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Marital bliss: College couples prove age is just a number
As the institution of marriage moves into the twenty-first century (what's the decade to be called? The aughts? The naughts?), research has indicated that the age of brides and grooms is rising; that the traditional budget breakdown between brides' father and groom's family is receding in favor of financially secure couples shouldering the cost themselves; that women, focusing on a career and education, forgo having children until their 30s.
But despite any trends showcasing older brides tying the knot– the 2006 Wedding Report found the average age of brides sitting right around 26 years old, with grooms 28– a small, yet growing percentage of newlyweds are of a different age bracket: college students. According to The Wedding Report, the average age of brides between 1930-1950 was 23; today, that stat seems to be reviving, as Charlottesville's own UVA campus is buzzing with newly engaged students balancing an ambitious courseload alongside the stereotypically overwhelming task of planning a wedding. Meeting with florists and cake makers in between chem lab and statistics? Researching bridesmaids dresses on the elliptical at the AFC? Skipping out on lacrosse games to scrutinize various venues on the weekends? Is such a task possible– let alone desirable? Three engaged couples let us in on how it's done.
Elizabeth Manley & Matt Diehl
Elizabeth and Matt met in an admittedly stereotypically "college" way: at a frat party. But one real date and three years later, Matt bent down on one knee during an August 2009 weekend in the Chesapeake Bay.
"We didn't really talk about marriage for the first two years of dating– and then one of [Matt's] roommates got engaged, and we started talking about marriage in general," Manley remembers. "I didn't want to be engaged my third year at all, he wanted to be established in a job, and I told him that I wanted to have a year to plan an October wedding– so I knew that if it was going to come, it'd be in the summer."
Manley, currently a fourth-year English major at UVA, and Diehl, a 2008 UVA graduate now working with Clark Construction in Washington, DC, immediately embarked upon Manley's desired one-year engagement, planning for a September 2010 wedding in Northern Virginia. Balancing a long-distance engagement as Manley finishes up her final semester in Charlottesville, the young couple did not have to face many naysayers when they announced their upcoming nuptials.
"Most people know Matt and how we are together, and they know I'm going to be graduating," Manley explains. "He had asked my dad, my parents love him and his parents didn't have a problem with it– my parents were married younger than I am."
But between staying physically fit, fitting in homework and classes, and interning for technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, Manley has found that scheduling in blocks of time for planning is the best way to mediate the different obligations ruling her time. A traditional budget– the bride's parents paying for the wedding, the groom's paying for the honeymoon– alongside planning a wedding in her home region of Northern Virginia help Manley and her mother keep a healthy distance have helped her from becoming too overwhelmed.
"Now that the novelty has worn off, I have accounts on different websites that help you plan and have timelines," she says. "To focus on what I have to do this month really helps, and I can do a lot of it on the weekends, go home for appointments."
The couple never initially expected to marry young– although Manley occasionally joked in high school that she'd be "married by October 2012." But after three years of dating and watching peers take the plunge, Manley and Diehl found many aspects of their lives– from a shared religion, family values, and life goals– pointed to marriage as the next logical step for their maturing relationship. A mutual desire to enjoy married life before bringing children into the picture, along with a shared background of unbroken families, alleviate any fear of divorce, notes Manley.
"Communication is such a huge part of young people getting married," she says. "We've been through a lot together– he's my best friend, and I can't imagine anything else."
Caroline Higgins & Jon Languasco
For newly engaged couple Caroline and Jon, tying the knot is the final way to demonstrate their long-standing and passionate commitment to one another– a tie they've been binding for five years.
"A lot of people don't understand my relationship with Jon. What a lot of people don't realize is that I don't want to date someone like me, an engineer," Higgins explains. "I'm not in a rush to get married this summer, but this is our message to the world that we are serious."
Meeting in high school– when Higgens was a freshman managing the swim team Languasco was a part of– the duo began dating a year later and never looked back– even when Languasco moved 600 miles away to Atlanta when Higgins entered her senior year of high school.
"When his family moved to Atlanta, we had to decide how serious we were," Higgins remembers. "We were long distance for two and a half years, a really big part of our relationship."
When Higgens decided to attend UVA over a school in Georgia, the couple knew something would have to give. Soon after the biomedical engineer settled in Charlottesville, Languasco made the move up north to reunite the high school sweethearts permanently. Over the third year's Thanksgiving break, the 22-year old Languasco proposed.
"His parents got together when they were our age, so he grew up in that type of environment," she says. "A lot of my friends weren't too surprised because they knew we had been together so long– I know they're now waiting for me to plan an awesome wedding."
The couple set their hearts on marrying in the summer of 2011, after Higgins graduates. While just entering planning mode, the artistic couple are utilizing their expansive imaginations to create an "all-out" affair with detailed elements, an outdoor venue, and an Ace of Cakes grooms cake. And although the bride's parents will be shouldering most of the costs, Higgins plans to pay it back once she begins a job. Currently balancing a demanding major, a sorority, participation in UVA's photography club, and an executive position on the Society of Women Engineers, the third year hopes to utilize the summer to research venue options.
"I have a blog and a power point with different venue options– it's the engineer in me," she says.
The key to establishing a marriage-bound relationship? According to Higgins, co-habitating before walking down the aisle is the most important way to test the waters of a serious relationship. Living together for two years, the pair has established the foundations for a lifestyle they hope to continue into married bliss– and by marrying young, the couple will have the opportunity to travel, find compatible jobs, and enjoy life before kids, without the pressure of age influencing their decisions.
"I think a lot of people don't realize, especially when going into a marriage, that they aren't used to a person's quirks or habits– you have to be around them 24/7," Higgins says. "People who get married young, like at age 18, are defying their parents or still in that honeymoon phase– we've taken our relationship from childhood love story to real."
Eric Scofield & Kathleen Bracken
High school sweethearts epitomize the quintessential UVA student– ambitious, well-connected, and talented. It's not just that the fourth year pair have already found post-graduation careers, are leaders in their extracurriculars, or are actively engaged in the Charlottesville community. Kathleen and Eric, set to be married July 2010, have taken the challenge of wedding planning and mastered it.
"You get to a point where you've accomplished so much, but there's still more you need to do," exclaims Bracken in mid-January. "We're 90 percent done, at a very comfortable place where the stress levels are low."
Their lives have intertwined from the earliest, and traditionally most awkward, days of middle school. But it wasn't until after moving to different high schools in the same county that Scofield asked Bracken on a date to the local Regal cinema– a location that would serve a more meaningful purpose exactly five years and six months later. On their way to dinner to celebrate the anniversary, Scofield stopped the car in the Regal parking lot and gave Bracken a home-made goodie bag– a tradition for the pair whenever Bracken would travel. Upon unearthing a ring box nestled among magazines and candy, Bracken was shocked to find an oversized candy ring inside. It wasn't until she made eye contact with Scofield again that she saw the ring he had really meant to give her.
"It's definitely the next natural step," Scofield says. "Neither of us has had the desire to explore other people; we're very compatible, we've been best friends for six years."
The duo met with some initial hesitation early in the engagement; while Scofield's parents had a love story similar to theirs, meeting and marrying young, Bracken's parents had waited until their late twenties to marry. When Scofield approached Bracken's father to inform him of his intentions, the senior Bracken had many questions.
"I had an answer for all the questions he asked me about the future, where we'd live, jobs, finances, ideals, religion," Scofield says. "[Kathleen and I] had discussed those things at length, so they were questions I was comfortable answering."
The expansive history the couple shares is the main factor in their confidence to take the plunge into married life. After deciding to attend UVA together and major in the same field– systems engineering with a minor in business– the two prioritized "school, work and our relationship" above all else. Sharing extracurriculars, but leaving room to explore individual interests was a choice that allowed both to grow stronger in their own lives, as well as in the relationship– although for the first few years, marriage was never mentioned.
"She definitely had the 'independent woman' mentality, where she thought she would just work for a few years," Scofield says. "Coming to the same college and experiencing the same things has been helpful."
"We do a whole bunch of stuff together, but also have separate areas, which I don't think other couples have," Bracken agrees.
The bride had to promise her parents that she would reserve planning the Northern Virginia wedding for 250 guests for school breaks only– and has stuck to that time frame, while still balancing her schoolwork, ski team, and book club alongside teaching Sunday school at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. Scofield, an active groom, made the couple's wedding website from scratch, planned the entire honeymoon, and managed to excel in his duties as the president of UVA's club soccer team, the historian for his fraternity, a position on the Fourth Year Trustees board, and volunteering with children through Madison House. On top of it all, the couple has paid for the wedding's "smaller" expenses such as the dress and flowers, to take some of the budget off Bracken's parents.
"It wasn't a goal of mine to be married by twenty-three," Scofield says. "But at the end of the day, she is my best friend and having that foundation is very crucial."


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Syndicates: Richard Thompson On Ending His Beloved Comic Strip 'Cul de Sac'
By: Rob Tornoe
Anyone familiar with the business of syndication knows the past six years have been a terrible time to launch a new strip. The shift in advertising revenue online and the decline in circulation have caused many editors to refuse to make any changes to their comics lineup for fear of upsetting readers.
There have been a limited number of success stories in that time, and you can count Richard Thompson's brilliant comic strip "Cul de Sac" among them. Launched in September 2007 and syndicated by Universal Uclick, "Cul de Sac" focused on 4-year-old Alice Otterloop and her suburban life experiences on a cul-de-sac. The wit and humor of the strip, rendered beautifully by Thompson's elegant linework, instantly caught on with editors and quickly found its way into more than 150 newspapers.
The comic is often heralded as one of the greatest newspaper strips of all time. Not only did "Calvin and Hobbes" creator Bill Watterson surface from his hermit-like retirement to praise the strip's imagination, Thompson received the coveted Cartoonist of the Year award from the National Cartoonist Society in 2011 for his work on the strip.
Unfortunately, the promise of "Cul de Sac" will be short-lived, at least in the immediate future. In the summer of 2009, Thompson was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. At first, the disease didn't affect Thompson's drawing abilities, but over time that gradually changed, forcing the cartoonist to seek alternatives.
Initially, Thompson went on hiatus for a month as he received treatment, turning over creation of the strip to a handful of guest artists. When his condition worsened, he turned over all inking duties of "Cul de Sac" to fellow cartoonist Stacy Curtis.
Sadly, the demands of the disease and the need for more treatment have forced Thompson to end the strip completely. The last strip ran Sept. 23, and Thompson took time away from entertaining family to talk to me about everything that's gone on.
You were diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson's back in the summer of 2009. What caused you to make the decision to end "Cul de Sac" now?
At first the disease only affected my left side, so my drawing (right) hand worked fine. In November of 2011, the right was getting shaky as a reaction to the Levadopa I've been taking. I knew it was a matter of time before the drawing became unreliable, and I'd have to do something.
Did the pressure of producing a daily comic strip on deadline affect your decision?
Oh, yeah. Drawing a daily strip is an insane undertaking in the best circumstances. It's a marathon made of deadlines, and I've always hated and feared deadlines. Toward the end I was missing deadlines right and left. The syndicate was incredibly supportive and understanding and would run repeats, which I kind of hated, as the strip's only four or five years old.
Did you ever consider promoting Stacy Curtis to being the full-time cartoonist and just continue writing the strip, or maybe drawing it only on Sundays like Bill Amend did with "FoxTrot"?
Yes, I considered everything. I considered hiring an artist, going Sunday-only, trying to do the whole thing with Photoshop, leaving blank pages on my drawing board overnight and hoping the cartoon elves would show up and draw some strips.
What's the prognosis for your condition?
Parkinson's is incurable, but the symptoms are treatable to a certain extent. The treatment combines medication and movement exercises designed to slow the progress of the disease. You pretty much have to run as fast as you can to stay in the same place. I'm in line for a procedure called deep brain stimulation (DBS) where a neurosurgeon implants wires in your brain. A current is run through the wires and fine-tuned to stop the shaking. It wouldn't improve my balance or speech, but it would reduce the amount of meds I take. I doubt I'll ever be able to deal with a daily deadline again, but the DBS should improve my drawing.
There are lots of brilliant characters in "Cul de Sac." My wife's favorite by far is Alice. Who will you miss writing and drawing most?
I don't feel like I'm through with these people yet, though I'm not sure what form my future use of them might take. Oh, I miss Alice and Petey about equally. At their best they were just a joy to put on the page, and they were usually at their best when they were in the same panel, often hashing things out in Petey's room and always talking right past each other.
Now that you've created a bit of free time for yourself, do you have the strength to work on any personal projects that you've pushed off to the side over the years?
I'm still getting used to the cessation of deadlines. The sudden silence is deafening, though pleasant.
When you look back at the success of "Cul de Sac" in such a terrible market for comic strips, what comes to mind, or what are you most proud of?
I'm most happy with the characters, how they got away from my conscious control and seemed to have a life somewhere off the page. I feel like I was a witness and chronicler of their lives and exploits, and I think I did them justice. Though I'll bet Alice wishes I'd drawn her prettier and Petey wishes I hadn't drawn him at all.
Rob Tornoe is a cartoonist and columnist for Editor & Publisher and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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From the MAKE Flickr pool
Behold Igaaks' CNC plasma torch-cut sunglasses, as demoed at a recent TechShop Durham monthly meeting –
Material is copper, bent by hand, then heat treated, then coated with acrylic.
The only thing it might need is some kind of padding for the nose, and after talking with folks at the Meet-up, I think a small piece of molded silicone would work.
Though they look decidedly retro-future, the original Inuit design dates back about 2,000 years –
Before the introduction of tinted sunglasses, the Inuit wore slitted snow goggles to prevent snow blindness when travelling in the brilliant sunlight of spring.
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A man neighbors called a loner coolly walked into an upstate barbershop, asked the owner if he remembered him and then abruptly opened fire with a shotgun, killing two men in the opening salvo of a rampage that left four dead, two wounded and a heavily armed police force bunkered down around an abandoned building, police and family members said.
Police officers were fired on from the building, which used to house a bar, on Wednesday afternoon while looking for 64-year-old Kurt Myers, state police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said. At least one officer returned fire, and later it was unknown if Myers was still alive, D'Amico said.
"We're in no rush to bring this to a conclusion," D'Amico said, adding that the main objective was to make sure no one else was hurt.
Early Thursday, two loud booms were heard outside the building in downtown Herkimer, and police periodically blared sirens in an apparent attempt to encourage Myers to surrender, if alive. A police robot has been at the scene since Wednesday, and a witness said it went into the building early Thursday and came back out again.
Police spokesman Jack Keller said the troopers and local police would watch the building all night under the assumption that Myers was still alive.
Police said Myers' rampage started with a fire in his apartment in the nearby village of Mohawk at about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. D'Amico said Myers then drove to John's Barber Shop around the corner and used a shotgun to kill two customers, whom he identified as Harry Montgomery, 68, and Michael Ransear, 57, a retired corrections officer. The shop's owner, John Seymour, and another customer, Dan Haslauer, were listed in critical condition at a Utica hospital.
D'Amico said the gunman then drove to Gaffy's Fast Lube in nearby Herkimer and used the shotgun to kill Thomas Stefka, an employee, and Michael Renshaw, a customer who was a 23-year veteran of the state Department of Corrections.
John Seymour told his sister, Mary Hornett, the barbershop attack came out of nowhere.
"He just said that the guys were in the barbershop and this guy comes in and he says, `Hi John, do you remember me?' and my brother said, `Yes, Kurt, how are you?' and then he just started shooting," Hornett said.
Hornett said her brother, who was hospitalized in critical condition, was doing well after being shot in the left hand and right hip.
"My brother couldn't think of any reason why he would do such a thing," she said of Myers, a former customer who hadn't been in the shop for a couple of years.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in a press conference in Herkimer, called it "truly an inexplicable situation."
"There's no apparent motive to the best of our knowledge at this time to provoke these attacks," he said.
D'Amico said police had not had any communication with Myers, whose only known police record was a 1973 drunken-driving arrest.
Police positioned in front of a block of small businesses topped with apartments in the village of Herkimer were still looking for Myers on Wednesday evening.
Late into the night, neighbors grew frustrated with the long standoff. Pat Roberts stood shivering on the corner, waiting to get back to his wife and 4-year-old son, who remained trapped in their apartment in the lockdown zone.
"He's scared, she's upset and I'm getting aggravated," Roberts said. "I want to get home."
Other displaced people were given shelter by the Salvation Army.
A local businessman, jeweler Fred Weisser, said police were trying to get people out while Myers was believed to be in a building next door.
"They're sending in a robot to check the place out," he said by telephone. "I guess we're stuck. We're between him and the cops. I don't want to step out and get clipped by a sniper."
Myles Smith, who lives in one of the apartments above the shops, said by cellphone he had heard police trying to talk to Myers.
"The snipers on the roof are sitting there," Smith said. "I ain't seen a whole lot of movement. I heard about five gunshots. I keep hearing them trying to talk him out, but I don't think he's coming out."
The rear of the small building where Myers lived was burned out, and police continued to guard the building, where they found guns and ammunition. It was unclear if they were in his apartment.
Neighbors said they barely knew Myers, who rarely spoke, left every morning in his red Jeep and came back.
Traci Randall said the only time she remembers speaking to her next-door neighbor was when he yelled at her son because he thought he had shot an air pellet at his Jeep.
"He would walk by himself. He was kind of a loner. No wife," she said.
Neighbors said he never had visitors or friends. Gary Urich said Myers wouldn't even say much as `Hi' to him when walking by his porch.
"I said, `How are you doing?' No response. He just walked by," he said.
Michele Mlinar, a bartender at Cangee's Bar and Grille in Herkimer, said Myers frequently went in and had a bottle or two of Coors Light and left without speaking to anyone. She said he was always alone and she didn't even know his name until police released his mug shot on Wednesday.
Cangee's owner Candy Rellin called Myers "just an odd little man."
The two villages are about 65 miles east of Syracuse, on opposite sides of the Mohawk River in a region known as the Mohawk Valley.
James Baron, the mayor of Mohawk described his village as close-knit and friendly, "the kind of place where you'd say, `Oh, it would never happen here.'"
Elizabeth Cirelli was shocked by Stefka's slaying. He was a neighbor in Herkimer.
"He was a great guy, a really nice person. This is horrific. We really couldn't believe it," she said.
Herkimer County Community College lifted a lockdown during the afternoon, and all but a few schools near the scene also were releasing students. D'Amico said most of the three-block neighborhood around the search scene was evacuated.
Herkimer is a village of 7,700 named for the German immigrant family that settled in the western Mohawk Valley in the 1720s. The economically distressed villages are 2 miles away from Ilion, where a 2-century-old Remington Arms gun plant is a major employer.
Associated Press writers Chris Carola and Mary Esch in Albany and Tom McElroy in New York contributed to this report.


text: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 Study: Patients Prefer Nonphysician to Waiting Given certain scenarios, consumers surveyed by the Association of American Medical Colleges preferred to see a physician assistant or nurse practitioner over a physician if their visit could be as little as 1 day sooner. The survey report was published in the June issue of Health Affairs and reported by ModernPhysician.com. When simply asked who they would rather see in a practice with a physician, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner, 50.4% preferred the physician, 29.9% had no preference, and 22.8% preferred a nonphysician. But when 2 scenarios were presented, the responses changed: Patients could see a physician tomorrow or see a nonphysician today for a worsening cough—59.6% preferred a same-day visit with a nonphysician; 15.1% had no preference or were unsure. Patients could see a physician in 3 days or see a nonphysician in 1 day for frequent headaches—66.6% preferred the next-day visit with a nonphysician; 11.3% had no preference or were unsure. The report was based on a survey of 2,053 adults who indicated that they or a physician believed that they needed medical care at least once in the past 12 months. Comments so, how does this impact our profession ? We are another alternative to that wait, aren't we. Posted by Ryan Kalman -> >ISZEK on 6/7/2013 9:51 PM Working in an acute care setting, if the revenue sources would agree, I can see this scenario saving time, money, pain, function and satisfaction for millions of patients. There are a lot of details to be settled, but we could be making a huge difference. Posted by barbara melinek on 6/9/2013 12:46 PM


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Trace Elements: New Work At Oberlin is the Allen Memorial Art Museum's first exhibition in more than three decades dedicated exclusively to the work of the Studio Art faculty of the Art Department at Oberlin College. Featured are new works by Rian Brown, Johnny Coleman, Pipo Nguyen-duy, John Pearson, Sarah Schuster, and Nanette Yannuzzi-Macias. Diverging in aesthetic and medium, these six artists are nevertheless linked by their common investment in landscape.
Organized by Stephen D. Borys, Curator of Western Art at the AMAM, with the assistance of students Susanna Newbury and Alexander Grogan, Trace Elements brings together a visually compelling group of paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, film and video, and installations that connect with the physical and intellectual landscape that surrounds us. In addition to more than seventy color and black-and-white illustrations, the catalogue includes extensive interviews and biographies and an essay by art historian Jennie Hirsh.
Softback (2005; 124 pp.; 58 color ill., and 14 black & white ill.). Published by the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. $25.00; Special price for members of the Friends of the Allen Art Museum is $20.00. For a trade discount, please contact the museum.


text: Lance Berkman is retiring at the age of 37. A .293/.406/.537 career hitter in the regular season, he posted an OPS of 1.084 in 50 World Series plate appearances with the Astros and Cardinals. His 1.65 World Series WPA is the third-highest of all time, behind only Charlie Keller and Lou Gehrig. [CBS Sports]


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Christ Episcopal Church, 7305 Afton Road in Woodbury, will present a "Christmas Around the World" concert by Chris Falteisek and soloist Michelle Sieben at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17.
All are invited to the free program. Refreshments will be served and a freewill offering accepted with proceeds going to the musicians. The performance, part of the church's 2017 concert series, will include music from Falteisek's newly released "Christmas Cheer-Unplugged" album. It will also feature several of Falteisek's personal compositions and Nordic favorites as well as multi-media presentations from his Nordic travels. Falteisek is a native of Prescott, Wis., a resident of Hastings and the minister of worship and music director at Christ Episcopal Church. He also serves as accompanist at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Hastings and St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in St. Paul Park. He has performed in Sweden, Norway and across the United States.


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2014 Chevrolet Traverse LTZ – QUICK TAKES
The 2014 Chevrolet Traverse is the ideal vehicle for those seeking passenger and cargo room, advanced safety features, responsive performance and a refined overall design. The Traverse crossover-utility vehicle offers all this and more in the new model year.
For 2014, the Traverse is offered in LS, LT and LTZ models (with two LT packages: 1LT and 2LT). It comes in front-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive configurations with seven- and eight-passenger seating capabilities. All models are powered by a 3.6L V-6 engine that uses gasoline direct injection technology, which optimizes vehicle performance and fuel economy.
New this year, Traverse offers Forward Collision Alert and Lane Departure Warning features, crash-avoidance technologies that use a camera and sensors to help determine when the driver is getting too close to a vehicle up ahead, or when the vehicle enters another lane without the use of a turn signal. This system alerts the driver with visual cues on the dashboard, as well as audible signals. They are standard on LTZ models and available on LT models.
Also new, the Traverse offers standard dual charge-only USB ports on the rear of the center console to power up electronics from the second row.
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Traverse's exterior design is centered around its Chevrolet heritage, with the classic gold bowtie positioned on a three-bar grille. The athletic exterior of Traverse incorporates distinctive front and rear fascias and includes a power dome hood, streamlined headlamps and fog lamps, chrome accents and sculpted front corners.
Offered with 17-, 18- and 20-inch wheels designs to complement the sleek lines and stance of the exterior, Traverse is stylish and functional. Built on a body-frame integral structure that allows for easy entry and exit, it was also engineered to allow a smooth entrance to the second- and third-row seats with wide rear doors and GM's exclusive Smart Slide second-row seat feature.
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With class-leading interior space, Traverse provides a comfortable ride with flexible seating for up to eight adults, and more cargo-carrying capacity than any other vehicle in its segment.
Premium materials include soft-touch surfaces on the instrument panel and front door uppers, contrasting stitching, chrome and silver accents, and available blue ambient lighting that glows throughout the cabin. A center stack houses illuminated climate controls and showcases a 6.5-inch color touch radio with the available Chevrolet MyLink or MyLink with Navigation infotainment systems.
MyLink includes large, easy-to-use controls and intuitive menus that help customers quickly and easily chose the level of connectivity that works for them. MyLink enables customers to seamlessly integrate their smartphones for hands-free calling through the audio system and Bluetooth streaming of popular internet radio favorites Pandora and Stitcher.
Family-minded features
The Traverse passes the "parent test" with its family-friendly features. A roomy vehicle that maintains a car-like ride, Traverse offers families a standard three rows of seating on all models, flexible seating configurations, class-leading people and cargo-carrying capacity, plus entertainment features geared toward families.
Traverse's second-row seat comes with a pair of captain's chairs or a three-passenger bench. Each configuration implements Traverse's child-friendly, second-row SmartSlide feature that allows unobstructed access to the third-row bench seat with one hand, which makes it easy for children to operate.
The third-row seat can comfortably accommodate three adult passengers. Traverse's 24.4 cu. ft. (691 liters) of cargo room behind its third row is larger than that of many sport utility vehicles.
Power and efficiency
Traverse has a long 118.9-inch wheelbase (3,021 mm), with a wide 67.3-inch (1,709 mm) front track and 67.1-inch (1,704 mm) rear track – a combination that enables smooth, stable ride and handling characteristics.
Efficiency in the Traverse comes from a technically advanced 3.6L V-6 with fuel-saving direct injection technology and continuously variable valve timing. It is mated with a six-speed automatic transmission with improved shift feel for more confident acceleration when the driver needs additional power when passing or entering the highway.
The engine is SAE-certified at 288 horsepower (215 Nm) and 270 lb.-ft. of torque (366 Nm) with dual exhaust on LTZ models and 281 hp/210 kW and 266 lb.-ft. /361 Nm with single exhaust on LS and LT. Its direct injection fuel delivery helps produce power similar to many V-8 engines, using regular unleaded gasoline. EPA fuel economy estimates of 17 mpg city/24 mpg highway for the front-wheel drive Traverse are highly competitive with other three-row crossovers, utilities and minivans.
The available intelligent all-wheel-drive system provides increased traction on slippery roads by actively managing the torque distribution between the front and rear axles, based on factors such as wheel speed, throttle and surface conditions. There is no driver intervention, as the system automatically decides how much torque to apply and delivers it to the wheels that have the best traction.
Traverse also offers utility-like towing capacity of up to 5,200 pounds (2,358 kg).
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The Traverse is recognized for its safety features by leading third-party organizations and in government crash testing.
In 2014, it continues the tradition of offering the latest in safety developments with the addition of the Forward Collision Alert and Lane Departure Warning systems, standard on LTZ and available on 2LT models. The crash avoidance systems employ a high-resolution camera mounted on the windshield to determine if the driver is too close to vehicles ahead. There are visual signals, as well as audible alarms, to warn the driver of a possible collision. Sensors also can detect if the vehicle is changing lanes without a turn signal to give the driver time to correct.
Another Traverse safety component is the industry's first front center side air bag. It is engineered to provide additional restraint to drivers and front passengers in far-side impact crashes, where the affected occupant is on the opposite, non-struck side of the vehicle. If a severe impact occurs, the air bag deploys in milliseconds from the inboard side of the driver's seat and inflates between the driver and front passenger, providing added protection for both front occupants.
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Six months of OnStar Directions and Connections service comes standard on Traverse. OnStar is the global leading provider of connected safety, security and mobility solutions and advanced information technology.
OnStar's RemoteLink Mobile App allows smartphone users to control vehicle functions, access vehicle information and send directions directly to the vehicle. An opt-in service called FamilyLink allows subscribers to stay connected to loved ones by checking the location of their vehicle online or by signing up for vehicle location alerts.


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Little by little, people filed into the Battell Chapel at Yale to attend a private memorial service for Annie Le, the Yale grad student who was killed in a Yale research lab last month.
"She's such nice, sweet girl, very promising graduate student, and so it's such a tragedy," said Sean Xiaoyong, a Yale faculty member who only worked with Le on a few occasions.
The Yale community, like many others, is still grieving over the student who was found stuffed in a lab wall on the day she was scheduled to marry the love of her life, fiancé Jonathan Widawsky, in Long Island.
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But as they sat in the chapel with somber faces, they were greeted by Annie's smile. A picture of her was set up in front next to a single candle and pink roses.
The memorial service was filled with music and remembrances of a woman who was taken too soon. Each person who stepped up to the podium shared memories of Annie. They called them "Annie-isms" and described the little things she would do each day.
"I didn't know she liked Popeye's, I like Popeye's, too. And she has the body where she doesn't eat Popeye's, so that's something that stood out," said Michael Howard of New Haven.
Another "Annie-ism" was wearing 5-inch heels while conducting her lab experiments and making sure she wore a skirt each Friday. But the stories that stood out most were the ones that showed Annie's love for others.
Anton Bennett, the professor who ran Annie's pharmacology labs, told a story about Annie going out of her way to get a bagel slicer for her classmates just because they were tired of cutting bagels with plastic knives. She was passionate about her friends, her family, her fiancé and her work.
"Who knows where she'd have gone in life and what benefit she would have brought to all of us. Her vitality, her eagerness to achieve and really do well," Pastor Dennis Smith, a family spokesman, said.
Le's team experimented on mice as part of research into enzymes that could have implications for the treatment of cancer, diabetes and muscular dystrophy.
Not all of Annie's family could attend the service, but her fiancé, Jonathan Widawsky, sat in the front row.
Near the end of the service, Annie's friends asked everyone to live as Annie did. To remember her vibrant smile and her warm personality and pass it on by being the kind of person Annie was.
Raymond Clark III, 24, a former Yale lab tech, was charged with Le's murder. He is due in court next week for a probable cause hearing.


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Growing up in the backseat
Returning from real-estate testing in Pierre, I sped east on Interstate 90 to Sioux Falls doing 130 miles per hour in my Subaru just because I could. It was in the heat of summer, I think 1976. If you knew South Dakota in the 1970s, not as much traffic as there is now. My excursion into limited infinity lasted 40 miles or so before I scaled back to 75 and hovered close to 80 for the rest of the trip. I felt that if I kept at that pace, I would be pushing my luck in the late afternoon; but once in a while after I crested a hill and saw no traffic in sight, I sometimes sped up again. Driving that fast felt exhilarating, freeing, as if there were no boundaries; and as a single parent with three children, I thought then I lived within prison walls.
I also loved the time right after my first divorce that I traveled to Kalispell, Montana, to see my sister, first on Interstate 94 then north through Missoula with no speed limit. And when I was in college, the 75 miles per hour speed limit in Iowa all on hard-surfaced roads. Besides, driving that fast on roads was the only way to cool off on a hot summer day–no air conditioning in the car then. Seat belts? Not on your life. But I never got a license until I had my first teaching job. I trusted that speed to boyfriends and male friends.
As a single parent in the late 70s and early 80s, jostling children in Sioux Falls from one event to another meant that right after school until late at night, I moved children like checkers between wrestling, gymnastics, karate, confirmation classes, baseball, basketball, part-time jobs, any which way they wanted to go in any car I had then: dropping one kid off somewhere, then heading somewhere else to pick up another, then back home for a third and maybe neighbor kids, until about 9 or so, 11 if one of them was working late, all were safely back at home. Well, that is until one or two of them sneaked out the window.
Recently my daughter told me that in the middle of the night she or her older brother would push the car out of garage and down the road. I still don't want to know where they went.
Once when my mother and dad drove up from Iowa for a visit, my mom said to me as she rode with me after school from one place to another, these kids are in too many things. But then I didn't know much else but being in a car. By that time, between showing real estate sometimes on weekends, helping my second husband run a tavern, and teaching in a town 30 miles away and going back there at night for rehearsal, I should have had enough of the interior space of cars.
One day this week around noon in Dickinson, North Dakota, my daughter happened to stop by on her way back to the office. I shut off the vacuum cleaner and poured myself another cup of coffee in order for us to exchange tidbits or two. In the midst of our exchange to catch one of us on her move to a new place and my packing to head back to Sioux Falls, a Subaru commercial interrupted us:
"The back seat of my Subaru is where she grew up."
Now I know that my children spent a great deal of time in a car, both the front and backseats, but not as much as I did all told; but I didn't think I raised them, as the commercial said I should have, in the back seat of my cars, and I argue that anyone who does so now should be taken out to the north 40, as my father would say, and be given a good talking to.
One really cannot have a decent conversation with a child in a car. One can yell at them, especially when they are younger, corner them to ask about something, all because you are the only means to get them where they want to go. They can't escape. Sometimes they won't answer and for the next mile or two, which will seem like a hundred, it's the silent treatment with a child staring at the floor.
It took years for my daughter to travel with me for any trip longer than Wal-Mart because of her being in a confined space guarded and cornered by a parent. I felt that way with my first husband, and at times my second. They drove all the time anywhere we went; it was my job to keep the kids under control. One time on the Interstate 29 heading south, I had this unbearable urge to jump out of the car; my first husband was talking so much that everything in my body hurt. I wanted to be anywhere but there. My hand was on the lever, but there were children in back.
I suppose that day I was raising my children, not properly of course.
If anything, parents should know by now that children need to be nurtured and guided, not raised in the back seat of a car. They don't need to eat fast food in the car. They need to learn the art of conversation over a dining table without being forced to respond. They need to look a parent or two in the eye. They need to know how to negotiate, how to reason without feeling trapped. They need a parent to discuss the latest political events, the meaning of existence, religion in one's lives. They need to know that mistakes happen and that it's ok to fail. They need resiliency, and to learn forgiveness and humility. They need to practice consistency and be persistent. A child cannot learn those lessons in a car, much less in the backseat where the mother or father views them in third person through the rear-view mirror while talking a little louder than normal to project their words over the noise of traffic and the radio to the backseat; at the same time keeping the remainder of both eyes on the road. They need to be hugged and cuddled, teased and to tease. They need exercise. Children should be allowed to cry alone if they want to but not in the back seat. The house needs to be filled with laughter, not just the interior of a car or truck for that matter.
All Mingled Out
There's a Christian Mingle advertisement that absolutely drives me bonkers. A woman sniffling and holding back tears utters the magic words, "He's my second chance."
Now there's mingling and mingling, some tit for tat and this and that, but to cry because some organization helps you find a man a second time, a Christian man she hopes, although anyone can hide behind any label, is beyond my comprehension. It's not that loneliness is not sad, for I can attest to that–sad beyond all measure, for as my mother said, "Loneliness is a bitch"; but to consider oneself lonely because someone doesn't have a partner is sacrilegious, especially in light of Jesus' existence. We can't count Paul, for he thought that it would be better to marry than to burn. He and the rest of the early Christian folk thought that Jesus was heading back round in their lifetime to gather them in his fold. For sure, even today. one must be prepared to encounter the divine and live an ethical, god-fearing life, even if one has trouble with God thought. By the way, some early Christian folk believed in reincarnation but that was stamped out by the Second Council in 553 AD.
The problem with Christy's-yes, her commercial name is Christy– almost-in-tears stance and Robert's smiling sycophancy, him sometimes on her right, sometimes on her left, and with those intermittent, timed just right PDA (Public Displays of Affection), is that the commercial argues that a woman is not complete unless she is with a man, any man, as long as he proclaims himself a Christian. Funny we didn't hear the same from him. But that kind of positioning isn't surprising, considering that kind of propaganda has been around since Eve and the helpmate theory. Commercialism– isn't that why Jesus lost his temper in the temple?
That Christian Mingle commercial usually breaks bread about mid-morning; and for me, since that's about six to seven hours after I'm up for the last time, it's almost nap time. Usually I'm tidying up the kitchen or sitting at the kitchen table reading the latest "must read." Lately I've been scanning and reading in fits and spurts great plays by David Rabe or essays in the wonderful Native American anthology Nothing But the Truth or re-reading Joseph Campbell, who does not suggest in the least that what goes around, comes around–that old ruse.
Once I even slammed down my coffee cup on the kitchen table the minute I heard that Christy whine.
It's not that I don't believe in the laws of consequence–I do beyond all measure. Acts that one does now will ultimately reap what they sow in this lifetime; but it's not a bite-you-in-the-butt response, as some Christian folk wish on other folk. It's not chaos theory, per-say, but the laws of physics on a psychological, emotional level translated into human decisions that ultimately result in deliberate and not-so-deliberate actions; and those actions have consequences. The decision I made after my second divorce, not after my first, as I should have, not to let any man define who I was, yup I'm paying for it now, as even as I will tomorrow for those decisions I make today.
That commercial might be better and might give me pause to consider creating a made-to-measure profile on that site, if I'm sure that every male profile on that site is the truth and nothing but the truth, and if I want to change any old man's diapers in the long run–and to spit out my response to your question, no, a man will not change any old woman's diapers, unless he is paid handsomely for it, and at that age it's not sexual favors–if the commercialized Christy considers herself equal to the commercialized Robert. Oh, if the commercial were paused and listeners shot questions at them in real time, I'm sure that she would say that she's equal to her man and loves her position as a Christian wife–the temptress who led Adam into sin, the beautiful repentant prodigal daughter who returns with the skin of a dead snake stuck like toilet paper to the bottom of her shoe.
Don't go back to cooking and cleaning, changing nappies if bearing fruit is in one's future. Don't go back to piddling around the kitchen, vacuuming dust and cat hair up off the sofa, getting down on one's hands and knees with a toothbrush getting the crumbs out of corners. Don't go back to bending over a bathtub, scrubbing off the crud of your and his and your and his children. Get some exercise. Read some feminist theory. Find out who you are for Christ's sake. Become a self-sufficient woman who experiences the present in all the physics' and physic' singularity.
"Farmed out" published in Lief–Thanks, Mike Finley
"Farmed out" published in Lief Publications
An Unexpected Thank-You Card–Thank You!
On January 23 of this year, at Saint Joseph Hospital in Dickinson, I had the cataract in my right eye removed, as recommended by Dr. Biesiot. Even though prior to the operation, friends calmly told me that the operation was simple, I still had a great deal of fear, for when my mother had hers done, sometime in the mid 1980s in Omaha, Nebraska, something amiss occurred: her eye was not deadened when her doctor began to cut. The pain sent her into shock; as a result, hives erupted all over her body.
At the preliminary appointment, I told Dr. Leidenix, the eye doctor from Bismarck, what had happened to my mother, and he assured me that the operation was perfectly safe. He even shared some of the history of cataract removals–the week-long stay in the hospital, the pain, the head in a vice, even at the same time informing me of possible complications. He said the operation today only takes 10-15 minutes.
I checked in at 8:45 am. After a little waiting and approximately an hour of eye drops every five minutes or so, I was wheeled in the operating room. A covering was placed around my eye, just so the cataract can be seen. I didn't even have to be in a hospital gown: one gauzy outfit over my clothes covered me from top to bottom, except for my shoes.
The drops to deaden the eye had begun earlier, but in the operation room, the drops were applied again. I didn't feel anything, just a little pressure as I was told. Although I often find myself facing obstacles without asking for help, I was surely glad for the nurse who held my hand during the procedure. The dome of golden prisms that I saw during one part of the operation, like the ceiling of a cathedral or a museum I have yet to visit. And yes, after 10-15 minutes, the operation was over, and a little while after that, around 11:30 am, a friend took me home.
The operation was uneventful, simple, painless; and as a result of everyone's focus on the patient, I did not panic. But more surprising was the card I received in the mail a few days later from the doctor, the anesthesiologist, the nurses, and the staff who attended me and others undergoing the same procedure that day.
I wasn't born yesterday, as my friends know; in fact, my life experiences have given me a wide variety of crazy, wonderful, sad, frightening experiences, but this card was the first I have ever received from a doctor and those who aided in an operation.
When I first saw the envelope, I thought it was a bill, but when I opened the envelope, it took me a while to realize what it was. So kind and considerate, what care they showed!
(If you click on the picture, it should enlarge so that you can read the names up close.)
My mother's recovery from her operation took an extremely long time–hives weeks to fade; emotionally much longer–but it's been one week since mine. The sensitive treatment that Dr. Leidenix, the anesthesiologist, the nurses, and the staff showed has made my recovery a snap. I can see white now, can distinguish blue from black. My vision in my right eye has improved a great deal. And I can't wait for the second cataract to be removed.
Thanks to all of you!!
"The Lesson" published in Van Gogh's Ear
"The Lesson" was originally published in Hurricane Alice (1990) and again in Kaleidoscope (2007). Thanks to Tina Hall for republishing it in The Original Van Gogh's Ear Anthology.


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It's tough to go through repeated lawsuits on school finance: Tough on the school districts that sue over problems they haven't had addressed to their satisfaction in the Legislature. Tough on the state working to defend the system. Tough on observers trying to wrap their brains around the complex system through trials that last weeks and months.
The silver lining? A succession of trial judges who've had a wit about them, from Harley Clark to F. Scott McCown to John Dietz, who presided over the last case and is blessed with it again (when Dietz took up the matter the last time around in 2004, he called it "the worst case on the docket").
Dietz, who has set the trial in the current lawsuit to begin in October, said at Wednesday's hearing that he expects it to last through part of January, when lawmakers will convene in regular session.
He indicated he'll rule as soon as he can, while lawmakers are still meeting.
As the case proceeds, he urged lawyers on each side to remember that the common job they share with him is to build a record and judgment that will hop on the "litigation train" to the Texas Supreme Court — "nine very wise people."
At the same time, he acknowledged each has a distinct role.
Gesturing to lawyers for the state, Dietz said, "They're going to say, 'Everything was beautiful, and nobody was hurt.'"
Turning to lawyers for those challenging the system, he said, "Y'all are going to say, "Carnage.' "
To help him navigate his way between those extremes, Dietz has set aside three days in late August for a pre-trial presentation by experts on the school funding system.
When Dietz asked lawyers what the goal of the presentation was, one offered that it should be a complete and objective explanation of the system.
No, said Dietz: "The goal of the presentation is that I obtain an understanding of how the financial structure works."
It's no easy task, he noted: "Who writes this stuff? 'Golden pennies.' 'Copper pennies.'"
He also warned that during the presentation, "I will have to take attention breaks. I have developed judicial attention deficit disorder…. Even Star Wars gets old after a couple of hours."


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VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — Entering the auditorium on a motorized scooter and delivering remarks in halting speech, South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson announced Tuesday that he would retire next year at the end of his term and acknowledged he remains limited by a 2006 health crisis that nearly killed him.
Smiling and joking at times as he made the announcement at a press conference in his hometown of Vermillion, the 66-year-old said the effects of his life-threatening brain hemorrhage had made speech and mobility increasingly difficult.
"I feel great, but I must be honest ... I appreciate my right arm and right leg aren't what they used to be, and my speech is not entirely there," Johnson said, his delivery slurred at times.
Johnson, who until recently relied on a cane to get around, has become dependent on the motorized scooter he used to enter the auditorium at the University of South Dakota where he made his remarks. He also said he hoped to spend more time with his five grandchildren and that "I think mostly it's time to go."
Johnson's departure helps solidify GOP prospects of claiming the state's first open Senate seat since 1978. Republican former Gov. Mike Rounds had announced plans last year to challenge Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, and has rallied much of the state and national party establishment behind him.
On the Democratic side, long-rumored possible successors including Johnson's son, South Dakota's U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson, and former U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin.
"I've talked to Brendan now and then, but I'm not leaning on him to run or not run," Johnson told The Associated Press after the event. "I gather he is undecided."
Brendan Johnson declined to comment on his political plans Tuesday. He has avoided public statements about the race, but has had conversations with party activists in the state, and advisers and potential donors outside South Dakota.
Herseth Sandlin, 42, is general counsel for Raven Industries, Corp., a position she began last year after returning to South Dakota from Washington, D.C. She had worked as a lawyer in Washington after losing re-election to a fourth U.S. House term in 2010.
"While I appreciate the encouragement I've received I haven't focused on the future political opportunities," she told The AP.
Although both prospects have political networks to tap, both also face potential liabilities.
The younger Johnson, 37, has never held political office and would face questions about his father's involvement in the confirmation process to his federal post. Herseth Sandlin has taken some positions at odds with some South Dakota Democratic activists, including opposing the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which could hurt in a potential Democratic primary.
Republicans too could face ideological tension.
A Washington, D.C.,-based political action committee released a statement Tuesday criticizing Rounds' spending during two terms as governor, and calling for a more conservative candidate to run for Johnson's seat.
U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem, elected in 2010, has been courted to challenge Rounds by South Dakota conservatives. While Noem has shown little movement toward investigating a 2014 Senate campaign, aides said Tuesday: "She hasn't ruled anything in or out."
Nationally, Republicans said by stepping aside, the politically resilient Johnson, who also retains a $1.2 million campaign war chest, gives the GOP its best chance to gain a seat in its quest for the majority.
"I believe South Dakota moves into the top slot as the most likely Republican pickup," said Greg Strimple, a Republican pollster and past consultant to the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Johnson, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, joins Democratic Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey as seasoned and influential Democrats departing the chamber, where Republicans need to gain six seats to take control. Two Republican senators have announced their retirements, both in Republican-performing states Georgia and Nebraska.
South Dakota was carried by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney last year, adding urgency for Democrats hoping to keep their majority. Republicans must gain six seats to retake the chamber in 2014.
With his wife Barbara at his side, Sen. Johnson remained standing, leaning on his stronger left hand at the podium, taking questions from reporters then posing for pictures and shaking hands with supporters -- reaching out with his left -- for an hour.
"I look forward to serving the remaining two years as the country is facing difficult times on many fronts and I will work every day to find a bipartisan solution to these challenges," he said.


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Now scheduled for a Christmas completion, Baltimore CTO Chris Tonjes shares how the city's technology situation is going from bad to great.
Never let a good crisis go to waste. Winston Churchill, considered a great political and military strategist, offered that advice, and Baltimore decided last year to take heed. Finding themselves with a rapidly decaying infrastructure, city officials needed to modernize fast and given their dire situation, expectations were low, according to Chief Technology Officer Chris Tonjes. But the city is now looking at completing its infrastructure upgrade by the end of 2013, and it will not only meet today's industry standards, Tonjes said, but exceed them.
The city contracted with Cisco, Dell and VMware to create a fabric-based computing infrastructure, spending about $1 million on the upgrade so far, which Tonjes reports is about 80 percent complete. He expects that figure will continue to rise slightly. The city still needs to spend about $500,000 on network improvements, but overall officials are very happy with how things have turned out. The city is poised to offer better services, including an internal and external cloud, Tonjes said.
"We were able to take a situation that was really bad and instead of just modernize to get us to a point of technical equivalency to the way most people run things, I think we're actually in a really good, advanced place," he said. "And I think we're going to see a very quick return on investment and a very quick ability for us to move with the kind of agility we need to keep people interested in using our services and to establish ourselves as thought leaders and delivery leaders."
The city's infrastructure had to be replaced right away, Tonjes explained, but rather than doing it "willy nilly," they wanted to look to the future and use their bad situation to take a risk they might not have otherwise taken. "We had a very bad situation where we had extremely old, decrepit storage infrastructure," he said. "We had really old 10- and 15-year-old switches and we had a set of servers that were at the end of their life and needed to be replaced. We had a gun to our head."
Fabric-based computing takes the various infrastructure pieces and allows them to be woven together and managed as one piece. "The benefits of that is that in a data center, theoretically, you can have fewer people because the same people who manage your switches can manage your storage, server and computing power," Tonjes said.
The city has about 10 times the storage it had previously, Tonjes said, more computing power, and it can scale its resource provisioning as needed as the city expands services. "We can focus really carefully on improving our ability to virtualize servers, applications and even desktops, and we can focus really more on doing software-based things than hardware-based things," he said, and as a bonus, the new system is more energy efficient.
One of the greatest cost savings for the city is that it won't need to hire more employees to manage its data center as it expands services, he said. This concept has been the subject of several online editorials over the past couple of years, with some worried that fabric-based computing will put some IT professionals out of a job.
In 2012, Gartner Analyst Carl Claunch addressed the issue during a conference, arguing that fabric-based computing will increase automation of services, inevitably leading to fewer employees managing data centers.
Most major vendors now offer some form of fabric-based computing architecture in their hardware lineup. One of the challenges, Tonjes said, is finding a solution that will fit the organization's needs without being too restrictive. Some vendors require that an organization purchase their entire suite, while other companies allow mixing and matching of products and brands.
Fabric-based computing aligns well with the general movement in IT towards unifying services and simplifying the environment -- two benefits in evidence in the Baltimore deployment. One online editorial suggests that fabric computing is not just a buzzword, but an important step in data center architecture that will allow organizations to focus more on services and less on IT management.


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Any tips on surviving a day of air travel - two flights and a layover - with a three-and-a-half-year-old and a two-month-old? Let's assume sedation isn't an option for the children (or adults) involved, and we'd ideally like to keep our marriage and custodial rights intact.
I assume the 2-month-old is a lap child, right? A kid under 2 can fly free with you so long as you keep them on your lap (and you have a copy of a valid birth certificate, and those fuckers at the counter won't hesitate to give you the shit eye when you've forgotten it). Keeping a lap baby with you for an entire flight is every bit as excruciating as you think it is. But buying an extra seat is an impossible luxury, so you just have to deal with it the best you can. The upside is that the baby almost always wants mommy on an airplane and not you (unless you're the mommy, in which case my condolences), which means you get to deal with the older child, who is easier and has his own seat.
As for older kids ... iPads and iPhones. That's a shitty piece of advice to throw out when not everyone has an iPad (I don't know how so many people have them when they cost so fucking much), but if you have a screen for the kids to stare at and you have snacks and you have a couple of books and you get up and walk the aisle a couple of times, you should be able to establish a kind of airplane training circuit for the kid: screen time, eating, reading, walking, screen time, eating, reading, walking, and repeat. This requires you to take enough kiddie supplies to fit inside a U.S. Army canvas deployment bag, and the one item that you need will ALWAYS be at the bottom of the fucking bag, leaving you hunched over in agony for hours at a time. But you have no choice.
All of this is substantially easier when you bring a car seat an board and strap the 2- or 3-year-old in it, but that requires bringing the car seat through customs (along with the Army bag), then getting it onto the plane and installing it while 200 people boarding behind you MURDER you with their eyes as you struggle with the seat belt. It's a pick-your-poison scenario, frankly. You're a dead man either way. Just keep lots of screens and unhealthy shit to eat close at hand.
Have penises become larger over the course of history? I am taking a Greek Mythology class and our professor shows us power points of arts of the Gods and other significant figures and all of them have very small dicks. I didn't think much of it at first, but then I recollected the statue of David, history's most iconic penis, and how undersized his is depicted as. Couldn't he have had the artist exaggerate? Or was penis size just not a concern? But it had to be, right? All these Greek Gods and Roman Emperors were sex-obsessed and fucked nearly everything that moved. Didn't they see bigger dicks as the enemy?? Dicks seem to be naturally bigger now. Or maybe we as a society just watch too much porn. If dicks have gotten larger, what, in the course of history, could have made them so?
Well, over the past century-plus, we have grown larger as a species. We are now taller and fatter than we were 140 years ago because we eat more and because we are less prone to contracting crippling hunchback diseases. I've been to museums and looked at suits of olde tymey plate mail armor and those suits always look like they were designed for the petite section at Ann Taylor. So, if we're bigger overall as a species, then it would stand to reason that our dicks are larger, no? And I bet bigger-donged men are getting more action and making more babies with their big dicks and birthing a larger segment of the dick-rocking population, right?
Perhaps not! Turns out that there have been numerous studies comparing body size to penis size, and, "They found that age and body characteristics were not associated with size of penis except for the 'index finger length' ..." Which means that Pedro Martinez must be hung like a fucking grandfather clock. Now, if we've grown overall as a species in the past 140 years, maybe it would stand to reason that our index fingers are a little bit bigger, which means our dicks are a little bit bigger. But you and I know full well that there are large men with small dicks and small men with large dicks. I looked when in the high school gym shower. I'm not made of stone! You can only keep curiosity at bay for so long, dammit! If our penises have grown over the course of history, it's probably not by a significant measure. You won't be able to comfort yourself at night knowing that you are more capable at deep dicking than your ancestors. Sorry, amigo.
I would like to get a proper measurement of my own apparatus one day. When I was a kid, I used to sneak downstairs in the middle of the night and try to measure my boner with a ruler, but the reading was never optimal. I used to really jam that thing down into the root, too, for maximum length. I need a professional length-assessment service that provides both customary and metric measurements for me to put on insurance forms. "Whoa, this guy is a full six and two-thirds! APPROVE THAT LOAN."
Justin Bieber's recent legal problems don't seem to have diminished the degree to which his biggest fans (Beliebers) adore him. What would he need to do to lose their affection? Murder? Rape? Chris Brown, arguably a peer of his, beat the crap out of his girlfriend, a pop star in her own right, and his biggest fans didn't miss a beat. I think Justin would have needed to crash his Lamborghini into a bus full of nuns before his Twitter tally dropped.
I don't think even that would turn off die-hard Beliebers. If you're that emotionally invested in an artist or a movie star or something like that, you'll concoct any reason to justify your habit. He's just a kid! He needs help! The media are out to get him! Those nuns were throwing themselves at him! WHORES. Stuff like that. I mean, it's not that different from my enjoyment of the NFL. Roger Goodell could stand on a podium this week and club a fetal pony to death and I'd still watch football.
The only thing that will diminish the whole Belieber frenzy is time. Kids are fucking insane about the things they like. I was no different. When I was a kid and Def Leppard got knocked off the top spot on Dial MTV, I would fucking FUME. And if anyone ripped on Metallica in front of me at school, I would get all huffy and be like, "You don't know shit about anything JAMES HETFIELD IS A GENIUS AND U ARE A LOOZER!" And if you were some girl who liked New Kids on the Block, as far as I was concerned, you were the ENEMY. I can't even imagine what an ass I would have made of myself on the Internet at that age. When you're young, you love the things you love a whole lot more irrationally than you do when you're older.
So it'll all fade away at some point. Bieber will keep getting into trouble and making records and the fanbase will move on to other shit, with a few stragglers left who grow up to be cat ladies. I worked with an old lady who kept a poster of Ricky Martin in her office. That's what a Bieber refugee will look like twenty years from now. The rest will grow up into perfectly normal, well-adjusted people. We all have our phases.
I've heard it's been about 10 years since "Nipplegate", aren't we due for a good Super Bowl halftime show controversy? And with the Bruno Mars/Red Hot Chili Peppers bill, isn't it probable there will be a "malfunction" with Flea's underwear/sock wardrobe? And will the weather play a significant role in this?
Well, there was that brief dustup when M.I.A. flipped the birdduring Madonna's set. M.I.A. was fined $1.5 million by the NFL for the incident. For the record, that fine appears to be larger than any fine that the NFL has ever handed down on a player or organization. Spygate, Bountygate, Ndamukong Suh going knee-hunting—all of that merited a lesser fine than a momentary bird flash that you probably would have glanced right over if you didn't have a DVR. Glad the NFL has its priorities in order.
That enormous fine was meant as a deterrent to any future Super Bowl performer hoping to get away with such ME FIRST behavior. I'm sure that Bruno Mars and the Chili Peppers (I liked the Chili Peppers in high school, but I really don't ever need to hear them do "Give It Away" with Mars) had to sign a stack of lengthy, unreadable contracts that stipulate an unreasonable punishment should either artist whip their dick out on stage: fines, jail, deportation, manual fingernail removal, etc. I bet Roger Goodell has spent more time trying to prevent televised penises that he has brain damage.
Why hasn't ESPN given up on espn.go.com?
It's because go.com still acts as the official domain for the Walt Disney Company corporate empire. You can go there and find links to all of the company's online holdings, including ESPN. And since typing ESPN.com takes you to the same site anyway, it's probably not that big of a deal, although I'm sure there's a "URL branding director" in Bristol whose only job is to make sure that the network's domain names contain the requisite amount of cross-promotion.
Back in 1998, we had a computer lab at school and I would hop in a few times a day (and often at night while drunk! Everyone loves the drunk guy in the computer lab!) to check out espn.sportszone.com (I found it using Infoseek!). It took fucking AGES to load but I had no fast Internet to compare it to back then, so I didn't give a shit. Just five minutes of a page slowly unveiling itself down the screen, like the world's dullest stripshow. I adored it. You can find the old archived ESPN SportsZone pages at the national Internet Archive. Here's one screen grab. Look at Mort's hair! So much more hair. This wasn't that long ago, and yet that page looks like it came from the Mesozoic Era. Shit ages ten times faster in digital form. I can't believe I tolerated such flat design!
Oh and here's a look at Deadspin's old layout. It's hard to look back fondly on shit like this without feeling like a loser. "Hey, remember that time I was surfing the Internet, alone? And not having sex with people? THEM'S WERE THE DAYS."
I go to a college with a prominent basketball team. I have a friend that goes to a D-III college but is a fan of my school's main rival. Every time we start shit talking about basketball, I will always bring up the fact that I actually attend the college that I root for, and he always responds by saying that he's been a lifelong fan and knows more about his team than I do about mine, which admittedly is very true. I still win, right?
You do. Going to the school is always the trump card, because I always assume that anyone who roots for a college team but didn't attend that school was too stupid to get in. And if you didn't want to attend that school or you went to a better school, then why the fuck do you like them so much?
This isn't really fair, given that all sports fandom is pointless and irrational. I haven't set foot in Minnesota for over twenty years but I'm still a Vikings fan. I'd never move back to Minnesota because it's cold as shit there and I don't really know anyone there anymore. I don't really walk the walk when it comes to total area loyalty. I just like my team and stuck with it. You could probably say the same about some dipshit Bama fan that ended up in trucking school. But this is sports. If you can find a reason to dump on some other group of fans, you do. And so that is why I say trucker school Bama fan is a bag of shit.
If sex and general affection didn't feel good, how would the dating process change?
It would cease existing. In general, sex is what gets men to leave the house. If you're 22 and going out for the night, you're going out for the night with the goal of getting laid. Whether it's a date or a party or even a trip to the grocery store, you leave the house thinking, "Hey, this might end up with my penis in someone!" That's the motivation. You know what a chore it is to get fucking pants on? If that potential endgame were to be taken away, you'd never fucking go out. Men want sex first. The whole friendship-and-camaraderie-and-general-enjoyment-of-a-woman's-company thing? That comes after we've gotten our fill.
We are such pathetic, disgusting animals sometimes. There are mornings I can barely look at myself in the mirror. It's just me sitting there and saying to myself, Welp I hope today isn't the day that my most obscene and disgusting impulses don't come flying out of me! Without that frantic, annoying desperation, sex would cease, men would put bros even MORE before hoes, and the human race would die out in short order. Probably for the best if that ever happens. I think people might still get married later in life though, just so they have someone to change the bedpan.
I find the imaginary post-game press conference meltdown rant an important, cathartic practice for myself. I hate to admit it, but I've been plagiarizing Dennis Green quite a bit.
I always try to keep a level head whenever I imaginarily address the media or my own players after a tough loss. I mean, I'm the guy in charge. In my brain, at least. Gotta keep my cool. In my mind, I'm the sort of head coach who gives the media honest quotes without being a showoff about it. Look, you guys. You saw what happened out there. Am I pleased? Of course not. But I am the HEAD COACH. And as the HEAD COACH, I have failed to prepare these players to succeed out there on the field. As men. I'm not gotta throw my guys under the bus! WE'RE GONNA FUCKING MAKE THIS WORK, BY GOD.
Since my team actually fired their coach last month, I have pictured myself as the owner of the team addressing the media after the firing ("Leslie is a good man and I'm sorry that we couldn't make this work."), but I've also TOTALLY envisioned myself as the new coach, introducing myself to the guys at minicamp ("Hi! I'm Drew-Mike Zimmergary.") and giving my first big all-hands speech to the guys. I have the speech all set to go if I'm ever plucked to lead a football team despite having absolutely no credentials of any kind. The door to my office is always open, gentlemen. My staff and I are here for one reason and one reason only: to help you win every game you play. That's it. You won't see any funny slogans around here. You find many rules except for 'Don't be a fucking asshole.' If you're a fucking asshole, we'll have words. Unless you're awesome, in which case I'll probably leave you alone (players all laugh). But I ain't here to lord over you. I am here to help prepare you, to guide you, to lead you if you want to be led. Because it's you boys who do the hard work: the lifting and hitting and running and kicking ass! That's you! And I'm gonna do all I can to get you out there and FUCKING KILL AND MAIM AND DESTORY AND BEAT EVERYONE TO DEATH NOW WHO'S WITH ME KILL ON THREE ONE TWO THREE KILLLLLL...
I would probably delegate game strategy after that. That stuff is boring.
Does Tom Brady use the same shitty tube sites that we use or does he have a paid subscription to a higher-end porn site? Maybe there is a special site reserved exclusively for celebrities that has much better content? Maybe the yearly price for Brazzers is well within his financial means and he uses that? Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I'd like to think Brady's frustratingly jerking it to YouJizz like the rest of us.
I'd like to think that once you reach a certain level of fame and fortune, someone discreetly mails you some kind of special Hustler Black card that gives you special access to diamond-level hookers online ready to obey your every typed command. That seems like something the Illuminati of the world would make a high priority. If that doesn't exist, then I bet plenty of celebs have entourage members who double as PORN STYLISTS. They surf all the dirty sites all day long for the bossman and pick the choicest new tidbits for him based on what they know he likes (big butts, etc). Then they hand him an untraceable iPad with all the good links ready to go. That's what I would have Fonsworth do for me.
Anyway, I bet you that Tom Brady sees himself as above fapping to standard porn in his room, alone. My bet is that if he videotapes himself WITH his old lady. Like, I bet they hire a professional stylist and director of lighting and everything and then get it on REAL good. Then he takes that DVD on road trips and uses it for his own ends. I bet that's what happens. He's a fucker.
What would the reaction be if a sitting president were to commit suicide? Would the US lose all stability and would Russia and China attack immediately? Or would the FBI/CIA can't cover it up and frame someone for it and the public would never know?You'd never know about it. The President would be dead from "sudden cardiac arrest" or some other pat cause of death. Because if America learned about the suicide, everyone would want to know why and no one would buy the first explanation. After all, your average President has too large of an ego to ever commit suicide. So it would have to be some pretty extreme shit to cause him to put a gun to his mouth: a secret love child with a blackmailing mistress, an illegal war, a sex tape with a dog, etc. You would never find out about it until the Vice President took over and you were already used to him being the guy in charge. THEN the sordid shit would start to trickle out and you'd be like, "Oh wow, that makes sense. Good thing we have ol' President Underwood in charge now OMG WHAT IF HE WAS IN ON IT?"
We wouldn't lose all stability just because the president offed himself. All of the entrenched, pointless government institutions that the president was never able to rid America of would still be around and would hum on as usual. The CIA black ops squad doesn't need a president around to tell them who to massacre and who not to massacre! DON'T BE SO NAIVE.
I turned 30 a couple of months ago, so I'm starting to think I should start behaving like an adult. Are there any ground rules for shirts you wear to the gym? My go-to is pretty much any too-embarrassing-to-wear-in-public-but-not-gross shirt, mostly leftovers from college that say things like "spring weekend 2004," "ACC/Big Ten Challenge 2005," or "Chipotle: Better Ingredients." Is it time to spring for some real gym clothes?
I still wear old t-shirts, including a free K-Swiss T-shirt I got once that says MADE IN CALIPORNIA across the front, which seems highly inappropriate. And if I have a favorite t-shirt that's fully pit-stained out, my old lady will toss those into the "Gym only" pile as well, despite my opposition. You and I should probably spring for actual, somewhat adult gym clothing, but holy shit, I don't think there's a single item in the Under Armour store that costs less than $50. No man alive wants to pay $50 for a piece of clothing that he will immediately defile with his fromunda cheese. This is why you go to a gym and see fifty men in old KAPPA SIG OLYMPICS: IF YOU AIN'T 'FACED, YOU IN LAST PLACE shirts and 50 women in $100 Lululemon pants. Women don't destroy gym clothing at the pace that men do, so they can afford to spring for that crap. We cannot. If I buy some nice adidas T-shirt with my own money, that is NOT gym wear. That is home lounge wear. Maybe even going out wear.
I think you're fine to wear old clothes at the gym for as long as is financially necessary. When you've made your millions and paid for your house and the kids have gotten through college and somehow you aren't a broke-ass piece of shit by the end of that process, maybe you can start buying proper gym clothes.*
(*Nothing in the above answer accounts for being a single gay man. If you're a single gay man and you go to a gay gym, I bet you gotta really keep up with the joneses and keep your shit looking tight.)
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In Minnesota, they have a School Safety Patrol Training Center called Legionville up north of Brainerd. Basically, it's a week long camp for elementary school kids who want to become crossing guards or on the bus patrol (nerd alert). When you are 9 years old, the bus patrol kids were fucking gods. I wanted in on that action and if this camp would help me get there, I was all in.
It was the summer of 92 and it would be my first time away from home. I remember getting home sick right away that night. It was a crippling. The next morning after breakfast, they had a kickball game for all the campers. During this kickball game – it all went wrong. Big time. I had to flee from the field mid-game and made a beeline to the bathroom but it was too late. I had shit myself. Not a solid shit, but the wet, sloppy nervous shit that a puppy has when you first switch to new dog food. I was terrified. I somehow managed to not get shit on my zubaz shorts, but my hanes underwear was a goner. I panicked and did the only thing I could think of – I stripped off my shit stained underwear, plopped them in the toilet and tried to flush it all away. It didn't work. In fact, it clogged up the entire system. The counselors had to ask each bunkhouse who did it. They had to call a plumber out. I never confessed to it. The cool kids at camp decided that it must have been the smelly kid, Sam. They started making fun of Sam for shitting his pants and trying to flush his underwear. I joined them in mocking him. The cool kids and I became friends and spent the rest of the week playing basketball, kickball and bullying Sam – the kid who supposedly shit his pants and tried to flush his own underwear down the toilet.
You monster.
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