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Michael Robert Henrion Posner "Mike Posner" (born February 12, 1988 in Southfield, Michigan) is an American singer and producer signed to J Records. He released his debut mixtape, Reflections of a Lost Teen, in 2006. His next two mixtapes, A Matter of Time and One Foot Out the Door, caught the attention of many major labels. His debut album 31 Minutes to Takeoff was released August 10, 2010. Posner graduated from Duke University in December 2009 with a BA in Sociology and Business. He is close friends with rapper Big Sean. Mike Posner is an American singer, songwriter, and producer. He has collaborated with such artists as Kid Cudi, Wale, Big Sean, Bun B, One Be Lo, Eric Holljes, and 3OH!3. He worked with Don Cannon and DJ Benzi on his first mixtape, "A Matter of Time," which was released in early 2009. In early 2009, he hired manager Daniel Weisman of Elitaste, Inc, who also manages Wale. In July 2009, Posner signed a major label deal with J Records (RCA/Sony). Posner's second mixtape, "One Foot Out The Door" was released on October 27, 2009. The web series accompanying this mixtape, also titled "One Foot Out The Door," first aired on September 30, and will run every other week through December 2009. He performed on national television for the first time on the TV show Last Call with Carson Daly on Tuesday, October 27, 2009.
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You never know who will cross your path, Barney wrote down in a journal. Most people are just background characters who are seemingly unimportant. People come and go and you may not even notice if one of them were to disappear.
Barney stood at the checkout in his neighborhood grocery store just after midnight. He was talking to Myrna who was a short and stocky redhead. She was wearing the standard green apron the manager of the store had all his employees wear.
"...So the tornado was expected to go right through the town but hit this giant hill and turned south then died down and the storm ended. That's the closest I ever want to come to a tornado," Myrna laughed as she handed Barney back his change.
"I've lived in Centropolis my whole life so I was never all that close to tornadoes," Barney chuckled.
"How come tornadoes never seem to go through big cities?"
"Ha! Don't tell Topeka that," Barney laughed.
Two nights later, Barney was back in the store talking with Myrna again. He was having her bag up his gallon cartons of chocolate and white milk he had just bought. "...And that's why I hate text messaging! He sent that message to me when he meant to send it to her. You'd think he'd double check that especially since he put her name into the text message!" she was noticeably upset but laughed as she wrapped the plastic bag around the milks and shoved them into another plastic bag.
"Guys can be jerk. I can't believe the way guys treat women sometimes," Barney said.
"I can tell you would never do that," Myrna smiled.
"No, I'd double check before sending the text."
"See? I knew you were a good guy," Myrna handed him the bag of milk and smiled at him.
It was several nights later before Barney came back and Myrna seemed to be in a dream-like state. "I want to move back home," she said. "Centropolis just hasn't been kind to me and I'm ready for a change. I should've known that I was born to just be a country girl."
Barney just listened to her, enjoying the sound of her voice.
A couple nights later, Barney returned and Myrna was gone. A stubbly-faced guy was in her place. Impolite and surly, Barney felt even more depressed as he left the store. Barney came back a couple nights later and saw the same guy working the register. Barney just left the store and returned to his apartment. The next day Barney went to see the store manager. "I don't know. She was a good employee. She just didn't show up for work a couple nights ago. Not like her to just not show up."
"Thank you," Barney said and began to turn around. "Oh, do you have her address? I just want to make sure she's all right."
"So I have free run to do what it takes to get the job done?"
Cal Nolan sat calmly at his desk in his office as he spoke to the person standing across the room. "Within the conditions we have already prearranged, Cross. You violate the terms of that contract and I will have you hunted down and killed like a rabid dog."
"Deal, Nolan. Just don't call me Cross," the man held out his hand and a compact gun appeared. It was very sleek but obviously very powerful. "It's Bloodspill."
"Missing"
Barney stood outside the high rise building that housed Myrna's apartment. It was an older building in an area that was the first expansion of Centropolis after the Civil War. It was a decent neighborhood despite the number of run-down buildings. Barney began walking up the stairs in the building--there was no elevator. Myrna lived on the ninth floor so it took Barney a while to walk up all the steps. Barney passed a couple of fellow tenants and nodded courteously to each of them.
When Barney got to Myrna's door. He softly knocked and waited about to minute and listened for sound or someone coming to the door. He then knocked louder and waited and listened. He then pulled out his tool he used to unlock doors and quietly and quickly got the door open and slipped in.
The apartment was a mess but no more than what Barney had thought it would look like. Barney decided to start in her bedroom. He pushed open the door and saw piles of clothes just laying on the floor. Myrna's mattress was just on the floor, pillow and blanket lying askew. She had two posters hanging up, one of the music star Pink and the other was an aerial view of Centropolis. Barney started in her dresser drawers and was stunned to see that she also had clothes in there. All he found was clothes and envelopes of pictures and moved to the bedstand next to the mattress on the floor.
A lamp sat on the bedstand along with an alarm clock. Barney opened the drawer and saw a hairbrush, hair scrunchies and some lip balm and a digital camera. Digging deeper in the drawer he found an iPod, flashlight and some condoms. He glanced over into the trashcan nearby and saw amongst the tissues, wads of paper and fast food wrappers a used condom. Barney sighed loudly and slid the drawer shut.
Barney started over to the closet but suddenly another girl entered the room, holding a baseball bat. Barney could see she was pregnant and looked like she just came home from work.
"Who are you? What do you want?" she shrieked.
"I'm Barney Renauld, a private detective. I'm looking for Myrna."
"Why? No one else cares she's missing," the girl put down the bat and crossed her arms across her chest.
"I go to the store she works at when she's there. We talked and got chummy..."
"The only guys she got chummy with she slept with. I'd suggest you check with them to find her but I couldn't give you names and only vague descriptions," the girl said.
"So she slept around a lot?" Barney asked.
"Not because she really wanted to but because she wanted some good to come out of this city. She had a dead-end job, no friends, bad apartment and her younger sister was knocked up. The city hasn't exactly been kind to her."
"She said the exact same thing," Barney said quietly. "You're her sister? What's your name?"
"Melanie. And I'm seven and a half months pregnant, just so you know," she said.
"Okay," Barney stammered, embarrassed that she knew what he was wondering. "Do you have any idea where Myrna might be?"
"No. And if I did, I would try to find her myself. Without her, I can't support myself. She was working to get me back home to Greensburg to be with our parents."
"Don't worry, Melanie. I'll get you back home to Greensburg," Barney said.
"Hmm," Melanie tossed Barney's comment away. "I'm gonna go lie down. Look around if you want, just be quiet. Lock the door on your way out."
"Okay."
Barney went back to looking around Myrna's bedroom. He fumbled through the closet, her dresser drawers again, through the clothes on the floor and through the trashcan but found nothing. He stood at the bedroom and eyed the room slowly, looking for anything that could tell him where Myrna was. He saw something on the ceiling in the corner and walked over to it. It was a decent sized crack in the ceiling. Barney pulled a chair over and stood on it. He reached his hand in and felt something. He pulled it out and saw it was a videotape. Breaking the Glass Ceiling III the box read. Barney automatically noticed it was an adult video.
"Well, this could possibly help," he sighed.
Mike waited in the reception room of his father's office while Cal was on the phone. After about ten minutes, Cal exited the office and walked to his son, who stood up. "Mike, my boy! Good to see you. Please come in. What brings you here?"
The entered the office and Cal shut the door behind his son. "Well, Dad, I have tried several papers in Centropolis and even a couple in the surrouding suburbs and no one will hire me. But yet they say that they love my stuff and that it fits the paper perfectly. I don't know what's going on."
"Well, job interviews can be very difficult. Maybe you can call the places that rejected you and ask what you did wrong," Cal suggested, turning away from his son.
"I was wondering...I have one last interview with the Leavenworth Daily Constitution and I was wanting you to make a phone call for me," Mike said.
"I'm surprised at you, son," Cal began, turning to Mike. "You've never asked me to use my influence to get you anything before. Why now?"
"Because I really want to work for a newspaper. I want to be a journalist and apparently I can't do this by myself. If I can get in, I could but no one's biting."
Cal exhaled sharply. "Son...Mike, I can't help you out with this."
"Why not? I know you hate journalists and the free press but this is important to me. The one time I ask you for help, you..."
"It's not because I don't want to. I can't. I told the editors not to hire you. I had my people make a few threats to the editors if they hired you. I don't want my son working for a newspaper. It's an insult to the Nolan name," Cal revealed.
"I can't believe you did that, Dad! Actually I can believe it but can't believe you went through with it when you know how important this is to me," Mike stood up and approached his father. "You done some pretty monsterous things and I have stood with you, albeit relunctantly, but this is the last straw. I'm moving out and away from you. Your son will no longer stand next to you when the media starts disecting your life. You are on your own, Dad. Good-bye!" Mike turned and left the office, slamming the door hard, rattling the windows.
Cal just stood next to his desk, staring.
Barney sat in the run-down and grimy office of Neil Rostock. Neil produced the video Barney found in Myrna's bedroom.
"I need to know when you filmed this video," Barney handed Neil the video and he eyed it suspiciously.
"Oh, this was probably six to eight weeks ago. You can make a lot of movies in this business. Sorry I can't narrow it down for you but I'd have to look it up in our directory," Neil handed the video back.
"Do you recognize the girl on the cover...the redhead?"
"I do. She was very popular around here when filming. Myra or something like that," Neil said.
"Was this the only movie she was in?" Barney asked.
"Yes. Which is unfortunate. I called her to be in a second after this one turned out to be so popular but she refused. Shame. We offered her triple what she got for that one."
"Why are you sweating?" Barney asked suddenly.
"It's hot in here. I need to turn down the heat," Neil said.
Barney glanced at the thermostat that read 62 degrees. "Mm. Did you see Myrna at anytime after filming this?"
"We did meet for me to offer to role in another movie. We had lunch, she refused, I paid and we parted ways," Neil said.
"I mean no offense, Mr. Rostock but I think you are lying," Barney said.
Neil leaned back and two guys came out of a room behind him. They were holding guns directly at Barney who was unflinching. "Strong words, Mr. Renauld. What proof do you have?"
"None. But from your demeanor I know you're lying. Myrna is missing, Mr. Rostock and there is no way she would just run away or something. She was caring for her pregnant sister," Barney said. Neil slid a pair of sunglasses over his eyes and wiped his brow with his sleeve.
"I haven't seen her since our lunch about a week ago. I hope she's all right," Neil said. "Please feel free to talk to anyone else in the video or with the production but I doubt anyone here knows anything."
"Mm. I'll leave now. Thank you for talking with me, Mr. Rostock." Barney got out of the chair and left the office, closing the door behind him and turning his back on the guns pointed at him. "Liar," he whispered softly.
Three bodies lay shot to death in the alleyway as Bloodspill exited the alley onto the street. It was his eighth kill since leaving Cal Nolan's office yesterday. He was proud of what he accomplished. Collateral damage. They didn't have to die but he preferred it this way. He was hoping Visor would show himself soon.
Bloodspill came upon a group of people leaving a movie theatre. He killed all of them, bringing his total to 25.
"That should bring him," he said.
Visor swooped down only a couple later as police car entered the area. Bloodspill manipulated a larger gun in his hand and used it to destroy the police cars. Visor flew head first into Bloodspill, plowing him into the theatre wall. Bloodspill used his big gun to blast Visor off of him. The shot propelled Visor into the middle of the street.
"I can't believe it took you so long to finally come. And you call yourself a hero," Bloodspill scoffed.
Visor staggered to his feet, unprepared for Bloodspill's move. "Well, I am new to this. Why are you doing this?"
"For fun. And because I was hired to," Bloodspill said and had another decent sized gun appear in his hand. He began shooting randomly at Visor who attempted to dodge the blasts but was hit a couple of times.
Visor flew at Bloodspill and punched him across the jaw, sending him sprawling. The guns hit the pavement and vaporized. Bloodspill quickly had another gun appear and shot at Visor. Visor was hit and sent back into a charred police car. Bloodspill run over to Visor and changed the look of the gun into an even bigger one. He pressed the barrel of the gun to Visor's temple and pulled the trigger. Blood spilled out of Visor's mouth and ear and his hair got singed and his visor cracked.
"This was a lot easier than I originally believed. Sad excuse for a hero," Bloodspill teleported the gun away and brought in a couple of even bigger guns.
"Like I said, I'm new," Visor coughed and reached for Bloodspill's hands. He knocked the guns out of Bloodspill's hands and grabbed ahold of them. Visor squeezed as hard as he could until he heard snapping. Bloodspill began panicking and screaming as his hands were being crushed. More police cars were able to arrive and see Visor bring Bloodspill to his knees.
As Bloodspill was taken into custody, he kept cursing, screaming and crying. Visor was talking to one of the officers about the fight. "So what exactly did you do to him?" the officer asked.
"I noticed that he could teleport weaponry into his hands so I took a chance on just shattering his hands. I know it hurt him but he's killed a lot of people just because someone hired him to kill me," Visor explained.
"Whoa. Someone hired him?"
"That's what he said. Hopefully you can get that information from him," Visor saluted the officer and flew off into the sky.
Cal watched the proceedings on the huge TV in his office. "Get Bloodspill the best doctor you can find to help him with his hands. While he did fail, he does good work," Cal told his lackey.
"And what about Visor, sir?"
"I know someone who can at least get him out of our hair for awhile but he is of no consequence right now. You are dismissed Oakley," Cal waved and turned away from the TV. Oakley left the office.
Kismet followed Neil around for an entire day. Not secretly or quietly but very noticablely. Every deal he made was witnessed by her and the deal went south. People Neil normally associated with ran the other way. As the sun began to set, Neil finally broke down. "What?! What do you want?"
"Even the pregnant sister angle didn't get you to budge, Mr. Rostock," Barney said, coming out of the shadows. "How does it feel to be missing from your life? Having a superhero follow you around isn't the best thing for a man in your profession."
"Why? Why are you doing this? Is this about that girl?" Neil started crying as he fell to his knees.
"'That girl'. Yes, it's about 'that girl'. You know where she is. You know where Myrna is!" Barney yelled.
"My boss demanded that she be in another film. I asked her and she turned me down. I just let it go but my boss he threatened me to bring her in. I went back to her and she turned me down again..." Neil sobbed uncontrollably but continued, "So I killed her. I told my boss she was hit by a car and he let it drop. It was her or me. I didn't want to do it but I had to...It was her or me."
Barney and Kismet watched Neil curl into the fetal position and sob on the broken sidewalk.
About a week later, Barney wrote, a funeral for Myrna was held in Greensburg. Her body was fished out of the Missouri River after my confrontation with Rostock. I paid for Melanie to travel back to Greensburg and was able to collect enough donations to help pay for a good funeral. Myrna's family asked me why I did this. I wasn't hired, I got nothing from it but their gratitude and I barely know Myrna. I just shrugged. 'Every background character is still a person' I said. And they all deserve justice.
Barney is hired to solve a murder in the suburb of Tecumseh. Mike moves in with Andy, Kyle and Jess and goes to see if Alexis can get him hired at her paper. Andy returns to work and meets Mariah Routh after having a bad day.
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There have been countless books devoted to Alfred Hitchcock. Most are film theory, many are biographies, and others are detailed accounts of the making of a specific Hitchcock film. Nearly every theoretic angle has been covered in meticulous detail. However, Tony Lee Moral had something very different in mind for "Alfred Hitchcock's Moviemaking Master Class." This book is not intended for scholars. It does not delve into theory, biography, or detail any film's creation. Moral prefers to offer future filmmakers a text for using the films of Alfred Hitchcock as a tool for learning the filmmaking process. It is really a superb idea. Could there be a better tool for teaching young filmmakers the craft of filmmaking? It is certainly difficult to think of one. The book covers the entire filmmaking process (writing, planning, shooting, editing, and marketing) using easy to understand anecdotes. Those already well versed in Alfred Hitchcock related knowledge will likely not learn anything new about the director, but future filmmakers now have a useful new resource for learning and understanding their craft.
Tony Lee Moral is responsible for writing "Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie" and "The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds." Both of these books are valuable resources to the Hitchcock scholar (and to fans of the director). Moral brings his knowledge and research to practical use in "Alfred Hitchcock's Moviemaking Master Class" giving the text a level of credibility that might have been lacking if another writer had written the book. This is required reading for anyone interested in making movies.
First of all, I love the look of this theme for a Hitchcock blog. Very clever.
Secondly, I really like the looks of this book. Sounds like a person could learn a lot from it. Thanks for the recommendation!


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Back at Tazmania and a small Fredrik concert!
The Jay-Z name comes from the neighborhood he's from : at the intersection of the subway lines J&Z. Here are some pics of our walk downtown, from chinatown to wall street.
recovering from the hangover and walking to Sultanahmet on Istanbul marathon day!
Going to Kadiköy: from Europe to Asia in 15 minutes!


The next morning my alarm went off and off and off. My roommate came to turn it off and found me lying in the floor by my bed. She called 911 and this crazy journey started. I'd had a brain aneurysm burst. May is National Stroke Awareness Month, thus the perfect time to share this with you.
A brain aneurysm is a weak bulging spot on the wall of the brain artery, very much like a thin balloon or weak spot on an inner tube. Over time, the blood flow within the artery pounds against the thinned portion of the wall and aneurysms form silently from wear and tear on the arteries. As the artery wall becomes gradually thinner from the dilation, the blood flow causes the weakened wall to swell outward. This pressure may cause the aneurysm to rupture and allow blood to escape into the space around the brain. A ruptured brain aneurysm commonly requires advanced surgical treatment.
I'll post more about my experience in the next few weeks. In the meantime, thank you for all of the love and support. I've received prayers visits, emails, social media messages, flowers and donations to help offset medical expenses. I've often said that I feel like a square peg in a world of round holes, but the outpouring of love and support I've received makes me realize that whatever I'm doing, I'm doing it right.
You can follow my daily progress via Facebook at MPBStrong.


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Fools seniors reflect on comedic journey as Kenyon students
by Jack Cheston
During my interview with Lindsay McLaughlin '18 and Catherine Collison '18, I was treated to my own sort of show. Within the first 20 seconds, Collison and McLaughlin, the two elder "Fools" of Kenyon's student improv comedy group The Fools on the Hill, laughed as they traded quips. Much of the rest of our conversation was like this, less a formal interview than it was a performative rehashing of McLaughlin and Collison's four years together as a comedic duo.
The two are an unlikely match. Once you see them in action, though, they make perfect sense.
"We are not so similar, you and I," Collison said to McLaughlin at one point. "We are very different girls, but I think we are very similar when it comes to what we find funny."
During their last show as Fools on Friday, April 20, the two extended a Johnny Appleseed bit so seamlessly that it almost seemed rehearsed. Of course, it was all improvised.
McLaughlin and Collison discovered each other and developed their chemistry early on at Kenyon.
"We lived across the hall from each other in McBride," McLaughlin said, reminiscing about the weeks during their first year before they auditioned for Fools.
"We had only known each other for a couple of weeks at that point, but we had developed something of a rapport."
"A rivalry," Collison interjected. "It only could have gone one of two ways: a beautiful friendship, or something terrible. I like to think that both happened."
Although neither of them did any sort of comedy during high school, they both had been fans of comedy (or, as Collison put it, "I liked being a dingus"). As a first year, McLaughlin decided that she wanted to audition for Fools on the Hill.
"We had reached the point by the time Fools auditions came around that we were like the loudest … we were just loud," she said. "I wanted to audition for the group but I was too scared."
Collison finished the story for McLaughlin. "She was like 'I'm not going to do it unless you do it with me.' And I said, 'OK fine I'll do it.' … The only reason I auditioned was because she said she made me."
That started a powerful partnership. Over their four years, McLaughlin and Collison have seen Fools on the Hill change dramatically.
"We have been blessed to have some real powerhouse ladies in our time in the group," McLaughlin said. "But [before] we joined the group it was pretty masculine."
This overt masculinity was limiting, according to Collison. "I think it … closes the audience off," she said.
Their approach to improv relies heavily on trust and confidence.
"It's incredibly difficult in a show in which the performers feel uncomfortable for the audience to even kind of have a good time, which is why the group dynamic is so important," Collison said. "What a lot of people don't know about Fools, is [that] a lot of our time is spent … just getting social hours in and getting to know each other."
The trust that built between the Fools encapsulates much of what both Collison and McLaughlin love about the group.
"We practice three times a week, and it's nice to be able to have that time, no matter what else you have going on … to have fun with your friends," McLaughlin said.
Collison agrees. "It really is just the people for me," she said. "Spending time with people that you love and trust."
Though their time together as Kenyon comedians has come to a close, McLaughlin and Collison have big plans involving their future in comedy and with each other.
"I would love to be a C-list celebrity," Collison said. "And I would love for Lindsay to be … "
"…An A-list celebrity," McLaughlin interjected. "I would love for Catherine to be a C-list celebrity and for myself to be an A-list celebrity."
"I would love to be Lindsay's date to the Oscars," Collison said. "One year. Just one year. I'm not ready to say goodbye just yet."
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OFFICIALLY OFFICIAL: Juventus sign Atalanta defender Mattia Caldara for €15 million
By Danny Penza@djp4cal Jan 12, 2017, 8:52pm CET
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As much as we've seen Juventus spend big on players like Gonzalo Higuain and Miralem Pjanic in recent transfer windows, Beppe Marotta's goal has always been to try and acquire the best Italian players the country has to offer.
Consider the latest one officially acquired.
Juventus have made its expected move for 22-year-old Atalanta defender Mattia Caldara official on Thursday evening, announcing via its various platforms that he has signed a contract with the club until 2021. In turn, Juventus has not only sent €15 million back in Atalanta's direction, but also Caladara himself, as the Italian international will spend the next season and a half on loan in Bergamo — something that was also expected to be a piece to the deal with Juve having quite a talented group of defenders already present in Turin.
More, courtesy of Juventus' official website:
Juventus Football Club can today confirm that Mattia Caldara has agreed a permanent switch from Atalanta until 30 June 2021 for a fee of €15 million.
This sum, payable in four financial years, may increase by a further €6 million upon achieving certain conditions over the duration of the contract.
At the same time, Juventus has reached an agreement with Atalanta for the free loan until 30 June 2018 of the 22-year-old defender and a bonus of maximum €4 million will be paid to the Nerazzurri on the condition he achieves certain sports performances.
UFFICIALE: Mattia Caldara è bianconero https://t.co/1KYAD7fVk0 pic.twitter.com/D65ejr5PNS
I gotta say, the boy certainly does look quite distinguished holding up that jersey. Then again, I'm sure we would probably be saying the same thing about a lot of Italian signings, too, so maybe we're just a little biased here.
In a season where Atalanta's resurgence and rise up the table has been led by a core of talented young players who are all attracting the attention of big clubs in both Italy and around Europe, Caldara has been one of the best. His performances in the center of Atalanta's three-man backline have been crucial for Gian Piero Gasperini's success this season as well as the club forming one of the better defenses in Serie A this season.
As Juve's website described him, "his calm and composure on the ball are the fact he has lost possession just 74 times this term – almost half as often as the average for Serie A defenders. ... Caldara is also capable of launching attacks from deep thanks to his neat distribution skills – he has hit 118 forward balls and completed 266 passes this season – and he's also shown a clinical eye in front of goal, converting three of his four shots on target."
When you think of Juventus defenders over recent years — most notably a certain Leonardo Bonucci who was signed around the same age for around the same amount of money — it's not just their ability to defend that has made them so good and so valuable. So when you think about Caldara and what he brings to the table, he certainly fits the bill in terms of what Juventus is looking for in a defender. Plus there's that whole being a young and talented Italian player, which never seems to hurt.


During a recent visit, my Parisian friend was telling me the details of a family tragedy — a death, followed horribly by another one in unrelated circumstances. "I'm so sorry," I said, as I leaned forward to touch his shoulder sympathetically. "Don't say you're sorry," he said. "Why would you be sorry?" I fumbled for a reply. A day later, he described the comical tale of his afternoon and a near disastrous adventure involving lugging a large appliance up his hilly street. "I'm sorry you had such a rough time of it," I told him, while chuckling at the image he'd described. "Don't say that," he insisted again. "I don't understand why Americans always say they're sorry."
He was right. We do. What we as a culture don't do, however, is apologize. Not often. Not well. Not sincerely. So going forward, I want to recalibrate my relationship with the word "sorry."
I understand the uses of "sorry" as a means of expressing empathy. "Sorry" as a word to convey sadness and distress. As in, "I'm so sorry that happened to you." "I'm so sorry to hear that news." Even if the French frown on such overt expressions of dismay, I, with my unrestrained Yankee abundance of emotions, appreciate the compassionate intention of the sentiment. But my friend's profound dismay for it got me thinking about how the phrase can be a convenient dodge. Saying "I'm sorry" describes how another person's experience makes me feel. I feel sorry. I feel sad. I am saying that I understand what you went through, but I'm also conveying, whether you asked for it or not, my own eagerness to commiserate. Why presume that's helpful, or wanted? Sometimes it takes a French person to tell you point blank that it is not.
I also know that, as a woman, I have a "sorry" locked and loaded for nearly every social occasion. I use it as a softening device, a rhetorical dryer sheet. Can't chaperone a class trip? I'm so sorry, I have another obligation that day. Don't like the price quoted on a job? I'm sorrrreeeee, that's a little more than I can pay. In the course of a week, I routinely say I'm sorry to strangers for bumping into me on the subway and to line jumpers for cutting in front of me at the cafe. "I'm sorry," I'll tell them, "I think I was next," knowing damn well the first four words of that sentence are an unnecessary smoothing of the way. I say I'm sorry for being interrupted and for having an opinion contrary to the one another person is expressing, however ridiculous the other person's opinion may be. And I'm perfectly aware that I do this even less now than I did as a young woman, when I was more fearful of conflict and more eager to please. I'm also aware, still, of the consequences for a woman stating either a fact (Hello, I'm standing right here) or an opinion (Cilantro is delicious, haters) — she's regarded as brittle, testy and difficult.
But when I hear my teenaged daughters preface their declaratory statements with that buffering word, I know I have to try to set a better example. Because in truth, I am not sorry about not going on that field trip, nor being overcharged for goods and services, nor that hip check on my morning commute. I don't want my daughters to be, either.
What I'm sorry about, instead, is how inadequate I often am at expressing true remorse. Like a lot of people, I don't have a great education in the field. I grew up in a home in which sincere atonement was rarely, if ever, offered. "I'm sorry" was inevitably followed by an "if you feel that way" or "but I was only . . . " It was conditional and self-exonerating. It wasn't until I began a relationship with someone in AA, a program that literally contains a blueprint for restitution in its bedrock 12 steps, that I learned the concept of true amends.
Since then, I've spent a lot of time observing the near constant spectacle of bad apology — the myriad ways in which public figures who've done despicable things downplay their actions, insist they were just misunderstood and then, with a shrug, vow to go off and work on themselves. Hey, I've done my own version of it myself for some of my worst misbehavior. I know, however, what a real apology looks like. It's honest and it's vulnerable. The formula isn't rocket science: Say what you did wrong, apologize for doing it, say how you're going to make it right — oh, and don't do it again! That's an "I'm sorry" worth stating.
The English language is often a blunt instrument for conveying complicated ideas. You notice that acutely when you talk to someone who isn't a native speaker. It wasn't until I said a word I routinely say several times a day to a Parisian that I realized both how insufficient — and how important —it can be. How I need to say sorry less. And apologize more.


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Looking back at Gatchalian's 2015
Win Gatchalian > Newsroom > Looking back at Gatchalian's 2015
December 31, 2015 at 10:26 am PHT
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The 2015 had been another productive year for Valenzuela City Congressman Win Gatchalian as he filed other 42 key legislative measures at the House of Representatives, in which he sought to promote good governance, better education, more jobs, and public security.
In 2015, Gatchalian also helped over 15,000 constituents in his local programs as the first district representative of Valenzuela City.
Let us look back on the significant chapters of his work as a public servant that took place in 2015:
1) Nanay-Teacher Parenting Program going out of Valenzuela City
Other cities and provinces adopted the Nanay-Teacher Parenting Program after its success in Valenzuela City.
The local government units (LGUs) that emulated the program includes Bustos, Bulacan; Angeles and San Fernando, Pampanga; and Binan and Santa Rosa, Laguna.
As of present, Valenzuela City is continously conducting the Nanay-Teacher Parenting Program and has elevated its implementation for the parents of students in their local public high schools as part of the local government's Education 360 program.
2) Public Service in his 41th Birthday
Gatchalian on Mar. 28 had an early celebration of his 41st birthday with the purpose of helping others.
Together with residents of Valenzuela City, Gatchalian conducted fun run and blood-letting activities and threw a kid's party for local Special Education (SPEd) students.
Nearly 6,000 residents of Valenzuela City and other nearby localities joined Gatchalian in this joyous occasion.
3) Sharing the Importance of K to 12 program
On May 13, Gatchalian was invited as a speaker in the 17th National Convention of Professional Teachers Inc. as one of the lawmakers that actively supports the implementation of Department of Education's (DepEd) K to 12 program.
In his speech, the legislator emphasized the program would increase the country's labor competitiveness and would equip students with technical-vocation skills even before they graduate from high school.
4) Approval of the Anti-Hazing Act of 2015
House Bill No. 5760 or the Anti-Hazing Act that seeks to repeal the Republic Act (RA) No. 8049 or the Anti-Hazing Act was approved on third and final reading in the House of Representatives on July 2.
Gatchalian, who earlier filed House Bill 4714 or the Servando Act, led the the technical working group (TWG) that consolidated his HB 4714 along with four other legislative measures.
For him, he called its passage of the House measure a victory with nearly a year after the death of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) Guillo Servando. He also said that it was a step toward bringing justice to all individuals that were injured or passed away due to violent initiation rites.
5) Senate starts deliberation on the SIM Card Registration Act
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A Senate committee on Aug. 12 started its formal deliberation on a proposed measure that seeks to require the mandatory registration of prepaid SIM card users.
This was after the lower House approved on May 22 House Bill No. 5231 or the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Card Registration Act.
Gatchalian, who was invited to the Senate as the one of the primary authors of the approved House measure, gave his legal opinion on the proposed mandatory registration of prepaid SIM card during the initial deliberation.
He expressed that mandatory SIM card registration is a security measure that will prevent the use of cellular phones in illegal activities such as extortion, grave threats, bullying, and even kidnap-for-ransom.
6) Free Higher Education Act approved in the committee level
With only over a month after it was filed, Gatchalian's landmark measure House Bill No. 5905 or the Free Higher Education Act has been immediately approved in the committee level on the House of Representatives on Aug. 14.
Gatchalian said the bill is expected to benefit around two million students in more than 100 SUCs in the country.
"This will entail only P12 billion. The tuition-free program is only less than one percent or 0.35 percent of the P3-trillion national budget for next year," he said in an interview.
7) Start of Free Higher Education Act Forum
Gatchalian did not only file a measure, but he also started going to different places to advocate the right to higher education as he launched his Free Higher Education Forum in several colleges and universities around the country.
In the forum, Gatchalian shares his knowledge to students on the situation of higher education in the country, their current prospects, what the government is doing to improve it, and what they can do to help.
8) Running for Senate in 2016
Gatchalian signified his intention to serve the public in higher office on Oct. 14 when he filed his certificate of candidacy (CoC) to run for Senator in 2016 with education and good governance as his main advocacies.
In Oct. 28, he formally became part of the Senator Grace Poe's Galing at Puso Senatorial slate after his political party, the Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC), has announced that it would support Poe's presidential bid.
9) Passage of Salary Standardization Act
As part of the government's Christmas present to laborers, the House of Representative has finally approved the House Bill No. 6758 or the Salary Standardization Act.
Gatchalian's House Bill No. 5731 or his proposed salary increase for teaching and non-teaching personnel was among the measures taken into consideration in the proposed Salary Standardization Act.
According to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), President Benigno Aquino III is expected to sign the proposed measure into law and make it effective starting Jan. 1 of 2016.
It is expected to raise the basic salaries and benefits of around 1.5 million government workers by up to 45 percent.


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Rapper 50 Cent Lashes Out At Emmys, Says, "My Black A$$ For Your Consideration To Kiss"
After his crime drama 'Power' missed out on a nomination from Emmys, the rapper uploaded a provocative photo of a bare bottom on his Instagram
Rapper 50 Cents LASHES OUT On Emmys, Tells Them To Kiss My Black A** (Photo Credit – Instagram / 50 Cents )
The rapper Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent is one of the most loved chart-dominating rappers. He is also blessed with many talents as he is an actor, TV producer and an entrepreneur at the same time. Recently, 50 Cent is grabbing all the headlines after his foul-mouthed rant about Emmy Awards. Read on to know the full story.
After his crime drama 'Power' missed out on a nomination from Emmys, the rapper uploaded a provocative photo of a bare bottom on his Instagram through which he tells Emmy to kiss his black A**, on 4th of August.
50 Cent's caption reads, "Ok here it is Emmy's, My Black a$$ for your consideration to kiss F**k your organization I only care about NAACP awards. 🤨 #bransoncognac #lecheminduroi."
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Power which starred the likes of Omari Hardwick, Naturi Naughton, Lela Loren, Lala Anthony, Michael Rainey Jr. and Joseph Sikora has been proved to be a hit show since its premiere six years ago. It's also been popular with viewers and critics but still didn't get translated into an Emmy success. The show came to an end in February, and it was never nominated for any award while it was running.
50 Cent played Kanan Stark in the show and has also served as executive producer. He has previously issued a similar statement on the matter following the reveal of last year's Emmy shortlist. What do you feel about the whole matter? Do you think 50 Cent's rage is justified? Do let us know in the comments section.
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"Simple Sprinkler Performance Testing for Piute County" by Kelly Kopp, Niel Allen et al.
This fact sheet gives homeowners information on making landscape irrigation systems more efficient using a site inspection, a sprinkler performance test and an appropriate irrigation schedule.
Kopp, Kelly; Allen, Niel; and Wilde, Trent, "Simple Sprinkler Performance Testing for Piute County" (2016). All Current Publications. Paper 1590.


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NASCAR will not punish retaliatory acts from Watkins Glen
NASCAR executive Steve O'Donnell says the league will not punish any driver for their retaliatory actions at Watkins Glen.
NASCAR will not penalize either William Byron or Bubba Wallace for their retaliatory actions against Kyle Busch on Sunday during the Go Bowling at The Glen.
The same goes for the activities between Justin Allgaier and Ross Chastain during Saturday's Xfinity Series race.
Busch and Byron were involved in a second lap incident in which the 2015 champion spun under the second-year driver. Busch came back through the field under green and punted Byron into the grass on the bus stop chicane on the final lap of the first stage. Byron attempted to run into the back of the No. 18, but Busch slammed on his brakes and damaged the No. 24 to the point it was no longer competitive.
Byron attempted to slam into Busch under the orders of crew chief Chad Knaus.
Busch also had an early run-in with Wallace in the early stages of the race, and when they made contact with 29 laps remaining, Wallace fought back, the two drivers dooring each other down the front stretch. Wallace ultimately sent Busch spinning into turn 1, bringing out the final caution of the afternoon.
Busch wondered aloud over his team's communication channel why Wallace wasn't penalized, surmising that he would have been if it had happened the other way around.
NASCAR vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O'Donnell was asked that question Monday morning on the league's SiriusXM Radio channel.
"We'll certainly talk to the drivers who want to have a conversation with us. That's fair," O'Donnell said. "We always kind of get through the weekend, emotions run high and then check in with folks before they head to the next race, but from our perspective, nothing to come of what took place on the racetrack."
As for Saturday's Xfinity Series race, Chastain turned Allgaier into a tire barrier on lap 14. That led to a retaliatory act from Allgaier to Chastain at the end of the first stage when he forced Chastain off the track and into the turn 5 tire barrier.
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require File.expand_path('../../test_helper', __FILE__)

module Stripe
  class CustomerCardTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
    CUSTOMER_CARD_URL = '/v1/customers/test_customer/sources/test_card'

    def customer
      @mock.expects(:get).once.returns(test_response(test_customer))
      Stripe::Customer.retrieve('test_customer')
    end

    should "customer cards should be listable" do
      c = customer
      @mock.expects(:get).once.returns(test_response(test_customer_card_array(customer.id)))
      cards = c.sources.all(:object => "card").data
      assert cards.kind_of? Array
      assert cards[0].kind_of? Stripe::Card
    end

    should "customer cards should have the correct url" do
      c = customer
      @mock.expects(:get).once.returns(test_response(test_card(
        :id => 'test_card',
        :customer => 'test_customer'
      )))
      card = c.sources.retrieve('card')
      assert_equal CUSTOMER_CARD_URL, card.url
    end

    should "customer cards should be deletable" do
      c = customer
      @mock.expects(:get).once.returns(test_response(test_card))
      @mock.expects(:delete).once.returns(test_response(test_card(:deleted => true)))
      card = c.sources.retrieve('card')
      card.delete
      assert card.deleted
    end

    should "customer cards should be updateable" do
      c = customer
      @mock.expects(:get).once.returns(test_response(test_card(:exp_year => "2000")))
      @mock.expects(:post).once.returns(test_response(test_card(:exp_year => "2100")))
      card = c.sources.retrieve('card')
      assert_equal "2000", card.exp_year
      card.exp_year = "2100"
      card.save
      assert_equal "2100", card.exp_year
    end

    should "create should return a new customer card" do
      c = customer
      @mock.expects(:post).once.returns(test_response(test_card(:id => "test_card")))
      card = c.sources.create(:source => "tok_41YJ05ijAaWaFS")
      assert_equal "test_card", card.id
    end

    should "raise if accessing Stripe::Card.retrieve directly" do
      assert_raises NotImplementedError do
        Stripe::Card.retrieve "card_12345"
      end
    end
  end
end

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39 today.
That's hard to believe. It's the kind of number that can be a bit intimidating. That can require a bit of reflection and thought. That keeps you adding "and holding" to your description of the age.
And with some of the other life changes that have happened this year, it could be a bit of a downer. A what have you done with your life moment.
But not for me.
Instead, I think of Stan Lee.
In 1961, Martin Goodman directed Stan Lee to create a comic book series about a team of superheroes. Lee who had served editor-in-chief and art director, as well as a dozen other roles in his two decades at Timely Comics and Atlas Comics, was a bit burned out of comics at the time. Lee was ready to call it quits.
Lee was ready to head to novels, to magazines, something. But he listened to the advice of his wife, Joan, who suggested that he write at least one comic the way he would want to write it, not the way it had been done before. Lee was then "determined to carve a real career for myself in the nowhere world of comic books," noting that "for just this once, I would do the type of story I myself would enjoy reading … And the characters would be the kind of characters I could personally relate to: they'd be flesh and blood, they'd have their faults and foibles, they'd be fallible and feisty, and - most important of all - inside their colorful, costumed booties they'd still have feet of clay."
Now there are the disagreements as to how much input was Lee's and how much was penciler Jack Kirby's. Regardless, the resulting combination proved to be a smash success, though quite unexpected. Lee had felt ready to leave, but the positive reviews persuaded him to stay on. It would be his most defining creation, in combination with the Silver Surfer, which launched fromthis comics magazine. He would go on to maintain a 102 issue collaboration with Kirby, on this the "World's Greatest Comics Magazine." Lee's contribution, treating characters as human as opposed to ideal archetypes, would become the standard for the industry.
From here, Lee would become a fixture in the comic scene. His engagement with the readership in letter columns and in his Soapbox column build a great sense of community with fans and creators. He introduced credits to the comic pages for not just the writer and penciler, but inker and letterer as well.
Lee would be editor in chief, head writer, and show runner for the majority of the 1960s Marvel line. He pioneered the pop culture of today. And his impact extended beyond his tenure at the company. He remained comics elder statesmen and the self-proclaimed greatest cameo artist of all time. He was Uncle Stan.
And the event that launched this career and fame. The year that started the pop culture phenomenon known as Marvel.
Lee wrote that when he was 39.
The great success of Lee's career didn't start until Lee was 39.
It was that point where he started following where his muse led him. He didn't change fields, didn't really even change jobs, he just finally released himself from the trappings of the past, from doing things someone else's way.
With all that is going on, I take solace in his life and story. With the idea that there's no magic number as to when your life really takes off. It's not that things weren't good before, it's just that it can always still take off at any point.
With the idea that this career transition, whatever it entails, could be the start of the absolute best part of my life. The most fulfilling part.
And that's exciting to me.
Here's to 39.
Here's to that kind of life-changing, universe-defining, creatively fulfilling opportunity.
Labels: 39, And Holding..., Birthday, Musing
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