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The Chicken Invaders are back and it’s up to you to stop them in Chicken Invaders 4: Ultimate Omelette Edition! This time the chickens have teamed up with the bunnies in their bid to conquer the planet! The bunnies will tempt you with colorful Easter eggs but it's a trap! Those festive eggs are filled with explosives! Fry up the fowls and serve up a delicious serving of justice in this Easter themed Action & Arcade game!
Customer Reviews
Rated 5 out of
5 by
VOLCANOGIRL from
Fun GameThis game is fun, but addictive. When you are playing the trial, you forget that you only have a limited hour on the trial. It is that fun! If you want to buy this game after the trial, go ahead... You will be happy with your purchase!
Date published: 2014-02-23
Rated 5 out of
5 by
ayahtech from
AwesomeIt was the best one so far!!!!!
Date published: 2012-05-27
Rated 5 out of
5 by
happylabs717 from
Nothing New...This is the same exact game as Chicken Invaders Ultimate Omelet Christmas Edition only with different graphics. It is all the same formations and challenges.
It is a great game but if you already have the Christmas edition there is no point in buying this.
Date published: 2012-04-06
Rated 4 out of
5 by
westiefan99 from
Secret ObsessionOkay, everyone is right - this is the same game as the last one, but it was still fun. The Chicken Invaders series is my favorite shooting game, perhaps because I get to laugh out loud every time and can still go back and enjoy increasing my score and shooting more chickens, eggs, bunnies - or whatever - out of the blackness of space!
I do hope that they change some things up for the next one, but this is still worth your time. Have fun, and watch out for those omelets!
Date published: 2012-04-09
Rated 4 out of
5 by
bapparis from
waiting for a new oneI like this game alot but I have had revenge of the yolk for awhile. This is the same game and while it is fun to play I am anxiously awaiting a "new" version to come out. There would be no point to buy a version I already own. Hope to see a new one very soon!
Date published: 2012-04-06
Rated 3 out of
5 by
DAni1070 from
Can't Believe ItI have all the chicken invader games this one is no different not gonna spend my money on it. The last few games have been the same just a change in some things, overall it was same game.
Disapointed
Date published: 2012-04-09
Rated 1 out of
5 by
angrycustomer from
same game different nameif you played revenge of the yolk, its the same game with bunnys instead of hens
same scenes same weapons same game | {
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▬▬▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬ BEETHOVEN ▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬▬▬
The **COMPLETE** version of Beethoven'sSymphony No. 7.
One of the best renditions in the world. Excellent sound quality.
Ludwig van Beethoven7th Symphony, Full version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Mi3fcVd4M
Thank you for watching this symphony...
Symphony No. 7 in A major (Opus 92) is a composition reflecting Beethoven's unparalleled wisdom. Beethoven began writing Symphony No. 7 in 1811 and completed it in 1812. He took his time to create something totally amazing, and this remains one of the best music ever written. This is the moment when we identify a modern stage in the composer's creation, where classical elements intertwine with romantic ones, thus generating a new expression far more intimate and more complex.
Movement I (Vivace)
The first movement starts with a long, expanded introduction marked "poco sustention", showing a solemn and majestic character. On the rhythmical background we hear the fine motif. This first part brings many new elements, easy to decipher, because the composer achieved perfection through sound. Here, we see Beethoven's distinctive use of rhythm and pioneering sense of key relationships.
Movement II (Allegretto)
The second movement is perhaps the most expressive part of this symphony. This movement was encored at the premiere and has remained popular since. It begins with the main melody played by the violas and cellos. The melody is then played by the second violins while the violas and cellos play a different melody which is equally important, described by GeorgeGrover as "a string of beauties hand-in-hand". While in the first movement the A major sonorities conferred greatness and sumptuousness, the theme in Movement II, in A minor, brings a whole new atmosphere, thus emphasizing the contrast between the two.
Movement III (Presto)
The third movement represents a splendid triumph in rendering the scherzo form. As a whole, it conveys a genuine bucolic scene with pictorial meanings and associations. With this (meno presto assai) in trio, the composer uses a theme from an Austrian folkloric song, the theme of which had been jotted down while Beethoven was in Teplitz.
Movement IIII (Allegro)
The fourth movement emanates an immense joy from beginning to the end (allegro con brio). It is a whole series of images, full of energy and pleasure of life. This last movement is in sonata form, the coda of which contains an example of the dynamic marking ƒƒƒ (called forte fortissimo or fortississimo). Listening to this symphony's grand finale one can hardly decide what to think more astonishing: Beethoven's amazing creative fantasy, the impeccable form, the amazing talent in using all the musical resources in developing the themes, or his compact, luscious, sumptuous instrumentation.
______________________
Movement I, Conducted by GustavKuhn (HaydnOrchestra of Bolzano & Trento)
Movement II, Conducted by Fritz Reiner (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Movement III, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The NetherlandsSymphony Orchestra)
Movement IIII, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra)
_______________________
**Thanks for Appreciations!!** Each movement was selected from the above conductors so as to get the best quality standard for the whole Symphony. **Thanks for Appreciations!!**
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The word symphony is derived from Greekσυμφωνία (symphonia), meaning "agreement or concord of sound", "concert of vocal or instrumental music", from σύμφωνος (symphōnos), "harmonious". The word referred to an astonishing variety of different things, before ultimately settling on its current meaning designating a musical form.
Beethoven - 7th Symphony (Complete) ✔
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▬▬▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬ BEETHOVEN ▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬▬▬
The **COMPLETE** version of Beethoven'sSymphony No. 7.
One of the best renditions in the world. Excellent sound quality.
Ludwig van Beethoven7th Symphony, Full version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Mi3fcVd4M
Thank you for watching this symphony...
Symphony No. 7 in A major (Opus 92) is a composition reflecting Beethoven's unparalleled wisdom. Beethoven began writing Symphony No. 7 in 1811 and completed it in 1812. He took his time to create something totally amazing, and this remains one of the best music ever written. This is the moment when we identify a modern stage in the composer's creation, where classical elements intertwine with romantic ones, thus generating a new expression far more intimate and more complex.
Movement I (Vivace)
The first movement starts with a long, expanded introduction marked "poco sustention", showing a solemn and majestic character. On the rhythmical background we hear the fine motif. This first part brings many new elements, easy to decipher, because the composer achieved perfection through sound. Here, we see Beethoven's distinctive use of rhythm and pioneering sense of key relationships.
Movement II (Allegretto)
The second movement is perhaps the most expressive part of this symphony. This movement was encored at the premiere and has remained popular since. It begins with the main melody played by the violas and cellos. The melody is then played by the second violins while the violas and cellos play a different melody which is equally important, described by GeorgeGrover as "a string of beauties hand-in-hand". While in the first movement the A major sonorities conferred greatness and sumptuousness, the theme in Movement II, in A minor, brings a whole new atmosphere, thus emphasizing the contrast between the two.
Movement III (Presto)
The third movement represents a splendid triumph in rendering the scherzo form. As a whole, it conveys a genuine bucolic scene with pictorial meanings and associations. With this (meno presto assai) in trio, the composer uses a theme from an Austrian folkloric song, the theme of which had been jotted down while Beethoven was in Teplitz.
Movement IIII (Allegro)
The fourth movement emanates an immense joy from beginning to the end (allegro con brio). It is a whole series of images, full of energy and pleasure of life. This last movement is in sonata form, the coda of which contains an example of the dynamic marking ƒƒƒ (called forte fortissimo or fortississimo). Listening to this symphony's grand finale one can hardly decide what to think more astonishing: Beethoven's amazing creative fantasy, the impeccable form, the amazing talent in using all the musical resources in developing the themes, or his compact, luscious, sumptuous instrumentation.
______________________
Movement I, Conducted by GustavKuhn (HaydnOrchestra of Bolzano & Trento)
Movement II, Conducted by Fritz Reiner (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Movement III, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The NetherlandsSymphony Orchestra)
Movement IIII, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra)
_______________________
**Thanks for Appreciations!!** Each movement was selected from the above conductors so as to get the best quality standard for the whole Symphony. **Thanks for Appreciations!!**
40:18
Beethoven Symphony No 7 A major Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philarmoniker
Beethoven Symphony No 7 A major Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philarmoniker
Beethoven Symphony No 7 A major Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philarmoniker
Beethoven - 7th Symphony (Complete) ✔
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▬▬▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬ BEETHOVEN ▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬▬▬
The **COMPLETE** version of Beethoven'sSymphony No. 7.
One of the best renditions in the world. Excellent sound quality.
Ludwig van Beethoven7th Symphony, Full version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Mi3fcVd4M
Thank you for watching this symphony...
Symphony No. 7 in A major (Opus 92) is a composition reflecting Beethoven's unparalleled wisdom. Beethoven began writing Symphony No. 7 in 1811 and completed it in 1812. He took his time to create something totally amazing, and this remains one of the best music ever written. This is the moment when we identify a modern stage in the composer's creation, where classical elements intertwine with romantic ones, thus generating a new expre...
published: 23 Jan 2012
Beethoven Symphony No 7 A major Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philarmoniker
Beethoven, Symphony 7, Allegretto, mvt 2 NEW VERSION
Second movement (Allegretto) of Beethoven'sSymphony No. 7 in A Major, Opus 92, accompanied by an animated graphical score.
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▬▬▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬ BEETHOVEN ▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬▬▬
The **COMPLETE** version of Beethoven'sSymphony No. 7.
One of the best renditions in the world. Excellent sound quality.
Ludwig van Beethoven7th Symphony, Full version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Mi3fcVd4M
Thank you for watching this symphony...
Symphony No. 7 in A major (Opus 92) is a composition reflecting Beethoven's unparalleled wisdom. Beethoven began writing Symphony No. 7 in 1811 and completed it in 1812. He took his time to create something totally amazing, and this remains one of the best music ever written. This is the moment when we identify a modern stage in the composer's creation, where classical elements intertwine with romantic ones, thus generating a new expression far more intimate and more complex.
Movement I (Vivace)
The first movement starts with a long, expanded introduction marked "poco sustention", showing a solemn and majestic character. On the rhythmical background we hear the fine motif. This first part brings many new elements, easy to decipher, because the composer achieved perfection through sound. Here, we see Beethoven's distinctive use of rhythm and pioneering sense of key relationships.
Movement II (Allegretto)
The second movement is perhaps the most expressive part of this symphony. This movement was encored at the premiere and has remained popular since. It begins with the main melody played by the violas and cellos. The melody is then played by the second violins while the violas and cellos play a different melody which is equally important, described by GeorgeGrover as "a string of beauties hand-in-hand". While in the first movement the A major sonorities conferred greatness and sumptuousness, the theme in Movement II, in A minor, brings a whole new atmosphere, thus emphasizing the contrast between the two.
Movement III (Presto)
The third movement represents a splendid triumph in rendering the scherzo form. As a whole, it conveys a genuine bucolic scene with pictorial meanings and associations. With this (meno presto assai) in trio, the composer uses a theme from an Austrian folkloric song, the theme of which had been jotted down while Beethoven was in Teplitz.
Movement IIII (Allegro)
The fourth movement emanates an immense joy from beginning to the end (allegro con brio). It is a whole series of images, full of energy and pleasure of life. This last movement is in sonata form, the coda of which contains an example of the dynamic marking ƒƒƒ (called forte fortissimo or fortississimo). Listening to this symphony's grand finale one can hardly decide what to think more astonishing: Beethoven's amazing creative fantasy, the impeccable form, the amazing talent in using all the musical resources in developing the themes, or his compact, luscious, sumptuous instrumentation.
______________________
Movement I, Conducted by GustavKuhn (HaydnOrchestra of Bolzano & Trento)
Movement II, Conducted by Fritz Reiner (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Movement III, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The NetherlandsSymphony Orchestra)
Movement IIII, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra)
_______________________
**Thanks for Appreciations!!** Each movement was selected from the above conductors so as to get the best quality standard for the whole Symphony. **Thanks for Appreciations!!**
/.(0:00).........//.(14:42).........///.(23:41).........////.(32:56)
▬▬▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬ BEETHOVEN ▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬▬▬
The **COMPLETE** version of Beethoven'sSymphony No. 7.
One of the best renditions in the world. Excellent sound quality.
Ludwig van Beethoven7th Symphony, Full version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Mi3fcVd4M
Thank you for watching this symphony...
Symphony No. 7 in A major (Opus 92) is a composition reflecting Beethoven's unparalleled wisdom. Beethoven began writing Symphony No. 7 in 1811 and completed it in 1812. He took his time to create something totally amazing, and this remains one of the best music ever written. This is the moment when we identify a modern stage in the composer's creation, where classical elements intertwine with romantic ones, thus generating a new expression far more intimate and more complex.
Movement I (Vivace)
The first movement starts with a long, expanded introduction marked "poco sustention", showing a solemn and majestic character. On the rhythmical background we hear the fine motif. This first part brings many new elements, easy to decipher, because the composer achieved perfection through sound. Here, we see Beethoven's distinctive use of rhythm and pioneering sense of key relationships.
Movement II (Allegretto)
The second movement is perhaps the most expressive part of this symphony. This movement was encored at the premiere and has remained popular since. It begins with the main melody played by the violas and cellos. The melody is then played by the second violins while the violas and cellos play a different melody which is equally important, described by GeorgeGrover as "a string of beauties hand-in-hand". While in the first movement the A major sonorities conferred greatness and sumptuousness, the theme in Movement II, in A minor, brings a whole new atmosphere, thus emphasizing the contrast between the two.
Movement III (Presto)
The third movement represents a splendid triumph in rendering the scherzo form. As a whole, it conveys a genuine bucolic scene with pictorial meanings and associations. With this (meno presto assai) in trio, the composer uses a theme from an Austrian folkloric song, the theme of which had been jotted down while Beethoven was in Teplitz.
Movement IIII (Allegro)
The fourth movement emanates an immense joy from beginning to the end (allegro con brio). It is a whole series of images, full of energy and pleasure of life. This last movement is in sonata form, the coda of which contains an example of the dynamic marking ƒƒƒ (called forte fortissimo or fortississimo). Listening to this symphony's grand finale one can hardly decide what to think more astonishing: Beethoven's amazing creative fantasy, the impeccable form, the amazing talent in using all the musical resources in developing the themes, or his compact, luscious, sumptuous instrumentation.
______________________
Movement I, Conducted by GustavKuhn (HaydnOrchestra of Bolzano & Trento)
Movement II, Conducted by Fritz Reiner (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Movement III, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The NetherlandsSymphony Orchestra)
Movement IIII, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra)
_______________________
**Thanks for Appreciations!!** Each movement was selected from the above conductors so as to get the best quality standard for the whole Symphony. **Thanks for Appreciations!!**
published:23 Jan 2012
views:7273508
back
Beethoven Symphony No 7 A major Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philarmoniker
Beethoven - 7th Symphony (Complete) ✔
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▬▬▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬ BEETHOVEN ▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬▬▬
The **COMPLETE** version of Beethoven'sSymphony No. 7.
One of the best renditions in the world. Excellent sound quality.
Ludwig van Beethoven7th Symphony, Full version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Mi3fcVd4M
Thank you for watching this symphony...
Symphony No. 7 in A major (Opus 92) is a composition reflecting Beethoven's unparalleled wisdom. Beethoven began writing Symphony No. 7 in 1811 and completed it in 1812. He took his time to create something totally amazing, and this remains one of the best music ever written. This is the moment when we identify a modern stage in the composer's creation, where classical elements intertwine with romantic ones, thus generating a new expre...
published: 23 Jan 2012
Beethoven Symphony No 7 A major Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philarmoniker
/.(0:00).........//.(14:42).........///.(23:41).........////.(32:56)
▬▬▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬ BEETHOVEN ▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬▬▬
The **COMPLETE** version of Beethoven'sSymphony No. 7.
One of the best renditions in the world. Excellent sound quality.
Ludwig van Beethoven7th Symphony, Full version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Mi3fcVd4M
Thank you for watching this symphony...
Symphony No. 7 in A major (Opus 92) is a composition reflecting Beethoven's unparalleled wisdom. Beethoven began writing Symphony No. 7 in 1811 and completed it in 1812. He took his time to create something totally amazing, and this remains one of the best music ever written. This is the moment when we identify a modern stage in the composer's creation, where classical elements intertwine with romantic ones, thus generating a new expression far more intimate and more complex.
Movement I (Vivace)
The first movement starts with a long, expanded introduction marked "poco sustention", showing a solemn and majestic character. On the rhythmical background we hear the fine motif. This first part brings many new elements, easy to decipher, because the composer achieved perfection through sound. Here, we see Beethoven's distinctive use of rhythm and pioneering sense of key relationships.
Movement II (Allegretto)
The second movement is perhaps the most expressive part of this symphony. This movement was encored at the premiere and has remained popular since. It begins with the main melody played by the violas and cellos. The melody is then played by the second violins while the violas and cellos play a different melody which is equally important, described by GeorgeGrover as "a string of beauties hand-in-hand". While in the first movement the A major sonorities conferred greatness and sumptuousness, the theme in Movement II, in A minor, brings a whole new atmosphere, thus emphasizing the contrast between the two.
Movement III (Presto)
The third movement represents a splendid triumph in rendering the scherzo form. As a whole, it conveys a genuine bucolic scene with pictorial meanings and associations. With this (meno presto assai) in trio, the composer uses a theme from an Austrian folkloric song, the theme of which had been jotted down while Beethoven was in Teplitz.
Movement IIII (Allegro)
The fourth movement emanates an immense joy from beginning to the end (allegro con brio). It is a whole series of images, full of energy and pleasure of life. This last movement is in sonata form, the coda of which contains an example of the dynamic marking ƒƒƒ (called forte fortissimo or fortississimo). Listening to this symphony's grand finale one can hardly decide what to think more astonishing: Beethoven's amazing creative fantasy, the impeccable form, the amazing talent in using all the musical resources in developing the themes, or his compact, luscious, sumptuous instrumentation.
______________________
Movement I, Conducted by GustavKuhn (HaydnOrchestra of Bolzano & Trento)
Movement II, Conducted by Fritz Reiner (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Movement III, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The NetherlandsSymphony Orchestra)
Movement IIII, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra)
_______________________
**Thanks for Appreciations!!** Each movement was selected from the above conductors so as to get the best quality standard for the whole Symphony. **Thanks for Appreciations!!**
/.(0:00).........//.(14:42).........///.(23:41).........////.(32:56)
▬▬▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬ BEETHOVEN ▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬▬▬
The **COMPLETE** version of Beethoven'sSymphony No. 7.
One of the best renditions in the world. Excellent sound quality.
Ludwig van Beethoven7th Symphony, Full version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Mi3fcVd4M
Thank you for watching this symphony...
Symphony No. 7 in A major (Opus 92) is a composition reflecting Beethoven's unparalleled wisdom. Beethoven began writing Symphony No. 7 in 1811 and completed it in 1812. He took his time to create something totally amazing, and this remains one of the best music ever written. This is the moment when we identify a modern stage in the composer's creation, where classical elements intertwine with romantic ones, thus generating a new expression far more intimate and more complex.
Movement I (Vivace)
The first movement starts with a long, expanded introduction marked "poco sustention", showing a solemn and majestic character. On the rhythmical background we hear the fine motif. This first part brings many new elements, easy to decipher, because the composer achieved perfection through sound. Here, we see Beethoven's distinctive use of rhythm and pioneering sense of key relationships.
Movement II (Allegretto)
The second movement is perhaps the most expressive part of this symphony. This movement was encored at the premiere and has remained popular since. It begins with the main melody played by the violas and cellos. The melody is then played by the second violins while the violas and cellos play a different melody which is equally important, described by GeorgeGrover as "a string of beauties hand-in-hand". While in the first movement the A major sonorities conferred greatness and sumptuousness, the theme in Movement II, in A minor, brings a whole new atmosphere, thus emphasizing the contrast between the two.
Movement III (Presto)
The third movement represents a splendid triumph in rendering the scherzo form. As a whole, it conveys a genuine bucolic scene with pictorial meanings and associations. With this (meno presto assai) in trio, the composer uses a theme from an Austrian folkloric song, the theme of which had been jotted down while Beethoven was in Teplitz.
Movement IIII (Allegro)
The fourth movement emanates an immense joy from beginning to the end (allegro con brio). It is a whole series of images, full of energy and pleasure of life. This last movement is in sonata form, the coda of which contains an example of the dynamic marking ƒƒƒ (called forte fortissimo or fortississimo). Listening to this symphony's grand finale one can hardly decide what to think more astonishing: Beethoven's amazing creative fantasy, the impeccable form, the amazing talent in using all the musical resources in developing the themes, or his compact, luscious, sumptuous instrumentation.
______________________
Movement I, Conducted by GustavKuhn (HaydnOrchestra of Bolzano & Trento)
Movement II, Conducted by Fritz Reiner (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Movement III, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The NetherlandsSymphony Orchestra)
Movement IIII, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra)
_______________________
**Thanks for Appreciations!!** Each movement was selected from the above conductors so as to get the best quality standard for the whole Symphony. **Thanks for Appreciations!!**
published:23 Jan 2012
views:7273508
back
Beethoven Symphony No 7 A major Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philarmoniker
Beethoven - 7th Symphony (Complete) ✔
/.(0:00).........//.(14:42).........///.(23:41).........////.(32:56)
▬▬▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬ BEETHOVEN ▬(ஜ۩۞۩ஜ)▬▬▬
The **COMPLETE** version of Beethoven'sSymphony No. 7.
One of the best renditions in the world. Excellent sound quality.
Ludwig van Beethoven7th Symphony, Full version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Mi3fcVd4M
Thank you for watching this symphony...
Symphony No. 7 in A major (Opus 92) is a composition reflecting Beethoven's unparalleled wisdom. Beethoven began writing Symphony No. 7 in 1811 and completed it in 1812. He took his time to create something totally amazing, and this remains one of the best music ever written. This is the moment when we identify a modern stage in the composer's creation, where classical elements intertwine with romantic ones, thus generating a new expression far more intimate and more complex.
Movement I (Vivace)
The first movement starts with a long, expanded introduction marked "poco sustention", showing a solemn and majestic character. On the rhythmical background we hear the fine motif. This first part brings many new elements, easy to decipher, because the composer achieved perfection through sound. Here, we see Beethoven's distinctive use of rhythm and pioneering sense of key relationships.
Movement II (Allegretto)
The second movement is perhaps the most expressive part of this symphony. This movement was encored at the premiere and has remained popular since. It begins with the main melody played by the violas and cellos. The melody is then played by the second violins while the violas and cellos play a different melody which is equally important, described by GeorgeGrover as "a string of beauties hand-in-hand". While in the first movement the A major sonorities conferred greatness and sumptuousness, the theme in Movement II, in A minor, brings a whole new atmosphere, thus emphasizing the contrast between the two.
Movement III (Presto)
The third movement represents a splendid triumph in rendering the scherzo form. As a whole, it conveys a genuine bucolic scene with pictorial meanings and associations. With this (meno presto assai) in trio, the composer uses a theme from an Austrian folkloric song, the theme of which had been jotted down while Beethoven was in Teplitz.
Movement IIII (Allegro)
The fourth movement emanates an immense joy from beginning to the end (allegro con brio). It is a whole series of images, full of energy and pleasure of life. This last movement is in sonata form, the coda of which contains an example of the dynamic marking ƒƒƒ (called forte fortissimo or fortississimo). Listening to this symphony's grand finale one can hardly decide what to think more astonishing: Beethoven's amazing creative fantasy, the impeccable form, the amazing talent in using all the musical resources in developing the themes, or his compact, luscious, sumptuous instrumentation.
______________________
Movement I, Conducted by GustavKuhn (HaydnOrchestra of Bolzano & Trento)
Movement II, Conducted by Fritz Reiner (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Movement III, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The NetherlandsSymphony Orchestra)
Movement IIII, Conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend (The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra)
_______________________
**Thanks for Appreciations!!** Each movement was selected from the above conductors so as to get the best quality standard for the whole Symphony. **Thanks for Appreciations!!**
40:18
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Symphony No. 7 in A major (Opus 92) is a composition reflecting Beethoven's unparalleled wisdom. Beethoven began writing Symphony No. 7 in 1811 and completed it in 1812. He took his time to create something totally amazing, and this remains one of the best music ever written. This is the moment when we identify a modern stage in the composer's creation, where classical elements intertwine with romantic ones, thus generating a new expression far more intimate and more complex.
Movement I (Vivace)
The first movement starts with a long, expanded introduction marked "poco sustention", showing a solemn and majestic character. On the rhythmical background we hear the fine motif. This first part brings many new elements, easy to decipher, because the composer achieved perfection through sound. Here, we see Beethoven's distinctive use of rhythm and pioneering sense of key relationships.
Movement II (Allegretto)
The second movement is perhaps the most expressive part of this symphony. This movement was encored at the premiere and has remained popular since. It begins with the main melody played by the violas and cellos. The melody is then played by the second violins while the violas and cellos play a different melody which is equally important, described by GeorgeGrover as "a string of beauties hand-in-hand". While in the first movement the A major sonorities conferred greatness and sumptuousness, the theme in Movement II, in A minor, brings a whole new atmosphere, thus emphasizing the contrast between the two.
Movement III (Presto)
The third movement represents a splendid triumph in rendering the scherzo form. As a whole, it conveys a genuine bucolic scene with pictorial meanings and associations. With this (meno presto assai) in trio, the composer uses a theme from an Austrian folkloric song, the theme of which had been jotted down while Beethoven was in Teplitz.
Movement IIII (Allegro)
The fourth movement emanates an immense joy from beginning to the end (allegro con brio). It is a whole series of images, full of energy and pleasure of life. This last movement is in sonata form, the coda of which contains an example of the dynamic marking ƒƒƒ (called forte fortissimo or fortississimo). Listening to this symphony's grand finale one can hardly decide what to think more astonishing: Beethoven's amazing creative fantasy, the impeccable form, the amazing talent in using all the musical resources in developing the themes, or his compact, luscious, sumptuous instrumentation.
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\vskip 1cm{\LARGE\bf {Motzkin Numbers of Higher Rank: \\
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Generating Function and Explicit Expression}}
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\large
Toufik Mansour \\
Department of Mathematics \\
University of Haifa\\
Haifa 31905\\
Israel\\
\href{mailto:[email protected]}{\tt [email protected]}\\
\ \\
Matthias Schork\footnote{All correspondence should
be directed to this author.} \\
Camillo-Sitte-Weg 25\\
60488 Frankfurt\\
Germany\\
\href{mailto:[email protected]}{\tt [email protected]}\\
\ \\
Yidong Sun\\
Department of Mathematics\\
Dalian Maritime University\\
116026 Dalian\\
P. R. China\\
\href{mailto:[email protected]}{\tt [email protected]}\\
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\begin{abstract}
The generating function for
the (colored) Motzkin numbers of higher rank introduced recently is discussed. Considering the special case of rank one yields the corresponding
results for the conventional colored Motzkin numbers for which in
addition a recursion relation is given. Some explicit expressions are given for the higher rank case in the first few instances.
\end{abstract}
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\section{Introduction}\label{Intro}
The classical Motzkin numbers (\seqnum{A001006} in \cite{OEIS}) count the
numbers of Motzkin paths (and are also related to many other
combinatorial objects, see Stanley \cite{stan}). Let us recall the
definition of Motzkin paths. We consider in the Cartesian plane
$\mathbb{Z}\times \mathbb{Z}$ those lattice paths starting from
$(0,0)$ that use the steps $\{U,L,D\}$, where $U=(1,1)$ is an
up-step, $L=(1,0)$ a level-step and $D=(1,-1)$ a down-step. Let
$M(n,k)$ denote the set of paths beginning in $(0,0)$ and ending in
$(n,k)$ that never go below the $x$-axis. Paths in $M(n,0)$ are
called {\it Motzkin paths} and $m_n:=|M(n,0)|$ is called $n$-{\it th
Motzkin number}. Sulanke showed \cite{sul} that the Motzkin numbers
satisfy the recursion relation
\begin{equation}\label{mot}
(n+2)m_n=(2n+1)m_{n-1}+3(n-1)m_{n-2}
\end{equation}
and it is a classical fact (see Stanley \cite{stan}) that their generating function is given by
\begin{equation}\label{genfunc}
\sum_{n\geq 0}m_nx^n=\frac{1-x-\sqrt{1-2x-3x^2}}{2x^2}.
\end{equation}
Those Motzkin paths which have no level-steps are called {\it Dyck
paths} and are enumerated by Catalan numbers (\seqnum{A000108} in
\cite{OEIS}), see Stanley \cite{stan}. In recent times the above
situation has been generalized by introducing colorings of the
paths. For example, the $k$-{\it colored Motzkin paths} have
horizontal steps colored by $k$ colors (see \cite{satsi,satsi2} and
the references given therein). More generally, Woan introduced
\cite{woan,woan2} colors for each type of step. Let us denote by $u$
the number of colors for an up-step $U$, by $l$ the number of colors
for a level-step $L$ and by $d$ the number of colors for a down-step
$D$. (Note that if we normalize the weights as $u+l+d=1$ we can view
the paths as discrete random walks.) One can then introduce the set
$M^{(u,l,d)}(n,0)$ of $(u,l,d)$-{\it colored Motzkin paths} and the
corresponding $(u,l,d)${\it -Motzkin numbers}
$m_n^{(u,l,d)}:=|M^{(u,l,d)}(n,0)|$. Woan has given \cite{woan} a
combinatorial proof that the $(1,l,d)$-Motzkin numbers satisfy the
recursion relation
\begin{equation}\label{rek}
(n+2)m_n^{(1,l,d)}=l(2n+1)m^{(1,l,d)}_{n-1}+(4d-l^2)(n-1)m^{(1,l,d)}_{n-2}.
\end{equation}
Choosing $l=1$ and $d=1$ yields the recursion relation (\ref{mot})
of the conventional Motzkin numbers $m_n\equiv m_n^{(1,1,1)}$. Note
that choosing $(u,l,d)=(1,k,1)$ corresponds to the $k$-colored
Motzkin paths. Defining $m_{k,n}:=|M^{(1,k,1)}(n,0)|$, one obtains
from (\ref{rek}) the recursion relation
$(n+2)m_{k,n}=k(2n+1)m_{k,n-1}+(4-k^2)(n-1)m_{k,n-2}$ for the number
of $k$-colored Motzkin paths. Sapounakis and Tsikouras derived
\cite{satsi} the following generating function for $m_{k,n}$:
\begin{equation}\label{kgenfunc}
\sum_{n\geq 0}m_{k,n}x^n=\frac{1-kx-\sqrt{(1-kx)^2-4x^2}}{2x^2}.
\end{equation}
For $k=1$ this identity reduces to (\ref{genfunc}) for the
conventional Motzkin numbers $m_n\equiv m_{1,n}$. One of the present
authors suggested \cite{ich3} (as ``Problem 1'') that it would be
interesting to find the recursion relation and generating function
for the general $(u,l,d)$-Motzkin numbers $m_n^{(u,l,d)}$. We will
prove in Theorem \ref{rankone} thet $m_n^{(u,l,d)}=m_n^{(1,l,ud)}$,
yielding the desired recursion relation. Furthermore, a generating
function and an explicit expression is derived for $m_n^{(u,l,d)}$.
In \cite{ich3} it was furthermore suggested to find the recursion
relation and the generating function for the (colored) Motzkin
numbers of higher rank (``Problem 2''). These numbers were
introduced by Schork \cite{ich} in the context of ``duality triads
of higher rank'' (and have also been considered before as ``excursions'', see, e.g., \cite{Band}). In view of this connection Schork conjectured
\cite{ich3} that the Motzkin numbers of rank $r$ satisfy a recursion
relation of order $2r+1$. Very recently, Prodinger was the first to observe \cite{prod} that this conjecture does not hold by discussing explicitly the case $r=2$. In particular, already for the first nontrivial cases $r=2,3$ the relations involved become very cumbersome. We will describe in Theorem \ref{thmm1} the
generating function for the Motzkin numbers of higher rank and discuss then several particular cases explicitly.
\section{Recursion relation and generating function for the general (colored) Motzkin numbers}
\begin{thm}\label{rankone}
The general $(u,l,d)$-Motzkin numbers satisfy the recursion relation
\begin{equation}\label{recone}
(n+2)m_n^{(u,l,d)}=l(2n+1)m^{(u,l,d)}_{n-1}+(4ud-l^2)(n-1)m^{(u,l,d)}_{n-2}.
\end{equation}
A generating function is given by
\begin{equation}\label{genone}
\sum_{n\geq0}m_n^{(u,l,d)}x^n=\frac{1-lx-\sqrt{(1-lx)^2-4udx^2}}{2udx^2},
\end{equation}
implying the explicit expression
\begin{equation}\label{exone}
m_n^{(u,l,d)}=\sum_{j=0}^{\frac{n}{2}}\frac{1}{j+1}{{2j}\choose{j}}{{n}\choose{2j}}u^jd^jl^{n-2j}.
\end{equation}
\end{thm}
\begin{proof}
Let us prove that $m_n^{(u,l,d)}=m_n^{(1,l,ud)}$ for all $n\geq0$.
In order to see that, let $U$ be any up-step in a Motzkin path; we
call $(U,D)$ a {\em pair} if the down-step $D$ is the first
down-step on the right-hand side of $U$ which has the same height as
$U$. The set of pairs of a Motzkin path is uniquely determined and for each pair exist $ud$ possible combinations of colorings. The same number of possible colorings result if the up-steps $u$ are always colored white (i.e., $u=1$) and if each down-step can be colored by $ud$ colors (which we call ``alternative colors'' to distinguish them from the original colors). Thus, given a $(u,l,d)$-Motzkin path we may replace the colors $(u_j,d_j)$ (with $1\leq u_j\leq u$ and $1\leq d_j\leq d$) for the $j$-th pair $(U,D)$ by the combination of alternative colors $(1,c_j$) where $c_j$ is the $([u_j-1]d+d_j)$-th alternative color (with $1\leq c_j \leq ud$). Replacing the colors of all pairs in this fashion by the alternative colors yields a $(1,l,ud)$-Motzkin path. Thus, we have constructed a bijection between the set of $(u,l,d)$-Motzkin paths
of length $n$ and set of $(1,l,ud)$-Motzkin paths of length $n$,
thereby showing that $m_n^{(u,l,d)}=m_n^{(1,l,ud)}$. From this
identity and (\ref{rek}) we immediately obtain (\ref{recone}). An
equation for the generating function
$M_{(u,l,d)}(x):=\sum_{n\geq0}m_n^{(u,l,d)}x^n$ is obtained from the
``first return decomposition'' of a nonempty $(u,l,d)$-Motzkin path
$M$: either $M= LM'$ or $M=UM'DM''$, where $M',M''$ are
$(u,l,d)$-Motzkin paths. The two possibilities give the
contributions $lxM_{(u,l,d)}(x)$ and $udx^2(M_{(u,l,d)}(x))^2$.
Hence, $M_{(u,l,d)}(x)$ satisfies
\[M_{(u,l,d)}(x)=1+lxM_{(u,l,d)}(x)+udx^2(M_{(u,l,d)}(x))^2,\]
yielding
\[ M_{(u,l,d)}(x)=\frac{1-lx-\sqrt{(1-lx)^2-4udx^2}}{2udx^2}\]
which is the asserted equation (\ref{genone}) for the generating
function. Note that this may also be written as
\[M_{(u,l,d)}(x)=\frac{1}{1-lx}C\left(\frac{udx^2}{(1-lx)^2}\right),\]
where
\[C(y)=\frac{1-\sqrt{1-4y}}{2y}=\sum_{n\geq0}\frac{1}{n+1}{{2n}\choose{n}}y^n\]
is the generating function for the Catalan numbers (see Stanley \cite{stan}). Thus,
\[M_{(u,l,d)}(x)=\sum_{j\geq0}\frac{1}{j+1}{{2j}\choose{j}}\frac{u^jd^jx^{2j}}{(1-lx)^{2j+1}}.\]
Recalling $M_{(u,l,d)}(x)=\sum_{n}m_n^{(u,l,d)}x^n$, a comparison of
coefficients shows that the number of $(u,l,d)$-Motzkin paths of
length $n$ is given by (\ref{exone}).
\end{proof}
\section{Generating function for the general (colored) Motzkin numbers of higher rank}
We will now generalize the situation considered in the previous
section to the case of higher rank. One of the present authors discussed \cite{ich} in
the context of duality triads of higher rank (where one considers
recursion relations of higher order, or equivalently, orthogonal
matrix polynomials \cite{ich2}) why it is interesting to consider
the situation where the steps of the paths can go up or down more
than one unit. The maximum number of units which a single step can
go up or down will be called the rank. More precisely, let $r\geq 1$
be a natural number. The set of {\it admissable} steps consists of:
\begin{enumerate}
\item $r$ types of up-steps $U_j=(1,j)$ with weights $u_j$ for $1\leq j \leq r$.
\item A level-step $L=(1,0)$ with weight $l$.
\item $r$ types of down-steps $D_j=(1,-j)$ with weights $d_j$ for $1\leq j \leq r$.
\end{enumerate}
In the following we write $({\bf u},l,{\bf
d}):=(u_r,\ldots,u_1,l,d_1,\ldots,d_r)$ for the vector of weights.
\begin{defn}\cite{ich}
The set $M^{({\bf u},l,{\bf d})}(n,0)$ of $({\bf u},l,{\bf d})${\it
-colored Motzkin paths of rank r and length $n$} is the set of paths
which start in $(0,0)$, end in $(n,0)$, have only admissable steps
and are never below the $x$-axis. The corresponding number of paths,
$m_n^{({\bf u},l,{\bf d})}:=|M^{({\bf u},l,{\bf d})}(n,0)|$, will be
called $({\bf u},l,{\bf d})$-{\it Motzkin number of rank $r$}.
\end{defn}
Motzking paths of higher rank were considered in the literature
already before \cite{ich} under the name ``excursions'', see, e.g.,
\cite{Band}. In \cite{ich3} it is discussed how one may associate
with each Motzkin path of rank $r$ and length $n$ a conventional
Motzkin path of length $rn$ in a straightforward fashion. However,
it was also discussed that this association is no bijection and that
the case of higher rank is more subtle. In the following we derive
an equation that the generating function for the Motzkin numbers of
higher rank satisfies. In order to do that we need the following
notations. We denote the set of all $({\bf u},l,{\bf d})$-Motzkin
paths of rank $r$ that start at height $s$ and end at height $t$
(and have only admissable steps and are never below the $x$-axis) by
$\AM_{s,t}$, and we denote the subset of paths of length $n$ by $\AM_{s,t}(n)$. Define
$$A_{s,t}\equiv A_{s,t}(x):=\sum_{n\geq0}|\AM_{s,t}(n)|x^n.$$
We extend this notation by defining $A_{s,t}=0$ for all $s<0$ or
$t<0$. For $s,t\geq 0$ we denote the subset of paths in $\AM_{s,t}$ that never touch the $x$-axis by $\AM_{s,t}^{\ast}$. In the following we make several times use of the relation $\AM_{s,t}^{\ast}\simeq \AM_{s-1,t-1}$, or, $|\AM_{s,t}^{\ast}(n)|=|\AM_{s-1,t-1}(n)|$, implying
\begin{equation}\label{irr}
A_{s,t}^{\ast}(x) :=\sum_{n\geq0}|\AM_{s,t}^{\ast}(n)|x^n=A_{s-1,t-1}(x).
\end{equation}
\begin{thm}\label{thmm1}
The generating function $A_{0,0}\equiv M_{({\bf u},l,{\bf
d})}(x)=\sum_{n\geq 0}m_n^{({\bf u},l,{\bf d})}x^n$ for the general
$({\bf u},l,{\bf d})$-Motzkin numbers of rank $r$ satisfies
\begin{equation}\label{genfunct}
A_{0,0}=1+lxA_{0,0}+x^2A_{0,0}\sum_{p=1}^r\sum_{q=1}^ru_pd_qA_{p-1,q-1},
\end{equation}
where the generating functions $A_{i,j}$ with $1\leq i\leq r-1$ and
$0\leq j\leq r-1$ satisfy
$$A_{i,j}=A_{i-1,j-1}+xA_{0,j}\sum_{q=1}^rd_qA_{i-1,q-1},$$
and for all $1\leq j\leq r-1$,
$$A_{0,j}=xA_{0,0}\sum_{p=1}^ru_pA_{p-1,j-1}.$$
\end{thm}
\begin{proof}
From the definitions, a nonempty $({\bf u},l,{\bf d})$-Motzkin path
$M$ can start either by a level step $L$ or an up-step $U_p$ with
$1\leq p \leq r$.
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In the case the path starts by an up-step $U_p$, we use the ``first return
decomposition`'' of $M$, i.e., we write $M$ as $M=U_pM'D_qM''$ where $M''$ is an arbitrary $({\bf
u},l,{\bf d})$-Motzkin path and $M'\in\AM_{p,q}$ such that $M'$
does not touch the height zero, see Figure~\ref{ffig0}. Thus, $M' \in \AM_{p,q}^{\ast}$ and the
generating function $A_{0,0}$ satisfies
\[A_{0,0}=1+lxA_{0,0}+x^2A_{0,0}\sum_{p=1}^r\sum_{q=1}^ru_pd_qA_{p-1,q-1}
\]
where we have used (\ref{irr}). This shows (\ref{genfunct}). Now, let us write an equation for the generating function $A_{i,j}$
(with $1\leq i\leq r-1$ and $0\leq j\leq r-1$) for the number of
$({\bf u},l,{\bf d})$-Motzkin paths $Q_{ij}=U_iP_{ij}D_j$ where $P_{ij}\in \AM_{i,j}$. In order
to do that, we use the first return decomposition of such paths:
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either $Q_{ij}=U_iP'_{ij}D_j$ such that $P'_{ij}$ does not touch the
height zero (i.e., $P'_{ij}\in \AM_{i,j}^{\ast}$), or $Q_{ij}=U_iP'_{iq}D_qP''_{0j}D_j$ such that $D_q$ is
the first down-step that touches the height zero (thus, $P'_{iq}$ does not
touch the height zero, i.e., $P'_{iq}\in \AM_{i,q}^{\ast}$) as described in Figure~\ref{ffig1}. Using (\ref{irr}), the
generating function $A_{i,j}$ thus satisfies
$$A_{i,j}=A_{i-1,j-1}+xA_{0,j}\sum_{q=1}^rd_qA_{i-1,q-1},$$
as claimed.
In order to write an equation for the generating function $A_{0,j}$
(with $0\leq j\leq r-1$), let us consider the last up-step $U_p$
from height zero (there must exist at least one such up-step). In this case each $({\bf u},l,{\bf d})$-Motzkin
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path can be decomposed as $P'U_pP''_{pj}D_j$, where $P'$ is an arbitrary
$({\bf u},l,{\bf d})$-Motzkin path and $P''_{pj}\in\AM_{p,j}$ such that it does not touch the height zero (i.e., $P''_{pj}\in\AM_{p,j}^{\ast}$), as described in
Figure~\ref{ffig2}. Thus, using again (\ref{irr}), the generating function $A_{0,j}$ satisfies
$$A_{0,j}=xA_{0,0}\sum_{p=1}^ru_pA_{p-1,j-1},$$
which completes the proof.
\end{proof}
\begin{ex}
Let us consider as an example the case $r=1$. It follows from
Theorem~\ref{thmm1} that
\begin{equation}\label{rone}
0=1+(lx-1)A_{0,0}+u_1d_1x^2A_{0,0}^2,
\end{equation}
yielding
$$A_{0,0}\equiv M_{(u_1,l,d_1)}(x)=\frac{1-lx-\sqrt{(1-lx)^2-4u_1d_1x^2}}{2u_1d_1x^2}$$
as described in the proof of Theorem \ref{rankone}. This implies - according to \eqref{exone} - that
$$m_n^{(u_1,l,d_1)}=\sum_{j=0}^{n/2}\frac{1}{1+j}\binom{2j}{j}\binom{n}{2j}l^{n-2j}(u_1d_1)^{j}.$$
\end{ex}
\begin{ex}\label{exr1}
As another example, it follows from Theorem \ref{thmm1} that one has
for $r=2$ that
$$\left\{\begin{array}{rl}
A_{0,0}&=1+lxA_{0,0}+x^2A_{0,0}(u_1d_1A_{0,0}+u_1d_2A_{0,1}+u_2d_1A_{1,0}+u_2d_2A_{1,1}),\\
A_{0,1}&=xA_{0,0}(u_1A_{0,0}+u_2A_{1,0}),\\
A_{1,0}&=xA_{0,0}(d_1A_{0,0}+d_2A_{0,1}),\\
A_{1,1}&=A_{0,0}+xA_{0,1}(d_1A_{0,0}+d_2A_{0,1}).\\
\end{array}\right.$$
Solving the above system of equations we obtain that
\begin{eqnarray*}
0&=& 1+(lx-1)A_{0,0}-x^2(d_2u_2-d_1u_1)A_{0,0}^2+x^2(xu_1^2d_2+xu_2d_1^2-2xlu_2d_2+2d_2u_2)A_{0,0}^3\\
&&-u_2d_2x^4(d_2u_2-d_1u_1)A_{0,0}^4+x^4u_2^2d_2^2(lx-1)A_{0,0}^5+x^6u_2^3d_2^3A_{0,0}^6.
\end{eqnarray*}
Note that, if we set $u_2=d_2=0$ in the above expression then we get
\eqref{rone}. It is also interesting to consider the case $({\bf
u},l,{\bf d})=({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})$ of non-colored Motzkin paths of
rank 2, representing the most natural generalization of the
conventional Motzkin paths. The above equation reduces in this case
to
\begin{eqnarray*}
0&=&1+(x-1)A_{0,0}
+2x^2A_{0,0}^3+x^4(x-1)A_{0,0}^5+x^6A_{0,0}^6\\
&=&(1+xA_{0,0})^2(1-(x+1)A_{0,0}+x(x+2)A_{0,0}^2-x^2(x+1)A_{0,0}^3
+x^4A_{0,0}^4).
\end{eqnarray*}
Setting $A_{0,0}\equiv M_{({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})}(x)$ and using that $A_{0,0}$ is a formal power series (thus, $A_{0,0}\neq-\frac{1}{x}$), this is equivalent to
$$0=1-(x+1)M_{({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})}(x)+x(x+2)M_{({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})}^2(x)-x^2(x+1)M_{({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})}^3(x)
+x^4M_{({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})}^4(x),$$
as described already in
\cite{Band,prod}. To obtain a recursion relation for $m_n\equiv m_n^{({\bf
1},1,{\bf 1})}$, one can use the MAPLE program package {\rm gfun} written by Salvy et al. \cite{savy}. Prodinger has done this \cite{prod} to obtain
{\small$$\begin{array}{l} 625(n + 3)(n + 2)(n + 1)m_n - 125(n + 3)(n
+ 2)(7n + 27)m_{n+1}-50(n + 3)(5n^2 + 24n + 23)m_{n+2}\\ + (41890 +
30860n + 7540n^2 + 610n^3)m_{n+3}-(6844 + 5151n + 1214n^2 +
91n^3)m_{n+4}\\ \qquad- (n + 7)(23n^2 + 301n + 976)m_{n+5} + 2(2n +
13)(n + 8)(n + 7)m_{n+6} = 0
\end{array}$$}
and mentions that Salvy has informed him that this recursion
of order $6$ is minimal. Thus, the Motzkin numbers of rank $r=2$
satisfy a $7$-term recursion relation and not a $2\cdot2+1=5$-term
relation as the conjecture of Schork \cite{ich3} implies. Thus, the
conjecture does not hold! This was first observed by Prodinger
\cite{prod}. The first few values of $m_n\equiv m_n^{({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})}$
are given in Table \ref{T1}; this sequence is sequence \seqnum{A104184} in
\cite{OEIS}.
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
\begin{table}[h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}\hline
& $n=1$&2 & 3&4&5&6&7&8&9&10\\ \hline \hline
$m_n^{({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})}$ & 1 & 3 & 9& 32 & 120& 473& 1925 & 8034&34188&147787 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{The first few values of the non-colored Motzkin numbers of rank
two.}\label{T1}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{ex}
The above example shows that the general case (where the weights are not restricted to $1$) seems to be extremely complicated (see Theorem~\ref{thmm1}). Thus,
from now on let us consider the case where all weights are equal to
$1$, i.e., $u_i=l=d_i=1$ for $1\leq i \leq r$. In this case we denote the set of paths by ${\cal B}_{s,t}$ or ${\cal B}_{s,t}(n)$ and
the generating function by $B_{i,j}$ (instead of $A_{i,j}$). Then one has
\begin{equation}\label{smm}
B_{s,t}=B_{t,s}
\end{equation}
which can be easily seen since to each path $ P\in {\cal B}_{s,t}(n)$ one
can associate a path $P' \in {\cal B}_{t,s}(n)$ by traversing
$P$ in opposite direction. Since this is clearly a bijection the
above equation follows. Theorem \ref{thmm1} shows that one has to solve in the general case a system of $r^2$ equations for the $r^2$ unknowns $A_{i,j}$. Due to the symmetry (\ref{smm}) this reduces in the case where all weights are equal to 1 to a system of $\frac{r(r+1)}{2}$ equations in the $\frac{r(r+1)}{2}$ unknowns $B_{i,j}$ (where $r-1\geq i\geq j\geq 0$).
\begin{ex} Theorem \ref{thmm1} with \eqref{smm} gives for $r=3$ the following set of $\frac{3\cdot 4}{2}=6$ equations
$$\left\{\begin{array}{rl}
B_{0,0}&=1+xB_{0,0}+x^2B_{0,0}(B_{0,0}+2B_{1,0}+2B_{2,0}+2B_{2,1}+B_{1,1}+B_{2,2}),\\
B_{1,0}&=xB_{0,0}(B_{0,0}+B_{1,0}+B_{2,0}),\\
B_{2,0}&=xB_{0,0}(B_{1,0}+B_{1,1}+B_{2,1}),\\
B_{1,1}&=B_{0,0}+xB_{1,0}(B_{0,0}+B_{1,0}+B_{2,0}),\\
B_{2,1}&=B_{1,0}+xB_{1,0}(B_{1,0}+B_{1,1}+B_{2,1}),\\
B_{2,2}&=B_{1,1}+xB_{2,0}(B_{1,0}+B_{1,1}+B_{2,1}).
\end{array}\right.$$
Solving the above system of equations we obtain that the generating
function $B_{0,0}\equiv M_{({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})}(x)$ for the non-colored
Motzkin numbers of rank 3 satisfies
$$0=1-(1+x)B_{0,0}+2xB_{0,0}^2+x^2(1-2x)B_{0,0}^4+2x^5B_{0,0}^6-x^6(1+x)B_{0,0}^7+x^8B_{0,0}^8.$$
Now, we would like to give a recursion relation for the sequence
$m_n^{({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})}$. This can be automatically done with
MAPLE's program {\rm gfun}:
The procedure ``{\rm algeqtodiffeq}'' translates the (algebraic)
equation for $B_{0,0}\equiv M_{({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})}(x)$ into an equivalent differential equation of order
$7$ (it is too long to present here) and then the procedure ``{\rm
diffeqtorec}'' translates the differential equation into a $28$-term
recursion relation. The first few values of $m_n^{({\bf
1},1,{\bf 1})}$ are given in Table \ref{T2}; this sequence seems not
to be listed in \cite{OEIS}.
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
\begin{table}[h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}\hline
& $n=1$&2 & 3&4&5&6&7&8&9&10\\ \hline \hline
$m_n^{({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})}$ & 1 & 4 & 16& 78 & 404 & 2208& 12492 &72589& 430569& 2596471\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{The first few values of the non-colored Motzkin numbers of rank
three.}\label{T2}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{ex}
\begin{ex} Theorem \ref{thmm1} with \eqref{smm} gives for $r=4$ a set of $\frac{4\cdot 5}{2}=10$ equations for the $B_{i,j}$. As above, it is possible to solve this system and obtain that the generating
function $B_{0,0}\equiv M_{({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})}(x)$ for the non-colored
Motzkin numbers of rank 4 satisfies the following equation
\begin{eqnarray*}
0&=&1+(x-1)B_{0,0}-2xB_{0,0}^2-x(x+2)(x-1)B_{0,0}^3-x^2(x-2)(x+2)B_{0,0}^4\\
&&+x^2(x-1)B_{0,0}^5+x^3(x-2)(x+1)^2B_{0,0}^6 +x^4(x+1)(x-1)^2B_{0,0}^7-x^5(2x^2-3x-4)B_{0,0}^8\\
&&+x^6(x+1)(x-1)^2B_{0,0}^9+x^7(x-2)(x+1)^2B_{0,0}^{10}+x^8(x-1)B_{0,0}^{11}-x^{10}(x-2)(x+2)B_{0,0}^{12}\\
&&-x^{11}(x+2)(x-1)B_{0,0}^{13}-2x^{13}B_{0,0}^{14}+x^{14}(x-1)B_{0,0}^{15}+x^{16}B_{0,0}^{16}.
\end{eqnarray*}
The first few values of the corresponding Motzkin numbers $m_n^{({\bf
1},1,{\bf 1})}$ of rank 4 are given in Table \ref{T3}; this sequence seems not
to be listed in \cite{OEIS}.
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5} \begin{table}[h] \begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}\hline
& $n=1$&2 & 3&4&5&6&7&8&9&10\\ \hline \hline $m_n^{({\bf
1},1,{\bf 1})}$ & 1 & 5 & 25& 155 & 1025 & 7167& 51945 &387000&
2944860& 22791189\\ \hline
\end{tabular} \caption{The first few values of the non-colored Motzkin numbers of
rank four.}\label{T3} \end{center}
\end{table}
\end{ex}
\begin{rem}
Let us consider the non-colored Motzkin numbers of rank $r$ (i.e.,
all weights are equal to 1). They satisfy a $\tau(r)$-term
recursion relation where $\tau(r)$ is defined by this property (and
is minimal). This yields a well-defined sequence $\{\tau(r)\}_{r \in
\mathbb{N}}$ starting - according to the above examples - with
$3,7,28,\ldots$. The original conjecture $\tau(r)=2r+1$ proved to be
too naive, but it seems that an exact formula for $\tau(r)$ will be
very difficult to obtain. Thus, approximations or bounds would also
be interesting. Considering the equations for the generating functions $B_{0,0}\equiv M_{({\bf 1},1,{\bf 1})}(x)$ of non-colored Motzkin numbers given in the above examples for rank $r\leq 4$, one observes that they all have the form $f(x,B_{0,0})=0$ where $f(x,y)$ is a polynomial of degree $2^r$
in $y$ with coefficients in $\mathbb{Z}[x]$ (and with constant coefficient 1); more precisely, the coefficient $a_i(x)$ of $y^i$ is a polynomial
of degree at most $i$ in $x$ over the integers $\mathbb{Z}$. Thus, we can write
\begin{equation}
0=1+\sum_{i=1}^{2^r}\sum_{j=0}^{i}a_{i,j}x^j(B_{0,0})^i
\end{equation}
where $a_{i,j}\in \mathbb{Z}$. It would be interesting to find out whether this representation holds for all ranks (which is what we expect) or whether it is confined to $r\leq 4$.
\end{rem}
We would like to close this paper by stressing that it is still an
open problem to derive a recursion relation for the Motzkin numbers
of higher rank. As the explicit examples $r=2,3,4$ and the complicated
set of equations for the generating function given in Theorem
\ref{thmm1} show this will be a rather daunting task (see also the last remark).
\section{Acknowledgments}
The authors would like to thank Helmut Prodinger for sending them
\cite{prod} prior to publication and drawing their attention to
\cite{Band}.
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\noindent 2000 {\it Mathematics Subject Classification}:
Primary, 05A15; Secondary, 11B37, 11B83.
\noindent \emph{Keywords: } Motzkin number; Catalan number; recursion relation; generating function.
\bigskip
\hrule
\bigskip
\noindent (Concerned with sequences
\seqnum{A001006}, \seqnum{A000108} and \seqnum{A104184}.)
\bigskip
\hrule
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\vspace*{+.1in}
\noindent
Received April 20 2007;
revised version received June 13 2007.
Published in {\it Journal of Integer Sequences}, July 4 2007.
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magazines and free access to a world of online music,
Christchurch City Libraries have even the most discerning
music-lover’s tastes well catered for.
“If you
haven’t yet discovered just how musical your local library
is, then the month of May is the perfect time to do so,”
he says.
Christchurch City Libraries, which has partnered
with The Breeze radio station for Music Month 2014, is
offering a 30 per cent discount on CD loans during May, as
well as offering music fans a chance to win one of nine
prizes in its Music Month competition.
NZ Music Month is a
promotion run by the NZ Music Commission that takes place
each May, in association with other organisations including
NZ On Air, RIANZ, APRA, Independent Music NZ, and the Radio
Broadcasters Association.
Firmly entrenched as part of New
Zealand’s cultural landscape, over the course of the last
decade Music Month has gone from a period of encouraging
radio to play more local tunes, to a 31-day celebration of
homegrown talent across the length and breadth of the
country.
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Never been a big fan of Eminem, but I did like the clips I saw of his callout rap from last night. Even more amusing was the contrasting clip of Trump from 2004, saying "Slim Shady! What a real winner!!!"
I can not wait for the response Tweet.
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For more than 200 years, the federal government has regularly taken an immense survey of American business called the Economic Census. Though not as well-known as the decennial census, the big population count in which enumerators tally Americans house to house, it has been conducted at least every five years since 1905, with a gap only during World War II. Its basic measurements of economic activity, like jobs and revenue, are crucially important to companies, policymakers and anyone trying to track the nation’s economic health.
The next Economic Census was supposed to start in January, five years after the previous one, as usual. But earlier this year, the Census Bureau quietly changed its deadline, pushing it back at least six months. The agency told POLITICO that it has not publicly announced the delay but confirmed that aspects of the Economic Census were "re-planned," and the results would be out six months late.
“If the Obama guys had quietly suggested delaying the Economic Census by six months, there’d be holy hell to pay,” said a former high-ranking appointee in the Commerce Department.
According to multiple statistical experts who spoke with Census Bureau officials, the reason was money: The Census needed the money earmarked for the Economic Census to prepare for the 2020 decennial, which Congress has underfunded by hundreds of millions of dollars. In a tight budget environment, the bureau was effectively forced to choose between two of Washington’s most important efforts to collect data on the country. Even if it’s conducted on the new schedule, the delay of the 2017 Economic Census will have negative effects down the line; it leaves outdated baseline numbers in place for policymakers, and creates problems for companies that need to comply. Said another census-watcher of the 2017 survey: “It will always have this asterisk.”
Oh look Trump is saying something is fake news which means it's probably more or less truthful. Also, he's musing over the possibility of shutting down news agencies that publish things that he disagrees with or portrays him in bad light (which is essentially Trump's definition of "Fake News").
Worthless low-IQ President.
Another example of "That's not really intimidation."?
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Has any republican governor/congressperson/official of any sort come out to say, "No, just no"?
Why would they do that?
They are generally going to love the idea.
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He already said he wants a nuclear arms race and start building nukes on a grand scale again so having him say that he wants bring up the nuclear weapons stockpile back up to cold war heights doesn't seem very incredible to me.
Trump holds every opinion simultaneously, which I guess is the same as holding none at all.
In a new memoir, his son Ron suggests that Reagan suffered from the beginning stages of this disease while he was commander in chief, pointing out that his father became “lost and bewildered” during the 1984 presidential debates with Democratic nominee Walter Mondale and that in 1986 Reagan could not remember the names of familiar landmarks.
Michael Reagan claims there is no evidence his father had developed Alzheimer’s while in office: “I saw my father on and off and I never saw anything that looked like that.” And the Ronald Reagan Library and Foundation has issued a statement noting that “this subject has been well documented over the years by both President Reagan’s personal physicians, physicians who treated him after the diagnosis, as well as those who worked closely with him daily.
That's the issue. And this seems to settle it.
In her book, Leslie Stahl noted that she “had come that close to reporting that Reagan was senile. I had every intention of telling the American people what I had observed in the Oval Office.
Because Reagan seemed to “recover”—I decided I could not go out on the White House lawn and tell the public what his behavior meant. So I never did a report."
Later, when I would ask White House officials if they had ever seen him float away like that, they’d say yes, but that, as with me, he always pulled himself together. It was confusing for everyone.
Indeed, in her book—published 14 years after she left the White House beat—Stahl noted that after Reagan had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she asked one of his chief advisers if Reagan had been senile when he was president. “Maybe there were symptoms,” this aide told her, “though I say that in hindsight. He would come to life for the cameras. He was on/off, on/off.”
Maybe others here have dealt with this. I dealt with it some when my wife was dying of congestive heart failure. She took narcotics and when the doses increased she wouldn't be lucid. And then later she would be. The person is just gone. Then they're back. I don't think you can see it without thinking about that person's mortality. I suppose it's even harder when that person is supposed to be strong and in charge.
So, this is interesting. I don't like Donald Trump and have no respect for him whatsoever. He's obviously not qualified to be president. But, could I say that he's crazy or irrational? I don't know. He has a sales background and I knew salesmen that were the same way. They would answer questions that they knew nothing about. They would speak in exaggerated terms. They were supremely self-confident and arrogant.
Trump is used to being in charge in his own company. He's used terrorizing his staff so that everyone knows that he is in charge and not to be questioned. So, now he's in way over his head and he can't understand why everyone doesn't just defer to him like he's used to. He doesn't understand why everyone isn't afraid of him and doesn't show him the supreme respect that he thinks he deserves. So, he makes threats. Remember that in his company, having Trump raise his voice would have had people hopping. He can't grasp why he now has so much authority and yet no one is doing what he wants. Keep in mind that job number one in Trump land was making Trump look good. Now that isn't working. He assumed that he understood what the problems were and how to fix them. That was probably true in a very superficial way. There's no indication that he has ever understood the full depth or complexity of the problems.
In the past Trump has told himself that his vision and leadership were enough and that his judgement was beyond reproach and of course he was very smart. And when US banks stopped lending him money because he had so many failures he told himself that they just didn't understand the markets or didn't recognize a good opportunity or maybe were just jealous of Trump's ability. There's a million ways to rationalize your failure. When he had to go to China and Russia for cash to prop up his sagging empire I'm sure he didn't admit to any ulterior motive. Naturally they just recognized what a great business man he was and how much the Trump brand was worth.
As far as I can tell, Trump is doing what he has always done, but this time he is out of his depth and there is no one to bail him out or cover up for him. Notice that the things he has tried are typical. Shuffle the staff, call in the lawyers, make threats, find someone else to blame, spin the news. These things worked for him before. He is expecting that any day now, the media will start praising him, that congress will stop fighting him, that things will get done because of his great leadership and vision, and public opinion will soar, even the people who didn't vote for him will see how lucky they are that he is president. When it doesn't work, he doubles down. It worked before; surely it will still work. He thinks he's a world class player. He doesn't grasp that these are bush league tactics in a much bigger league.
Unless you can point out something that is different from how he was in the past where the case that he is out of his mind? I'm sure Trump is tired of this process, tired of the grind, tired of being wrong, tired of failing. But, I think the last thing he's going to do is resign and admit that he is incapable of doing something that a Kenyan born pretender could do and did do for 8 years.
Fixed your quote. It really doesn't lose any effect by including the whole thing.
Quote:
If half of this story is true, we might be facing a President having a full scale nervous breakdown. Even the GOP Congress could not ignore or contain that.
Nothing in the lead to that article which would do anything to fuel Trump's paranoia;
Quote:
In recent days, I’ve spoken with a half dozen prominent Republicans and Trump advisers, and they all describe a White House in crisis as advisers struggle to contain a president that seems to be increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods.
It's not like he's going to be constantly eyeballing prominent Republicans and Trump advisors in the White House, wondering if they might be among the traitors.
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"In journalism, a hot take is a "piece of deliberately provocative commentary that is based almost entirely on shallow moralizing" in response to a news story, "usually written on tight deadlines with little research or reporting, and even less thought"."
If half of this story is true, we might be facing a President having a full scale nervous breakdown. Even the GOP Congress could not ignore or contain that.
If any of this is true, I would expect WH staff to organise one or two campaign-style rallies for Trump in the next short period of time. It's the only thing that cheers him up and makes him feel sane.
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If any of this is true, I would expect WH staff to organise one or two campaign-style rallies for Trump in the next short period of time. It's the only thing that cheers him up and makes him feel sane.
He went to Pennsylvania yesterday.
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“President Donald Trump raged at the media Wednesday, saying in the Oval Office, “It’s frankly disgusting the press is able to write whatever they want to write.” He added, “People should look into it.””
__________________“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that...I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” - President Donald J. Trump, January 20, 2017.
"And it's, frankly, disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write. And people should look into it." - President Donald J. Trump, October 11, 2017.
“President Donald Trump raged at the media Wednesday, saying in the Oval Office, “It’s frankly disgusting the press is able to write whatever they want to write.” He added, “People should look into it.””
I'd like Trump to just outline his case and make a point by point case refuting any one particular media article that is 'fake news'.
People do it on this very site daily when something is misrepresented or false.
I get that it's not always possible, but surely it's not never possible. Am i just oversimplifying?
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I'd like Trump to just outline his case and make a point by point case refuting any one particular media article that is 'fake news'.
I simply do not think he is capable.
Just as I don’t think he could “outline his case” for his ideal health care plan. Or anything else, for that matter.
__________________“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that...I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” - President Donald J. Trump, January 20, 2017.
"And it's, frankly, disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write. And people should look into it." - President Donald J. Trump, October 11, 2017.
“President Donald Trump raged at the media Wednesday, saying in the Oval Office, “It’s frankly disgusting the press is able to write whatever they want to write.” He added, “People should look into it.””
There oughta be a law against it!!!!!
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The Fake News Is going all out in order to demean and denigrate! Such hatred!
Keep crying bitch.
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Anything that doesn't unconditionally support anything and everything Israel does is not just anti-Israel but wants all Jews to be killed. There's nothing more too it.
__________________Freedom you all want, you want freedom. Why then do you haggle over a more or less? Freedom can only be the whole of freedom; a piece of freedom is not freedom. You despair of the possibility of obtaining the whole of freedom, freedom from everything - yes, you consider it insanity even to wish this? - Well, then leave off chasing after the phantom, and spend your pains on something better than the - unattainable. - Max Stirner
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Adobe has a new Muse—graphic designers. While "Muse" is just a working title, the beta of the graphic design software has gone live which lets users work around the fact they don't know a scrap of code.
This means they can publish HTML websites without actually writing any CSS3 or HTML5. Check out the free beta download of Muse now, or a few more scant details in the press release below. [Adobe Muse]
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Aug. 15, 2011 - Today Adobe Systems Incorporated unveiled the public beta of Muse (code name), software that enables graphic designers to design and publish professional, unique HTML websites without writing code or working within restrictive templates. Leveraging the latest Web standards including HTML5 and CSS3 where browser support exists, Muse combines precise design and creative freedom with innovative frameworks for adding navigation, widgets and HTML to include advanced interactivity on a site.
"The ability to build websites as easily as laying out a page in InDesign is one of the most popular requests from our design customers," says Lea Hickman, vice president of Design and Web product management at Adobe. "Those who have tested Muse are thrilled that something this intuitive yet powerful is now available."
Designers are invited to learn more about Muse by visiting http://muse.adobe.com where they can download the free beta (English only), see a gallery of Muse-created websites, and access instructional tutorials.
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The Heat today announced rosters for its summer league teams, which will play games in the Orlando and Las Vegas summer leagues. Players who will play in only one of the two leagues are marked accordingly. Some players on this list might be cut before summer league starts. Of the 20 players, only Jarvis Varnado played for the Heat this past season.
### Former UM defensive lineman Dan Sileo, who lost his job at WQAM in March after making an anti-Semitic remark on the air, is back on the local airwaves – at least for a few days, potentially much longer.
Steve Lapa, general manager of WMEN-640 AM, said he’s giving Sileo an on-air audition this week while regular afternoon drive host Orlando Alzugaray vacations. Lapa said if “the feedback is good, we will rejigger the lineup” to give him a regular weekday slot.
Lapa previously hired another former WQAM host – Sid Rosenberg, who was dumped by ‘QAM after a DUI arrest.
Sileo was fired by WQAM after making a reference to money and saying “that’s the half Hebrew in me.”
The Anti-Defamation League wrote to WQAM after he made the remark in January and said: “This comment is troubling as it perpetuates offensive and bigoted anti-Jewish stereotypes about money that have for centuries served to incite anti-Semitism.”
After his dismissal, Sileo said on Twitter that his grandmother is Jewish and “my NFL friends lose all their money. I said I save [every] nickel that I have and that’s the Hebrew.”
For WQAM, that was the last straw, because Sileo created plenty of controversy even before that comment. Some UM fans resented his angry rants against the Hurricanes, including one last September that ended up on YouTube. UM didn’t want him to return as Hurricanes postgame analyst, and WQAM agreed.
And earlier this year, also before his firing, Sileo apologized to sportscaster Erin Andrews after he attacked her with sexist insults on Twitter.
### On the first day of NBA free agency, the Heat conveyed to Chris Andersen that it wants to re-sign him, and Birdman also wants to return. Both sides are hopeful a deal will get done soon, but as of late afternoon, there hadn’t been serious discussions about whether Andersen would accept the $1.7 million minimum (including a 20 percent raise) or whether he would express a strong preference for the Heat’s $3.2 million midlevel exception. Those discussions could happen very shortly, with both sides eager to move the process along.
With the Heat well above the luxury tax threshold, Pat Riley has been non-committal about whether the Heat will even use that exception money on anyone.
On the first day of free agency, the Heat also was reportedly among several teams to express interest in point guard Sebastian Telfair. That would be surprising, because Riley has said repeatedly that he has no interest in adding a veteran No. 3 point guard.
### Illinois State power forward Jackie Carmichael is the latest player to join the Heat's summer league team, as announced by his college.
### To those who have asked, the fact Pro Bowl fullback Vonta Leach hasn’t signed with the Dolphins yet doesn’t mean the deal won’t get done. His agent said last week that Miami is the favorite and the most logical team for him, with Houston and the Giants also in the mix. He said Monday that nothing has changed. Jeff Ireland has been on vacation but is expected to return this week, and that could push the process along.
Leach, apparently hoping the Dolphins raise their offer, said on a radio interview last week that he’s willing to be patient about selecting a new team and didn't rule a return to Ravens. Miami wants him, but Ireland has a price in mind and to this point, hasn’t been willing to exceed it. That price ultimately might be enough to get Leach in the fold.
### Heard at Marlins Park earlier today that at least one Marlins coach was furious with reliever Chad Qualls after his agent called MLB to essentially ask shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria be charged with an error on a play that happened June 23 against the Giants – so that Qualls wouldn’t be charged with allowing a hit.
Joe Torre, vice president of baseball operations, changed the call to an error, giving Hechavarria four this season. On the play, Hechavarria short-hopped a throw on what was ruled at the time to be an infield hit by Gregor Blanco. But several writers in the press box that night thought it was an error.
The message that was relayed to Qualls, by a Marlins on-field person, was that this made him look selfish. The Marlins did not give up a run in that inning, but Qualls’ WHIP (walks plus hits per innings pitched) was affected slightly by how the play was scored. That's why his agent called MLB to appeal the call.
### Who should be the Marlins’ representative in the All-Star Game? Manager Mike Redmond on Monday mentioned two rookies – pitcher Jose Fernandez and outfielder Marcell Ozuna – and closer Steve Cishek as the most logical candidates.
### Besides the overall case against UM – which now being reviewed by the infractions committee -- the NCAA hasn’t given UM two other answers it’s waiting on: 1) whether defensive end Dyron Dye will be charged with unethical conduct and ruled ineligible or suspended; and 2) whether the NCAA will approve former Kansas State point guard Angel Rodriguez’s hardship request and allow him to be eligible this season, instead of in 2014-15. UM isn’t optimistic about having him this season.
Dye met with the NCAA last month amid the NCAA’s assertion that he changed his story regarding alleged recruiting violations involving former UM assistant Aubrey Hill. Dye claimed he was coerced during one of his first two interviews with the NCAA.
### Defensive end Fadol Brown, who played at FIU last season, told Canesport.com that he will announce Friday whether he will enroll at UM, Mississippi or Tennessee. Brown, who would redshirt this season, was initially told by FIU that he could not go to UM. But FIU eventually relented. | {
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Autoblopnik’s Fiesta road test met with disdain, flaming poo
Autoblopnik’s 2014 Fiesta review, yesterday
Autoblopnik.com‘s first non-haiku review, posted this past Monday, has met with universal dislike, as evidenced by a series of derogatory emails, negative Facebook comments, and a bag of dog shit left burning at the parody news site’s office door.
“Absolutely one of the worst things I’ve ever read,” said automotive journalist Blink Zrong. “Total shit. Completely un-funny. I can’t believe they had the nerve to put it out there. I’m talking about Motor Trend picking the Tesla S as their Car of the Year, but yeah, Otto’s Fiesta review sucked balls, too.”
“Frankly, we’re appalled,” said Sid Deet, spokesdeeter for Ford Motor Company, whose 1-liter EcoBoost engine was lampooned in the Fiesta review. “We’re never loaning Autoblopnik a car ever again. Actually, we been planning not to loan them any cars ever since they started bringing up all that shit about Henry Ford and the Jews, but now we are definitely not loaning them any cars, and this time we mean it.”
“I thought it was pretty funny,” said Autoblopnik.com editor Otto Blopnik, under whose byline the article ran. “The whole joke was that the 1-liter EcoBoost does the same thing as the base-model 1.6 liter engine, so why bother. I thought of it as typical Autoblopnik stuff, but I guess the readers didn’t agree.”
Autoblopnik‘s site traffic fell to just three views per day, a 45% drop-off from the previous day’s values.
Asked if Autoblopnik.com would abandon the non-haiku review format, Mr. Blopnik told Autoblopnik, “The format isn’t dead yet. I’m sure we can find a way to make it work, if we just–” but stopped speaking abruptly when he was hit in the face with a shovel. | {
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Genii Games Officially Unveils Adventures of the Tortoise On Android
The app also recently received an update that brings The Tortoise & The Magic Drum Story; bigger preview has also been added for premium stories.
Per the official press release:
Adventures of the Tortoise was motivated by the need to recreate stories, which many adults grew up listening to in Africa. Its goal is to provide kids with an engaging way to be entertained promoting literacy and Cultural education from an African context, while learning useful lessons around morals and ethics. The stories are adapted from various African Cultures hence, traditional names, scenarios, dressing and songs are used to depict and convey simple Cultural themes. Kids also get to interact with the app in many ways including: | {
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This post covers some of the common questions that repeat regularly on these forums...
I tried to post the name/URL of an email provider, but it was replaced by ***** - what's happening?
There are a few (a very few) email providers that are prohibited from being discussed on these Forums. They have been banned because they spammed the Forums and/or abused them in some other way. We're talking about a very small number of providers, by the way - much less than 10!
If you see that your post has been automatically modified into **** then the correct response is to STOP trying right there. Don't try and circumvent the ban on posting about that particular service.
Why do posts occasionally contain ***** instead of words?
Words in posts may be automatically changed into ***** in 2 cases:
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One of the main components of the house is your door. Aside from the foundation and roofing system, the door makes our place secure and safe. The door is a barrier that can be opened, it serves as the entrance of the house or any building. This allow the people and even vehicle to enter and leave. Doors are indeed very important. While you design the interior, it’s important that the door should we well-thought of.
The main function of the door is to provide safety and privacy to your house, as well as the rooms inside it. Imagine your house without doors, weird isn’t it? A house cannot be called a house if it doesn’t have a door that protects you from outside elements that might invade your privacy. The doors also provide connecting link between the rooms of your house. For example, there is a certain door placed in the hallway that connects you from your living room to your kitchen. These spaces could also be your living room to your patio or deck. Without proper placement of the doors, you would get lost inside the house.
Another purpose of doors is that it gives added aesthetics appeal to your house. Imagine having iron front doors inside the house. Imagine how beautiful it can get, the sophistication and design just improves everything. Other types of doors also give you the same added aesthetics appeal, as long as it matches the entire design of the house it will really look awesome.
Door also provide lighting and ventilation to your house and the different rooms inside it. There are different types of doors that have different purposes. Each of these types can give you the amount of lighting and ventilation you want inside. That’s why it’s important to talk with an architect and interior designer so you would know what types of doors you need in a particular room. There are also doors best for insulation purposes because of the materials they’re made from.
The door also acts as a noise barrier. Imagine having connected rooms but with no doors. You would hear everyone! There’s also too much noise outside your house that you need to minimize. Since you can’t control that, having a door would help you suppress the noise so you are peaceful inside the house.
The door also controls the physical atmosphere within the spaces it encloses. Your heating and cooling interior is more effective because of the doors. Imagine heating a room without a door. It would be difficult for you to maintain the temperature because the air changes every now and then. Having a door means you can control your preferred temperature, and you can save a lot from your energy bills.
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“ Free laundry facilities were excellent, Owner made us feel at home, even made local cakes and brought fruit in for us while we were sorting out things for our trip in the reception room. Wifi was very good. Rooms large and very comfortable. AC worked well. Staff very helpful in getting us on our tour of the rice terraces and saving us walking all the way to the bus station in order to get a bus back to guillin. Its about a 10 minute walk from the centre of yangshuo, but this makes it peaceful ”
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Ben Affleck 'couldn't be happier' after rehab stint
Ben Affleck "couldn't be happier" now that he's finished his stint in rehab, and is spending quality time with his children, according to close friend Matt Damon.
The 'Live By Night' actor - who has Violet, 11, Seraphina, eight and Samuel, five, with his estranged wife Jennifer Garner - revealed earlier this month he completed treatment for alcohol addiction, and now his close friend and fellow actor Matt Damon has said the star is happier than ever with his new outlook on life.
Matt told 'Entertainment Tonight': "He's with the kids now, couldn't be happier. Jen's working for a couple weeks in Atlanta, so he's Mr. Mom-ing it right now. And that's what he wants to be doing."
The news comes after the 'Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice' star said in an honest Facebook post that he had undergone the treatment in order to be the "best father he can be".
He wrote: "I have completed treatment for alcohol addiction; something I've dealt with in the past and will continue to confront. I want to live life to the fullest and be the best father I can be.
"I want my kids to know there is no shame in getting help when you need it, and to be a source of strength for anyone out there who needs help but is afraid to take the first step."
And the 44-year-old actor went on to admit he felt "lucky" to have his family and friends as well as ex Jennifer.
He added: "I'm lucky to have the love of my family and friends, including my co-parent, Jen, who has supported me and cared for our kids as I've done the work I set out to do. This was the first of many steps being taken towards a positive recovery."
Meanwhile, it was recently claimed Ben and Jennifer, also 44, have put their divorce on hold to try and work out their differences and give their marriage another try.
A source said: "Jen has called off the divorce. She really wants to work things out with Ben. They are giving things another try." | {
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23 June 2013
Back to the Mines
I had the great pleasure this weekend to make some new friends on a remote farm in southwest Wisconsin. Three families, at least two dozen children, houses built by hand from wood harvested and milled from the property. My friend DMac summarized it thus: "It's like going to camp: coffee, alcohol, meat, pancakes." A thoroughly Catholic mix.
So after a hearty dose of poetry, bare feet, sheep, two-stroke exhaust, pouring rain, steaming piles of cow manure, Iowa skinnies, a long porch that's cool in the sun and warm at night, barn swallows, did I mention more children than I could count?, a Wisconsin earth goddess and a Celtic poet...
... Kant, Schleiermacher, and Möhler are here waiting for me, right where I left them. | {
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Monday, March 27, 2017
I finally got to the point of sewing on the Bali Wedding Star quilt tonight.
Took me awhile to line up the strips for part A.
I found I had to take it one step at a time, and do exactly what the instructions said to do. Instructions told you which strips to stack first, and whether to stack them right side up or back side up. Also, instead of starting with strip 1, it started with strip 4 which was the center strip. Like I said...I just followed the instructions.
Paper piecing a strip set. There are 8 strips in a set, and you actually piece them before you cut the strip. This was something different that I had done before, but once I got the hang of it, was fun.
You start paper piecing in the center first, which is why you start with strip #4.
I must say, even though there are 21 pages of instructions for this kit, if you just take it a step at a time, the instructions are very good!
One thing I did a little different, was when it came time to trim Unit A on the outside line . Instructions said to use a rotary cutter, but that kind of made me nervous. So I baste stitched on the outside of the cutting line, and then used scissors to trim the piece on the cutting line, which also cut off my basting stitches. Worked really well for me.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
My block #3 - Four X in the Moda Blockhead BOW. One of these days I am going to get one to come out exactly right, until then, I will just keep trying!
I also finished Block 4 of my Sunbonnet Sue quilt for my granddaughter. This one is called Singing in the Rain. Guess I should embroider some raindrops. Just have one more to do and I can get started on putting the quilt together. I found some lovely moda blue print fabric yesterday and am anxious to try the Quilt as you Go method. Just hope I can get it to look right.
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone, and a happy birthday to my grandson, Levi. He is turning 14 today, so hard to believe. He was our first grandchild and now we have 10 with another on the way. We are so blessed.
I discovered a site that will print your blog in book form and submitted the first 4 years (2008-2011) to have a book made. I received it yesterday and it has been so great to look through the book, see the projects I was working on (some completed and some still in process or given away) and to see things that were going on in my life.
I am going to submit 2012 - 2016 next and then plan to do each year individually. For awhile I had really stopped blogging regularly, mainly got hooked on facebook. But I really prefer blogging and have returned and plan to do blog often.
If you are interested in doing something like this, the site is www.blog2print.com and right now they are having a 25% off until March 20. I am very happy with my book and do not receive any kind of rebate or benefit from this post. Just thought you would like to know.
Seems like I am always sewing these days, but not finishing much of anything. Here are some updates on projects I have underway.
My quilt club had a workshop on making quilt blocks using hankerchiefs. This is the one I made. I was lucky to find a hankie with a "L" and I will use this to make a pillow for my granddaughter on the way. I hope to make each of my granddaughters a pillow using some hankies that were my mom's and grandmother's.
My most recently completed Star of Bethlehem block. This is block 6 out of 12. I am making progress on this quilt, slowly but consistently. I try to work on this at least once or twice a week.
I have blocks 7 and 8 prepped and ready to start English Paper Piecing.
Work continues on the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I make at least one a day and sometimes 2 or three. These are my March blocks so far.
I even pulled a Tom Sawyer on two of my friends, telling them how much fun these are to make, and they each took a block home to work on for me. Thank you Darlene and Brenda :)
Don't know what I was thinking, but I told my daughter she could pick out any quilt she wanted for a wedding quilt. She chose the Bali Wedding Star!!! They have been married three years now, so I finally got started. We bought the fabric in January, and I finally got it all cut out this week. There are 21 pages of instructions to make this quilt (YIKES!) but then, I do love a challenge. It is all machine paper pieced.
I finished Block 3 of Lorelai's quilt. Each one is a joy to work on, and embellish with a little embroidery.
And as if I did not have enough going on, I decided to participated in the Moda Blockhead Block of the Week Challenge. A few of the ladies in my club are doing it also and it is fun to see all the blocks on the facebook page.
These blocks measure 6" and there will be 48 of them. It started March 8.
I am still hand quilting my Dresden plate Irish Chain, just did not work on it this week so have no progress to show.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Moda is sponsoring a Block of the Week, called Blockhead BOW. Since I have nothing to do, haha, I decided to join and here is my first block - the Whirligig.
Have to admit the first on I attempted was a total mess, and ended up in the trash can. Got up this morning and drew it out EQ7 and paper pieced it. Much, much easier. I plan to use the blue in all my blocks to give the scrappiness some unity, and hoping to use other fabrics with that gold metallic sparkle as well in most of the blocks. I have a good bit in my stash, but not sure if I have enough.
Its a snowy day in SC this morning. Nice to see a little snow, but have to look quick, it will probably all be gone this afternoon. Looks like a black and white photo, but is actually in color.
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
I have a new granddaughter due to arrive June 30, and she has been named Lorelai. I am making her a quilt with some Sunbonnet Sue type blocks. I finished the first block today, there will be a total of 5 of them. I found the blocks in a Better Homes and Gardens book titled 501 Quilt Blocks. All the blocks are patterned at 4" finished. That was too small, so I scanned the block into my computer, put the image into a WORD document and then enlarged the image to 9" . The block will be a 12" block.
Block 1 - Sunbonnet with Flower
Well what do you know - it loaded right.
The quilt will be made like a large nine patch with 5 SBS blocks and the four plain blocks.
I have some blocks that my mother quilted on various solid pastel fabrics. She did several quilts where she quilted the blocks before she sewed them together and did a beautiful job of that. I think it would be so neat if I could used four of her blocks in this quilt, then Lorelai would have a quilt that both her grandmother and greatgrandmother made. Just not so sure I can do as good a job on the quilt-as-you-go method my momma used, and I would just hate to mess up her beautifully quilted blocks.
I have a few weeks to decide, guess if it looked too bad, I could take them apart. But then my blocks would be quilted and I would have to put them together some way.
My husband and I took a little escape vacation this past weekend. He is recovering from two back surgeries, one in October and one in December of 2016. We have not been able to get away since he first started having major problems in August of last year. We decided to visit Williamsburg, Yorktown and Jamestown in Virginia. It was a get away even if a chilly one. We would leave our hotel around 8:30 each morning and spend the day site seeing until around 3:30 - grab some lupper (lunch/supper) and then head back to the hotel to just relax, and yes, even nap. It was just what we both needed.
So funny, in my last post my pictures were showing up sideways, and now this one is upside down. Once again, I have no idea how to fix this!!!! Come on, blogger, its looks just fine on my computer. Anyway, this is a church in Williamsburg that was attended by George Washington, Jefferson Davis, Benjamin Franklin, and many others in our history. I was excited to see a plaque in the church honoring William Archer Rutherfoord Goodwin, Jr. who was a benefactor in saving the church back in the 1930-40's. He was killed in action of WWII. My maiden name is Rutherford and my husband is a genealogist, so he is going to see if this is one of my ancestors. That is not a typo in the name, it really had two "o's" in the spelling. There was also a pew in the church for Thomas Ballard, a vestryman in 1674-1683. Mr. Ballard is one of my husband's ancestors.
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Well March is here and that means a new color in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I had no idea how much I would look forward to a new month in this challenge. Its been fun and I hope to continue throughout the year.
This month, the color is RED. Well I goofed and did red in January, so now I am going to do purple in March which was supposed to be done in January. I got my pieces cut for the nine patches in time to take this project along with us as we head of to Williamsburg for a few days.
My color chart for March:
Oh well...it is sideways an I have no idea how to turn it around. I wish Blogger and Facebook would provide a rotate button!!!!!!! It is right side up on my computer so why do they insist on showing it sideways? Does anyone have a solution for this problem? I have tried googling the problem, but the solutions I find do not work. | {
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Stuck in Grief or Loss
Chances are you’re stuck in your grief for one of two reasons, or maybe both. The first reason is you weren’t taught how to grieve properly. Our culture doesn’t put much stock in grieving well. We’re taught to “move on” and “time heals all wounds.” The other reason you may feel stuck, is you’re simply not done grieving, but believe you should be.
Learning to grieve well is one of life’s most important lessons. There will always be reasons to grieve. Loss is part of life. Losses need to be properly grieved. I can help you learn to not “let go,” but to “be with differently.”
There are some experiences that can be grieved and mostly forgotten. Most events in life that require grief can never be forgotten. They can be remembered differently though. Grieving well does that.
And grieving well involves sharing your grief with people who know how to be with your grief in healthy ways. I know how to do that and help you learn to be with yourself and your grief in a way that is healing so you move through your grief.
Time does heal all wounds – if you use your time to grieve well. Let’s meet and I’ll show you how that’s done. | {
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Adesso AKB-635 overview
1Description
The Adesso EasyTouch 635 Full Size USB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard features N-key rollover technology that supports up to 6 key presses at the same time. This helps ensure the keyboard keeps up with you while typing, while actions and commands will successfully execute in games. Each of these keys is built with a Kailh blue mechanical switch, which helps you feel and hear your key presses. Additionally, they have been rated to handle up to 50 million keystrokes and offer a pressure of 50 g. This full-size keyboard is also equipped with a keypad for performing accounting tasks faster and easier as well as other uses.
This keyboard lets you shorten the cable length by re-routing it from the front to inside the keyboard and exiting from the side. This feature saves desk space and helps protect the cable from fraying. You can disable the Windows key on the keyboard so you won't be interrupted if you accidentally hit it while playing games. This keyboard is built with 104 keys and has 8 multimedia hotkeys. Furthermore, it connects to Windows systems via a USB cable.
Kailh Blue Mechanical Key Switch Keyboard
The Kailh blue mechanical key switches offer a tiny snap that you can feel on your fingertips and the click sound heard confirms each keystroke.
N-Key Rollover
The n-key rollover function permits up to 6 keys to be pressed at the same time.
Windows Key Lock and Multimedia Hotkeys
Pressing the Fn + Windows Key lets you temporarily disable the Windows hotkey during gaming. You can also control your multimedia with one touch using the built-in multimedia hotkeys.
Adjustable USB Cable
The USB cable can now be re-directed to the front or either side of the keyboard, saving desk space as needed as well as preventing the cable from fraying from constant movement.
50 Million Keystrokes
This keyboard can handle 50 million keystrokes and is able to register each stroke in real time to your system. This keyboard is suitable for entering data, numbers, and information to your system with accuracy. | {
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i try to understand some basic theory about linear PDE with constant coefficients.
But my knowledge about PDEs and the notation used in books is not so good.(because i have just started to study this topic).
i don't understand this statement or perhaps just the notation :
"for any , solving on is equivalent to solving , where and ."
Ok i don't understand, why this is true. I think the author mean by P(D) some general linear PDE with constant coefficients, that is with constant coefficients.
So but what i don't know how to understand P(D+a)?
And why are both PDEs equivalent? Do you have an idea? | {
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Information and support for you
Talk to other younger people with Parkinson's
Chatting to others in a similar situation to you can be helpful. This list of UK-wide online support groups, run by and for younger people, will help you to connect with other younger people with Parkinson's.
These groups are independent of Parkinson's UK. We're confident they can be a good source of further support but the charity isn't responsible for their content, services or the accuracy of information provided. | {
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I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
Thursday
the 11th commandment
Jon is helping Jane study for a test over the 10 Commandments and he almost has her convinced that the 11th is "Honor Thy Stepfather."
4 comments:
The divorce rate of parents with special needs children is roughly 80% so in our support group we have the discussion of fathers and dads and stepdads come up alot. A general concensus seems to be that "stepdad" is an unnecessary, potentially derogatory, label. Naturally, not everyone would agree with such a personal choice.
I personally believe that any male with a sperm count can father a child but it takes a special man to be a father to a child. The father to the child need not be the sperm donor. Unless biodad is very involved in the children's lives, I think the male figure in their lives is dimenished if unnecessarily labeled "step." If a distinguishment must be made, perhaps biodad should be labeled "father" and stepdad labeled "dad." With out children, we did not force it one way or another. We even gave them a chance to to call me "Doug" and they chose "Dad."
I would not be so presumptious as to come across as trying to tell you what to do. I also am not trying to sound judgemental. Just food for thought. My children have friends that make a big deal out of noting the difference between "dad" and "stepdad" and almost always "stepdad" seems to slip from their mouths in a negative tone.
In our lives, biodad visits roughly 36 hours out of the year. He calls one child sporadically often with weeks between calls and rarely talks to the other two. Its quite a different story. I'm not sure how things would be if he were nearby and involved. | {
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Spurs Off to a Slow Start
One look at San Antonio’s injury list should tell fans how the Spurs’ young season has gone so far. Manu Ginobili has been out of action since having surgery on a bad ankle before the season started, but unfortunately he now has company for the next couple of weeks. Tony Parker, coming off a career performance on Nov. 5 against Minnesota where he scored 55 points, grabbed 7 rebounds, and dished out 10 assists, followed up that game with a severely sprained ankle against Miami that looks to cost him at least a couple of weeks.
With two of their most dangerous players sidelined, San Antonio has mucked its way through the first eight games of the season to a 3-5 start. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the Southwest Division is a competitive one, and the Spurs only remain 2 games out of first. One of their three wins was last Friday’s 77-75 defensive battle against division leading Houston.
Another bright spot for San Antonio has been the play of their rookie point guard, George Hill. Certainly, by drafting Hill in with the 26th pick in the draft last year, the Spurs were looking for a quality back up point guard to spell Parker, while developing him along the way. Having Hill step into a starting position so early in his career was probably not in the cards, but it is now, nevertheless, the reality–at least on a temporary basis.
For his part, the rookie out of IUIPUI has filled in reasonably well, although there is no one that can replace Parker. Hill’s best game of his short professional career came at an opportune time. In the game against Houston, Hill was outstanding, scoring 17 points on 8-13 shooting, and dishing out 5 assists to go along with 6 rebounds. For the season, Hill has scored 11, 2, 6, 12, 4, and 17, so his scoring has certainly not been steady, but he only has 4 turnovers on the year, which has to make Spurs’ fans happy.
The bright side of Hill’s heavy amount of playing time is that he is getting lots of valuable experience early on in the season, which should pay dividends in the playoffs.
While two of the San Antonio Big Three have had their injury issues this season, Tim Duncan has been his usual dominant self. The Big Fundamental is averaging just under 25 points per game and just under 10 rebounds.
As far as Ginobili’s rehab is concerned, all signs indicate that his rehab is proceeding very well, and that it’s possible he could return earlier than anticipated (mid-December). Hopefully that is the case, but Ginobili’s return should not be rushed at all, and certainly Popovich realizes this, and will allow him to return to the court when he is 100%.
At this point in the season, and with the injuries that have accrued, the San Antonio Spurs just have to hope to hold serve for the next month and keep Houston and New Orleans in their sights until they have a complete team again. | {
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I came across this calculation when I was reading about Recommender systems. The last column is the rating given by a particular user for a movie. The other columns of this matrix denote whether a particular actor appeared in the movie or not.
The first five attributes are Boolean, and the last is an integer "rating." Assume that the scale factor for the rating is α. Compute, as a function of α, the cosine distances between each pair of profiles. For each of α = 0, 0.5, 1, and 2, determine the cosine of the angle between each pair of vectors.
Matrix M has three rows and three columns, and the columns form an orthonormal basis. One of the columns is [2/7,3/7,6/7], and another is [6/7, 2/7, -3/7]. Let the third column be [x,y,z]. Since the length of the vector [x,y,z] must be 1, there is a constraint that x2+y2+z2 = 1. However, there are other constraints, and these other constraints can be used to deduce facts about the ratios among x, y, and z. Compute these ratios, and then identify one of them in the list below.
Orthonormality
The goal is to find two clusters in this graph using Spectral Clustering on the Laplacian matrix. Compute the Laplacian of this graph. Then compute the second eigen vector of the Laplacian (the one corresponding to the second smallest eigenvalue).
I think I understood the basic Datar-Gionis-Indyk-Motwani Algorithm which is explained in the book “Mining of massive datasets” by Jure Leskovec(Stanford Univ.),Anand Rajaraman(Milliway Labs) and Jeffrey D. Ullman(Stanford Univ.)
I will add more details later but the diagram below explains it. I used Tikz to draw this picture. I will check-in the tikz code to my github and post the link.
Suppose we are using the DGIM algorithm of Section 4.6.2 to estimate the number of 1's in suffixes of a sliding window of length 40. The current timestamp is 100.
Note: we are showing timestamps as absolute values, rather than modulo the window size, as DGIM would do.
Suppose that at times 101 through 105, 1's appear in the stream. Compute the set of buckets that would exist in the system at time 105.
This is the general market-basket problem. It is an algorithm to find how many items are frequently found across many shoppers’ baskets based on a threshold. The threshold is a minimum number of occurrences of a particular item. Items that are bought a certain number of times(threshold) are considered frequent.
These items can be singletons or pairs of items(doubletons) and tripletons and so on.
Imagine there are 100 baskets, numbered 1,2,...,100, and 100 items, similarly numbered. Item i is in basket j if and only if i divides j evenly. For example, basket 24 is the set of items {1,2,3,4,6,8,12,24}. Describe all the association rules that have 100% confidence. Which of the following rules has 100% confidence?
A brute-force R approach to solve such a problem. This is a small number of items. In fact such data mining algorithms deal with large quantities of data and a fixed amount of memory. One such algorithm is the A-priori algorithm.
Each of the if loop checks for a condition like this.
{8,10} -> 20
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The Fear
When I was 13, in the eighth grade, my best friend got a boyfriend. Out of all of us, she was probably the last one you would have expected to start dating first. She was ‘too smart’ for that and kept to herself.
I was super invested in their relationship because this was basically the most exciting thing that had ever happened to me (I know). After this, I became even more obsessed with getting a boyfriend. Now that she had one, it was only a matter of time.
But according to her boyfriend, it wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be.
He said that in a way, once you get a boyfriend or girlfriend, it’s kind of all downhill from there, because from then on you’ll be gripped by the fear of losing them. So basically, being single is better because then you don’t have a care in the world.
And at the time I was kind of like, “Yo, check your privilege,” or whatever the 13-year-old version of that is, because he had no idea what it was like (even though they had literally just started dating). I was dying alone and he thought he had problems?
But of course, he was totally right. Anyone who’s ever been in a committed relationship will probably tell you that. Until you’ve passed every single milestone you possibly can, you worry if you’re going to make it to the next one. Or maybe that’s just me. Maybe some people feel a lot more secure than that much faster and are so confident that things will work out that they have very few doubts.
Lately, a thought that crosses my mind way more frequently than it should is, “What if this is the last time?”
I was both overly confident and insecure about my last relationship (if you can even call it that, which I do but most people don’t), which was an interesting combination.
On the one hand, I could see a long future ahead of us, complete with a house and kids and careers and a wedding and all that. It seemed to me that we would definitely end up together, no matter how many bumps we experienced along the way, because we were best friends and we’d known each other forever and it just made sense. So I didn’t hesitate to call him out on things that bothered me because I wasn’t afraid that he’d leave me if I did. I felt comfortable talking to him.
But on the other hand, maybe I was too comfortable. Pre-medication me wasn’t the MOST logical person in the world and I probably made a big deal out of things that I shouldn’t have. And I basically said anything that came to mind with little to no filter. Even though most of the time I was confident of the big picture future, in those illogical moments I was unable to see that and only saw the immediate future, which in my opinion sucked. And I would be like OH MY GOD NO DON’T TAKE AWAY OUR PERFECT FUTURE!!! And he’d be like I’M NOT WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?!?!
I let fear take over what once could have maybe been great, and since it ended, I’ve wished that I could have known when our last good day would be. Obviously, it was a good day anyway, but maybe if I’d known it could have been better, or I’d have done something I wish I did.
So now with my current partner I think, what if this is the last time we fall asleep together? Wake up together? Eat pizza? Make horrible, horrible jokes? What if I never learn how to stop while skating?? WHO WILL TEACH ME?!
I’m always the last one to fall asleep and while I’m lying there is usually when it hits me. Once it got too much for me and I started crying so I had to get up to go deal with that, and of course THEN he woke up and was like you okay? And I said yeah, because what was I supposed to say? So I sat on the bathroom floor and cried it out while petting the cat just like I used to do when I was definitely, 100%, without question dying alone. Or sometimes I’ll think about it randomly in the middle of the day, and I usually kind of just stare or blink really fast for some reason, and he goes, “What?” and I say, “Nothing,” instead of, “PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ME,” because you can’t just SAY that.
Except you can.
It’s just a terrible idea, as I’ve learned the hard way.
But as a result of that, I now pretty much don’t say anything. Ever. I don’t want us to explode before we even have a chance to fully get off the ground, like last time.
It’s true, sometimes I really do think, “Man, maybe I should have just stayed single,” thinking that I’d be able to focus much better at work and at school and I’d just be happy and coasting along with no worries. But was I doing that before? Um, definitely not. I couldn’t function sometimes because I was so lonely. I was still crying on the bathroom floor, for different reasons. Both lifestyles have their ups and downs.
I thought that being in a happy and caring relationship would solve most of my problems, but it’s not. That’s not how that works. It certainly did solve some, at least for now, but new challenges in life arise all the time whether you want them to or not. But that doesn’t mean that it’s worse than being single or that it’s not worth having.
I guess you just have to learn to find the right balance between saying EVERYTHING and saying nothing. I don’t want to push people away, but I’ll only grow resentful and awkward (ok, more awkward) in silence. It’s learning how to be realistic but erring on the side of optimism rather than pessimism. How? No clue; I’ll update you when I find the answer.
Chelsea Ricchio is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the SPEAK OUT blog. She is also the Communications Manager for Healthy Minds Canada. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 2015 with a BA in English Literature and Book & Media Studies. She was the former president of the student group Active Minds at UofT, which hosts SPEAK OUT events on campus (from which this blog takes its name). She was diagnosed with Dysthymia and Social Anxiety. She is 22 and lives in Toronto with her cat Genie and her roommate. | {
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Results of Project LEAD (Leading the Way in Exercise and Diet) - A trial testing an intervention of telephone-counseling and mailed materials in improving physical functioning among older breast and prostate cancer survivors.
Overview
Abstract
8138 Background: Declines in physical function occur with cancer, and threaten ability to maintain independence. Functional decline is a serious problem among older cancer survivors, since functional status already may be compromised. Adherence to healthy lifestyle behaviors may be one way that older cancer survivors may improve physical functioning. METHODS: An intervention development study of the Duke Claude D. Pepper Ctr was undertaken among breast and prostate cancer survivors (age 65+) to determine if a 6M diet-exercise intervention of tailored mailed materials and telephone counseling would significantly improve physical activity (CHAMPS) and diet quality (DQI-R), and ultimately lead to improved physical function (SF-36) when compared to an attention control intervention on general health topics with identical delivery. Durability of effects were assessed at 12M follow-up. Power calculations, based on significance for change by intervention status and wave using a conservative approach of repeated measures mixed models, indicated a need for 420 subjects. RESULTS: Drop-out rates were were lower than estimates (8% in both arms), however due to stringent inclusion criteria on function, we only accrued 182 subjects. Preliminary analyses on baseline to 6M mean change scores for the experimental vs. control arms were as follows: physical function [+3.14 vs. -0.47; p=.19]; frequency of physical activity [+.97 vs. -1.32; p=.08]; and diet quality [+2.96 vs.-2.95; p=.02]. At 12M, the intervention arm experienced change scores (relative to those at 6M) of -3.67 for physical function (p=.89), -1.25 for physical activity (p=.47), and -2.29 for diet quality (p=.89), indicating non-significant recidivism. CONCLUSIONS: This distance medicine based intervention improved diet and physical activity behaviors among elderly cancer survivors and positively reoriented physical function, however given inadequate power, these changes were only statistically significant with respect to diet quality. These findings hold promise of potential benefit and suggest a need for further study. No significant financial relationships to disclose. | {
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:47 pm Post subject: Gentoo is speed ... at least it use to be
There has always been a compromise of having a system that is fast vs one that is stable. As a long time gentoo user (2002, wow I just realized it has been 10 years since I built my first gentoo box from stage 1), the main reason I use gentoo vs any other distro was that gentoo was FAST, lean, and can be optimized for your particular system. Its founding is based on using an experimental fork of gcc (EGCS).
Today I feel Gentoo seems to have lost its speed heritage. Last night I was reading a Phoronix article about GCC 4.7 link-time optimization performance benchmarks and I was amazed of the potential this feature might have. Currently the stable gcc version is gcc 4.5.4 whose base was released over 2 years ago. GCC 4.6.3 is currently marked unstable. Even if GCC 4.6 were to be stabilized tomorrow, we would still be a major release behind with GCC 4.7.
For Gentoo to return to its speed roots, I think Gentoo needs to stay current with the stable release of GCC and have the unstable branch be based on the upcoming branch of GCC. GCC seems to have picked up its game and seems to be approaching ICC in terms of speed. Gentoo needs to better position itself to take advantage of GCC gains.
I know it is easy to spout all these idea and Gentoo is a small project vs Redhat or Ubuntu. I will be the first to admit I am no expert in linux especially in its programing. I am a structural biologist and use computers (even clusters) to figure out protein structures in order to solve many problems afflicting our lives. However, I am far from a linux novice.
I am appreciative of all the work the current and past developers do in maintaining and adding to the Gentoo distribution. I do not plan on leaving Gentoo anytime soon nor do I plan on stop sending in my occasional bug reports. Like many of you, I want Gentoo to be the best distro it can be.
If you are prepared to try out LTO, you might as well add gcc to your package.keywords and package.unmask files or even add the toolchain overlay. Because it is heavily experimental.
Putting the upcoming gcc release into ~arch would mean to break builds for a huge part of the tree on a regular basis._________________backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic
This comment isn't intended to argue with anything else in this thread or related threads, just an aside.
A while back Phorinx ran a benchmark which showed Gentoo not significantly faster than other distributions. In particular they were testing on AMD64 cpus, which were pretty new then. Which probably explains the results. Since there was only one or maybe two versions of AMD64 about, tailoring gcc with march=native would actually have no effect. The only way say Ubuntu could compile the code would be with march=athlon or whatever was valid then, and that would be pretty much the same as native. As the hardware platform gets more mature, and therefore more versions arrive (phenom, Intel i7, etc) there's more mileage in march=native. I'm not too sure how granular the precompiled Linux distros go.
Of course, there's mileage in stripping out cruft from the kernel and desktop, which will save on memory and maybe application loading performance. With memory coming in Gb chunks, there's not a lot of paging about, and application loading is, of course, usually a one-time issue and generally factored out of benchmarks._________________Greybeard
Gentoo used to be about speed long ago ~2000-2002 because of some gcc patches that it used by default. Today Gentoo is more about configurability, and in a sense hassle free upgrades.
A recent anecdote. I saw the kde packages from 4.9.0 in portage, and I noticed that the okular release can now annotate pdfs and save the annotations inside the pdf. Sure, enough, all of it "just worked" once I upgraded okular to the latest release. I attempted the same on ubuntu-12.04 - first added a backports ppa, then upgraded the okular package. Sure enough, it doesn't work even after the upgrade. And why is that? They decided to not compile okular against poppler-0.20, and there doesn't seem to be any sane way to get poppler-0.20 and a working ubuntu system at the same time.
Another recent anecdote. I suddenly decided I want samba on Gentoo. Enabled the USE flag, recompiled world, and there it is. Attempted the same on ubuntu-12.04 and guess what? The package is broken on ubuntu-12.04, and it's been so for several months already.
So yes, you can cry for gcc-4.7, but it is useless to me if half of what I try to do doesn't work. That said, there are reasons why gcc can not just be upgraded to the latest and greatest in Gentoo. The health of your Gentoo system crucially depends on it. It takes months and months before the problems with many packages are ironed out. If you want to follow the progress, look at the gcc porting bugs: gcc-4.6, gcc-4.7_________________emerge --quiet redefined | E17 vids: I, II | Now using e17 | e18, e19, and kde4 sucks :-/
As already mentioned. It takes time to test most of the pkgs in the tree that they will work with a new compiler. gcc-4.7 is in the tree and has been going through some tinderbox runs to find the pkgs that fail to compile. There have already been some bugs submitted and fixed for 4.7 compatibility. After they have been fixed they still need proper testing to ensure they actually work, not just compile error free.
Best advice, if you want to test out the newest and greatest. Get a chroot or VM setup to do some testing and help get things fixed so it can make it's way into the unmasked testing stage and subsequently stabilized. When you find it stable enough for your liking, you can migrate your primary system to it._________________Brian
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:21 am Post subject: Re: Gentoo is speed ... at least it use to be
barureddy wrote:
There has always been a compromise of having a system that is fast vs one that is stable. As a long time gentoo user (2002, wow I just realized it has been 10 years since I built my first gentoo box from stage 1), the main reason I use gentoo vs any other distro was that gentoo was FAST, lean, and can be optimized for your particular system. Its founding is based on using an experimental fork of gcc (EGCS).
Today I feel Gentoo seems to have lost its speed heritage. Last night I was reading a Phoronix article about GCC 4.7 link-time optimization performance benchmarks and I was amazed of the potential this feature might have. Currently the stable gcc version is gcc 4.5.4 whose base was released over 2 years ago. GCC 4.6.3 is currently marked unstable. Even if GCC 4.6 were to be stabilized tomorrow, we would still be a major release behind with GCC 4.7.
For Gentoo to return to its speed roots, I think Gentoo needs to stay current with the stable release of GCC and have the unstable branch be based on the upcoming branch of GCC. GCC seems to have picked up its game and seems to be approaching ICC in terms of speed. Gentoo needs to better position itself to take advantage of GCC gains.
I know it is easy to spout all these idea and Gentoo is a small project vs Redhat or Ubuntu. I will be the first to admit I am no expert in linux especially in its programing. I am a structural biologist and use computers (even clusters) to figure out protein structures in order to solve many problems afflicting our lives. However, I am far from a linux novice.
I am appreciative of all the work the current and past developers do in maintaining and adding to the Gentoo distribution. I do not plan on leaving Gentoo anytime soon nor do I plan on stop sending in my occasional bug reports. Like many of you, I want Gentoo to be the best distro it can be.
If you want to make Gentoo fast, I suggest installing it on ZFS. The Adaptive Replacement Cache algorithm does wonders for performance.
Also, we fixed the main GCC 4.6 stabilization blocker a month or two ago. It will likely be stabilized as soon as the toolchain team signs off on it. Until then, you could keyword it locally on stable. That is what I did.
Unless you run a real critical system, it is no problem to use gcc-4.7.1 with -flto
Sure, many packages (about half of them) will not compile with -flto, but you realize this when you compile them
There is also some packages failing with gcc-4.7, so you should still keep a copy of gcc-4.6 for these. Currently, for me these are firefox and libreoffice. firefox had been fixed with gcc-4.7, but now is broken again, and libreoffice compilation fails nonreproducible at random places - I was trying to nail it down for hours and was surprised that with gcc-4.6 there were not such issues.
Perhaps GCC 4.7.x shouldn't be hardmasked, but IMO, SO MUCH STUFF breaks with it, even without -flto that maybe it should. with all those breakages, it certainly shouldn't be in "stable". IMO, the fact that Gentoo "stable" is quite up-to-date and yet quite stable, but I *CAN* install single unstable or hardmasked packages is one of Gentoo's biggest selling points.
IMO, unless you're on god-awful hardware (which would make using Gentoo a pain unless you're using a binhost) or you NEED insane performance (protip: unless you're a bank or a stock trading company you DON'T), using Gentoo for the speed means you're using Gentoo for the wrong reasons.
Gentoo is about the flexibilitiy and the cleanliness, not the speed (IMO). Sure the speed is a nice bonus, but that's not what it's about.
I have 1,746 packages (including firefox and libreoffice) installed on my laptop, everything against gcc-4.7.1 without LTO. If anything fails to compile, it most probably needs a
Code:
CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fpermissive"
in /etc/make.conf.
Ok, I admit it, I am too busy right now to test with LTO, but for now the message is clear:
grep -A 1 lto /usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc/metadata.xml wrote:
<flag name="lto">Add support for link-time optimizations (unsupported, use
at your own risk).</flag>
And finally, the performance benchmarks on phoronix do not really show any benefit of LTO. Quite the contrary. The Dhrystone 2 test show a better result, but the rest are nearly equal or even worse than without LTO._________________systemd - The biggest fallacies
It still is...on this Core 2 Duo, at least. Having spent the last few years running mostly Slackware and Debian, I'm amazed at how much faster some of the larger applications are in Gentoo. I'm assuming it's march=native that achieves this, because I built generic x86_64 binaries in Slackware (for copying to various machines) and obviously Debian's packages are all generic. With monsters like libreoffice it may also be that useless libraries aren't being loaded, while they're all being dragged in by one-size-fits-all builds in other distros. In any case, whatever the reasons, libreoffice in Gentoo launches so quickly I don't get any time to admire Larry on the splash screen...easily four or five times faster than Debian (amd64 testing)...and it remains much more responsive (snappier feeling), as does the whole desktop, especially apps like inkscape and so on.
Oh, and Debian's using gcc 4.7.1. They're probably using it very conservatively, but the point is, my Gentoo ~amd64 systems with no rice at all (just plain old -O2) are a heck of a lot faster than equivalent Debian amd64 testing boxes; and slightly faster than Slackware64. So in addition to the flexibility and ease of maintenance and other advantages that Gentoo enjoys regardless of speed, Gentoo is still faster, too.
Speed is a subjective thing. I noticed that my system gets slower and slower, but I think big parts of it are also caused by the software, not the optimization.
Kernel gets bigger, Desktop gets heavier, of course there's nothing the gentoo developers can do about it.
I tried many distros. And believe me it doesnt take a day to come back to gentoo Even Slackware which is really fast when installing as few as possible packages. (Xorg~300mb) but who wants 1 year old software )
Speed is a subjective thing. I noticed that my system gets slower and slower, but I think big parts of it are also caused by the software, not the optimization.
Kernel gets bigger, Desktop gets heavier, of course there's nothing the gentoo developers can do about it.
No they can't: they spend what little free time they can devote to the project maintaining a vast package tree, some of them doing some rather excellent work on toolchains and crossdev (which beats the pants off any other cross-compiler setup imo), and others usually helping maintain the packages upstream, officially or not. Gentoo gives the best bug-reports, since it's as near to vanilla upstream as possible by convention, and being source-based, the developers also have a lot more expertise with things like autotools, and how to do things the right way wrt patches (such as fixing the problem in the build-system and sending the patch upstream), than most.
Users can however do a lot about the way things are going, if motivated. Examples that spring to mind are Gentoo hardened, which a few years ago was dead in the water til Xake, Zorry, kernelOfTruth and a few others put effort into making it work on their own, and Walter's work on mdev replacement for udev.
Personally I'd love to get rid of consolekit and policykit on my boxen, and just have pam. A mate who's tried it said KDE really didn't like it, but I'd gladly put some effort in if someone who knows the software (I don't, nor do I code C++, but I do know C) wanted to take it on, and ofc they couldn't do something like that alone: they'd need testers and admin/network support, as well as at least one more person to help with code.
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I tried many distros. And believe me it doesnt take a day to come back to gentoo :-)
Heh, yeah: there's countless "I'm leaving gentoo" threads: standard practice is to say "Good luck, and see you when you come back" and they usually do. :)
-fpermissive
Downgrade some diagnostics about nonconformant code from errors to warnings. Thus, using -fpermissive will allow some nonconforming code to compile.
It essentially makes the compiler less strict about what constitutes a valid program. Sometimes it can be a very good flag, but if you're using it, it can be pretty dodgy unless you know exactly why you're using it. As far as building a Gentoo system goes, I'd be of the opinion that it shouldn't ever be necessary, but I'm a noob, so take that with a mountain of salt._________________CFLAGS=" -O999999"
I just tested activating LTO on GCC 4.7 and I only had to disable it for 72 out of 1800 packages (I run a KDE desktop with quite many multimedia useflags enabled).
But to be frank: LTO is expected to become really useful with GCC 4.8, so my testing is more out of curiosity than anything else. I want to try using GCC with LTO at work, though. If you have a model which runs for a week, 10% better performance can be a lot . That’s also why I tested it at home: I wanted to see it in a safe environment (well, my main home computer… the convenience of Gentoo sure dilluted my sense of “safe”) before hitting it with scientific code _________________Being unpolitical means being political without realizing it. - Arne Babenhauserheide ( http://draketo.de ) | {
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A Hall Full of Memory Rocks Out Once More
Inside the 1,800-seat Capitol Theater, located in Port Chester, N.Y.Credit
Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times
PORT CHESTER, N.Y. — Forty years ago, in its heyday, the Capitol Theater here was known as a rock stage with great acoustics, a crumbling space where the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Santana and Pink Floyd played memorable concerts. So when Peter Shapiro, a founder of the Brooklyn Bowl, took over the theater last year and announced plans to reopen it as a concert hall next month, he had a heavy reputation to live up to.
Now Mr. Shapiro has unveiled an eclectic lineup for the next four months that he hopes will re-establish the Capitol as an influential spot for live music. My Morning Jacket has agreed to do three nights. The Roots will play four dates, with Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead joining them for one night. Others on the fall bill include Fiona Apple, Dirty Projectors and Regina Spektor, as well as older artists, among them Blues Traveler, Indigo Girls, Al Green, the Moody Blues and the Steve Miller Band.
The headliner for the first show on Sept. 4 is to be announced this week. “We are in discussions with an iconic artist who would be a fitting way to welcome live music back to the Capitol Theater,” Mr. Shapiro said.
He has spent more than $2 million renovating the 1,800-seat theater, which is 32 miles from Midtown Manhattan. He installed an arena-size lighting system, 10 high-definition projectors and an advanced sound system. The goal, he said, was to create “a psychedelic rock palace” dedicated to live music, rather than theater.
“You can’t create a rock palace,” said Mr. Shapiro, 39. “You can only reinvent one, and I am fortunate to have one. This is a queen. This is not a princess. That means giving her the best sound available in the world.”
Mr. Weir said the Cap, as the space was known in the music business, always had superb acoustics, which was why the Grateful Dead played there more than a dozen times in the early 1970s. “The sound was great, and if it sounds good, the band’s going to play good,” he said. “I remember one ‘Not Fade Away’ that was remarkable. It was just big and thunderous. It was the first time that it really fell together for us.”
On a recent afternoon the theater was alive with the sounds of hammers, drills and saws, as workmen finished installing stage lights suspended from retractable trusses and repairing the baroque decorative molding around the stage. Others were renovating the bathrooms, laying new carpet in the auditorium and recovering the faded, stained seats with red velvet. “Those seats saw Pink Floyd,” Mr. Shapiro said, his eyes wide with boyish enthusiasm.
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Peter Shapiro led a $2 million renovation of the Capitol Theater.Credit
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Mr. Shapiro said he is aiming for “the ambience of a small neighborhood bar,” combined with light and sound systems worthy of Madison Square Garden. Ticket prices will be comparable to those in Manhattan, ranging from $20 to $200 depending on the show, and seats on the main floor will be removed for most shows for the general admission crowd. The high-definition projectors will send images onto the organ wells, the walls and the dome.
Marc Brickman, a production designer who worked for Bruce Springsteen and Pink Floyd, has created light shows for the room’s ornate dome that will allow it to change color or appear to open up to a night sky. “We want to be theatrical, a little bit of an adult fun house,” said Jon Dindas, the production manager for the space.
Mr. Shapiro’s vision has the support of local leaders. Dennis Pilla, the mayor of Port Chester, predicted that the influx of concertgoers for 130 events a year would revitalize the village center, driving business to nearby restaurants and taverns. “It’s a game changer for the downtown,” he said.
Opened as a movie and vaudeville theater in 1926, the Capitol was designed by Thomas W. Lamb. In the late 1960s its owners revamped it as a performance space, and it became one of a handful of midsize stages on the East Coast where top acts regularly performed, along with the Capitol Theater in Passaic, N.J., and the better known Fillmore East in Manhattan. It flourished because it was far enough from the city not to compete with theaters there.
That era ended in 1976, however, after a new village ordinance banned live music after 1 a.m. Left unused, the building decayed, and the roof fell in. In the early 1980s a local developer, Marvin Ravikoff, bought the building and slowly began restoring the auditorium. “It was a derelict building,” he said. “It didn’t have any occupants except 10 million pigeons.”
During the 1980s Mr. Ravikoff rented it out mostly to theater companies for plays and musicals and plowed what little profit it made back into improvements. A few rock concerts were held in the early 1990s, as he booked jam bands like Phish and Blues Traveler. The last major concerts took place in 1997, when David Bowie and the Rolling Stones did special events for MTV there.
Over the last decade, Mr. Ravikoff said, he moved away from public concerts and shifted his business over to private events: fund-raisers, corporate meetings, seminars. He also rented it to bands for rehearsals. In recent years Bob Dylan has used the room for practice, and Simon and Garfunkel has prepared for its tours there.
Two years ago Mr. Shapiro approached Mr. Ravikoff with a proposal to sign a long-term lease and to start booking rock acts again. Mr. Ravikoff, 76, said he was impressed with the younger man’s passion and persistence.
“If you work on a theater of any sort, especially a historic building, you get a disease, you become obsessed,” Mr. Ravikoff said. “And Peter Shapiro has that disease.”
Mr. Shapiro, who started in the music business as the owner of the former Wetlands Preserve club in Manhattan, talks about the Capitol as if it were a sacred obligation. “These theaters don’t exist anymore,” he said. “My career to date has been training for this moment. This is the baby. This is it.”
Jim Glancy, a partner in the Bowery Presents, the company booking the theater in partnership with Mr. Shapiro, said a healthy market has developed for concert spaces that hold fewer than 3,000 people. The only comparable for-profit theater in the New York City suburbs is the Wellmont Theater in Montclair, N.J., which Mr. Glancy’s company also books.
Other promoters point out that the Capitol does face competition for bands from smaller, nonprofit performing arts centers like the Tarrytown Music Hall; the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill, N.Y.; and the Ridgefield Playhouse in Connecticut.
John Scher, a longtime New York City promoter, said the Capitol was likely to prevail in that competition because “it is a really good-sounding room.” But he added that there is a danger the market will become oversaturated, and that it remains to be seen if there is enough demand to make the theater profitable.
Mr. Shapiro said he was betting that the theater’s history and its superior acoustics would be enough to attract big-name acts. He also sees its location as an advantage, allowing him to draw from New York City as well as the suburbs. The building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, is only a block from the Port Chester train station, a 45-minute ride from Manhattan.
“I’m confident we will be here for a long time,” he said. “I’m not thinking about the risks. I only see it working. I can smell the air that was here for Pink Floyd and Janis Joplin.”
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Pennsylvania Online Casino And Sports Betting
On May 28, SugarHouse’s PA online sportsbook began testing its app in the state, becoming the first app in PA to do so.
And as promised, on July 15, two online casinos began testing: Hollywood and Parx. SugarHouse PA online casino started testing on Wednesday, July 17. As of today, there are three online casinos in operation.
In November 2018, Pennsylvania became the sixth post-PASPA state to offer sports betting. Sports betting launched at only one casino in November. To date, there are nine PA sportsbooks in operation and four online sportsbooks.
Here is a handy guide for those NJ online casino aficionados who are curious about how the Keystone State does online gambling.
PA online sports betting
PA online sportsbooks got off and running in late May 2019. SugarHouse PA sportsbook was the first to launch its site in the state. Parx and BetRivers (SugarHouse’s PA sister site) joined the fun a month later with FanDuel launching in July 2019.
Sports betting in Pennsylvania became legal in 2017 when the larger online gambling legislation was signed into law. However, as with NJ sports betting, any action was dependent on the US Supreme Court’s ruling.
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) mandated a $10 million license fee and a 36 percent tax rate on sports betting, positions that far exceed the requirements in most other states, including NJ.
Due to the onerous licensing fee and taxation rate for offering sports betting, the casinos have been far more hesitant to throw their hats in the ring.
That being said, plenty of casinos eventually signed up. But SugarHouse and Rush Street Interactive beat them all to the finish line by launching first.
Online sportsbook launch timeline
Casino
Online Sportsbook Launch
Retails Sportsbook Launch
Hollywood Casino at Penn National
Summer 2019
Nov. 17, 2018
Parx Casino Sportsbook
June 24, 2019 (soft launch)
Jan. 10, 2019
Rivers Casino
June 25, 2019 (soft launch)
Dec. 15, 2018
SugarHouse Casino
May 28, 2019 (soft launch), May 31 (live)
Dec. 15, 2018
Harrah's Philadelphia
Summer 2019
Jan. 22, 2019
Valley Forge Casino/FanDuel
July 22, 2019 (soft launch)
March 13, 2019
The Oaks (formerly Valley Forge Turf Club)
None
March 12, 2019
South Philadelphia Turf Club
None
Jan. 17, 2019
Presque Isle Downs
Summer 2019
July 24, 2019 (soft launch)
Mohegan Sun Pocono
2019
Fall 2019
Mount Airy Casino
2019
Before football season 2019
PA casinos and sportsbooks
The PGCB expressed its intent to focus on the launch of retail sportsbooks before giving online sports betting the green light.
However, the casino in Philadelphia won’t long hold that name as Rush Street plans to rebrand the property to Rivers Philadelphia.
The sportsbook at SugarHouse Casino has the following hours of operation:
Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m. to midnight
Friday: 10 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. to 2 a.m
Sunday: 9 a.m. to midnight
Parx Casino
Parx Casino in Bensalem, just outside Philadelphia, opened its sportsbook officially on Jan. 8, 2019. The temporary sportsbook includes 45 self-service kiosks, 20 HD television screens, seven betting windows, and a full-service bar. A larger, more expensive sportsbook is coming soon and will be 10,000 square feet.
And at the end of June, Parx launched its new online sportsbook.
The Parx sportsbook has the following hours of operation:
Monday: 1 p.m.-12 a.m.
Tuesday-Friday: 1 p.m.-1 a.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m.-1 a.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m.-12 a.m.
Harrah’s Philadelphia
Harrah’s Philadelphia is owned by Caesars Entertainment, which also owns three Atlantic City casinos. While the two other Philadelphia casinos have sportsbooks open, Harrah’s Philadelphia sat on the sidelines for a bit. It began testing Jan. 22 and opened for business Jan. 24.
The temporary book is set up in a renovated racebook for now while a permanent book is under construction. Harrah’s hopes to launch its online sportsbook in August.
You can visit Harrah’s Philadelphia sportsbook at the following times:
Monday-Friday: 11 a.m.-12 a.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 10 a.m.-12 a.m.
South Philadelphia Turf Club
South Philadelphia Turf Club is ideally located in the parking lots for Lincoln Financial Field, home to the Philadelphia Eagles, and Citizens Bank Park, home to the Philadelphia Phillies.
Additionally, the Turf Club is a mile away from Wells Fargo Center, home to both the Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia 76ers.
The South Philadelphia Turf Club is open:
Monday-Friday: Noon – 11 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. – Midnight
Sunday: 10 a.m. – 11 p.m.
Pittsburgh sportsbooks
Rivers Casino is the only Pittsburgh casino with an open sportsbook.
Rivers Casino Pittsburgh
The 3,000 square-foot Rivers’ temporary sportsbook is located on the south gaming floor with seating for nearly 100 people and a luxury sports lounge. Rivers is scheduled to open its permanent sportsbook in the spring of 2019 and will be in the center of the casino on the main gaming floor.
The BetRivers sportsbook app launched in June 2019 and functions as a sister site to PlaySugarHouse PA.
Hours of operation are:
Monday – Thursday: 10 a.m. – midnight
Friday: 10 a.m. – 2 a.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. – 2 a.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m. – midnight
Eastern PA sportsbooks
Valley Forge Casino
On March 13, the FanDuel Sportsbook at Valley Forge officially opened for business after a two-day testing period. Boyd Gaming owns Valley Forge and has partnered with FanDuel to provide sports betting for the casino.
This also brings FanDuel’s online sportsbook to Pennsylvania. As of July 29, sports bettors in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania can bet using FanDuel’s iOS and Android app, and via its website.
FanDuel Sportsbook at Valley Forge operating hours are:
Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m. – 1 a.m.
Friday: 10 a.m. – 2 a.m.
Saturday: 7 a.m. – 2 a.m.
Sunday: 8 a.m. – 1 a.m.
Valley Forge Turf Club
On March 12, Valley Forge Turf Club opened its sportsbook. Admission and parking are free.
The Valley Forge Race & Sportsbook’s official hours of operation are:
Sundays-Tuesdays: noon – 10 p.m.
Wednesdays & Thursdays: noon – 11 p.m.
Fridays & Saturdays: noon-midnight
Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course
The Sportsbook is located near Skybox Sports Bar, just off the casino floor with conveniences such as individual viewing stations and a 50-foot video wall. The permanent sportsbook will be opening later this year.
Monday – Friday: 11 a.m. – midnight
Saturday – Sunday: 10 a.m. – midnight
Presque Isle Downs BetAmerica Sportsbook
With partner Churchill Downs, Presque Isle opened its BetAmerica retail sportsbook for testing on July 24, but a full rollout is planned for Aug. 8. As such, its sportsbook app will get a later start compared to its competition. For now, the retail book features 50 self-betting kiosks.
Visit or call Presque Isle Downs to learn the sportsbook hours prior to the official launch.
PA online casinos
For the purposes of this guide, online casino gambling pertains only to slot play and table games. Due to the fact that some PA casinos elected not to apply for online poker, we will consider it separately from this section.
Online casino launch timeline
On April 17, the PGCB set the official PA online casino launch timeline for July 15. Hollywood and Parx casinos were the first to enter the fray and start testing. SugarHouse PA went live with a small selection of games on July 17.
Casino
Online Partner(s)
Launch Date
Parx Casino
GAN
July 15
Hollywood Casino
IGT
July 15
SugarHouse Philadelphia
Rush Street/Kambi
July 17
Mohegan Sun Pocono
Kindred
2019
Harrah's
888
2019
Valley Forge
IGT/GAN
2019
Presque Isle Downs
Golden Nugget
2019
Mount Airy
888/PokerStars
2019
Wind Creek
N/A
Unknown
Stadium Park Philly Live! Casino
GAN
Unknown
MGM Resorts
bwin.party
Unknown
Golden Nugget AC
NYX
Unknown
The casinos listed below have already applied and received their conditional approval to offer slot play and table games online:
Harrah’s Philadelphia
Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course
Mount Airy Casino
Parx Casino
Wind Creek Resort and Casino (aka Sands Bethlehem)
SugarHouse
Valley Forge Casino
Stadium Casino
Presque Isle Downs and Casino
Mohegan Sun Pocono
The remaining casinos in Pennsylvania never applied for online gaming or withdrew their applications. There will not be online slots or table games branded for the following locations:
Lady Luck Nemacolin
Rivers Casino
Meadows Casino
In all three cases, the ownership of these casinos already has other casino properties in-state. Filing for an application (and paying the $4 million per license fee) is redundant since these properties can merely advertise the online space of their sister properties.
Additional PA online casino licenses
As part of a 2017 gaming law expansion, Pennsylvania granted these 13 properties the ability to apply for online slots, table games, and poker licenses. Altogether, PA casinos applied for and received 27 of the 39 available licenses. The remaining available licenses are as follows:
Six online poker
Three online slots
Three online table games
In order to fill the surplus license spots, the PGCB has allowed gaming interests without an existing casino in the state to apply for any or all of these remaining licenses.
So, it’s possible that there will be online casinos in Pennsylvania without a physical counterpart. Instead, they might be operated by qualified gaming entities (QGEs).
PA online poker
The list of sites with plans to offer online poker in Pennsylvania is much the same as the list for online casino gambling, but a little smaller. There are only seven applicants, compared to 10. While casinos will go online starting July 15, poker is a bit more up in the air on an exact timeline.
Nevertheless, there will be plenty of options for online poker play. The following casinos have applied and been approved for online poker in the state:
Harrah’s Philadelphia
Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course
Mount Airy Casino
Parx Casino
Wind Creek Resort
SugarHouse
Valley Forge Casino
MGM Resorts is seeking to offer online poker, too. The PGCB approved its application in January 2019.
PA gambling and casinos
Pennsylvania is home to 12 gaming operations. Some are standalone properties; others are combination casino and racetrack, or “racinos.” All are under the purview of the PGCB, which functions similarly to the Division of Gaming Enforcement in New Jersey.
Harrah’s Philadelphia
Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course
Mount Airy Casino
Parx Casino
Wind Creek Resort
SugarHouse
Valley Forge Casino
Presque Isle Downs and Casino
Lady Luck Nemacolin
Rivers Casino
Meadows Casino
Mohegan Sun Pocono
A 13th casino, Stadium Casino, is under construction in south Philadelphia and will open in 2020. | {
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Jerry West Autograph Signing - Recap & Photos
On Saturday February 9, 2013, Lakers legend Jerry West was scheduled to make an appearance at the Long Beach Expo Coin, Stamp & Sports Collectible Show. West was scheduled to sign from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. and Magic Johnson was scheduled to sign from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. I arrived at the Expo around 11:45 a.m. and by the time I made it inside and picked up my tickets from will call it was about 12:15 p.m. Luckily I had purchased my autograph ticket in advance and they were lining up according to numbers. The first group called was 1 through 25 and I had #24!
Jerry West was dressed in a suit and tie and was somewhat engaging to fans who spoke to him. I greeted him with a "hello" and he said "hi" back. I asked for a Mr. Clutch inscription, he smiled, signed my ball and handed it back to me. I just thanked him and walked away. The autograph area was a bit of a madhouse so I was looking forward to getting out of there.
Take a look at some of my pics below.
Jerry West checking out a ball
Jerry West signing my official Spalding NBA game ball
Jerry West autograph with "Mr. Clutch" inscription
As I was getting my ball authenticated by PSA, Magic arrived about a half hour early and started signing for fans. An interesting moment took place as I walked out of the expo. Darryl Strawberry walked right passed me with a box of ROMLB balls in his hand. I followed him back into the expo just in case he was going to set up somewhere and sign. I was upset with myself that I didn't have any extra baseballs with me like I usually do. Strawberry walked over to the autograph area and my guess was he was going to have Magic sign a bunch of baseballs for him. I had to get to another signing, so I didn't stick around and left.
I was very happy to finally get a Jerry West autograph. I kept debating whether I wanted a HOF inscription or Mr. Clutch. I even considered a "The Logo" inscription. I obviously decided on "Mr. Clutch" and I'm happy with the results. | {
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By Design: BMW Z4 Concept and BMW Concept 8
A fluid future
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG has existed since 1916, initially as a builder of aircraft engines. It moved to earthbound vehicles when in 1923 it offered a motorcycle to keep its employees occupied—the WWI armistice prohibited German aircraft manufacture—and only moved to cars in 1928 when it acquired a railroad-car maker, Fahrzeugwerke Eisenach, which was license-building British Austin Sevens under the Dixi name. The first BMW-badged, Austin-derived 3/15 models came in 1929.
Since those first cars, the firm has had a truly complex and erratic design history. BMW was one of the first European carmakers to have an internal styling (as opposed to body engineering) department. Set up by Wilhelm Meyerhuber, who went to Bavaria from Opel, where there was awareness of General Motors’ pioneering in-house Art and Colour staff, the BMW studio enjoyed all the accoutrements of American design methods: sketches in perspective, clay models, styling bridges, and 3D measuring systems. Meyerhuber kept making proposals into the middle ’50s with no results. Since then, a diverse cast of characters has contributed to the sharp rise, fall, and rise again of the now wildly successful automaker, which produced no automobiles for the full decade of the 1940s save a few “EMWs” produced in the eastern zone at the Eisenach plant. BMW itself only got back into car making in 1951. Even then, the 1952-’63 “Baroque Angel” 501 and 502 sedans were prewar designs, depressingly old-fashioned and clumsy.
Max Hoffman, the Austrian exile who was enormously influential in introducing numerous marques to the U.S., commissioned a sports roadster on that prewar chassis, selecting Manhattan-based fellow exile, Albrecht Graf Goertz, to shape it. The 507 masterpiece that resulted first embodied a flattened, horizontal double grille instead of a vertical pair. But it cost three times what Hoffman desired and was a total failure commercially, with only a couple hundred ever made. Goertz also did the 503, a coupe on the longer sedan chassis. He was one of many stylists involved in the development of BMW’s modern look. Wilhelm Hofmeister, chief in-house designer from 1955 to 1970, is credited with the eponymous “kink” in the rear side windows, though it was first seen on the Giugiaro-designed 3200 CS.
In fact, Italian designers contributed much to BMW design through the years, most importantly Giovanni Michelotti, who restyled the incredibly ugly Iso Isetta-based BMW 600 four seat “bubble car” into a lovely coupe that sold well despite having just a flat-twin motorcycle engine in its stylish tail. Michelotti’s subsequent Neue Klasse sedans saved BMW from being dismantled in the ’60s and so are the most important designs in the firm’s history. The house of Bertone contributed designs and hundreds of coachbuilt bodies. The first 5 Series sedan, for which newly hired Frenchman Paul Bracq claimed credit, was actually the work of Marcello Gandini, although Bracq did do what to me is the most beautiful series-produced BMW ever—the long-lived 6 Series coupes.
Concept cars, even terrible-looking examples, can and often do have positive downstream effects.
Succeeding Bracq was a fine German design leader, Claus Luthe, who left because of a personal tragedy. For most of this century BMW design has been led by an American, Chris Bangle, and a Dutchman, Adrian van Hooydonk, who have both presided over an astonishingly diverse multinational collection of designers both excellent and imaginative.
Luthe introduced advanced design methodology making use of digital systems, which has had, I fear, the perverse effect of allowing BMW to dilute its much-envied reputation with a plethora of models and caused its engineers to lose a bit of focus on the “Ultimate Driving Machine” aspect of its products. But as Van Hooydonk said when I questioned the necessity of a particularly peculiar and ungainly off-mainstream model, “We sell all we can make.” That has always been the ultimate goal of everyone in the automobile business—even for cars whose list prices start in seven figures.
It’s easy enough to see these concept cars are close siblings, but like human brothers and sisters they’re destined by genetic heritage for different roles. And although they’re quite similar in some aspects, one might have some visual characteristics of one grandparent while the other exhibits traits of the opposite side of their forebear families. We see traces of Albrecht Goertz’s 507 in the horizontally oriented “kidneys,” an identity element persisting since the early 1930s. The rear treatment dates from the Bangle days, as does the side treatment derived from the 2001 X Coupe concept. In this column 16 years ago (May 2001), I said that concept was “an ugly—even grotesque—vehicle.” And it was, but it’s hard to fault the flanks of this pair, positively influenced by that dismal exercise. We can expect parts of this pair to pop up in the near and far future. Concept cars, even terrible-looking examples, can and often do have positive downstream effects. I think these quite elegant and fluidly shaped concepts are likely to have additional series-production descendants that will greatly impress us when they appear.
1. This represents a surprising reversion to the “motorboat” front end Michelotti created for the 1500-1800 Neue Klasse cars in the early ’60s. Management was convinced it was dangerous to change that look, and despite desperate pleas from Bracq for more aerodynamic shapes, it held for decades. To see it return is a nod to Mercedes chief designer Gorden Wagener, who reverted to it on the last S-Class to lengthen the hood.
2. There are still four headlamps, but they’re not round anymore. It’s about time.
3. In pure profile, this fender line is of surpassing elegance. Surfaces outboard are a bit of a puzzle, though.
4. The painted part of the outer air inlet is broken into five straight elements, open toward the center of the Z4 nose, with the central scoop edges filling the open end.
5. A slight crease, seemingly the origin of the base line growing out of the fender below the side slash and curving up the side.
6. The central scoop tends to evoke cow catchers on steam locomotives in the Old West. In black it looks agricultural, more like a grain scoop than a car part.
6. Here the center scoop diagonal edges are inclined in opposition to those of the Z4.
7. Having the model identification at the bottom of the front end is a bit odd but original, for what it’s worth.
1. Both cars share a bad idea from the past. Comprehensive Air Force studies have shown that having gauge needles operating in opposing directions within the same narrow field of view reduces operator comprehension and slows reaction time. This reversion to old ideas in order to seem new may be an endemic corporate philosophical weakness. Remember how silly the central-dial instrument panel—like a 1948 VW—was in the Z8?
2. The layout and formats of the central data screens seem to have no particular commonality, other than—like most such devices—they both provide too much information.
3. The transmission selector lever appears to be the same part on both cars, and why not? It’s something that must fit comfortably in small hands and large ones. This one is a handsome sculpture.
4. Ventilation outlets are horizontal on the 4, vertical on the 8, but they seem to be of about equal cross-sectional area, a little smaller than industry average in both cases.
5. The idea of using color to set apart the driver’s realm is hardly new. Lamborghini did it in the days when Chrysler controlled its styling. It’s a handsome solution, though as a Z4 driver I’d rather not have the orange reflection in the windshield.
6. Despite their very different roles, both concepts use complex textures on the seating surfaces: lightly bas-relief in the 8 Series, just a surface treatment in the Z4.
7. The seat-belt sockets appear to be built in to both sets of seats but without a clear release mechanism for either.
8. Writing on the center bottom of the steering wheel is just an identity badge on the 8 series, but on the Z4 it seems to be an active digital readout.
9. Steering wheels are flattened top and bottom, with the “central” BMW badge well below the center of the nominal circle. Colors, number of spoke branches, and apparent thumb rests may all be different, but the gestalt of both directional devices is clearly similar.
10. Like the transmission controls, the pedals look to be identical, which is sensible in that there are no small economies, even in hand-built concept cars. And they’re really good-looking if potentially slippery in the wintertime.
1. This bump, as seen from the back, is the upper corner of the big-box front corner openings on both cars …
2. … and this angle is the same on both, but for the Z4 a surface break gives a protruding lower lip of painted material.
3. At the top of the slash, there is a sharp corner where two straight lines intersect, and on the 8 a radius leads into a curved line that softens and disappears in the door skin.
4. Below this soft line on the 8 Series, the entire body side is essentially concave down to the bottom of the door. On the Z4, the hard line from the slash runs all the way back to the taillight, with a narrow concave section interrupted by a muscular bulge coming out of the outlet in the front fender that fades in the door skin below the beginning of another bulge in the door itself. The changes from concave to convex are numerous, complex, and interesting—if a bit lumpy.
5. Twin asymmetric headrests on the Z4 have no counterpart on the 8 Series coupe but do reference the Z9 roadster concept from 17 years ago.
6. Taillights on both concepts cover about a third of the rear width but have no formal resemblance. Nicely integrated into the overall form in both cases.
7. The ancestor of both concepts is the Z9 coupe from the 1999 Frankfurt auto show, executed by Van Hooydonk under Bangle’s direction.
8. Two hard, crisp horizontals on the Z4 are separated by a single surface concavity below the license plate mounting area, while the horizontal references are softer and more subtle on the 8 Series. Sharp-edge blades on both define the top of the corner boxes.
9. Both concepts have handsomely modeled exhaust tips, the sort of thing common to show cars and usually found too expensive for production.
10. Rear corner boxes on both concepts have the same angle as seen in pure profile, but what happens on the rear fascia is quite different. You wonder whether the apparent outlets really evacuate air from the rear wheelhouses. And if so, how do you clean the ducts?
11. The similar twin-spoke wheels on both cars seem to have been made with protrusions almost guaranteed to get expensively curbed at some point in daily use. Good styling, bad design then?
12. The “pregnant cow” line from the X-Coupe is parallel to the ground plane where it appears in the fender skin, then turns up along the door cut. In the 8 Series it is the entire bottom door cut, turning upward just at the back of the door.
13. The straight-line slash in the front fender outer skin on both is at the same angle relative to the ground plane, but they end quite differently.
14. On the Z4, the slash ends in a little curve disappearing onto the flank, while on the 8 Series it generates the leading edge of a concave body side defined by a sharp surface break.
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Defensive Real Passing Yards per Attempt
Final Statistics for the 2011 Season
About Defensive Real Passing Yards Per Attempt. The Cold, Hard Football Facts constantly use passing yards per attempt as a way to measure the effectiveness of each quarterback at getting the ball downfield. Longtime CHFF readers know that a quarterback’s average per attempt has an incredibly high correlation to success. The same goes for defense.
Real Passing Yards Per Attempt is a little more advanced and a team-wide indicator. It doesn’t just reward a quarterback for throwing the football. Instead, as a team indicator, it also includes the impact of sacks. Defensive Real Passing Yards Per Attempt is merely its defensive counterpart. We use only NET passing figures to determine yards per attempt. This is gross passing yards, minus yards lost via sacks. But we also divide it by total dropbacks – that is, not just pass attempts, but sacks as well. This formula the TRUE average per pass attempt, its Real Passing Yards Per Attempt.
Bottom line: it rewards defenses for generating sacks. There are few if any efficiency indicators outside of CHFF Insider that do so. | {
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Sunday, January 27, 2019
Hugs in the Parking Lot
By Xanthe Alyse Chefurka Faulkner
Editor's Note: This is a repost of a blog entry from September 23, 2015. It resonated so much that we felt we should post it one more time! The post was originally found on one of the craniosynostosis groups on Facebook, and graciously, the author, Xanthe Faulkner, agreed to let me share it on our blog. I believe it's a succinct and beautiful peek into the lives of our amazing cranio moms and dads, and a great example of why family networking is so critically important and huge part of the work we do at CCA Kids.
Why we cranio families are who we are...
So Helmetbaby here is in daycare. And the day he started, 4 months ago, I looked at a boy in his class and thought "Saggital. For sure." But you know how it is - I never crossed paths with his parents, don't know the family, maybe he's already being followed, etc... But we're very public about our son's journey, so all the staff know us and the details of our little guy's condition and journey.
So this morning I was carrying my son across the parking lot towards the school. And a woman I don't know calls to me, softly, and comes over. "I need to talk to you," she falters, "I'm so happy you came just now. The teachers said I should, that I could..." And tears well up in her eyes, and I knew right away. With my son cradled in one arm I wrapped my other arm around this stranger and held her tightly. Of course she was the other little boy's mom, and she had gotten CT confirmation of fused saggital and metopic [planes of the anatomy of the skull] the day before. "I'm so upset," she said, soft spoken and shocked, "I never expected. I'm beside myself. I forgot all my groceries in the store yesterday. I'm so distracted and scared, I don't know what to do."
She doesn't have Facebook to get support from you all, she hasn't even met with a neuro[logist] yet, but I gave her my number. We'll have coffee. I told her my son was fine, more than fine, and that while it had been scary, the results were fantastic. That everything will be okay. And guys, I felt so clearly... That we as cranio parents are the only ones that get it. The sudden fear of realizing they will have to cut your child's skull open and piece it back together. The terror of things going wrong. Worries about their little growing brains. The unknown. And I thought about how people who understand first hand are the only ones who seem to bring any comfort sometimes. You can't fake having been there. And once you've been there, you are driven to reach out to others standing in the new fear,
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Waymo announces Jaguar I-Paces to join its self-driving fleet by 2020
Google subsidiary Waymo earlier this year announced a strategic partnership with Jaguar Land Rover to develop autonomous versions of the automaker’s Jaguar I-Pace SUVs, and today, it took the wraps off the fruits of its labor: new all-electric crossovers that’ll join the company’s self-driving fleet by 2020. The new utility vehicl…Read More | {
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A delegation from the Ajman Police General Command briefed the Ministry of Interior on its experience in the field of delighting the dealers and the Ministry's efforts to develop and serve the clients at the level of police sectors affiliated to it at the state level.
This came during a visit by a delegation from the Traffic and Licensing Services Center at Ajman Police to the Department of Visitors' Visit at the Ministry of Interior where the delegation met with Major Saeed Al-Dhahouri, Director of the Department of Acting Dealers and a number of officers in the administration. | {
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2019 Hall of Fame Inductees Announced by RV/MH Heritage Foundation
The RV MH Hall of Fame is an annual event that honors members – living or deceased – for their distinctive service within their respective industries.
According to their website, “The RV/MH Heritage Foundation began its operation in 1972 and operates today as the RV/MH Hall of Fame and the Northern Indiana Event Center. It is a 501c-3 public not for profit.”
It goes on to state, “In the past five and half years we have made great strides in improving the financial stability and reducing the debt of the RV/MH Heritage Foundation to a position of debt-free by the end of 2018.”
The organization states their mission as follows.
ITS MISSION WAS FIVE FOLD:
To maintain a Hall of Fame to honor the leaders of our Industries. Today we have over 400 members in the Hall called the “Wall of Fame”
To archive our history. Today we have a great library with over 20,000 industry publications
To create a display of historic products. Today we have a one of a kind museum with 100 year old RV’s
To aid in promoting the RV/MH industries. Today we have the GoRving Hall for New RVs and the new Manufactured Home display for MH.
To provide a first class event center. Today we operate the Northern Indiana Event Center (NIEC) with over 35,000 sq.ft. of space available in seven different areas.
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The influence of Clayton Homes, along with other manufactured housing industry firms and associations, has been noted previously, and is made visible from the following, which is not a reflection on the RV side of the museum and foundation.
Their release to the Daily Business News on MHProNews reads as follows.
The RV MH Hall of Fame Class of 2019 includes:
2019 RV Inductees
Manufactured Housing Inductees
The Class of 2019 will be officially inducted into the RV/MH Hall of Fame at the annual induction ceremonies and dinner on Monday, August 5, 2019, in Elkhart, Indiana.
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Support for measurement errors in R vectors, matrices and arrays:
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In 2011, new artists became a wave of sorts in music. From the arrivals of the Weeknd, Frank Ocean (as a solo artist), and others, the sound was changing. A more moody, emo sound was born in R&B and it began to override the elements that made us love the genre in the first place. 2011 still had some music that we all loved and appreciated as R&B from artists like Tyrese and Joe, but the genre went through a shift for sure. Today, we look back at the shift of the genre and what 2011 brought us musically. Let's get into it.
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In the year 2011, we were introduced to 3 new artists via mixtapes. The Weeknd with "House Of Baloons", Frank Ocean with "Nostalgia", and Jhene Aiko with "Sailing Souls". Out of Canada, The Weeknd's style was more of a croony, moody, sampled type of emo R&B. Frank broke away from Odd Future and hit us with a sound that was a heavily sampled flip of popular songs with a neo soul vibe. Some may remember Jhene Aiko from running around with B2K back in the early 2000s, but she gave up music to finish school then returned years later with a newer sound, a more atmospheric, emo R&B as well.
We also got albums from Kelly Roland with "Here I Am", who had a huge hit "Motivation" featuring Lil Wayne. Her ex group member Beyonce was back with "4" to "Run The World" after her hiatus.
Bey also collaborated with Mary J. Blige on "How To Love A Woman", which was on her album "My Life II...The Journey Continues". Jagged Edge quietly released "The Remedy" after being away for a few years. Chris Brown gave us his usual mixture of R&B, pop & hip hop on F.A.M.E. A posthumous album "Lioness Hidden Treasures" of Amy Winehouse was dropped with unreleased songs and demos in aid of her foundation. Boyz II Men would released their 10th album "Twenty", celebrating 20 years since the release of thier debut album "Cooleyhighharmony" in 1991.
@SpeedOnTheBeat
2011. Where do I begin? 2011, for me, began with some Late Nights and Early Mornings, then ended with me trying to Take Care of myself. Puns aside, I want to talk about two releases in detail: Marsha Ambrosius' debut album and Drake's magnum opus. Why? Because as different as the albums sound (Ambrosius takes a mix between contemporary R&B and neo-soul, while Drake goes for moody alt-R&B for a good portion of his album), they're quite similar. Ambrosius is deep and sincere as hell on Late Nights and Early Mornings, baring her everything for the audience to digest. I mean, "Far Away" is dedicated to a friend of hers who committed suicide
Now, I know what you're thinking. "Here Speed go again hyping up Take Care. He even calling it R&B when it's clearly a rap album with R&B cuts." And, in some ways, you'd be right. It is a rap album with R&B cuts. But, the overall feel has R&B written all over it, down to the braggy rap Drake employs. Nothing is straight up "rappity-rap" about Take Care and, because of Drake's use of Weeknd-like sounds, it helped usher in a new era in R&B. After the OVOXO collaborations, everyone and their mom wanted that moody R&B where they could talk about their feelings and hatred of sleeping alone. You can say that without 808s, there'd be no Drake. But, without Take Care (and, by extension, The Weeknd), you wouldn't have a lot of these artists out here.
OK, I lied. I've got to talk about a third project/collection of projects.
The Weeknd's original Trilogy: House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence. When it dropped, it was like nothing I'd heard before. It took MJ and made it dirty ("D.D.," for instance, along with Weeknd's pseudo-MJ falsettos). It was the shit that you'd expect from some mix between Prince and David Ruffin. It was sexual, but it wasn't necessarily "sexy." It was powerful, but wasn't really devoted to "power," especially when you consider "power" in Weeknd songs from this era was usually fueled by drugs and bad decisions. It was emotional as fuck without really being full-on "emo."
It was the shit I listened to when I was clawing back through life throughout 2011, as I was, admittedly, on my Weeknd shit. Zonked out of my mind, confused, young, and could've been a statistic. I identified with the dark melodies, the disregard for self and others, and the desire to become something greater...even when everything was stacked up so you'd probably be just another fuck up.
I first got introduced to The Weeknd between Drizzle playing "D.D." when we're all drunk as fuck on Christmas morning coming back from a party and a young woman (who shall remain nameless here) telling me to check him out because she was reminded of me in some ways through his music. But, wherever the first time came from, when it entered my veins, I was hooked to the Canadian singer who "[used to have] the hair [and sang] about popping pills, fucking bitches [and] living life so trill."
If you want to see where some of my own musical influence came from, listen to Take Care and The Weeknd's Trilogy. If you want to hear some non-faded love songs, check out stuff from Marsha Ambrosius. And with that, I'll turn it back over to True to bring us home.
Outro By @TrueGodImmortal
-2011 is a year that is hard to remember for me. I think the rest of the team summed up all of my personal memories musically, though the biggest surprise musically for me was the Tyrese album "Open Invitation". My favorite song from the year was "Stay", and being that I'm not a huge fan of Tyrese in general, that really said a lot. I wasn't on the Weeknd, Frank, Jhene or Beyonce wave during this year and I won't even pretend like I was. Their music is dope for the intended audience and that audience doesn't include me. However, 2011 will be remembered I'm sure for the shift in the genre and the sound evolving much more. | {
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How to pluck eyebrows
Tips for eyebrow tweezing / plucking
1.Do not tweeze too much. Generally most women commit this mistake. If you will tweeze too much your brows will grow in months long time or so, which you are not expecting from your eyebrows. To find your brow take a long eye shadow brush or pencil and hold it parallel to the side of your nose. The point where brush or pencil meets your brows is the point where your brow begins.
2.Now extend the brush diagonally from your nostril followed by the outer edge of your eye. The point at which the inside edge of brush hits is the point where your brow ends.
3.If your brows are making the slight arc then you have the best brow. Hold the brush or pencil parallel to the iris (iris defines the colors of the eyes; black / brown / green, etc). The point at which the brush or pencil meets is the highest part of your brows.
4.Do clean skin. Brush your brows up and out.
5.Use a good pair of tweezers to tweeze your brows. Use magnifying mirror and do the task in perfect bright light.
6.Do not tweeze to many hairs at a time. Pluck hairs in the direction they grow. Hold the skin taut as you pluck, this will make the task easy.
7.If you want both top and bottoms to be smooth as much as you can, you can pluck the top AND the bottom.
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Monday, February 29, 2016
I didn't watch the Academy Awards last night, but I had seen the movie "Spotlight." It's an inspirational movie that chronicles the efforts of the investigative journalism team by the same name at the Boston Globe that broke the worldwide Catholic priest child-molestation cover-up story. If you haven't seen it, you should.
Earlier this morning I learned that "Spotlight" won the "Best Picture" award at the Academy Awards, much to the disappointment of the bear attack fans. But as one who has dipped his toe into the art of investigative journalism for the past three years as an amateur, I found the appreciation of the film's message reassuring in today's click-through culture. Being an investigative journalist is not only difficult, but also frightening at times, both professionally and personally. As the movie nicely documents, the revelations of corruption can shake closely-held narratives of decency and trust so critical to important societal institutions. The movie also nicely portrays how difficult it is to fact-check, obtain evidence, and clearly document the story to both gain credibility and affect change. Unfortunately, classic investigative journalism has fallen victim to increasingly limited funding and a world with a shorter and shorter information attention span.
I fear the story of the financial cover-up at the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is quickly falling victim to similar pressures. With the exception of one veteran news reporter at Newsweek, Kurt Eichenwald (see here, here, here, and here), few journalists have had the interest, patience, or fortitude to expose the truth of the multi-million dollar US physician specialty Board certification racket. Perhaps, like the thought of priests caught molesting children, the thought a non-practicing physician cartel extorting high fees from their colleagues for their personal and political gain is too uncomfortable to accept. Perhaps it is too hard for patients to believe that board re-certification is not about assuring their safety, but rather for little more than money and power. But for working U.S. physicians who are still strong-armed into paying into the ABMS cartel every ten years just so they can continue to do the job they love, this coercion is all too real.
Last October, I had hoped this story would be different. I was interviewed for over an hour and a half by a reporter from CNBC at my hospital who was investigating the ABMS board certification monopoly. I was told she also interviewed Richard Baron, MD of the ABIM and Lois Nora, MD, JD, of the American Board of Medical Specialties. I spent over an hour in the interview, had a cameraman shoot shots in of my office with its board certificates, and introduced the reporter to one of my patients (with permission given my the patient first) under the watchful eye of my hospital's PR department. "Finally!" I thought.
But the story never aired. I called and inquired. It was an on again, off again affair, buffeted by more compelling stories of the day, I was told. Then, "we've decided to go forward." But now months later, still nothing.
I believe that freedom of the press and careful investigative journalism fills an important role in our society. I still believe the day will come when the truth about the ABIM's actions will be told and thoroughly investigated to end the injustice and waste from the ABMS Board Certification monopoly. Let's hope last night's victory of "Spotlight" as "Best Picture" at the Academy Awards can rekindle main stream media's appreciation for the importance of responsible reporting unencumbered by political and financial pressures.
After all, this isn't Hollywood that we are dealing with, this is real life, real doctors, and real patient care - even yours.
Monday, February 22, 2016
Recently, an email was sent to all Cardiovascular Disease diplomats requesting a review of the American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease Examination "Blueprint" for content on the Cardiovascular Disease Examination. The email was authored by Mariel Jessup, MD, Chair of the Cardiovascular Board and George W. Dec, Jr., MD, Chair, Cardiovascular Board of Cardiovascular Disease Exam Committee (I'm not really sure how these titles differ, but I digress).
The purpose of the "survey" and "blueprint" was to "assure the MOC examination is reflective of CV disease specialists are actually doing today, and we hope you share your perspectives to help get us there." Petitioning cardiovascular disease specialists through "short surveys" so the responses of physicians can be spun by the ABIM as evidence of "buy-in" by the cardiovascular community is a classic and well-recognized political tactic.
Here's my letter I sent to the ABIM Cardiovascular leadership in charge of this endeavor. I encourage my cardiovascular colleagues to send them your thoughts at [email protected] :
18 Feb 2016
Dear Drs. Dec and Jessup-
I received your 11 Feb 2016 email to update the content of the Cardiovascular Disease MOC examination by way of your Blueprint Review Tool. No doubt you have plenty of people who have blindly edited your “Blueprint” without considering why we must perform the ABMS MOC program in the first place. I have no idea if this letter will resonate with you or make you seriously reconsider your support of this endeavor, but I feel compelled to notify you why US physicians are no longer content with the MOC status quo that was imposed unilaterally by the ABIM and their supporting professional organizations in 1990. MOC was a financial model that bailed the ABIM out of a financial hole then and now has created a much bigger set of problems for the ABIM.
As I’m sure you are well aware, there had been no credible, independent, peer-reviewed studies that have shown the ABMS MOC program improves patient outcomes in any way. There are, however, limitless propaganda pieces written by staff at the ABIM about the purported “benefits” of MOC. Tax disclosures have shown serious financial mismanagement and erroneous tax filings by the ABIM. Most of the financial transgressions pertain to the secret creation and funneling of over $70 million of our physician testing fees to the ABIM Foundation from 1989-2007, an organization that was reportedly created to define and publish a self-generated definition of “medical professionalism” that included a “social justice” imperative as one of its prerequisites. Their $2.3 million condominium purchase in December, 2007 didn’t help either. The fact that the cost for MOC has increased $247 percent in the last 15 years (over 16%/yr – far in excess of inflation) with $55 million of physician fees paid annually to the ABIM needs serious reconsideration in this era of astronomical health care costs.
The ABIM is an independent, non-profit corporation that enjoys a tax-exempt status from the federal government as a 501(c)(3) corporation with requirements to be apolitical, but lobbied Congress without disclosure – a violation of rules for non-profit status of that kind. As a 501(c)(3) corporation, the ABIM’s membership is not elected, but rather appointed (as I’m sure you both were). Conflicts of interest with the leadership remain an unaddressed issue with the ABIM and bylaws reflect they continue. One only has to see the conflicts between Christine Cassel, MD and CECity/Premier/Kaiser Health Plan and Hospitals and Robert M. Wachter, MD and IPC Hospitalist Co/TeamHealth (and their ongoing federal investigation on Medicare overbilling) to appreciate how problematic these conflicts have become for the ABIM as a credible organization to practicing physicians and patients.
Furthermore, the ABIM took the unprecedented action to sue 5 physicians and sanction 134 more who were attempting to study for their certification examinations at a board review course in 2009 and then publishing a press release with the five physicians’ names in the Wall Street Journal in 2010 before due process. While the ABIM claimed “Copyright infringement” with their sanctions, none of the five physicians EVER paid a fine for such since all were covered in their actions by merger doctrine. (It’s very hard to copyright general medical knowledge.) With this move and the contract entrapment physicians must endure when they enroll in MOC, trust in the ABIM as a credible physician quality measure has been seriously compromised.
Blueprints don’t restore trust. Credible, trustworthy actions that acknowledge prior wrongs and meaningful efforts to correct them does. Ending the lucrative MOC program and restoring the ABIM to an elected organization with bylaws that remove double-dipping with corporations that stand to benefit from physician certification reporting (see abmssolutions.org, for instance) would go a long way at correcting the current situation. Ending MOC busywork and retracting the failed MOC program and using credible CME to suffice in its stead would also be necessary.
I propose you make these last actions your “Blueprint for Success” for the ABMS Cardiovascular Disease MOC program. Anything else will fail to restore the trust of practicing cardiologists and is doomed to fail.
I wish you both the best of luck.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
I ask my readers to indulge me as I provide some background about the strongman tactics used by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) to protect their board certification monopoly.
It started with a press release sent by the ABIM dated 9 June 2010, resulting in a story by Katherine Hobson making national headlines in the Wall Street Journal entitled "Medical Board Says MDs Cheated." Ms. Hobson also cross-posted her story on the Wall Street Journal's Health Care blog which she helped moderate at the time.
With this article, the public learned that five physicians, Monica Mukherjee of Washington, D.C.; Anastassia Todor of Aurora, CO.; Pedam Salehi of Los Angeles, CA; Sarah Von Muller of Tulsa, OK and Frederick Oni of Warner Robins, GA were sued by the ABIM "for what it deemed were ethical breaches involving the disclosure of test questions—which aren't supposed to be repeated, copied or reproduced." Another 134 physicians were "sanctioned" by having their Board certification revoked for at least a year, and thousands more were sent "letters of reprimand." Labeled as an "unprecedented action," the sanctions were "immediate" and resulted in the revocation of these physicians' Board certification for at least a year or more without trial. Hiding behind the legalistic "Pledge of Honesty" that physicians have no choice but to sign when they enroll in the ABIM certification program, Dr. Christine Cassel, president and chief executive of the ABIM at the time, called the sanctions "a message and a deterrent."
It's was also an unprecedented strongman tactic by a self-appointed and unaccountable non-profit corporation. Should the entire unaccountable American Board of Medical Specialties and their 24-member boards be allowed to intimidate, threaten, and professionally destroy physicians to protect their financial stranglehold on their own version of professional certification?
To those in their isolated executive perches, it seems they feel they can. And so, the story does not end there.
Using undisclosed methods and personnel, it seems the ABIM traced emails from a computer seized from Arora Board Review to a physician in Puerto Rico four years later. In a letter dated May 8, 2012, from Ms. Lynn Landon, Chief Operating Officer of the ABIM, Jaime Antonio Salas-Rushford, MD, was accused of sharing board review questions with the Arora Board Review course. On the sidebar of that letter were other names: Chair Catherine R Lucey, MD, Chair-Elect Robert M Wachter, MD, Secretary-Treasurer Talmadge E King, MD, President and CEO Christine Cassel, MD, Chief Information Officer John K Davis II, MBA, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Eric S. Holmboe, MD among others. With only 10 days notice, the ABIM imposed its harshest penalty: to "indefinitely revoke" Dr. Salas Rushford's Board certification and "notify the Medical Board in every jurisdiction you are licensed." The ABIM then sued Dr. Salas-Rushford for alleged Copyright infringement.
What the ABIM had not anticipated is that Dr. Salas-Rushford's parents are lawyers and they countersued the ABIM. Currently, the case has moved from Puerto Rico back to New Jersey and continues in its discovery phase. Lawyers from one of the largest law firms in Philadelphia, Ballard Spahr LLP, are representing the ABIM - all paid for by millions of dollars of practicing physician testing fees.
As you can imagine, the legal fees for Dr. Salas-Rushford's defense are significant. Last evening, a website (doctorsjustice.com) went live to help crowdsource Dr. Salas-Rushford's legal costs. The website contains more about Dr. Salas-Rushford and copies of documents important to his case (including the Langdon letter and the ABIM's final sanction determination). I encourage everyone to review his information carefully.
Dr. Salas-Rushford's suit against the ABIM promises to shine a very bright light on the practices of the ABIM whether his case is upheld or not. For that reason, I encourage all practicing physicians, irrespective of specialty, to donate in whatever way you can - $5 or $500 - to his legal fund. You can also help by sharing his website and encouraging others to do the same.
It's time for practicing physicians everywhere to hold the ABIM accountable.
Friday, February 12, 2016
We’re in the midst of a rebellion. The bottom and middle are pushing against the top. It’s a throwing off of old claims and it’s been going on for a while, but we’re seeing it more sharply after New Hampshire. This is not politics as usual, which by its nature is full of surprise. There’s something deep, suggestive, even epochal about what’s happening now.
Physicians, too, are rebelling against the established sheltered and elite institutions of the House of Medicine: the ACGME. I can see it. I feel it.
I mention this to say we are in a precarious position in the U.S. with so many of our institutions going down. Many of those pushing against the system have no idea how precarious it is or what they will be destroying. Those defending it don’t know how precarious its position is or even what they’re defending, or why. But people lose respect for a reason.
So true. Greed does this to people. So does money.
It will be interesting to see where things land but one thing is for certain, the staid bureaucratic institutions within the House of Medicine are in trouble and they brought this on themselves.
Monday, February 08, 2016
It's been over a year since you told us your now famous mea culpa message that said you "got it wrong" with your Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
And yet the program still continues despite everything your colleagues have disclosed about this travesty to our medical profession.
Let's review what you've done instead:
You've suspended (temporarily to the end of 2018 when MACRA blossoms forth) Part 4 of the MOC program with its Practice Improvement Modules and Patient Safety and "Voice" sections because you were caught red-handed performing research on physicians for your own gain.
You've finally stopped making residents pay for "maintaining" their certification before they even sat for their first certification examination.
You also stopped requiring that physicians subject themselves to a "double jeopardy" situation where those with more than one Board certification had two pass BOTH examinations to maintain each one of their certifications.
You also made sure you took down the comment section on your blog. So much for transparency and a sense that you really cared what your practicing colleagues thought about your program.
And now, according to Stephen Weinberg, MD at the American College of Physicians in a recent email to ACP members, you've been "addressing any factors that might be contributing to the relatively high failure rates" by "making changes to the most recent internal medicine MOC examination administered in October" and "changing the process" for setting the pass rate cut-off resulted in ABIM reporting "a notably higher pass rate for the 2015 Internal Medicine MOC examinations." It seems those declining pass rates that you dismissed in your Medscape interview were getting lower after all.
But what STILL hasn't happened more than a FULL YEAR later is tell us about all about the money and the secret deals.
You haven't explained why you funneled over $70 million of our testing fees from the ABIM to your secretly-created ABIM Foundation.
You haven't explained why you paid Christine Cassel, MD a whopping $8.9 million from May, 2003 through 30 June 2013 and allowed her to earn another $1.9 million from Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals and $230,000 in cash and stock from Premier Inc while she was supposedly working full time at the ABIM. And why on earth did Ms. Langdon - a non-physician administrator - deserve a bonus of over $297,646 in fiscal year 2012? Was it because of all those sanction letters she sent out to physicians acusing them of cheating?
You haven't explained why cash-flush ABIM Foundation had to purchase a $2.3 million luxury condominium complete with a chauffeur-driven Mercedes S-Class town car. Was it really as an "investment" or was this another perk for Ms. Cassel as she and her husband flitted back and forth from Philadelphia to their home in Arizona?
You also haven't disclosed how test and physician demographic and practice data, paired with your unproven re-certification metric, are being sold to the likes of CECity Premier, Inc and others for political and personal favors.
It is now clear to practicing physicians everywhere that you can't let go. That's what happens to people who have an addiction problem. Given these and prior actions it is clear you have an addiction. You are addicted to spending other people's money. And we understand that when an addict is caught with their hand in the cookie jar, they get creative with new ways to support their habits and obsessions. They change the rules. They make fellow doctors co-dependents. They make others feel guilty for not playing the game and not paying in. They even result to strongman tactics with threats of revocation of board status and using threats of Copyright infringment to protect the money flow.
Anyone who has ever had a loved one caught in this viscous addiction cycle understands. This is what the hostile-dependent relationship with an addict looks like: untrusting, two-faced, dysfunctional, love-you-one-minute-then-stab-you-in-the-back, sneaky.
Previous attempts by the ABIM to mount programs of voluntary recertification for non-time-limited certificate holders had met with only limited and declining interest. Over four exams, only 8621 candidates were issued since 1974. The last of these efforts, the Advanced Achievement in Internal Medicine exam given in May 1987 attracted only 1403 registrants from an estimated pool of over 40,000 eligible certified internists despite extensive marketing efforts by the Board. Thus, the stage was set for the Board to embark on an era in which diplomats would be asked, but not required, to renew the validity of their certificates at periodic intervals or face the uncertain consequences of loss of their status as certified internists, subspecialists, or holders of certificates of added qualification." (emphasis mine)
Back then as it is now, the ABMS/ABIM MOC participation was born upon a strongman/boss approach, not on proof of its value to patients or our profession.
But there's still time. You can start your 12-step process, but first, you must admit you have a problem. Committing to an $85 million lease through October 2040 and shaking down your fellow physicians for your extravagent ways is part of the problem. But you know and I know there's even more behind the scenes. You really don't want us to tell the rest of the story and all of the sneaky and disturbing ways you secured your monopoly. This story is very messy, Gruber-esc, indeed. It will take bravery and resolve, but you can do it.
Here's how.
I would suggest you come clean. Stop trying to clean up your horrible MOC mess. Change your bylaws to one that supports working physicians, rather than yourselves and your "stakeholders." Insist that ALL financial and political efforts be disclosed - that's right: ALL of them - including all of your leadership and directors' securities deals and consulting arrangements. Disclose all of the fees that flow between professional societies, medical journals, and other members of the ACGME hierarchy as well. Dissolve the Foundation and return the money to those who funded it: practicing physicians. Make certification free for the next ten years (the same amount of time you (quite literally) stole from us for your political agenda). And stop insisting that MOC can be improved when it's clearly little more than a corrupt, dysfunctional, and untrustworthy self-created credential for your income stream. MOC (and all the sickening and non-transparent permutations that keep getting created) needs to end completely.
Because here's a secret: clinical doctors won't participate in this program without these actions to dissolve MOC, no matter how much pressure you and your cronies apply.
About Me
Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC is a board certified internist, cardiologist, and cardiac electrophysiologist (doctor specializing in heart rhythm disorders) practicing at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, IL, USA and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. He entered the blog-o-sphere in November, 2005.
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Easter 2014 yoga and meditation retreat with David Muehsam
Summary of Easter 2014 yoga and meditation retreat
This Easter 2014 retreat consists of an inviting and uplifting timetable over the week of
classes by very experienced yoga and meditation teacher David Muehsam
introduction to meditation and deepening of your practice
breathing practices and breath awareness
Vinyasa yoga classes
Restorative yoga classes
delicious vegetarian meals
comfortable accommodation at the centre
guided outings each day by an experienced guide
sample local cuisine at the best local restaurants or cafes
enjoy meeting like minded people in this relaxed friendly environment
Refresh and rejuvenateon this stress free Easter retreat of energizing yoga, calming meditation, relaxing restorative classes, amazing vegetarian food, and outdoor walks in the hills and by the sea.
An ideal week to let go of the stresses and strains of everyday life and to let go into a very peaceful and tranquil environment with a gifted teacher and share some time with like minded people.
Who this Easter yoga and meditation retreat is suitable for
This Easter 2014 week long retreat is suitable for all ages and all levels of fitness, but will also challenge each person to work with the postures to their own ability.
David is a very experienced yoga teacher and the maximum size of the group will be 15 retreat participants. David will give you modifications for the postures to suit your body and your level of fitness so this retreat is suitable for everybody including complete beginners to advanced.
David is a one of a handful of teachers worldwide to be given authorisation directly from Pattabhi Jois, (Guru of Ashtanga Yoga ).
He has tremendous experience and is widely regarded as one of the best yoga teachers to visit Ireland.
David is an extremely highly qualified yoga teacher with a huge background in Iyengar and Ashtanga and he deepens the practice by including many inner techniques of Swami Satyananda Saraswati.
Arrival on Friday 18th April 2014
Time
Activity
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Arrival & Registration
7:00 pm
Dinner
8:00 – 8:30 pm
Karma Yoga
9:00 pm
Introduction to the retreat
9:15 – 10:00 pm
Breathwork and relaxation
Typical daily timetable
Time
Activity
7:30 – 8:30 am
Pranayama and Meditation including intro for beginners
8:30 – 10:15 am
Asana yoga class
10:15 am
Breakfast
10:45 am
Karma yoga
11:30 – 2:00 pm
Outdoor trip into the Burren
2:00 pm
Lunch at local restaurant or cafe
4:00 pm
Approx return to centre
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Free Time
7:00 pm
Dinner
7:45 – 8:15 pm
Karma yoga
8:00 – 9:00 pm
Free time
9:00 – 9:45 pm
Evening Practice
Every second day additional class
As well as the usual classes on the Typical Day’s timetable, we will have the additional afternoon class.
Time
Activity
5:00 – 6:30 pm
Asana yoga class
Close of Easter retreat on Thursday 24th April 2014
Time
Activity
7:30 – 8:30 am
Meditation including intro for beginners
8:30 – 10:15 am
Satyananda yoga class
10:15 am
Breakfast
10:45 am
Karma yoga
11:15 am
Pack bags and farewells
12:00 noon
Depart
Instructor Bio David Muehsam
David Muehsam is an amazing yoga teacher. He has a breadth and a depth to his yoga experience like few other yoga teachers in the world.
Although he has practised very advanced physical practices himself, he can make his teaching so flexible that the oldest complete beginner in the class and the young fit yoga enthusiast with many years of practice will each find themselves practising at their own levels, each expanding their own boundaries and each learning to become present and at peace with themselves…. all in a loving, enjoyable and fun way.
David is a one of a handful of teachers worldwide to be given authorisation directly from Pattabhi Jois, (Guru of Ashtanga Yoga ).
He has tremendous experience and is widely regarded as one of the best yoga teachers to visit Ireland.
David is an extremely highly qualified yoga teacher with a huge background in Iyengar and Ashtanga and he deepens the practice by including many inner techniques of Swami Satyananda Saraswati.
Part of David’s philosophy is that a teacher should not plan exactly what to teach each student, until the teacher meets each student individually and see what is appropriate for that person at that particular time.
David Muehsam is one of the most gifted yoga and meditation teachers that i have studied with. He is able to teach a class to complete beginners some who may have a bad back, and quite fit intermediate practitioners and a handful of yoga teachers in the same class…. and each have adjustments and variations of the postures and other practices tailored especially for themselves….. Dave, Burren Yoga
Description of Easter 2014 Yoga retreat
There is a depth and also a lightness to David’s teaching where he will teach you the techniques to tune inwards and also to work in a challenging way with your physical but in a enjoyable light approach.
Who is this Easter week long retreat is suitable for
This Easter 2014 week long eco yoga retreat is suitable for all ages and all levels of fitness, but will also challenge each person to work with the postures to their own ability.
David is a very experienced yoga teacher and the maximum size of the group will be 15 retreat participants. David will give you modifications for the postures to suit your body and your level of fitness so this retreat is suitable for everybody including complete beginners to advanced.
Don’t worry…. just because David is very accomplished in his practice, he still keeps his workshops open to people not so proficient.
So you won’t have to do the postures in the photos below …. unless you really want to 😉
Having said that, if you are a well practiced Ashtangi or Iyengar practitioner, this is an unusual opportunity to work with a very experienced teacher who will take you deeper into your practice in an advanced way.
David is a one of a handful of teachers worldwide to be given authorisation directly from Pattabhi Jois, (Guru of Ashtanga Yoga ).
He has tremendous experience and is widely regarded as one of the best yoga teachers to visit Ireland.
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For those who are more accomplished, David will help them develop and expand their physical practice while guiding them deeply inwards using more subtle techniques to get in touch with internal energies.
For people with only a little yoga experience David will gently guide them at a level suitable for their bodies and limitations.
David includes breathing techniques (pranayama) and the hand gestures (mudras) which help direct the internal energy.
More advanced practitioners will receive individual guidance from David suitable to their level of practice.
This course is for people who wish to work with their physical body and who wish to deepen their internal work through pranayama, mudra and bandha.
As usual on our eco yoga retreats, each day Dave will take the group out on a guided outing into the Burren hills or by the sea. This is a great way to get to see some special places in the Burren well away from the usual tourist places.
Followed by lunch at one of the local restaurants or cafes which is a great way to sample the best of the locale cuisine in the Burren.
A very big part of our eco yoga retreats are the daily guided outings, and these can include hill walks, walks by the sea, boat trips to see the Cliffs of Moher or the Aran Islands, surfing, kayaking and much more.
There is a full timetable of activities each day and most people come along as it is such good fun being with the group on our outdoor adventures.
However if you wish to take some time on your own, you are very welcome to stay at the yoga centre and put your feet up, while the rest of the group heads off on their outdoor adventure.
Easter Eco Yoga Retreat on the west coast of Ireland
On this Easter retreat we will practice with an eye towards deepening the experience of yoga, finding a personal relationship with the practices of yoga.
We’ll do full practices of yoga postures, and develop the pranayama exercises with an eye towards tailoring these practices towards each individual’s needs and experience. We will have pranayama and meditation each morning before the asana practice.
As we practice, we will explore the internal processes of bandha, and the natural balance of energy that comes when the postures and breath work together in harmony. Drawing on the Ashtanga and Iyengar systems as a starting point, we will explore the variations in techniques and sequence that lead each of us to creating a truly personal practice that is safe, fulfilling and fun.
We will see that the bandha is the place where the body meets the breath, or the material meets the Spirit, and practice ways of experiencing and using the bandhas from the perspective of Vinyasa or breath/movement, and internal action in each posture, or asana techniques.
We will also take the opportunity to explore the world of mudras, both in terms of the literal practice of mudras in yoga, and metaphorically, through the poses and practices of yoga. When practiced mindfully, the poses themselves become mudras, opening like flowers that allow the heart and mind to settle into the natural unfolding through yoga.
We will run several of the afternoon classes as workshops, practicing aspects of yoga such as the breath and bandhas, back bending, inversions, etc, in more detail, with a goal towards applying this information right away in our practices.
For accomplished practitioners, this workshop will be an opportunity to deepen one’s practice, with guidance for progressing into more advanced postures and sequences.
For less experienced students, this week will offer the opportunity to develop as sound foundation for future practice, understand the principle of Hatha Yoga more clearly, and deepen one’s ability to do sustained self-practice.
Each evening Paddi who used to run Seventh Heaven restaurant for over 12 years, prepares a delicious vegetarian dinner and many people have said they have not eaten vegetarian food as good as this at any restaurant.
This Easter eco yoga retreat with the gifted David Muehsam and guided outings each day to see special places in the Burren is a great way to step out of your everyday life, leave all your cares behind and step into another world of uplifting and positive experiences.
It’s a great way to meet like minded people, as most people come on their own, and there is a very relaxed and easy going atmosphere and plenty of fun and laughing 😉
It’s also a great opportunity for anybody of all ages and all levels of fitness, to learn from a talented teacher techniques to improve your physical yoga practice and also practices in order to get in touch with your Self. | {
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My religion videos are comedies. I am not a Christian. Through the medium of humor, I try to challenge people to question their beliefs and assumptions so that collectively, we can find ways to accept the world "as is" — that personal purpose and meaning from beyond are *not* behind every event, as many wish were the case. In the 21st century, reasonable, realistic, intelligent people admit that chance is chance, life is finite, and some things are simply unknown. Others feel the need to pump each other up with heartwarming stories that promise comprehensive answers and eternal life...provided you do as you're told.
Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
My religion videos are comedies. I am not a Christian. Through the medium of humor, I try to challenge people to question their beliefs and assumptions so that collectively, we can find ways to accept the world "as is" — that personal purpose and meaning from beyond are *not* behind every event, as many wish were the case. In the 21st century, reasonable, realistic, intelligent people admit that chance is chance, life is finite, and some things are simply unknown. Others feel the need to pump each other up with heartwarming stories that promise comprehensive answers and eternal life...provided you do as you're told.
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Re: Oil, disproving evilution! -
07-27-2011, 03:54 PM
I'm not sure that the animals die. I think they just play in the oil, maybe the oil has minerals that are good for their health. So they surely don't do that evolution thing because creationism is right, but they don't die. Its like elephants bathing in dirt and the dirt helps against the sun. Some people do oil on their skin, too. They say it is a sun-protection.
I'm not sure that the animals die. I think they just play in the oil, maybe the oil has minerals that are good for their health. So they surely don't do that evolution thing because creationism is right, but they don't die. Its like elephants bathing in dirt and the dirt helps against the sun. Some people do oil on their skin, too. They say it is a sun-protection.
I thought of that as well, brother Titus, so I tested it myself. I used my daughter's remaining guinea pigs (the ones that survived from tests with liquid nitrogen) to see if they evolve any better than wildlife. Other one I held under the surface in bucket filled with oil, another I just left to paddle in the oil. The one held under the oil died quite a lot faster than one left on surface. Eventually, it died as well, only slower.
I examined both very closely, but I saw absolutely no signs of any improved skin condition or oil breathing gills. Absolutely no evilution happened.
A short run-down of what Evolution is. (This is not to prove evolution, since that is impossible, but to state what it really is)
Variation:
A group (or population if you like) must have individuals with different abilities, and a mechanism for adding new variation. (Random changes in the genome of an individual - Mutation)
Reproduction/Heredity:
The individuals must be able to reproduce, and the new abilities must be hereditary. Two variations can only change into a third via reproduction.
Selection:
The individuals inherited abilities must affect the individuals ability to reproduce, by survival (being able to get food easier, like better eyes, or more muscle mass, or perhaps being more heat-resistant) The changes are incredible subtle from generation to generation, but if you see a picture of a coyote in year 20.000 BC, and then see it today, the changes will be more obvious.
All in all: Something changes, if that change is bad, the ability will probably not be passed on, due to death. If it is good, and gets passed on, it will then be inherited by future generations.
The fact that oddors die because of oil on some coast is not proof that evolution is false.
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Re: Oil, disproving evilution! -
07-27-2011, 04:26 PM
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I thought of that as well, brother Titus, so I tested it myself. I used my daughter's remaining guinea pigs (the ones that survived from tests with liquid nitrogen) to see if they evolve any better than wildlife. Other one I held under the surface in bucket filled with oil, another I just left to paddle in the oil. The one held under the oil died quite a lot faster than one left on surface. Eventually, it died as well, only slower.
I examined both very closely, but I saw absolutely no signs of any improved skin condition or oil breathing gills. Absolutely no evilution happened.
Could you please phone me the next time you do such an experiment?
It would be awesome to be a part of it. My wife has a small budgie and we could take him for another experiment.
but if you see a picture of a coyote in year 20.000 BC, and then see it today, the changes will be more obvious.
I know that many animals were somewhat different pre-flood (like kangarosaurus) but I have never heard pre-universe coyote used as evidence.
As universe is around 6000 years old, give or take few years, idea of 22 000 years old coyote is quite hilarious.
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Could you please phone me the next time you do such an experiment?
It would be awesome to be a part of it. My wife has a small budgie and we could take him for another experiment.
Well Of course, birds could provide whole new evidence against evilution.
We could for example see if wingspan evolves in anyway, if bird is put to flight in carbon monoxide.
A short run-down of what Evolution is. (This is not to prove evolution, since that is impossible, but to state what it really is)
Variation:
A group (or population if you like) must have individuals with different abilities, and a mechanism for adding new variation. (Random changes in the genome of an individual - Mutation)
Reproduction/Heredity:
The individuals must be ableto reproduce, and the new abilities must be hereditary. Two variationscan only change into a third via reproduction.
Selection:
The individuals inherited abilities must affect the individuals ability to reproduce, by survival (being able to get food easier, like better eyes, or more muscle mass, or perhaps being more heat-resistant) The changes are incredible subtle from generation to generation, but if you see a picture of a coyote in year 20.000 BC, and then see it today, the changes will be more obvious.
All in all: Something changes, if that change is bad, the ability will probably not be passed on, due to death. If it is good, and gets passed on, it will then be inherited by future generations.
The fact that oddors die because of oil on some coast is not proof that evolution is false.
Wow - and you call us dogmatic, with all the prescriptive "must have", "must be", "can only" and the "is bad", "is good" teleological undertones? I had no idea evolution rested on so many assumptions.
I still had this Dawkins guy ringing in my ear with his simplistic: "Life results from the nonrandom survival of randomly varying replicators" - but I guess I didn't understand how many unfounded assumptions Evolution made, until you came along. Thank you for increasing my faith!
But as far as I can follow you, you are trying to make a case for how change can occur and how small change over time (although you have your timing off - the world was created 6000 years ago!) can accumulate.
Mark 11: 12-14: "And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever." You cannot hide from JESUS' wrath behind natural laws! Gravity is only a theory and will not prevent the rapture!
I have had, ridden/driven/flown all sorts of machines. Other than bing in Church, nothing is better bonding time than spending time with some of your sons out in the shop, working on the old GT40, P-51 or the classic Whale tail. Now, we have suffered a few engine failures, mostly due to simple old age though a few were caused by demons. We would often cut open the oil filters to discern the cause of the failure. And do you know what? Not once, not a single time did we find a 'dinosaur' bone in there. Or any animal bone or eyeballs for that matter. And do not try and tell me they dissolved. I have tried dissolving bones, using all kinds of acids, it is difficult if not impossible. Even when you burn a person up using a plasma torch, you get dust, not oil. And I never found any dust in my oil filters. I have squeezed quite a few animals in my life and not a single drop of oil came out. A lot of blood and entails, bit no oil. And if oil in the ground came from animals, then were did water in the ground come from? Wet animals? The facts here are that God puts it in the ground for us. Wells go dry when He feels we have taken enough. If you check, most dry wells are not owned by Christians. My daddy has a few oil wells, (not many six I think). They have been pumping steadily since I was in infant and still do so today.
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Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
I'm sorry to break it to you, but you have some faults in your reasoning:
1.Evolution states that minor changer in the environment provoke even more minor changes to the organisms that live in it. It also doesn't state that EVERY organism adapt to the changes. In fact, most of them can't adapt and just die off. And that's with a minor change. The oil spill is very VERY toxic to almost every organism and it happened in a very short time, increasing the concentration of oil from practically 0% to be swimming literally in oil, effectively wiping out every non-adapted life form.
2.Various strains of oil-resistant bacteria have been found on those water over the past few months, and studying their evolution, you can clearly see how their population has risen sky-high with their oil resistance and their ability to synthesize oil derived substances for their own profit.
I'm sorry to break it to you, but you have some faults in your reasoning:
1.Evolution states that minor changer in the environment provoke even more minor changes to the organisms that live in it. It also doesn't state that EVERY organism adapt to the changes. In fact, most of them can't adapt and just die off. And that's with a minor change. The oil spill is very VERY toxic to almost every organism and it happened in a very short time, increasing the concentration of oil from practically 0% to be swimming literally in oil, effectively wiping out every non-adapted life form.
2.Various strains of oil-resistant bacteria have been found on those water over the past few months, and studying their evolution, you can clearly see how their population has risen sky-high with their oil resistance and their ability to synthesize oil derived substances for their own profit.
When you seek worldly knowledge and believe the lies and "theories" of those who choose to rebel against their Creator rather than simply accepting His kind offer of Redemption, you are damning yourself to eternal hellfire.
I Timothy 6:20-21
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
If you are interested in a serious inquiry into why the world works the way it does, I suggest reading some of the material put out by my colleagues at the Institution for Creation Research.
II Thessalonians 1:7-9And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power
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I'm sorry to break it to you, but you have some faults in your reasoning:
1.Evolution states that minor changer in the environment provoke even more minor changes to the organisms that live in it. It also doesn't state that EVERY organism adapt to the changes. In fact, most of them can't adapt and just die off. And that's with a minor change. The oil spill is very VERY toxic to almost every organism and it happened in a very short time, increasing the concentration of oil from practically 0% to be swimming literally in oil, effectively wiping out every non-adapted life form.
2.Various strains of oil-resistant bacteria have been found on those water over the past few months, and studying their evolution, you can clearly see how their population has risen sky-high with their oil resistance and their ability to synthesize oil derived substances for their own profit.
Let use the Occam Razor on the above case: (allegedly) a vast majority of specimen perished due to the spill - except few ones. In which way would that support the theory of Evolution? How much this story differs from the Biblical account on the Flood? Even IF there would be any coincidence, would it necessary mean the consequence? What happened with causality - (allegedly) a basic assumption of science – in this case?
The Evolution devotees flaunt with a bunch of “empirical data”, alas without any certainty; devout Christians don’t need “empirical data” to be certain; we have the inerrant KJV.1611 Bible as the proof.
YiC
Dan
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I never said it supported evolution, and if I did, please quote that part verbatim. The only part where I say evolution on the second point, I'm referring to how they've studied their population growth over a few weeks. The only point I wanted to make was that a random event like this can have consequences down the line, consequences that aren't necessarily caused directly by God. (In this case, the consequences being a severe decrease in several populations over the affected area for a given length of time). And please, stop giving me infraction, I'm not saying God doesn't exist or anything, reporting me unto oblivion is, besides cowardly, only showing that you can't rebate my arguments.
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Re: Oil, disproving evilution! -
08-06-2011, 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by drkztan
I never said it supported evolution, and if I did, please quote that part verbatim. The only part where I say evolution on the second point, I'm referring to how they've studied their population growth over a few weeks. The only point I wanted to make was that a random event like this can have consequences down the line, consequences that aren't necessarily caused directly by God. (In this case, the consequences being a severe decrease in several populations over the affected area for a given length of time). And please, stop giving me infraction, I'm not saying God doesn't exist or anything, reporting me unto oblivion is, besides cowardly, only showing that you can't rebate my arguments.
Your logic and reason are irrelevant.
The Bible doesn't present a case, or an argument. It just makes bald assertions about the historicity of miraculous and otherwise extraordinary events. It is to be believed on faith, on pain of eternal punishment, not due to reasons or facts. So everything you are saying is irrelevant. If you can't follow this then you are too stupid for Salvation™. | {
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Continuing in the family tradition of a passion for the arts, the Goldman family aspires to introduce new and emerging artists throughout many of their business endeavors. Through existing relationships and continual research within the arts community, the Goldman family has not only given established artists a new platform but has also spirited the career of many a young star.
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AVAF Brazil
AVAF is both the alias of Brazilian- born New York based Artist Eli Sudbrack and the name of an international group of visual performance artists with French Multimedia artist Christophe Hamaide Pierson.
Avaf ‘s work includes painting, drawing, photography, film and digital technology.
Avaf is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Center.
b. Greece
Influenced by supermarkets, TV advertisements, huge toy stores and the architecture of shopping, b.'s work illustrates his belief in humanity and their ability to always make a pattern of random things through the choices we make - and that this combination of random and informed patterns actually create the world we live in.
Trained in and working not only as an artist, but also an architect and graphic designer, b continually and through many mediums is always making his "b world."
Interesni Kaski Ukraine
Aleksei Bordusov and Wladimir Manzhos are precursors of graffiti in Eastern Europe. Both are from Kiev, Ukraine . Their art has evolved over the years and as their continued passion for art developed they joined under the name Interesni Kazki (translated to Interesting Tale). With this union they wanted to detach from traditional codes of graffiti and to be distinguished by excluding the graffiti lettering in their paintings to represent the fantastic and surreal characters of their stories.
All of their paintings represent the imagery of fairy tales, magic, space, mysticism, and science. This world of animated objects, symbols and magical characters is “a universal image of the universe” that refuses the ordinary. Through this paradoxical world, Interesni Kazki want to represent reality as they see it and allow the viewer to discover their own reality. Interesni Kazki takes us into the world of harmony and inspiration.
Christian Awe Germany
Christian Awe's career began on the streets of Berlin in the early 90's as a graffiti writer but since then his work has transitioned through multiple spheres and planes to encompass media ranging from street writing to calligraphy, design to architecture and finally painting.
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Gaia New York, USA
Gaia chose his name because of his concern with humanity’s relationship to Nature.
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Neuzz Mexico
Miguel Angel Mejia Jimenez is an illustrator and painter, graduated from the Universidad del Valle de Mexico with a degree in Graphic Design. Neuzz is the name by which he is known for his street projects. His work has been exhibited in Mexico, Spain, Germany and England as well as publications worldwide.
Neuzz’s work is described as a deconstructive fusion of influences from retro aesthetic, reminiscent of pre-Columbian graphics with a note of contemporary culture.
His work receives direction from a variety of sources: from Goya to Donald Duck, Charles Burns to The Twilight Zone.
The work of Neuzz and his characters tell stories of the past while connecting them to the present and even the future.
Stelios Faitakis Greece
Stelios Faitakis succeeds in creating a unique visual language with obvious references from Byzantine iconography, Cretan folk painting, Mexican muralism and Japanese as well as Asian Art. Elements from the shadow theater of Greece and Java are also traced in the work along with a relation to great painters of the past like Flemish Pieter Bruegel and HansMemling and German Albrecht Durer.
Stelios manages to combine the Eastern tradition with the Western culture in a personal, immediately recognizable visual code.
His work was most recently featured and highly praised at the Venice Biennale
ROA Belgium
ROA’s work has been turning heads internationally for bringing birds, rodents and other animals back into consciousness in the areas they once inhabited. Usually painted on an impressively large scale—covering walls in cities including London, Warsaw, Madrid, Berlin, New York, Moscow, Los Angeles and Mexico City—these animals are anachronic to the urban streets and abandoned factories that they reside in. For the artist, they tell so much more about the world than any other imaginary being could.
The artist was first introduced to spray paint via Subway Art and hip hop, and his evolution from graffiti to using spray cans to draw on walls is also remarkable. ROA’s dominion over sketching with lines on a grand scale, and his ability to create realistic feathered or furry figures on all kinds of surfaces using only black and white paint, make his work standout.
Vhils Portugal
Vhils is the tag name of the Portuguese street artist Alexandre Farto.
He gained prominence when his work of a face carved into a wall appeared alongside a picture by Street artist Banksy at the Cans Festival in London.
The extraordinary work of Vhils is expressed through the use of a jack hammer instead of a paint brush or a spray can. The chipping away of concrete to create masterful portraits is what makes this artist one to watch.
Ryan McGinness Virginia, USA
Ryan McGinness grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia.
He is known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings, which use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography.
McGinness creates paintings, sculptures and environments. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Cincinnati Art Museum and the Misumi Collection in Japan. | {
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OK, so hit me, I confess, I am a romantic. This is my kind of kitchen. Simple yet elegant. Lots of natural materials such as stone, wood & clay (ceramics) etc, mixed with arts & crafts and hand forged nails. Plus a few designer's items thrown in for comfortable living.
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In 2008, 23.5 % of deaths were accounted for CHD in The US.
About 7.35 Lakhs Americans have a heart attack each year as reported by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),.
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The human fist and the human heart muscle are of the same size. A human heart pumps the blood to the lungs, where it collects oxygen. The oxygen-rich blood is then pumped back to the heart and which is then pumped to organs throughout the body through arteries.
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Dream Horse is a dress-up game with a unique extra step. The game begins with your new horse walking calmly home with you. You can watch him walk for a while as the scenery passes by if you need to calm down from something that's got you upset. He's pretty.
Once you decide you've watched him walk far enough, click the arrow on the lower right to lead him into your barn and get him ready to be brushed down. Apparently, it started to rain just as you arrived, because the horse is dry and there's clearly a storm happening outside the window.
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How to Make a Pie Crust
Pie is an iconic American dessert, and there are few kitchen projects as rewarding as baking one. The best pies start with a flaky homemade crust, which is a lot easier to make than some people fear. Just make sure your butter (or lard or shortening or some combination of fat) is very cold, and don’t overwork the dough. Here is a guide on how to make the most basic pie crust, along with three different ways to do a top crust, and a recipe for crumble topping, too. Then go off and explore our pie recipes — any filling can be paired with this crust, which is yet another reason to master it.
Before you start
Your butter must be cold; even frozen butter works as long as you cut it into cubes before freezing.
Be sure to factor in at least one hour to let your dough chill before rolling it out.
Basic Pie Dough
TimeAbout 1 hour, plus at least 1 hour chilling
Yield1 pie crust
Ingredients
1 ¼cups all-purpose flour (150 grams)
¼teaspoon fine sea salt
10tablespoons unsalted butter, cold and cut into cubes
2 to 4tablespoons ice water, as needed
Preparation
In a food processor, pulse together the flour and salt. Add butter and pulse until the mixture forms lima bean-size pieces. Slowly add ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time, and pulse until the dough just comes together. It should be moist, but not wet.
Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and gather into a ball. Flatten into a disk with the heel of your hand. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour and up to 2 days.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to a 12-inch circle. Transfer crust to a 9-inch pie plate. Fold over any excess dough, then crimp edges. Prick crust all over with a fork, then chill crust for 30 minutes.
Your crust is ready to blind bake if you choose to do so (see an explanation of blind baking and step-by-step photos). To blind bake, heat oven to 425 degrees. Line chilled crust with parchment paper or aluminum foil and fill with pie weights or dried beans. Bake for 15 minutes; remove foil and weights and bake until pale golden, 5 to 7 minutes more. Cool on rack until needed, then fill however you’d like. If you choose not to blind bake, then simply fill your crust when it emerges from the refrigerator and proceed.
Note
If you intend to make a pie with a top crust — whether it’s a whole top crust, a lattice or a crust made with dough cutouts — double the ingredient amounts in this recipe. Then, in step 2, divide the dough in half and shape into two disks. Roll out one disk as directed for the bottom crust, reserving the other disk in the refrigerator until it is time to roll out the top crust. (See step-by-step instructions for making different kinds of top crusts.)
Technique: Rolling out the dough
Lightly dust your counter with flour as you roll out the dough. But don’t overdo it. Too much flour all at once makes a tough crust.
Move the dough around as you roll so you don’t roll it irretrievably into the counter.
If your rolled dough doesn’t end up in a neat circle, you can trim it, and use the trimmings to patch up any rips, holes or bald spots.
Instead of rolling your dough out on a floured counter, you can roll the dough out between two sheets of parchment paper or plastic wrap. No flour required.
Technique: Crimping pie dough
For the best-looking crimped crust, freeze the unbaked pie dough before filling and baking (or blind baking). The colder your dough when you get it into the oven, the better it holds its shape.
If crimping seems like too much trouble, just trim the crust flush with the edges of the pan and press the tines of a fork into the dough all the way around the pie’s edge. Make a crisscross pattern if you want to be fancy.
As you're crimping, pull the dough outward a little bit, just past the edge of the pan. It will shrink back as it bakes.
Blind Baking
Blind baking means partially baking a pie crust before you add the filling, which helps keep the crust crunchy. After the filling is added, you return the pie to the oven to finish baking. You can blind bake the dough for any pie recipe, but it’s particularly good for custard pies (like pumpkin and pecan) that are prone to sogginess. Blind baking can be done up to 24 hours before filling. Cover the crust loosely with a dish towel and store it at room temperature.
Here’s what you do:
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Line the chilled, rolled-out dough in the pan with parchment paper or foil. Fill the lined dough with pie weights, uncooked rice or beans, or clean pennies (soak them in soapy water, then rinse and spread out on a dish towel to dry). Transfer to a 425-degree oven and bake until the crust firms up, about 15 minutes. It will still be very pale at this point.
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Remove the parchment or foil and weights, then return crust to the oven.
Top Crust
Custard pies don’t usually have tops, but fruit pies just about always do, and it’s something you can play around with. Start with any fruit filling you like, pile it into your pan, and then choose one of the top crusts, or the crumble, below.
To cover the top of the whole pie, you’ll need to double your pie dough if it’s not already a recipe for a double crust. Roll out the chilled dough, then lay it out over the top of the filled pie.
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Crimp the edges to seal the top and bottom crusts together. Or, if you’ve blind baked the bottom crust, simply tuck in the edges of the top crust so it doesn’t hang over the side of the pan.
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Slash the top of the pie with a knife to allow steam to escape. Brush top crust all over with milk, cream or an egg wash (a mix of egg and water or milk) to encourage browning. You can sprinkle it with sugar or cinnamon sugar if you like.
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To make a lattice top, you’ll need to double your pie dough if it’s not already a recipe for a double crust. Roll out the chilled dough and cut it into 1-inch thick strips.
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Place half the dough strips parallel to each other across the top of the filled pie. (Reserve some of the longer strips for when you weave the lattice.) The longest strip should be in the center of the pie.
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Flip up every other strip on the pie. Place another long strip perpendicular to the others across the center of the pie.
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Flip those strips back down, then flip up the other strips.
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Weave in a second strip of dough.
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Repeat process on one side, and then the other, until you have fully covered the pie with woven strips.
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Gently press lattice strip edges into the bottom crust, then crimp the edges to seal the top and bottom crusts together. Or, if you’ve blind baked the bottom crust, simply tuck in the edges of the lattice so the strips don’t hang over the side of the pan. Brush lattice all over with milk, cream or an egg wash (a mix of egg and water or milk) to encourage browning. You can sprinkle the top with sugar or cinnamon sugar if you like.
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To make a top using dough cutouts, you’ll need to double your pie dough if it’s not already a recipe for a double crust. Roll out the chilled dough and use decorative cookie cutters (circles, leaves, etc.) to cut out shapes from the dough.
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If you haven’t blind baked the crust, use a paring knife or scissors to trim any dough that is hanging over the edge of the pan. The dough should be flush with the edge of the pan.
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Arrange a ring of cutouts around the outer edge of the filled pie (the cutouts should be touching the crust, coming flush to the edge).
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Continue adding cutouts to fully cover the top of the pie. You can overlap the cutouts (or not) as you see fit.
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Brush cutouts all over with milk, cream or an egg wash (a mix of egg and water or milk) to encourage browning. You can sprinkle the cutouts with sugar or cinnamon sugar if you like. | {
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The Jinni Nixon – Emerald City Playground Opened and Dedicated
Our wonderful new playground was opened in time for Summer Camp this year, thanks to the generosity of many. And what fun it is! Campers of all ages are enjoying the new swings, slides, climbing structures, sand-boxes, merry-go-round (our own “Burke”) and some amazing outdoor musical instruments. Many of the dear and wonderful ladies from HARTS, an East Bay Business Women’s Association and our auxiliary for more than 50 years, visited to dedicate the playground, named in honor of Jinni Nixon, one of their members and former board member and president of Camping Unlimited. Jinni’s son and sister attended the event as well. Our thanks to the ladies of HARTS and to our many other donors who made our new playground a reality, and one that will last for decades.
HARTS is now accepting new members, too. If interested in joining this wonderful organization, please let us know.
New members with new ideas are needed! It is a small commitment compared to the amount of fun and satisfaction we receive in return! We enjoy each others’ company as we plan and organize fundraising for Camp Krem projects. And it’s fun to interact with our vast array of ages, ranging from 27 to 92.
Currently, HARTS meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month near the Castro Valley BART station.
Our meetings are very productive and not long, usually 90 minutes with no meetings in the summer months.
Other commitments might include holding an office, making phone calls, selling event tickets, and staffing a Casino Night. Our casino night includes dinner, with a silent auction and gaming. It is our signature event, and our most successful, providing the funds for much-needed features, such as a camp fire ramp, new mattresses, and the solar heating for the pool.
We have targeted the following events so far for 2018:
Casino Night Feb. 24th, 2018
A wine/cheese event in the spring
A’s game – Summer
Day at the Races – Fall
Please consider joining us and making a difference for the camp! Attend a meeting or two, help them help us, then decide if you want to join. Contact Renee, HARTS President at [email protected] or by phone 510-451-1580 | {
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Teachers Credit Union is headquartered in South Bend and is the largest credit union in the state of Indiana. It is also the 69th largest credit union in the nation. It was established in 1931 and as of September of 2018, it had grown to 660 employees and 300,050 members at 53 locations. Teachers Credit Union has an A health rating.
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Membership in Teachers Credit Union is open to individuals who live or work in Indiana, or in the southwest Michigan counties of Berrien or Cass. Family of credit union members are also eligible to join. (Membership requirements are listed in the online application)
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A modern credit union that cares
My husband and I came to Teachers Credit Union over a decade ago after having a bad breakup with one of the big banks. We left because the fees we were being charged were ridiculous, the customer service was lacking and we expected to buy a house soon so we really needed a good relationship with a bank. TCU came highly recommended from a friend so we opened a checking and savings account with them. The rate of return on our savings is good, but you could find better with a big bank if you shopped around. Our checking account earns a minimal interest as well. We are given a .5% rebate on the use of our debit card, which is very handy - and the rebate is doubled if it is used toward products offered by the credit union, such as travel services or mortgages, etc. All of that said, the online banking is excellent and so is the mobile app. We use mobile check deposit with a picture frequently. The employees are possibly the best feature about TCU. They always bend over backwards to be helpful. The credit union takes security very seriously, as we get calls frequently (especially in the 4th quarter of the year) to let us know about any unusual activity on our account and they have alerted us fraudulent activity before that necessitated shutting down our card. But, they reissue cards at the branch, so you don't have to wait to get one in the mail. We're very pleased with the service and convenience from Teachers Credit Union.
Not a very good credit union.
I used to have an account at Teacher's Credit Union I closed it down about two years ago because I was not satisfied with them at all. When I banked with them I had a checking and savings account and always had to wait in an incredibly long line. Even if they weren't busy I still had to wait a long time. They are a very slow credit union. Like most banks and credit unions out there they charge you to hold an account with them, which I don't like. The last time I was there I had canceled my checking account through them and wanted to deposit a check into my savings account and they said they had to charge me because I no longer had a checking account through them so I canceled my savings account too. I would not recommend them to anyone.
Worst Bank Ever!
Trying to setup a deposit account is completely ridiculous and trying to make a loan payment is even worse! No one wants to help you in any way shape or form here! After not getting my deposit account verified from this bank I missed loan payment. Unaware that loan payment didn't process, these fine people put a repossession on my car! So when I tried to call and make a payment over the phone and try AGAIN to get deposit account set up, they say " Oh, we cannot accept any payment from you right now. You will need to have cash or some sort of certified check in hand and bring to the bank in person. " That's just GREAT because the closest location is only 45 minutes away!!! NEVER EVER DO ANY BUSINESS WITH THIS BANK!
Frustrating Unprofessionalism
I have been with Teachers Credit Union (TCU) for 9 years. For the first 6 years, I never had a single issue with the bank. After I graduated from college and moved to Chicago, and stopped having a face-to-face relationship with the tellers and bankers, things really went south quickly.
Last year, when I called the institution after having a fraudulent check written and cashed from my checking account, I was initially told by the customer representative that "my voice didn't sound like the picture of the account holder" and that she could not give me any information. In other words, my voice sounded like a woman's and because my driver's license shows that I am a man, they did not think that it was actually me calling (even though I verified my member number, my address, and last 5 of my SSN). By the end of the call, it came to light that the rep interpreted my call as another attempt to defraud the account. When I called back to speak to a manager, the manager was more unprofessional than the front-line rep was. Ultimately, the check amount was credited back to my account, after having to spend my own money to get documents notarized and faxing them over.
This year, when I lost my debit card, and someone proceeded to use it for fraudulent transactions (almost $500 worth) the credit union refused to credit my account and return my money to me. Even though I submitted a police report, they told me that I had to call the merchants myself and try to get refunds that way. Some of the merchants ultimately did not provide refunds, as that responsibility, they asserted, lies with the bank. I am currently working with NCUA to get the rest of my funds returned to me, 6 weeks after the fraud took place.
There have been other miscellaneous quality issues of the years as well. A lot of TCU's problems started when they went from Visa debit cards to MasterCard. I can't tell you how many times I had to get my debit card replaced (and wait several days for its arrival) because the black magnetic strip stopped working. Additionally, after they transitioned to a new website and app a back around 2015, the quality of their online banking decreased drastically. If you check the App Store, for instance, you will see how low of a rating their app has. When they replaced Finance Works with My Money Manager (M3), that was another blow to the experience as the M3 platform rarely works as it should.
Overall, if you live in the Northern Indiana / Southwest Michigan area, and are able to work with the bank face-to-face, it is not a bad place to keep your money. However, if you move out of that area, I would not recommend keeping your account as their call center and online banking experiences are sub-par at best.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Flexible Seating - Part 2
Today, I'm continuing to share my journey intoflexible seating. If you missed Part 1, I wrote about the various sites and posts that gave me the background information on what flexible/alternative seating is. You can find that post {HERE}
After getting more of an idea of what alternative seating was, I decided to look into the various types of flexible seating.
One of the first sites that I found with ideas for alternative seating in the upper elementary level was Jennifer Findley's post called "Alternative Seating in the Classroom". Prior to finding this post, most of what I read about flexible seating involved grades K-2. I teach 3rd grade so I was glad to see another class above 2nd grade using it and being successful.
I found this post titled "18 Flexible Seating Ideas for Your Classroom" by Kindergarten is Grrreat! This post let me know that it can be as simple as a beanbag, bath mat, or crate seats. It doesn't have to be expensive seating. She gives some tips on how to do flexible seating at no cost too.
I love the chart that shows her flexible seating rules. I decided that if I implemented flexible seating, I would use a chart similar to this one to set guidelines in place. I also found it interesting that she said that she doesn't have issues with students talking too much. Angie answered all my questions and concernswithin her post. She stressed that the key to making it work was to MODEL, MODEL, MODEL!
For the first time, I began to feel that flexible seating would be something that I could do in my classroom! I felt like I had enough background information and many of my questions were answered and fears were squelched for now.
I made the decision to try alternative seating for the last few weeksof the school year!
Depending on how that experience went, I would consider making the switch permanently for the 2016-2017 school year.
What about you? Have you tried alternative seating? Do you have any advice or tips for me to consider? I'd love to hear from you! | {
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This week we speak to Megan Dunn, author of Tinderbox (Galley Beggar, 2017). We cover the act of balancing fiction and non-fiction, wrestling with the estate of Ray Bradbury and writing the great mermaid novel of the Western canon. You can find Megan’s website at: https://www.megandunn.org/ Follow her on Twitter: @MeganDunn90 Tinderbox is available from Galley Beggar Press: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/shop-1/z7du0g4kxeypqtatvaftcnxrjqil2d Follow us @unsoundmethods or unsoundmethods.co.uk | {
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American Himalayan Foundation
Back to school!
The Chuna Devi School is located in the once picturesque village of Maha Manjushree, in the hills above Bhaktapur. While not totally decimated as other areas were, most houses sustained considerable damage and all of the girls there in STOP Girl Trafficking and their families are still sleeping outside under tarps.
The girls shared their stories of where they were during the two quakes and what has happened to them since. Miraculously, none of their family died or was seriously injured. Most of the girls were able to recover some of their belongings—clothes, books, school bags—from their homes. Unfortunately this wasn’t the case for Ranita. She was the only girl in the group who was not in her school uniform. It is buried under the rubble of her home which collapsed completely. She cried while telling us, and it brought tears to her mother and a few other girls as well. She was quickly comforted by our local volunteer, Sano Baba, who explained that we would look after her and find her a new uniform.
Raju Dhungana, a teacher at the school, told me he and another teacher had just completed a week-long intensive course in psycho-social counselling. They were tasked with observing the children and offering support when needed.
“For the first week at least, there will be no formal lessons. The students will attend school for only a few hours a day where they can play, sing and dance, talk about their experiences and, by doing so, try to remove some of their fear. The first stage is to offer them some distraction from what has happened over the past month.” Raju told me.
In a stroke of good fortune government engineers, after a thorough inspection, stuck a large green notice on the school walls: the building was deemed strong enough to be occupied again. | {
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Restaurant websites are notoriously clunky and antiquated. They are often slow, difficult to navigate (especially from a phone) and offer downloadable pdf menus (!), to name just few issues. In an age where more people visit a restaurant’s website than its brick-and-mortar location, having an outdated, confusing site does not bode well for customer acquisition.
Techstars graduate BentoBox wants to solve this problem by making it easy for restaurants to build a mobile-first website for a fraction of the cost of working with an agency. Unlike website builders like Squarespace or WordPress, BentoBox understands that restaurants don’t have the time to build their own sites. Instead, the website development platform takes a restaurants existing assets (menu, logo, copy, design) and creates a website using one of its templates. Outside agencies, developers and designers can also access the platform to build restaurant websites.
Restaurants are eating it up. Since launching in 2013, BentoBox has on-boarded 200 restaurants in 25 cities around the world, including big names like Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group, April Bloomfield’s The Breslin and The Spotted Pig and Major Food Group’s Parm and Dirty French.
What’s the secret to BentoBox’s success? Focusing on restaurants’ needs. We chatted with co-founder Krystle Mobayeni to learn more about the startup’s growth strategy, lessons learned and advice for burgeoning restaurant tech startups. Our interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
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Food+Tech Connect: What is your business model and how has it shifted since you launched in 2013?
Krystle Mobayeni: BentoBox is a software as a service (SaaS) platform for restaurants. Restaurants pay a monthly fee and then can also opt-in to various add-ons based on their needs. The model itself hasn’t changed since 2013, but it has expanded to include the suite of tools we’ve built over the years. As restaurants have come to us with their vision of what a digital hospitality experience really means, we have created more and more “add-on” features to the platform.
One thing to call out here is that we’ve made it very inexpensive for restaurants to start out on BentoBox. Before BentoBox, if you wanted a decent web experience for your restaurant, you had to pay many thousands of dollars – and this didn’t include the cost of on-going iterations, including simple things like updating menus. We’ve eliminated this large upfront cost, and added tools that allow a restaurant to have complete control over their digital presence. This is a huge win for the restaurant operator.
FTC: Can you walk me through what using Bentobox looks like for a restaurant? How is it different than using a less expensive website builder like Squarespace?
KM: First, let me try to dispel the notion that restaurants build their own websites. They don’t. I’ve talked to many hundreds of restaurant operators, and I have hardly ever heard of a restaurant owneror restaurant team member building their website themselves. Whether they hire a consultant, an agency, or even the bartender’s cousin – they aren’t building the website themselves.
This was a key realization for us. It’s why we made the decision early on that BentoBox would not be a website builder. Instead, what we’ve built is a robust developer platform that allows agencies, developers, and designers – including our in-house team – to create best-in-class digital experiences for restaurants without the high costs. This same platform puts the controls in the restaurants’ hands to make on-going updates and changes, without knowing anything about coding.
The second key difference between us and something like Squarespace is that we are truly built for the hospitality industry. By focusing on a single vertical, everything in our product is hyper-tailored to our customers. This includes features like online-to-print menu management, press alerts and management, social (including Yelp and Foursquare) integration, physical and digital gift cards and more. A horizontal website builder could never provide this kind of restaurant-specific customization.
FTC: You worked with big name restaurants out of the gate, including Danny Meyer’s restaurants, The Meatball Shop and Major Food Group’s Parm and Dirty French. How did the strategy affect user acquisition and growth? Did you see a trickle down effect?
KM: Starting with these well-known restaurants has been – and continues to be – key to our growth. We were able to establish trust in the community early on. The industry is really tight knit, and one defined by sharing and hospitality. Finding a trusted vendor goes a long way, and we owe a lot of our WOM growth to this strategy of starting at the top. Every restaurant we’ve worked with loves us – because we solve such a fundamental problem for them and, frankly, because we’re the only solution of this kind that really understands the true needs of restaurants. This love translates into word of mouth growth.
Now that we’ve started outbound growth efforts, it’s becoming obvious how important it is that we already have a strong track record of working with some of the best restaurants in the world. If these leading restaurants use – and love – BentoBox, then you can be sure others will take a look at what we’re offering. This helps us cut through the noise in an industry exhausted by being constantly bombarded by sales pitches.
FTC: How did participating in the Techstars Accelerator help you grow your business? What were your key lessons learned?
KM: Techstars was a great experience for BentoBox. Our timing was perfect; we had already found clear product market fit and were ready to accelerate growth. The program helped bring our amazing team together and connected us with an A+ network of entrepreneurs and investors. We also became far more data-driven, using key metrics to help tell our story and make choices about what to build next.
FTC: What has been your major challenge(s) with building BentoBox? And what advice to you have for burgeoning restaurant tech entrepreneurs facing a similar challenge?
KM: One thing that really differentiates BentoBox from other restaurant tech companies is that we are focused on the restaurants and their needs first. We do understand and serve consumers – but our primary focus is on the restaurant. We’re constantly thinking: how do we help restaurants build their business? How do we make it easier for restaurants to operate? What are restaurants trying to achieve and how can we help them do this? It turns out, this restaurant-centric approach is actually pretty rare.
Most restaurant tech companies think first about the consumers, rather than about the restaurant; this almost never works. So, my advice is: build a deep understanding of what it means to create and run a restaurant – and serve the restaurant itself. Then build your product with your early and marquee customers. Listen closely. They’ll tell you everything you need to know. Trust them even more than you trust yourself. Otherwise, adoption is going to be tough to come by.
FTC: What’s next for BentoBox? Do you have any exciting partnerships, features or projects on the horizon?
KM: We are 100 percent focused on building the best digital platform in the world for restaurants. Our process for doing this literally involves just talking to each of our restaurants about what they need and, when enough people ask for the same thing or a wonderful, unique idea surfaces, iterating on it quickly and adding it to the platform if it makes sense. Some of our upcoming features include e-commerce and digital marketing tools.
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Ontario commission calls for integrated welfare program, including for disabled, that removes barriers to work.
TORONTO – Ontario’s $8.3 billion welfare system should be transformed into a simpler, more effective and accountable system that helps move more people, including the disabled, into jobs and out of poverty, says the long-awaited report from the province’s social assistance review commission.
Under this “transformational change,” disability benefits, children’s benefits and health benefits would be removed from social assistance and be available outside welfare to all low-income Ontarians, say commissioners Frances Lankin and Munir Sheikh in their 183-page report released Wednesday.
The commission, established in November 2010 to remove barriers and increase opportunities for people to work, was part of the province’s 2008 poverty reduction strategy.
Central to the report’s 108 recommendations is the proposed merger of Ontario Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) into a single, integrated program with provincial standards but delivered locally by municipalities, which already administer OW.
ODSP is currently delivered by provincial officials. But the commissioners believe municipalities are better equipped to run the new job-focused program because they have connections to local employers and already administer other supports to low-income people such as child care, housing, settlement services, public health and addiction services.
“This report charts a new course for social assistance in Ontario, a course designed to support all recipients to participate in the workforce to the maximum of their abilities and to guarantee income security for those who cannot work,” says the report, entitled “Brighter Prospects: Transforming Social Assistance in Ontario.”
Under the proposed new program, welfare benefits would be based on a standard rate for all single adults that would be adjusted for those sharing accommodations. The rate would be based on a formula that balances the competing needs of adequacy; fairness between those on assistance and low-wage earners; and financial incentive to work. And over time, increases would reflect the differences in living costs across Ontario.
In addition to the standard rate, a disability supplement for those who meet the current definition of disability under ODSP, as well as a children’s and sole-support parent’s supplement, would be available through social assistance until the new system is fully implemented, the report recommends.
Until the new disability benefit is available outside welfare, people with disabilities who get jobs would be allowed to keep a portion of their disability welfare supplement, the report adds.
“Like most of us, people with disabilities have a strong desire to work,” the report says.
“However, given the financial disincentive represented by the lack of a disability benefit outside social assistance to help cover the cost of living with a disability, many low-income people with disabilities simply cannot afford to leave the program,” it adds.
The new simplified rate structure would give case workers more time to support recipients’ transition to employment, the commissioners say. Meantime, the province would partner with corporate leaders to champion the hiring of people with disabilities and generate awareness and support for more inclusive workplaces.
Although the report acknowledges the transformation will take time, it urges Queen’s Park to move quickly to improve financial support for people on welfare.
The commissioners are calling for an immediate $100-per-month increase to $699 for single able-bodied adults — the lowest current rate category — as a “down payment on adequacy.” That amount would become the new standard rate upon which the integrated program would be built.
The rate increase would cost $770 million, but the commissioners say at least $430 million of that would be found through administrative savings and the elimination of the Special Diet Allowance and the ODSP Work-Related Benefit, which would be offset by other changes to the program.
The remaining $340 million needed is less than 5 per cent of the total program costs but crucial “to begin to address adequacy at the lowest level … buy change and create momentum in the transformation of social assistance,” the report notes.
Other first steps include increasing financial resilience by allowing everyone applying for welfare to keep more assets — up to $6,000 for individuals and up to $7,500 for couples. Currently, only people on ODSP are allowed to keep this amount.
Individuals would also be allowed to have up to $60,000 in long-term savings such as RRSPs, RESPs and to keep their primary automobile, regardless of the value.
In addition, everyone on welfare would be allowed to earn up to $200 per month without deductions and keep 50 cents of every subsequent dollar earned until their earnings exceed their welfare cheque. Now, 50 cents of every dollar is clawed back.
Under the reforms, child support would be treated the same as income. Single parents would no longer be compelled to seek child support and those who receive it would be allowed to keep 50 per cent instead of losing it all in claw backs.
Changing the definition of a spouse from three months cohabitation to one year would reflect income tax laws, the commissioners add.
The report calls for a program that moves away from a culture of surveillance to one of support for everyone on social assistance, including the disabled, to maximize their potential.
To ensure the new program is accountable to Ontarians, the report calls for provincial standards, clear outcomes and performance measures with annual reporting from both municipalities and the province.
A new provincial commissioner of social assistance would be appointed to drive change, work with municipalities, establish performance measures and tack progress. Annual progress reports from both municipalities and the province would ensure public accountability, the report says.
Who’s on social assistance*
Ontario Works (OW)
477,339 individuals or about 3.6 per cent of the population
171,867 are children
Average age: 36
60 per cent of cases are singles
30 per cent are single parents
3 per cent are couples without children
8 per cent are couples with children
About 75 per cent of children are in families led by single parents
Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
415,338 individuals or about 3.1 per cent of the population
43 per cent of applicants have a physical disability, 39 per cent have a mental disability, 18 per cent have a developmental disability
About 60 per cent of new applicants in 2009-10 were suffering from mental illness | {
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If you abuse one of Marc Trestman’s Daughters Because He’s Lost Some Football Games, You Don’t Deserve to Be Part of the Human Race
Deadspin reported the story on Monday about Bears fans harassing the daughters of Marc Trestman because, you know, he’s struggling as a football coach. The article’s author, Samer Kalaf, summed the entire ordeal up perfectly: “The Bears suck, but these people suck more.”
Sports are fun. They are life’s great escape. And I don’t judge anyone emotionally investing in a football or any other team because it is the one element of life where a human can be completely unselfish. We have nothing to do with these outcomes, even though we often blame the sandwich we ate or where we sat or what jersey we wore.
You’d hope these assholes harassing the Trestman girls are teenagers but unfortunately they are not. They are useless non-entities unhappy with their own existence who’ve put too much of their self worth on the wins and losses of football team. To any of those individuals who might come across this site I encourage you to grow up and get a fucking life. Marc Trestman may not last as the coach of the Bears but he’s achieved more in his last two years on this earth than you’ll achieve in all of yours.
It is people like these pricks starting fights in parking lots and giving sports fans a bad name all these years and I’m tired of it.
It has become obvious this Bears team has no confidence. Is it no confidence in themselves or no confidence in the coaching staff? Or is it a combination of the two? When I was working in Halas Hall, I could have easily answered that question. But being on the outside now, I have to rely on what I hear from different sources.
There have been rumblings that the players — or at least some of them — don’t buy into the current coaching staff. When I say that, I mean both Marc Trestman as a head coach and Mel Tucker as the defensive coordinator.
Something is clearly rotten in the state of Illinois and if the players have ceased buying into the offensive philosophy it would at least explain how one of the most talented offenses in the sport is this bad.
Can Someone Defined ‘Guaranteed’?
The new deal signed earlier this year by Bears quarterback Jay Cutler carries $54 million in guaranteed money. But there’s a caveat.
Like so many other long-term veteran deals, the Bears can stop the bleeding in March of 2015 or March of 2016, cutting off the flow of guaranteed money by cutting Cutler.
For example, if the Bears dump him by March 2015, they’ll avoid $16 million in guaranteed money. If they part ways with him by March 2016, they’ll save the final $6 million guaranteed.
How can one avoid guaranteed money? Doesn’t that make the money not guaranteed? Either way, if Phil Emery remains the GM of the Chicago Bears there is no chance the Bears are quarterbacked by anyone other than Jay Cutler in September 2015.
A Test for George McCaskey
There has been a lot of talk on the internet about boycotting the Bears next season in some silly and inane attempt to send a message to the McCaskey family. The belief is that the failure to sell Italian beef sandwiches for three hours will cripple the family and force them to change GMs and coaches.
Check out this story at Forbes. If you’re not a reader I will spoil it for you: the Chicago Bears are valued by Forbes at $1.7 billion. (If they were for sale they would fetch closer to $2.5 billion.) Every team ahead of them OWNS THEIR STADIUM AND LAND. If the McCaskey family does not make changes to the football infrastructure it does not mean they are worried about finances. It means either (a) they don’t have the football acumen to make such decisions or (b) losing doesn’t bother them. The problem is not the cheapness of the McCaskey family. The problem is we don’t know how much football means to them. | {
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Welcome to Artbound's new music series Hear and Now, where we explore songs with a sense of place. The idea is simple: put Southern California musicians in the locations that inspired a song, and document a performance of the song, in that place. Through this juxtaposition, Hear and Now aims to paint a rich, multidimensional portrait of the creative process and draw connections between musical inspiration and the environment that nurtures it. Look closer. Listen in.
To kick off Hear and Now, we wanted to pick a musical group that was quintessentially Los Angeles; a band who could represent the cross-cultural collisions of this sprawling city. We immediately thought of Quetzal, the East Los Angeles Chicano rockers.
Fronted by Quetzal Flores and Martha Gonzalez, the troupe performs a hybridized version of son jarocho, a form of effervescent folk music from the Mexican state of Veracruz. But Quetzal's music doesn't stop there. They explore ranchera, salsa, and good ol' fashioned rock and roll too.
For our debut of Hear and Now, they chose to perform their song "Tragafuegos, "which translates to "Fire Breathers," off their newest album, "Imaginaries," inside the downtown Los Angeles bus terminal of El Paso Los Angeles Limousine Express, Inc. The "limousines," as they are called, shuttle people -- many of whom are migrant workers and weary travelers who have journeyed across borders -- throughout the Southwestern United States. These buses often represent a convergence North and South American cultures, that same cultural melange that Quetzal explores in their music. So there, in that lobby of the bus station, their performance became a sort of greeting, a impromptu celebration bidding those tired bus riders a warm welcome to Los Angeles.
Following the performance, Artbound had the chance to speak with Quetzal's singer/percussionist Martha Gonzalez about what inspired them about "Los Limousines."
Why did you pick this space?
Martha: Well, actually it was a collective decision. And some of us have had more experience in this space than anybody else. But [bassist] Juan's mother, for example, is always traveling out of here. So where other people are used to go to LAX or other places to get to where they're going, I think that a majority of people, especially immigrants and people of lower economic brackets travel out of spaces like these, bus stops, such as these.
What's your own experience here?
Martha: Well, we used to drop my dad off here. What I do remember is that my dad used to come here whenever he had to go to Guadalajara. And so it was always cheaper to travel from Tijuana to Guadalajara. So he would take a bus here overnight, get there, to Tijuana, and then go into Guadalajara from the Tijuana airport. This place has a lot of life but what it reminds me of is my great grandmother's death.
Why?
Martha: Because I remember bringing [her father] here late at night when we knew that she was dying, or that she had died already, or something like that. And so we brought him here, dropped him off, and he took off.
So, what was it like standing up there and playing in this space that has all this meaning to you?
Martha: Well, like any other space. We've played some of the nicest stages all over the world and I think this is just as meaningful, maybe even more. I feel even more nervous being in a space like this because you have people walking around you as you're playing and so there is no cheating the sound or whatever is happening. So it is very live and raw and there is nothing like having contact, face to face contact with people that you're playing for.
Martha: One of the things I did beforehand because I think it's only fair to do, like any other telonero would do--a telonero is a person that plays for tips basically--is that you ask permission before you go in. And so I, before we walked in actually, I said, "you know we're going to make a bit of noise right now." And they said, "oh no, that's fine, that's fine." So I got a lot of okays from people.
I think that there's a dignity to it. So I feel proud, I feel happy that I am able to bring the music to people in this way, and more than anything, it made me think we need to do this more often. | {
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I saw the title of the thread and got all excited, but nobody has addressed the issue that troubles me. I cannot SEE with these awful replacements.
Where I live, it has been almost impossible to find a 100W incandescent for several years. In any event, I knew the end was coming, and so I started experimenting with different bulbs. NOTHING comes close to the efficiency of the now outlawed lighting I have enjoyed all my life.
My experience with LEDs has been even more disappointing than my experience with CFLs. Because the little desk lamp in my computer room, with its tiny bulb, puts out such nice bright light, I expected the same from whatever LED I put in my reading lamps. But, no. I cannot see. I read. I write, I work cross-word puzzles. I sketch. I paint my fingernails. And, what will happen when those big round bulbs that light my bathroom die? How will I see to apply make-up?
I haunt Lowe’s lighting section. They are tired of me, and my questions, and my returns. Packaging may say “Replaces 100W incandescents” but for light output, that just isn’t so. I don’t care about heat. I don’t care about electrical usage. I don't care about life span. I just want illumination.
For my reading lamps, which is what I really care about, 1600 lumens should work, but part of the problem is what Mouser said here: 3. Spotlight effect. The LED bulbs are more directional -- which can be especially troublesome for fixtures where the bulb is pointing up.
But I’ve also had noise and flicker from both CFLs and LEDs. Horrible, horrible, and no relief in sight.
I am so happy with my XP desktop. I don't want another computer. But, in self-defense, I'm saving pennies for another desktop, with Win7 installed, just before the market is flooded with Windows 8 monsters. It will probably sit in the corner, doing nothing until my current computer dies. Then I'll fix it up to dual-boot so I can still use XP.
To me, a computer isn't a toy, or an entertainment center, or a social event. I work with it. I need to see what I'm doing and I need upmteen apps open at the same time - in various sizes - so I can see them all at once.
When MS stops supporting the OSs of my choice, I'll use something else to dig around online, but with all the changes, cloud computing, Windows 8, there is less and less that that interests me. All the great software will die out (for those of us that are sticking to XP and 7) so that leaves only research to keep me online.
Late to the party but somebody said Ribbon! I, and thousands of others, despise the ribbon. I avoid any software that uses it. It takes up way too much room and, like that screenshot in Renegade's post, it's a cluttered mess. Too bad all software doesn't give users the choice. Download the app with the ribbon, or download the app without. Choices. My favorite thing!
I have a folder full of tiny utilities collected over time, single exes with maybe an associated .ini or a .hlp file. I suspect a lot of you have a similar collection. I could launch these using a launcher like FARR or Launchy but I rarely seem to remember their names. There are also occasions where I'm not sure I have the right tool for a job and need a quick look at what I have in a certain category... eg:networking
I figured the best way to do this would be to use tags and after trying some tagging software, none of which I cared much for, I've settled for a somewhat unconventional solution. I use Linkman to organize these files. The files can be dragged and dropped to the "Apps" folder in linkman, the Apps folder has ~apps in its comment keywords field. Each util gets a bookmark inside this folder with all applicable tags added to the comment field. So if I'm search for an app I type ~app (to get the url bookmarks out of the way) and follow it with whichever tags are appropriate. I haven't really committed to this system but I really like it. I'm curious what system others use to access these apps... (other than using your superior memories to remember their names, of course! )
Edit: Quicker/"dirtier" approach, just add the tags to the filename and use something like Everything to find them. The name length restrictions shouldn't pose much of a problem. Also takes care of portability. [Edit: Bad bad bad for command line utilities! ]
I use a laucher - BUT - For the times I don't remember the name, I use the old Win 3.1 method. On my desktop are several folders named: Arty, Games, Apps, Pims, Chores, Write, and Little Ones (for what you just said, those little ones). Inside each one are shortcuts to related applications. Click-click, click-click. Up jumps the program.
Computers are entirely different animals. Mine has its own room. It has two screens. I call them The Twins. It runs a writing program, a word processor, a database, and a note taker, an information manager, a dictionary, a thesaurus, and maybe a browser, while downloading email. The hard drive contains, besides the OS, upwards of thirty programs - all of which I use regularly. Do without it? I'd rather slit my throat.
Oh yeah. I have a laptop. Nice screen. I use it rarely. Only when I go out of town. I have one gadget, a cell phone. I use it to make calls.
Pulling his software does not have to negatively affect CNet at all for it to be worthwhile. Mouser is protecting *his* reputation and customer relationships by doing this.
That's the thing -- I'm not sure it will. Are the people that download from CNet likely to notice? Would it adversely affect an author's reputation? Would it improve it? After all, having a CNet wrapper could be interpreted as a CNet endorsement and could elevate some authors' software in some user opinions. Dunno.
I know what I think, and I've read what others here think, but seriously -- we're not representative of the larger public. Most people here are way too technically savvy to be considered 'regular users'.
I'm a tech dummy. Long time daily visitor to CNET. Used to spend hours (a few years ago) on the site digging through all the yummy software.
I can't remember how long ago it was, couple of years maybe, it all started sliding downhill. My searches (which turn up decent results everywhere else) give me nothing but odd suggestions, completely unrelated to the type of application I was looking for. That was only the first thing I noticed. I no longer look for software on CNET. I will absolutely not download anything. I've noticed the reviewers and bloggers I was used to are no longer there.
Several times, I've emailed them, or commented - where it can be seen publicly - about the breakdown of their website. No. They haven't fixed anything on my account. However, you guys should know that people are noticing. We are reading about it -gHacks for instance - and we aren't downloading. I go to MajorGeeks, SnapFiles, File Hippo, etc., etc.
George R. R. Martin has now sold more than fifteen million books worldwide, and his readership will likely multiply exponentially after the launch, this month, of “Game of Thrones,” a lavish HBO series based on “A Song of Ice and Fire.” He is committed to nurturing his audience, no matter how vast it gets. “It behooves a writer to be good to his fans,” he says. Still, a close relationship with one’s audience has its drawbacks. As Martin puts it, “The more readers you have, the harder it is to keep up, and then you can’t get any writing done.”
Still -- I wish he'd finish that book. And, I hope it's the last of the series because I doubt I'll live long enough for him to finish another. It's hardly "nursing" his audience when he leave us hanging for years, and years. If he's too busy because of his fans, he can move in with me and I'll protect him from them until he gets that $#?& book done!
I wish them the best- but their narrowed focus unfortunately means I won't have as much of a reason to keep track of them.
I agree. I'll still read it, but I wish they hadn't restricted their topic to browsers. If we're lucky, the change is in name only and they'll continue writing about the same topics.
No such luck. They're saying they want to write about browswers.
I miss the DS site. It was one my a.m. coffee stop offs. Because I like to read about shareware, my list grows shorter and shorter. While everyone else is moving to the cloud, I am spending less and less time on the internet. Hmmm.
I got a discounted license for Compare It back in May 2010. A waste of hard-come-by $. I was very disappointed to learn I can't edit .rtf files with it. What kind of crap is that??? Too bad it took me so long to figure it out. I had to install the freebie, WinMerge.
i've seen lots of good info on about.com pages; in fact i'd go so far as to say it's one of the rare cases where i get the feeling that the people maintaining the pages actually care about providing good and useful information.
Ok, yes, mouser is right. I have come across some good info there. I guess my complaint is more with the presentation...it's borderline annoying to me. Ok ok...I think i was a little hard on about.com. My main complaint is that, yes, there's pretty decent information there, but not the definitive kind of information that a real expert would give. It's more like an overview. Also, another thing that bothers me is that their links are always very prominent in google searches, and other more helpful articles will not be so easy to find. It's not about's fault, so I shouldn't say they are shitty. I'll revise that. My bad. Overreaction.
I'm late to the party as always. Just wanted to put in 2 cents. I started using about.com when I found my grammar wasn't quite as perfect as I'd long believed it to be. They were very helpful. Now may grammar is perfect
AA!! 40hz...that 4d thing looks great. There are too many good options for outlining out there!
I'm trying to figure out the best way to do all the stuff necessary to write a story with. I like Liquid Story binder as an all in one package, but these outliners and stuff have certain things that are very nice. Between InfoQube, Onenote, Evernote, now this...I don't know. I shouldn't stress...I should just use what I have and wait for the need to arise.
Thanks for telling, sazzen. Your post made me install Atlantis, and what a fine surprise it has already been. However, I also have WordWeb Pro 6, and when I (right-click a word in Alantis and) click 'Thesaurus', WordWeb will pop up and flicker extremely fast (more than maybe 10 times a second) and be useless. I must click Escape, to stop it. Do you have any problems integrating WordWeb Pro and Atlantis?
Besides, Atlantis gave me the same disappointing message that many other word processors also will give: "Sorry, our hyphenation module does not support your (Danish) language".
I never use the thesaurus in Atlantis - I use Mobysaurus instead - so I was unaware of the problem with WordWeb Pro. I always run WordWeb Pro separately. It sits there in the corner of my screen all day. Sorry about the Danish language problem. You might also have noticed that tables are absent from the program - thus far. In every other way the developers are responsive and helpful but only recently have they considered adding tables to Atlantis.
Did you purchase Surfulater? That is a very nice price for a very nice application - depending on what you want to use it for. I use it to store web pages. Yes, I have version 3, I have not upgraded to the newest version - yet.
It isn't impossible! I know because I don't have a little computer with a red X in my system tray. I'd love to tell y'all how I managed to get rid of it, but I haven't the foggiest. With the vast extent of my computer knowledge, I probably right-clicked on it and chose "Disappear".
My favorite version of MS Office was 2000 but I only had it on my computer for a few days. A tech installed it and I didn't think it was legal. Then I installed 2007. Hated it. Not only the ribbon (because it takes up so much room) but they destroyed Access (in my humble opinion) with that version. I hated Word after the 97 version and switched to Word Perfect. I have since acquired Office 2003. It's OK but I really preferred 2000. My need for Office has to do with Excel and Access.
I was lucky enough to get Ashampoo's office suite for free (not the 2010 version mentioned by Curt). It's pretty nice. Nice enough that I will never upgrade MS Office again. All I need from them is Access and I'll just keep the version I have.
I tried ALL (OK, I might have missed one) of the Win Explorer replacements a couple of years ago. This was the best. Unfortunately, it wasn't the one I purchased. And yes, tomos, that is a very nice license. They don't come any better.
Most people don't care about computers or computing or learning about same. They want to play games, tweet, twitter, facebook, chat, date, check out a little porn, maybe pay a bill or two - that's why we have Windows7, now, isn't it? - so they don't waste time learning what they don't need to know.
I wouldn't go so far as to call them stupid, just disinterested, and very funny!
A little off topic, I know; but only a little,... I need to ask for an advice:
I NEVER use my computer for gaming, but I have not been able to figure out what services, if any, to disable, in order to free a little more memory. Directions, please?
32-bits Vista Home Premium SP-1
I'm hanging on to XP but wanted to tell you that turning off a multitude of services I didn't use sped it up - hugely. I am not connected to a network so all the network stuff was using up system resources for no reason. If you aren't part of a network you should also reap good benefits by freeing yourself of services you aren't using. A search for Windows Vista Services will produce very good information on what you can and cannot disable. | {
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Farrah Fawcett - a life remembered
Smiling radiantly for the camera, with her famous mane tumbling over her shoulders, the young Farrah Fawcett struck a swimsuit pose which in 1976 would catapult her to international stardom. She was snapped by a poster company which had heard about an up-and-coming Texas beauty doing shampoo commercials. The result – which used an old blanket from the photographer's car as a backdrop –smashed all sales records. A still-unrivalled 12 million copies were snapped up, bringing Farrah's tousled hair and beautiful smile to the attention of the world
Not long after her swimsuit poster appeared Farrah landed her first TV role as crime fighter Jill Monroe in Charlie's Angles. The show – which depicted the adventures of three female police officers who became undercover private detectives – was a huge hit, and brought Farrah the first of several awards. It was a dream come true for the youngster, who'd moved to LA to become an actress. She'd been studying for a degree in microbiology in Texas when she caught the eye of an agent, who suggested she set her sights on Hollywood. A year after joining Charlie's Angels she quit to seek meatier roles
Shortly after she moved to LA she also found love, in the form of actor Lee Majors, who went on to star in Seventies hit The Six Million Dollar Man. The pair married in 1973 and set up a production company together, but the union wasn't to last. They separated in 1979 and divorced a year later
Determined to be taken seriously as an actress Farrah signed up to appear in off-1983 Broadway play Extremities, in which she played a rape victim who takes revenge on her attacker. The role drew critical praise and was followed by another notable performance as a victim of domestic violence in TV movie The Burning Bed, which delivered the first of three Emmy nominations
As she recovered from the demise of her first marriage, Farrah found support in the friendship of Love Story actor Ryan O'Neal. And after her divorce came through the pair's friendship blossomed into love and an on-off romance which would last through the rest of Farrah's life
In 1995 she was invested into the Hollywood Walk of Fame. There to see her receive the star were her proud parents Pauline – a homemaker - and oil field contractor James William Fawcett. As her beaming mum stood at her side it was clear who Farrah had inherited her smile from. The actress said her mum, who passed away in 2005, was also responsible for her name. She apparently "made it up" as it went well with her last name
Although she never received a coveted Oscar nod, the actress' talent was recognised with several other nominations. She was shortlisted for an Emmy on three occasions and notched up five Golden Globe nods
Farrah leaves behind one child, Redmond O'Neal, her son with Ryan O'Neal. She's pictured with him at a Hollywood premiere in 2003
There was a poignant reunion for the actress and her Charlie's Angels co-stars Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith in 2006. At the Emmy Awards the trio jointly paid tribute to the man behind the show, film and TV producer Aaron Spelling, who'd passed away following a battle with cancer. "He changed my life," said a tearful Farrah, who was just a month away from learning she also had the disease
Upon being diagnosed the actress vowed to beat it and, after chemotherapy, was told she was in remission on her 60th birthday. Less than four months later, though, the disease returned. Farrah travelled to Germany to seek alternative treatment, documenting her battle against the disease in a documentary. The result was broadcast on US TV in May 2009, a month after reports began to appear that the actress' health was deteriorating. Long time partner Ryan O'Neal, who had his own brush with leukaemia, said the ordeal had brought them closer. "I fell in love with her all over again because of how she handled this," the 68-year-old said. "The hope started to fade, but not for Farrah. She continued fighting. There was always a courage there, and a quiet dignity"
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I just love that UFC offers their undercard fights for free. 8 fights on UFC Facebook starting at 4:55pm ET/1:55pm PT.
1. Go to www.facebook.com/ufc
2. Click "like" if you haven't already.
3. Click "live video" on the left.
4. Click the image in the middle to load the video stream (looks like the image below).
5. If it gives you an error, click on of the other videos on the video ribbon at the top of the streaming window, wait for it to load, then click back on the video and it will work. | {
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It’s been a long journey. You’ve crossed plains and savannas, oceans and mountain hills. You’ve bred your best, battled dozens of pokemon to train levels and EVs, and thrown in your top moves and strategies. Now you crest the last risewithyour team and there it is, glittering in the distance: the pressure, the acclaim, the Mirage League! Win it all to claim a special rank that proclaims your battle prowess to the world!
Mirage Leagueis the server’s officialplayer-vs-player tournamentheld onevery 1st Saturday of the month at11AMEST(The time may change monthly depending on circumstance). The tournament will bebracket-style, like Clan Wars, with the bracket closing at noon the day before the tournament takes place. Thebattle format is Gen 6 OU. The Mirage League Rules are posted hereso have a read beforesigning up.
Mirage League Rules1. A team may not consist of two of the same Pokémon.2. A Pokémon may not have either Double Team or Minimize.3. A Pokémon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold.4. You are not allowed to put an opponent's Pokémon to sleep IF he/she already has a sleeping Pokémon. It does not matter if that Pokémon was put to sleep by you, or by Rest.5. You are not allowed to use healing items such as potions and revives.6. You are not allowed to swap Pokémon in between battles. | {
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We brought in producer Glen Ballard, who made Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, a total pro who really tried to make things happen. We had [new songs] ready within one week. It took three months for Ed to do the guitar parts to three songs and a couple of solos. The Eddie Van Halen I first met could have done that in an hour. When they finally laid down the rhythm-guitar tracks, that was all I needed to sing. I didn't need his guitar solos. As soon as they got that, I went in and knocked out my vocals on all three songs in two hours. Mike came in and we did all the backgrounds in another two hours. Eddie was still asleep. By the time he came down, we were finished. They spent the next three months doing Eddie's guitars. | {
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Sister title, the Sunday Herald newspaper, yesterday began its report of the launch, thus: “Tomorrow we will launch a new daily paper for Scotland.
“The National will be the only daily paper on sale in Scotland to support the principle of independence for our country.
“The decision to launch The National follows the Sunday Herald’s decision in May to support a yes vote in the Scottish referendum. That decision seemed like a gamble at the time, when support for independence was still lagging significantly behind in the polls.
“Today, the picture is very different. The support for the Sunday Herald from the wider yes movement has been little short of astonishing.”
The launch was reported first by The Guardian newspaper’s Mark Sweney, on Friday – here.
And its other sister title, The Herald, reports the launch, today, on page two. And a media release about the launch has been posted on allmediascotland.com, here.
Meanwhile, begins Angela Haggerty, in an op ed in The Drum media and marketing magazine: “There are a lot of things that nobody saw coming after the No vote in the Scottish independence referendum this September. The surge in SNP membership to more than 80,000 from around 25,000 was one of them, and the launch of a pro-independence newspaper in what is a broadly failing industry is certainly another.”
Says The Drum, of Haggerty: “Angela Haggerty is a former media and broadcast reporter for The Drum who now edits CommonSpace, a digital news service in Scotland launching later this year.”
And there’s another op ed about the launch, penned by Scott Campbell, editor of Cumbernauld Media, here. It is headed, ‘The media failed Scotland during the #IndyRef – it’s time to get our act together’.
And there’s yet another op ed about the launch, this time by the recent former business editor of The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday, Terry Murden – here (or here on allmediascotland).
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ALSO begins The Drum: “Tesco has bowed to pressure from campaigners to hide newspaper front pages from view in its stores to protect children from sexual images – according to reports.
“The supermarket giant is to redesign its newsstands across its UK branches by the end of this month, so that only the title and logo of newspaper are visible – not photos and headlines.”
TO easily access a possibly extensive archive of allmediascotland.com – on a feature-by-feature basis, such as My Media Day and The Media in Figures – click the link icon you see towards the bottom right of each front page ‘gateway box’.
What happens next looks particularly great on a tablet, now that allmediascotland.com is ‘fully responsive’.
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SUNNY Govan Radio, in Glasgow, is featured today, in The Herald newspaper – in the context of volunteering carried out by young people.
Begins Russell Leadbetter (here): “Half of young people in Scotland have taken part in volunteering, campaigning or fundraising in the past year, a poll has found..”
BRIAN Ferguson, in The Scotsman, today considers the eligibility criteria for the BAFTA Scotland Awards, continuing his reporting – such as here – about one film, Under the Skin, which appears to have been ruled ineligible.
And the BBC begins, here: “A nine year-old [Scots] actress who plays the title role in CBeebies show, Katie Morag, has become the youngest-ever winner at the BAFTA Children’s Awards.
“Cherry Campbell was named best performer at the awards.”
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SEEN anything you think readers of www.allmediascotland.com should be made aware of? Then just send the weblink to here and we’ll do the rest. All suggestions gratefully received. We’re back at noon tomorrow.
PS Your Noon Briefing is a relatively new venture for allmediascotland.com. We are no longer going to report news, story-by-story. Instead, we are going to find content we hope will be useful, in the belief it will prove to be a more comprehensive service. | {
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‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Is a Cautionary Tale For a Dying Art Form
In a cinematic landscape awash with computer effects, the return of meticulous hand-drawn animation feels like a revelation.
As a sequel to the 1964 classic, Mary Poppins Returns spends most of its time trying to restore the lost magic of all childhoods everywhere. Eventually, it succeeds, but not in a way you will expect. The cast is charming-ish. The songs work. But the real triumph is the return of super-old school, two-dimensional Disney animation. We all may have missed Mary Poppins on the big screen, but we missed the feeling of this lost animation style much more. And this aesthetic choice makes the entire movie.
Until the revelatory OG 2D animation romp, things in Mary Poppins Returns are pretty dismal. All grown-up now, son Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) is afflicted by the pressures of adulthood, and the predatory plotting of Hollywood screenwriters. His wife is dead, the family’s London row house is being repossessed, and his three children, while jolly in knee-pants, are growing concerned. So descends the titular droll, supernatural nanny (Emily Blunt) from above who, as it happens, is in need of a job. “No one’s hiring nannies anymore,” whispers George’s plucky sister Jane (Emily Mortimer), now a labor organizer.
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The Second Coming of Poppins leads to some household magic (a dolphin in a bathtub! levitating papers!), and Blunt is fine, but the musical finally casts its spell when the Banks kids break a piece of china. To repair it, they must venture into the bowl, entering a Day-Glo world of prancing pachyderms, can-canning flamingos, bow-tied penguins, and labor-intensive, hand-drawn animation cells.
Finding 2D animators in the era of CGI was no simple task for the production. “A lot of them had to come out of retirement to do the movie,” director Rob Marshall told The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s just not done anymore.” Among the returning Disney legends was James Baxter, the lead designer of Belle in Beauty and the Beast.
As the sequence begins in a whirlwind of hand-drawn animated flower petals, the nostalgic experience of watching old Disney movies on the big screen comes flooding back. On a visceral level, this feels like what’s been lost in the age of Pixar. There’s a lot to love about CGI, but the one thing it doesn’t resemble is a drawing coming to life. That, in essence, is the essential magic of cartoons.
Part of the sequence’s retro charm is the enchanting blend of live-action and 2D animation, nodding back to the chalk-drawing scene in the original 1964 Mary Poppins. The mix hasn’t been done this well since Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as Blunt gets brassy with the cabaret number “The Royal Doulton Music Hall” and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s leaps up a library shelf for “A Cover Is Not the Book.” The sequence climaxes in a horse-driven chase scene that feels like an homage to the moody Victorian hues of 1949’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
Mary Poppins Returns’ story continues once the animation ends, sped along by a ticking-clock plotline. (The Banks family have to find the money to save their house by the stroke of midnight.) But, older viewers will probably wish the film could go back to Royal Doulton Music Hall, which seemed to embody the nostalgic Disney experience the movie promised in the first place.
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Nostalgia is big business. Live-action versions of Beauty and the Beast and Alice in Wonderland both grossed over a billion dollars worldwide. There are more updates on the horizon. Dumbo will get a live-action, Tim Burton remix. The Lion King redux, judging by its trailer, looks like a shot-by-shot, CGI remake of the original. Faithful, antiseptic and possibly glorious. Will 2D animation have a continued life somewhere in these franchises? It seems unlikely, which is a shame.
This kind of animation is clearly a dying art. Animator Don Bluth famously jumped ship from Disney in 1979, upset at what he saw as the studio’s diminishing animation standards. His exodus resulted in a few children’s masterpieces: The Secret of NIMHand The Land Before Time. But, Bluth hit financial ruin with Rock-a-Doodle in 1992 and now offers 2D animation instruction on his personal website. Save for a few die-hard pencil-and-paper animators like Don Hertzfeldt — who releases a labor of love every few years — the form will almost certainly disappear in the coming decades.
Ostensibly, the message of Mary Poppins Returns is this: even in the uncertainty of adulthood, remind yourself of how the world looks from a child’s perspective. As the father of a toddler, I’ve been astounded at how much drawing kids do, and how much I’ve done myself with my daughter, returning me to part of my own childhood. For kids, drawing is everyday magic. Tellingly, a late plot-twist in Mary Poppins Returns hinges on finding a discarded childhood drawing by Michael Banks. We should hold onto our sense of childlike wonder, as Mary Poppins says. We should also not forget how to draw.
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Anissia Batra had allegedly jumped from the terrace of her house in Hauz Khas on Friday. Her family alleges she was mentally and physically tortured for dowry.
Anissia Batra with her husband Mayank Singhvi in February 2016.
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New Delhi: The husband of the flight attendant who allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the terrace of her residence in south Delhi's Hauz Khas was arrested on Monday evening.
According to the police, Mayank Singhvi was interrogated for one hour at the Hauz Khas police station before he was arrested. He has been booked under section 304 B of the Indian Penal Code, which relates to dowry death. He will be produced before a magistrate on Tuesday, officers said.
Anissia Batra, 32, worked with a German airline. She allegedly jumped from the terrace of her house on Friday, police said. Her husband rushed her to a nearby hospital, where she was declared brought dead.
Delhi police had earlier issued an alert against Mayank restricting his movement during the course of investigation.
The woman’s family alleged that she was mentally and physically tortured for dowry. The two had been married for two years.
Her father, a retired Army Major General, had even filed a complaint with the police last month. The family alleges she was murdered, therefore, a second post-mortem was conducted on Monday, and the procedure was videographed
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Moda Bikes product launch kicks off at Velodrome
Eurobike UK tomorrow (September 29th) takes the lid off the Moda 2011 line-up, as it holds a dealer product launch at the Velodrome.
Dealers are welcome to attend the event from 11am till late, with the launch also being held at Lakeside, Frimley Green, Surrey on Tuesday October 5th.
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Adult Caretaker Program Overworked, Underfunded
Report finds that the county office that serves as conservator for incapacitated clients is beset by problems.
The Los Angeles County agency that serves as legal caretaker for some of the area's most vulnerable adults is so chronically short of funds that it takes months to act and turns away most of those sent to it for help, an audit released Wednesday said.
The report also blamed a top-heavy structure and a "problematic management culture" for undermining the agency's efficiency and morale.
The assessment, commissioned by the Board of Supervisors and conducted by a consulting firm, concluded that without added staff and an infusion of county money, the Office of the Public Guardian's probate conservatorship program will remain plagued by problems.
The public guardian acts as conservator for 505 mentally or physically incapacitated adults, many of them elderly and indigent. Typically, they have no one else to take care of them. The agency is appointed by probate courts to manage the adults' money and daily care.
Auditors said the program receives more than 700 referrals a year from social workers, hospitals and Adult Protective Services, more than it can quickly respond to.
The agency has reduced its backlog substantially in recent months, but elderly, ailing men and women often wait up to six months for their cases to be considered, let alone taken, the report found.
The public guardian turns down 84% of the referrals, the report said, but its staff typically supervises 75 to 90 cases apiece -- twice as many as staff members at some comparable agencies surveyed and too many for work to be done "in a timely or thorough manner," the auditors concluded.
Unlike most California counties, Los Angeles County has allocated no public funds to its probate conservatorship program since the early 1990s, even though the program is the biggest in the state. Most of its funds come from charging clients for services if they can afford it and from referral fees paid by certain hospitals and Adult Protective Services to receive priority for their cases.
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Book Excerpt and Giveaway – “The Lost Dogs”
Update, 9-18-10: The winner of the book is Preston. Thank you to everyone who entered.
You may well remember the December 2008 cover article of Sports Illustrated that featured the Vick dogs and was written by Jim Gorant. The publisher of a new book by Mr. Gorant called The Lost Dogs – Michael Vick’s Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption is offering a free copy of the book to a reader. If you’d like to enter your name for the drawing, simply leave a comment on this post between now and Friday, September 17 at 11:59 p.m. I will draw one name at random and post the winner as an update to this post next weekend. Winner will also be notified privately and will need to e-mail me a mailing address so I can send that to the publisher.
Below is Chapter 1 of the book, used with permission of the publisher:
A BROWN DOG SITS in a field. There’s a collar around her neck. It’s three inches thick and attached to a heavy chain, which clips onto a car axle that’s buried so one end sticks out of the ground. As the dog paces in the heat, the axle spins, ensuring that the rattling chain won’t become entangled.
The dog paces a lot, wearing a circle in the scrubby weeds and sandy soil around the perimeter of the axle. She paces because there’s little else to do. Sometimes a squirrel or a rabbit or a snake crosses nearby and she barks and chases it, or she lunges and leaps after the dragonflies and butterfliesthat zip and flutter past.
She flicks her tail at mosquitoes and buries her muzzle in her fur, chewing at the itchy crawly things that land on her. If she’s lucky she digs up a rock that she can bat around and chew on, but otherwise there are just the weeds and the bugs and the hot sun inching across the sky.
She is not alone. Other dogs are spread around this clearing in the trees. They can see one another, hear one another bark and whine and growl, but they can’t get to one another. They can’t run, they can’t play, they can’t anything. They can get close to their immediate neighbors, stand almost face-to-face, but they can never touch, a planned positioning meant to frustrate and enrage them. For some it does; for many it simply makes them sad.
Out in the field are mothers, fathers, off spring, littermates. The families are easy to spot. There’s a group of sand-colored dogs, some with pink noses, some with black snouts. There is a group of red dogs, some small black dogs, a few white ones, a few black-and-whites. A handful of other colors and shapes are mixed in.
All are pit bulls and many have that classic pit bull look, stocky and low to the ground, front shoulders higher than haunches and a wide muscular chest that dwarfs narrow hips, so that they look as if they’re waiting for their backsides to grow into their fronts. Their necks are thick and hold up rectangular heads. Some are bigger, as big as seventy pounds,while another group is more compact, reaching maybe twenty-five pounds. These smaller ones are actually Staff ordshire bull terriers, a close relative of the American pit bull terrier.
The brown dog has a soft face, with searching eyes and an expressive brow that furls into deep ridges and undulating rolls when she’s scared or nervous or trying to figure out whether she needs to be either. Her uncropped ears rise from the top of her head until they fold over, but one of them folds differently from the other, so that it hangs lower, making her look as if she’s eternally asking a question.
To help fight the heat, there’s water spread about in large tubs, sometimes a little dirty but drinkable. Once a day a man comes to put food in the bowls. At least it’s usually once a day. Sometimes two or three days go by before the sound of his all-terrain vehicle breaks the monotony. As he gets off the vehicle and makes his way across the clearing, all the dogs run to the end of their chains, barking and wagging their tails as if they’re excited to see him. But when the man actually gets close to them, they tuck their tails and skulk away. Only after he has moved on do they creep back over to their bowls and eat.
They can’t see anything beyond the perimeter of the clearing, but they are not alone. Another clearing lies through the trees where another fifteen or so dogs live on chains, and beyond that, at the edge of the woods, is a small compound with kennels, freestanding pens, and four sheds. The buildings are small and painted pitch black, including the windows. One is two stories tall, and the men who own these sheds, who live and work here, they call that one “the black hole.”
A breeze stirs the trees—scrub pines and sugar maples, a few pin oaks. The lilt of songbirds mixes with the whine of cicadas and the low, singular whoooo, whoooo of a mourning dove. The summer heat draws moisture off the Atlantic, thirty miles beyond, adding the weight of humidity to the air.
Within the perimeter of each axle there’s a doghouse. Rough-hewn plywood structures, they provide something else for the dogs to chew on and claw at to while away the hours. They also offer a break from the sun but not much relief from the heat—just as in winter they stop the wind but don’t do much to protect against temperatures that can drop into the thirties.
Curled up in their little houses the dogs look and listen and sniff the air. They are incredibly intuitive creatures. They learn by watching—trainers sometimes let young dogs watch experienced dogs in action so they see how to behave. They can detect odors 100 million times more faint than people can. They can hear sounds at a broader range of frequencies than humans, and they can hear them from four times as far away. People who train dogs for search and rescue contend that dogs can hear a heartbeat from a distance of five feet, which gives them insight into the mood and disposition of the people and animals they come in contact with.
As pack animals, they are keenly aware of the behavior of those around them. One dog can tell what another is thinking and intending simply by observing the way he acts. When two dogs meet, there is a detailed ritual of movements and gestures. The way they hold their ears, tail, head, their posture. Everything means something. Attitudes, feelings, intentions, dominance, and submission can be established immediately. So can achallenge.
Dogs understand what’s expected of them. When people are around, dogs see what wins them rewards and praise and what leads to scorn. Something deep inside of them, woven into the very fabric of their being, a genetic impulse, compels them to please those around them. But sometimes, the things that men want from them cut against their natural inclinations, setting off an internal chain reaction of anxiety and uncertainty, triggering hormones and nervous system fluctuations. When they are extremely scared, dogs secrete a powerful musk that other dogs can smell from great distances.
The things they see and hear and smell have an impact on them, too. Studies have shown that if two mammals are placed side by side in boxes and the first one is given electric shocks, just by listening to the suffering the second one produces identical brain waves and nervous system activity; the trauma isn’t limited only to the animal that’s experiencing the pain.
Out in the field is the little brown dog with the floppy ear— none of the dogs know what’s happening around them, but they do know something isn’t right. They’ve seen things they are not supposed to see. They’ve heard terrifying sounds and they’ve smelled fear and pain drifting in the air. The brown dog lays her chin on the ground and exhales. Her brow folds into a furry question mark. The afternoon is fading and the heat has begun to fade too, but little else is certain.
Sometimes men come and take a few of the dogs away. Sometimes those dogs come back tired and panting from running and running. Sometimes the dogs come back scarred and limping. Sometimes they come back looking the same, but acting completely different. Sometimes they don’t come back at all, as if they’ve simply disappeared. As if they’ve vanished into a black hole.
This manner of manipulation is dishonest and I won’t hesitate to characterize it as part of the Big Lie spread by those who want to control animal ownership.
There may never have been a time when this kind of manipulation ever represented an honest attempt to make life better for human or beast. Maybe there is no way to tell a negative story, with or without embellishments or dishonesty, and make it part of truly beneficial social change.
We will lose more than we gain from participating in the fight against dogfighting. I hate to say that because I hate dogfighting, but doing this will feed the HSUS, it will feed the system of abuse of animal owners, and we will gain nothing. What we might have gained the manipulators will take from us before we can even get a grip on it.
Yes, if we stop dog fighting, we’re totally contributing to the abuse of animal owners. For sure. Because that’s totally logical. I feel totally abused!
You’re right though, we won’t gain anything from fighting against dog fighting. Probably because we’re not the ones being abused by it. I could be wrong, but I *think* the hope is that the dogs will gain.
“People who train dogs for search and rescue contend that dogs can hear a heartbeat from a distance of five feet.”
That’s not an assertion of fact, but an anecdote from people who train S&R dogs. Powerful rhetoric, but if you took it for a fact, maybe you need to brush up on your reading skills.
I also could not find a citation for the first, but will hope to find one in the book since the citations are not printed here.
I agree that the story could be told without including those two since they hold no bearing on whether or not it was appropriate to use and keep these dogs in this manner. It wasn’t wrong because they have a good sense of smell or hearing, but because it caused them pain and suffering, no? It’s too bad we can’t all just accept that.
I’m a SAR handler for 19 years. It’s a small community, as it happens.
Married to a science writer / SAR handler who also happens to hold a doctorate in receptor biochemistry, and to be a rather acknowledged expert on the current science of canine olfaction.
“100 million times.” Sorry. No.
“People who train dogs for search and rescue say…”
Which “people?” Do they have names? If they do have names, do they really train SAR dogs? If they do have names, and do really train SAR dogs, on what basis could anyone make such a specific statement about another creature’s auditory powers? Can a blind anosmic dog hear a heartbeat in the absence of the breathing of the owner of said heart, for example? How does such a statement make sense?
The sensory talents of a variety of animals are sufficiently impressive that there is no need to resort to hyperbole to make that point.
Very specific and totally unverifiable numbers are a field mark of bullshit.
For example, I have no way of putting a number on how powerful a grizzly bear’s olfactory sense is. I have heard, but not verified, that grizzly bears can accurately identify, presumably by smell, the contents of a sealed steel can, popping open only those cans that contain things that grizzly bears like. If I was going to write a polemic about the wonderfulness of grizzly bears, I’d probably check out that story and perhaps share that if it holds up to scrutiny. No need to invent some meaningless number that goes with it.
Now, where I see intellectual laziness — the carelessness that comes from believing that facts should never get in the way of a good story, and that stories about animals are by definition “soft” and so can be treated in a loosey-goosey manner when it comes to the facts — Tom sees a well-oiled PeTA conspiracy. Tom is, of course, quite insane.
In case it was not obvious, please do enter me in the raffle. I will also post a review. I was very kindly-disposed to the idea of this book, and could still be won over, but am at this time provisionally disappointed.
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Sure, I’d read it, and share it with others too; to help spread the word about the plight (and maligning) of pit bulls and other dogs who are kept solely “outside” on a tether. Please enter my name in the drawing.
Maybe overestimating a dog’s abilities will make some who are apathetic towards dogs just that much more empathetic. And perhaps more humans will have compassion instead of callous hate towards the welfare of those dogs in the future.
Just a thought.
What they’re doing is preparing the reader to be hypersensitive and easier to manipulate. They’re pulling imaginary senses out and directing those sentences to focus on dark horrors, persuading the reader to amplify on those horrors.
If those horrors really were so bad maybe we wouldn’t need a magnifying glass. I see an abusive relationship here, treating the reader as if he or she can’t see the emperor’s new clothes without allowing the writer to improve his or her vision.
Emily, I ask people not to allow themselves to be manipulated and to refrain from giving anything, including garbage, to career criminals and thieves. You then draw the conclusion that I support dogfighting and you express your disapproval of that in a less than edifying manner.
If you wish to live as a push-button toy for the animal rights activists and the worst people our generation will encounter in our own country, please feel free, but I am going to tell you off when you talk to me like that.
If we cannot allow ourselves to take back our rights by denying the HSUS participation in actions against dogfighters, and if we cannot allow ourselves to allow due process of the law for dogfighters, and if we cannot allow ourselves intelligent discussion of the subject, then we will not have our rights as animal owners. It’s that plain and simple.
If we are being swindled “for a good cause” we are still being swindled and used, and we still cannot trust the swindlers and users.
That statement that I am “indifferent to suffering” is just a rock for you to throw at me. Have it back with interest. You are indifferent to people being robbed at gunpoint and all of us being manipulated.
If they are telling the truth and if they have the best interests of the animals at heart they do not need to manipulate and otherwise mistreat people. And you are manipulating me and the rest of the readers when you accuse me of being “indifferent to real suffering.”
Elizabeth Reuning
EmilyS
H makes some excellent points. And considering the horrific conditions under which these poor dogs led their horrific lives, it’s really not even necessary to gin up impressive “facts” to generate more sympathy
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Sandy
Please enter me in the drawing, I have followed the plight of these dogs, the pit bull breed in itself is a very interesting and very misunderstood breed. To see where they were to where some of them are now is amazing.
I would love to win this book in the drawing. I’m obsessed with reading, and I’m starting a new website that will be filled with positive pit bull press and media. I have a pit bull and the frustrations with having to find a place to live have been excruciating. I would like to help transform societies perceptions of pits as “bad” and “dangerous” dogs.
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I am so happy that a book was made from that beautiful and heart breaking SI article. I cannot wait to read this as I feel for these dogs on such a deep level. I think it is so great that the world is becoming more aware of the problems faced in the world of animal cruelty. Thank you.
So Houlihan thinks I’m insane? Emily thinks that if she calls me names she will negate my reasoned approach to all of this. Several people seem to think that the HSUS and PETA are other than criminal organizations.
The emotional manipulation in that excerpt in the book is dishonest. Dishonesty does not “just” cause well-deserved loss of credibility. It also causes people, many of whom are quite innocent of any form of animal abuse, to be robbed at gunpoint and abused and their lives broken.
Those who use dishonesty do not deserve to win their fight, even if it is against animal abuse. There will be no victory, just a perpetual pogrom against any “suspect” animal owners and yes it will screw us all over.
EmilyS
Tom, please do share with us a single word of sympathy you have expressed for the dogs.
Your outrage at some writer’s exaggeration in an insignificant statement is intense. Your outrage at Vick and his kind? crickets ………. crickets. I’m thinking you’re one of those who would actually prefer the dogs to die, to keep them out of the hands of people like me.
I don’t know you, but I know YOUR kind. I’ve been reading your kind of crap for over 15 years. Faux disavowal of support for dogfighters. Praise for the noble “dogmen”. A PETA/HSUS conspiracy under every bush… blah blah blah.
Thankfully the tide has turned. No-one has the nerve to publicly uphold “dogmen.” Now we focus on the dogs. And yes we CAN discriminate between the unfair treatment of Bob Stevens or Floyd Boudreaux and the properly harsh treatment of Michael Vick. And guess what: you and your kind did NOTHING to help save Boudreaux’s or Faron’s dogs. Thanks to the dogmen apologists like you who enabled HSUS hate for fighting dogs, those dogs were doomed. It was the girly sentimentalist/”manipulators” who did the work of humiliating HSUS into changing their public position and saving Vick’s, the Missouri dogs and the latest batch and all the future ones. This isn’t about some theoretical/rhetorical danger in emotional manipulation leading to people being robbed at gunpoint. This is about saving dogs from REAL suffering.
I would not put a collar and leash on a human child, feed him raw meat, ask him to bite a goat on the nose, apply Frontline to his back, or vaccinate him for parvovirus.
Similarly, I would not subject a dog to watching Barney, the public school system, summer sleepover camp, rubella vaccine, froot rollups, or writing thank-you notes to Grandma for the $10 in his birthday card.
See? Different.
What happened to Vick’s dogs was an atrocity because it happened to dogs. Not because it would have been an atrocity if it happened to human children.
Matt
Most humans are brought up to think of their fellow living beings as “Pets”, and on a sub-concious level, the mere word “pets”, suggests that Companion Animals exist for US, so that we have someone to “pet” and keep us company……someone to “obey” us, just like egomaniacal white humans thought that they actually had superiority over black humans, and had a right to make their slaves “obey” them, and just like sexist men thought that women were created to “obey” their every order.
Whites were wrong thinking that they were “superior” to Blacks, Men were wrong thinking that they were “superior” to Women and Humans are wrong thinking that they are “superior” to our fellow Animals.
Such “superior” delusions of grandeur are based in ignorance, insecurity, and the arrogance and egotism that comes with trying to counteract our insecurities. How do you counteract feelings of insecurity? By putting yourself (or your religion, or your sex, or your race, or your SPECIES) on a pedestal. We human animals are good at that. Yet we remain equal with cats, dogs and other animals, despite our nonsensical delusions of grandeur.
When adopting a Companion Animal, the majority of humans ask “What will this cat or dog do for ME”? rather than asking the correct question, “What can I do for this cat or dog, to make THEIR life better”?
Animals, like the human animal, are living, breathing, feeling, loving, soul-filled children of God.
We are all in this together.
We all get tired, we all get wet in the rain.
We all experience loneliness, we all experience pain.
We all thirst for water, and we all thirst for love.
We are all Children of God, Who’s Angels watch over us from high up above.
We all breathe, we all play, we all feel.
We all get hungry and we all appreciate a satisfying meal.
We are all born, and we all deserve to live life.
Nobody should be left behind, or be subjected to a dissecter’s deadly knife.
We all die, and we are all born into everlasting love and life in Heaven…. in paradise.
Where, as one spiritual family, we all share love, and we all get treated nice.
In Heaven, we all gather together, one species, one race, one religion, and all of us have lots of fun.
In Heaven, we all realize, that we all are really ONE.
In fact, in Real Live Human Language, the words for things that are important to us are short. In English, the words for important things are, moreover, English words, going back in their origins to Anglo-Saxon. Love. Hate. War. Peace. Husband. Wife.
Pet.
Companion animal is long and Latinate, a construction that comes from the animal “rights” faction, the people who think we should have no contact with animals and that it’s a moral outrage to include any animals in our families. “Companion animal,” a two-word phrase with both words polysyllabic, is distancing, something that devalues emotional ties.
Pet, OTOH, is a good old English word, and a short one, like all the words that describe our most valued individuals, ideas, and relationships. “Pet” is not the word used to describe the animals whose main function is food, transportation, clothing, or farm traction. It’s not the word we use to describe animals we hunt, although that’s also a short word, “game.”
Pet is, in fact, the word we use, and have used for more than a thousand years, to describe the animals we have a different relationship, not one based on what they’re good for in “practical” terms, but a relationship grounded in mutual affection. Companionship. Love.
Never trust people who verbally beat up on you for calling your pet a pet, and want you to use a bloodless, distancing phrase like “companion animal.”
Matt
“Pet is, in fact, the word we use, and have used for more than a thousand years”
And in all of those years, humans have been murdering mere ‘pets’ in so called ‘shelters’.
Perhaps if we called them FAMILY MEMBERS, things would be different.
“Never trust people who verbally beat up on you for calling your pet a pet, and want you to use a bloodless, distancing phrase like “companion animal.”
Nobody is verbally beating up anybody. I am making a point that makes alot of sense. If your husband called you his “pet” instead of his wife, you might think twice about your marriage: “Lis, this is my friend, Joe, Joe, here is my pet, Lis”.
Of course, it’s all in the intention….some consider the term “Pet” an endearing term, in which case, awesome.
However, many people, think that ‘pets’, like a pair of shoes, can be thrown away.After all, they are mere ‘pets’. The term DOES have some disrespectful elements to it, you have to admit.
I am very familiar with Psychology, trust me…some humans use the term ‘pet’ as a way of diminishing a fellow living soul’s importance.
The word PET comes from what WE do to animals…we PET them. This implies that, that is what their purpose is…for us to be there when we want someone to pet.
Their purpose is our purpose…to live, love and be loved, not to be there when someone needs someone to “pet”.
No reason to be insecure folks…..I never said that everyone who used the term “pet” was a serial killer, who should be hung.I use it myself sometimes. I’m talking generally, about a large portion of society,the ones who find ‘pets’ dispensable, and how the word ‘pet’ often allows many in society to diminish cats and dogs equal importance to us.
I.E. “We are (almighty) humans….they are our pets” (as in “We own them, and they exist for us”, not “we exist for each other.”)
Cats and dogs arent property. Nobody truly owns them. They are their own individuals, like the rest of us.
Take the terms “Whore” and “Escort”. If a man were to call a woman in that business an “escort”, it would be an indicator of atleast a small amount of respect for the woman. The man who calls them mere “whores”, on the other hand, is, on a subconscious level, thinking very disrespectfully of them, and will probably treat them in a disrespectful manner. Not that I’m comparing cats and dogs to women of the night, who sell themselves. Cats and dogs have more dignity than that, unlike us humans.
Whatever…call your cats and dogs what you want, just as long as you dont murder them, or abandon them, I have no problem with what you call them.
I like the word “pet”. In fact, I do want to pet and give occasional kisses to my pets. Mostly though, I just like to hang with them. Not that I’d want to call them “hangs” or anything.
I’m already pretty clear on what I can do for a pet – I offer love in a structured home environment with rules and routines, delicious homemade food and treats, affection, vet care, etc. So when I am considering a pet, yeah I am thinking “What can this pet do for me”. Maybe that sounds selfish but I’m thinking in terms of making a good match that will last for the life of the pet and one that fits into our household.
Matt
As far as dogfighting goes, what I want to know is why has the scumbag Michael Vick been given his own reality show? This is how we reward animal abusers/murderers? By giving them their own TV show?
As far as you folks who say: “well, everybody deserves a second chance, you know. He’s done his time, leave him alone”……. if someone hooked your genitals up to a jumper cable and turned on the power, if someone hung you from a tree, if someone stuck your head underwater until you drowned, would you THEN support your killer’s ‘right’ to his own TV show?
Matt
I have a dog that I got from a shelter and he had been abused. He would crawl on his belly and pee as he went. He was terrified with men. He has a great little friend and the men and boys in our family took time to know him and he loves them all.
My daughter had a dog walking business for 15 years and has two dogs of her own, that I am watching for her while she has a vacation. They came from the pond as well. They have been a great addition to our family as a whole. My other daughter has a cute, goofy lab from the pond. You can put your whole had in his mouth and he wouldn’t and he wouldn’t bite you. Her four children have a great time with him.
I am so glad that you have been saved. If I win the book I would like to give it to my daugher that had the dog care business. I am sure she would really enjoy it. When she finished reading it, I am sure she would share. Thanks, Bonnie Jean | {
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Elixir of Resurrection: User is resurrected after death once automatically, with 8-15 HP (Cost: 30$) (item doesn't need to be used to work)
Canteen of Blood: Raises attack by 5-7 for 2-3 turns (cost: 10$)
Adamantine Lotion: Raises defense by 6-8 for 3-5 turns (cost: 10$)
Super-Vitamin: Each vitamin allows you to use a special ability an additional time in battle. Doesn't need to be explicitly used to work. Just use the ability for a second time, and one vitamin will be deducted. (cost: 10$)
Call Bead: one of the most powerful items in existence. This bead summons another Avatar War fighter into the fight, for a short period of time, essentially making it 2on1 for a while. The summoned person cannot be summoned against his/her will, and he/she can only use abilities/items/accessories inherent to his/her respective character. (meaning the summoned person can't use the summoner's items for him) The summoning lasts 1-3 turns. (cost: 50$)
Holy Hand Grenade: requires 3 turns to detonate. When it does, it inflicts 17-20 on all opponents. It can be diffused by inflicting 12 damage on it, and it has 12 DEF. (color: white) (cost: 20$)
Weapon Upgrade: to provide customizable weapon upgrades for players, the cost for a weapon upgrade will be 25+(Next Weapon Level*25)$. All weapons start at Level 0, so the first upgrade costs 50$. An upgrade gives you +2 attack, and you can rename your weapon to fit it's upgraded nature. Indicate the weapon's new name, when you ask me to purchase the upgrade for you.
Armor
Armor Upgrade: to provide customizable armor upgrades for players, the cost for an armor upgrade will be 25+(Next Armor Level*25)$. All armor starts at Level 0, so the first upgrade costs 50$. An upgrade gives you +2 defense, and you can rename your armor to fit it's upgraded nature. Give the new name, like with weapons.
Accessories
Necklace of Illusion: halves the size of your avatar, allowing you to go first against smaller avatars. (Cost: 20$)
Ring of Intelligence: allows each special ability to be used twice, before needing to be recharged (cost: 100$)
Belt of Strength: raises maximum HP by 5 (cost: 30$)
Plate Mail of Strength: raises maximum HP by 10 (may by used in conjunction with the Belt of Strength) (cost: 100$)
Mask of the Hydralisk: forces your opponent(s) to use the "defensive" stance always (cost: 50$)
Mask of the Sheep: forces your opponent(s) to use the "aggressive" stance always (cost: 50$)
Mask of the Peasant: forces your opponent(s) to use the "normal" stance always (cost: 50$)
Ring of Duration: doubles the duration of all spells, which have a duration higher than 1 turn. Does not apply to time-limited summonings. (cost: 40$)
Gravity Gauntlets: when you attack your opponent, he loses 1 defense for the remainder of the match. The defense drain accumulates with every attack. (cost: 50$)
Helmet of Thorns: applies a permanent "Thorns Aura" to your character, which damages the attacker with 1/4 of what he inflicts. Cannot be used in conjunction with the real "Thorns Aura". (color: yellow) (cost: 60$)
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__________________I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, - 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' - 'No', said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' - 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?' - Annie Dillard
I buy a vial of life. Note that I do this BEFORE I am giving my first command in the battle of chao and me, so I can use it there if neccessary.
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Something different from this: Can one sell items too?
another EDIT:
Necklace of Illusion: halves the size of your avatar, allowing you to go first against smaller avatars. (Cost: 20$)
This does not take away any HP bonusses or grants the opponent a bigger HP bonus right? I mean, does it only work at your own benefit, that is, for the determination of who strikes first, your size is halved?
as for the necklace of illusion, I never even thought about it that way. I'll think about it a bit. It is a fairly cheap item, so I can't have it being that powerfull... I think that it decreases the size of your avatar for all purposes, so if you only get it if you really have a reason to want first strike most of the time.
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Originally Posted by Pellanoras for the necklace of illusion, I never even thought about it that way. I'll think about it a bit. It is a fairly cheap item, so I can't have it being that powerfull... I think that it decreases the size of your avatar for all purposes, so if you only get it if you really have a reason to want first strike most of the time.
__________________I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, - 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' - 'No', said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' - 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?' - Annie Dillard
__________________I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, - 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' - 'No', said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' - 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?' - Annie Dillard
__________________I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, - 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' - 'No', said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' - 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?' - Annie Dillard | {
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For the Twisted Fairytale challenge .The background made from my photo of Cholmondely Castle not far from me.Image from the internet .Lighting and effects from PS10 Elements from Lindalou`s Gothic Illusion kit . | {
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree
Marco Polo, in his travel notes, wrote of Kublai Khan's massive capital, Xanadu. Now Chinese archaeologists believe they can reconstruct a layout of the city. The basis for their claim is a three-month long excavation of Yuan Shangdu, which they think is the historic Xanadu.
Shangdu was built in 1256 by Kublai Khan, the first emperor of Yuan Dynasty. The recent dig has led to the discovery of moat and one of the largest buildings in the city. "We found the royal mansion of Muqingge built on a drained lake is of Han nationality characters, since the Mongolian emperor mainly deployed Han workers to build Shangdu," said Yang Xingyu, a senior archaeologist with the Inner Mongolia regional bureau of cultural relics. | {
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Background and rationale Neonates admitted to intensive care units undergo many painful procedures Painful procedures include, for many of the ICU neonates, a tracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation Pain and stress induced by mechanical ventilation and repetitive procedures or painful diseases have led to the use of sedation and analgesia in some centers The difficulty of pain measurement has probably contributed to a wide variety of neonatal sedation and analgesia practices Secondary hypothesis: Non ventilated babies are not sedated.
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Practices across Europe and USA Data on sedation and analgesia practices in ventilated neonates are very rare SOPAIN study (1995) in USA: Factors predicting the use of on-going analgesia and sedation in neonates included: mechanical ventilation, higher gestational age, and male gender French EPIPPAIN study (2005): the rate of continuous sedation and analgesia varied among centers between 16.7% to 90.9% To date, there are no data permitting the comparison of neonatal pain management within the European countries The availability of these data will enable comparison of practices with state-of-the-art knowledge
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Main objective and type of study Main objective To determine the current clinical practices regarding the use of sedative and analgesic drugs for ventilated and non ventilated newborns in different countries in Europe Type of study Epidemiological observational study The EUROPAIN STUDY will not interfere with routine practices of participating units No changes in diagnostic, therapeutic or any managing strategy of patients are imposed All treatments are authorized for included neonates since this study does not include any intervention
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Inclusion criteria All neonates up to a corrected age of 44 weeks post conception (ventilated AND non ventilated) Examples: A baby of 40 weeks gestational age can be included up to 28 days (4 weeks) of post natal age A baby of 32 weeks gestational age can be included up to 12 weeks of post natal age
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Data collection Duration of data collection for every infant: 28 days Data collection stops before 28 days if the infant leaves the unit (discharge, death, transfer to another unit or hospital) Collected Data: demographic data, modes of respiration, continuous or intermittent sedative, analgesic or neuro-blocking drugs, pain assessment and drug withdrawal practices. Data will be entered on a secured web-based questionnaire The electronic data collection forms will be completed by the unit nurse or physician coordinator or the person that they will designate. For each center, the duration of the inclusion period will be one month The date of the start of inclusion will be communicated by the Principal investigators and the NPI
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Timeline illustrating inclusion period Timeline illustrating an example of data collection periods for three infants (black bars) No infant is included after the one-month inclusion period but can, once included, generate data for a maximum of four weeks
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Ethical issues The Protocol has been approved by Local Ethics committees in France and all participating countries The French Database has been declared to Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) that is responsible for ensuring that information technology remains at the service of citizens, and does not jeopardize human identity or breach human rights, privacy or individual or public liberties No nominal data is sent for the analysis database The study will be registered in “Clinicaltrials”
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Coordination of the study MONITORING PANEL (Paris) Monitors the progress of the study Ensures communication with all the participating units Constituted by 2 persons working full-time during the study period in Paris Under the responsibility of EUROPAIN STUDY principal investigators. Monitors the start of the study in each unit Contacts and exchanges with local coordinators Follows the rate of inclusions and helps with difficulties that may appear Center (Unit) Coordination Conducted by the local nurse and medical coordinator In contact with the National Principal Investigator (NPI) for issues dealing with national coordination and with the "Monitoring Panel" for technical or conceptual issues Country Coordination NPI ensures that the maximum of eligible units of the country participate NPI coordinates with the principal investigators the preparation of participating units and the study period for recruiting patients
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Organization at the unit level A nurse and physician coordinator as well as a person to double- check (self-audit) a sample (10%) of files will be designated for each unit. A web site has been created to post educational material for the studywww.europainsurvey.eu The website allows to download all documents necessary for the study The nurse and physician coordinator inform the unit staff about the study A poster presenting the study will be distributed to all centers The medical coordinator or a person that he (she) will chose will enter the data from the patient’s file into the web-based database The physician coordinator will report general statistics of the unit like number of beds, number of admission, year ventilator-days Every unit will also report existing guidelines on sedation and analgesia
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Expected results and potential implications This study will show the rate of sedation analgesia in NICUs across Europe This study will reveal the differences among countries concerning the type of analgesics and sedatives used for neonates admitted to intensive care units The results of each unit will be sent to Unit coordinators as well as global results of the whole country (benchmarking) The neonatal network created during this study as well as the dissemination of the EUROPAIN STUDY results will allow the improvement of neonatal pain management in Europe The availability of these data will enable comparison of practices with state-of-the-art knowledge
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Data entry Data will be entered in a web-based database (Voozanoo tool) available at Electronic forms are available in English and in every participating country language Data will be entered locally in each center by the medical coordinator or the person that he will choose The verified databases will be exported to the “Monitoring Panel” in Paris The exported databases will contain neither last name nor first name of the patients Records are identified by an automatically generated number
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Website: It allows access to: the electronic form all useful an updated information | {
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SEPG Latin America 2011 is Coming to Lima, Peru
August 11, 2011—SEPG Latin America 2011 will be held November 2-3, 2011 in Lima, Peru, on the premises of the National Society of Industries in the business heart of the city. Sponsored by the European Software Institute and supported by the Software Engineering Institute, 2011 marks the seventh annual gathering of systems and software process improvement community of Latin America. With an emphasis on learning and networking, this year’s conference will offer attendees the opportunity to gain knowledge from their peers, share experiences, and develop skills to achieve better business results and reach higher performance levels.
The SEPG Latin America 2011 conference is one of the most important events taking place in the Latin American market in the field of software engineering and management practices related to the development of software and systems. The adoption of best practice models such as CMMI, PSP, TSP, ISO ITIL and other standards is a reality in many companies throughout Latin America, this is one of the markets having a greater growth in companies that are implementing these models and best practice benchmarks. This is giving recognition to the capacity and know-how of companies within the industry and is positioning itself as a reference elsewhere in the world.
SEPG Latin America 2011 is aimed at professionals involved in activities of systematic improvement of people, processes, and technologies in organizations where software is key to business success. SEPG Latin America 2011 is geared toward both experienced specialists and those who are getting started in software processes and systems.
The themes and topics to be explored during SEPG Latin America 2011 include
effectiveness and practicality in multi-model environments
software processes and global competitiveness
process improvement services environments and product acquisition
safety unit--safe and reliable condition
servicing software factory mode
software process in SMEs
quantitative project management and high maturity
aligning metrics with business objectives
experiences, case studies, and business results
strategy for the implementation of associated projects in multi-model environments
More information on the technical program, registration, speakers, and sponsors is available at http://www.sepgla.com. | {
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My Problem
had to put in a new hard drive. got quoted $350 for a repair shop to do the job. Yikes! Ordered from ifixit, went through the online tutorial, and finished in less than an hour! total cost was less than $90.
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My Problem
I've had my Macbook Pro for a few years now and whilst nothing was wrong with it apart from being sluggish over the years, I decided to refurbish it over purchasing a new one. Finding the right replacement RAM and Hard Drive to suit my Macbook was relatively easy on the iFixit website and they have the right tools, which makes repairs or upgrades so much more efficient.
My Fix
The upgrade parts and tools from iFixit arrived within 10 days to Fiji and with the online downloadable guides from the iFixit website, everything was too easy. I think I was done in 15 mins. This is my second DIY with iFixit without any issues...Awesome.
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I would only suggest you get every detail right with whatever you are trying to fix or replace before you order parts and everything should be ok.
My Problem
Blinking ? Thought it was the hard drive. It's got to last one more year. Plugged in a bootable backup but couldn't see the hard drive to repair or diagnose so decided to replace it. Turns out it was the Hard Drive Cable. Works fine now and I have a spare Hard Drive just in case.
My Fix
Went pretty well. I had most of the tools already but good idea to buy the spudger. I used a 00 phillips to open the case. The one that most people might not have is the tiny star-shaped screwdriver to get the screws out of the side of the hard drive. It took maybe 20-30 minutes because I really took my time and checked each step to be sure I was doing it correctly. By the time I replaced the cable, it went even more quickly.
My Advice
Be patient. Do unplug the battery even though it looks like an optional step. Have a safe place to set the screws and keep track of where each one was exactly. The ones on the side of the case seem a little different and go at a very slight angle. Would have been nice to have an antistatic mat but luckily I didn't fry anything this time.
My Problem
The 15"MacBookPro which I sold to a friend last year and he brought it back in March saying it sometimes wouldn't boot and was making grinding noises. OH NO! Thankfully there was nothing important on it. I couldn't even get to reinstall OS X.
My Fix
After ordering a new HDD, I replaced the old one. A simple and straightforward task. I had added memory the year before. Reinstalled OS X. Hey now it even has Yosemite!!
Along with installing some other programs, I say it took about 2 hrs.That included installing Yosemite twice as I was installing from a flash drive and it rebooted before I could stop it.
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My Problem
The story is simple but hey, why not share. So my 10 year old son is sitting on my stool displacing the organized chaos called my desk. He starts going thru the middle drawer and finds a pair of cow magnets I got years ago. He then comes up with the bright idea to see if he can hold one magnet and make the other move... FROM OPPOSITE SIDES OF MY LAPTOP!
My Fix
Figuring I'm responsible for NOT teaching him that magnets and hard drives don't mix, I drop the $80 for a new 500gb replacement and I have him install it. He LOVED taking the laptop apart and putting the new one in! It was a simple swap and restore, took him 15 minutes.
My Advice
Teach your kids NOT to put magnets around electronics!
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My Problem
The hard drive on my macbook pro was on life support, so I put it out of my misery. I was persuaded by the Genius tending the Genius Bar that I was capable of performing the replacement surgery myself.
My Fix
The transplant operation went very smoothly. How novel to have the diagrams in the replacement guide look exactly like what I was seeing inside my computer.
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Hard Drive was too full to Update or Even Backup ... 250Gb
My Fix
Bought a 500GB drive and rolled up my sleeves .. .. OOPs the guide called for lots of hardware I didn't have. The Driver kit was bought to replace the internal battery on my stepson's powerbook, but i was glad I had it when I got to the itty bitty screws on the hard drive.
Back to my problem .... Trust The Creators .. Trust .. plug in a terabyte USB drive and make a time machine backup .. then check it (amazing idea-but always, always check your backups LOL)
Apple has a boot to Lion partition creator that i skipped the step on, the terabyte, i made a partition with the Lion Boot Installer that will autorun the image.
so with a lump in my throat I turned of the computer, pulled out the battery, unplugged the power cable and removed the screws from the hard drive. It unplugged easily, plugged the new one in, it was much thinner than the old one. Remembered to replace the little berry screws that hold it in place and slip it into it's spot to the left of the battery compartment.
All tucked in and tight, battery back in, power cable back on. Cover on, turned over, USB drive back on with the boot drive on it and the backup, hit the power button.
Success, Apple logo, a little slower than usual, but there, get to the screen that lets me format the hard drive. Thought I needed to do that. Found out later this was an extra step, I could have skipped this, when time machine went to reinstall, it formatted the drive over again.
After all this it asked me if i wanted to reinstall from Time Machine, I say Yes, and it goes on to a two hour reformat and reinstall into the 500GB hard drive.
After all that is done, everything is perfect.
all done and good.
by the way, the first battery I received did not charge, and they sent out a second one right away and it was fine.
all is fine and good, the other repair to the powerbook was easy and the battery was fine there also.
the 54 bit driver kit is something to have around or maybe glued under your dash, one under lock and key in your garage ... looks like you don't want to lend it.
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Don't wait, fix stuff
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In the past, our son would toss his MacBook around when done using it. Such as slamming the top closed then immediately tossing it on the couch or bed. We all know that's a no-no without letting the drive spin down first. There were even a couple of times when it actually hit the floor or fell out of his book bag. The Apple folks were wanting to charge upwards of $500 to replace the drive but suggested to get it and replace it ourselves.
My Fix
The repair was slick and easy. Followed the instructions and a few screw turns later it was in and following the IFixIt instructions on installing a new OS X on there through the recovery option, the Mac was up and running within a couple of hours.
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My Problem
My wife"s Mac needed a ram boost and my old mac needed the same plus a Hard drive upgrade from 120GB to 500GB
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access to service information, security updates, and
replacement parts.
If you agree with us, find out who represents you in the
Massachusetts legislature. Tell them you support the
bipartisan Digital Right to Repair Bill. Tell them that you
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Words I Am Seeking To Live By
"There is something in each day that can bring gratitude and joy if only we will see it."
~President D. Uchtdorf
And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more.
~Doctrine and Covenants 78:19
My DO List
DO Respect the parenting style of others especially if you can see the flaws in their style. Parents need lots of encouragement and support...not criticizm and judgement!
DO make a conscious effort to notice the efforts of others.
DO forgive and DO your very best to forget.
DO send handwritten Thank You notes.
There is something in each and every person you meet to inspire you...DO tell them.
DO Love Children(0-21) Naughty or Nice. Remember they are trying desperately to figure it all out.
My Kids Say the Darndest Things
2013 - Joaquin randomly repeats a line from JT's song "Mirrors" during our Sunday School class - "Tomorrow is a Mystery" and his little friend beside him looks at him and says "No, its not! Tomorrow is Monday". 3/09 - Me: "Joaquin what is that on your face?" (He had a black smudge of somekind). Joaquin, "It's my skin".
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Years ago Caprece and I began a tradition of making sugar cookies during the holidays. We always involved the girls – Chancey, Lilah, and Livvy. We would roll them out, cut out fun holiday shapes, and bake them. Caprece would whip up a bowl of her specialty frosting and we would decorate them. Of course, we always kept a bit of the frosting and a few undecorated ones just for Matt. They kept fresh longer that way. They made a great late night snack for him thoughout the week. That is if he didn't eat them all at once...they are very hard to resist.
It never seems quite like Christmas until I’ve made a batch. This year is no exception. I was thinking about her and all the fun times we had. How blessed I am to have not only a best sister but a very best friend! I want my boys to grow-up hearing about their Aunt Caprece. So it was decided F.H.E. it would be and this time I involved my boys. They loved it especially my Zeke who is only 22 months. See for yourself. Oh, and although it goes without saying. These cookies are melt in your mouth, can’t stop with just one…good.Sour Cream Sugar Cookies (Nicole White - Precie's friend)2 cups sugar2/3 cup butter3 eggs1 tsp vanilla1 cup sour cream5 cups of flour2 tsp baking powder1 tsp baking soda1 1/2 tsp salt2 tsp nutmegDirections:Cream butter and sugar; add beaten eggs and sour cream. Beat well. Add dry ingredients. Chill for 30 min to hour. Roll and cut out. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 min or until lightly brown. | {
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Working life is tough for men too – ‘Gender equality should cut both ways’ – Leimon
by: Averil Leimon, director of The White Water Group
The modern business world is a rapidly evolving one with the traditional gender roles merging as workplace boundaries blur and eventually vanish. But where does this leave the established male role models?
Rapist footballers, high profile paedophiles, corrupt sporting officials, questionable bankers, bullying politicians – life is full of examples of men behaving badly.
So, what is going on and is something going wrong with men? Above all, where is the debate about what it means to be a man today?
Women are becoming increasingly vocal again about the value they bring to organisations, their changing roles, key strengths and the need for fairness.
For some men, this can be a threat to their masculine values and the way of doing things that they have held to all their lives – working hard, following stoically in the footsteps of fathers and grandfathers, despite a changing social landscape.
Positive equality
Gender equality threatens emasculation if classic male qualities are undervalued, and even ridiculed, especially if women are clearly competing for jobs.
It is in the best interest of both genders to respect and value the other’s characteristics. Otherwise all that is happening is a reversal of the polarity of prejudice.
The strengths we traditionally celebrate in men in business are bravery, focus, stoicism, ambition and determination. While these strengths are often rewarded with success, position and power, they come at a cost.
Working long hours destroys opportunities for intimacy and a replenishing hinterland. Continually climbing the ladder can leave relationships behind and cause Imposter Syndrome, stress and gradual, terminal dissatisfaction.
Evolving roles
Younger men are changing. Men are more engaged in childcare, housework and domestic decisions.
They want a more significant role in family life but this is still often ignored by their employers.
The restraints of the way many organisations currently function make it difficult for men as well as women to have full and satisfying lives, even when there is legislation to allow for it; parental leave, flexible working and remote working are all great if you can run the gamut of teasing and career-limiting disapproval that many experience.
The balance has shifted for Millenials and for those families where women have careers.
However, less change is visible at the most senior levels of the corporate world where a generation of ‘sleeping beauties’ exist – well educated, professional women who have given up their own careers to raise children and support ambitious, well paid men.
This group is becoming more outmoded but still has little conception of the lives of either the men or the women below them in the organisation.
Future generations
Now girls outperform boys at school. More girls will go to university and will graduate with better degrees.
Women are advancing into classically male domains, for example this year there will be more female than male doctors qualifying.
Men are not being encouraged to expand their own horizons despite the decline of traditionally male areas of employment such as manufacturing.
While movements like #thisgirlcan are long overdue, there is no equivalent for boys.
There are other issues too: past male supremacy has cost men dear in terms of extreme pressure and health risks. Suicide is now the biggest killer of men under 35 in Britain, taking more lives than car accidents, cancer or heart disease.
Its incidence in men has risen dramatically due predominantly to cultural change.
Visible answers
Gender equality should cut both ways – ensuring equal opportunities for men and women to have successful careers and satisfying professional lives.
Many men have never really felt they had a choice to do things differently because, to borrow a phrase from the women’s movement, “you can’t be what you can’t see”.
To make this new masculinity visible to men who want to change we need to address some important questions and celebrate the answers:
Where are the good male role models who can be an inspiration for change?
Where are the good fathers who raise respectful boys and confident girls?
Where are the good leaders who demonstrate their values through their behaviour?
Where are the modern male role models who embody the best aspects of masculinity?
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