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Ofsted Report
About Ofsted
The new Ofsted – the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills – came into being on 1 April 2007. It brings together the wide experience of four formerly separate inspectorates. It will inspect and regulate care for children and young people, and inspect education and training for learners of all ages.
We want to raise aspirations and contribute to the long term achievement of ambitious standards and better life chances for service users. Their educational, economic and social well-being will in turn promote England's national success
To achieve this we will report fairly and truthfully; we will listen to service users and providers; and we will communicate our findings with all who share our vision, from service providers to policy-makers. We do not report to government ministers but directly to Parliament (and to the Lord Chancellor about children and family courts administration). This independence means you can rely on us for impartial information.
The Education and Inspections Act, which established the new Ofsted, specifically requires that in everything we do we should:
- promote service improvement
- ensure services focus on the interests of their users
- see that services are efficient, effective and promote value for money
We carry out hundreds of inspections and regulatory visits each week, publishing our findings within the Inspection reports area of this website. Our themed and subject specific findings and recommendations on wider issues within the care, learning, and skills agenda, as well as statistical information, can be found in the Publications and research area.
And you can find more detailed explanations of which services we inspect and regulate, and how, and the latest guidance documents in the Forms and guidance area.
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"Either get a spiritual path or get a divorce lawyer." That's what Chris Cade's former wife told him in 2006. Hoping to save his marriage, Chris begrudgingly went to the "spirituality" section of the bookstore. He unexpectedly found himself on the rocky road of personal transformation... Read More About Chris»
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A mother and her family grieved Friday morning, hours after the woman's 6-year-old son was struck and killed by a car in front of his grandmother's home in Vista.
Family members said the boy, Isaac Nutter, ran into Spires Street when an SUV came around the corner from North Melrose Drive and struck him just before 6:10 p.m.
The boy's aunt, Marily Carachure, 29, said Isaac was standing in the driveway, waving goodbye to her across the street when one of his 4-year-old cousins tossed Isaac's shoe into the road. Isaac scrambled after it. The SUV turned the corner and was "coming really fast," she said.
"I saw the shoe fly. I was like, 'Oh, my God! No!'" she said.
Isaac's uncle, Luther Carachure, 35, said he was in the garage when he heard the crash and heard family members scream Isaac's name. He ran out to find the boy face down in the road. He cradled Isaac in his arms.
"I said, 'Wake up. Come on. We have got to get to the hospital.' I heard two quick breaths, and that was it. I knew he was gone," the uncle said, choking up.
He said he held Isaac until deputies and paramedics arrived.
The boy was flown by helicopter to Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, where he died.
Sheriff's officials said the SUV driver had not seen the boy in the street. She stopped and has not been cited. The crash remains under investigation.
Fanny Carachure, a 26-year-old single mother, described her oldest son — with his dimples and an ever-present grin — as a loving child.
"He was always smiling, always happy. He was the perfect son," she said as she stood 10 feet from the crash site.
She said Isaac adored his 1-year-old brother, James. Carachure played a cellphone video of her two sons playing at bedtime earlier this week. The brothers giggled as they jumped and rolled on a bed.
Family members said Isaac was a first-grader at Grapevine Elementary School in Vista. He loved to dance, loved to play Angry Birds, and pretended to be WWE wrestler John Cena.
They said Isaac would walk around showing off his biceps. And his mother would tell him that he if wanted to be strong like Cena, he would have to eat all of his dinner.
Issac's mother said she needs help with funeral costs, so the family has set up the Isaac Nutter Memorial Service Fund at Wells Fargo Bank. The account number is 7279020056. Anyone interested in assisting Isaac's family can call Luther Carachure at (760) 845-0589.


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Say this for New York Gov.-For-Now David Paterson: He can take a hint. Provided that hint is delivered over and over again by public opinion polls, political colleagues and high-ranking members of his own party.
Say this for New York Gov.-For-Now David Paterson: He can take a hint. Provided that hint is delivered over and over again by public opinion polls, political colleagues and high-ranking members of his own party.
The door to the governor's mansion was opened for Paterson by scandal. It has likewise been closed, in part, by scandal. And of that door, many New Yorkers are thinking, "Don't let it hit you on the way out, Dave."
The poor governor has had a difficult two years in office.
His political fortunes rose when his predecessor's trousers fell. Former Gov. Eliot "Leave off the last 'T' for Tawdry" Spitzer resigned in disgrace in March 2008 amid a prostitution scandal. (And check out this career arc: The woman involved is now a newspaper columnist.)
By contrast, Paterson was a more humorous, less egotistical lawmaker who, he told us shortly after being sworn in, hadn't been unfaithful to his wife for years!
Still, there was a lot to root for: Paterson had overcome blindness to build his political career. He was New York's first governor of color (second if you count how red-faced Spitzer was before resigning). And he talked a good game about getting the state's fiscal house in order. (For those of you who don't know, the state's fiscal house looks as if it has had a large, banished-from-campus fraternity living in it since Nelson Rockefeller was governor.)
Unfortunately, Paterson was not able to convince legislative leaders of simple maxims about public spending — like how, in the depths of a Recession, you shouldn't increase the state budget by 9 percent. He lost a lot of supporters there.
Then his party, well ... went sort of crazy. Last summer, two Democratic state senators decided to join the Republicans. This reversed the Democrats' 32-30 majority in the Senate, putting the Republicans back in charge by the same slim margin. So the Republicans argued. Then one of the Democrats returned to his original party, which, in a stunning display of how self-interest trumps principles in Albany — took him back. This really confused everyone. For weeks nobody knew who was in charge and no work got done. In other words, it was business as usual, but the public was paying attention. And Paterson, the state's governor and highest-ranking Democrat, demonstrated all the moral authority of a substitute teacher in an unruly shop class. He lost a lot of supporters there, too.
In between, he managed to flub the appointment to fill the remainder of U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's term after she became secretary of state, dissing potential successor Caroline Kennedy in the process. He lost the Clintons and the Kennedys and their supporters there.
Since then, the governor has offered a number of proposals — such as withholding New Yorkers' income-tax returns — that seemed designed to not only close the state's budget gap but absolutely ruin his political career. An evil twin couldn't have come up with less popular ideas.
So New York will elect another governor this fall, its third in four years. There are a few good candidates out there and we wish them well. The job isn't any easier but the expectations have gotten a lot lower.
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Hi all,
I'm happy to join in such a bright community and would like to introduce myself very briefly.
I am from Turkey and as you could guess I was grown up in a muslim society. I thought I was a muslim but I always had ever-lasting questions in my mind. I was wondering why I find the idea of God strange and not reasonable. In a period of time I was actually trying to be a believer since every single friend of mine was so. I even went to Mosque many times with my friends and fast several years (not eating in Ramadan). To get answers to my questions I was talking to imams after pray. None of them liked my questions and eventually they told my friend not to take me to the Mosque anymore. Well, now I feel thankful to them.
I have always been intrigued in biology both practically and theoretically. When I encountered different stories of "creation of life",I got even bigger questions. Then one day I read Quran at the age of 16. It took just 20 pages to start drawing smiles next to the ridiculous passages (Well, after a while I had to stop it because it was taking more time than reading.)Having read the Quran, I put myself in a race to know all about religion history. Therefore, if you ask "what did make you an atheist ?" I dont sayt "Dawkins" but Quran. The best atheist-maker books are the sacred books,with a little requirement: "Ability to think". Anyway, then I got to know the grim history if Turks made muslim by sword in extremely barbaric ways. Knowing more about muslims and their goals made it so easy to understand religious/political issues all over the World.
When I picked "Selfish Gene" in the same year, as the next book to read about biology, something much more amazing and beautiful started to be clear. Life itself.
Right now I am not living in Turkey (its quite hard to stand ignorance) and working in Europe as a software engineer hoping that one day I switch to my dream job, evolutionary biologist.
Cheers !
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Yup, Turkey's a shithole.
As Utah Philipes once said, 'Utah is a great place to excape from.'
Should we add Turkey?
Hey James, you've been missed! Hope all is well.
Thank you.
Welcome to TA
Thank you.
Welcome to TA :)
Thank you.
Welcome to TA! I like that your religious text made you an atheist. :)
Thank you.
Actually I have never been a former muslim, I was just trying to convince myself that I was. Naturally I was feeling weird not to believe while everyone around me believes.
Well, when I was around 13 years old I was banned from several mosques since I was asking questions that possibly ignite more questions in their minds which is very dangerous for their faith.
When I was leading a community defending secularism, feminism, revolutions ..etc I was threaten several times by Islamist. But nothing bad happened.
Welcome to TA :)


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Introduction to Bioinformatics using NGS data, 2 hp
Previously named Computational Methods for Massively Parallel Sequencing.
National course. The course is open for PhD students, postdocs, researchers and other employees in need of bioinformatic skills within all Swedish universities.
Important dates
Application open: January 10
Application deadline: February 3
Confirmation to accepted students: February 10
Responsible teachers: Manfred Grabherr, Martin Dahlö, Bengt Persson
If you don't receive information according to the dates above, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com
Course fee
A course fee of 1800 SEK will be invoiced to accepted participants (includes the study material, coffee, lunches and course dinners).
Course content
In collaboration with BILS, SciLIfeLab will organize the course Introduction to Bioinformatics using NGS data. The course will provide an introduction to a wide range of analytical techniques for massively parallel sequencing, including basic linux commands. We will pair lectures on the theory of analysis algorithms with practical computational excercises demonstrating the use of common tools for analyzing data from each of several common sequencing study designs.
Topics covered will include:
- NGS read-to-reference alignment (genomic and RNA-Seq)
- Variant calling in populations
- De novo assembly of genomic and RNA-sequence data
- RNA-Seq expression analysis
Analysis techniques covered will focus mostly on data from the Illumina platform, but we will discuss other sequencing platforms and the advantages and challenges to using their data.
Entry requirements
A background in genetics, cell biology, biomedicine, biochemistry, bioinformatics or comparable is desirable
To get the maximum benefit from the course we would like you to
- Have relevant previous experience in sequencing or analysis
- Have a research project where you are currently using next generation sequencing or are planning to use next generation sequencing
- Be able to bring your own laptop for the practical computational exercises, but there will be computers to use for participants unable to do so.
- It is beneficial if you are directly performing analyses or if you have a support role and will be able to participate in a wide range of projects and transfer your knowledge to others
Selection criteria include correct entry requirements, motivation to attend the course as well as gender and geographical balance.


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Study supports lumpectomy in early breast cancer
Last Updated: 2013-01-30 11:20:29 -0400 (Reuters Health)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new look at real-world outcomes for women with early-stage breast cancer finds that breast-conserving surgery may offer survival odds that are as good, or even better, than breast removal.
"It was kind of an exciting and hopeful message that women don't have to go off to get a mastectomy to do better," said Dr. E. Shelley Hwang, the study's lead author from the Duke Cancer Institute in Durham, North Carolina.
Despite clinical trials showing lumpectomy to be as effective as mastectomy in treating early breast cancers, the number of women choosing mastectomy has recently been on the rise, Hwang and her colleagues write in the journal Cancer.
To try to understand why, and to see whether the results seen in trials held up in the general population, Hwang's team looked at survival rates for more than 100,000 California women who had lumpectomy or mastectomy for early-stage breast cancers.
"I think a lot of women were making that decision (for mastectomy) because they thought the lumpectomy was not enough," Hwang told Reuters Health.
"In that context, we wanted to know if lumpectomy works just as well as mastectomy in the modern era," she said.
For the new study, the researchers used data collected by the Cancer Prevention Institute of California on 112,154 women who were diagnosed with stage I or II breast cancer between 1990 and 2004.
The majority - 55 percent - of women had a lumpectomy with radiation, and the rest had a mastectomy without radiation. The researchers then tracked the women's health for an average of nine years to see how they fared.
Overall, 31,416 women died by the time the study ended in 2009, and 39 percent of those deaths were due to breast cancer.
But researchers found the women who had a lumpectomy with radiation were more likely to survive than women who had a mastectomy, regardless of age or cancer subtype.
The difference was most pronounced among women who were over 50 years old and diagnosed with the most common type of breast cancer - one that's fed by hormones like estrogen or progesterone. Those who chose lumpectomy had a 19 percent lower likelihood of dying from breast cancer than counterparts who got mastectomies.
Hormone-sensitive tumors are generally considered easier to treat because they respond to hormone-blocking drugs. And cancers that occur in pre-menopausal women are often more aggressive.
But the survival advantage with lumpectomy held up even when researchers accounted for age, tumor stage and type, race, economic status and other factors. Among women younger than 50 with hormone-sensitive cancers, for instance, those who had lumpectomy had a 7 percent lower chance of death than those who had mastectomy.
Hwang said the survival difference between recipients of lumpectomy and mastectomy might be partly explained by the fact that women who got a mastectomy tended to be in worse health to begin with.
Her team also looked at causes of death in the short term, three years after treatment, to gauge whether other serious health conditions like heart or respiratory disease might have influenced a woman's choice to go with mastectomy and might also have skewed survival rates.
With other diseases taken into account, the survival advantage for lumpectomy was much smaller but still held.
The study cannot prove that lumpectomy is the factor responsible for the apparent survival benefit. And the researchers did not have access to some specific details about the women's tumors, or whether some women carried gene mutations that could affect their susceptibility to cancer or influence their treatment choices.
In 2013, The American Cancer Society estimates that 232,340 U.S. women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and 39,620 will die from it.
In the U.S. a lumpectomy can cost over $7,000 while a mastectomy can cost more than $10,000. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS) each surgery comes with risks, including pain, swelling and scar tissue. Radiation, which usually accompanies lumpectomy, also comes with side effects, including complications during breast reconstruction.
Aside from surgery, ACS says women may also choose to be treated with chemotherapy, targeted genetic treatments and hormone-blocking therapy.
Hwang also cautions that the survival differences are relative and the actual benefit associated with lumpectomy in this study is small for an individual woman.
"I wouldn't overstate these results, because the survival difference can come from other things," said Dr. Dawn Hershman, co-leader of the Breast Cancer Program at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York.
But Hershman, who was not involved with the new study, told Reuters Health that the findings are reassuring.
"Sometimes patients in practice can be very different than patients in randomized trials. It's reassuring that patients who get breast-conserving therapy do at least as well as those with mastectomy," she said, adding that not all women are candidates for a lumpectomy.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/14pbzCY Cancer, online January 28, 2013.
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Garfield County Cooperative Extension
Garfield County 4-H
What is 4-H?
4-H is the largest youth serving organization in the world. All 50 states and over 80 countries world-wide have 4-H programs. 4-H members do things that are fun and learn skills they can use for the rest of their lives - on the job, at home or with friends. In 4-H, participants "learn by doing," and most activities are hands-on. Most 4-H clubs hold monthly meetings attended by members and their parents.
What Kids Do in 4-H?
It's up to you. You can make a rocket, grow vegetables, hatch an egg, use computers, give a speech, perform on stage, go hiking or camping, learn to shop smart or raise an animal. And there's more! In 4-H, you'll be working with other young people on common goals and, if you wish, leading younger kids. 4-H allows you to focus on your own talents and interests.
Who Can Join 4-H?
Any youth age 9 to 19 can join the Garfield County 4-H program. A non-competitive program called Cloverbuds for 5-8 year olds is available through some local clubs.
How to get the most out of your 4-H year.
Attend your local meetings – get involved in the activities;
Offer to take on responsibilities;
Get your project literature, read it and do the activities;
Participate in activities at the county level;
Keep records of what you do with your projects so you can fill out a record book at the end of the year for awards;
Teach others what you know – LEADERSHIP
· do workshops at county events
· do workshops at your local club
Help others – CITIZENSHIP
· help your neighbor
· give to the needy
· offer your services to others
Remember, participation, leadership and citizenship are necessary for the top awards.
Most importantly – GET INVOLVED
Attend local meetings – offer help with meetings;
Offer to take on responsibilities –
· drive 4-Her's to a contest
· provide refreshments
· suggest and help with a citizenship project
Help your child with project work – get the literature and work through the activities;
Become a Project or Activity Leader – All you need is an interest in kids and the willingness to share your time and knowledge with them. Teach a skill, help with project work, help write a speech, help rehearse a talent show.
Help your child learn to keep records;
You have a part in helping your child have a good 4-H experience. Get involved in the local 4-H club. 4-H leaders need your help!
A successful 4-H year does not just happen,
It is planned and takes work!!
To Enroll in 4-H
To be a 4-H Volunteer:
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OAKLAND — With a towel around his neck and a warm-up shirt over his Warriors jersey, Stephen Curry ran onto the court in celebration.
The excitement was understandable given that the Warriors' bench players had stunningly dominated the Dallas Mavericks and sparked Golden State's 108-85 win Tuesday against a fellow Western Conference contender.
With a road game against the Los Angeles Clippers looming Wednesday, Curry got some much-needed rest while being cautious with his strained right quadriceps.
Backup guard Jordan Crawford had the hot hand as the Warriors won their fifth straight, scoring 14 of his 19 points in a 10-minute stretch during which he was 6 for 6 from the field, including a long jump shot to beat the first-quarter buzzer.
Steve Blake came in for Curry and oversaw the Warriors' comeback from a 16-8 deficit to take a 45-27 lead with 6:58 left in the second quarter after Crawford buried a turnaround fadeaway. Blake finished with nine points and eight assists, with coach Mark Jackson calling him "a maestro" after the game.
"You watch the great teams in this league, and that's how they handle business," Jackson said. "They win ballgames. They get their star players rest. They take care of business, and that's exactly what we did tonight."
Midseason trade acquisitions Blake and Crawford along with Harrison Barnes and Draymond Green hit 3-pointers while Jermaine O'Neal had six of his seven rebounds during the sudden turn of events.
The starters seemed energized by the second unit as Curry bounded off the bench when Dallas was forced to call timeout before he checked back into the game. The starters' collective reaction?
"Lovin' it," center Andrew Bogut said.
Andre Iguodala proceeded to block the Mavericks' Shawn Marion and on the other end of the court had a one-handed putback dunk off a missed Curry 3-pointer to force another timeout. Bogut had three dunks to cap his 15-point night, all of which were scored on the first half on 7-for-8 shooting.
Dallas went on a 10-2 run to cut the lead to nine at the start of the third quarter, but Curry responded with a 3-point play. The Warriors held a double-digit lead for the rest of the game, pushing the lead to as many as 24 points.
Former Warriors guard Monta Ellis led Dallas with 15 points, and Dirk Nowitzki added 12, but the Warriors didn't let up in the second half as the starters got their rest.
"We have a legitimate second unit with no weaknesses," Jackson said.
Blowing out Dallas enabled Curry to get plenty of time on the bench headed into the second game of a back-to-back. He played only 22 minutes, scoring 10 points on 4-for-12 shooting while collecting four assists and three turnovers.
"You look at last year about this time, we're in the same kind of race, and the starters were playing 45 minutes a night, and I know it took its toll on me to the point where I got injured," forward David Lee said. "It's the time of year when any time you can get rest it's huge, especially with a big back-to-back tomorrow."
The Warriors, who held Dallas to 36.6 percent shooting, have won 10 of 12 games since the All-Star break. They most recently beat Phoenix and Dallas at a time when each opponent entered Oracle Arena with the seventh-best record in the Western Conference and one spot below Golden State.
The Mavericks dropped to the No. 8 spot in the Western Conference standings and three games behind Golden State.
The Warriors' game at the Los Angeles Clippers pits them against the Pacific Division leader by four games and the hottest team in the NBA riding an eight-game winning-streak.
For more on the Warriors, see the Inside the Warriors blog at ibabuzz.com/warriors. Follow Diamond Leung on Twitter at twitter.com/diamond83.
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Beacause I will be too busy doing "I am a Rocket" over at Modern Tales!!!
Yes, that's right, I am now officially part of Modern Tales. Tired of all the slow downs at Keenspace I took a chance and submitted some stuff to Joey "The Man" Manley. Sooner that you can say "Butt Nutt Knocker" I'm signing a year long contract with the best comic site on the internet!!!
The only thing I've got to decide now is if I want to have VND or Highfalutin' as my web site. I may be moving VND over there ( Highfalutin' ), so watch for a new post soon.


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The history of art pottery at Iowa State began in 1920 with the hiring of Paul Cox (American, 1879-1968) as acting head of the Ceramic Engineering Department. Cox has previously spent eight years at Newcomb College in New Orleans as technical director of Newcomb Pottery. Cox eventually became the official head of ISU's Ceramic Engineering Department in 1926. Initially Cox's attention was focused on clearing and preparing the laboratories and work spaces, as well as securing new equipment. The then began traveling throughout Iowa as part of an extension program designed to educate the public about the area of ceramics and its importance to industry and home decoration. Because of Cox's influence, the modeling of clay and the production of art pottery began to receive equal attention with the technical aspects of ceramics. The Ceramic Engineering Department slowly gained popularity among students and faculty. Under Cox's direction the student branch of the American Ceramic Society became involved with VEISHEA (the annual student celebration) and its traditions. The students prepared floats for the parade and also made hundreds of ceramic souvenirs to be sold or given away to campus visitors. One such souvenir, a ceramic tile featuring the iconic Campanile involved then sculptor-in-residence Christian Petersen, and can be seen in this exhibition. In 1924 Cox hired Newcomb graduate Mary Lanier Yancey (American, 1902-1983) as an instructor in the Ceramic Engineering Department. Her position had two priorities: teaching pottery design and creating pottery for exhibiting throughout the state. Yancey's Arts and Crafts style pottery was sold and the resulting funds were returned to the department to assist in funding its operations. Most of Yancey's students were women majoring in Home Economics. The male students in the department worked the clay and prepared it for shaping. The women formed pots by hand or by using a kickwheel. The pots were then glazed and fired and taken home to admire. Art pottery production at Iowa State ended in 1930 with both Cox and Yancey leaving the department. The "art" aspect of the Ceramic Engineering Department at Iowa State was terminated in 1939 when the emphasis went entirely to engineering and technical matters.


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1-30-11 Piratefest Day 3
We were back at Piratefest on Sunday for the third and final day of the three day weekend baseball event. The Pirates had sent me six tickets, so I sold two, used two on Friday, and saved the last two for today.
Before heading to Piratefest, I was treated to breakfast at a restaurant named DeLuca's in the Strip District.
I had never been to DeLuca's let alone the strip district, so this was a nice little adventure for me. DeLuca's proclaims to have the 'Best Breakfast in Town,' and the large line that was waiting outside in the cold drizzle.
We waited for about twenty minutes before getting into the small, packed restaurant. One of the restaurant's claim to fame is being featured on the Man vs Food series.
We had pancakes…
Chocolate strawberry pancakes for her:
And blueberry pancakes for me:
I also had a side of sweet sausage, which tasted much better than it looked.
The food was great, and it filled me up until 5 PM. I wasn't crazy about the interior Steeler decorating, especially after being hassled at every corner by street vendors selling Steeler pennants and buttons. I'm looking forward to the Super Bowl being over so this town settles down.
When we got to the David L Lawrence Convention Center around 11:40, twenty minutes before the doors were to open, we were greeted by a monstrous line that snaked around and to the back of the convention center.
It took us about 10 minutes after the gates opened to finally get into Piratefest.
When we entered, we headed over to the MVP Zone to get autographs from Paul Maholm and Ross Ohlendorf.
I had Ross sign my calendar since he signed a ball for me yesterday. Paul Maholm also signed a ball. Interestingly, he dropped the number 28 from his signature (the other 3 signatures on balls I have from Paul have a 28) – perhaps he expects to be traded in the coming months. He is in the final year of a contract, although the Pirates hold an option for 2012, which most certainly will be turned down since its for $9.75 million.
Later in the MVP Zone (which is for Season Ticket Holders only) we had Jose Tabata sign a baseball,
along with 1991 National League Cy Young Award winner Doug Drabek.
Drabek was probably my second favorite Pirate of the 1990-1992 teams, with Andy Van Slyke being the first.
The MVP Zone is one of the nice perks of being a season ticket holder. Season Ticket Holders can get autographs there without waiting an average of 90 minutes on the other side of the Convention Center. The same players come over to the MVP Zone throughout the day either before or after they are done signing for the general public.
Good (Season Ticket Holder autograph lines):
Bad (everyone else):
The other autograph that I got today was Andrew McCutchen. We were allowed two autographs per person, so I had him sign a baseball and a Canvas Photo Wrap that I had won earlier in the day.
We didn't play many games because the lines were ridiculously long. I didn't really see the point of standing in line for 30 minutes to spin a wheel and win some give away stuff that I already have at home.
We caught some of the entertainment at the Piratefest stage:
There was Deal or No Deal:
More Minute to Win It, this time with Paul Maholm:
and Family Feud with the "Maholm Family" pitted against the "Morton Family."
It was Paul Maholm vs Charlie Morton, and each player had 3 other fans assigned to his 'family.' The questions were related to the Pirates or Pittsburgh, and season ticket holders were those surveyed to provide the results for the game.
Here's a video of a round of it:
That was basically it for the day. Got a few autographs, walked around, played a couple games at the beginning of the day before the crowd swelled, and watched some games at the Piratefest stage.
The Pirates set an all time record for the Piratefest weekend, drawing 16,839 fans, which was an increase of 1,400 over last year. The thing is, this is my fifth year as a season ticket holder, and every other year, I only received two free tickets to Piratefest. This year, I was given six. I saw some fans giving away their passes at the door. Therefore, I believe that the numbers are 'juiced' by the flood of free tickets that were distributed to the fan base. Yes, there's some reason to be excited, but a 105 loss team doesn't just draw an all time record to its Fanfest. Does anyone expect the Pirates to even approach their 2001 attendance home figure of 33,000 per game? No.
The real test of how excited this town really is about Pirates baseball will be the home attendance. We'll see how many folks show up. By the way, the Pirates raised ticket prices for the first time in nine years this week. Season Ticket and advance purchased tickets will stay the same, but tickets purchased on the day of the game will be about an average of $3 more.
I'm hoping that attendance stays low, at least for batting practice, so it makes collecting baseballs easier, but we'll see.
Spring Training is just around the corner. Get ready.


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Four underage girls brought to Stamford from out of state to work as prostitutes over Super Bowl weekend were rescued during a joint operation with Stamford police, State Police and the FBI over the weekend.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Friday Fricassee
You'll be shocked to know that I regularly geek out over my stats. No, really. Of course I like to see agents and editors show up; of course I obsess over New York ISPs. All blogging authors do. Right?
If it's not true, don't tell me.
But it goes beyond that. I puzzle over trends, like why I have so many readers in Massachusetts. Not just the main urban areas, but towns with curious names that sound like settings for novels.
And how many writers there are from my old stomping grounds in the Northeast (yeah, yeah, you all know I'm a Yankee. This isn't some kind of new disclosure.).
And if those readers WHO LIVE WHERE I LIVE NOW will ever bump into me at Starbucks and never know who I am.
And how in the world somebody from Bosnia and Herzegovina found me.
And so on.
A fun little exercise, to be sure. But today I'm asking for more. Because I lurve you.
So. Where are you from? How did you find me? How has the COMMUNITY here touched your life?
I'm certain to love reading your comments today!
81 comments:
Where am I right now?ReplyDelete
I'm looking through your window! Muahaha!
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2009 at 11:30 AM
I'm your barista! Muahaha! And I found you cause it was meant to be. Happy Friday!ReplyDelete
I am not afraid of either of you. =PReplyDelete
I'm an ex-pat Brit who, somehow, ended up in Arizona seven years ago.ReplyDelete
Just found out yesterday that US Immigration are going to let us stay (long story).
I found you through Absolute Write and am glad I did. :)
I'm one of those Massachusetts people. (Watertown to be exact.) And, to be honest, I can't remember how I found you. A RT on Twitter or a mention in a Nathan Bransford blog comment?ReplyDelete
At any rate, I'm glad I did!
I ended up in South Carolina via Arkansas, Alabama, and Indiana.ReplyDelete
I found you in a search for "Miss Snark."
Well, I'm in New Orleans after just having moved here from the Boston area (Norwood) and can't really remember how I found you though I sort of remember a comment thread from earlier this year where I might have answered that question (maybe I'm just confusing myself...wouldn't be the first time).ReplyDelete
The community has been great, especially the support and critiques (both for my own writing and for others) which has been wonderful! I'm finally at a point with my latest manuscript to start entering it in a Secret Agent contest, since FROSTY ended up going nowhere, unfortunately. Keep up the great work!
Central Illinois, representin'. This was the first writing blog I stumbled across, I think by clicking random links.ReplyDelete
I found you by following Rachelle Gardner on Twitter. I had heard talk of the Secret Agent for a long time but no one had ever successfully linked me over here.ReplyDelete
Anyway, I'm relatively new to your blog. Certainly not a full-on member of the community. But I'm just a bit north of Mickeyville. Orlando, Florida.
I currently live in Utah. If I didn't currently live here, I would have never met Shannon Hale, who has become one of my writing idols. Without hearing her speak so many times, and without being a part of a community with so many awesome YA Fantasy writers around, I have no idea where my writing would be right now. Thank you Shannon Hale, Brandon Sanderson, Brandon Mull, Mette Ivie Harrison, Jessica Day George and others for living here!ReplyDelete
I'm in Seattle. I can't remember who's blog I found you through now, but it was one of the many pub blogs I read. ;)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2009 at 1:07 PM
I'm another one in Massachusetts. Interesting that there are so many. I found my way here from Kristin Nelson's blog, shortly after my first foray into the publishing blog world. Thank goodness, or I might have been scared away by the negativity that crops up elsewhere. :DReplyDelete
I am in Kansas City, have been most of my life, and probably will spend the remainder of it here. My sister told me about your site, and I've been coming back ever since the first visit.ReplyDelete
- Marie AndreasOctober 23, 2009 at 1:20 PM
I'm from San Diego (La Mesa technically, but more folks know where San Diego is-LOL.) Lived here most of my life with a few years in the bay area and Santa Cruz.ReplyDelete
How did I find you....it must have been off someone elses blog, most likey Nathan's?
I'm a newbie here but this group helped alot- but you lovely Authoress, and the folks who critiqued my entry in Sept's Secret Agent- got some GREAT feedback!
Love this place!
I'm from Scotch Plains, NJ, USA and found you via other blogs I read, I was an avid reader of the original Miss Snark so when I saw the blog name and excerpts I was especially intrigued. I've participated in one of the Secret Agent contests and found the feedback of a few dozen fellow readers to be enlightening. Unfortunately the feedback wasn't positive, but it was very constructive and has helped me re-evaluate my approach to that story and others I've been working on.ReplyDelete
Love the blog, keep up the GREAT work.
I am an Aussie who lived in South America and now in Canada. I only found your blog yesterday when I was doing research on an agent I am interested in querying. I followed Miss Snark from the get go and so anyone who remembers our fearless blogging agent, HAS to be worth hanging out with! I'm looking forward to getting involved in the community.ReplyDelete
I don't comment often but I read your posts in Google Reader. I don't remember where exactly I first found you -- I'm sure one of the many blogs I read mentioned you a time or twenty.ReplyDelete
I'm an American living in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, but your stat thing probably says I'm from Acapulco, which is three hours away.
I'm smack dab in between Hell and Ohio in the great state of Pennsylvania. And no, I will not be your friend (lame joke).ReplyDelete
I found this site through Absolute Write.com, and I'm glad I did. The tips I learned on here actually have improved my writing noticeably. You rock!
I live in Austin, Texas. Originally from Rhode Island. I found your site just this week following a link from Rachelle Gardner's blog. I looked around, enjoyed your site and added your feed to my reader.ReplyDelete
I don't remember how I found your blog. I think I was doing agent research. I have an agent now but I still come back to your blog because it is fun to read. Keep up the good work.ReplyDelete
I'm quite a ways away.
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Happy writing!
Another Texan. I live in Dallas. I had read about your blog in Writer's Digest, but checked it out on the advice of a wonderful friend I made at a conference way up in Surrey, BC. Her name is Denise Jaden and her debut novel Losing Faith will be published in 2010. So yea to Denise for pointing me this way. I've learned more here than on any other blog.ReplyDelete
Like a morel mushroom, you popped up on my Midwest computer.ReplyDelete
I'm in Central Virginia. I found you through one of the other Slushbusters when we were sharing our favorite blogs with each other.ReplyDelete
Don't be silly, your giant red hat will instantly give you away to your local Starbucks junkies.ReplyDelete
I'm in Massachusetts-- Natick. Although I moved here from Watertown (hi, Alicia--should I know you?). I honestly don't remember how I got here--from some agent's blog, I think.ReplyDelete
Brentwood, TN (right outside Nashville).ReplyDelete
I don't remember how I found you, just did. It had to be a link on somebody else's site - Nathan Bransford, Colleen at The Swivet, one of those I'm sure.
From HERE . . . I've gone on to 'meet' some great people, follow their blogs, and become friends with many of them. Some of those friendships are purely through comments, but others have morphed into Facebook and email correspondence.
I think the greatest thing about your site, and about similar sites, is the very sense of community, of knowing there are other aspiring writers going through the same things I'm going through!
Heather - maybe we know each other? I see your on NaNoWriMo so I added you. We can play the name game there if you want.ReplyDelete
Oh, hello! I'm Erin. I live in Winston-Salem, NC, and I found you via Rachelle Gardner. I think you're cool. Also, I'm a displaced Yankee.ReplyDelete
I'm currently nailed into the chair just so happened to be in front of a computer - somewhere in Manhattan. No Mass. Sorry. Don't want to break the trend.ReplyDelete
Found you through Nathan Bransford.
Glad I did.
I'm from London!ReplyDelete
I found you through a friend's blog and I'm glad I did :)
From Fresno CA. Found you through a writer friend.ReplyDelete
another Texan from Austin. Washed up on your site by surfing and skipping from blog to blog. Love your!ReplyDelete
I linked to you from Secret Agent Rachelle Gardner and immediately added you to my googlereader. I dig your style and your purpose AND your commitment/organizational prowess that enables you to do what you do here. Let's share a cappuccino if you're ever in Marshall, IL.ReplyDelete
I'm in Denver, and I found your blog through Steph's posts on Hey Teenager. Have a great weekend.ReplyDelete
Mobile, Al says Hey y'all. Funny, I'm a yankee from NY (compliments of the military).ReplyDelete
Guessing here - believe I found you via fellow SCBWI Southern Breezer on her blog.
Wow, most of can't remember how we got here. What are you serving in those drinks?
I'm in Arizona. I honestly don't remember how I found your site. Someone I know must have linked to it and I clicked, liked, and stayed. =DReplyDelete
I mostly lurk and soak up all the information and comments that are so freely given here. I've learned a lot not only from entering the contests, but from reading the other entries and comments (contests and regular posts). Every now and again I add comments if I feel I have something to add to the conversation. ;-)
- RS GarciaOctober 23, 2009 at 3:15 PM
I'm from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, and I found you by following a link from an agent in livejournal ages ago. I follow a lot of industry blogs. Your's is one of my favourites :-)ReplyDelete
I'm from Bosnia-Herzagovina.ReplyDelete
No. Actually, I'm in New Hampshire, by way of Boston, Mass. I found you when a member of my on-line critique group mentioned your secret agent contests. That was about a year ago.
I stick around because I love the sense of community. It's not just a blog where someone blathers on. The people who come here participate in the conversation, so you get to share lots of POV's and ideas and concerns and solutions. It's a nice place to be!
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2009 at 3:28 PM
I'm from Maine, I found your blog through one of my on-line critique group buddies. I just love all of your information!ReplyDelete
Shout out from Greenwell Springs, Louisiana!ReplyDelete
I found you through a link from Ms. Rachelle Gardner, and glad I did.
I'm from the relatively quiet seacoast area of New Hampshire.ReplyDelete
I'm not sure how I found you ... I think it might have been some preditor-editor connection. Not sure. But I've been with you a long time and plan to continue.
Why? Because I love (or lurve) your contests. And I love the way you never profess to have all the answers. And, I love the way you show us that you are struggling just as hard as we are with these preformed collections of letters that eventually make a sentence that often add up to a paragraph which sometimes form a chapter and occasionally morph into a book. You make me feel that we are all on the Titanic together and some of us will drown but most of us will swim and that you'll be right there braving the waves that threaten to capsize our creativity and fighting the sharks that try to swallow us whole.
The community has touched my life in many ways - some good, some pulling-my-hair-out-yelling-at-the-screen insane. The contest comments sure run the gamut - many I agree with; others I just shake my head and mumble, "you just don't get it, do you?", and the rest I yell, "Quick! Someone take his/her keyboard away and smash it to bits!" But that is what great writing does - it evokes emotion. So I keep reading the posts ... smiling, swearing, gritting my teeth, smiling, swearing, gritting my teeth. Ha ha, before I realized what it was all about, I entered one of the 250 word contests. There were several HOOKED responses; I also got my share of boring, too slow, and(the dreaded) not hooked. I showed my husband the negative ones and he said simply, "What do they know? They probably think that Stephanie Vampire-Lady is a great writer." He says the same thing when I get a rejection letter. Gotta love a guy like that!
So, dear Authoress, please keep doing what you do so well. You are loved and you are needed.
Thank you!
Chris McCarthy
I'm in Mesquite, Nevada, which is the gas station stop on your way to Disneyland if you're from Utah (it was for us, anyway). I stumbled onto the blog after reading about it over on Kristin Nelson's blog after she was a Secret Agent, and I've been grateful for the community ever since. The Secret Agent contests and other critique opportunities are fantastic - thanks for all your hard work, Authoress!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2009 at 4:42 PM
I'm new here. I'm pretty sure I found my way here via Rachelle Gardner via Colleen Lindsay's post on Twitter.ReplyDelete
Looking forward to joining the community. Oh, and Pennsylvania is home.
I'm another Massachusetts reader from Cape Cod. I found you when agent Rachelle Gardner did the guest stint here. I loved Miss Snark and I loved what I saw here so I subscribed to emails. Writers need community and the one here is lovely.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2009 at 5:49 PM
I live near Brisbane, Australia. I can't remember how I found you, possibly through a link from another blog.ReplyDelete
- Ms RainyOctober 23, 2009 at 6:01 PM
I live in Ogden, Utah and and was surfing around about six weeks ago looking for publishing information and stumbled upon this site... I was instantly hooked! Thank you for all the information. I can't tell you how much you have inspired (and depressed, lol)me. I'm looking forward to being part of this community.ReplyDelete
San Antonio, Texas is home to me—ever since I left St. Louis, MO in an ice storm and arrived in the Alamo City to find sunshine, 78° and flowers in Feb.ReplyDelete
Found your blog through Nathan Bransford, I think. I really like your blog's supportive professionalism about the writing process. Not too naive, not too it's-a-business jaded.
Especially enjoy the crits and progress reports. It all helps keep me balanced and connected. Thanks, Authoress!
I'm in Northern Ontario in Canada. I found your blog through someone's comment on AgentQuery.ReplyDelete
You have built a wonderful community of writers here. I love the give and take on this site :)
I'm English but currently living in DC. I found you through Lady Glam of The innocent Flower and I'm so glad I did, I really love your blog.ReplyDelete
Redwood City, CA, which is a few cities south of San Francisco. Found you on Absolute Write about a year ago. Wow, has it really been that long? And I didn't even get you something for the anniversary. Sorry.ReplyDelete
I think you have a really great group of writers commenting here and I learn a lot whenever you have a contest or post 1000-word excerpts.
I'm from a beautiful coastal village in NSW, Australia. I found you from a friend on CC.ReplyDelete
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I am from Texas, but we are living in SC for the moment. I am trying to nudge the hubby to move up North.ReplyDelete
I think I found you through AW, or Twitter.
I found you on twitter and followed to your blog.ReplyDelete
I am delighted to see a few other people from Arizona commenting too.
I'm from the Netherlands. I found your blog while it was still quite new, can't remember how.ReplyDelete
I have little time for writing right now, so this community helps me to keep the flame alive.
I'm an expat Brit now living in BC, Canada. Can't remember how I came across this blog, probably linked from another writing blog while looking for writing & agenting resources. This is one of the ones I've bookmarked and visit regularly.ReplyDelete
I'm in Annapolis, MD and found your blog through Romance Divas. I love the opportunities you offer with Secret Agent. I have yet to post my own entry since I'm still polishing. But reading everyone else's with all the critiques has been so helpful with my own writing. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Chiang Mai, Thailand. I found from another blog.. Jodi Meadows? Rachelle Gardner? I can't remember now. Maybe both.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2009 at 3:57 AM
I'm currently in Kaiserslautern, Germany (three months left!) and I found you ... oh, hell, I'm not even sure any more. Through another blog.ReplyDelete
And I love the environment you've created that allows us to get feedback (and give it!). And it's awesome to see one of our own succeed every time it happens!
I'm a transplated Michigander living on the eastern plains of Colorado. Although, internet stats usually show me from Eagle. (I don't even know where Eagle is.) If memory serves - and it rarely does - I found you through Janet Reid's blog.ReplyDelete
I'm in London, and stumbled across your blog through a Miss Snark search. So glad I did, this is a wonderful communityReplyDelete
I am outside of Philadelphia, PA in Bucks County. I found you through the website of Rachelle Gardner- she was one of your guest editors for your recent critique contest. Love your site.ReplyDelete
And...tell me about stats. I'd love some stats on my blog (www.authordream.blogspot.com)but I have no idea how to do that! Anyone who could help could just leave a comment on my blog- thanks!
I'm in just outside Salt Lake City, Utah. I believe I first came here through a link on Liana Brooks' blog.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2009 at 1:41 PM
I'm from Houston, TX... I honestly can't remember how I found you, it's been a while :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Hmm . . . little towns from MA that sound like novel settings. How about Sturbridge? ;)ReplyDelete
I'm a college student in Grinnell, IA, originally from Portland, OR. I think I found your blog through Evil Editor - I believe he mentioned a Secret Agent contest once? Or I'm imagining it.ReplyDelete
But I love the community, and look forward to the day when I will have a manuscript worthy of submission to a Secret Agent contest!
I was born a Connecticut Yankee but have lived in Minnesota since 1968. The photo was taken in La Quinta, CA during a sojourn to the desert. I think I linked to the blog from another agent blog, either Kristin's or Nathan's or somebody like that.ReplyDelete
I'm from the NE too, but live in Flower Mound, TX. I'm not sure how I found your site, but I must have followed a link from another author/editor/agent site.ReplyDelete
I live in Brown County, Indiana, where the leaves are gold and red, unless they are brown on the ground. I relocated from Wyoming, where there were no leaves (where I lived).ReplyDelete
I believe I followed a link on Twitter to your site and am something like #67 in the 1000 word critique, but have lost my email. But, I enjoy checking all the submissions because I can learn so much from the critiques.
Unfortunately, I will never see the UTube movie at the top of the blog (well, I might if I remembered to view it when I go to the library) because I have a party line, fifty year old phone line, dial up internet.
Thank you for providing this site.
Former Floridian living in South Carolina, by way of New York and Michigan. Found your awesomesauce blog through Nathan Bransford's and I am *so* glad I did :)ReplyDelete
Your Secret Agent contests give me the opportunity to play slush reader and learn what works and what doesn't. It doesn't get much better than that!
I'm late to this post (haven't had much computer access lately) so I haven't read the other comments but will in the future.ReplyDelete
I'm an Australian who came here through a series of links. I searched for Australian agents one night and found a blog by Agent Sydney, an anonymous Australian agent. She said she took inspiration from Miss Snark, so I looked up that blog. Miss Snark mentioned Kristin Nelson, so I started reading her blog, and one day Kristin said she had been a Secret Agent at your blog, and we should check it out. So I did, and stayed :-)
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Apparently I'm not the only Alaskan here. There are two of us! But I'm from Anchorage, so still alone in this respect. =) I believe I found your blog through Query Tracker, and though I rarely comment, I read quite often. Your blog is made of awesome and cookies. Which is doubly awesome. =)ReplyDelete
I'm from Pennsylvania....found you through Verla's blue board and this blog has been invaluable to me by seeing what works and what doesn't...Thanks!!ReplyDelete
I'm originally from Southern England, but now live in Southern Alberta, Canada (and have since my early teens).ReplyDelete
One of the girls in my crit group recommended your blog last November.
Those are amazing stats! That's really cool that you have international readers. I'm from the Northeast :)ReplyDelete
I don't know how I found you. If it was through an author's blog or agent's or editor's, I just found you.ReplyDelete
It's our "density" as George McFly would say.
One thing I do know, is that I'm in the exciting city of Des Moines, IA. I know, you're just dying to come visit!
West coaster signing in - Yuba City, California (just north of Sacramento). I found you through Kristin Nelson's blog.ReplyDelete
Great community here. Thanks!
I'm perfectly centered between Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Waving at you from the sunshine state. :)ReplyDelete
I'm in NJ...south jersey surrounded by horse farms.ReplyDelete
I've learned so much here!
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I'm the only Tasmanian on here I suspect. I found the site earlier in the year through either Dear Author or Query Shark and I'm very glad I did.ReplyDelete
I've already learned SO much through the Secret Agent and Drop the Needle competitions - even just from reading others' comments. I can already see improvement in my own writing and editing.
Thanks for all that you do to bring together this great community of writers and story tellers.
Sorry I am so late to post, I live in the Hudson River Valley, in New York. I found you first from a google search for Ms. Snark, then through a Twitter link.ReplyDelete
I know I don't comment much, but I love your blog. As a new fiction writer, I learn a lot from you!


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January 31, 2014
The number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has more than doubled since the last time Congress granted immigration amnesty in 1986, a trend which will continue if current amnesty proposals become law.
From the time President Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to unauthorized immigrants by signing the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986, the total number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. increased from five million to a current estimate of over 11.7 million.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service even admitted the link between the 1986 amnesty and the increase in immigration as far back as 2000.
"The new INS estimates show that the 1986 amnesty almost certainly increased illegal immigration, as the relatives of newly legalized illegals came to the United States to join their family members," Steven A. Camarota wrote. "The flow of illegals grew dramatically during the years of the amnesty to more than 800,000 a year, before dropping back down to around 500,000 a year."
Additionally, a large percentage of the illegal immigrants are emigrating from countries with much stricter immigration laws than the U.S., such as Mexico for example.
According to Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony with a penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos.
Yet on this side of the border, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and other House Republicans are pushing to make American immigration law far more lenient by once again offering amnesty which will greatly accelerate illegal immigration as it did in 1986.
Ryan's plan calls for current illegal immigrants to be offered "temporary, probationary" status so they can continue working in the U.S., paving the way for them to eventually receive a green card and even citizenship.
Immigration in itself is not a bad thing, but currently big government advocates are giving illegal immigrants taxpayer-funded benefits such as welfare and healthcare in order to ensure their support for authoritarian politicians who work against the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
They want amnesty so they can accelerate the immigration of people into the U.S. who are used to living in poverty under tyrannical regimes with very few rights.
Noted 16th-century historian Niccolò Machiavelli explained this strategy in his treatise The Prince, in which he pointed out the ease of controlling such populations and the challenge of subjugating those who know liberty.
"He who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watch-word of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget," he wrote.
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After much deliberation and consultation following the final rehearsals of Meyerbeer's Robert le diable, it has been agreed between The Royal Opera and soprano Jennifer Rowley that the role of Isabelle would not be the right part for her debut at Covent Garden.
The Royal Opera considers Jennifer Rowley an important voice of the future, and we are keen to build a continued relationship with her. However, voices do develop, and we have to recognize that this role is not ideally suited for her now more dramatic voice. Despite all efforts until the last minute by all parties to make it work as well as possible, it has been mutually agreed that Jennifer Rowley will not appear in Robert le diable and will postpone her Covent Garden debut. The Royal Opera is proud to announce that it has been agreed that she will return in 2015 in her celebrated role of Musetta in La bohème, and another important role is under discussion for the future.
The Royal Opera is extremely grateful to Patrizia Ciofi, who has taken over the part of Isabelle at extremely short notice and will sing the role for the first four performances (6, 9 mat, 12 and 15 December). The last two performances on 18 and 21 December will be sung by Sofia Fomina.
Italian soprano Patrizia Ciofi made her Royal Opera debut in 2002 as Gilda (Rigoletto), returning to the role in 2007 and 2010. She also sang the role of Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) in 2008 for The Royal Opera and returned to sing the role of Marie (La Fille du régiment) for The Royal Opera in 2012. She has previously sung the role of Isabelle in Puglia, and most recently sang the role in concert in Salerno conducted by Daniel Oren and with Bryan Hymel as Robert.
Russian soprano Sofia Fomina will make her Royal Opera debut in the role of Isabelle on 18 December. She is currently part of the company of the Saarbrücken Opera House, where her roles have included Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) and Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail).


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A mailman for the U.S. Postal Service has been taken off his regular route after delivering mail, as usual, to a Denver home, on Nov. 2, supposedly walking right past a man who had died on the front porch.
ABC News affiliate 7News reported that Dale Porch arrived home in the wee hours of that Friday morning after working a late-night shift for the Regional Transportation District, but he never made it inside the house. The 46-year-old man collapsed on the front stoop and went unnoticed until midday, when his son found him. Porch's son called 911, but resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful.
Family members are now questioning if Porch could have been saved had he been attended to earlier. They are accusing the mailman of ignoring Porch's corpse, which was lying only a few feet away from the mailbox, when delivering the mail that morning, 7News reported. "When we found the body later around noon, he was still warm," Porch's sister-in-law Kimberly Cordova told 7News. "Maybe if the mailman had done something, he would still be here."
The USPS is conducting an investigation, but it released a statement defending its employee, who said he thought the body was a leftover Halloween decoration. "He told us he thought it was a mannequin," Hedy Porch, Dale's wife, told 7News. A Denver Post Office spokesman said the mail carrier in question is "extremely distraught" and spoke highly of the postman, explaining the incident "probably would not happen any other time of year."
We know this carrier to be a conscientious and dedicated employee. He is someone who would not fail to help a customer, if he knew they were in need … Our carriers have a long history of assisting customers in neighborhoods across the country, each and every day, and that holds true for our letter carriers here in Denver.
Mail carriers have saved the lives of their customers in the past. Postman Keith McVey has prevented three deaths during his career, most recently in July 2o10 when he performed CPR on an Akron, Ohio, man. This year, ABC reported in late July that a Long Island, New York, mailman called 911 after noticing his elderly client had failed to pick up two days' worth of mail and discovering her calling for help through the bathroom window.


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In 2008, a group of courageous Inuit residential school Survivors shared their experiences with the Legacy of Hope Foundation with the hope of contributing to the healing process for Survivors, their families and communities, as well as the rest of the nation. Their stories, recorded in this exhibition talogue, are presented in their own words and illustrated with their personal objects and photographs, as well as with historil photographs from archives across nada. The Survivors, two from each Inuit region – Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region – provide us with moving examples of what life was like for many Inuit before, during, and after their time in the Residential School System.
Despite the unique nature of each account, many Inuit and other Aboriginal Residential School Survivors will recognize aspects of themselves in
the stories of former students: their memories of childhood and their experiences in school; the struggles they have already overcome; and the challenges they still face today. The hope these Survivors hold for healing and reconciliation in the future, for themselves, their families and their communities, are shared by many Survivors of Residential Schools.
The Legacy of Hope Foundation is deeply grateful to Ms. Marjorie Flowers, Ms. Shirley Flowers, Ms. Lillian Elias, Mr. Peter Irniq, Ms. rolyn Niviaxie, Mr. Abraham Ruben, Mr. Marius Tungilik, and Ms. Salamiva Weetaltuk, the eight Inuit Survivors who generously shared their stories with us. We are honoured to be the guardian of their testimonies, which will edute generations of nadians and forever be a part of the archive of Residential School Survivor voices recorded and preserved by the?Legacy of Hope Foundation.


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For Passover which starts on Friday
Who is it?
The Moses. The "Let My People Go" guy? Mr. "Nine Plagues"?
We're not finished. There's another one tonight.
Ten plagues! Boy! Our God truly is a wrathful god.
May I speak to you, please?
Sure. It's an honor. I'd invite you in, but the house is a mess. When you're working long hours building pyramids, there is not much time for tidying up.
Such thoughts are unnecessary.
I know I obsess. But I'm kind of anal about my housekeeping.
I mean, because we are leaving this place.
Yeah, I heard about that. No disrespect to your "Big Plan", nor your connections to a Higher Power who spoke to you through a burning bush – I still don't know how you could hear Him over the crackling – but, to be totally honest with you, and mindful and appreciative of everything you've done to date, I am thinking very seriously about sticking around please don't smite me.
I am not in the business of smiting my own people. But word of your reluctance has come to me…
From on High?
No, from your neighbors. And your reaction perplexes me. This is what our people have prayed for for generations. This is the Exodus!
I know. But I think I'll staysodus.
You prefer to remain in bondage?
Some call it bondage. Some call it regular work.
But you don't get paid!
Every job has its liabilities. Look at yours. You'd think liberating slaves would be clear sailing. And here's a guy who doesn't want to go.
I pray ye, explain yourself. Wherein lies your reluctance to leave a place where you're worked to exhaustion and mercilessly beaten?
Not every day. If you voluntarily work yourself to exhaustion, they leave you alone. Look, you're asking me – nay, not me, but an entire people – to walk out of this place. And into what?
*The land that was promised to us.
I heard there are people already there. What are they, like housesitters? "Oh, you're back. Great! We'll get boxes from the supermarket, and we'll go."
It is all in The Plan.
You really think the Egyptians will just let us go?
Not just like that! The plagues are softening them up. "Number Ten" is a doozy.
What is it?
The Killing of the Firstborn.
I know. I'd have called it quits after Locusts. But I'm not exactly in charge.
Let me see if I follow the reasoning here. We inflict horrible plagues on our captors, and they reward us by setting us free, instead of say, killing our first born, and then our second born, and then, everybody born.
You must trust in The Plan.
The Plan. Meaning no disrespect – and count me not amongst those who inexplicably prefer your brother, Aaron – but a "plan", by definition, involves planning. I heard that when we arrive at the Red Sea – and this is assuming they let us go in the first place, and even if they do, the odds are they will come to their senses and eventually come after us – the number of boats awaiting to carry us across the Red Sea are – what was it, again – zero? Instead of the number we would need, which is a lot?
The Plan is not without risk. But isn't taking a risk to attain our freedom superior to our current state of affairs?
Not necessarily. Look, these guys are mad at us. And after those plagues, who can blame them? By the way, now that we're talking about it, nobody asked me if I wanted to inflict plagues. This was a unilateral decision. That now seriously impinges on my wellbeing. In retrospect, it would have been nice to be consulted about it. Have a discussion. Take a vote. But okay. That's water over the dam, which I think they'll be making us build when we're finished with the pyramids, which would be a nice change from building the same thing all the time. But now, of course, that's not going to happen, because we're leaving, which, for argument's sake, let's say they allow us to do. So, fine. We parade out of here, and we trek out to the Red Sea. The Egyptians come after us, at which point, we are trapped between a large body of water and some really pissed off Egyptians. The best guess is we'll be wiped out. I say, why not get wiped out here, and avoid the long trek?
I don't understand you. Have you no hopeful vision for the future?
No. Holy Moses – and I say that with respect, rather than with alarm, as in "Holy Moses!" – I'm a builder. I build pyramids. That's all I do; that's all I've ever done. Pyramids is an Egyptian thing. They don't do them anywhere else in the currently known world. I arrive at this new place you're taking us to, and what do I do then? Build houses that come to a point? And that's, of course, if we make it there at all, which I sincerely doubt we will. Though the plagues suggest that our god is behind events hastening our liberation, it is equally possible their god is behind events hastening our annihilation.
Listen, I have spent too much time with you, when I should be gathering my flock…
You have sheep?
…it's a metaphor. Now, and for the last time, as there is no time for your dough to rise, will you not bake some unleavened bread…
You mean matzah? That stuff sticks in my teeth. And it plays havoc with my regularity. Hey, thanks for asking, but I am not baking anything. You and my brethren and sistren, enjoy your freedom. I'll take my chances right here.
I will respect your decision, misguided Jewish man. But at least let me smear some lamb's blood on your doorpost, so that the Angel of Death might "pass over" your hovel and leave living your firstborn.
Thanks, but lamb's blood's really hard to get off. And besides, I don't need it. I live here alone.
So, no firstborns?
None. Wait! Me! Technically, I'm a twin, but I came out first. You think that counts?
It counts.
So, you leave off the lamb's blood, and the Angel of Death gets me. You smear the blood on, identifying me as the only plague inflictor left in the country, and that's not good either.
There are no simple choices when you're a Jewish slave in Egypt.
Okay. By a slim margin, relative to my chances of perishing, and understanding that I am of a congenitally negative nature – Man! I really hate this! – but I guess I'll be going with you.
You have decided wisely, if not swiftly. Onward to the Land of Milk and Honey!
Which'll probably take, like, forty years to get to.
Don't make me sorry we included you.
You'll see. We'll be wandering around forever.
It's the next country over. How long can it take?


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Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Ms. JD: Changing the Face of the Legal Profession
Hofstra Law women, you may want to check it out. Ms. JD is an organization formed by women students at various law schools to serve as an online community and forum for exploring issues of gender and careers in the legal profession.
Concerned by the rates at which women opt out of the legal profession, the lack of representation of women in the highest courts and echelons of the legal community, and the role of gender in the progression of many women's legal careers, a group of female law students from Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley), Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard, NYU, Stanford, UCLA, UT Austin, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, and Yale came together and created Ms. JD. Serving women in law school and the legal profession, Ms. JD will be an online community that provides a forum for dialogue and networking among women lawyers and aspiring lawyers.
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