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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 1:37 am
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Well first of all "Fear" is one of my all time favorite movies!When i first watched that movie it never really occured to me that guys could really be like that (David).Then i walked into the real world and got myself into my first REAL relationship.His name was Trevor he was a couple years older then me which was hard he was allowed going to bars and whatever he wanted and me i was left behind.We dated for about a year,it was complete H*ll.Soon after we started dating i was recieving phone calls from girls saying he was their man and blah blah he would called them up and put on the whole act saying "he was with me and whatever he did with them didn't mean anything and he loved me" but u could garentee after he dropped me off that night he would be out with her or however many there was.I started to get fed up with all the cheating and started standing up for myself and telling him i didnt want to be with him but that would just make it worse he would stalk me calling me all night even if i had to get up for school that didnt matter to him.Sending me text messages saying if he could't be with me he didn't want to live at all.I would try and go out with other people but his friends became my friends because he was my whole life for a long time so when we would fight he would make sure he friends were strictly not allowed to be incontact with me because "i had to learn that if i didn't want to be with him i was going to sit home by myself".And when i started hanging out with people that he wasn't really good friends with he would call my mother and tell her how much he loved me and i was hanging out with other guys and make her feel bad for him.I constantly went through this daily him showing up at my school freaking out at me because i didnt want to be with him because he was sleeping with other girls.but i would always take him back cuz he would promise to change.After awhile my mom relized what an idiot he was and told me i wasn't allowed to be with him anymore but i was stupid and i thought "no one is going to tell me who to be with" so i would go and see him behind her back(which wasn't easy).After awhile the fighting grew and we actually started to physically fight.He wouldn't actaully hit me but if i would try and leave his house or something he would push me up against the walls or whatever was close so i couldn't leave,he would block the doorway and push me if i tried to persue my way out.I would try and fight back i would hit him and whatever i could do to try and get him to let me leave but nothing would work then he would end up sweet talking me and his charm would win me over once again.We got in a fight one time where he called me a **** (even though he was my first and only)and i had a glass liqor bottle in my hand because i picked it up to take it with me and as i tried leaving once again he block the door and pushed me away throwing me on the bed so i got up and took the bottle and hit him as hard as i could with the bottle against his chest he started freaking out which i just made it worse.Anyways as u can see we got in alot of fights i hit his head against the wall one time and he grabbed me and started pulling me down the stairs and i fell down the whole flgiht of stairs hitting the door as i landed.The only way i got away from him and his abuse was meeting Jerren my new boyfriend.Trevor still bothered me for awhile but after Jerren talked to him he backed off a little bit.As he relized i wasn't backing down and he didn't scare me anymore and even though he will call non stop that just means i'll ignore the phone non stop.I just want every girl out there to know that no guy is worth it no guy should make u feel like your not worthy he is the one who is nothing.Don't be stupid like me the sooner you get away from him the easier it is,think about it how easy is it to say one word"LOVE" trust me it's pretty easy don't let that fool you it's one word just because they say it doesn't mean they are sincere.If they hurt you physically,mentally,or emotionally remember they aren't worth it,they are the ones who are nothing.
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Think you could write a little less?
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I'm so sorry! I didn't even bother to read it cuz it was LONG and thought it was all about the FEAR. Truly sorry.
Well I'm really sorry you had to go through this before but glad that you came to faced the dark side/unenlighten side of yourself and transform into a stronger person. We all make mistakes and most of us use the mistakes to learn from it to became a better person (I guess this is the process of becoming mature). It's life. But it sounds like you're such a strong person..willing to open this up and encourage Gals not to fear. That's great! Well keep your eyes wide open and dont just go for any guys.
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ummmm....yeah, I stopped reading after about three words. I'm sorry you have so much free time
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Thanks alot girls.If you actually did finish reading my statement it was about my abusive ex boyfriend and i know that is not something to laugh about.I was trying to be serious.And i know alot of other people who have been in the same situation wouldn't find it funny either.But thanks alot...makes me feel alot better.
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Yea I read the whole thing but the truth is I didn't really care!!! I didn't want to read about your bad relationship!! So save it for Dr. Phil honey!!!
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OH MY GOODNESS!! I can't believe how mean people can be. What a bunch of nasty bithces!! Maybe you people should pay a visit to Dr. Phil See....that's why I don't bother with this board much....some of the people on here are just A**Holes!!
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Well then I guess you and her can go together then!!!! Becuz both of you obviously have some problems!!!!
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IM2COOL4u you are such an idiot!!!!
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BAGHDAD (AP) The Iranian consul in Basra charged Thursday that British soldiers had surrounded his office in the southern city and fired shots into the air. Britain denied the allegation.
The allegation comes at a critical period in the crisis over Iran's seizure of 15 British sailors and marines.
The Ministry of Defense in London said the shooting was an exchange of gunfire after British troops on a foot patrol near the Iranian consulate were ambushed.
But Iranian Consul-General Mohammed Ridha Nasir Baghban said British forces had engaged in a "provocative act" that "could worsen the situation of the British sailors."
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Super Rugby round five
Cheetahs Rhule over Waratahs
March 15, 2013
Robert Ebersohn opened the scoring for the visitors
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New South Wales have slumped to a 27-26 loss to their South African bogey side, the Cheetahs, and Berrick Barnes' latest setback only compounded their misery at Allianz Stadium.
The Waratahs' defeat was their third straight and the Tahs also take a dubious place in the Super Rugby history books as the first team to lose three times in a row to the Cheetahs.
Adding insult to injury, former Waratahs half-back Sarel Pretorius was the architect behind the South Africans' triumph, putting lively winger Raymond Rhule over for the match-winning try 10 minutes from full-time.
A 40th-minute try to centre Adam Ashley-Cooper had given NSW an unlikely 20-17 lead at the break and the Tahs continued to hold sway for most of the second half.
But after dominating possession and territory for the bulk of the match, the Cheetahs eventually broke through to back up their win last week on the road against the Highlanders.
Things looked ominous for the Waratahs from the moment Pretorius dummied and broke clear in the opening seconds of the match.
Centre Robert Ebersohn benefited from a lovely chip and regather from winger Willie Le Roux to score the opening try after just 54 seconds.
The Cheetahs were in again in the 17th minute when Rhule stepped his way over for the first of his two tries and five-eighth Johan Goosen again converted.
The Waratahs suffered another depressing loss, against the Cheetahs (video available only in Australia)%]
Two penalty goals from half-back Brendan McKibbin kept the Waratahs in touch at 14-6 before winger Peter Betham ran a nice line from a lineout win and took a short ball from McKibbin and beat two defenders to score under the posts.
McKibbin's conversion left NSW trailing by a point but, after Goosen added a penalty to nudge the Cheetahs four points ahead, the Waratahs snatched the lead when Ashley-Cooper touched down on the stroke of half-time.
Goosen and McKibbin traded second-half penalty goals before Goosen's conversion of Rhule's second five-pointer restored the Cheetahs' advantage.
Another McKibbin penalty in the 73rd minute reduced the deficit to one point but the Waratahs were unable to bridge it.
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Chuck Muncie, a standout running back with the New Orleans Saints and a three-time Pro Bowl selection, died of a heart attack on Monday. He was 60.
|Take a look at the best photos of Chuck Muncie.
Muncie, whose career was ravaged by drug abuse, was the Saints' third overall selection out of California in the 1976 NFL Draft. He played in the Big Easy from 1976 through the first four games of the 1980 season before being traded to the San Diego Chargers where he played until 1984.
The Saints confirmed Muncie's passing to The Times-Picayune, and the Chargers later confirmed the news.
The 6-foot-3, 227-pounder made a lasting impression with the Saints. He's the team's fifth all-time rushing leader with 3,393 yards. He also was the first Saints player to be selected to a Pro Bowl. Muncie enjoyed his most successful campaign with the Saints in his final season there, rushing for 1,198 yards and 11 touchdowns, and also catching 40 passes for 308 yards. He earned another Pro Bowl nod that year and was selected Pro Bowl MVP.
Muncie went on to earn two more Pro Bowl nods with the Chargers. His best season with the Chargers came in 1981 when he rushed for 1,144 yards and 19 touchdowns, which tied the then-NFL season record for rushing touchdowns. Muncie etched his name in Chargers lore when he rushed for 124 yards and a touchdown, guiding the Chargers over the Miami Dolphins 41-38, a game simply known as The Epic in Miami. The Chargers went on to lose to the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship Game, or the Freezer Bowl.
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Muncie's career came to a screeching halt in 1984 when Commissioner Pete Rozelle suspended him for the remainder of the season after Muncie tested positive for cocaine. Muncie's comeback with the Minnesota Vikings also came to an abrupt end when he quit "to get his life together," according to the Los Angeles Times.
Muncie continued to fall on hard times. He was arrested in 1989 and sentenced to 18 months in prison for selling cocaine. He vowed to get his life in order, and he did.
Muncie established the Chuck Muncie Youth Foundation in 1997 to help children avoid some of the same pitfalls that derailed his career. The foundation offered a tattoo-removal program, among other things. Muncie also returned to Berkeley and mentored student-athletes at his alma mater.


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Did Dakota Fanning break her mother's no tattoo rule when she met Kat Von D on "Lopez Tonight" on Tuesday?
Not quite.
On Tuesday night's show, the 16-year-old"Runaways" star told late night host George Lopez that she's a huge fan of "LA Ink's" Kat, but she made a pledge to her mom that she'd never wind up with any body art.
"I love [Kat]…I just think she is so cool," Dakota said. "She is so talented and she is such a great artist.
"When I was like 11, [my mom] made me sign a contract and it says, 'I will not ever get a tattoo,' and it's like the little X and a line and I had to sign my name," Dakota added.
That, however, didn't stop George from surprising Dakota by bringing out Kat, who was ready to put her artistic stamp on Dakota's arm – at least temporarily.
Kat took the young actress backstage and drew a cherry bomb tattoo on her arm with colored pens – an ode to her role as rock legend Cherie Currie in her new movie with Kristen Stewart.
"I love it, I really love it," an overjoyed Dakota said after seeing Kat's work on her arm. "My mom's going to love it. My mom loves Kat, despite her making me sign the contract. She loves Kat!"
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ColdFyyre ice cream sandwiches. Unfortunately, they look better than they taste.
Why is it so hard to find a good ice cream sandwich?
Maybe I'll never be satisfied. In my childhood, It's Its were, well, it, a San Francisco invention of a chocolate dipped oatmeal cookie and vanilla ice cream sandwich. Ice cream is all the rage in San Francisco, but nothing will ever replace my fondness for It's It. Whenever I visit my parents in California, I still pass the It's It factory on the way home from the airport.
On a recent nostalgic binge, I went looking for a ice cream sandwich. The Whole Foods freezer aisle carries a pretty good one, by Ruby Jewel from Portland ($5.99/sandwich). I love the one in which tender, dark chocolate cookies sandwich a bracingly minty ice cream.
Next to Ruby Jewel in the freezer case are sandwiches by ColdFyyre ($5.99/sandwich), a Honolulu ice cream company that uses Naked Cow Dairy cream and local ingredients like apple banana and even sea asparagus in its ice cream. Unfortunately, while its ice cream is decent, the sandwiches are a disappointment. The thin discs of sugar butter cookies are hard, forcing the ice cream out when you bite into it, and the ice cream is icy, all of them, whether chocolate, vanilla or lilikoi.
Ice cream sandwiches at ChadLou's. Left: vanilla ice cream between chocolate chip cookies. Right: chocolate ice cream between peanut butter cookies.
Better are the ice cream sandwiches at ChadLou's, a cute coffee and ice cream sandwich shop in Kailua. ChadLou's carries Dave's ice cream, and they assemble the sandwiches ($2.50/sandwich) to order. You can mix and match flavors with cookies like peanut butter and chocolate chip. A classic vanilla ice cream sandwich with soft chocolate chip cookies is the bees knees here.
I keep going to Bubbies to try its ice cream sandwiches, but I just get waylaid by the mochi ice cream. I guess this is Hawaii's answer to the ice cream sandwich, and a perfectly satisfying one at that. And I don't even have to commit to a single flavor combination: for the size of a sandwich, I can get three pieces, all different flavors of chewy, wrapped ice cream wonder.
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Adhinayakudu Movie Review
Balakrishna Adhinayakudu Review, Balakrishna Adhinayakudu Movie Review, Balakrishna Adhinayakudu Telugu Movie Review, Balakrishna Adhinayakudu Rating: After appearing as Lord Rama in critically acclaimed 'Sri Rama Rajyam', Nandamuri Balakrishna has teamed up with director Paruchuri Murali. This is a family drama movie with a political touch. Lakshmi Rai and Saloni are paired opposite to Balakrishna. Check out the Adhinayakudu review to know more about the movie.
Cast : Nandamuri Balakrishna, Jayasudha, Lakshmi Rai, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Saloni, Pradeep Rawat
Director: Paruchuri Murali
Producer: M.L Kumar Chowdary
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues : Parchuri Murali
Music : Kalyani Malik
Cinematography: Surender Reddy
Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Banner : Sri Keerthi Combines
Politician Harish Chandra Prasad (Balakrishna in old get up) dedicates his life to serve the poor and the needy. He brings foreign investors to India for an iron project. Rama Krishna Prasad(Balakrishna second role) like his father , always thinks about people and their welfare. He rescues his father from his political enemies. Meanwhile, to kill Harish Chandra Prasad, Veerappa (Pradeep Rawat) with the help of Charan Raj kidnaps Bobby (young Balakrishna). Bobby meets his father after 25 years and to his surprise, Rama Krishna Prasad was reluctant to accept Bobby as his son. How Bobby convinces Krishna Prasad and whether he has succeeded in his mission or not is the rest of the story.
Analysis :
Director Paruchuri Murali mainly focussed on comedy and family drama in the first half. The interval bang raises the expectations on the second half with a twist added to it. Though, the scenes between Balakrishna and Brahmanandam are hilarious the rest of the story fails to impress the audience.
Second half is the soul for the movie. Director Paruchuri Murali has taken special care on dialogues in the second half , especially for the character of Harish Chandra Prasad. He should be appreciated for giving a dignified elderly look to Balakrishna. His dances in 'Andam Aakumadi' song is a feast for the fans. Director didn't lost the grip till end and made all the efforts to make it a family entertainer. The second half is well balanced with adequate sentiment and gripping screenplay, thanks to the presence of Jayasudha. The climax episode is simple and could have been handled better. A special mention to 'Adhigo Adhigadhigo' song which has raised the tempo of the elder Balakrishna's presence.
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Balakrishna is apt for all the three roles. His performance as Harischandra Prasad is evokes applause from the audience. One will definitely wonder for his dance moments at the age of 52. Heroine Lakshmi Rai doesn't have much scope in this film and she is confined to couple of scenes. She is gorgeous in all the songs and her oomph and ooze factor is a treat for the front benchers. Saloni sizzles in a cameo. Director should have taken care about the photography, especially when he is directing a star like Balakrishna. Overall, 'Adhinayakudu' is the movie for Balakrishna's mass and class fans. If there is proper pre release publicity things would have been different at box office.
Performances :
Balakrishna is the main asset for the movie. His energetic performance and excellent dialogue delivery has covered most of the flaws in the movie. Balakrishna's dance is 'Olammi' and 'Andam Aakumadi' were splendid. His action reminded of Sr NTR in many scenes. He has given his best for all the 3 charecters. Lakshmi Rai was hot and did her glamour job very well. Jayasudha, Kota Srinivasa were decent. Bramhanandam's comedy track was good and will give few smiles.
Technical Performance:
Though Paruchuri Murali came up with an old story, his narrations style and screenplay was good. His directorial skills must be aprreciated, especially for the elderly get up of Balakrishna. He has put all his efforts to make sure that 'Adhinayakudu' is a family entertainer. Kalyani Malik's songs are ok and re recording is poor. Cinematography could have been better. Ram Laxman did a decent job with fights. Editing is ordinary. Graphics and special effects are tawdry.
Balakrishna's energetic performance
Couple of songs
Lakshmi Rai Glamour
Negatives :
Back ground score not upto the mark as much was expected from Kalyani Malik
Quality of Graphics could have been better
Adhinayakudu Rating : 3.50/5
Final Word: 'Adhinayakudu' is a pot purri for Nandamuri Fans and it will be a decent family entertainer for other audience. Watch it if you love to see Balayya playing different roles.


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How is it February already? It was just Christmas a www.greenfieldstables.ca ago. But indeed my (second) favorite month is upon us: February–Black History Month, my birthday, and Lingerie Christmas, a.k.a. Valentine's Day.
As can be surmised by my dedication to doing this gift guide every year, I'm a Valentine's Day fan. It's a day dedicated to expressing love in all it's forms and I have a lot of love in my life and an abundance yet to come. That should be celebrated. But it's also about lingerie and I personally enjoy celebrating that as well. Some of the most gorgeous pieces debut around now for the specific purpose of enticing Valentine's Day shoppers. It's the only time of the year I seriously consider deviating from my all black everything wardrobe palette to adorn myself in something red or fuchsia. As usual Hips & Curves and Agent Provocateur represent on this gift guide, but a few brands are debuting for the first time, as well: Ashley Stewart Intimates (how could I resist #DareToBare?), Tom Ford, Addiction Elle, Melody Ehsani, and Fantasy Lingerie to name a few. I'm once again featuring jewelry from Lost Queens of which I'm a brand ambassador (code LQHUNY at checkout gets you 15% off) and a boudoir photography session with my very talented friend Andrew Thomas Clifton. So please do enjoy. May your Valentine's Day be a Love Supreme. Get your freak on. Roll up the partition, please. Really, Love.
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window.indexedDB = window.indexedDB || window.mozIndexedDB || window.webkitIndexedDB; var myDAO = {}; //our Composite JavaScript object //make a DB open call and provide asynchronous callback handler var request = window.indexedDB.open("BookShop1"); request.onsuccess = function(event) { //the returned Database is being stored in variable db in our DAO object myDAO.db = request.result; document.write("Database Opened"); }; request.onerror = function(e) { document.write(e); };
Creating an Object Store
When a new IndexedDB database is created, no object store is as yet be present in the database. To perform any further operations, you need to create object stores first. And this can be done only inside a
setVersion() transaction on the
db object reference. Note that
SetVersion is the only place in our code that we can alter the structure of the database, such as creating and deleting object stores or building/removing indexes. A call to
setVersion() returns a
Request object in whose callbacks we create our object stores and indexes. If we try to create an object store with a name that already exists in the database, it will throw an exception.
request = myDAO.db.setVersion( parseInt(Math.random() * 100)); request.onsuccess = function(e) { myDAO.objectStore = myDAO.db.createObjectStore("BookList", { "keyPath": "id" }); };
Opening the Object Store
Once the object store is created we need to open the it to perform any operation. To perform operations, we need a
transaction object, which is obtained by invoking the
transaction() method of the database (
db) object, where we pass the name of the object stores. This becomes the scope of the transaction object, and the mode of the transaction (that is,
READ/WRITE/SNAPSHOT or any combination of these thre)e. This
transaction object is used to get a reference of the object store in the given mode, over which the desired transactions can be done. Also note that multiple object stores can be specified in the transaction method call, separating the store names by a comma.
transaction = myDAO.db.transaction(["BookList"], IDBTransaction.READ_WRITE); var objectStore = transaction.objectStore("BookList");
Adding Data to an Object Store
As already mentioned, once the transaction object is obtained for any object store, we can simply call the IndexedDB API methods to perform other operations on that store. In the case of
Insert, we call the
add() method of the object store (
objectStore) object, and pass the
data to be inserted.
var data = { "bookname":"Book1", "author":"Kausar", "id":"2" }; transaction = myDAO.db.transaction(["BookList1","BookList2"],IDBTransaction.READ_WRITE); request = transaction.objectStore("BookList1").add(data); request.onsuccess = function(event) { }; request.onerror = function(e) { };
Deleting Data from an Object Store
Deleting is similar to adding data from a database. We need to invoke the
delete() method of the object store (
objectStore), passing the unique identifier that identifies the object to be deleted.
//delete a sample object with id having some value var id = 2; transaction = myDAO.db.transaction(["BookList"], IDBTransaction.READ_WRITE); request = transaction.objectStore("BookList").delete(id); //["delete"](id); request.onsuccess = function(event) { }; request.onerror = function(e) { };


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Lamar University joins LSC-O in 'The Big Read'
Lamar University is joining Lamar State College – Orange Ron E. Lewis Library in The Big Read. Put together by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the program is aimed at promoting reading for the pleasure of reading. LSC-O received an $11,200 grant from the NEA to sponsor The Big Read in Orange and Jefferson County communities, focusing on the 1972 book "Bless Me Ultima," by Rudolfo Anaya.
Catalina Castillon, associate professor of Spanish in the Department of English and Modern Languages at Lamar University, will lead a discussion about the book in Room 702 in the Mary and John Gray Library at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11. The discussion will focus on themes of Hispanic culture, identity and literary heritage in the United States.
Hispanic literature in the U.S. can be broken down into three parts, Castillon said. There is the literature of the exile by those who come to the U.S. for political reasons. There is the literature of the immigrant who comes for economic reasons. And there is the literature of the native born in the U.S. who might have had family here for generations.
"That's really what this book is all about," she said. "For the native, there are many different ways to address identity. They are very much American, but they still identify with their family's culture."
According to "Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America," a 2004 study by the NEA, people are engaging different forms of media, but reading books less. The NEA began The Big Read as a way to promote reading by giving members of the community an opportunity to read a preselected title and discuss it with their neighbors.
Castillon said "Bless Me Ultima" is a good pick for the program because it touches on relevant topics that can get people engaged in discussion. The book tells the coming-of-age story of Antonio Marez, a 6-year-old boy in New Mexico during World War II. Ultima, a traditional medicine woman, comes to stay with his family, and her practices challenge Marez's Catholic beliefs.
"The boy is dealing with issues of community, family, religion and tradition," Castillon said. "There is a lot of Catholic imagery in the book, but Ultima is a traditional healer, or curandera. So it raises the question is Ultima a healer, or is she a witch?"
Marez is torn between the two worlds of his mother's family, who are farmers, and his father's family who are cowboys, Castillon said.
"He has older brothers who went to war are come back disturbed by the experience. There is a lot going on in the world this little boy grows up in, and we see it all through his eyes."
Partners with the LSC-O Ron E. Lewis Library in the SETX Big Read include the Lamar University Department of English and Modern Languages and Mary and John Gray Library, Orange Public Library, Port Arthur Public Library, Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD, West Orange-Cove CISD, Bridge City ISD, American Association of University Women Bookends book club and the Stark Museum of Art.
Castillon said she is happy to be collaborating with LSC-O. "I am honored they thought of us," she said. "I think collaboration between institutions is a good thing. This is a good book, and I am excited to be involved in a project that gets people learning.


text: With having no bullpen and only two starters you can count on and an offense that is prone to team slumps. I say it is time to sale. I know I will take heat for this but every year we look good for the first quarter or half then down we go. We keep thinking we have a good core, maybe if we add one or two pieces to it next year so the Reds don't make any major moves. But what if our core is the Reason for this failure every year? Dunn isn't improving, Kearns seems to be just an avg. player and Jr is always one step from the DL. Think about the Package Bronson could bring with his contract? This could be the Year to move JR like everyone wants. What could Dunn Bring? Kearns who still has enough Hype to make a very good trade. I want to win just as much as the next person but I really don't think this team has got what it takes to win over the long haul.


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I learned a new term (Christian rock-brain science) last month while watching a video of my son explaining why he no longer debates with Christians on the subjects of science. One of his friends from the university where he currently works, had been in a heated debate with a group young Christians, who had recently received graduate degrees in "creation biology" from a Christian university.
My son's friend, area of study is in evolutionary biology, and having never been exposed to religious doctrine, and he simply couldn't understand why these creation biologists, were trying bridge together the science of both cosmology and biological evolution as being the same science (this would be like saying that the same form of science one would use in studying the rings around the planet Saturn, could also be used in the study of plant biology, and the rings in trees here on earth as well).
My son said that he entered this debate, simply out of curiosity, and to help his friend explain to these Christians, the difference in the science of trying to gain insight into how the universe came into being, and the science of how life got started here on earth, and how life has evolved.
To help protect my son's identity, I will only say that he is currently working with a team of other particle physicists, who just like the tens of thousands of other scientists all around the world, who are currently, or will be analyzing the data from the experiments that are now being conducted at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
My son said that talking science with these "Christian scientists," was just like trying to explain the fundamentals of science to a group of pre-school children - creation biology, starts with the same premise as that of the creation myth(s) in the bible. That some creator, created the universe, and exclusively for the purpose of creating life here on earth; and therefore that everything perceived within reality, must also be, all part of this same plan. As I watched the video of the highlights of my son's part in this debate, it quickly became clear that these Christians had no understanding of the difference between scientific theory, and simple mindless conjecture – and they maintained the argument, that the whole vast universe was simply created for mankind to live here on earth. None of them seemed to have any real conception, of just how large the universe actually is, or the fact that it's still expanding and growing even bigger with every second of every day. And when my son offered the fact that the universe is still expanding, as evidence supporting the fact that the universe started with a big bang – one of the Christians got up and screamed at my son: "you can't prove any of this," and as the other Christians wildly applauded this Christians ignorant remark. My son then simply replied: "and I can't prove anything to a rock either – but the fact is that no one would argue, whether or not a real rock is in fact a real rock, unless they also, have a rock for a brain." And at that point, this enraged Christian got up and slammed down a pocket sized copy of a bible on the table in front of my son and screamed: "in this bible is the word of god, and that is all of the proof that I will ever need – and you'll remember my words today, when you're burning in hell." At that point after this ignorant outburst, all of the real scientists decided that it was time to end this debate with these ignorant Christian morons.
Later on in this video, my son expressed that he felt extremely sad for these young Christians, as some of them, had wasted up to 4 years of their lives, learning this mindless and worthless bullshit, and now this was the best that they could do, in a debate with real scientists?
I received this video in a large packet of videos and other stuff that our sons had worked on, and put
together last summer, as a gift for my fiftieth birthday - and I must say that this is the best birthday gift, that I have ever received!
This was the first time that I have seen my son in a heated debate with deluded and ignorant, Christian idiots and morons, and the first time I noticed, that he does the same thing that I used to do, when I had ignorant Christians spewing their deluded bullshit at me – he just sat there, with a wide grin on his face. Today, if I would have been there in my son's position, that video would have been filled with words like: "you ignorant Christian motherfuckers" and the debate would have only lasted about 5 minutes, before it had turned into a fucking brawl!
What I still find the most astounding is what Christians and other religious people, simply can't seem to understand, is the fact that science has long ago dismissed the relevance in which any of these manmade god(s) and creation myth(s), play in the role of life and the universe – man simply created god(s) and all of these silly stories of creation – and science is no longer looking for who created the universe, and if it was created just for us. Today, we are simply trying to gain real insight into how the universe came into being – and as scientists, today we fully understand that whatever or whoever may have started it all, as humans, we are all just along for the ride – and we're not trying to understand which "god" is in the driver's seat either, we are simply trying to understand, what's doing the driving,
The person giving the presentation of the LHC in the video below is a bright and rising star, in the world of particle physics (Brian Cox). Well worth watching!


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- What is the difference between career and academic counseling?
- How does a career plan differ from an educational plan?
- How can career counseling help me in deciding on a major?
- What is career assessment and what resources does the Career Center provide students and alumni?
- When is the Career Center open and how do I make an appointment to see a career counselor?
- How do I find a job on campus?
- Where do I find off-campus job information?
- How can the Career Center help me with my job search?
- How does the Career Center assist international students?
- How do the CRER classes help students and alumni?
Career counseling assist students and alumni in exploring their interests, personality preferences, skills and values to develop realistic career options that best fits their talents.
A career plan combines self-assessment, exploration and decision-making to launch the steps needed for career success. It can be a life-long plan, through college and beyond. A career plan will assist you in completing an educational plan effectively.
Career counseling helps guide students and alumni through self-assessment, exploration, research and decision-making to find their career options and appropriate major.
Career assessment is a battery of career tests that include
interest surveys, personality inventories, skills assessments and
values clarification. These are provided free of charge at the
Career Center or in CDC classes and workshops.
The Career Center is generally open from 9:00 am – 6:00 pm, Monday and Tuesday. 9:00am-4:00pm Wednesday through Friday. Call 239-3117 to make an appointment or to verify hours.
Most CCSF departments offer CCSF students on-campus opportunities. To find these job announcements, students should first complete the student hiring eligibility for work-study or lab assistance found on the CCSF home page under Student Jobs. The next step is to review the on-campus openings go to www.ccsf.edu/jobs and follow-up on potential openings.
All off campus jobs are posted on the CCSF-College Central Network at www.collegecentral.com/ccsf/ . In addition, the College Central Network offers students and alumni the ability to post their resume, access career related articles, podcasts, and career events.
The Career Center provides services and resources to assist students and alumni in preparing to seek employment. Career counselors are available through individual and group counseling, workshops and classes to assist in resume writing, interviewing practice and job placement referrals.
Working closely with the CCSF International Student Counseling Department and the CCSF International Institute, CDC welcomes all international students to the Career Center where they can explore their career options and employment opportunities.
The CRER classes are designed to provide students and alumni an
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When photographer Nick Ballon traveled to Bolivia last October to take pictures of San Vicente, the town where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are said to have been killed in 1908, he went to the museum dedicated to that history and saw the guns that belonged to the legendary outlaws. Much later, when he had returned home to London and began to write his captions, he sent a picture to a firearms expert for confirmation that the Smith & Wesson pictured was actually the gun in question. The answer came back: No. But, says the photographer, that's kind of the point.
"The thing that interested me most is that the myth carries on even though there's huge evidence that Butch Cassidy and Sundance didn't die there," he says. "People still tell the stories."
Ballon first heard the story last summer. The photographer is half Bolivian and travels to the country every year to see his family, so he keeps an eye on news out of Bolivia. He read a film was being made about the legend—that Cassidy and Sundance ended up in San Vicente at the tail end of a streak through South America that began May 1, 1905, when they left their ranch in Argentina to escape the Pinkerton detectives on their trail, that they robbed the payroll of the silver-mining company that owns San Vicente and were killed in a shoot-out shortly after—and was intrigued by the tourists who will make an arduous trip to a distant town despite the fact that the town's claim to fame is tenuous.
The blur of fact and fiction is the open secret of San Vicente. A grave said to be Cassidy's was exhumed and DNA tests proved once and for all that it was a different man's body. In reality, though the outlaws passed through the town, they probably died many years later, in North America. Ballon says that perhaps they encouraged the myth of their deaths as a way to disappear and leave their criminal lives behind.
That sense of mystery and myth informed the pictures that Ballon made: landscapes that create a sense of atmosphere and still lifes that add character, specific and ambiguous at the same time.
"It was about trying to create a sense of who they were and where they were, because that's what I know. They were there and they traveled these trails and they spent this time in Bolivia," says Ballon. The photographer trekked the trails where Butch Cassidy would have ridden and rode the same trains. The rock formations, eerie and barren, look just as they would have looked over a century ago, when the Sundance Kid first saw them. And the sense of isolation is magnified because—appropriately enough—there is no one there.
"The project for me was not about creating a factual document of what actually happened, because there are so many versions of what happened," says Ballon. "That was the strength of the project for me: all the mystery behind that, the fact that everyone has a story to tell."
Nick Ballon is a London-based photographer. See more of his work here.


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Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two - Wii
Release Date:November 18, 2012
Also on:Nintendo Wii PS3 Wii U Xbox 360
Viewing USA:Also on UK.
Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two returns Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to Wasteland, an alternate world filled with 80 years of forgotten Disney characters and theme park attractions. But for the first time, Mickey and Oswald will join forces as true partners – Mickey with his magical paint brush that wields paint and thinner, and Oswald with his powerful remote control that allows him to command electricity. This new co-op play combined with enhanced in-game physics will further enhance the idea that "PlayStyle Matters" – a unique approach to gameplay pioneered by Warren Spector where players dynamically tackle different challenges in order to explore all possibilities and storylines, but with consequences for their chosen actions.
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Disney's Epic Mickey was a huge success upon release, selling 1.2 million copies in just a few short months. Because of this success, Disney, Nintendo and developer Junction Point decided to create a sequel. Epic Mickey: The Power of 2 offers up even more Disney nostalgia, complete with another heart warming story and all of the characters you fell in love with during the first game. The game even adds some new nods to Disney's amazing history.
Sadly, that's where the game's similarities to the first Epic Mickey end. The first Epic Mickey suffered from some minor control problems but it wasn't bad enough to ruin the experience. In Epic Mickey 2, the controls will make you frustrated and angry and detract from the experience significantly.
The idea behind Epic Mickey 2 is that you will travel through the game world not just as Mickey Mouse but also with the assistance of Oswald the Rabbit, a character from the Disney vault who was also featured in the first game. If you have another player to play with you with a second Wii Remote and Nunchuk, this player can assume the role of Oswald and offer at least some degree of intelligence to the character. But if you intend to play the game the same as the original Epic Mickey, as a solo affair, Oswald is not going to be much of a help. His artificial intelligence is almost laughable and he will frequently get in your way and just generally does more to hinder your progress than to help. Sometimes when you get to attack an enemy, Oswald will jump between you and the enemy like he's going to help you, but then he'll just stand there in your way, soaking up your paint brush attacks, effectively shielding the enemy while complaining that you are injuring him.
The combat is still seriously flawed even when Oswald is not getting in your way. The game suffers from some serious collision detection problems. Mickey can take damage when it appears that the enemy is still far enough away from him that the attack should have been avoided. You can appear to have avoided the incoming danger, only to then lose your life anyway, which is incredibly infuriating. Combat can also grow to be tedious. You're essentially doing most of the same moves over and over and even boss fights just feel way to drawn out.
The game's story offers many side quests this time around, but all of the extra quests add a bit of confusion to the game. It's not always crystal clear where you are supposed to go to complete the next main objective to progress the story. Non linear gameplay is usually welcome in most adventure games but in Epic Mickey 2 it sometimes makes you just feel lost.
If you are a hardcore Disney fan, there is enough Disney lore and nostalgia here to suggest at least taking a look. But as a game, the magic isn't there.
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Multicore Workshop: Who Said the Free Lunch Is Over?
Every now and then one of those don't-miss workshops pops up. Alas, I usually don't make it to them because the boss and I have a different definition of what "don't miss" means. But we see eye-to-eye on the upcoming Workshop on Directions in Multicore Programming Education to be held on March 8, 2009, in Washington DC. When I told him about it, the boss said "Sounds great. What time does your bus leave?" Hmmm, California to DC on a Greyhound bus for an 8-hour workshop? Darn, sounds like another great event I'll miss. But that doesn't mean you have to miss it, particularly if you're in the neighborhood.
In a nutshell, the workshop will attempt to bring together researchers and educators, with the goal of developing, through dialog, a better understanding of the possible directions to take in order to bring multicore programming education to the masses. And here's another cool part of the event -- workshop registration is free and, contrary to what Herb Sutter says, lunch is free! There are a limited number of slots, so register now!
The workshop will feature as speakers several prominent researchers and educators in the area of multiprocessor programming, including:
- Guy Steele Jr. on The Future Is Parallel: What's a Programmer to Do? Breaking Sequential Habits of Thought
- Tim Mattson on Teaching People How to "Think Parallel"
- Arvind on A Case for Teaching Parallel Programming to Freshmen.
- Guy Blelloch on Parallel Thinking
- Maurice Herlihy on It ain't the Meat it's the Notion: Why Theory is Essential to Teaching Concurrent Programming
- Dan Grossman Parallel Programming in Undergraduate Education: A View from the Ground
- Michael Scott on Don't Start with Dekker's Algorithm: Top-Down Introduction of Concurrency
- Marc Snir on Is Parallel programming Really Hard?.
I've been lucky enough to sit in on presentations by a couple of these speakers -- Guy Steele Jr. and Tim Mattson, in particular. If the only sessions you can attend are their sessions, well...that makes the trip worthwhile alone. They are great speakers.
Also, if you do get to attend, drop me a note. I'd like to hear a report on the days event. This really is an important -- perhaps the most important -- topic in software development. Like they say on the website:
This emphasis [on parallelization] reflects the advent of the web and Internet in the mid-90s. We expect that multiprocessor architectures will have an equally broad effect on everyday programming, and that similarly, the associated body of knowledge will become a core area of the curriculum within a few years.
Now that I'm thinking of it, maybe I'll check the fare for a Greyhound trip after all. There is that free lunch.


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Winter Resilience Review
An independent review into the response of England's transport system to severe winter weather was announced by the then Secretary of State on 30th March 2010; Lessons Learned from the Severe Weather of Winter 2009-10. The review, steered by a panel of three leading independent experts, considered the resilience of our Transport systems to periods of severe winter weather and reported in two stages, with their Interim and Final Report provided below.
On the 1st December 2010 the Secretary of State for Transport asked David Quarmby CBE to carry out an urgent audit of how well the highway authorities and transport operators in England had been coping with the unexpectedly early and severe spell of winter weather, having regard also to the earlier Review. Read the report, Written Ministerial Statement and accompanying press notice:
- The Audit Report
- Press notice – Reducing winter disruption: audit identifies critical measures to improve the transport system
- Written Ministerial Statement – Winter Resilience
Higways Agency report to Secretary of State For Transport in response to Winter Resilience review
Final Report
The Final Report, published on 22nd October 2010, reported on railways and aviation, as well as longer term issues of resilience for the salt supply chain. It also dealt with the economics of winter resilience, progress since the publication of the Interim Report, and cross-modal issues of public expectation and communication, and of integration between networks and modes.
Read the report, Written Ministerial Statement and accompanying press notice:
- The Final Report
- Press notice - Reducing the £1 billion cost of winter disruption: Review recommends measures to improve salt supplies
- Written Ministerial Statement - Response to the review of the resilience of England's transport systems in winter
Interim Report
The Interim Report, published on 26th July 2010, focussed on measures which could be implemented relatively quickly in relation to England's highway networks in preparation for winter 2010/11, particularly for salt supplies. It also dealt with winter service planning by highway authorities, questions around footways and self help, and weather forecasting and climate change.
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Couscous consists of small pellets of wheat used as a staple similar to rice or pasta. There are two types of couscous, both of which are used in the recipe below. What I call 'regular' couscous is made by creating pellets from moistened semolina coated with fine wheat flour. These are about 1mm in diameter before cooking. The other type, commonly called pearl or Israeli couscous, is about 2-3mm in diameter and is made from hard wheat instead of semolina.
Traditional couscous is hand-made and shaped in a very labor-intensive process. It is often steamed several times until cooked. In North America and Europe, one can purchase pre-steamed couscous which is easily prepared by adding boiling water. This quick-cooking version is popular because it can be prepared in five minutes with minimal fuss.
Early references to couscous date to 13th century Syria and Moorish Spain. By the 17th century it was known in Sicily, Tuscany, Rome and Brittany. Today it is a staple in the Maghreb, and is common but less popular in the Middle East, Southern Europe and among the Sephardic Jewish diaspora. While often topped with meat, fish or vegetables, it is often prepared as a dessert with some combination of nuts, sugar/honey, raisins, coconut, cinnamon, and milk/cream.
I made this couscous as a side dish for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It contains pomegranates which are one of the foods associated with this holiday. It was served with my Aunt Barbara's Mediterranean chicken. To read about the significance of Rosh Hashanah, see last year's post for honey cake.
Serves 14-16
4 cups chicken or vegetable stock
6 tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons salt
2 cups regular couscous
1 1/2 cups pine nuts
1 1/2 cups shallots, finely chopped
2 1/2 cups pearl (also called Israeli) couscous
4 dried bay leaves
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
zest of 2 lemons
1 bunch parsley, finely chopped
3/4 cup golden raisins
black pepper, to taste
1 pomegranate, seeds removed
Directions1. In a large pot bring 2 cups stock, 2 tablespoons butter and 1 teaspoon salt to a boil.
2. Remove from heat, add regular couscous and cover for 5 minutes.
3. Fluff with a fork and set aside.
4. Add 2 more tablespoons butter to the pot, and over medium heat sauté pine nuts until golden brown and fragrant. Set aside.
5. Add 2 more tablespoons butter to the pot, and over medium heat sauté shallots until translucent.
6. Add pearl couscous, bay leaves and cinnamon. Stir for 5-7 minutes until the couscous browns slightly.
7. Add remaining stock and 1 teaspoon salt. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low. Cover and simmer for 8-10 minutes until all the liquid has been absorbed. Make sure that the couscous is tender.
8. Remove from heat and discard the bay leaves.
9. In a large mixing bowl, combine regular couscous and pearl couscous. Add pine nuts, lemon zest, parsley, raisins, pepper and half pomegranate seeds. Mix well.
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Does Obesity Affect School Performance?
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THURSDAY, June 14, 2012 (Health.com) — Obese children and teenagers face a slew of potential health problems as they get older, including an increased risk of diabetes, heart attacks, and certain cancers. As if that weren't enough, obesity may harm young people's long-term college and career prospects, too.
In recent years, an uneven yet growing body of research has suggested that obesity is associated with poorer academic performance beginning as early as kindergarten. Studies have variously found that obese students—and especially girls—tend to have lower test scores than their slimmer peers, are more likely to be held back a grade, and are less likely to go on to college.
The latest such study, published this week in the journal Child Development, followed 6,250 children from kindergarten through fifth grade and found that those who were obese throughout that period scored lower on math tests than non-obese children.
What's more, this pattern held even after the researchers took into account extenuating factors that can influence both body size and test scores, such as family income, race, the mother's education level and job status, and both parents' expectations for the child's performance in school.
Related links:
- Working Moms May Mean Overweight Kids
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"In boys and girls alike who entered kindergarten with weight problems, we saw these differences in math performances emerge at first grade, and the poor performance persisted through fifth grade," says lead researcher Sara Gable, Ph.D., an associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology at the University of Missouri–Columbia.
The study had some limitations, however, and the results revealed some potentially important inconsistencies with respect to gender and age. For instance, the link between obesity and test scores was weaker—or nonexistent, in the case of boys—if the children became obese in the third or fifth grade, as opposed to kindergarten.
Overall, though, the findings jibe with evidence stretching back more than a decade. "I think it's been established that there's a link between students' obesity or physical fitness and academic achievement," says Rebecca London, Ph.D., a senior researcher at Stanford University's Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, in Stanford, Calif.
But London and other childhood obesity experts caution that this emerging link is much more complicated than it seems. No one knows for certain why obesity and school performance are related, or whether one directly causes the other.
As London puts it, "Is it the actual state of obesity—those extra pounds—that are somehow influencing students' achievement, or is it something related to the obesity but not the actual pounds?"
Next page: Is low self-esteem to blame?
Researchers have tried to answer this question in several different ways. In a 2011 study of students in California, for instance, London and a coauthor focused on physical fitness and found that overall fitness, including body mass index (BMI) but also strength and endurance, was a better predictor of academic performance than BMI alone.
Another study, also published last year, produced a similar finding: Adolescents' self-perception of their weight—i.e., whether or not they saw themselves as overweight—was more strongly associated with academic performance than BMI, suggesting that self-esteem and other intangibles may have a big influence.
The new study took another step in this direction by looking at the children's social skills and any outward signs of anxiety, sadness, loneliness, or low self-esteem (as observed by their teachers and parents).
Obese students generally displayed more emotional difficulties than their non-obese counterparts, and obese girls—but not boys—also displayed poorer social skills. Although the results weren't clear-cut, Gable and her colleagues concluded that these differences partly explained the obese students' lower math scores.
"Social skills and emotional well-being seem to be in the middle of the relationship," says Becky Hashim, Ph.D., a clinical child psychologist with the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, in New York City, who was not involved in the study.
But again, it's not clear whether obesity causes emotional problems or vice versa. On the one hand, Hashim says, being obese could weaken social skills if a child becomes isolated due to bullying or stigmatization. On the other hand, she adds, poor social skills could lead to sadness, which could lead to poor eating habits and weight gain if a child turns to food for comfort.
"Feelings of sadness or loneliness or anxiety in and of themselves may get in the way of school performance," Hashim says. "It may be more difficult to pay attention. These kids may be less likely to ask a question."
Social and emotional problems may not be the whole story, however. It's also possible that some of the well-documented health problems associated with childhood obesity—such as asthma, diabetes, and sleep disorders—may interfere with schoolwork or cause kids to miss class time, Gable says.
For example, she says, an obese child "who also has sleep apnea may not be getting adequate-quality sleep at night, which could be interfering with the learning process." (Gable and her colleagues didn't have data on student health or absences but highlighted those areas for future research.)
Next page: Excess weight may sap brain power
Even more insidiously, excess weight or physical inactivity might sap a child's brain power at the cellular level, by causing inflammation and other harmful biological processes, says Robert Siegel, M.D., director of the Center for Better Health and Nutrition, a pediatric obesity clinic at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
"Obesity affects virtually every organ system in the body, including the brain," Siegel says. "It's an inflammatory state, and that may have effects on the developing mind."
In the end, London says, researchers will probably determine that some combination of these factors, rather than any one, explains the link between obesity and academic performance. Figuring out how these factors work together won't be easy and won't happen overnight, she adds.
For one thing, data on the relationship between academic performance and obesity is still limited, despite the recent flurry of studies on the topic—and the recent efforts of Michelle Obama and others to draw attention to the importance of nutrition and fitness in schools.
The relative dearth of research may reflect a larger tendency in society to think of academics and health as separate realms.
"Up until recently, most schools have gone towards doing more in the classroom [to improve] academic performance, without looking at the big picture," Siegel says. "Physical education and physical activity play a very, very important role and will ultimately lead to better academic performance."
An important question left unanswered by the new study, which followed children only to about age 11, is whether early interactions between obesity and school performance snowball as children age through middle school, high school, and beyond.
"There's a reason to think that there's an accumulation of potential negative effect for children who start kindergarten struggling with obesity and who [continue to] struggle," Gable says. "We need to address this issue of a cumulative effect."


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Beth Sorrentino – I'm Not Living Here
Listen! a new preview track for the forthcoming Beth Sorrentino's "would you like to go – a Curt Boettcher Songbook," a collection of songs associated with the king of "Sunshine Pop" Curt Boettcher (1944-1987), along with another track 'I'm Not Living Here' from the album.
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Album Sequence:
01 Would You Like To Go (Boettcher/Alexander)
02 I Just Want To Be Your Friend (Boettcher)
03 The Island (Boettcher)
04 I'm Not Living Here (Boettcher)
05 You Know I've Found A Way (Boettcher/Mallory)
06 Baby, Please Don't Go (trad. arr. Boettcher)
07 Another Time (Boettcher)
08 Along Comes Mary (Almer; Boettcher co-writer credit disputed)
09 Prelude (Rhodes/Edgar)
10 The Know-It-All (Boettcher)
11 There Is Nothing More To Say (Boettcher/Fennelly/Mallory)
12 Wearing Levis (bonus track) (Boettcher)
All songs originally recorded by The Millennium, The Ballroom, Sagittarius and/or Curt Boettcher (demos), 1966-1969.
Producer: Sean Slade / Executive Producer: Irwin Chusid / Recorded with Jeremy Moses Curtis, Benny Grotto, Irwin Chusid.
LISTEN :: "Curt Boettcher – The King of Sunshine Pop" on Trilogy Rock Radio
|Illustration by Ginnie Hofmann, Mademoiselle, July 1955
Suddenly, Tammy! – Lamp
a song from their self-titled full-length debut (spinART/1993)
In the early 1990s, Beth Sorrentino formed the music trio, Suddenly, Tammy! with her brother Jay (drums), and high school friend Ken Heitmueller (bass).
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Wilson hit Braylon Edwards on fourth down for a 10-yard TD to get the Seahawks' within 23-17. After a pair of holds by Seattle's defense, Wilson found Rice open on a double move. Steven Hauschka's extra point gave Seattle the lead.
Tom Brady and the Patriots (3-3) were then stopped on fourth down at their 28 when Wes Welker came up 2 yards short, and the Seahawks (4-2) were able to celebrate the unlikely comeback.
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Well, there are more and more of them, in all sorts of guises all over the world. Further down this page, you an read about The Last Minute (now out in paperback), Johnny Swanson, and other books and stories. But for 2014, the big change is the new edition of all the Montmorency books, including the newly-published fifth episode, Montmorency Returns.
These smart new paperbacks and digital downloads are available only on Amazon. Here's a brief guide to what each is about:
Buy the paperback here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Montmorency-Eleanor-Updale/dp/148265766X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391182545&sr=1-2&keywords=updale
Buy the ebook here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Montmorency-Eleanor-Updale-ebook/dp/B00B4WGBKQ/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1391182545&sr=1-2
Montmorency is set between 1875 and 1880. This is the story of a small-time crook whose life is transformed after an accident that nearly kills him. An ambitious doctor (Robert Farcett) takes on the task of rebuilding his body, and shows him off at meetings of a scientific society. At those meetings, Montmorency learns about the new underground network of sewers under London. In prison, he plans a new life, stealing things all over London, and getting away through the smelly underground passageways. When he is released, he takes on two identities: Scarper in the Dark underground world, and Montmorency in high society. The book is all about his struggle to prevent each of his identities spoiling everything for the other.
Buy the paperback here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Montmorency-Rocks-Eleanor-Updale/dp/1482657600/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
Buy the ebook here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Montmorency-Rocks-Eleanor-Updale-ebook/dp/B009XGIV7G/ref=pd_sim_kinc_1
Montmorency on the Rocks picks up the story in 1885. At the end of the first book, it seems that Montmorency has decided to settle in the world of riches and goodness -- but five years on, his alter ego, Scarper, is back, leading him into a world of depravity. Yet Montmorency needs all his wits about him to solve two mysteries: Who is bombing London, and why, far away on a Scottish island, has a whole generation of babies died? Lots of characters from the first book come back to help Montmorency find the answers.
Buy the paperback here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Montmorency-Assassins-Eleanor-Updale/dp/1482657694/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y
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Montmorency and the Assassins starts much later - in 1898. Montmorency is getting older, and the world is changing with new inventions, faster travel, and sinister political activists threatening the stability of Europe. What begins as an easy job turns into a life-threatening struggle to track down international terrorists. And this time Scarper seems to have his clutches on someone else: Frank, the young nephew of Montmorency's dearest friend Lord George Fox-Selwyn. We are back in London and Scotland, but also in Italy and America. Once again, everything might go disastrously wrong...
Buy the paperback here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Montmorencys-Revenge-Eleanor-Updale/dp/1482657627/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1391183400&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=9781482657623
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Montmorency's Revenge starts a few months after the end of Montmorency and the Assassins. What does he want revenge for? I won't tell you in case I spoil the previous book. But I can say that the plot takes in the death of Queen Victoria and bloody events in America, France and Italy. Throughout the story Montmorency has to balance his personal obsessions against his public duties. As before, real and fictional events and people are mixed together in the plot. One character who really existed is Leopoldo Fregoli, who was an international superstar in his day. He was a mime artist and mimic, who was so good at imitating other people that his name was given to a psychiatric disorder involving identity. As you'd expect, this book has questions of identity at its heart.
Buy the paperback here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Montmorency-Returns-5-Eleanor-Updale/dp/1494220873/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391183528&sr=1-1&keywords=updale+returnsc
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Montmorency Returns picks up from the cliff-hanger at the end of the previous book, and flings Montmorency into his most dangerous adventure yet. Everyone around him is in danger, and to save them he must behave in a way that turns them against him. Will he sacrifice his life for theirs? Is this the end? Set in America, Canada and London,this book takes place in 1901/2.
As you will see in the 'News' section,
THE LAST MINUTE is now out in paperback
buy it here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Last-Minute-Eleanor-Updale/dp/0552560367/ref=tmm_pap_title_popover
The hardback and ebook are still available.
The Last Minute has sixty chapters, each of which covers just one second in the life of a small town where a series of explosions are about to take place.
It's not just a book -- There's more
WHEN YOU HAVE READ THE BOOK, you can go ONLINE to find out much more about the Heathwick disaster, Click here: www.eleanorupdale.com/minute
You will find the official Commission of Inquiry report on what happened, Press and Radio reports from the day of the disaster and the weeks that followed, and tributes to the victims. There are also clues to the identity of the unidentified body in the rubble.
As in the real world, these sources sometimes conflict. It is for you to decide where the truth lies.
Extracts from some early reviews of THE LAST MINUTE are on the NEWS page of this site. So far, everyone has been really enthusiastic.
And here is the full text of the rave review from the BOOKWITCH:
I defy anyone to put this book down before you've got to the end. I really mean that. There are many fantastically good books where you can break off and do other things in the middle of reading. If you have to. With Eleanor Updale's The Last Minute I had to forget about doing anything I had planned, as well as telling Daughter I couldn't talk to her on the phone until I was done.
It's a most unusual concept, featuring the last sixty seconds in the lives of the people on the High Street in a small town. Just before Christmas, just after nine in the morning, there are lots of people out doing what people do. Shopping. Having coffee. Getting buried. Picking up dog poo. Delivering the post. Chugging. Going on a school trip.
Feeling happy, worried, tired or excited. Procrastinating, painting, having a bath, running, bidding on eBay. Sitting on a plane about to land at the nearby airport. Repairing the gas mains.
A minute later there will be an explosion, killing many of the people you've just met and got to know so well, in their everyday worries and concerns.
The prologue 'helpfully' shows the reader what has just happened, leaving no illusions as to the possibility of a happier outcome.
The Last Minute shows a realistic cross-section of life in Britain today, and most of us will recognise ourselves in one or two of these people. I won't call them characters. They were always people.
A little reminiscent of Under Milk Wood in the way the story darts between all of them, except faster. It's amazing the number of actions and thoughts we can cram into sixty seconds.
Just writing about it has my heart rate going all over the place.
(It won't be in the shops until early January, I'm afraid. But you needed to be told now.)
There have already been two advance reviews from Booksellers
'Eleanor Updale's THE LAST MINUTE starts at the "end" of the story after a huge explosion rocks an ordinary high street. Getting to the bottom of how it all happened is down to the reader's powers of deduction and observation as Updale fills in the minutiae of everyone's activities just before the event. This is a very clever and compelling piece of writing.'
'In THE LAST MINUTE Eleanor Updale has written in an unusual form, describing the characters in one town; a snapshot of their lives as the seconds tick towards a devastating series of explosions. It is a real achievement to make the reader care about so many characters that one spends relatively little time with, and to capture the absolute normality that precedes such life-changing incidents. You both wonder who will be affected by the disasters and also spot clues along the way that may or may not be relevant to the story. I found this so compelling that I read this book in one sitting.'
Children's Bookseller Choice 26 October 2012
You can still get JOHNNY SWANSON. It's set in 1929, when the First World War had been over for a decade, but the scars still showed. Johnny is a boy who tries to do his best, but accidentally plunges into a world of deceit and murder that threatens everything - even his mother's life.
See the NEWS page of this website for the wonderful reviews it has received.
Johnny Swanson is published by David Fickling Books (which is part of Random House). It is also available as a download for some e-readers, though not yet as an audiobook.
Saved is published by the award-winning company, Barrington Stoke.
It's the story of a boy who has to decide whether to challenge his parents, who are members of an extreme religious cult. They don't believe in modern medicine. But then Luke's sister is almost killed in a car crash. What should he do? And how did the accident happen?
Other Work
I love writing short stories, and am proud to have been involved with a wonderful anthology of work by writers and illustrators which was published to celebrate the 60th birthday of the Prince of Wales, and to raise money for The Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts. The Birthday Book, which would be a fabulous present for anyone, was edited by Michael Morpurgo and Quentin Blake, who are great supporters of the charity. My story, Bobby Bailey's Brown Bread Birthday, has been illustrated by the wonderful Posy Simmonds.
Another of my short stories can be found in a book called THIRTEEN (edited by John McLay and published by Orchard Books). It's a collection of 13 stories, by 13 writers, about being 13.
The other writers in the book are Eoin Colfer, Mary Hooper, Kevin Brooks, Paul Bailey, Jean Ure, Marcus Sedgwick, Kay Woodward, Helen Oyeyemi, John McLay, Margaret Mahy, Bali Rai and Karen McCombie.
I'm thrilled to be in such good company.
My story is called DOUBLE THIRTEEN. It's about a girl whose thirteenth birthday is on Friday 13 th.
I've also got a story in a collection called WAR: STORIES ABOUT CONFLICT, edited by Michael Morpurgo. The other writers in that book include: Joan Aiken, Eva Ibbotson, Jamila Gavin, Elizabeth Laird, George Layton, Geraldine McCaughrean, Margaret Mahy, Michelle Magorian, Michael Morpurgo, and Celia Rees.
My story is called Not a Scratch. It's about the invisible victims of war: the people who don't feature in the casualty figures, but whose families are nevertheless transformed for generations. .
A short story by me is included in a book called MIDNIGHT FEAST. Other contributors include Eoin Colfer, Darren Shan and Jamie Oliver. My story, called Sir Kilfay and the Nano-Spies, is about spies and headlice (you'll have to read it to find out why). The collection is published by HarperCollins in support of the charity, Warchild.
I seem to have a bit of a thing about head lice. I'm on about them again in the book WOW! 366, to which lots of authors contributed stories, each using just 366 words. It was done to mark the Year of Reading (2008 was a leap year, hence 366) and to raise money for the charity, Childline. My contribution 'The New Masters of the Universe', is in verse.
THE TRUTH IS DEAD is a collection of short stories, edited by Marcus Sedgwick, each of them picturing what might have happened if a real historical event had turned out differently. My story is about the Millennium Bug, and imagines what Britain could have been like if all computers had ceased to work at midnight on New Year's Eve 1999.
I also have a story in the collection, Haunted. My story - The Ghost in the Machine - is about a very modern ghost who haunts someone though his computer.