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Paul Holmes 17 Apr 2001 // 11:00PM GMT
The Public Awareness and Education Campaign of the Oregon Health Division's Tobacco Prevention and Education Program has achieved remarkable recall and bonus weight but, most importantly, has helped reduce tobacco use among adults by 21 percent, among 11th graders by 21 percent and among 8th graders by 41 percent over three years. All of this with a budget that is small compared with other states that state funded tobacco use prevention programs. As the lead agency for the Public Awareness and Education Campaign, Pac/West Communications combined forces with Asher/Gal and Rogers and Associates to form the Oregon Tobacco Prevention Alliance. The Alliance is responsible for all public relations and paid media aspects of Oregon's tobacco use reduction program. The program kicked off in March 1998, achieving remarkable statewide earned media coverage for the newly released television, radio, print and outdoor elements of the paid media program. Since that time the program has achieved excellent earned media coverage and the incredible life saving results keep getting better.
The challenges associated with this social marketing effort are significant. The behavior we are trying to change is rooted in addiction. Promotions by the tobacco industry make the problems much more difficult since pro-smoking messages are constant. With a relatively modest budget of only $2 million per year, the public relations and paid advertising component of Oregon's $8.5 million anti-tobacco campaign had a large load to carry. To begin with, Oregon had too little money to even think about producing its own creative. Pressure to address only youth resulted from the attorneys general Master Settlement Agreement with the stated goal to protect kids from tobacco.
But the literature was fairly clear that programs focusing solely on youth fail. Together, OHD and Pac/West Communications argued for and kept the program targeting both adults and youth. We chose ads that appealed to both youth and adults, that made people stop and think and that provided new information. The success of the program in reducing both youth and adult tobacco use as well as the passing of multiple local ordinances demonstrates how broad targeting works to achieve results. The most important component of Oregon's program is to pass local ordinances protecting people from secondhand smoke and reducing the ease with which youth obtain tobacco products While there was wide public knowledge of the effects of tobacco, we needed to emotionalize and denormalize tobacco use so Oregonians would become eager to take action. Until 1998 only two local tobacco ordinances had been passed in Oregon.
Since the start of our program 15 more cities and counties have adopted local anti-tobacco ordinances. OHD considers this an outstanding success. Over and over we hear that the television, billboard, radio ads and our public relations efforts helped set the stage for these important policy changes.
Some national research was conducted prior to the Oregon kick off. It mirrors the research conducted in Oregon. We conducted three sets of focus groups, one in fall 1997 and one in spring 1998 and one in spring 1999. Our findings: Teens know the general effects of tobacco, but have little emotion attached to it. Adults showed much more specific knowledge of the risks of smoking and have some emotional attachment to it. Parents want help to prevent their kids from smoking. Kids find many anti-tobacco spots to be incongruous with entertainment programming. They think anti-tobacco spots should be shown with the other PSA's on late night television. The teens frequently spoke of stress in their lives and the desire to "fast forward their lives" right into adulthood where they will encounter less anxiety.
With regard to advertisements, those spots selected by parents and teens as the strongest, focused on the deadly impact smoking has directly on the smoker. The spots all featured real people suffering as a direct result of using tobacco.
Prior to submitting a proposal, the Alliance, led by Pac/West Communications, reviewed the literature related to social marketing and tobacco reduction programs and also carefully investigated the experience of California's anti-tobacco social marketing program. The strategic approach suggested by the Alliance included media messages emphasizing the dangers of secondhand smoke combined with messages about the dangers of addiction and the need for cessation. Woven throughout these approaches would be moderate but discernable anti-industry messages.
This approach showed excellent results in other states and in reviews published in scientific literature. Extensive focus group research conducted in 1998 and 1999 demonstrated that Oregonians did not appreciate humor in anti-tobacco advertisements and they responded exceedingly well to personal, emotional stories of loss due to tobacco use. From the public relations perspective, our efforts were focused on developing messages to be delivered by representatives of the program, keeping them on message through media training, teaching them how to work with the press, and ensuring that available stories received widest possible coverage.
A combined paid and earned media kick off in March 1998 resulted in extensive coverage of the program given Oregon's limited number of media outlets.
Four months after the campaign kick-off half of adults and teens could recall seeing an anti-tobacco advertisement. Aided, 85% of teens and adults recalled one or more of the anti-tobacco advertisements. This was an outstanding result given any budget, especially remarkable considering our modest budget. It was obvious the ads and the public relations outreach hit the nerves of Oregonians.
Since the kick off, Pac/West Communications and the Alliance have provided untold hours of local and statewide coverage of issues as well as new media kick offs. In addition to our March 1998 event we are particularly proud of our work on two other news events. In January of 1999 we held a news conference featuring new paid media connecting smoking and impotence. The other held in October 2000 featured the successes of Oregon's acclaimed tobacco prevention program. Both resulted in front page news coverage in many newspapers including the Oregonian, the only statewide newspaper. In addition, both news conferences received top of the news treatment on radio and television.
Of course we didn't just do news conferences to fulfill the public relations aspects of the program. We also did more than 10 radio promotions, we instituted a high school journalism outreach project, we produced print ads for community coalitions, we built and promoted the World's Largest Ashtray for World No Tobacco Day in 1999, we promoted the Oregon Tobacco Quit Line which received more than 20,000 calls, we produced the first biannual report of the program, we consult daily with the county-based coalitions who need help with public relations outreach, we publish a monthly newsletter and provide many other services and products to the program.


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Hey, the Bucs started off with a couple of well-placed hits and a couple of more small-ball basics, and jumped off to a quick 2-0 lead.
Jose Tabata dropped a humped-back liner just inside the right field line, a step away from the outfielder, to double. Neil Walker legged out a ball up the middle snagged by Jimmy Rollins, but his 360 spin-a-rama throw missed getting The Pittsburgh Kid by a toe, putting runners on the corners with no one away.
Andrew McCutchen popped out - here we go again - but a soft roller to the right side by Garrett Jones scored Tabata and moved Walker to second. He came in when Pedro roped a 3-2 pitch into right, and Walker's hard slide just beat a strong throw home.
The Phils proved that they could play some small ball, too, when Ben Francisco led off with a double and came in on a pair of ground outs.
Jeff Karstens, who had been working behind in the count over the first two innings, had the roof cave in on him during the third. For the third time, the leadoff hitter reached; this time pitcher Joe Blanton, who dropped a soft pop into right.
After a fly out, Shane Victorino lined a double into right, and Raul Ibanez lasered a following single. Ryan Howard bombed a sac fly. It looked like he would escape giving up a pair, but Francisco's bouncer up the line didn't stick in Pedro's mitt; it went for an infield single.
Greg Dobbs crushed one high off the Clemente Wall, and it was 4-2 when the smoke cleared.
The eight hitter led off the fourth with a single, but a 1-6-3 DP on a weak bunt foiled the Phils in that frame. Karstens settled down after that, and cruised through a 1-2-3 fifth and sixth, sweating out a River Walk shot by Dobbs that was inches foul.
The Pirates, in the meantime, hadn't had a hit since the opening frame.
Karstens' luck ran out in the seventh, when Dane Sardinha, batting ahead of the pitcher, cranked a 3-1 fastball into the first row in left field. Karstens did a good job keeping the Pirates hanging around; his command was off all day; he was behind in the count and high in the strike zone.
He left with a line of six innings, five runs, nine hits, and two K's.
The Pirates found their mojo in the seventh, when Pedro led off with his second homer. Ryan Doumit rolled a single into right, and Ryan Church doubled into right; second and third, no outs.
Ronny Cedeno froze on a 3-2 pitch and was called out; he disagreed, but the pitch looked good, at least good enough to spoil. That brought on Jose Contreras.
No problem with the out or pitching change; Delwyn Young picked up Cedeno with a two strike dink double to left, chipping a pitch low and away to the opposite field, giving the Bucs a 6-5 lead.
Tabata smacked a ball through the hole and off Rollins' glove to plate Young, and stole second. Walker drew a base on balls, and a McCutch dribbler advanced them. The Phils brought on young LOOGY Mike Zagurski, and Jones greeted him by banging the first pitch into center, scoring both runners, and putting Pittsburgh ahead 8-5.
Joel Hanrahan threw a clean eighth, and Octavio Dotel gave the 28,698 fans - the Pittsburgh ones, anyway - a grand flourish by striking out the last hitter. For Dotel, it was his nineteenth save, and the win went to All-Star Meek, his fourth.
Pretty good day for Evan, hey? At noon, you're an All-Star, and at 4PM, you have a win.
The Bucs are off tomorrow, and then play three at Houston and three more at Milwaukee before the All-Star break.
-- Evan Meek was selected by Phillies manager Charlie Manuel to represent the Bucs in the All-Star game, and he was a great choice with Andrew McCutchen slumping of late. McCutch surprisingly didn't even make the vote-off for the final spot.
Meek is one of 13 pitchers Manuel selected for his NL team, and five are relievers. He becomes the third guy on the current roster to wear an All-Star cap; Zach Duke and Brendan Donnelly are the other two.
-- The last ten Pirate homers have been solo shots; the last one with a runner aboard was on June 8th, by Delwyn Young against Stephen Strasburg. The opponents have the same problem; 7 of the last 8 dingers given up by Pirate pitching have been with the bases empty.
-- BTW, did you ever wonder why Perry Hill left? Ponder the workload of Carlos Garcia - showing Neil Walker how to play second, teaching Andy LaRoche the intricacies of middle infield, working with Pedro, who plays like Richie Hebner with an arm, trying to keep Ronny Cedeno's head in the game, making time for Bobby Crosby and all his infield spots, the continuing education of Delwyn Young, and Jeff Clement getting his crash course before being sent down...just sayin'.
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Greetings from the intertubes, fellow cyber-adventurers!
OK, yes, technically I'm *always* greeting you from the intertubes, this is a blog after all, but today we're going to delve into a different area of the vast Web that the Internet Gods cast over the Earth. Yes, today we're going to look at a few of this rogue's favourite YouTube channels! Some of them are specifically beauty-based, and some aren't. In all cases I love the channel itself, and the video I've chosen to link in this post is just a personal favourite (so it might be a little older…or it might not!). I've been meaning to do this for a while actually, and while you may be familiar with some of the channels I'm listing here, I hope you find something new to love!
First up! A favourite of many , we have the incomparable Lisa Eldridge. She's just so impossibly nice and beautiful and talented, it's enough to make you sick. But in a good way! Her advice and philosophy on makeup and beauty has shaped much of my own, and although she hasn't lived here for a long time, I'm totally claiming her for New Zealand! She also has a lovely blog that you can visit here, and you can find the links to her tweety and instagrammy goodness there too. This video is just a personal favourite, but I love basically everything this woman touches, so all her other videos come highly recommended!
Next up we have the stupendous Anna Akana. This girl has it all, really – she's gorgeous, she's smart, she's funny, and she seems to have enough energy to fuel three suns, which I find both impressive and enviable! There's much to love on Anna's channel, and I think the video I'm linking here might be the only specifically beauty related one – I strongly suggest you check out her awesome web series, Riley Rewind. Because seriously, there's nothing this girl can't do.
No video roundup would be complete without mentioning the girl who first got me into both Urban Decay and creative eyeshadow in general! Shannon Harris (channel: shaaanxo) is gorgeous, adorably goofy and sweetly down to earth. She blends eyeshadow and applies eyeliner in ways that I still envy wildly, and she's a good Kiwi girl to boot! I have much love for Shannon, and this video (although quite old) remains a favourite that I turn to if I need a giggle!
Speaking of eyeshadow skills and envy, I need to make some serious space here for the glory that is Klaire de Lys. I'm not sure I can actually really articulate in words how awesome her makeup artistry (for artistry it be!) actually is. The easiest way is to watch this video, which I selected almost at random from the pool of awesomeness that is her channel, and then watch all her other videos. The woman paints her own backgrounds and makes her own accessories for the videos. Seriously. Gah! Her blog is here.
For those who are waiting for a dose of geekery amongst all this makeup: I have a list of channels whose regular gaming and Let's Play series I watch in my 'Adventure Board' page above, but I'll pull out a favourite here and add a new channel to the mix!
If there happen to be any German speakers amongst my usual readership, and you're into games at all, you probably already know this name. I'm talking, of course, about Gronkh (his real name is Erik, I think). Gronkh is (as far as I know) the pre-eminent German Youtube Let's Player, and is singlehandedly responsible for almost all of my thesis writing. His content is great anyway, but somehow, some series make a really excellent background to writing for me. Why? Who knows (die Wissenschaftler streiten noch). Anyway, the video I've put in here is the first in a series that ended recently, and one that I particularly enjoyed. This particular game is entirely in English, by the way, and well worth looking into! If you can stand a bit of strong language, anyway 😉
Anybody out there play MTG? If you do, you probably already know this channel. If not, going and watching one of Evan Erwin's videos on the mrorangeguy channel will be an eye opening experience, a window into another world! I've recently been watching the set review for Magic 2015, but there's plenty more awesome content here besides, for Magic: the Gathering fans and anyone who's always wondered what that whole card game thing was about anyway. Geek out! 😉
What do you think, fellow cyber-adventurers? What are your favourite YouTube channels? Do you have any non-beauty related chnnels you're keen on? Did you get into makeup because of magical things you saw on the intertubes?
Until next time, fellow adventurers, don't forget to check for traps!
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I have gotten asked, "Why isn't this book called 'Pressed Past the Past'? Isn't 'pressing' wrong?"
No. I meant what I called it.
When I prayed for the title, this popped in my head. But the more I worked on the manuscript -even with the editor – the title began to make more sense. See, 'press' is the present tense of an action. As you read the story, Yolanda and Kennedy are taking you through their current struggle.They are currently wrestling with unresolved issues of the past – thus they are pressing. If they had already conquered the problems of their yesterdays, I would have called it "Pressed Past the Past".
But I didn't want to tell you a story that was complete. Take the journey with them as Galatians 6:7 becomes their reality.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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11.3 Past Sea Level Changes
11.3.1 Global Average Sea Level over the Last 6,000 Years
The geological evidence for the past 10,000 to 20,000 years indicates that major temporal and spatial variation occurs in relative sea level change (e.g., Pirazzoli, 1991) on time-scales of the order of a few thousand years (Figure 11.5). The change observed at locations near the former centres of glaciation is primarily the result of the glacio-isostatic effect, whereas the change observed at tectonically stable localities far from the former ice sheets approximate the global average sea level change (for geologically recent times this is primarily eustatic change relating to changes in land-based ice volume). Glacio-hydro-isostatic effects (the Earth's response to the past changes in ice and water loads) remain important and result in a spatial variability in sea level over the past 6,000 years for localities far from the former ice margins. Analysis of data from such sites indicate that the ocean volume may have increased to add 2.5 to 3.5 m to global average sea level over the past 6,000 years (e.g., Fleming et al., 1998), with a decreasing contribution in the last few thousand years. If this occurred uniformly over the past 6,000 years it would raise sea level by 0.4 to 0.6 mm/year. However, a few high resolution sea level records from the French Mediterranean coast indicate that much of this increase occurred between about 6,000 and 3,000 years ago and that the rate over the past 3,000 years was only about 0.1 to 0.2 mm/yr (Lambeck and Bard, 2000). These inferences do not constrain the source of the added water but likely sources are the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets with possible contributions from glaciers and thermal expansion.
In these analyses of Late Holocene observations, the relative sea level change is attributed to both a contribution from any change in ocean volume and a contribution from the glacio-hydro-isostatic effect, where the former is a function of time only and the latter is a function of both time and position. It is possible to use the record of sea level changes to estimate parameters for a model of isostatic rebound. In doing this, the spatial variability of sea level change determines the mantle rheology, whereas the time dependence determines any correction that may be required to the assumed history of volume change. Solutions from different geographic regions may lead to variations in the rheology due to lateral variations in mantle temperature, for example, but the eustatic term should be the same, within observational and model uncertainties, in each case (Nakada and Lambeck, 1988). If it is assumed that no eustatic change has occurred in the past 6,000 years or so, but in fact eustatic change actually has occurred, the solution for Earth-model parameters will require a somewhat stiffer mantle than a solution in which eustatic change is included. The two solutions may, however, be equally satisfactory for interpolating between observations. For example, both approaches lead to mid-Holocene highstands at island and continental margin sites far from the former ice sheets of amplitudes 1 to 3 m. The occurrence of such sea level maxima places a upper limit on the magnitude of glacial melt in recent millennia (e.g., Peltier, 2000), but it would be inconsistent to combine estimates of ongoing glacial melt with results of calculations of isostatic rebound in which the rheological parameters have been inferred assuming there is no ongoing melt.
The geological indicators of past sea level are usually not sufficiently precise to enable fluctuations of sub-metre amplitude to be observed. In some circumstances high quality records do exist. These are from tectonically stable areas where the tidal range is small and has remained little changed through time, where no barriers or other shoreline features formed to change the local conditions, and where there are biological indicators that bear a precise and consistent relationship to sea level. Such areas include the micro-atoll coral formations of Queensland, Australia (Chappell, 1982; Woodroffe and McLean, 1990); the coralline algae and gastropod vermetid data of the Mediterranean (Laborel et al., 1994; Morhange et al., 1996), and the fresh-to-marine transitions in the Baltic Sea (Eronen et al., 1995; Hyvarinen, 1999). These results all indicate that for the past 3,000 to 5,000 years oscillations in global sea level on time-scales of 100 to 1,000 years are unlikely to have exceeded 0.3 to 0.5 m. Archaeological evidence for this interval places similar constraints on sea level oscillations (Flemming and Webb, 1986). Some detailed local studies have indicated that fluctuations of the order of 1 m can occur (e.g., Van de Plassche et al., 1998) but no globally consistent pattern has yet emerged, suggesting that these may be local rather than global variations.
Estimates of current ice sheet mass balance (Section 188.8.131.52) have improved since the SAR. However, these results indicate only that the ice sheets are not far from balance. Earth rotational constraints (Section 126.96.36.199) and ice sheet altimetry (Section 220.127.116.11) offer the prospect of resolving the ice sheet mass balance in the future, but at present the most accurate estimates of the long-term imbalance (period of several hundred years) follows from the comparison of the geological sea level data with the ice sheet modelling results (Section 126.96.36.199). The above geological estimates of the recent sea level rates may include a component from thermal expansion and glacier mass changes which, from the long-term temperature record in Chapter 2 (Section 2.3.2), could contribute to a sea level lowering by as much as 0.1 mm/yr. These results suggest that the combined long-term ice sheet imbalance lies within the range 0.1 to 0.3 mm/yr. Results from ice sheet models for the last 500 years indicate an ongoing adjustment to the glacial-interglacial transition of Greenland and Antarctica together of 0.0 to 0.5 mm/yr. These ranges are consistent. We therefore take the ongoing contribution of the ice sheets to sea level rise in the 20th and 21st centuries in response to earlier climate change as 0.0 to 0.5 mm/yr. This is additional to the effect of 20th century and future climate change.
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|Cerebral vasospasm in conditions other than subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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|PMID: 2136145 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Intracranial arterial spasm is an arteriographically evident narrowing of the lumen of one or more of the major intracranial arteries at the base of the brain that develops in some patients 1 or more days after the rupture of an intracranial aneurysm. If it is severe enough, such cerebral vasospasm may be accompanied by cerebral ischemia or infarction. Because of its usual setting, cerebral vasospasm is thought to arise from some chemical factor or factors in the blood that accumulates within the basal subarachnoid cisterns and bathes the arteries that subsequently develop spasm. There seem to be exceptions to this basic plan, however. In patients with a ruptured aneurysm, only some of the arteries bathed in subarachnoid blood develop spasm. Of more significance, some patients develop intracranial arterial spasm without apparent subarachnoid bleeding. Until the development of CT scanning, the evidence for the lack of subarachnoid hemorrhage in such patients was weak. We now have the ability to assess cerebral vasospasm repetitively in a noninvasive manner with TCD ultrasonography and to quantitate subarachnoid hemorrhage by CT scanning. We should take advantage of this opportunity to document cases that are exceptions to the rule. Does hypothalamic damage explain such cases, or is there some other explanation? This question may be the key for unlocking the mysteries of the pathogenesis of cerebral vasospasm.
|R H Wilkins
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|Title: Neurosurgery clinics of North America Volume: 1 ISSN: 1042-3680 ISO Abbreviation: Neurosurg. Clin. N. Am. Publication Date: 1990 Apr
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|Created Date: 1992-08-19 Completed Date: 1992-08-19 Revised Date: 2005-11-16
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|Division of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
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Cerebral Angiography
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Intracranial Aneurysm / surgery
Ischemic Attack, Transient / diagnosis, etiology*
Postoperative Complications / diagnosis, etiology
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Welcome to the blog of Stuart Pritchard, serial writer, editor, adventurer, killer. Fortunately, only proof of the first three actually exists.
From this point on this small corner of the wretched hive of scum and villainy we know as the internet will be filled with past examples of my work, my thoughts and my desperate attempts to encourage people to commisson me to write for them, asking only a sack of cash in return.
I've been a journalist since I can remember, thanks to a recent head injury, but in my time I have also been a Bingo Caller, HMV assistant, regular Police Line-up stand-in, and paperboy.
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CENTRAL WEST, NSW, Australia - A fatal truck crash took place on Saturday morning in the state's Central West.
The crash occurred around 4:40am on Saturday morning on the Mid Western Highway, about 20km west of West Wyalong.
Emergency services were called to the scene after a semi-trailer left the highway and struck a guard rail, before crashing into a dry creek bed.
The driver, a man aged 43 was killed instantly.
Police are investigating the crash and will prepare a report for the Coroner.
It was the second fatal crash to occur on New South Wales roads in the space of three days
On Wednesday a car and a truck collided on the Great Western Highway at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains, causing the highway to be closed in both directions for several hours.
That collision occurred just after 2:00am Wednesday near Pritchard Street, Wentworth Falls. The driver of the car, the only occupant, was killed in the crash. The truck driver was uninjured but was taken to hospital for mandatory testing.


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When Kevin Bacon signed on last month to play a serial killer in the new Fox pilot from The Vampire Diaries producer Kevin Williamson, there was a catch: Bacon would only commit to star in 15 episodes a year. Eager to make Bacon sizzle in primetime, the network agreed.
Fox execs view the Bacon drama, should it go to series, as an opportunity to start airing more cable-like short-order TV series. ABC struck a similar deal this past year with Missing star Ashley Judd in order to accommodate her schedule. Only ten episodes of Missing were shot this year, and even in success, that number will never be more than 13.
Short 13-episode (or less) orders are the norm in cable, allowing networks to attract A-list stars like Glenn Close (Damages) and Dustin Hoffman (Luck). Both stars like the flexibility of having time to shoot movies, and neither would have agreed to a full 22-episode TV season.
In the early days of network TV, shows aired as many as 39 episodes a season. That number was eventually reduced to 22 episodes, which allowed enough repeats for networks to make a nice return on their programming investment. Those 22 episodes a year also allowed studios to reach syndication by roughly the fourth year of a show, when they were in spitting distance of 100 episodes.
But these days, the Big Four see an opportunity to finally start experimenting with different ways of how they present series (particularly serialized drama). Where a short-order season once was a money-losing proposition for a studio, money from international and digital rights can sometimes now justify such a move.
Plus, as the business changes, repeats (particularly of serialized shows) have become so low-rated that they come with more negatives than positives. Plus, serialized shows are rarely big syndication draws — so that race to get 100 episodes as fast as possible is no longer critical. Plus, viewers have shown that they're more likely to stick with a serialized show if it's presented in a digestible, shorter string of episodes. Produce fewer episodes, and it's more likely you can air them consecutively without a break for repeats.
The networks have toyed with short orders in the summer, particularly with international co-productions like Rookie Blue. ABC also experimented this season with The River, which was picked up for just eight episodes, while Terra Nova, due to its time-consuming special effects, was given just a 13-episode first season. Had Fox renewed Terra Nova, the second season would have likely been 13 episodes as well.
For some producers, who have long been frustrated with the idea of having to come up with 22 ideas a year (which often include a few clunkers) rather than 13 really good ones, the move is welcome. "Certainly there's more pressure doing 22 episodes," says A Gifted Man executive producer Neal Baer. "The train leaves in July and never stops 'til the end of April or mid-May. Once, I did 25 episodes of Law & Order: SVU on one year by tandeming — doing two shows at once, three times that season! It makes me tired to think about it."
Execs and producers have also argued that it's unfair to pit cable's 13-episode seasons against broadcast's 22-episode seasons at the Emmys. According to the argument, a short-order season will naturally have fewer bad episodes and a sharper episode. But Baer says he thinks it's not the shorter orders that voters are drawn to, but the fact that those cable shows are more serialized and character-driven.
Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof has been a big proponent of decreasing episodic orders, and managed to secure that for Lost's final three years.
"To any broadcast network willing to reduce an episodic order I say simply, 'Bravo!'" Lindelof exults. "I do wish that the [networks] would make these decisions based on the show itself — not just to lure top talent — as some series would benefit significantly by having less episodes. But this is certainly a hell of a start."


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Born and raised in Evanston, Illinois and currently based in Brooklyn, New York Leslie Stein is a regular Vice contributor and probably best known for Eye of the Majestic Creature and Bright-Eyes At Midnight (2015). Her latest, released today from Drawn & Quarterly, is a beautiful collection of diary comics filled with loose abstract lines and lovely watercolour. As the title suggests, Present offers both a meditation on moments here and now as well as memories and reflections bestowed to us through Stein's clear gift for drawing and storytelling.
Whether closing up the bar at night, ruminating about exes or trying to enjoy a quiet dinner alone, Stein's curiosity and sensitivity are consistent throughout. As is her generosity, which is perhaps most evident in the introduction to Present where she speaks openly about overcoming the challenges of drawing by learning to treat her work like a gift.
We were lucky enough to ask Stein some questions about her process, the best present she's ever given someone and her advice for other creatives. Check out our full interview and more images from the book below!
Booooooom: You share a lot about yourself and your life in your work but could you tell us a bit about your daily routine? When it comes to your artwork do you have a set schedule or is it more sporadic/dependent on when inspiration hits?
Leslie Stein: I try to draw about 5 hours a day on my drawing days. Usually I try to exercise first in order to get settled, but it doesn't really matter what time of the day I draw. I could start at noon and end at 5 or 6… or start at 6 and end at midnight.
I don't really sketch all that much, but I always have a notebook to write comics and ideas for comics when they hit me out of the blue.
Booooooom: You've drawn comics in a more traditional style in the past (ex: Eye of the Majestic Creature). How did the minimalist elements of your style emerge? Was there an exact moment when you felt like you'd developed a style that was distinctly yours?
Leslie Stein: I just kinda freaked out and started drawing these weird deconstructed comics as a sort of exercise back in 2014… I drew one page for a year, and so gradually over that time a more regulated style developed. The best of this work is collected in a Book called Bright Eyed at Midnight, which is a predecessor to Present.
Booooooom: The cut-out design of the cover is so lovely and inviting–almost like a children's book. How did that come about and was there a specific intention behind it?
Leslie Stein: Thanks! I worked on the design with Tracy Hurren, my editor at Drawn and Quarterly. She had the idea for the die-cuts on the cover, and we worked collaboratively from there… Shifting around the different abstract elements on the cover digitally. It was fun and stressful, since I was okaying a lot of it from my tablet at work where I bartend. We never really talked about why other than that she knows that I really like circles. We were just trying to make the best little object we could. She deserves most of the credit!
Booooooom: In the introduction to Present you reveal fun ways of tricking yourself into enjoying things you hate. Like cleaning your room as if you're a game show contestant being cheered on by an audience. Do you have ones for going to the gym or getting out of bed in the morning?
Leslie Stein: Haha, I had a very hard time getting out of bed this morning. I should try to think of one for that. I had a boyfriend once who set his coffee maker on a timer so he woke up to a hot pot everyday. That seemed like a nice reward.
Booooooom: On a serious note, the honestly with which you mention the real (and often disheartening) work that goes into what you do is so refreshing. And the idea of learning to treat it like the production or offering of a gift really resonated with me. Why do you think that shift in mindset has been so critical for you? Is it related to the pressures we place on ourselves or that others place on us?
Leslie Stein: For me, it's mostly myself… but it's probably both. I think not having much support for what I was doing for years affected me, like, 'well, now I gotta be REALLY good at this thing that no one respects or expects me to succeed at.' I think being self-critical is essential for any type of growth, but only to a point. You can't let it get in your way, sometimes you just need to let go.
Booooooom: Aside from your art and wisdom, what is the best gift you ever given someone?
Leslie Stein: Aw, that's a nice question. I got a whole group of people to pitch in for my friends birthday present the year he turned 40. I wanted to get him an acoustic guitar, and asked people to give whatever they felt comfortable with and I'd find the best one I could depending on what we raised. I was able to get him a Martin which is a very expensive guitar. When he opened it at the surprise party he shed one single tear. I hope when he plays it he remembers how many people care about him.
Booooooom: What is the best gift you've ever received?
Leslie Stein: When I really feel listened to. That's the best. Also, I love getting drawings from people who say they "can't draw", which I don't buy! They are usually so sweet and weird and charming. Also, I would not be sad if I got a guitar for my 40th birthday. I wouldn't turn it down.
Booooooom: Even though your comics are autobiographical, I assume not everything is up for grabs. Do you ever create a comic and decide to keep it private?
Leslie Stein: Not really, I think through my comics quite a lot before settling on dialogue and imagery and pacing and where that particular comic will land up. There are things I don't get into on purpose, because I don't want to, and it's my art and I'm the boss of it. I want to be mostly feeling uplifted while I'm making it.
Booooooom: I think I noticed a little Mooncop reference. What have you been reading lately? Anything you'd like to recommend?
Leslie Stein: Yep! Tom Gauld. The Last Novel by David Markson, A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin, The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock.
Booooooom: Many of our readers are artists and creatives too. Do you have any advice for those just starting out or struggling to stay motivated?
Leslie Stein: Eat sweet potatoes! They release fiber and nutrients slowly so you can work long hours without being unhealthy. And tons of vitamin A for your eye health.


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My mother would like to know what this is, and I have no idea:
Location: shady yard, Iowa. She didn't plant it deliberately but would like more of them. Anybody recognize it?
UPDATE: Thanks.
By the way: Mom acknowledges that it maybe isn't the healthiest larkspur in the world, but considering that she's done nothing to care for it (she never even planted it there in the first place), she figures it's doing pretty well for itself.


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The Pearland Police Department was founded in April 1960 by a vote of the newly-formed Pearland City Council. With its founding, the newly appointed Chief of Police R. V. Johnson became the first paid employee of the City Pearland. In addition to the Chief, two police officers were hired to police the two square miles and 1,467 residents of the City of Pearland.
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feminism was a comparatively new arrival in Australia and many women in the Women's
Liberation Movement were not radical feminists – they were just women liberationists.
But radical feminist ideology quickly became dominant. At the same time, the movement
moved away from directly political activity. The idea of self help projects – halfway
houses, rape crisis centres and so on – inspired many women who wanted to get down
to the nitty gritty of helping those poor women out there.
the ALP re-elected (for presumably 3 years) in May 1974, and then IWY in 1975,
government grants helped realise many feminist dreams. Projects of all sorts nourished:
novels, non-sexist children's school books, historical research, women's refuges
and health centres. Nobody was too worried about theory when things seemed to be
working out so well in practice.
November 11, 1975 and the world would never look the same again. For the first
time, many women's liberationists realised that the political situation had to
be dealt with, and the WLM couldn't do it on its own.
The political scene darkened during 1976. IWY was over and many grants
dried up. Fraser made cuts in many areas affecting women and the women's movement.
At the same time problems began to surface in the halfway houses and health centres.
Rosters broke down, personal conflicts broke up collective projects, and government
funding was questioned.
the WLM has entered a slump. And although there has been some re-evaluation, the
tragedy has been the continued dominance of radical feminism.
glance at Women's Liberation publications over the past year shows how widespread
is the malaise. Vashti's Voice thinks that «the WLM has arrived at an impasse in
activity and interest» and that «there has been a drought period this year in political
discussion and thinking around directions for the WLM». Anne Summers, a Sydney
WL activist, comments after looking at the state of the movement around Australia,
that «many activists are disillusioned and self critical.»
problem is not lack of activity in itself. For those who want it, there is endless
activity in staffing 24 women's refuges. 3 working women's centres, 5 rape crisis
centres and at least 6 women's health centres around the country. Quite aside
from at least 14 newspapers and magazines, and many other projects.
activists seem to think that where these projects fall down is on politicisation.
Women use services, but don't understand the ideas behind a rape crisis centre or
a women's refuge. For instance, in the Melbourne Women's Centre, «there were women
seeking abortions and crisis accommodation, but there wasn't one call to find out
what WL is on about … We are not winning women on politics.»
general feeling is that the WLM has been co-opted by concentrating on reforms and
yet no one wants to admit that those who criticised self-help strategies when
they were first starting off were right. Radical feminists argue now that although
self – help didn't work out as a strategy it wasn't a mistake.
other words, to be a real women's liberationist these days, you've got to be more
feminist than ever before. Instead of reforms, you've got to «further revolutionary
all this rhetoric is the social reality, the change that has occurred in Australian
society in the last few years. Party due to the efforts of the WLM itself, WL ideas
have become very widely accepted. Not by everybody of course, but they are no longer
outside the mainstream of society, spurned by all «descent people» as extremes.
Summers describes the widespread influences at government level, in the churches,
and in the conservative organizations such as the NCC. Women in unions, professional
organizations, political parties, the media, and in the suburbs are organising
change hasn't just been at the top level. Women in all walks of life have been affected,
and the majority of ordinary women, in my opinion no longer laugh at WL ideas but
take them seriously.
course, few accept the ideology behind WL demands, but there is no doubt that
there has been a change in attitude to women as a social group. The society we are
dealing with today is not the same as when the WLM just began.
feminists usually recognize this.
course it is true that the new general awareness is not revolutionary (whether
'feminist' or socialist). But what the radical feminists don't realise is the opportunities
the penetration of WL ideas provides. Instead of going out into the real world and
trying to build on this base, they retreat into vague theorising. The door stands
open but they won't walk through.
radical feminists retreat into their own ideology, their feminist purity. They are
desperately afraid of contamination by the real world.
so there is an obsession with finding a pure, 'un-co-opted' radical feminist
of the popular strategies and practices of the past few years have been well criticised
in current WL literature. Kerryn Higgs and Barbara Bloch, for instance, talk about
how the movement has developed its own orthodoxy. Instead of freedom and individual
expression there has often been conformity and compulsive behaviour. They discuss
various conformities, such as sharing, autonomy personal harmony, spontaneity and
lesbianism. Their conclusion is depressing.
Gleeson criticises the way the movement ignores its development out of the left,
and the refusal to see how all our personal life is influenced by the political
and economic reality around us.
is no longer regarded as a strategy for all feminists.
W. and her friends also make a number of specific criticisms of the movement's
practices in their long article, which I have already quoted.
radical feminism today is no closer to providing workable strategies than it was
in 1974. The women who so well criticise and analyse past problems either admit
their impotence, or have nothing to suggest but more of the same.
W. ends her article with 16 «practical and organizational» proposals. But looking
closer it is dear that they are really nothing more than a statement in point form
of the need to deal with the problems set out in the article. There is only one
actually concrete proposal – to change the name of the coordinating committee!
all the detailed analysis of mistakes and problems, there is no real attempt to
work out why there were such problems. To the radical feminists they are simply
the result of being «misguided», having the wrong «attitude», or «understanding».
Over the years, «many of our fine original insights have become distorted (and)
our practice has ended up conflicting with our theory.» Why? Because of «errors
in judgement»!
it simply the result of a few errors of judgement that «we keep making the same
mistakes over and over again»? Why is it that so many women find that after 6 years
of the movement it gets harder and harder to reconcile their theory with their
practice? Surely at this point there should be some questioning of radical feminist
theory itself.
idea that sexism is the basic oppression, that the basic class system is one between
men and women.» This is the fundamental idea of radical feminism. In the article
reprinted here, I have shown what happens if you follow this idea through to its
logical conclusion. I hope it will be of use to radical feminists who do want to
start questioning the theory itself.
In the original article, and in this new introduction, I haw concentrated on quotes
and examples from the Australian movement. This is not because I think Australian
radical feminism is different – quite the opposite. I believe radical feminism is
pretty similar everywhere, and I could have written a similar article based on
literature from Britain or USA. But this way there is no copout for Australians;
no one can say, «Radical feminism is different – we haven't made the same mistakes
as overseas.»
Feminism, a comparatively recent trend in the Women's Liberation Movement in Australia,
is based on the theory that women's oppression is the fundamental political oppression,
that women are a class and that they are «engaged in a power struggle with men».
Furthermore, according to ideas of radical feminism, the purpose of male chauvinism
is primarily to obtain psychological ego satisfaction and is only secondarily found
in economic relationships.
article will attempt to show that defining women as a class brings the Radical
Feminists back to affirming the one thing all women do have in common – the female
role; that the a-historical approach of personal politics is part of this female
role, and that the lack of a strategy has meant the movement has reverted to those
activities traditionally open to women – for example «self-help» which is no more
than charity dressed up.
the initial stages of consciousness-raising, after the first rage had died down,
the Women's Liberation Movement had begun to question, to ask where the oppression
had come from, and try to work out the wax forward. Radical in its belief that a
new society was necessary, the movement was strongly influenced by the New Left
with its emphasis on conscious and experience. The social group of which the New
Left was composed – white, middle class, students and the intellectually inclined
– had weighed the «affluent society» in the balance and found it wanting. The housewife
epitomised this affluent world of gadgets, and in fact was one herself. As Betty
Friedan put it, she found herself with a vague, inexplicable feeling of «Is this
all?» Alienation and feelings of powerlessness provided the impetus for the growth
of the Women's Liberation Movement.
raising groups were therefore the first tasks of the movement. Women came
to understand that personal feelings of inadequacy and helplessness were shared,
that they were related to the social situation of women. Alienation was discovered
to be a result of lack of control over the conditions of your life. In Women's
Liberation terms this meant no abortion or childcare centres, restricted job opportunities
and low wages, and above all the role expectation that whatever the individual
propensities or talents, all women must become wives, mothers and housewives.
Friedan's organisation, N.O.W., had little trouble establishing a strategy consistent
with its limited aims of improved status for women within the system, and followed
the standard pressure group tactics. However the Women's Liberation Movement, with
its aim of fundamental change, required a strategy broader in scope. When the momentum
of the movement slowed after the initial burst of enthusiasm, the movement had
to face its own lack of social power, which is essential for change. In the absence
of a strong and clearly radical working class movement, the movement turned inwards.
movement at this stage had an extremely emotional, tense atmosphere. Many women,
discovering the oppressive nature of the role with which they had always identified,
suffered an identity crisis, and sought support and identity in the movement, in
sisterhood. Many turned to the movement as if to a lover, seeking from this new
relationship the fulfilment promised but never provided by the traditional role.
In its inability to find a strategy, the movement rallied its one obvious strength
– unity.
feminism grew out of this search for a theory to unite all women, a search for a
«female» culture to replace the «male» culture which was seen as being the main
enemy. All those social realities which do divide women were ignored by the simple
expediency of relegating them to the male domain, whereby they were made unimportant.
the beginning, the movement had argued that many «female» characteristics such as
emotions were in fact good and necessary for all humans. This gave way now to an
advocacy of the female culture, which in turn amounts to the only thing that does
cut across all class, race and national lines for women: the female role.
Radical Feminism has grown and developed it has retreated more and more into the
female role.
as so many men have told us in the past. Radical Feminists now tell us that women
are earthy, un‑aggressive creatures, who think differently and whose sexuality
is different – more diffuse and romantic.
the constant pressure in the movement to be «sisterly», to have no disagreements,
and to relate totally to everybody. Articles are written attacking thought and
theory as «male». Women, «suddenly» develop an interest in crafts, particularly
those not exactly traditionally regarded as unsuitable for females, e.g. weaving
or crocheting. When an action is not completely successful the response of many
Women's Liberationists is to blame themselves.
is extraordinary that Radical Feminist women, while complaining that males have
written women out of history, will unflinchingly make these generalizations. To
ignore politically powerful (and warlike) women such as Scrimavo Bandaranaike, Indira
Gandhi and Golda Meir; or even the hundreds of women psychologists and sociologists
who have studied sexuality – among them Margaret Sanger, Helene Deutsch, Margaret
Mead; to ignore these women is to deny that women do have a history.
to maintain that women have been successfully and totally suppressed to the point
where they have been completely unable to participate is to accept the idea that
women are passive; and it is to deny that women have repeatedly been able to overcome
their conditioning so far as to break through to real activity.
exceptionally elitist attitudes to their less famous contemporaries who participate
in «male dominated» left organisations is not only insulting; it is inconsistent
with any ideas of sisterhood to have such contempt for the sincerely held beliefs
of socialist women.
reaffirmation of the female role is taken to its logical conclusion by Jane Alpert.
Her theory that women should rule and be worshipped by virtue of their potential
motherhood brings us full circle, back to the gilded cage from which we have so
desperately been trying to escape. But this time the purpose of the bars is not
to keep women inside – instead the radical feminists waul to keep the world out.
radical feminists have contributed important insights into what is wrong with capitalism.
One of the most sophisticated radical feminist writers. Shulamith Firestone, analysed
important questions, such as love, children, and the relationship between sex and
racism. But Firestone, as do all the others, continued to suffer from the lack of
a strategy. They had no idea of what to do. In the search for something to do,
for social power, radical feminism looks towards models in past societies, where
women ruled, or female groupings were powerful. Alternatively, the «key» is thought
to lie in lesbianism, vegetarianism, or the occult.
«The First Sex», by Elizabeth Gould Davis, the idea of the «noble savage» is given
a new twist. This book very popular with Radical Feminists, advances the theory
that the prehistoric matriarchies were ruled by physically and psychically superior,
vegetarian women. Unfortunately, meat‑eating, lustful men took over, and
today we see the consequences.
(and modern) witches and midwives are idealised, with their «great healing powers
of skill in midwifery – (they) obtained skills through inborn psychic gifts, generations
of experimentation – or perhaps being attuned to their natural instincts by living
a quiet life in the woods.»
we find the Radical Feminists arguing that women are closer to nature!
hand that rocks the cradle rules the world!
cut theories, proposing a single universal key to open the door to feminist heaven,
year the key was Lesbianism. A large number of Radical Feminists became lesbians,
not out of sexual interest, but as a point of political principle. It was argued
simply that «feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.» Lesbians maintained
that they were the real revolutionaries, being women who had refused to submit
to the female role. The realization was, however, not long in coming that relating
to a woman can still be highly role-defined.
year the key is fashion has been the question of health/nature healing/vegetarianism.
Alienation, or lack of harmony between mind, emotions and body can be overcome
by the amazing healing qualities of food. Furthermore, «Meat eating and male violence
seemed locked together.» Institutional medicine will be superseded by astrological
birth control, female nature healers and the healing crisis (or in more female
terms, suffering).
theories of matriarchy and witches, of lesbianism and nature healing lead naturally
into an ideology enjoying growing popularity – female superiority. This is a very
convenient solution to the search for power, since it suggests women are
in fact powerful now.
recently, female superiority is advocated quite openly. One writer has only minor
reservations «about saying straight out that there are important innate differences
between men and women, that biology is destiny, and that biology has made women
infinitely superior to men.»
advocates of female superiority lend to hesitate because of one consequence – if
men are naturally inferior, it gives them a cop-out – they can't help being bastards.
However there are more serious political implications than this. Advocacy of female
superiority is no less sexist or potentially oppressive than male chauvinism. It
is authoritarian, elitist and reactionary. Furthermore, one logical conclusion is
inescapable: if the female role epitomises all that is good in human nature, and
females are superior to males, then women are not oppressed. How long will it be
before we see an article pushing this line?
the industrial revolution, the family's economic function was conspicuously productive.
The family farm was the fundamental unit for production of basic necessities. But
with the industrial revolution, the point of production was moved to the factory,
and the family, at least in urban areas, lost any obvious productive function.
The only remaining one, the production of labour power (the production and maintenance
of the worker him or herself) is invisible, disguised as a personal service a wife
does out of love for her husband. The function of the family, apart from the economic
one of consumption, became mainly political. Training in authoritarian attitudes
and sexual repression, socialization of children into the competitive, super-individualistic
psychology of capitalism – that is the major task of the family.
on the apparent divorce of the family from economic production, the myth grew of
the family as «outside» society, as a refuge, where personal life is carried on
and where the man may recuperate from the pressures of the world. Despite the large
numbers of women (and children who worked, this theory was developed particularly
during the Victorian period. The Englishman's home was his castle – his wife, in
her peaceful sanctuary, formed the basis for capitalism's version of a woman's
women's oppression today is based on the role of woman as the centre and lynchpin
of the family. The apparently personal nature of the family, separate from society,
has meant that women tend to see their problems in a personal, particularist way.
During its early stages, the Women's Liberation movement concentrated on breaking
down this false consciousness and through consciousness-raising groups helped women
to perceive the social nature of their oppression. Thus the concept: «the personal
is political».
catchword now amounts to: «the political is personal». Everything must be looked
at in a personal subjective way.
problem here is that the Radical Feminists fail to see that the personal, subjective
approach is a historically conditioned part of the female role; instead they regard
it as inherently female. This a-historical approach traps them into acceptance of
the essentially bourgeois ideology that the family, and consequently women, are
«outside society».
doubt such enthusiastic protagonists of women's liberation as John Ruskin would
unhesitatingly agree with a theory that women remain untarnished by not being exposed
to the world!
the family as outside society leads to the frequent attempts to change family and
sexual relations by sheer willpower. Thus the Radical Feminist communes such as
Amazon Acres.
and turn as they might, Radical Feminists like everyone else are still unable to
avoid the pressing question: «What to do now?» The answer usually given is simply
do what you want.
all change-your-head theories, Radical Feminism is voluntarist and utopian. It upholds
a vision of a new society, of fundamental change, «a female world based on love
trust, freedom and humanity.» But this world remains a distant dream.
Feminism either declares this world will spontaneously arise, or that if
we try hard enough we'll get it. Voluntarism, the idea you can do anything you
want right now, is in the long run demoralising when disillusionment sets in. In
the short run, the lack of a strategy condemns a movement to activity only around
short-term objectives. A strategy, an understanding of how to build the movement
and to bridge the gap between immediate actions and the eventually massive social
change – this is an essential concept. Radical Feminism is lacking such a concept.
movement, under the influence of Radical Feminism, has largely reverted to those
immediately actionable activities traditionally open to women – good works. The
present movement around self-help is little more than charity. Setting up child-care
centres, halfway houses, health centres and rape crisis groups – while these may
be necessary and useful, they do not help to build a movement capable of changing
the nature of society. In fact, as charity organisations usually do, they excuse
the government and the whole society from taking the responsibility. And such an
isolated institution can even be co-opted into the governmental structure. This
is evident from the dependence of the Women's Health Clinic in Sydney and
the Women's Centre in Berkeley, California on government grants.
is not to say we should not act around short-term objectives. However while doing
so we need to develop an understanding of how to build, a strategy that takes us
towards our ultimate goals.
need to really understand consciousness, which the Radical Feminists, for all
their obsession with it, clearly do not. Consciousness is changed in the process
of people struggling to change society … and themselves.


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BOSTON (CBS) – With David Ortiz clubbing his 400th career home run in Oakland on Wednesday, Tony Massarotti brought up the age-old discussion: Is Ortiz a Hall of Famer?
"I do have a Hall of Fame vote, and as of today, I still say no to Ortiz," said Mazz. "The 400 home runs means zero to me anymore." For his 16-year career, Ortiz has collected 1,849 hits and 1,321 RBI, has a .284 batting average and slugged .547. The numbers are very close to those of Edgar Martinez, who spent most of his career as a DH with the Mariners and is not in the Hall of Fame.
Read: Ortiz Humiliated, Embarrassed By Offseason Contract Negotiations
"Having watched them both, Edgar Martinez was a more skilled hitter (and he's not in). He's not going to get in, but I do think there is some discrimination that takes place against designated hitters and Martinez is a victim of that," said Mazz. "Ortiz will get that same discrimination, and was on the '03 list for testing positive for PEDs."
Mazz also notes that of the 49 players who have hit 400 homers, of the 32 of those eligible for the Hall of Fame only 24 have gotten into Cooperstown.
Felger & Mazz: Ortiz Signed The Deal, Why Is He Complaining?
Mazz also notes the game has changed significantly, and 400 home runs really isn't what it used to be. "You can't look at 400 home runs now as you did 20 years ago," said Mazz.
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In the latest round of the war of words between the NFL and its players, NFLPA* chief DeMaurice Smith invoked some Godfather-style language to explain why he places the blame for the ongoing labor fight squarely on the owners.
"We went to the mattresses the day that we decertified," Smith told WFAN's Boomer & Carton, via CBSLocal.com. "Not because we wanted to, because they made us do it."
As Smith sees it, the owners have misled the players about the NFL's finances, and as a result the players have no choice but to fight.
"The players understand the fight that they're in," said Smith. "Right now they don't want to lay down and be forced to take a deal. They don't believe that it's fair. I can tell you that they resent being lied to. They resent being tricked. They resent the fact that the league has been found now twice to have violated the law. So those are the people that we're inextricably tied to."
Still, Smith insists that the players want to get back to work for those owners.
"I can tell you every player wants to play football," Smith said. "We've got our guys working out by themselves. You've got guys down in New Orleans where Drew [Brees] brought his guys together and paid their way so that they can practice. These guys are going and keeping themselves in shape for nothing at a time where, for the first time in history, a business has actually sued not to do their business. So while our guys are probably a little edgy, to use a soft word, they want to get back to enjoying their game."


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Institute Hosts Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. Press Conference on ABLE Act
December 2014
Senator Casey at Temple University
UPDATE: The Casey-Burr ABLE Act passed the Senate on December 16 and now heads to the office of the President to become law.
The Institute on Disabilities at Temple University, Pennsylvania's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities hosted a press conference for Robert P. Casey, Jr., U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, on the university's main campus on Friday, December 5. The senator addressed the Achieving a Better Life Experience ("ABLE") Act, which passed in the U.S. House of Representatives two days earlier.
The bill (expected to reach the Senate during the week of December 15) would allow people with disabilities to create ABLE accounts at any financial institution where they could deposit up to $14,000 annually under current gift-tax limitations.
As much as $100,000 could be saved in the proposed accounts without risking eligibility for Social Security and other government benefits. Moreover, individuals could retain Medicaid coverage no matter how much money is deposited. Modeled after the popular 529 college savings plans, interest earned on savings within the accounts would be tax-free. Money saved could be used to pay for education, health care, transportation, housing and other expenses.
The Senator was introduced by Amy Goldman and Celia Feinstein, Co-Executive Directors of the Institute and was welcomed by Ken Lawrence, Temple University's Sr. Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs. Local policy makers, staff of Pennsylvania's LEND Program at Children's Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and staff members of Vision For Equality, also greeted the Senator. Joining the Senator on the podium was Tanya Regli, Executive Director, The Arc of Philadelphia; Sara Wolff, Advocate, National Down Syndrome Society; Cecelia Lee, parent of a child with a disability; and Shawn Aleong, advocate and graduate of the Institute's Academy for Adult Learning program. In addition to members of the press, the audience included individuals with disabilities, policy makers, service providers and other interested members of the community. Each speaker said a few words on how the passing of the ABLE Act will have an impact on their own lives as well as the lives of all people with disabilities.


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|Payment of April 1, 1999 Performance/Increment Advances for CSEA, PS&T and RRSU Units and Longevity Payments for CSEA and RRSU Units.
|Bulletin No. 87
|Date: 3/30/99
|The agreements between the State and Civil
Service Employees Association representing employees in the Administration (02),
Operational (03), and Institutional (04) Services and Division of Military and Naval
Affairs (47) Bargaining Units; District Council 37 representing employees in the Rent
Regulation Services (67) Bargaining Unit; and the Public Employees Federation representing
employees in the Professional, Scientific and Technical Services (05) Bargaining Unit
provide for the payment of performance/increment advances in April.
These increases are payable in Institution Period 1L, March 25-April 7, 1999 (checks dated April 22, 1999) and Administration Period 1L, April 1 - April 14, 1999 (checks dated April 28, 1999).
The Performance/Increment Advances are payable to employees whose base annual salary is below the job rate of their current position, who complete one year of service in such position by March 31, 1999 and who were rated "Satisfactory" or its equivalent on their last annual evaluation date.
OSC will automatically apply the Performance/Increment Advance from the appropriate October 1, 1998 Salary Schedule (attached to Bulletin P-1004 dated September 17,1998/PaySR Bulletin 37 dated October 1, 1998) based on the four digit increment code in the employees record.
The Perf Adv row will be inserted in the employees record after the agency on-line cut off date for Period 1L (4/7/99 for Institution agencies and 4/14/99 for Administration agencies).
LONGEVITY INCREASE - Bargaining Units 02,03,04 and 47
Employees who occupy positions in these units who complete 5 or 10 years of continuous service as defined by Section 130.3(c) of the Civil Service Law, at a base annual salary equal to or higher than the job rate of their position, continue to remain eligible for receipt of a longevity salary increase. The increase is effective from the first day of the period following the completion of the required service, or the first day of Payroll Period 1 for employees who reached the job rate April 1, 1994 and have had continuous paid service.For employees with an increment code of 1994 and a salary at or above the job rate and below the 1st Longevity Step, OSC will automatically apply a 5 year longevity step ($750 not to exceed the 2nd longevity step) in Period 1L. Employees who attained their job rate April 1, 1994 and subsequently had any breaks in service (complete payroll periods), must be identified by the agency.
OSC will produce a listing of employees with increment codes 1990' in their record. This listing indicates those employees who, when the increment code was entered in the record, were projected to be eligible to receive a 10 year longevity increase sometime during the 1999-2000 fiscal year. This listing, which will be sent to you after Period 1L is processed, should be retained for future reference.LONGEVITY INCREASE - Bargaining Unit 67
OSC produce a listing of employees with increment codes 1989' and 1994' in their record. This listing indicates those employees who, when the increment code was entered in the record, were projected to be eligible to receive a longevity increase during the 1999-2000 fiscal year. The listing will be sent to you after Period 1L has been processed. Your agency must review this listing to determine when the employee completes the 5 or 10 year requirement.
In preparing the payroll for period 1 Lag:
1. For Position or Pay Changes resulting in a change in annual salary effective the first day of Period 1L or prior, agencies should NOT manually process the Performance Advances / Longevity payments for eligible employees. The Increment Code entered by the agency should be the "Current" increment code for 1999. The salary and increment code should be submitted so OSC applies an automatic payment.
Note: The increases will be applied AFTER the agency cut off for Period 1L.
2. For Position or Pay Changes resulting in a change in annual salary effective AFTER the first day of Period 1, agencies must include the automatic Performance Advance/ Longevity payment in the reported salary to OSC. Report the projected increment code for the year 2000.
3. To report an employee NOT due an automatic performance advance in Period 1L, use the action Data Chg, the reason USP ( UNSAT PERF) and process the transaction through the Job Request Panel. Enter the correct increment code for 1999.
Note: The agency must report the employees current salary with the UNSAT PERF transaction. An automatic performance advance will not be paid to these employees.
4. In Period 1L OSC will correct the salary on the rows submitted on the Job Data Panels with an effective date after the first day of Period 1L (i.e. Chg PCT).
To report earnings (i.e. overtime), it is necessary to enter multiple rows if the earning dates being reported overlap the effective date of the Performance Advance/Longevity Payment.
The first row must be inserted with the inclusive dates PRIOR to the effective date of the salary change.
The second row must be inserted with the inclusive dates EQUAL TO AND AFTER the effective date of the salary change.
Note: The agencies will not see the Mass Salary Increase row in the employees records when entering transactions in Period 1L. OSC will insert the row after the agency cut off date for Period 1Lag. The above Time Entry procedure must still be followed.
To process a Performance Advance or Longevity increase AFTER period 1L is processed, for an eligible employee who did not receive the automatic payment, agencies must submit a transaction in the Job Request Panel. Use the action code of Pay Rate Change and the appropriate Reason (PAV for Performance Advance or LGP for Longevity Payment). It is not necessary to submit an adjustment transaction as the retro adjustment will be calculated automatically based on the effective date entered on the Job Panel.
Refer to the Factor Change Bulletin (number 85) for further instructions on processing transactions after period 1.
An information listing will be sent to the agencies after Period 1L is processed, to identify employees who received an automatic increase. A separate listing of employees who did not receive an automatic payment (i.e. increment code missing) will also be produced. ONE copy of each list will be sent to the agencies.
Questions concerning the correct salary entitlement should be directed to the Salary Determination Unit at (518) 486-3099.
Questions concerning PaySR processing should be directed to the Audit Section at (518) 474-2368.


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Mohamed A. Noor, Earl D. McLean Professor
Research in my laboratory strives to understand what genetic changes contribute to the formation of new species, and how the process of genetic recombination affects both species formation and molecular evolution. I've been fascinated at how often genetic recombination plays a major role in any evolutionary genetic question I seek to pursue, so understanding its causes and effects has become a thread uniting the dissertations of most people in the laboratory. Our approaches combine classical genetic, molecular genetic, and genomic/ bioinformatic analyses, along with occasional forays into areas like animal behavior (in relation to speciation). I am also very interested in helping develop educational activities (K-12 or college) in genetics and evolution. See my lab webpage for more detailed information: https://sites.google.com/site/noorlabduke/
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1996
B.S., College of William and Mary, 1992
Office Location: 130 Science Drive, Room 137, Duke Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: (919) 668-2728
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Research Categories: Speciation and evolutionary genetics, recombination
Research Description: One of the greatest unsolved questions in biology is how continuous processes of evolutionary change produce the discontinuous groups known as species. For a many years, my team studied hybrid sterility and behavioral mate preferences using classical, QTL-based, or molecular genetic approaches on Drosophila species as model organisms. More recently, the availability of multiple whole-genome sequences (some public but especially those we have obtained ourselves) has dramatically enhanced the scope of progress we make. A major question we've sought to address has been determining the genetic features and evolutionary processes that allow hybridizing species to persist, with particular interest in recombination and chromosomal inversions. In addition to questions in speciation, we are broadly interested in molecular evolution within species, again with a particular focus on the effects of recombination. See my lab web page for more information.
Recent Publications (More Publications) (search)
- Samuk, K; Manzano-Winkler, B; Ritz, KR; Noor, MAF, Natural Selection Shapes Variation in Genome-wide Recombination Rate in Drosophila pseudoobscura., Current Biology : Cb, vol. 30 no. 8 (April, 2020), pp. 1517-1528.e6 [doi] [abs].
- Korunes, KL; Noor, MAF, Pervasive gene conversion in chromosomal inversion heterozygotes., Molecular Ecology, vol. 28 no. 6 (March, 2019), pp. 1302-1315 [doi] [abs].
- Ballinger, MA; Noor, MAF, Are Lethal Alleles Too Abundant in Humans?, Trends in Genetics : Tig, vol. 34 no. 2 (February, 2018), pp. 87-89 [doi] [abs].
- Ravinet, M; Faria, R; Butlin, RK; Galindo, J; Bierne, N; Rafajlović, M; Noor, MAF; Mehlig, B; Westram, AM, Interpreting the genomic landscape of speciation: a road map for finding barriers to gene flow., Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 30 no. 8 (August, 2017), pp. 1450-1477 [doi] [abs].
- Ritz, KR; Noor, MAF; Singh, ND, Variation in Recombination Rate: Adaptive or Not?, Trends in Genetics : Tig, vol. 33 no. 5 (May, 2017), pp. 364-374 [doi] [abs].


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The rule towards wanton deaccessioning is a sort of gentleman's settlement within the museum world. June has recently returned from Eire without her husband, Niall, to the carriage house and adjoining bungalow where she was raised largely by her grandparents.
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Cardinals vs. Saints NFC Divisional Round Game
Now the NFL playoffs can really begin. The first divisional-round game features the Arizona Cardinals at the New Orleans Saints. Had we discussed this matchup 2 months ago we would have crowned the Saints the winner without hesitation? Fast forward to today and we have ourselves a ballgame, folks. The Cardinals are coming off an impressive offensive performance against a stout Green Bay Packers defense and the defense is playing…….well, like the Cardinal defense. Opportunistic, but unpredictable. Which defense will show up? The one that gets after the quarterback with the defensive line allowing the corners to jump routes? Or the lazy defense that can't get pressure and gets picked apart in the secondary? That is the deciding factor in this game. We all know what the New Orleans Saints offense is capable of doing. But, if you can get to Drew Brees and make him uncomfortable in the pocket he can force throws. (See Dallas Cowboys week 15) The New Orleans defense, on the other hand, has been riddled with injury. Looks like both starting corners are probable for the game, but how rusty will they be?
Spread: -7 moving to -6.5 New Orleans
I think that is a pretty big spread for an NFL playoff game. If I were a betting man…….I take the Cardinals. I know many of my friends will place that bet on sites such as betting.com, they like to cement the fact they are positive they'll win! Many will take a look online at review and comparison sites to find out what is considered the best pay per head sportsbook around online.
Outlook: I think the Arizona Cardinals will come out with fire in their step. They want to jump on the Saints quickly in order to plant the seed of doubt and take the crowd out of the ballgame. I think they pass to set up the run for the second half. However, the Saints have the desire to prove their critics wrong. They have the hard-nosed coaching that will keep them focused. If the Saints get out early on the Cardinals this game WILL be over. So it's imperative the Cardinals stay in this game.
Prediction: The Cardinals get out early, but the Saints get it together and nip the Cardinals in the 4th.
Final score: Cardinals 31 Saints 34
One side note…..when critics and fans predict a shootout, the defenses usually step up. The score could be lower, but the Saints will march on.


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Reblogging a poem from a few years back. ..
so often I forget you
you are my sun
the blazing light
by which I see
you are my air
the very breath
by which I live
so often I forget you
you are my water
you bring life
to barren ground
you are my food
you give me strength
and help me stand
so often I forget you
you are my dying and my living
my breaking and my mending
the reason for my being
and you always remember
I'm having some time offline for a while, hence the following posts have been scheduled. This means I will not immediately respond to comments – but please do still comment and I'll be pleased to read them on my 'return'! I'll choose the winners of the giveaway in a couple of weeks' time. For now, I take my leave.
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Naps May Help Babies Learn
A good nap may not only keep babies from getting cranky; it may also help them learn.
A new study suggests napping plays an important role in the learning process by allowing babies to process and retain information they're exposed to while awake.
Researchers found 15-month-old babies who took a nap after being exposed to phrases from an artificial language were more likely to recognize and apply the learned information later than babies who missed nap time.
Nap Time Is Learning Time, Too
The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, compared the effects of napping on an advanced type of learning known as abstraction.
Researchers played recordings of phrases from an artificial language, like "pel — wadim — jic," to 48 infants during a learning session until the babies became familiar with them. The phrases each contained three word sounds.
After the learning session, some of the babies took their normally scheduled naps. But some other babies, who didn't normally take a nap at that time of day, remained awake.
The babies were then retested. They heard the same phrases they had heard before, as well as new phrases containing two of the familiar "words" with a new "word" inserted in the middle.
Researchers found that all the babies recognized the familiar phrases later. But the babies who napped not only recognized those phrases, they were also able to generalize their learned information to recognize new phrases containing only two of the three familiar word sounds.
Meanwhile, babies who did not nap merely responded to the original phrases and could not apply the sound patterns to recognize the slightly different phrases.
Researcher Rebecca Gomez of the University of Arizona says the results suggest napping supports abstract learning, or the ability to detect a general pattern in new information, which is essential to cognitive development.
SOURCES: Gomez, R. Psychological Science, August 2006; Vol. 17. News Release, Association for Psychological Science.
By Jennifer Warner
Reviewed by Louise Chang, M.D.
© 2006, WebMD Inc. All rights reserved


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