Barbara M. (McDonald) Watson of Peabody, formerly of Manchester-by-the-Sea, passed away on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 after a brief illness. She was the beloved wife of Kenneth Watson. She was born February 20, 1927 in New Bedford, a daughter of the late John and Helen (Wilson) McDonald.
Barbara was very active in the Manchester community, having volunteered at the Public Library for many years and as a member of the Council on Aging. She was very involved with the Manchester Women's Club, the Seaside Garden Club and her tennis group at the Manchester Athletic Club. She also worked at the Landmark School for many years. She spent many hours lovingly tending to her beautiful gardens. An avid reader, she was well-versed on many topics and she and Ken traveled extensively during their seventy-three years of marriage.
Surviving her in addition to her husband, Kenneth, is their daughter, Carole O'Neil of Manchester-by-the-Sea, their grandson, Phillip W. Rowe of Manchester-by-the-Sea, their great granddaughter, Samantha L. Rowe of Phoenix, AZ. She is also survived by two sisters, Amy McCauley of Cheshire, CT and Ann Milhomme of Lincoln, RI, cousins, Dawn Costakes of Fairhaven and Axel Magnuson of Manchester-by-the-Sea and also numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by three brothers, Malcolm Wilson, Francis and James McDonald.
Her Funeral Service will be held at the First Parish Church Congregational, Manchester-by-the-Sea, on Saturday March 10, 2018 at 11:00 A.M. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Arrangements by the Campbell Funeral Home 525 Cabot Street Beverly, MA 01915. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to Care Dimensions, 75 Sylvan Street, Suite B-102, Danvers, MA 01923. Information, directions, condolences at www.campbellfuneral.com.


Grocery shopping with children just the thought of it is enough to make parents shudder. Also there will be critical stares or even comments from others. But your grocery shopping will become easier when you have a plan. You can't expect your kids naturally know how to behave at the grocery store. So spend time teaching your kids the ropes of grocery shopping.


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Niger State Government, DSS Stop Malicious Lies, #ReleaseFejiroOliver Now
Tega Sampson Oghenedoro "Fejiro Oliver" was accused by Niger state of official of extortion
We have watched, read and followed with serious concern the lies being sent out to the media and the public by officials of the Niger State Government and Niger State Command of the Directorate of State Security Services (DSS) regarding the illegal arrest and detention of Mr. Fejiro Oliver, a journalist and activist, in a desperate attempt to justify their brutal violation of his fundamental human rights and deceive credulous members of the public.
We therefore deem it most expedient to issue this press statement to enable the unsuspecting members of the public situate the issues and facts properly. Several Media platforms have reported and aired the comical display that took place on Monday 22 September, 2014 at the DSS Office in Minna, Niger State, where Fejiro was 'paraded' like a common criminal before the media by the Director of DSS in the state, Mr. Larry Obiagwu for allegedly "blackmailing and attempting to extort the sum og N50 million naira from the Niger State Government".
Before going into the kernel of this unsubstantiated and frivolous allegation leveled against Mr. Fejiro for daring to demand accountability from the Niger State Government, we wish to clarify and state the following facts which the DSS and the Niger State Government are trying to twist and exploit negatively.
Firstly, we agree that Fejiro Oliver is a pseudonym (pen name). His native name is Tega Sampson Oghendoro. We have consulted many authoritative legal sources and the irresistible conclusion is that there is no provision under any legislative enactment criminalizing the use of pseudonyms for lawful purposes in Nigeria. We challenge his accusers to negate this conclusion.
The practice of writers and journalists using pen names (pseudonym) instead of their native names is well rooted in history, both in Nigeria and abroad. In this wise, few examples will suffice. The Late Chief Idowu Odunewu, a former Editor-In-Chief of Daily Times and Managing Director Director of Nigerian Tribune, used the pseudonym (pen name)-'Allah De' for the greater part of his practice as a celebrated journalist. Also, Chief Tola Adeniyi, a former Managing Director of Daily Times operates with a pen name-'Abba Saheed'. Outside of Nigeria, Charles King Moreland jr, a poet and journalist, and Jill Stacey Moreland a journalist and social critic are largely known by their pen names; Askia Muhammed and Itabari Njeri, respectively. So what is the cacophony about?
The DSS accused Fejiro Oliver of blackmailing government officials and corporate bodies but they failed to supply any modicum of evidence to support it.
Secondly, the DSS is trying to make a mountain out of the fact that Fejiro Oliver (Tega Sampson Oghenedoro) is a staff of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). Whether it is proper or not for him to engage in his online media activities with Secrets Reporters, Elombah.com or Daily Voice NG despite working for the NTA is not in the mouth of the Niger State Government and the DSS to say. It is not and should never be their business. There is absolutely no crime in this.
Fejiro Oliver to our knowledge, was already planning his official exit from the NTA which he has been serving meritoriously. He never represented himself to the Secretary to the Niger State Government, Alhaji Saidu Idris Ndajo Kpaki and the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu, Mr. Israel A. Ebije, as a staff of the NTA. He never represented to them that his investigations into the activities of the Niger State Government was in pursuit of his job as a staff of the NTA. So when did his being a staff of the NTA became an issue to the DSS and the Niger State Government to warrant this shameless display of raw power?
Thirdly, we wish to let Nigerians know that the Fejiro Oliver that the DSS is trying to portray is totally different from the Fejiro Oliver that we know. The Fejiro Oliver that we know is a well educated professional, he is a father, his wife is a professional while the father is a well to do engineer. He comes from a disciplined Christian family and has never been reported to had engaged in any criminal activity. His only misfortune is his strong passion and determination for a sane, corrupt free and democratic Nigeria where leaders are accountable. This is the very driving force of his online media activities.
On the allegation that Fejiro "blackmailed" and "attempted to extort N50 million naira from the Niger State Government to kill a story", we are appalled at the level of degeneration of the Nigerian political class and the condescending posture of the DSS. This allegation on the face of it is mendacious and utterly frivolous. While we are not God to know the inner mind of Fejiro Oliver, we dare say that at no time did Fejiro demand for such huge sum of money or any sum at all from the SSG of Niger State or the Chief Press Secretary to governor Babangida Aliyu who are the two officials he has had communications with after his investigations.
The decision to meet with SSG of Niger State in Abuja, though seen by some as improper, was made by Fejiro after persistent pressures and assurances of his safety by the SSG who had suggested Minna for their meeting but which Fejiro rejected, preferring Abuja for security reasons.
The SSG offered to pay for his air fares and asked him to send his account details since the meeting was at his instance but Fejiro being who he is rejected the monetary offer. He later gave the SSG the allowance to book his flight which he did through one of his aides. Nigerians should ask the SSG whether this is true or false. He should tell us who booked and paid for Aero flight; Asaba to Abuja of Friday 19/09/ 2014 and Abuja to Asaba of Monday 22/09/2014 with booking reference-7F9CS1 and who owns the email address '[email protected]' with which the flight details was sent to Fejiro?
Contrary to the reports that he went to collect money from the SSG, the truth is that Fejiro's sole purpose was to interview the SSG based on the outcome of his extensive investigations and discoveries which are backed by authentic documents. The Niger State Government is not denying this fact. They have even said they know the person who in their opinion, leaked those documents and that the said person has been sacked. One of the main grouses of the Niger State Government is the refusal by Fejiro to reveal his source despite their pressures, which no sane journalist should do.
The GSM text messages exchanged and calls made between Fejiro Oliver and the SSG and the CPS to the governor can be obtained from service providers. Some of the said text messages are already in the public domain by his accusers for the whole world to see.
Fejiro never intended to meet the SSG alone in Abuja, he was to do so in company of two other media colleagues one of who is also an online media publisher who was to pick him up from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, but had lost contacts with Fejiro upon his arrival, not knowing that he had been handcuffed and whisked away to Minna. Fejiro never thought of a clandestine venue for their meeting. The venue he gave the SSG is a well known public place in Maitama, Abuja.
If actually there was a sting operation by the DSS to nab Fejiro, it would have ended at the point of collection of the N50M they claim he demanded with a video record duly made as was the case with Hon. Farouk Lawan, not at the airport. It sounds wired to talk of "attempting to extort" in a so-called sting operation. It just does not make sense at all. So far, there is no iota of evidence, not even indirectly, supporting the allegation that Fejiro demanded any money. That he agreed to meet with the SSG on his plea for him to furnish Fejiro with the government side of the story does not make him a blackmailer.
Are the above facts which his accusers are aware of but have not revealed consistent with the allegation that he was going to collect N50m? Even a primary school pupil will ask what Fejiro, a young journalist in his late twenties, will be demanding an outrageous FIFTY MILLION NAIRA for? This is a senseless accusation that can never, never be proved.
Were Nigeria a sane country where the rule of law reigns, the issue of a journalist going to meet with the official of a government he has been critical of for a face to face interview would not have arisen in the first place. The ongoing persecution of Fejiro Oliver for what should have been a routine action of an investigative journalist is a clear indictment on the Nigerian society.
We insist that Fejiro Oliver is innocent of the charges. We insist that it is the Niger State Government that should be on trial for the wastages and failures which Fejiro Oliver had uncovered in the course of his investigations. Fejiro in a GSM phone call on Tuesday 24 September, 2014 has informed us that offers have been made to him on the condition that he will drop his reports into the activities of the Niger State Government in exchange for his freedom but that his rejection of same and refusal to disclose his source is the reason for his continued incarceration.
We appreciate the efforts of the human rights community, the media, and all spirited Nigerians who have took it upon themselves to stand by an innocent activist and journalist whose right is being violated through the abuse of a critical state institution.
We urge the DSS to focus on the security challenges bedevilling our nation and not allow a state government that is being haunted by the ghost of stewardship to derail it core mandate. The DSS should not be seen as a ready tool that the political class is using for vindictive aims. We demand the immediate and unconditional release of Fejiro Oliver.
Let it be on record that this brutal violation of the fundamental rights of Fejiro will not go to unchallenged. Nigeria may be a lawless country, but it is definitely not a failed state. The oppressors can only detain Fejiro; they can never detain the truth. A stitch in time saves nine.
Inibehe Effiong (Mr) [email protected]
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For the first time in the history of the Miss Pakistan World pageant, Anzhelika Tahir walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival representing the Miss Pakistan World brand. Anzhelika has competed in 7 international pageants representing Pakistan as well as has won 4 crowns for Pakistan. She became the first winner of the Miss Pakistan World pageant to win 4 crowns and come in the top three. Anzhelika Tahir is now focused on her acting career in Pakistan and has lucked out walking on the red carpet in the Cannes Film Festival this early in her career.
In her words, she stated, "It was an honor for me to hear my name along with my title, Miss Pakistan announced on the red carpet."
Anzhelika Tahir has a lot to offer Pakistan's growing entertainment industry and hopefully we will see her more in the future.
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Many large and distributed companies run agile projects in development environments that are inconsistent with the original agile ideas. Problems that result from these inconsistencies can affect the productivity of development projects and the timeliness of releases. To be effective in such contexts, the agile ideas need to be adapted. We take an inductive approach for reaching this aim by basing the design of the development process on observations of how context, practices, challenges, and impacts interact. This paper reports the results of an interview study of five agile development projects in an environment that was unfavorable for agile principles. Grounded theory was used to identify the challenges of these projects and how these challenges affected productivity and delays according to the involved project roles. Productivity and delay-influencing factors were discovered that related to requirements creation and use, collaboration, knowledge management, and the application domain. The practitioners' explanations about the factors' impacts are, on one hand, a rich empirical source for avoiding and mitigating productivity and delay problems and, on the other hand, a good starting point for further research on flexible large-scale development.
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Psi-Trailing: Animals' Incredible Journeys
Sometime in August 1923. Bobbie, a large dog, two years old, mostly collie, but said to be part English sheep dog, began his incredible journey.
His family, the Braziers, were restaurant owners who were vacationing in a small Indiana town, far from their Silverton, Oregon home. They became separated. The family had to return home, leaving Bobbie in Indiana.
So, Bobbie traveled, alone, westward to reunite with his family. At first, he was trying to find his bearings, wandering in circles, as people do when they are lost, traveling miles, but only about a couple of hundred of them in the right direction. In late fall, he began to find the journey toward home.
He trekked through Illinois and Iowa. Sometimes, he caught his own dinner. Other times, people fed him and gave him shelter for a night or longer.
Hoboes shared their food with him. During Thanksgiving, a family took him in for several weeks. Then, it was time for him to move on.
He lost a lot of weight during his journey. He swam across rivers, including the Missouri, filled with ice. He crossed the Rocky Mountains.
Finally, in February, he reached home and entered the family restaurant. He went to the second floor living quarters where Frank Brazier was sleeping, jumped on the bed and licked Frank's face. This ended the 3,000 mile six month long journey.
The president of the Oregon Humane Society authenticated this amazing feat. The route was reconstructed and people who saw or took care of Bobbie were interviewed.
Bobbie did not follow Frank's east/west route and appeared to have traveled thousands of miles over land he had never been in, land he had not seen, smelled or, in any way was familiar, yet, he found his way home.
Joseph Banks Rhine, one of the fathers of modern parapsychology, and his daughter, Sara Feather, have studied many similar cases. Rhine called this phenomena psi-trailing. Psi is the abbreviation for psychic phenomena.
In 1952, he investigated a case of psi-trailing that happened in 1952. This was one of the longest journeys of a cat.
Stacy Woods was an Anderson, California school principal. Sugar was the family cat.
The family moved to a farm in Gage, Oklahoma and left the cat with neighbors because the cat was terrified of riding in cars.
About fourteen months later, Stacy and his wife were milking cows in the barn when a cat jumped through an open window and landed on Mrs. Woods' shoulder. The cat looked and acted so much like Sugar that they joked their cat had found them. Then, they realized that the cat really was Sugar. The cat had an unusual bone deformity at his left hip joint.
Later, the Woods found out that Sugar disappeared three weeks after they moved.
Rhine learned that Sugar was a strong cat and an excellent hunter and had caught half-grown jack rabbits. The parapsychologist concluded that the cat was physically able to travel the rugged land between California and Oregon, a distance of 1500 miles.
The question was how did Sugar find his family in a place he had never been to?
Another unusual case that Rhine and Feather studied was one of a pigeon. This was not the case of the usual homing pigeon.
Hugh Brady Perkins was a boy when he discovered the pigeon in the yard of his home in Summersville, West Virginia. The year was 1940. He tamed the pigeon and placed a band on its leg with the number 167 on it.
That winter, Hugh was taken to a hospital, at night, for surgery. The distance was about 120 miles from home.
One night when it snowed, Hugh heard fluttering at the hospital window and told the nurse. She opened the window to humor the boy and the pigeon came in. There was the band with the number 167 on the bird's leg.
How can animals travel such distances and, to places they have never been?
When cases are evaluated for psi-trailing, there are four major criteria that are used.
1) The reliability of the witnesses. 2) Positive identification of the animal, such as a deformity, scar or name tag. 3) How credible and consistent the details are. 4) Adequate corroborative evidence, such as other witnesses.
After years of study, Rhine and Feather found at least 54 cases of cats, dogs and birds that appeared to meet these criteria.
The evidence is there. Again, the question is how animals can do this.
I believe it is by telepathy. This is communication without the use of the traditional five senses, across space and time. This has been demonstrated in humans many times, both in experimental situations and in the field. A simple example is that a person is thinking about calling a friend. The phone rings and it is the friend.
I also believe that "connectedness" or special bonds existing between humans and humans, animals and animals and humans and animals facilitate this. Again, there has been evidence to support this.
Dr. Karlis Osis, a distinguished parapsychologist, did one of the earliest experiments in psychic communication with animals in the early 1950s at the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University.
Osis was experimenting with kittens in a T-shaped maze, trying to influence them to go right or left, according to a random sequence.
The cats made more turns, according to Osis' will, than could be attributed to chance. He concluded that telepathy was probably the best explanation.
Even more intriguing was the fact that the cats that he had a special bond with were the ones that most often went in the direction he chose. The cat that "scored" the best was one that he allowed to jump on his shoulder and ride around the laboratory.
Transpersonal psychology studies human consciousness. There is also research being done in both animal consciousness and psychic animal-human communication. I believe that this, not space, is the last frontier.
Will Bradbury Will, ed. Into the Unknown. ISBN: 0-89577-098-9
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Shadow creatures are neither ghosts nor people, and we know these creatures as shadow people. It seems that the "shadow" know about our location and want us to feel fear or even panic in their presence.
People-shadows or shadow people are paranormal dark barely visible silhouettes known to mystics for a long time. They look like dark humanoid creatures or barely noticeable ghosts, often seen only with peripheral vision. Witnesses claim that shadow people only catch a few seconds, eyewitnesses also say that they looked into the eyes of shadow people and their eyes shone with a red light, like demons.
Shadow people can take different shapes and sizes: look like full-fledged people or even like animals. But most often these are thin tall strange figures. Be that as it may, they appear only for a moment, quickly evaporating into the air. Unfortunately, they can harm humans, which was proven in 2013.
The video posted on the web had confirmation of the existence of a shadow man who was visible for over a minute! An unknown silhouette knocks down a man walking down the corridor and drags him across the floor for several seconds. After some time, it also suddenly disappears, releasing the person. As it became known, the building where the striking phenomenon was filmed has complaints from tenants who more than once meet paranormal events in their home.
There are very few known cases though of adverse events caused by shadow people. In most cases, they appear or disappear as soon as they are found.
Shadow creatures can be spotted out of the corner of your eye. Some people who saw them or knew about their presence say that they are alien creatures, slipping in and out of our field of vision. In the eyewitness accounts, the observation of the recurrence of shadow manifestations is especially often mentioned.
Whether they are an elusive race that has always coexisted with us is an interesting theory suggesting that these creatures are frequent guests in our lives.
Paranormal researchers consider shadow people to be malevolent supernatural entities. Perhaps shadow people will not cause physical pain, but they can affect you emotionally, for example, cause fear – this gives them energy.
Skeptics and scientists believe that shadow people are optical illusions or hallucinations that appear under the influence of drugs or physiological changes in the body. When the left temporo-parietal brain is stimulated, these strange images are created.
Often the appearance of these shadows is inextricably linked with sleep paralysis, when a person is, as it were, between sleep and reality. Scientifically, this is called hypnogogy. Hypnogogia is called "the phenomenon of the face in the dark" for such hallucinations.
All eyewitnesses, regardless of where they live, talk about the same sensations in the presence of shadow creatures. Fear is a cold feeling that overcomes a person at this moment.
Some people say they even saw the eerie red eyes of these dark personalities that momentarily appear anywhere and demonstrate the ability to walk on the walls of enclosed spaces, which defies the general laws of physics.
Whoever they are, they feed on human energy, emit bad vibrations and give negative emotions. We do not know how they got into our dimension, about the purpose of their mission and how they affect the human essence. The main thing is to stop feeling fear in their presence and not to "feed" anyone with your precious energy.
A ghost hunter explained how to summon ghosts and when is the best time to do it according to The Daily Star.
Jade Capasso explores hotels, inns, historical places to allegedly reveal the spirits and ghosts that are present in them. She shares her discoveries on the YouTube channel Ghost Club Paranormal. The girl is sure that you can also talk with spirits.
The 28-year-old ghost hunter is confident that you can talk to ghosts and spirits using a voice recorder. A particularly good time for this, according to her, is the eve of All Saints' Day – Halloween.
"I think there is more activity during Halloween. More people believe in the other world, "she said.
She recalled that Halloween pumpkin is an invariable attribute and symbol of the holiday. People decorate their home with funny, scary, and sometimes even terrifying faces.
"I'm sure there will be more sessions and many will use Ouija boards," she says.
To connect with the "other world", you can go to a famous haunted place, says Kapassa. She also recommends checking your home for ghosts.
To hear a ghost, the girl recommends using special equipment.
After all, ghosts, she said, emit sounds at ultra-low frequencies that are not perceived by the human ear. You can hear them, as she notes, only on audio recordings.
The girl says that you need to leave the digital voice recorder in a room where paranormal activity is observed all night, or ask questions and wait for an answer.
"Ask questions, and who knows, you might hear a disembodied voice answering you," says Jade.
According to her, there is no need to rush, because the spirits must be given enough time to respond.
"You probably won't hear them in real time. But if you listen to the recording, you might hear someone from the underworld, "she said.
A Scottish resident took a photo of an abandoned building, and then could not believe his eyes when he looked at the finished photograph. From there the woman's face was looking at him, but the man is sure: there was no one in the ruins of the house. Finding an explanation for what he saw was not easy.
A photographer from Scotland, who wished to remain anonymous, decided to arrange an unusual photo session, Unilad writes.
His choice fell on several abandoned buildings that are located in one of the parks in the North Ayrshire region. After taking a couple of pictures, he went to the studio to print them, and then looked at the finished result.
The negative of one of the photographs of the photographer
Mysticism often happens in abandoned buildings , and the case with a man was no exception. In one photo, the Scotsman saw the ghostly silhouette of a woman looking at him from a window. However, the man assures that there was no one in the building, and he was alone in the ruins.
During the shooting, I did not feel anything unusual or anything otherworldly.
Despite the fact that the woman's face looks intimidating, he is glad that he managed to capture it. Moreover, the hero of the story shared the frame with all friends who adore mysticism and riddles.
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I'm happy that I was able to capture something that looks like a ghost. I am even proud to be able to show photos to people who love riddles.
Many people, according to the photographer, are inclined to believe that this is a ghost, who love to talk to children so much, although the author of the picture himself is in no hurry to draw conclusions. He even looked at the frame under a microscope, but never came to the truth.
You can, of course, speculate, but the human brain makes us see familiar traits everywhere, especially if we look at them long enough.
Moreover, the photographer, according to him, does not really believe in ghosts and other mystical phenomena.
I don't like the term paranormal. As for ghosts, I don't know if they exist. I don't even know how to define them. What is it? Energy?


This weekend there are two atheist meetings dealing with women's issues in places thousands of miles apart. One is a small one day event in Kochi, Kerala in India on Sunday while the other is the more star studded three day 4th Women in Secularism conference in Arlington, VA near Washington DC.
Here is the schedule of Women in Secularism Conference.
Free Expression and Safe Spaces: How do we balance free expression with other concerns?
I will be taking part along with my wife Beena in Kochi event titled Patriarchy and Freethought. Here is the schedule.
'Feminism- what the "Oracles" fail to see' by Dr. Arun N.M.
'Patriachy and the Idea of Indian Enlightenment' by Dr. Viswanathan C.


COLUMBUS, Ohio – – The Ball State men's volleyball team used a complete team effort to rally from two games down to defeat Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association preseason favorite and No. 12-ranked Lewis 3-2 (27-30, 21-30, 30-25, 31-29, 15-12) in the semifinal round on the 2009 MIVA Tournament Thursday evening at Ohio State's St. John Arena.
With the win, the Cardinals advance to the tournament championship match for the second straight season, where they will face the winner of the No. 11 Ohio State vs. Loyola semifinal contest.
Lee Meyer (Cincinnati, Ohio/Moeller H.S.) blasted a season-high ten kills in the final three games, while adding three digs, two blocks and hitting a match-best .533 (10-2-15). J.D. Gasparovic (St. Louis, Mo./Oakville H.S.), who had missed the last three matches due to illness, also tagged 10 kills, while adding two blocks and a .526 (10-0-19) attack percentage.
The Cardinals, who improved to 18-9 with the win and to 11-0 in matches where they are not ranked, were led at the attack line by Todd Chamberlain (Louisville, Ky./Trinity H.S.) and Andy Nelson (St. Croix Falls, Wis./St. Croix Falls H.S.) who each blasted 12 kills. Nelson also finished the contest with a match-best six total blocks, while Chamberlain added nine digs and a block assist.
In the backcourt, BSU libero Billy Ebel (Lenexa, Kan./Bishop Miege H.S.) collected a career-high 22 digs, which ties as the third-highest single match total in program history. Matt Sprague (Ballwin, Mo./Marquette H.S.) also added double-digit digs with 11.
Lewis' Drew Pickering paced all players with 18 kills in the contest, while also adding 12 digs for a double-double. Nathan Klaas and Billy Sahagian added 15 and 13 kills, respectively, while Nick Perakes and Brian Muesenfechter posted 13 and 11 digs, respectively.
Lewis, which ended the season with a 21-8 overall record, did manage to out-hit Ball State .189 (63-30-175)-to-.180 (64-35-161), while holding a 13.5-to-9 edge in team blocks. BSU held the advantage in the backcourt, out-digging the Flyers 69-to-55.
Ball State setter Ethan Pheister (Shorewood, Wis./Shorewood H.S.) finished the match with 52 assists, nine digs and three blocks, while Lewis setter Mike Iandolo handed out 51 assists and tallied seven digs and five total blocks.
After Pickering, the 2009 MIVA Player of the Year, opened the match with a kill for the Flyers, the Cardinals were able to capitalize on three Lewis errors and a blocks assist from Pheister and Matt McCarthy (Wheaton, Ill./Wheaton Warrenville North H.S.) to take a 4-2 advantage. Lewis rallied to tie the set at five, before back-to-back markers from McCarthy and an attack error gave BSU an 8-5 lead.
With Ball State maintaining a 12-9 lead, a pair of kills from Pickering in a 4-1 Lewis run tied the set at 13. Dominic Spadavecchio (Palatine, Ill./William Fremd H.S.) followed with three straight kills to help the Cardinals regain their three-point edge at 16-13. However, Lewis was able to battle back and tie the set at 20, before taking their first lead since the 2-1 mark, at 21-20, on a triple block from Alex Vigansky, Iandolo and Pickering.
After a Ball State timeout, an attack error momentarily stopped the Flyers, but Lewis answered with the next four points and went on to reach game point at 29-23 on a kill from Chris Biscardi. The Cardinals tried to make a run thanks to kills from Nelson and Marcus Imwalle (Maria Stein, Ohio/Marion Local H.S.), a Lewis attack error and a Nelson solo block. However, the Lewis lead was too much for Ball State to overcome, as a Pickering kill ended the game at 30-27.
The Flyers were able to carry over the momentum early in the second frame, as they scored the first four points, thanks in part to a pair of markers from Klaas. Despite two kills from Nelson, Lewis was able to pull ahead by six at 8-2 after a pair of Pickering kills forced BSU to call its first timeout.
Imwalle used and overpass and a blast at the net to score kills on the next two plays, but Ball State was never able to find its rhythm in the game, dropping the set 30-21.
In the third set, the teams traded the lead several times through the first 14 points, only to play to a 7-7 tie. A kill from Gasparovic and a Lewis attack error broke the tie and helped the Cardinals play to a 9-7 advantage. Moments later, the Cardinals pulled ahead by three at 12-9 off another Gasparovic marker followed by an attack error.
While the Flyers responded with the next four points to take a 13-12 lead, a block assists from Sprague and Nelson, followed by another Nelson kill, helped the Cardinals regain the momentum as they went on a 5-1 run to pull ahead 17-14. Lewis answered with a 5-0 run of its own to take an 18-17 lead.
A Lewis service error following a BSU timeout tied the game at 18, before a block and pair of kills from Gasparovic helped the Cardinals pull ahead 21-19. Ball State went on to build a four-point lead moments later on a Meyer kill at 25-21.
The Flyers scored the next three points, but the Cardinals were not done, answering with three straight kills – including two from Meyer – to reach set point at 29-24. After a Pickering tally mark, Nelson ended the game for the Cardinals at 30-25 with his fourth smash to the hardwood in the set.
Game four opened with the teams battling to a 3-3 deadlock, before a Klaas kill and BSU attack error led to a 6-2 run for the Flyers and forced the Cardinals to utilize their first timeout trailing 9-5. The break did its trick, as BSU answered the challenge with a 5-1 run to tie the game at 10. Ball State went on to take the lead at 13-12, while a Chamberlain ace and kill moved the score to 15-12.
After a kill from Iandolo, a smash from Meyer and a Flyers attack error forced the Lewis to call their first break of the game trailing 17-13. Pickering scored a pair of kills out of the break, only to be rejected by Eric Schulte (Shorewood, Wis./Shorewood H.S.) and Nelson on his next swing, moving the score to 18-15.
The Cardinals would double their lead to six at the 24-18 off a Chamberlain kill followed by a pair of Lewis errors. The lead remained six at 26-20, before a 6-1 run from the Flyers forced Ball State to use their second timeout. Lewis added the next two points after the break before a Schulte kill stopped their momentum. However, a kill from Sahagian on the next rally gave the Flyers the first match point of the night at 29-28.
Ball State was determined to push the match to five, however, as a quick set to Nelson and a block assist from Nelson and Pheister gave BSU game point at 30-29. The frame ended on the next play when a Pickering attack landed several feet past the end line to give the Cardinals the set at 31-29.
After the teams played to a 4-4 tie to open the fifth game, a kill from Meyer, a service ace from Mark Termion (Winfield, Ill./Wheaton North H.S.) and a Lewis line violation gave the Cardinals a 7-4 advantage. Schulte followed with a kill, giving BSU an 8-4 edge at the court switch. The Flyers were able to battle within two at 9-7, only to see kills from Meyer and Nelson push the lead back to four at 11-7.
A Sahagian kill helped the Flyers draw within two again at 13-11, only to see a Chamberlain kill give BSU its first match point at 14-11. After a Pickering kill gave the serve back to the Flyers, a pivotal service error ended the game at 15-12 and the match at 3-2 in favor of the Cardinals.


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In the News: AABANY Member Jennifer Wu Quoted in NY1 Article on Hate Crimes
On December 8, 2021, NY1 News published an article titled "NYPD civilian panel investigates hate crimes as cases double." The NYPD tasked a civilian panel to review more than a hundred cases potentially motivated by bias. The article highlights the following:
Reported hate crimes doubled this year to 503 as of Dec. 5
There were 249 arrests in these cases
Of the 503 reported hate crimes, 129 of them were against Asians
Jennifer Wu, Co-Chair of AABANY's Women's Committee and a Partner of Paul, Weiss who has represented hate crime victims pro bono, is quoted in the article: "When people experience economic stress or a plague, a majority of people tend to blame a class of people."
In the News: Paul, Weiss Partners Jeannie Rhee, Lawrence Wee, and Jennifer Wu Offer Advice to Young Asian American Lawyers in "For Asian American Lawyers, Good Mentorship Is Crucial"
In "For Asian American Lawyers, Good Mentorship Is Crucial," a Law360 Guest Column published on August 16, Paul, Weiss partners Jeannie Rhee, Lawrence Wee, and Jennifer Wu discussed the importance of mentorships and common setbacks and stereotypes faced by Asian American lawyers. Wee and Wu are both AABANY members. Wee is a co-chair of AABANY's Corporate Law Committee and a former AABANY Board Director, while Wu is a co-chair of the AABANY's Women's Committee. Rhee, Wee, and Wu stated that finding good mentors is vital for professional development and career advancement, but also took care to note that the mentor-mentee relationship is two-sided. The authors recommended that mentees find ways to anticipate their mentors' needs and assist them, while also encouraging mentors to be good listeners and step into their mentees' shoes. While they maintained that these relationships can help young lawyers learn to manage some challenges associated with being an Asian American in the legal profession, they also recommended that Asian American lawyers should seek out a range of mentors, whether they share the same cultural background or not.
As mentors, Rhee, Wee, and Wu encouraged younger lawyers to take risks, speak up during meetings and challenging cases, and actively seek out promotions and leadership opportunities, especially since Asian Americans can be seen as risk-averse and face obstacles such as the bamboo ceiling. The authors also cautioned young Asian American lawyers, warning them that they will encounter stereotypes and that not everyone would acknowledge that they are minorities. However, they urged young Asian American lawyers to be their best, most authentic selves and to engage in positive, open communication about race-related issues. They also encouraged Asian American lawyers to become active in affinity groups and seek out organizations dedicated to the Asian American community and the career advancement of Asian American lawyers. The link to the full article is here.
Congratulations to Jennifer Wu, AABANY Women's Committee Co-Chair, on Rising Stars Award
The New York Law Journal recognized Jennifer H. Wu on October 10, 2018 with a Rising Stars Award, given to 29 of the region's most promising lawyers under 40. Awardees are acknowledged for their influence in their practice areas in New York and beyond, developing unique practice niches, employing creative uses of technology, amassing robust books of business, demonstrating strong leadership qualities, showing expertise in litigation or transactional work, contributing to the improvement of their institutions, and committing themselves to pro bono, charitable and professional volunteer work.
Jennifer is a partner in Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP's Litigation Department and focuses her practice on patent litigation matters. Jennifer frequently goes to jury and bench trials in federal district courts and trials before the International Trade Commission. She also represents clients in appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. She has litigated patents in a wide variety of technical areas, with a particular emphasis on pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Jennifer's work on biologics includes litigating issues of first impression as to the BPCIA, and her patent litigation experience also extends to GPS devices, DNA sequencing technology, and medical devices.
Jennifer directs Paul, Weiss's first pro bono project expressly for Asian Americans, helping parents of special-needs children obtain services from the New York City Department of Education. Jennifer has also worked with the Innocence Project for over a decade, including on eyewitness misidentification, death penalty, and Shaken Baby Syndrome issues. She is a Board member of the Federal Circuit Bar Association; co-chair of the Women's Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York; a Board member of Friends of UNFPA, which supports the work of the United Nations reproductive health and rights agency; and an Advisory Board member of the NYU Law Alumni of Color Association.
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Please join us in congratulating Jennifer Wu on this well-deserved honor and recognition.


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Eitan Bronstein in A People Without a Land.
Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon, director of A People Without a Land, is a man on a mission. As he says in an interview, his support for a one-state solution is part of a personal journey which has taken him from Zionist Jewish Orthodoxy (and his wife Pennie from fervent Christian Zionism) to believing in single-state coexistence in Palestine.
As such, this film is very much a working through of ideas and convictions, with a clear end point which presents a one-state solution as the preferred outcome — moral and practical — to the situation.
In the course of his film, Ungar-Sargon amasses considerable backing for this argument.
Much of the movie consists of "talking heads" — interviews with major thinkers on the subject. The interviewee list includes many of the biggest names in the field: historians Ilan Pappe, Avi Shlaim and Benny Morris; campaigners Ali Abunimah, Omar Barghouti, Jeff Halper and Ghada Karmi; politicians Hanan Ashrawi and Saeb Erekat; and Eitan Bronstein of Zochrot.
Between them — and others — they reflect on the experiences of Palestinians affected by the creation of the State of Israel. History experts provide background; dissident Israeli Jews such as Bronstein and Neta Golan of the International Solidarity Movement describe their journeys from Zionist conviction and/or ignorance to awareness of the oppression on which their lifestyles were based.
Well shot and with generally high production values, Ungar-Sargon's documentary is easy to watch, following a well-defined narrative from the early days of Zionism (framed as an ethnic nationalism from 19th-century Europe), through the Nakba, as Palestinians call the imposition of the State of Israel onto their land in 1948 and the processes of occupation and disingenuous "negotiations" which have happened since.
A heavier presence is Arnon Soffer, a professor in demographics at Haifa University and originator of the wriggling path of Israel's wall in the occupied West Bank. He, unlike most Israeli spokespeople, is at least honest about its purpose: to carve out land on which the majority of the settlements are built and incorporate them into Israel, anticipating a complete separation of Israeli Jews and Palestinians.
He sees the wall as a "compromise," a way of segregating peoples he believes to be fundamentally incapable of living together.
Soffer is a somewhat scary individual, with a messianic (irony intended) fervor for his separatist ideology.
This is not so with fellow Israeli Ari Abramson, an army reservist interviewed while protecting a settlement. He genuinely, with absolutely no irony, declares that "I wouldn't dream of going to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and kicking them out of their homes and saying 'this is our land now.'" One wonders where he does think his country's foundation lies.
But he embodies the fragility of the Israeli psyche when pushed on issues such as settler violence — his cheerful, self-confident patriotism unraveling almost instantly into palpable discomfort.
The film does hit a few dud notes. It's noticeable that casual Israeli speakers are more likely to be personally identified than Palestinians, and there are occasional blips in the English subtitles for Arabic speech.
Overall, though, there is a nagging question of who the intended audience for this documentary actually is.
The clear narrative arc begins with a historical sketch of the origins of political Zionism, working through various problems with the Zionist movement's claims, and ends with what Ungar-Sargon and some of his interviewees see as the logical conclusion of those problems — namely, a one-state solution.
The basic — not to say simplistic — level of some of the historical background, and the "usual suspects" lineup of interviewees, points to the film as an introduction to those new to the issue of Palestine.
But the fairly detailed discussions of other issues later in the film, and the single-minded conclusion, would better suit viewers with some grounding in the subject.
I can envisage the film working well in a solidarity group debate on one-state versus two-state solutions, although (despite my own position) it would seem only fair for that to include more information on two-state ideas, or at least on the objections of "two-staters" to the single-state option.
Or, going back to the point about the large number of Israeli interviewees, this would be an excellent film for introducing critical Jewish viewers to the arguments for a single binational state, a position often seen as challenging, if not threatening.
After all, one of the more unexpected interviewees is Asher Lopatin, a Zionist rabbi wearing an Israeli flag tie, but advocating a "United States of the Holy Land" with equal rights for all and free movement for both Palestinians and Jews.
The only speaker in the film who sets out defined reasons for two states is Arnon Soffer, the Israeli demographer who calls those who believe in coexistence "nasty liars." He cites a range of deeply racist — and breathtakingly historically inaccurate — examples of what he sees as Arab/Islamic violence against non-Muslims.
But to see his savage, bitter response as representative of everyone who questions the one-state position is disingenuous. If the film wanted to present a genuinely nuanced debate, it needed to include someone like author Raja Shehadeh — a sober, principled advocate of an (albeit temporary) two-state situation.
In the end, one senses, this is a film which doesn't quite grasp the opportunity to get its message across. It spends a little too much time building up the (already well-documented) evidence against two-statism while running out of space for a proper exploration of the less familiar issues of how that single state might actually look — and how it might be achieved in political, practical and psychological terms.
Sarah Irving is the author of a biography of Leila Khaled and of the Bradt Guide to Palestine and is co-editor of A Bird is not a Stone, a collection of contemporary Palestinian poetry in translation. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh.
"United States of the Holy Land" sounds the best name I've heard so far. Two states seems increasingly untenable... turfing out settlers from their homes of decades doesn't seem tenable.
I'm glad to hear of this movie and hope the public discussion of one state solutions get more air. It makes perfect sense that the BDS movement doesn't propose final political solutions but I think it will only benefit from more realistic options being on the table.
The conflict in the Middle East was created by putting in effect and by force the Balfour Declaration in 1917. This documented truth must be considered from any party of the conflict and specially the Palestinians and the Arab leaders; in any debate leading to use truth and rights as the tools to indulge in any peace process.
It was hoped by the Balfour Declaration supporters that the international law based on the Vito of the Security Council permanent members will eliminate the right of the poor Palestinians and the weak Arab states, that belief had proven as the vital reason for extending the crisis to unknown date, also to unknown aspect of how it will end.
Better for the Palestinians to stick to refer to the Balfour Declaration 1917 and consider they are dealing with thieves that are stronger now but not forever. The Palestinians must find ways to live with the Thieves of their land and not to recognize any part of Palestine as owned by partners of peace.
A one-state solution is an utterly stupid idea. I'm sorry but oppression or no oppression, Israel is now a bona fide country and trying to disestablish it in return for a Palestinian state ain't never gonna happen.
We have to peacefully find a settlement for both parties.
Having live years in Palestine for 3 years, I never heard any Palestinians speak of the 2 state solution. Seeing things on the ground, I KNEW that it would be impossible to enforce a 2 state solution with any REAL freedom for the Palestinians. The Palestinians I came to know were very willing to live WITH their Israeli neighbors and work together to cultivate peace. Of course, after the Occupation is removed, there cannot exist a vacuum; so the Palestinians and Israelis together (not the people necessarily in power) must find the way to ensure justice and thus peace for all. The two state solution might just be "hot air" to stall and establish more Israeli "facts on the ground." It's so hard to talk of peace and see more Palestinian land confiscated or declared "state lands" by Israel.
It's so funny Paulette - we come from opposite sides.Due to various business connections, I've had to spend a lot of time in Israel, specifically in the West Bank village of Alon Shvut which as you may or may not know, is one of the most established Israeli settlements in the region. The inhabitants are very friendly, many being from England, America, Russia etc. and whilst many do not want to compromise on settlement-building , nevertheless they do seem to want peace and to end the decades of hate and violence that has plagued both sides.So it sounds strange to me when you say only Palestinians want to cultivate peace.


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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
The rating decision was tied to a scene of a 12-year-old with prostitutes.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
The franchise took a dark and violent turn with the "Temple of Doom" story, which included a child slavery cult, dark magic and human sacrifice.
Henry & June (1990)
It was only a few things that caused "Henry and June" to receive the NC-17 rating: the inclusion of Hokusai's octopus erotica, "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife," and a few moments of louche behavior at a Bacchanale.
Basic Instinct (1992)
"Basic Instinct," which features an iconic, endlessly parodied scene in which Sharon Stone briefly shows all while being interrogated.
Showgirls (1995)
The rating hurt the film's box office: "Showgirls" remains the only film to receive both an NC-17 rating and a wide theatrical release, which didn't work as planned: the film made just $37.8 million against a budget of $45 million
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Its NC-17 rating was reduced to an R not because director Kimberly Peirce cut a violent rape scene but by excising sex scenes between Hilary Swank and Chloë Sevigny.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
The studio, needing to deliver a R-rating, was forced to make changes to the orgy scene to satisfy the MPAA.
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
The slightly trimmed film was "Rated R for intense depiction of drug addiction, graphic sexuality, strong language and some violence" for its release on video.
Ebert, who had been reviewing movies for almost four decades by the point of its release in 2004, went so far as to say of "The Passion of the Christ" that it was the most violent film he had ever seen.
Blue Valentine (2010)
This searing, intimate drama about a marriage falling apart starred Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, who performed in two naturalistic sex scenes.
The Hunger Games (2012)
While "The Hunger Games" was a major blockbuster release aimed at a younger demographic, it was filled with violent deaths, including teenagers dying onscreen.
Bully (2011)
Lee Hirsch's acclaimed documentary "Bully," which captured high school experiences of bullying in unflinching detail, wound up with an R rating for its language.
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Whats tour favorite snapper rig?
Time has to start preparing gear for incoming snapper season.
Got to look amd all the rods and reels and oil up what i need to after a 3 month lay up.
Just wondering what rigs people use for sanpper?
Do people prefer the snapper snatchers?
Run a sinker slider on main line then a swivel and then run a 1+mt trace to your hook?
Re: Whats tour favorite snapper rig?
Thought i try something new this year.


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The restaurant is located rue Aristides Maillol 12, Access 15 of the Camp Nou. The restaurant is 20 meters right ahead from you. We invite you to consult our webpage "How to get to the meeting point" to find out how to get there by metro, bus, car, taxi and on foot.
Why did we choose the Tapas 24 restaurant fountain ?
We did not choose this meeting point at random. Indeed, it is not a simple fountain, it is a replica of the Canaletes fountain located on the Rambla in Barcelona and built in the 19th century. Our guide will explain the legend you will discover why it is so important to Catalans! The first and one of the many historical anecdotes explained by our guide that await you during your visit to the Camp Nou.
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"Can you tell me something really funny right now?" I am texting my friend Jill with this request while I sit in the parking lot at Washington Christian Academy, the school where I am an 8th-grade teacher.
I am crying, and the problem is this: I'm in the thick of a transition and I have no tolerance for it. I'm sifting through my youngest daughter's first steps into kindergarten and my first steps into the classroom after a long hiatus. I'm not writing, and after recently earning an MFA in creative writing, I'm supposed to be writing. I want to be writing, but my thoughts are jumbled, and my concentration is low when I sit down at my desk in the mornings. I cross out more words then I keep on the page, and those that stay make me cringe when I re-read them. I try to tell myself that soon I'll get into a groove, but in the depths of my stubborn soul I believe transitions are a waste of time. Most days I walk around feeling as though the wind has been knocked out of me.
This afternoon, when I pulled into the school parking lot, I noticed a line of trees whose tips had started to change. I threw the car in park and reached for my notebook to jot down a few words to describe what I saw, but when I opened my bag I saw my notebook in between a stack of student papers. I stared at my bag and forgot what I was going to write about the trees.
I'm lost right now. I am sad and I feel like I'm failing: at motherhood, at writing, at teaching. I can't seem to get a handle on any of it. So I text Jill to see if she can make me laugh.
I met Jill in the Albuquerque airport two years ago. We were both waiting for a shuttle to take us to Santa Fe where we'd spend the next ten days at a residency for our MFA coursework. We became friends instantly, and every morning before the sun rose and the quiet howls of coyotes still lingered in the air, Jill and I would meet to walk through the lavender-scented air. We hopped over lizards as we talked about writing, our daughters, and everything else that comes to mind when you're with a good friend.
Jill is a poet, and her keen way with words feels like a gift every time she uses them. I know she'll have the perfect words for me now.
I laugh, and the tears that have been welling slip down my cheeks.
I tell her everything's fine, but I'm overwhelmed. I tell her I love teaching but am having a hard time managing all of it. I tell her I miss writing. I look again at the trees in front of me and try to remember what it was I thought to write about them.
I blink back more tears. "What would Jeanne Murray Walker do?" It's the question Jill and I ask when we are overwhelmed with all that we are trying to do.
Jill's referring to Jeanne's essay on Alice Munroe's writing, called, "A Quiet Grace." We talked about that essay for days after we read it, basking in Jeanne's ability to describe the yearning to write and the yearning to be a mother, and the difficulty in tending to both. "I don't even have time to buy potatoes, let alone peel them," I respond.
But Jill is right. What I love about Jeanne's writing is her ability to create something beautiful or haunting or hilarious from a detail that most of us would not notice. She seems to look at everything in her days as a gift to be molded or welded or polished until it illuminates her story however it is supposed to.
I wish I could do that too, I think, as I look at the trees one last time. But no words come, and it is time to teach. I say goodbye to Jill, grab my bag, and scoot out of the car.
"Aw, man," Harper says. "My cucumbers are warm." Hadley, Harper, and I are driving home from school, and Harper has her lunch box open across her lap in the backseat. I don't know what they're doing during lunch, but it's clearly not eating because both of them devour their lunches on the way home. Of course Harper's cucumbers are warm. They've been sitting in her lunchbox for eight hours.
"I ate my cucumbers at lunch," Hadley says as she chews on Goldfish crackers. We are about 90 seconds from home when Harper starts to pretend cry. It will be a real cry soon. Before our garage door glides up, Harper will be weeping over her warm cucumbers because more than she is hungry, Harper loves a story with drama and flare, and she sees potential in this one. Harper's belief in her made-up story is so strong she makes it hard to resist the lie. If she believes she is a fairy, for example, then everywhere she goes is a magical kingdom. Harper once spent an hour and a half jumping off our stairs, waiting for the fairy wings that were attached and quivering with each jump, to take flight.
We get into the house, and Harper lays down on the floor with a sigh. "I'm so hungry," she says, flinging an arm over her face.
"I'll make you a snack in a second," I say as I step over her and walk upstairs to where my desk is.
My study is a nook on our second floor. My desk faces a window that boasts a view of baby oak trees that were planted about ten years ago. Brick townhomes just like ours line the street. I love to look out the window when I'm sitting here. I love our street. It's the only one like it in our neighborhood, and when I'm up here, I pretend we are in the city, maybe Chicago, just like Jeanne Murray Walker was in the beginning of "A Quiet Grace." In it, she's beginning her dissertation when her infant daughter wakes in the morning.
I study that essay like I do a Bible story: See? Esther did a scary thing. See? Mary was totally confused. They knew fear. They knew confusion. Look at these ladies and see what they do. I follow Jeanne through her essay because I know the pull of words and the pull of motherhood and I want to see what another woman does in this situation.
I set my writing space up with that scene in mind. Jeanne felt that desperation and wrote about it. She left her yellow legal pads and picked up her baby, probably feeling both the letdown of having to leave a story and at the same time the joy in the chubby baby legs wrapped around her waist. Jeanne changed the diapers. She peeled the potatoes. And she wrote and wrote and wrote. "So will I," I told myself as I placed my journals and writing textbooks between cups of pens and pencils on my desk.
Today, I walk into this space and dump my school bag on the floor. To my left are three bookshelves filled with creased copies of All the Pretty Horses, Still, The Common Reader, and essays by E.B. White. I shake my head at them. I can't write anymore. I want to lay myself on the floor like Harper, but I sit at my desk and look out the window. These are not real townhomes. The brick is just on the front and all these shutters are fake. This is not a city. This is all just make-believe.
I kick my heels off, put on jeans and a T-shirt, and head downstairs to check on Harper. She's still lying on the floor, but she has her feet in the air, rotating her ankles and singing, "Someday, I'll be livin' in a big ole' city!" I lay down next to her and tickle her tummy while she finishes her favorite Taylor Swift song.
"Harper, you have a letter from Ellie!" Hadley says waving a package in the air.
"Ellie wrote me?" Harper exclaims. Ellie is Harper's pen pal. She is also Jill's daughter. The two girls have been writing to each other since the summer.
Today, Ellie laments over the fact that she must wear a school uniform and she can't wear twirly dresses. I read this to Harper, who is currently wearing a skirt with about three layers of tulle, polka dot leggings, and a zebra print hoodie.
Attached to the picture is a nickel. "This is a luckee ckoin." Ellie writes.
"A lucky coin!" Harper says, holding the letter to her chest.
Hadley nudges me and points to the coin. "Isn't that just a nickel?" she asks with one eyebrow raised.
"It's a lucky nickel," I say, begging with my eyes for Hadley to play along.
Come with your hands open or shut.
Come with them slippery from blood.
Don't be afraid. Only slide down a cascade of water.
Come with your eyes azure as pieces of sky.
Or come with eyes a dark complication of gray.
"Can I have a snack?" Hadley asks. I'm leaning over the sink, holding the book under the faucet as though I'm going to wash my hands with it. I look to Hadley. Her eyes are azure pieces of sky, and they are a dark complication of gray. And she was so late. So, so overdue.
as the throat of a beautiful vase.
The world will fill you with sound.
Did Hadley cry? I think as I begin to rinse off tomatoes and basil in preparation for dinner. The basil makes my mouth water. Yes. Yes, she did, I remember now. I grab a bowl for the tomatoes to fall into after I split them in two. But it was her eyes that I remember.
The girls want to play outside, and I open the back door so I can hear them through the screen while I continue fixing dinner.
I whisk balsamic vinegar, garlic, and olive oil in the bowl before I begin to slice the tomatoes. We're having pasta tonight and this is the sauce. The tomatoes sop up the mixture's flavors while the pasta cooks.
It is the time of day when the sun breathes its rays into the house, illuminating all of what it holds before she sets. A grand finale, and it is in her final bow that her orange hues land on dust and Cheerios on the floor. I don't even know when those Cheerios are from, I think, as I turn a tomato around in my hand. Hadley and Harper have been eating waffles for breakfast all week.
A breeze comes through the screen door making waves in the sun's show. The dust picks up and looks like glitter. When it dies down, I notice that the shadows are still shifting. Hadley and Harper are throwing a ball back and forth in the backyard, and the sun is low enough so that it is covered for a second by their throws. The girls are making the sun flicker.
back and forth, extinguishing tomorrow's wars with light.
I begin to slice tomatoes. I don't know when I'll write another essay or pick those Cheerios up off the floor. Nothing's changed. Except I've read Jeanne's poetry and the tomatoes make a nice plunk as they fall into the vinegar and the garlic.
I fill a pot with water and set it on the stove to boil, then take Jeanne's book to the table that my husband Jesse built as a graduation present for me: a long, thick wood table. The chairs are the same ones we've had for almost sixteen years. Last summer I painted them turquoise because I was having trouble studying Erasmus' The Praise of Folly and I needed something to take my mind off of it.
I read Jill's card again before I get to the poems. "No more annotations," she writes.
I wish Jill were sitting across the table from me. If she were, I'd brew a pot of coffee — strong — and I'd tell her I kind of miss writing annotations. She would nod and chuckle and I bet she'd say, "Me too." We'd sip our coffee, clutch our mugs close, and hash this motherhood-writing-peeling-potatoes conundrum out. We wouldn't figure out a thing, but we'd have a good time trying.
I hold Jeanne's book in one hand and Jill's note in the other. It'd be nice to have them both here, but holding their words is nice, too. And I have the words that fill my bookshelves. Maybe someday my words will slowly settle again onto the page. Maybe I'll unpack my life and see what makes it work like I did with the books I studied in school. Maybe this is my next annotation.
I step into Harper and Ellie's story and tell her that I think we do. I cut an apple for the girls' breakfast while I help Harper sound out words.
I do not have to wear a uniform to school.
I pull out my Grandma's dishes, the light blue ones with a sailboat in the center. Today it will be a fancy breakfast. I sprinkle cinnamon on the apple.
My favorite subject is PE.
I pour orange juice into teacups, turn on the oven, then line a cookie sheet with parchment paper for biscuits.
I want to be a princess bat for Halloween. What is your favorite Halloween candy?
Hadley comes downstairs with a book and a stack of Pokemon cards.
"Good morning," I say. She greets me with a smile and her blue eyes shine. I thought for sure they'd be brown. I am not disappointed they aren't, but surprised. Somewhere in my brown-haired, brown-eyed roots, I hold a gene for blue eyes. Hadley has Jesse's eyes, whose blue hue deepens on crisp fall days when the sky sparkles, and matches the grey sky when hurricanes are on their way. But in biology, brown trumps blue, and each morning Hadley looks at me and shows me something I didn't know I had.
Come out from where you are hiding.
The count is up now, the game is over.
Come home to this small room.
in the window above your empty crib.
The three of us walk out our door later, the girls running to the car, their backpacks flopping side to side, making a swish-swish sound against their backs, and my heels clicking loudly as I walk down the sidewalk trying to catch up.
Callie Feyen lives in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. with her husband, Jesse, and their two daughters Hadley and Harper. She recently earned an MFA in creative writing from Seattle Pacific University and is trying to put it to good use writing in the mornings and teaching 8th grade English in the afternoons. Callie writes for Relief Journal and Coffee and Crumbs. Her work has also been featured on Altarwork.
Callie Feyen has an MFA in creative writing from Seattle Pacific University. She is working in the Ypsilanti Community Schools as an At-Risk Literacy Specialist. The Teacher Diaries: Romeo and Juliet is her first book. You can visit her at calliefeyen.com.


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Seven Companies Incubating at 3 Day Startup San Antonio
November 17, 2012 by LauraLorek@gmail.com Leave a Comment
Jim Pyle pitches his idea for the Amazing Jellybean at 3 Day Startup San Antonio
On Friday, Jim Pyle arrived at Geekdom for 3 Day Startup San Antonio with an idea for a company.
When the 40 participants broke into nine groups to brainstorm, Pyle presented his idea. He has a patent pending on a device called the Amazing Jellybean. It's a consumer electronics product that reboots a computer and the Internet when problems arise with the Internet's connectivity.
Pyle, a former customer service representative for Time Warner, knows the pain firsthand from helping consumers reconnect their Internet. So he created a device to do it automatically.
Pyle later pitched the Amazing Jellybean to the entire group around 8 p.m. Friday night. His was one of the 18 ideas being considered. The other ideas included business templates for Facebook, Streaming Yoga, Mentor Nation, Smart Aisle, Parking Buddy, a Veteran's job portal and others.
At around 10 p.m., everyone put their heads down and voted by raising their hands for their two favorite project ideas.
In the end, six companies got the most votes. They included Audius.co, an application that lets performers harness the power of the audience's smart phones, ReInVintag, a recycled clothing site, Social Connex, a applications developers interface with Facebook, Yelp for Online Courses, Monk's Toolbox, a graphic business app for brewers and Heirloom, an online repository for family memories. Some of the people who couldn't decide what team to join decided to revive one of the old ideas for Print.me, a portal for consumers to order prints of famous paintings and other works of art.
Pyle was disappointed his idea wasn't chosen but he was OK with the process. He decided to join the Heirloom team.
"There's a lot of different perspectives from people with different disciplines here," Pyle said.
This time 3 Day Startup San Antonio worked hard to make sure that they had a diverse crowd, said Joshua Schechter, one of the organizers. They received more than 340 applications and whittled the finalists down to 100, he said. They reached out to a fashion incubator and food incubator in town and all of the universities to get participants.
"The criteria was about passion," Schechter said. "The program is about education and entrepreneurship. We were looking for a lot of diversity."
This is the fifth 3 Day Startup Weekend in San Antonio. The first two took place at Rackspace and the rest at Geekdom on the 11th floor of the Weston Centre downtown.
'There's a lot of passion and excitement," said Luz Cristal Glangchai, associate director of Trinity University's Center for Entrepreneurship and one of the event's organizers. "The participants are super motivated."
During the three day weekend, the groups will hash out business plans, create websites and products and do customer research. They'll also dine on barbeque and dozens of different kinds of snacks ranging from pop tarts to apples. They also have all kinds of drinks from beer to Red Bull and ice tea.
But it's not all work.
The 3 Day Startup teams often have giant Nerf gun battles and have been known to play dodge ball on the roof of the building.
Lauren Anzaldua, a senior studying entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at San Antonio, pitched an idea for marketing small businesses on Facebook by using page templates. It wasn't chosen. She ended up working on the Print.Me group.
"I'm kind of just going with the flow," she said. "I like having this experience. It's beneficial either way."
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Morales & Besa - Morales y Besa successfully advised SMU SA, the supermarket chain related to the Saieh group.
Morales y Besa successfully advised SMU SA, the supermarket chain related to the Saieh group.
Morales y Besa successfully advised SMU SA, the supermarket chain related to the Saieh group, in the process of placing bonds in the local market for UF 1,000,000 due on September 25 of 2019. The proceeds from the placement of these bonds will be used to refinance SMU's medium- and short-term unrelated financial debt.
This is the second time that Morales & Besa advises SMU in a bond placement processes, after advising the company in the placement of bonds for a total sum of UF 3,000,000, last April.
The team of Morales & Besa was led by partner José Miguel Carvajal, senior associate Andrea Díaz and associate Isabel Cabeza.


Club Penguin Cheats by Mimo777 Club Penguin Cheats by Mimo777: New Club Penguin Parent Update!
This month, Medieval Adventure Starting May 17, princesses, knights, and dragons take over the island at the Medieval Party. Members can dress up, conquer quests and defeat Scorn the Dragon King. Here's a hint: In the Town, members who have the Skyward Staff can use it to help friends get into the magical Sky Kingdom.
Puffle Trouble. Puffles+Herbert= Trouble. Herbert wants to stop parties on CP, and puffles just want to have fun. Watch Club Penguin's 2nd animated short film to see how the story unfolds.
Cool, huh? Did your parent get their May edition?
a clue to the cat hat for puffles?


As we all know many people visit the beaches mainly for sunbathing but the beaches are not limited to such - especially in the country like Sri Lanka, where you can enjoy the different and more interesting water activities like surfing, diving and many more of them. However, the season for diving and surfing in Sri Lanka varies from coast to coast - west coast from November to April whereas in east coast from May to October.
The country offers best in class surfing and diving tours. Some of the best place for surfing and scuba diving are from both coasts of the country such as the WELIGAMA, HIKKADUWA and KIRINDA will offer you the breathtaking and attractive Surfing options when we move towards then east coast of Sri Lanka there's Nilaveli and TRINCOMALEE in a paradise of large west coast side inviting lots of people for the surfing, Scuba diving and many other Water Activities. While enjoying your Diving in west coast you can enjoy a view of moving underwater coral fish deep in the sea. There are many schools and well trained and experienced teachers which will help or guide you to perform such activities with full security. Thus this makes your trip to the beach more enjoyable and safe.
the best Surf places of Sri Lanka is mainly located on the South and east coast of Sri Lanka however there are some places in west coast also where you can enjoy the surfing. Arugam Bay and Hikkaduwa are the busiest places of all. There many more secret surfing spots like Mirissa, Ahangama, Unawatuna, Weligama or Yala where one can also enjoy the surfing.
HIKKADUWA: The place is well known for providing the best surf in Sri Lanka but mainly in the dry season that is from month of November to march. There are four breaks from north to south: mains peak, locals break, Hansa surf break and the beach break that has to be kept in mind while your surf trip to this beach.
Arugam Bay: Arugam Bay is the other suited place for the people who have the passion for surfing, the place is available with lots of water sports, under water sanctuaries at quite attractive packages and prices. In addition to the cheap price hotels as well as guest houses. From last few ear the place has gain its peak popularity and is on the way of becoming the best tourist spot in Sri Lanka.
Unawatuna: is known as the golden beach as it is surrounded by the coral reefs, reef and wreck diving, safe swimming some of the best surf points make the place a more attractive and beautiful travel destination.
Ahangama: It is the most secret place for surfing in Sri Lanka. The best place to enjoy your surfing passion without any headache and with full relaxation. Thus the place is made for those people who does not like the crowded places but have the passion of surfing.
As we all know the Sri Lanka is one of the best place for scuba diving because there are coral reefs, wrecks, colourful and attractive underwater views which you can enjoy on the beaches of Sri Lanka. Arugam Bay and Trincomalee are the places which has maximum visibility between May and September and when we talk about Unawatuna, Hikkaduwa, Bentota, and Mirissa are having their best visibility of up to 20 km between November to April Polhenna beach has a reef that you can reach on foot from the shore.
Shore diving is quite rare in Sri Lanka. They have generally 6 driver boats (Small boats). Some do have larger boats for about 15 divers. These dives are mainly organized before the noon but this depends on the operator of the boat. The trips of boat are quite fast that is from 10 to 45 minutes ranging on the basis of location.
Kalpitiya- it is well known for Rocky as well as Coral Reefs as well as for their Marine Sanctuary.
Bentota - Rocky outcrops is what they known for.
Hikkaduwa - here you can enjoy a diving with a great underwater view of Coral Reefs, Rocky outcrops, as well as Ship Wrecks.
Some of the other good places for diving are Unawatuna, Weligama, Tangalla, Basses, Trincomalee, and Batticaloa.
Thus Sri Lanka is the best place where you can enjoy all kinds of water sports and activities with full fun and passion. Because of such things today Sri Lanka is gaining as much more economical than other destinations.
Have you gone diving or surfing in Sri Lanka?
Did you enjoy diving in Sri Lanka and was it safe? How was surfing in Sri Lanka? What are the best places? Share it!


A few GOP lawmakers have been critical of Pruitt -- but none signed the latest resolution.
A group of 131 representatives and 39 senators, all of them Democrats, signed a resolution on Wednesday calling on embattled EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to resign.
Pruitt has been at the center of a storm of allegations recently, ranging from trying to use his motorcade's sirens to get through a traffic jam to spending millions on a 20-person security detail and first-class airfares to renting a luxury D.C. apartment, owned by the wife of a top fossil fuel lobbyist, for the totally normal price of $50 a night.
But despite the glaring misuse of government funds, not a single Republican signed the resolution. Some Republicans have said that Pruit should resign, including Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Carlos Curbelo (FL) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL), but none have reached across the aisle to put pen to paper with Democrats.
Trump, unsurprisingly, has supported Pruitt despite the scandals. Last week he tweeted that Pruitt's security spending was up as he had received death threats "because of his bold actions at the EPA." But House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said that he was troubled by Pruitt's spending — and added that he thought most people wouldn't even recognize him.
But the controversy of Pruitt's lavish spending masks a bigger problem: his roll in instigating a slew of rapid environmental rollbacks, including beginning the repeal of the Clean Power Plan and convincing the Trump administration to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. So far, he has finalized 22 regulatory rollbacks, with another 44 pending — despite the rollbacks being so instituted quickly it's left the EPA little time to amass the evidence needed to defend the deregulatory actions in court.


Richard Branson is my kind of billionaire. He has tackled some hard problems in his career: music (Virgin Music), telecommunications (Virgin Mobile), finance (Virgin Money), air travel (Virgin America, Australia, and Atlantic) and space travel (Virgin Galactic). He also finds time to have a lot of fun and to promote numerous charitable endeavors through Virgin Unite.
This week marks another milestone for Branson and the Virgin Group: Virgin America celebrated its sixth anniversary yesterday and also reported a solidly profitable quarter, with an expectation of the first full-year profit.
When I think of the current generation of entrepreneurs, the only one thinking as big as Branson has is Elon Musk. Musk cofounded PayPal, launched Tesla, is sending rockets into space with SpaceX, working on a greener planet with Solar City, and is pitching a hyperloop that would revolutionize transportation. Coincidentally, the pair did a Google Hangout together.
This is a lightly condensed version of the interview. The full video is available on YouTube.
Why do everything that's hard?
I love a challenge. It's much more fun being a David versus Goliath than being a Goliath having a David after you. If you are a David, it only takes one stone to kill a Goliath. For instance, when we started with Virgin Atlantic, we had one second-hand 747. We were up against about 16 different airlines, all of whom had more than 100 planes each. Every single one of those airlines, except for British Airways has gone bankrupt. Pan Am, TWA, Air Florida, People's Express, Freddie Laker, British Caledonian, and so on and so on and so on. They've all gone bust. They went bust because they didn't get the quality right. What I've learned is you can go into industries which are much bigger than you if you get the quality right and you get the right people, you can achieve miracles. Having worked out that formula, we've had fun moving into whole lots of different sectors and repeating it.
How do you compete against giants like United?
We've said to the department of transport, please investigate, and we're putting our case to them. We hope that United will get the biggest fine they've ever had. They deserve it because we've got a whole catalog of things that United had got up to. Having said all that, Virgin America is now profitable, and this year will be its first profitable year yet. We've got a brand that's strong enough to withstand the onslaught. United, on the other hand, will lose we estimate about $130 million in what they're trying to do to us. But 99% of any other small carriers would have no chance at surviving the kind of onslaught that's going on against Virgin America. The job of governments is to stop anti-competitive behavior.
How can you continue to provide a product like Virgin America is providing? I was just in the LA lounge, and I tweeted the other day that with American Airlines, I paid $50 to go into the lounge and then they wanted $1.50 for M&Ms. And here you are giving away food and drink and all that. How do you compete successfully?
One of the things that I know you're passionate about is using business to do good, and trying to do good for the world as a whole. I come from Silicon Valley where I see a lot of startups that are focused on what I call "rich white guy problems" (no offense). How do you get the entrepreneurial community focused on solving the world's problems?
There's nothing wrong with people creating businesses that make a difference to everybody and anybody. No criticism of somebody that creates a business that looks after wealthy people rather than looking after poor people. … But if every single business person can use their entrepreneurial skills to get out there and tackle small problems, or medium size problems, or big problems, we can get on top of the world's problems. At some stage of your life, if you've made some money, if you're an engineer or a technician, there are big problems in this world that need solving. I'm absolutely certain that if people could put their minds to them, we can get on top of these problems.
We need somebody to come up with a way of winning the Virgin Earth prize, which is a $25 million prize to see if you can get carbon out of the Earth's atmosphere. I'm sure it's winnable. I don't know how it's going to be winnable. But in the same way that somebody discovered how to measure longitude 300 or 400 years ago, I think someone will win this prize. And it could save our Earth. It's important for people to try these things.
You've been at the entrepreneurship game for a long time, since you were in high school, I believe. What do you say to the kids coming out of college or skipping college in Silicon Valley who are looking to be entrepreneurs. What's the best advice you can give them?
Screw it, just do it. Give it your best. If you fall flat on your face, pick yourself up and keep doing it until you succeed. You don't necessarily have to go to college. If you've got a great idea, start maybe four years before. In America, the colleges, some people do seem to benefit from the kinds of colleges you have here. If you feel you've got an idea that's going to make a real difference in people's lives, see if you can sell that idea to a group of other people, get them to embrace the idea, help you launch your idea, and have a blast doing it.
When are you going into space?
It's very exciting now. This is going to be Virgin Galactic's year. By the end of the year we should be starting to do regular space flights. It should be an exciting year ahead.
Rakesh Agrawal is a consultant focused on the intersection of local, social, mobile and payments. He is a principal analyst at reDesign mobile. Previously, he launched local, mobile and search products for Microsoft, Aol and washingtonpost.com. He blogs at http://redesignmobile.com and tweets at @rakeshlobster.


Would you describe your family as "old money?"
Absolutely, we've always been wealthy.
Nope, not in this lifetime.
What trait is most important to you in a best friend?
Do you keep party clothes in your trunk?
Sometimes, especially if I work beforehand.
Has anyone ever called you "perfect?"
A few times, and for good reason!
Nope, I don't know why they would.
You're on vacation. What could we find you doing?
Would you ever give up all of your money for love?
I run and scream at the person.
I give them a hand shake.
I give them a gut punch.
Do you often cry at weddings?
The "Crazy Rich Asians" character that you're most like is Rachel! You're totally the belle of the ball. Beautiful and smart, kind and strong. You always stand up for what you believe in and trust that everything will always work out as it should in the end!
The "Crazy Rich Asians" character that you're most like is Eleanor! Much like Eleanor, you're a very traditional person who is steadfast in your own beliefs. You like life the way it is and don't see a need to change it. In fact, you avoid change as often as you can. After all, if "ain't broke, why fix it!"
Friendly, sympathetic, and exceptionally thoughtful, you're the brilliant Astrid! You get along with people who go above and beyond to show kindness, but you also really value your independence and strength. You also don't mind going out of your way to lend a helping hand or smile to someone who may need it!
The "Crazy Rich Asians" character that you're most like is Nick! Much like Nick, you're a charming and humble person who is always very concerned with the feelings of others. You pride yourself on being very sensitive and empathetic. Rather than seeking out money or fame, you often seek out real human connection.
The "Crazy Rich Asians" character that you're most like is Araminta! You're a silly and friendly person who is always down for a crazy adventure or thrill ride. You love to socialize and will happily befriend anyone who shows you a little interest or kindness. You don't take life too seriously and always look on the bright side!