transportation.
- How the lack of flexibility inherent in a rail system will hinder our ability to adapt to the fast-changing transit realities in the near future.
- The damage to the quality of life and neighborhoods along the planned rail system that the system will cause.
- Why car owners (and others) will find that it takes longer to get to work if they take the train than if they simply drive.
- How ongoing operation and maintanence costs for the rail system will limit the ability of our public transit system to grow and adapt in the future.
- How the most financially disadvantaged residents will be paying more for public transportation yet getting less if this system is built.
- What problem is the transit authorities really trying to solve with this project?
- Are there better solutions for the problem the transit services are trying to solve?
What You Can Do Now
This site is going to grow over the next few months. Many more pages need to be put up to clarify the depth of the trouble this project could cause for residents if it is allowed to go through. You can send feedback, volunteer time or resources to help out, or have your own ideas explained on the website: just use the Contact page!
Please bookmark this site and send the link to friends, family and coworkers who live and/or work in Orange or Durham counties. It is important that more people learn about the issues that haven't been addressed. Many people believe that the light rail project is something that's already been fully decided upon by political forces above their heads, and that just isn't so. But to have the most impact we need to get the word out to a sizeable number of people.
With a little bit of help from a big group of people
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Walkthrough (Chapter Seven) part 9
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Walkthrough (Chapter Seven)[edit]
Light Gem (1/1)[edit]With the Blue Lens in hand, return to the center room. With three lenses at your disposal, you can now make all sorts of interesting color combinations in order to proceed. For instance, by combing the Green Lens with the Blue Lens, you'll make a sort of sky blue/turquoise colored laser. This laser will beam not at a door, but rather at one of the statues of Animated Armor in the main room. This Animated Armor will now be awakened. Fight and kill the Animated Armor, as you've fought and killed so many of its kind up to this point in the game. Once all is quiet, you'll notice that the Animated Armor was hiding a dead body. Scour the dead body once it's safe to do so, and you'll find a Light Gem.
There's no real reason to do this, but then again, there's no real reason to dodge free experience points either. To awaken another piece of Animated Armor from its slumber for no other reason than to fight it for the experience points it will give you, go ahead and use only the Blue Lens, by itself. This will awaken the Animated Armor on the left side of the room. Kill it for some free experience (and little else).
Scroll (3/3)[edit]If you combine all three lenses you currently have with one another on the central mechanism, so that the light beam has to travel through the Red Lens, Blue Lens and Green Lens, what you'll come out with is a white photon beam that will open a door on the right side of the room. Unfortunately, you can't do much of anything in this room right now, because you're missing an item that you can't acquire yet. When you return later on (after acquiring the wings that will allow you to double jump), there's more to do. In the meantime, enter this room and turn right at the huge chasm. You'll find a dead body with a scroll on it. Otherwise, you needn't explore the rest of the room. It'll prove to be a waste of time during your first play through the stage.
Should you choose to use only the Green Lens, the second door on the right side will open, granting you access to yet another room. Just like the previous room we gained access to, however, what you can do here is extremely limited, basically because you don't have the ability to double-jump yet. Nonetheless, explore what part of the room you can, stopping short of using the whip hook to cross the chasm in the middle (as you won't make the jump no matter how hard you try). There are three Swordmasters to fight and kill in here. As usual, experience points are never something you should pass up, so fight before heading back to the machine, so that we can finally finish this stage up.
Please Note...[edit]We've received a lot of e-mail about these upcoming sections. We were under the impression that you needed Seraph Wings to acquire some of the collectibles here, but apparently the initial gap towards the White Key can be crossed with a well-timed dash-jump and some solid use of the whip hook. We waited, and the walkthrough tells you to do so, but keep in mind that you can actually do it sooner than realized below. Thanks!
Life Gem (1/1)[edit]Instead of just working your way into this room to fight the Swordmasters, you can return here when you get your Seraph Shoulders (by defeating the Vampire Dark Lord at the end of the eighth chapter) to finish with the rest of the room. Fight the Swordmasters as you did earlier, and then launch your way across the gap with the whip hook, double jumping with the Seraph Wings to successfully reach the other side. You'll find a pattern of tiles on the floor here that you must zoom across with Shadow Magic to activate. This will give you the White Key, which you'll need a little later. But that's not all. You can barely see it, but on the side of this area, along one of the walls, is a dead body which has a Life Gem on it. Be sure to grab this before working your way back over the gap.
Shadow Gem (1/1)[edit]Instead of just grabbing scroll #3 a little earlier, there's more to do later in that same room. Once you've killed the Vampire Dark Lord and earned the Seraph Shoulders at the end of the game's eighth chapter, you can grab the Life Gem and White Key from the room with the huge gap in it (just backtrack through the walkthrough to find what we're talking about if you're confused). With the White Key in hand, head into this room with the scroll and whip-hook your way up to the scaffolding above. Begin to cross the scaffolding towards the locked gate on the other side of the room. Use the White Key on the keyhole you find next to the locked gate, and then enter the previously sealed-off room. A dead body is in the center of this room. Search it for a Shadow Gem.


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When my wife's boss first moved to our small town it was more than a little culture shock. Raised on the slick windy streets ofChicago, he had mastered the ways of the urban jungle, but this experience had done little to prepare him for the Deep South. He had never eaten grits. He did not know […]
When I was growing up, church for me was not a social activity. It was not a weekly event or a spiritual distraction to assist you with the trials of life. Church was a non-negotiable obligation.
Sunday School, Sunday morning preaching, Discipleship Training, Sunday night, Monday night youth group, Wednesday night prayer meeting, choir rehearsal, revival, on and on: I had a drug problem from a very early age. I was drug to church every time the doors opened.
As the great Ferrol Sams puts it: "It was imperative that one be Saved. It was just as important to be Raised Right. The child who had been Raised Right was not only Saved but had spent a large part of his formative years in the House of the Lord. Methodists probably could be Saved, but there was a question whether any of them really had been Raised Right."
A part of being Raised Right was to never – ever – use the Lord's name in vain. It was rumored that some people of indescribable wickedness actually did use God's name "in vain." These sons of the devil attached a four-letter-word as God's last name.
But for one Raised Right, this remained a vicious rumor, an urban legend too dreadful to believe. I had never heard such language employed: Until the summer of my twelfth year.
About a half-dozen of my friends and I were playing together on a hot, lazy afternoon. It was the kind of idle summer day that preadolescent boys use to get in trouble, and we did not disappoint.
We were playing with a knife. No real explanation beyond that is necessary. I will add only that this huge Rambo-style dagger somehow got airborne. It landed squarely in the center of Michael Holden's right thigh.
He shrieked in pain, "God dammit!!!" The sun grew dark from the sixth to the ninth hour. The veil of the temple was torn in two. Time stopped. Five twelve-year-old boys slinked off to home without a word.
We left Michael sitting there with the knife piercing his Levi's. We knew he would be dead by morning, not from a knife wound mind you, but by the hand of the angel of the Lord, who would strike him down in vengeance for sacrilege.
I'm not recommending you add this irreverent phrase to your regular vocabulary, but this is not a commandment against cursing, per se. If only it was that easy!
"Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain," means "Don't profess a faith in God with your words – invoking his name – and then betray him with your actions." When we do that, we make his good name, vanity, useless, or worthless.
This is not about using the English word "damn" with God's name, as much as we bristle when we hear or use it. It is a commandment against hypocrisy.
God's name is so high and holy we don't even know what it is. Not really. The ancient Hebrews wouldn't even spell it out for fear of defaming him. It was too sacred to even put on paper so the scribes would leave out the vowels, leaving later readers to more or less guess.
The Hebrews understood that when you use God's name as the umbrella over your life, your words, and your actions, be certain that your life, words, and actions, represent him properly. To do otherwise, is to take his name "in vain." It is to defraud him. It is to be a hypocrite.
Hypocrisy usually raises its ugly head, not when we pray or in our houses of worship, but in how we speak to and treat others. The words aimed at others – God's creatures – are indirectly aimed at him.
What we say about and to others can either glorify or defame the God we worship. The "sticks and stones," to use the children's rhyme, we throw at our neighbors, are actually being thrown at God. For how we treat others is the clearest testament of how we treat the One we worship.
If only honoring the third commandment was as easy as not saying a particular black-listed word. We'd have it beat. But living and speaking in a way that properly represents our Creator? I guess that's what being Raised Right was all about in the first place.


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Can I just say that I love this… no no… I LOVE this box! I totally LOVE it. Just so you know, January is birthday month! Why? Birthdays fall in every month? Well, my birthday month is JANUARY! hehe. So, I kind of made this for myself. I did change the color combination as promised BUT I reserve the right to run right back to my new favorite one! I used Perfect Plum, Dapper Denim, Whisper White and Smoky Slate. This also uses the Window Shopping Bundle and the SAB ribbon! WOW'sers. Notice the candle cut-outs on the box. They are in every other panel of the box backed with smoky slate cardstock to make it pop!
Now, there is another reason why January is birthday month…. My youngest son was born in January too! We are separated by 3 weeks, exactly! To the right, you will see a thumbnail of the box showing it from the top. Click on it, it will make the picture larger so you can see some of the details (like the teeny tiny pearls – I am still trying to finish the package… LOL)
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When you are a Large Family Mom, one of the biggest tasks of your daily life is…Large Family LAUNDRY. You cannot hide from it, run away from it, or buy your way out of it(unless you hire someone to come in and do it for you!)
Whether you love it or hate it, laundry in a large family is as inescapable as death and taxes.
Having a large family laundry system helps take the guesswork and the angst out of this chore. If you keep up with your system, you won't get behind. If you DO get behind (everyone does, no worries!) you will know exactly what you need to do to catch up.
I'm going to show you exactly how to create your very own large family laundry system. You're not going to want to copy mine because your family needs are going to be different. But don't worry, I will let you see exactly what my system looks like.
I am going to to give you the tools you will need to get your laundry under control, keep it under control, and bring it back under control when life happens.
1. Assess Your Large Family Laundry Situation
Every one of my large family management systems starts with this first step. Before you can start drafting a new system for your home, you have to make an accurate assessment of your needs.
Do you know how many loads of laundry you must do in order to stay completely caught up?
If you do not know this number, it's time to figure it out. Now, in order to get this number, you have to be 100% caught up on laundry the day before. You need to start at ground zero.
So step 1 in assessing is to get 100% caught up.
Step 2 in assessing is for the next three days stay caught up, and keep track of how many loads you have to run each day to stay caught up.
Step 3 will be to figure your average loads per day. (add up all loads from the three days, and divide by 3).
Now you know how many loads you will need to do per day in order to stay caught up.
This number is going to vary for each family based on number of children, ages of children, size of your washing machine, extracurricular activies involving more laundry, etc.
The more older children you have, the more loads (because their clothes are larger and take up more space). If you have large capacity machines, you will have less loads.
My current number is only 1.5 loads per day. We just got a new large capacity washing machine two weeks ago, and it cut down my average loads from 2.5 to 1.5. At first, this sounds incredible (and it is wonderful to have to put less in the washing machine), but I am still folding the exact same amount per day, so I'm only saving myself maybe 5 minutes per day with the larger washing machine.
The other number you are going to need to know is how many minutes it takes you to fold the average load of clothes. This is simple enough.
Just time yourself three or four times while folding a load of clothes, and then take the average. It takes me four minutes to fold a load of clothes, two minutes to fold a load of bath towels, and my daughters fold the kitchen towels and washcloths for me.
Bottom line: know your numbers.
2. Plan Your Large Family Laundry System
Now that you know the average number of loads you must wash each day, you can start planning your large family laundry system. I'm going to show you how my laundry fits into my daily schedule, and that will help you start to see how you can work your own system.
After I have taken my morning shower, but before I put on my makeup and do my hair, I throw a load of clothes into the washing machine.
After breakfast, I go upstairs and put the clean load into the dryer and start the second and last load of the day (if I'm caught up, if I have extra loads I fit them in later).
I go back upstairs to turn the second load over while all of the children are occupied with schoolwork or playing (I ask an older child to keep an eyeball on the youngest children). While upstairs, I make sure to get the first load folded.
After lunch, I put the younger kids down for a nap, while I am upstairs, I fold the second load of laundry. The children put their own laundry away at bedtime.
So now it's time to plan your own large family laundry system. Start off by looking at the flow of your day. When do you have small pockets of time when you can step away for just a few minutes? When does it make the most sense in your day and schedule?
Get started with your first load as early in the day as you can. I always wait until I don't mind waking the children (this is why I wait until after my shower instead of right upon waking). I personally like to get finished with the actual washing as early as possible. This makes it so much easier to find pockets of time to get the folding done.
I very rarely spend more than 10 minutes at a time folding laundry. The only time this ends up happening is if I have had a very busy day, and if I'm behind.
If I'm behind on my laundry, then I have to fold more than two loads a day to catch up.
3. Implement Your Large Family Laundry System
Implementation is always the hardest part of any system. I don't know about you, but I can plan systems all day long. But when it comes time to actually follow-through…I get distracted.
I have found, for myself, that I would much rather do a little bit of laundry each day, than skip a day or two at a time, and then have to play catch-up. For me, two loads of laundry a day is totally doable. But four to six loads a day (what I have to do to catch up from taking 1-2 days off) feels downright depressing!
I used to take Sunday off from doing the laundry. I don't anymore, just because I hate playing catch up. For me, Mondays are hard enough without adding an additional 2-3 loads of laundry to the mix.
This is a personal choice though, do what works best in YOUR house!
Here's a few tips to help you streamline your process:
- When you fold clothes, sort them into each person's pile at the same time.
- Teach your children to put their OWN laundry away neatly.
- Insist that your children put their clothes in the hamper (these are my favorite because they don't break) so that you don't have to waste extra minutes gathering clothes.
- Teach your children to put the clothes in the hamper turned the right way (not inside-out).
- When your children are old enough, teach them to turn the laundry over. Sometimes its not convenient for mom to run upstairs and do it, but you can enlist help!
As I'm writing this, I'm realizing that a lot of the streamlining comes from teaching your children good habits…
I've created a laundry printable for you. This should help you out as you are figuring out your numbers. The printable will also help with finding small pockets of time throughout your day to fit in laundry tasks.
The bottom line here is this: Just because you have a large family doesn't mean you have to become a full-time laundress. This is a chore that can easily be fit into little pockets of time throughout your day. This just takes a little forethought and planning.
What about you? What are the ways that you streamline your laundry systems?


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The Golem (1920)
The Golem (1920)
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 7 p.m.
Silent film with live organ accompaniment by Dennis Scott.
Tickets: $10
A German silent horror film that is the prequel to the original 1915 film The Golem. In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
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Stoel Burrowes Spotlights The Letter Back Rocker Rocking Chair
Stoel Burrowes, the lead designer of the displayed design Stoel Burrowes's Letter Back Rocker Rocking Chair explains, The Letter Back Rocking Chair reorders the structural elements mixing traditional and contemporary in the manner of Windsor Chairs. The strip of red rubber on the sole continues functionally and poetically the dialog of new and old technologies. Sitting between new and old, rocking a heart beat into the future..
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Beth Branford
Beth Branford is a new associate at Sterling Law. She hails from Brentwood and is often not taken seriously because she's so attractive.
Her father is a big-time lawyer and Beth has a hard time living up to his expectations.
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A practical exhibition of sympathy. That's what my grandfather called the judge. It's on my resume.Beth
Half of what they do here is keep you off balance. That's how they gain control.Beth
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After traveling through some of the most popular tourist destinations of Southern India, I decided to hop off the train on a random city for a few days rest. When I finally got out of the beaten track, I witnessed a completely different India with unique flavours that… Nah, just kidding. There was nothing remarkable about my stay in the city of Surat.
"I need to get out of here", I thought as I looked at the traffic jams of Mumbai through the window. It was early morning and I had just woken up in my sleeper bus from Hampi to Mumbai. My body felt exhausted and I felt like I was getting sick soon. I needed to get some rest.
At some point, I was planning to stay in Mumbai for a few days. Now, as I followed the trail of our bus on my offline map on my smartphone, I started to comprehend the scale of the city. We were still in the far edges of the metropolis, but moving around in the traffic was extremely slow. If I had more time and energy, I could have stayed in the city for a longer period. Now, when I had neither of those, even the outskirts of the city felt too noisy and chaotic.
It was not only the megacity itself that made me think about getting out — I had overslept the moment when the bus went closest to the city center. When I finally realized what had happened, we were already over an hour of driving away from the inner city. I didn't want to spend that much time just to reach the area where I wanted to stay. Instead, I decided to get off at the last stop and take a train to some city further up in the north.
From plan B to no plan
I didn't have an internet access, but I had skimmed through some parts of my Lonely Planet India guide on the bus. After some thinking, I decided to go to the town of Valsad. Valsad is a small, historical town just a few hours train trip out from Mumbai – exactly what I wanted. There, I could relax from the cacophony of the cities and tourist sights and get my body back to full health.
That could have been a great plan. The only problem was that my train didn't stop in Valsad.
The train had not stopped in any of the small stations after Mumbai, so when I saw the signs of Valsad whirl by, I wasn't taken by surprise. Still, I felt like I wanted to stop somehwere soon. I had not eaten properly during the day, my throat was feeling a bit sore and my mind wasn't all there. I checked the map again to see what the next big city would be. Surat. There was nothing about Surat in the Lonely Planet guide, but that didn't matter. That's where I'd stop.
I got out at the station, went to the closest rickshaw driver and asked him to take to any hotel. The driver didn't speak English, so it took him some time to understand that I didn't have a reservation and any hotel would do. The man drove me for 500 meters to a nearby hotel. I was happy to see that the hotel had their fares printed on a paper, so wouldn't add any tourist extra to the tariff. I checked the room and I liked it, so I decided to stay.
Soon, I learnt that the Wi-Fi of the hotel was not working. Besides that, there wasn't a restaurant in the building, so I had to find other places to eat. I did some writing during my first day, but mostly I just sprawled on the bed, reading and counting hours until it would be late enough to go to sleep.
I wasn't feeling very tired, but when I finally fell asleep, I slept for nearly 11 hours.
Groundhog days
When I finally woke up, I noticed two things. First, I wasn't feeling all too bad. My nose was running and I was developing a minor flu, but I didn't have a fever. Second, the air in the room felt heavy and humid. The power in my non-air conditioned room had gone out at some point and the ceiling fan had stopped moving.
The electricity was eventually fixed, but the Wi-Fi was still off-limits for the rest of my stay. That's why I couldn't search information about the city online. Luckily, I had downloaded an offline map of the state on my smartphone, so I could look at the map and get the idea that there wasn't much to see nearby. The city would go on for miles in all directions and there weren't any sights marked nearby.
I didn't feel like exploring, so I limited my territory to the nearby streets. When I had to eat something, I'd walk to the extremely loud main road towards the train station and pick a restaurant. These visits were quite interesting in all their awkwardness. Usually, there were just a few other customers or none at all besides me, and I was definitely the only Western person around.
And because there were so few customers, I'd have the full attention of all the staff, all the time. Customer service is nice, but it gets kind of distracting when six to eight workers – including the manager, all the waitresses and some other sharp-dressed guys whose job description I never really understood – stare at you or constantly walk around your table and pretend not to stare.
Once, when I was waiting for my meal, the manager of one of the restaurants came to talk to me. He asked if I was in the city for business, and I told I was a tourist.
"I guess there aren't many tourists here now during the monsoon season", I said, attempting some casual smalltalk.
"There are no tourists here", the manager responded. And he wasn't just talking about the rain season.
Back to the beaten path
While I didn't see much, my short visit made me understand India better. Previously, I couldn't truly comprehend the massive amount of people living in the country. While I knew that India had over a billion residents, I still wanted to believe that only the most popular and famous cities are extremely crowded.
Well, I can't fool myself any longer. While Surat is not popular with tourists, the city center is not really different from all the other big cities of India. It is lively, crowded and a bit untidy. The mazes of alleys sprawl around and crossing the street as a pedestrian is as chaotic as it is in any other town. The only thing that were missing were the sights and landmarks that make the city stand out from the others.
Now, as I finish writing this, I've finally left Surat and I've been granted an internet access. Online, I find a little bit more information about Surat, previously known as Suryapur. The population of the city is 4,5 million, which makes it the 9th largest city in India. It is also one of the fastest growing cities in the world and world's most important hub for diamond cutting and polishing. The city has a long Wikipedia article, but the text never mentions anything about sights or tourism.
While I didn't really do anything in Surat, I don't regret my sidestep. I'm traveling for a long time now, and there's one big difference between vacations and vagabonding: when the trip gets longer, traveling becomes a permanent state. And when traveling is all you do, you don't want all your days to be jam-packed with thrills and action. There are always some mundane days in between, but those are usually left unmentioned in travel blogs and Instagram feeds.
While the life of a traveler is often like an endless loop of Saturdays, you still need some time off from the fuzz. If you don't listen to your body and you just rush around to see as much as possible, you'll quickly become exhausted. And even though Surat is not a popular tourist destination, I could have gotten more out of it had I spent time with the locals. Now, my only longer discussion happened after my last check-in when I waited at the hotel lobby and the hotel manager came to talk to me.
But still, I can understand why some destinations are usually left unvisited.
Have you ever ventured off the tourist trails? I'd love to hear other travelers' experiences. If you have a story to tell, please share it in the comments below!
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Trying to survive India is like playing snooker with a world champion. One little mistake, and they'll punish you so badly it becomes kinda entertaining! I wasn't feeling too well a few days ago, so I just wanted to quickly eat in a relaxed atmosphere before I'd go to sleep. Then I made the mistake of choosing a restaurant by the main street just as the rush hours of the evening began. And that was just the beginning. After a few minutes, a moving party platform appeared out of nowhere on the road and stopped right where I was eating. The music volume was set very high. And still, India wasn't finished just yet. After a few minutes, they also added loud explosions to the celebration. #Surat #Gujarat #India #visitindia #party #whatisamovingpartyplatform #traffic #noise #travel #travelvideo #travelstory #vagabonding #travelblogger #traveller #wanderlust #aroundtheworld


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An Artist Who Never Wanted to Be an 'Idol'
When someone told me J.D. Salinger had died, I jokingly asked, "How do they know?"
It was dark humor and a tad disrespectful. But I was trying to be complimentary. Salinger, who was even more passionate about his privacy than his writing, had managed, at age 91, to die a legend in both areas.
That's right, kids: This man actually tried NOT to be famous.
Salinger wrote one book that people talk about, one book above the handful of others he penned. It was called "The Catcher in the Rye." Chances are you read it sometime during your adolescence.
If you're in your 70s now, you might have read it on your own, as a rite of passage, a book that spoke to you of the angst and restlessness of youth.
If you're in your 30s, 40s or 50s, you likely read in high school, as an assignment.
If you're in your 20s or younger, you might have studied it in English class, or maybe downloaded it to see what all the fuss was about.
"Catcher in the Rye" spoke to a Cold War America about values, life and youthful identity. Its protagonist, Holden Caulfield, is a teenager expelled from prep school, and the book, told in his uniquely sad, caustic, sensitive voice, talks about dreams, "phony" people, distrusting adults, and one day wanting to build "a little cabin somewhere with the dough I made and live there for the rest of my life" away from "stupid conversation with anybody."
Which is exactly what J.D. Salinger did.
Keeping out of public view
Now, it's hard for the young to imagine a writer selling 60 million copies of a book and NOT wanting to do "The Catcher in the Rye, Part II" or "Catcher! The Video Game." But Salinger, who had been ambitious as a young man, quickly lost his taste for it. After a while, he ordered his photo removed from copies of his book. He told his agent to burn all his fan mail. He eventually moved to the woods of New Hampshire, on a 90-acre spread, and resisted all attempts to contact him. His life became one big "No Trespassing" sign.
Ironically, that only made him more legendary. Reporters tried and inevitably failed to get an interview. Publishers tried and inevitably failed to entice him to put out more books.
And hearing that he died this past week without ever giving in makes me admire him all the more. Salinger never swallowed this capitalize-on-your-fame command that Simon Cowell and YouTube have turned into an American birthright. He never even sold the movie rights to his most famous work. The more fuss people wanted to make, the less interested he was. The last written work to carry his name was in 1965. Then he stopped.
He was 56.
Writing but not publishing
Because of this, some people saw him as nuts, a kook, a whack job. I didn't. He never told anyone not to read his books. On the contrary. That's ALL he wanted them to do.
On the other hand, many of us now think if you sing a song nicely, there needs to be a reality show about your life. You tell me. Who's the crazy party?
Salinger once told a reporter he loved to write and continued to do it, but publishing was an invasion to him. "I write just for myself and my own pleasure," he said.
If so, he is a truer artist than most.
There's a line that Holden Caulfield says in the book. He says, "People always clap for the wrong things."
Salinger wanted people to clap for the right things, his stories, not his private life, his interviews or the movie version of his work. I admired him for that. And every time I see a Paris Hilton story or an "American Idol" audition, I admire him even more.


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Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women
Dhaval M. Dave, Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman
NBER Working Paper No. 14466
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The authors are grateful for valuable research assistance from Natasha Pilkauskas and Afshin Zilanawala; for helpful comments from Julie Hotchkiss, Robert Kaestner, and Sanders Korenman; and for helpful information on welfare policies vis-à-vis education from Julie Strawn and Elizabeth Lower-Basch, as well as Gilbert Crouse and Don Oellerich of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Creating Strong Clinical Practice and Induction:
Partnering with LAUSD, we initially set up three cohorted pilot clinical sites (Langdon, Monroe, and Sepulveda) and an induction program to support graduates recently in the field. Additionally, we have carried out clinical tasks at Northridge Academy High School, on our campus, and Chime Charter, which campus faculty helped to set up a decade ago. Professor Nancy Prosenjak is coordinating this effort.
With the help of SRI, we learned that site value depends mainly on the cohesion of peer candidates and peers with CSUN-LAUSD mentors who shape candidates' disposition and practical confidence with just-in-time counsel. We also have learned that we have to structure collaboration carefully to insure that candidate practice reinforces the preservice and candidancy curriculum.
While these shifts in attitude affect hireability, we also have not yet made a link with pupil learning. We have discovered gaps between CSUN approaches to lesson planning and district practice; faculty are bridging these in both preparation and induction courses. We also had to change the training of observers; they were not sensitive to candidates' ability to adapt teaching strategies to learners' needs.
Distilling these lessons from the pilot sites, we are now preparing to disseminate best practice across network of placement sites. We are studying twenty-two typical sites to learn more about school-univessity relations, as well as candidate and new teacher support. When we link these inferences with data about pupil learning, we should have an inventory of effective clinical practice
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By MATTHEW KENWRIGHT
Approximately 60 people attended the Big First Tea Party's meeting Tuesday at Thirsty's Brew Pub & Grill to meet the primary challenger to U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.
Dr. Milton Wolf, a diagnostic radiologist from the Kansas City area, shared his support for the Constitution, pro-life movement, Second Amendment and privatized health care.
The evening began with a contentious exchange between Wolf and Roger Ewing, the tea party member who organized the candidate forum.
Ewing said Wolf's campaign announcement speech revealed he did not support Medicare, but Wolf said the claim was false. The speech could not be played at the meeting because of technical issues.
Ewing said he only was trying to state the facts.
The video can be found online. Wolf criticized President George W. Bush-era Republicans for increasing the national debt, and he mentioned Medicare.
"It was our party that gave the largest expansion to Medicare in the history of the program," he said in the speech after the 10-minute mark.
During his candidate forum, Wolf repeated the line and clarified his stance on the program. He also said the government needs to keep its promises for the future of the program.
"I have never, never, never said I oppose Medicare," he said.
Wolf said Republicans have strayed from their values.
"Our party has not been loyal to its own principles," he said. "Our party was supposed to be the party that stood up for the Constitution. Our party was supposed to stand for less government, less taxes, less spending. And our party failed."
The doctor advocated for repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with his Patient Care plan. The system would allow people to choose their own plans, change jobs and carry the coverage and keep it as long as they paid.
Running for office was not his first choice.
"I'm a doctor, I practice medicine, and I really don't want a career in politics. But our country is in so much trouble right now," he said.
Wolf promised only to serve two terms if elected and continue to practice medicine.
The candidate criticized Roberts for reports the senator does not maintain a residence in Kansas.
"He didn't have a home in Kansas until I ran for office in October of last year," Wolf said. "He now rents a room at a donor's house on a golf course. Now, the donor can't remember the last time he was there."
Wolf scrutinized Roberts' votes to raise the debt ceiling 11 times and confirm U.S. Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius.
"Whether he has a residence in a rented room in Kansas or whether he lives in Virginia, he's not voting like a Kansan," Wolf said. "He's certainly not voting like a conservative."
The doctor advocated for closing the Internal Revenue Service and using the FairTax. Wolf also opposes Common Core and the U.S. Department of Education.
Ewing said it was easy for Wolf to criticize an incumbent.
"I would say typical speech. Somebody who is running against somebody who had the record, and he has no record to defend," Ewing said. "He said everything that people wanted to hear."
A poll during the forum showed Wolf unanimously beating Roberts if the primary election was Tuesday.
Roberts is expected to attend a Big First Tea Party meeting this spring.