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- Special Sections - Real Estate A series of three wet, warm storms were set to hit Mammoth and the Eastern Sierra before Monday, dumping several inches of rain on lower elevations and several feet of snow in the mountains. Meteorologists on Thursday projected winds that could kick up to 60- to 100-miles-an-hour. Weather watchers also had their eyes on the possibility of localized flooding. The storms started their run at the region Wednesday morning when a subtropical, â€śatmospheric riverâ€ť hit a big low pressure system off the West Coast, then moved inland across the Central Valley and then up along the spine of the Sierra. Although the stormsâ€™ collective bullseye was projected to be north of Mammoth, near Sonora Pass or possibly the Lake Tahoe area, Reno National Weather Service meteorologist Bryan Brong said Mammoth was set to get wet. â€śDonâ€™t worry, you wonâ€™t get left out of this one,â€ť he said. â€śThere is a lot of moisture in this system. Itâ€™s one of the biggest weâ€™ve seen this time of year in several years.â€ť The storms are unusual in that they are arriving with temperatures in the high 40s and low 50sâ€”meaning much of the predicted moisture will likely fall as rain, not snow, due to the much higher snow levels associated with warm storms. In Mammoth, Public Works Director Ray Jarvis said his crew was ready, more or less, for whatever might happen. â€śBasically what we do, prior to winter really setting in, is going out and clearing out all our culverts. Frankly, we didnâ€™t get them all done this year because of lack of manpower and the workload. We hit the ones we know generally get clogged up, so weâ€™re OK with that. â€śThe other thing we normally do, especially if weâ€™re expecting a hydrologic event when youâ€™re going to get a let of water coming through town, and Iâ€™m not sure thatâ€™s going to happen, but on Joaquin, we have a diversion structure south of Dorrance and north of Meridian, where we can control the flow of water that comes down through that creek. â€śNormally it will go diagonally through the Sierra Valley sites. Weâ€™ve closed that because that channel canâ€™t handle a lot of water. So itâ€™ll go into a storm drain on Dorrance and Joaquin, down behind Center Street and then down into the main storm drain, so thatâ€™s done.â€ť Jarvis said residents also could be proactive on their own, with help from the town and its supply of storm materials. â€śThe other thing we like to make available is our cinder shed. We have sand bags down there. If people feel like they need to grab some sandbags, especially for problem areas, they can do that. Itâ€™s at our yard on Commerce Drive [Industrial Park]. â€śAcross from the main building, thereâ€™s a shed where we keep all our cinders out of the weather. There are cinders, bags, and shovels. Weâ€™d like to do this kind of work ourselves, but we donâ€™t have time to do it.â€ť Flooding is the biggest threat below 8,000 feet. A more typical pattern for Mammoth in late November/early December is colder storms, where the snow level is lower. The second storm was forecast to come in Thursday evening and last into Friday (Nov. 30), Brong said, accompanied by high winds and a mix of blowing snow and rain. The third, likely to be the biggest snow producer for the Mammoth area, is forecast to arrive Saturday evening and last into much of Sunday. Although that storm is the biggest of the three and the coldest, it is also coming at the tail end of the five-day system, making it hard to pinpoint how much snow the area will get, Brong said. Predictions for snow on top of Mammoth Mountain ranged between two to five feet by the end of the five-day system, depending on where the storm comes in and exits. Three main variables could cause some trouble for communities and travelers, Brong said. First, the storms were slow moving, meaning they were set up over a region, taking their time before moving out. The second, the storms were uncharacteristically warm for this time of year, meaning much of the moisture is projected to fall as rain, not snow, except at the higher elevations. Third, the storms were coming in with very high winds, as much as 100 miles an hour at the top of Mammoth Mountain and as much as 75 miles an hour in canyons and other areas that tend to funnel wind, such as Walker Canyon. â€śFor anyone travelling U.S. 395, the wind could be a big problem,â€ť said Brong. Downed trees and tree limbs were another possible effect from the wind, and with it, possible power outages. â€śAll of my people are on call throughout this week and I have a few from another department that are licensed to drive our big vehicles also on call,â€ť said Jeff Walters, the countyâ€™s roads and maintenance supervisor. Sandbags are ready to go should they be needed, he said. Landslides are another possible problem in the county, where roads run under steep, boulder-strewn slopes. Areas like the Twin Lakes area west of Bridgeport and Lower Rock Creek Road and parts of Crowley Lake Drive (the portion between Crowley Lake and Aspen Springs) are prone to rock falls and/or landslides. Walters said his crews would be making runs through those areas every day, removing rocks and debris.
It might begin with something as simple as an insult. “You’re fat.” “You can’t do anything.” “You are ugly.” “Nobody likes you.” The abuse might worsen—getting ganged up on, being hit, being beaten up. It might get even worse—midnight texts that denigrate, insult, terrify. Emails that do the same. In a world of instant and constant communication, the end of the school day is no relief. It all might sound like no big deal. After all, “kids will be kids,” right? They will grow out of it, right? They are just words, right? But the price of bullying is higher than most people can imagine. Every 30 minutes in this country, a child commits suicide because they have been bullied past the point of tolerance—and that doesn’t count the countless numbers who dread going to school each day, or whose performance suffers at school due to the stress of being bullied, according to national mental health sources. Which is why local teacher and speech therapist Dee DiGioia has been working during recess and her spare time on what she calls her “Peace Project,” an anti-bully program that helps students deal with being bullied and seeks to prevent bullying from happening in the first place. She did a school-wide assembly last year. She calls Peace Project “a recess alternative for kids to participate in activities such as learning sign language and playing games. It’s in a safe environment for those who don’t always have positive experiences on the playground because this is where many of the problems occur.” DiGioia, a Mono County Office of Education language speech therapist who works in the schools, said she has had many students come to her afraid. “I had a little girl come to me recently, just absolutely shaking,” she said. “She was truly fearful because the kids had ganged up on her and she didn’t know what to do. No one should feel alone in this.” DiGioia decided to take it one step further this year. She made a bullying awareness movie called “Which Side Will You Chose.” The movie premiers at the Edison Theatre this Saturday. Volunteer actors were Melanie Moyer, Kendall Lach, Maya Weber, Jamie Peabody, Cassidy Moyer, Lisbeth Perez, Gregory Young, Blaire Lee, Noelle Deinken, and Grant Bentley. “Which Side Will You Chose” is aimed at elementary students and features almost a dozen local actors, including several students from both Mammoth Elementary and Mammoth Middle schools who have never acted before. It is set in an elementary school with one student mercilessly bullying another student, calling her names and pushing her. DiGioia based the movie on an anti-bullying concept called “bucket dipping” where students can either fill a bucket with good words and actions, or dip into a bucket with their negative words and actions. The movie is broken down into several sections, which can be used as teaching guides for classrooms, DiGioia said. DiGioia said the movie project took a lot of work by community members, including Noelle Deinken, president of Sunrise Rotary (who acted in the play and gave a donation to help the project); Mammoth Hospital, which allowed the film to be shot in one of their rooms; and many others, including the parents who got their children to all the rehearsals. But there’s a problem. Last week, DiGioia was informed she could no longer do her bullying awareness work at the school during school hours, nor could the movie be shown there. “I was told this wasn’t part of my job description and that I had to stop doing Peace Project,” she said. “It was one of the saddest days of my life, to go to the students last week and tell them we could no longer meet and do Peace Project. They didn’t understand. They were in tears, I was in tears. I don’t understand either, but I don’t think this is right.” She noted that a bully awareness program she has been urging the school to adopt, called the Olweus system, will be instituted in the schools—but not until next year. Connie Moyer, a mother of one of two of the students who are in the movie, was puzzled, too. “My daughters came home and said, ‘Mom, there’s no place to go now,’” she said. “I called the county office of education and they said since she was not a counselor, they were exposed to liability issues, in case something went wrong. But she wasn’t counseling the kids—they have someone for that—she was doing this on her own time, as a volunteer, after seeing how much the kids were struggling. I don’t understand it.” DiGioia said the directive came down from her employer, the Mono County Office of Education. Superintendent Stacey Adler was sick Thursday when the Mammoth Times called and referred questions to Jennie Huh. “The office of education has contracted with Dee DiGioia as a speech therapist,” said Jennie Huh, the director of the county’s special education. “Case loads can be quite demanding, and her primary responsibility is to those students she is contracted to serve. She does have permission to do any activity after her contracted hours are completed, as long as the school gives permission.” Huh also added that the county’s attorney had concerns that the county could be exposed to liability, given that DiGioia is not trained as a counselor. Ana Danielson works for the county office of education and is the director for a new, statewide, multi-year initiative to help students combat mental health issues. Danielson said the office received a grant to do the Olweus system program and it will allow the schools to begin training for the program in April 2013. “The Olweus program has been shown to be effective and is backed by statistics showing its effectiveness,” Danielson said. “Bullying has been such a hot topic,” she said. “We really have to understand what it means to make sure that we know the difference between small incidents that are hurtful but might not be bullying. This program gives us that clarity.” Ann Erikson Gettis was also surprised to learn DiGioia has been prevented from continuing her work with kids during recess hours. Gettis’ son, Jeremiah, committed suicide six years ago, partly in response to being bullied. She lives in Minnesota and has a nonprofit bully awareness organization. She connected with DiGioia via Facebook and said she believes DiGioia is following well-established principles in her work. “I have been trained under the Olweus system and her work follows these principles,” she said. “When they tell her it’s not her job, that puzzles me. It’s one of the first principles of bullying awareness work. “It’s everyone’s job to prevent bullying.” IF YOU GO What: The public is invited to the premiere of "Which Team Will You Choose?” Seating is limited, reservations recommended. Call 760-934-6592. When: Saturday, Sept. 29. Two show times: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Where: Edison Theatre, 100 College Parkway, Mammoth Lakes. For more information about the movie, go to email@example.com Characters and volunteer actors: Kiara (student target of the bullying): Melanie Moyer Tina (student who is bullying): Kendall Lach Jess (student bystander): Maya Weber LeighAnn (student bystander): Jamie Peabody Deanna (student bystander): Cassidy Moyer Judy (student bystander): Lisbeth Perez Coach: Gregory Young BF, Bucketfiller team leader: Blaire Lee Dip, Bucketdipper team leader: Noelle Deinken Mr. Smith the Music Teacher: Grant Bentley Director and Executive Producer: Dee DiGioia
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Madman was stretching tonight, trying to work out some kinks. "Not good," he said. "Feels like there's a storm coming on." "Oh, don't say that!" I said. "You know what kind of storm it's likely to be in November." He looked at me. "What month is it?" he asked. And that's where today's title came from...
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Got some new toys for the show today… The first is a brand-spankin’ new sound system to take on the road. I’ve been playing with it all afternoon, and… I love it. It is AMAZING. If you’re in the market for a portable sound system that packs a punch, I highly recommend the YAMAHA STAGEPAS™ 500: In fact, the music store I bought it through was so impressed with it (they had never had one in-stock before, so they tested mine when it arrived), that they said they were going to stop carrying “similar” (they’re not even close) “competing” (it’s not even a competition) portable sound systems and start carrying just this one. They were gushing, basically. It’s an incredible piece of equipment for the traveling performer. The other toy I got for the show today is… ummm… one of those very inhumane steel-jaw leg-hold animal traps. Don’t judge me. You know the type of trap I’m talking about, the ones where steel jaws slam shut when the trigger is activated, slashing the skin and breaking the bones of whichever poor innocent creature happens to get too close. I don’t want to post the photos here, but if you’re sick and twisted, check out Google Images for “coyote leg trap” to see some pretty disturbing photos of the new toy I’ve been playing with. Fuck it. If you’re brave, here is a photo: I already have several (hopefully not permanent) injuries from this evil device, and I’ve only owned it for a few hours. Stay tuned for the imminent announcements of ruptured eardrums and broken fingers. Love youse. Take care.
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Provided by: linesrv-mysql_2.1.21-4.2ubuntu1_i386 linesrv.conf - Linesrv configuration file This linesrv.conf configuration file is read by the Linesrv daemon upon starting. In this file it is possible to specify all the daemon properties such as binding address, start and stop command for connection. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. linesrv is a program that... The different configuration options are: bind_to <ip addres> the IP the server is listening on (currently only one ip). Used to specify the port used to listen to clients. The port may be specified as a number.UDP port 16007 is default. If set to .Iyes only LCP3 (LineControl Protocol 3.x) clients will have access. You can control user access via the PAM system. See /etc/pam.d/linecontrol and /etc/pam.d/lcshutdown to know how limit access This file contains the linesrver pid. This file is never removed when shutting down the server, but is always over-written when the server restart. Linesrv let you to log connection time on per-user base, per-line base, and let you to calculate the costs. Furthermore the server logs the same without IP when the connection gets closed (either by ’server’ or ’manually’) remember that multiple clients can use the connection at the same time. So the sum of the secs of the clients is not the one of the ’line ...’ entries! (evidentelly... :) You can access the log by means of cgi-bin lclog or by inserting logs into a mysql db. You can find an example dump for the db in /usr/share/linesrv/mysql- linesrv.dump. To read the db you can use a php tool you can find in lclog-mysql. These scritps don’t come with this package. With this option you can specify the file from the logparser read from. The default is /var/log/linesrv/dialsrv.log With ’logfile’ you can log the ip, from time, to time and the seconds a client used the connection. You can parse the logfile with lclog, by pointing your web browser to http://<server-name>/cgi- Specify host on which the db is located Mysql connection port. The default il 3306 The username for accessing the database The passwd for db_user This is a new feature in version 2.1.0. linesrv has to be able to write/read to/from that named pipe utility with htmlstatus which you can find in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/htmlstatus can read from that pipe. Attention: htmlstatus has to be run with the same user id set as the linesrv process so it can send a SIGUSR1 to linesrv. It could be ran as root. htmlstatus will read /etc/linesrv/linesrv.conf (compiled in for security reasons) and then look for the two keywords ’pid_file’ and ’html_status’. Without these it won’t work. with filters you may decide whether a certain client may use dialsrv or not. if filter_type is allow, all clients in the list have access to the server, others don’t. If it’s deny, all but those in the list have access. Remember that UDP/IP is extremely easy to spoof. Use Clients without user accounting only on a trusted subnet and block the ’port’ at your firewall. The only option is allow. For the moment it cannot not be used filter_mask <ip> <bit-mask> filter_ip <from> <to> This options defines a netmask or a range of ip numbers that can connect to the server. It is possible to use more than once Linesrv has a nice feature that permits to shutdown remotely the box running it. It can be made by using the keyword script_shutdown. This keyword does not support command line, so you can use a wrapper found in /usr/sbin/halt-wrapper. limit_shutdown_ip <from> <to> limit_shutdown_mask <ip> <bit-mask> LineControl does also support TCP connections. They’re much harder to spoof... but some bad boy can just take your own IP... You don’t have to use filter_type or so again. The type of the shutdown-filter is always ’allow’. Only listed IPs are allowed to execute the script. The host has to pass the by filter_* specified list. So this list is additional and doesn’t replace the other one. With Linesrv you can configure several modem (or isdn) connection with several ISP. Every connection is know as "Line". Each Line has his own Define the start of Line <name>. specifies the network interface to watch to generate the How can we determine the status of the connection (only up / down). working with pppd. The network device (ex. ppp0) tells us about the connection status. If it’s up, the connection is considered as up. If not, we believe that the con is closed. scans /dev/isdninfo for the connection status. You have to supply some more information about your isdn conf. see below. file exists the connection is considered as established. Let your script delete it after it closed the connection. This should be useful for people with a cablemodem. The problem is that you will get bad throughput messages if not all of the traffic goes through the ’interface’ you specified. Probably you will specify ’eth0’ as a dummy... because you have to specify These directive shows the scripts that are used to get the interface up and down. allow_manually defines whether linesrv should close a connection that got established without that linesrv called the script_up. So if you have for example a cron job which checks for a running linesrv, you can say "allow_manually no". This way linesrv will close a line that it left open before a crash. So the line gets closed when linesrv gets restarted. attention: if you have two lines with the same con_type and the same thing that tells us whether a line is up or down linesrv will consider one line as established by the server and the other one established manually. In this case you HAVE TO SET "allow_manually yes". If not, linesrv won’t work well (it’s a bug.). after ’con_timeout’ seconds This script should establish the basic constellation so we can call script_up again. If you selected cont_type_file your up/dn scripts will have to create/remove this file. Change the filename to suit your needs. It doesn disturb as long as you’re not using ’con_type file’. set con_timeout to something like 15 if you’re using isdn after # secs, the connection-establishment gets abortet if the connection didn’t get established. DON’T set the following to ’no’! (Your clients won’t run well...) probably this keyword will disapear in a coming This manual page was written by Marco Presi <firstname.lastname@example.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). January 12, 2002 LINESRV.CONF(5)
Full disclosure: I’m the current chair of the standards group at the World Wide Web Consortium that created the newest version of RDFa, editor of the HTML5+RDFa 1.1 and RDFa Lite 1.1 specifications, and I’m also a member of the HTML Working Group. Edit: 2012-12-01 – Updated the article to rephrase some things, and include rationale and counter-arguments at the bottom in preparation for the HTML WG poll on the matter. The HTML Working Group at the W3C is currently trying to decide if they should transition the Microdata specification to the next stage in the standardization process. There has been a call for consensus to transition the spec to the Candidate Recommendation stage. The problem is that we already have a set of specifications that are official W3C recommendations that do what Microdata does and more. RDFa 1.1 became an official W3C Recommendation last summer. From a standards perspective, this is a mistake and sends a confused signal to Web developers. Officially supporting two specification that do almost exactly the same thing in almost exactly the same way is, ultimately, a failure to standardize. The fact that RDFa already does what Microdata does has been elaborated upon before: Here’s the problem in a nutshell: The W3C is thinking of ratifying two completely different specifications that accomplish the same thing in basically the same way. The functionality of RDFa, which is already a W3C Recommendation, overlaps Microdata by a large margin. In fact, RDFa Lite 1.1 was developed as a plug-in replacement for Microdata. The full version of RDFa can also do a number of things that Microdata cannot, such as datatyping, associating more than one type per object, embed-ability in languages other than HTML, ability to easily publish and mix vocabularies, etc. Microdata would have easily been dead in the water had it not been for two simple facts: 1) The editor of the specification works at Google, and 2) Google pushed Microdata as the markup language for schema.org before also accepting RDFa markup. The first enabled Google and the editor to work on schema.org without signalling to the public that it was creating a competitor to Facebook’s Open Graph Protocol. The second gave Microdata enough of a jump start to establish a foothold for schema.org markup. There have been a number of studies that show that Microdata’s sole use case (99% of Microdata markup) is for the markup of schema.org terms. Microdata is not widely used outside of that context, we now have data to back up what we had predicted would happen when schema.org made their initial announcement for Microdata-only support. Note that schema.org now supports both RDFa and Microdata. It is typically a bad idea to have two formats published by the same organization that do the same thing. It leads to Web developer confusion surrounding which format to use. One of the goals of Web standards is to reduce, or preferably eliminate, the confusion surrounding the correct technology decision to make. The HTML Working Group and the W3C is failing miserably on this front. There is more confusion today about picking Microdata or RDFa because they accomplish the same thing in effectively the same way. The only reason both exist is due to political reasons. If we step back and look at the technical arguments, there is no compelling reason that Microdata should be a W3C Recommendation. There is no compelling reason to have two specifications that do the same thing in basically the same way. Therefore, as a member of the HTML Working Group (not as a chair or editor of RDFa) I object to the publication of Microdata as a Candidate Recommendation. Note that this is not a W3C formal objection. This is an informal objection to publish Microdata along the Recommendation track. This objection will not become an official W3C formal objection if the HTML Working Group holds a poll to gather consensus around whether Microdata should proceed along the Recommendation publication track. I believe the publication of a W3C Note will continue to allow Google to support Microdata in schema.org, but will hopefully correct the confused message that the W3C has been sending to Web developers regarding RDFa and Microdata. We don’t need two specifications that do almost exactly the same thing. The message sent by the W3C needs to be very clear: There is one recommendation for doing structured data markup in HTML. That recommendation is RDFa. It addresses all of the use cases that have been put forth by the general Web community, and it’s ready for broad adoption and implementation today. If you agree with this blog post, make sure to let the HTML Working Group know that you do not think that the W3C should ratify two specifications that do almost exactly the same thing in almost exactly the same way. Now is the time to speak up! Summary of Facts and Arguments Below is a summary of arguments presented as a basis for publishing Microdata along the W3C Note track: - RDFa 1.1 is already a ratified Web standard as of June 7th 2012 and absorbed almost every Microdata feature before it became official. If the majority of the differences between RDFa and Microdata boil down to different attribute names (property vs. itemprop), then the two solutions have effectively converged on syntax and W3C should not ratify two solutions that do effectively the same thing in almost exactly the same way. - RDFa is supported by all of the major search crawlers, including Google (and schema.org), Microsoft, Yahoo!, Yandex, and Facebook. Microdata is not supported by Facebook. - RDFa Lite 1.1 is feature-equivalent to Microdata. Over 99% of Microdata markup can be expressed easily in RDFa Lite 1.1. Converting from Microdata to RDFa Lite is as simple as a search and replace of the Microdata attributes with RDFa Lite attributes. Conversely, Microdata does not support a number of the more advanced RDFa features, like being able to tell the difference between feet and meters. - You can mix vocabularies with RDFa Lite 1.1, supporting both schema.org and Facebook’s Open Graph Protocol (OGP) using a single markup language. You don’t have to learn Microdata for schema.org and RDFa for Facebook – just use RDFa for both. - The creator of the Microdata specification doesn’t like Microdata. When people are not passionate about the solutions that they create, the desire to work on those solutions and continue improve upon them is muted. The RDFa community is passionate about the technology that they have created together and have strived to make it better since the standardization of RDFa 1.0 back in 2008. - RDFa Lite 1.1 is fully upward-compatible with RDFa 1.1, allowing you to seamlessly migrate to a more feature-rich language as your Linked Data needs grow. Microdata does not support any of the more advanced features provided by RDFa 1.1. - RDFa deployment is broader than Microdata. RDFa deployment continues to grow at a rapid pace. - The economic damage generated by publishing both RDFa and Microdata along the Recommendation track should not be underestimated. W3C should try to provide clear direction in an attempt to reduce the economic waste that a “let the market sort it out among two nearly identical solutions” strategy will generate. At some point, the market will figure out that both solutions are nearly identical, but only after publishing and building massive amounts of content and tooling for both. - The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG), which is responsible for ensuring that the core architecture of the Web is sound, has raised their concern about the publication of both Microdata and RDFa as recommendations. After the W3C TAG raised their concerns, the RDFa Working Group created RDFa Lite 1.1 to be a near feature-equivalent replacement for Microdata that was also backwards-compatible with RDFa 1.0. - Publishing a standard that does almost exactly the same thing as an existing standard in almost exactly the same way is a failure to standardize. Counter-arguments and Rebuttals No, this is an objection to publishing two specifications that do almost exactly the same thing in almost exactly the same way along the W3C Recommendation publication track. Protectionism would have asked that all work on Microdata be stopped and the work scuttled. The proposed resolution does not block anybody from using Microdata, nor does it try to stop or block the Microdata work from happening in the HTML WG. The objection asks that the W3C decide what the best path forward for Web developers is based on a fairly complicated set of predicted outcomes. This is not an easy decision. The objection is intended to ensure that the HTML Working Group has this discussion before we proceed to Candidate Recommendation with Microdata. <manu1> I'd like the W3C to work as well, and I think publishing two specs that accomplish basically the same thing in basically the same way shows breakage. <annevk> Bit late for that. XDM vs DOM, XPath vs Selectors, XSL-FO vs CSS, XSLT vs XQuery, XQuery vs XQueryX, RDF/XML vs Turtle, XForms vs Web Forms 2.0, XHTML 1.0 vs HTML 4.01, XML 1.0 4th Edition vs XML 1.0 5th Edition, XML 1.0 vs XML 1.1, etc. While W3C does have a history of publishing competing specifications, there have been features in each competing specification that were compelling enough to warrant the publication of both standards. For example, XHTML 1.0 provided a standard set of rules for validating documents that was aligned with XML and a decentralized extension mechanism that HTML4.01 did not. Those two major features were viewed as compelling enough to publish both specifications as Recommendations via W3C. For authors, the differences between RDFa and Microdata are so small that, for 99% of documents in the wild, you can convert a Microdata document to an RDFa Lite 1.1 document with a simple search and replace of attribute names. That demonstrates that the syntaxes for both languages are different only in the names of the HTML attributes, and that does not seem like a very compelling reason to publish both specifications as Recommendations. Microdata’s processing algorithm is vastly simpler, which makes the data extracted more reliable and, when something does go wrong, makes it easier for 1) users to debug their own data, and 2) easier for me to debug it if they can’t figure it out on their own. Microdata’s processing algorithm is simpler for two major reasons: - Microdata does not support as many features and use cases as RDFa does. - RDFa 1.1 is backwards-compatible with RDFa 1.0, which complicates the processing rules. The same is true for HTML5. The complexity of implementing a processor has little bearing on how easy it is for developers to author documents. For example, XHTML 1.0 had a simpler processing model which made the data that was extracted more reliable and when something went wrong, it was easier to debug. However, HTML5 supported more use cases and recovers from errors in cases where it can, which made it more popular with Web developers in the long-run. For what it is worth, I personally think RDFa is generally a technically better solution. But as Marcos says, “so what”? Our job at W3C is to make standards for the technology the market decides to use. If we think one of these technologies is a technically better solution than the other one, we should signal that realization at some level. The most basic thing we could do is to make one an official Recommendation, and the other a Note. I also agree that our job at W3C is to make standards that the technology market decides to use, but clearly this particular case isn’t that cut-and-dried. Schema.org’s only option in the beginning was to use Microdata, and since authors didn’t want to risk not showing up in the search engines, they used Microdata. This forced the market to go in one direction. This discussion would be in a different place had Google kept the playing field level. That is not to say that Google didn’t have good reasons for making the decisions that they did at the time, but those reasons influenced the development of RDFa, and RDFa Lite 1.1 was the result. The differences between Microdata and RDFa have been removed and a new question is in front of us: given two almost identical technologies, should the W3C publish two specifications that do almost exactly the same thing in almost exactly the same way? … the [HTML] Working Group explicitly decided not to pick a winner between HTML Microdata and HTML+RDFa The question before the HTML WG at the time was whether or not to split Microdata out of the HTML5 specification. The HTML Working Group did not discuss whether the publishing track for the Microdata document should be the W3C Note track or the W3C Recommendation track. At the time the decision was made, RDFa Lite 1.1 did not exist, RDFa Lite 1.1 was not a W3C Recommendation, nor did the RDFa and Microdata functionality so greatly overlap as they do now. Additionally, the HTML WG decision at that time states the following under the “Revisiting the issue” section: “If Microdata and RDFa converge in syntax…” Microdata and RDFa have effectively converged in syntax. Since Microdata can be interpreted as RDFa based on a simple search-and-replace of attributes that the languages have effectively converged on syntax except for the attribute names. The proposal is not to have work on Microdata stopped. Let work on Microdata proceed in this group, but let it proceed on the W3C Note publication track. I felt uneasy raising this issue because it’s a touchy and painful subject for everyone involved. Even if the discussion is painful, it is a healthy one for a standardization body to have from time to time. What I wanted was for the HTML Working Group to have this discussion. If the upcoming poll finds that the consensus of the HTML Working Group is to continue with the Microdata specification along the Recommendation track, I will not pursue a W3C Formal Objection. I will respect whatever decision the HTML Working Group makes as I trust the Chairs of that group, the process that they’ve put in place, and the aggregate opinion of the members in that group. After all, that is how the standardization process is supposed to work and I’m thankful to be a part of it.
Last week I stated, “Some of the most amazing people I have met get together twice a week. They are not the young and the restless, but they are the Bold and the Beautiful.” It is great to have some of you commented that you agree! Tom Reichard’s number 2 son said the best description for Tom would be, “There’s NO stopping him!” Joanne Reilley’s newest students said they had never felt so welcomed or so positive about a fitness class, EVER! Tom & Joanne are timeless athletes. They are just two of an amazing group who never say quit. It is time to introduce two more amazing friends…Marlowe Meyers and Lloyd (Bud) Schultz. Marlowe Meyers smiles and says hello even on the rough days. She is not a quitter. She is not a complainer. It is not that her world is perfect; it has something to do with her outlook on life. “You just keep working at it”. She’s been taking exercise classes since she was a young lady. Some of her early classes were with Doc Eberhardt, one of the pioneers of the St. Louis fitness movement. She raised three children while working as a teacher – no easy task! After retiring from her teaching job with Kirkwood Public Schools, she went to work doing alterations for Roberts Boys Shop. Several surgeries have not stopped her from attending the weekly SitNBeFit class. She had to cut back to once a week after her last surgery, but she is back to attending twice a week now! Marlowe says she enjoys being in the class because the group is welcoming and has a pleasant instructor. She is sure that exercising all joints “just makes you feel good!” Lloyd (Bud) Schultz is another of our Speed Skaters and bicycle racers- checking in at 88-years-young. Born at St. Luke’s, St. Louis, in 1923, he grew up a local boy. Bud spent his term in the Air Force as a Radio Mechanic working on the B-17s and P-47s, ending up becoming an aeronautical engineer. He didn’t start bicycle racing until age 44 when his son gave up his bicycle for girls! He also began aerobic exercises after reading Col. Ken Coopers book on health and exercise. By his late 40’s and 50’s Bud would ride 60 miles round-trip daily. Bud says he would often solve complicated math problems as he rode because his head would be most clear during those times. He and his lovely wife also rode together. They toured every country in Europe aboard their BICYCLES! Bud enjoys speed-skating with the Coffee Club. He is surrounded by friends, gets excellent exercise and offers assistance or advice to the newbies. His smooth skating stride reminds us of the trade-mark wall mural at Brentwood Ice Arena! If you don’t skate already, come watch or come visit the crew. If you are over 50, you will certainly be welcome! Check the blog next week for a peak at Bill & Doris Richardt. Talk about amazing!
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March critique giveaway open through March 28! Scroll down one post. I usually post about MG books here, or books that ride the line between MG and YA. But that doesn't mean I don't read YA. One of my favorite authors is, in fact, the YA writer John Green. Not because I like all of his books equally well (I don't, actually), but because as far as the sheer intelligence of his writing, and his ability to convey things I thought only I thought, I can't remember when I've encountered his like. I'll at least pick up anything he writes; that is for sure. I recently read his newest novel, The Fault in Our Stars. And it. Is. Brilliant. This year, his (next) Printz may very well come. However. The book says something that makes what's left of my mathematical mind (which has languished over three or so decades) shudder: That some infinities are bigger than others. That, for example, there are more numbers (not speaking solely of integers, but of all possible rationals and irrationals) between, say, zero and a million than between zero and one. No, there aren't. And here I'd really like to diverge from any direct comment on the novel. This is really no longer about the novel. It's just the compulsion that still arises within me every now and then to speak my mathematical piece. No, some infinities are not bigger than others. Such a notion doesn't make sense. Between zero and one lies an infinite number of fractions and decimals, almost all of them irrational, or non-repeating decimals. 0.5039285715790432... and on and on; you get the picture. No pattern to them. This means there's always another one. And another one. And one more. And yet one more. For every such number, for any number at all, that lies between zero and a million, you can find one that lies between zero and one to pair with it in a one-to-one correspondence. You will never run out of numbers between zero and one, any more than you'll run out of numbers between zero and a trillion bazillion. And this is just one of the things that make math, and creation, amazingly cool.
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The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries. There is an allure to enumerating how many women Don Giovanni slept with: It was 2,063, at least according to Mozart's librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte. We also have completely practical lists — the shopping list, the will, the menu — that are also cultural achievements in their own right. …At first, we think that a list is primitive and typical of very early cultures, which had no exact concept of the universe and were therefore limited to listing the characteristics they could name. But, in cultural history, the list has prevailed over and over again. It is by no means merely an expression of primitive cultures. A very clear image of the universe existed in the Middle Ages, and there were lists. A new worldview based on astronomy predominated in the Renaissance and the Baroque era. And there were lists. And the list is certainly prevalent in the postmodern age. It has an irresistible magic. …We like lists because we don't want to die. Here is much more. Make sure you read the quotation under the photo; I don't want to reproduce it on a family blog. I wonder if this interview was translated from some other language, given the difference between "lists" and "enumeration." Here is an important MR post: Jeffrey Lonsdale writes. I thank Cardiff Garcia for the pointer.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Annals of Wasted Lives, II: The Tennis Queen It’s been almost exactly two years since I wrote my first post in the “Annals of Wasted Lives” series; I try to wait until really solid examples come my way. That time has come. In a press conference on March 18, Marion Bartoli, the #1 tennis player in France, claimed to have an IQ of 175. This is quite the claim. The average person has an IQ of 100; an IQ of 132 will get you into Mensa. An IQ of 175 would be about 5 standard deviations above the mean for intelligence, putting Ms. Bartoli in the range of the 99.99997th percentile of intelligence; put another way, she would be 1 person in about 3.33 million in terms of intellectual ability.* A Yahoo! sports blog claims that an IQ of 175 would exceed the IQs of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison. (I myself am aware of no reliable figures for the IQs of these people.) Let’s mention one issue just to set it aside. I was trained to assess intelligence professionally as part of my doctoral training in psychology, and I am aware of no intelligence test that reliably assesses intelligence above about 150; one might wonder what test was supposedly given to Ms. Bartoli as a child. But there is a much larger question here: If Ms. Bartoli really possesses a 1-person-in-3.33-million intellect, what is she doing playing tennis? The world we live in is beset by major challenges: war; terrorism; climate change; poverty; famine; disease; economic upheaval; crime; illiteracy; a myriad of unsolved scientific mysteries and obstacles to technological progress, not to mention problems created by technological progress. Someone possessing an intellect like Ms. Bartoli claims to have should be working primarily on these issues, and playing killer tennis on the weekends. Am I being judgmental here? Yessiree! Hang on, the best is yet to come. Individuals like Ms. Bartoli seem focused on their own glory and wealth. In plain words, hers is a self-centered, selfish, even narcissistic quest. Nothing she does will make one life better except her own, and the lives of those on whom she spends money. This is a hollow life, a life of meaningless achievement and acquisition. Absolutely nothing of any greater purpose hinges on whether Ms. Bartoli wins or loses her next match. But so what? Where do I get off, making judgments like this? Where I take off from is a principle, one that I described at some length in my first post in this series: Our lives are not our own. We owe it to the human race to make the world better than how we found it. On this basis, one has to judge Ms. Bartoli’s life as sorely wanting. I don’t expect that this post will make one iota of difference to Ms. Bartoli, who almost certainly will never read these words. However, my hope is that my rude words will serve to make us reflect on the direction of our own lives, and the purposes that our actions serve. Because our lives really are not our own; we really do owe something to the world and humanity. Geniuses—self-proclaimed or otherwise—who withhold their talents from addressing the world’s need are definitely not On The Mark. [The photo of Marion Bartoli at the 2009 U.S. Open was taken on August 31 of that year by Robbie Mendelson. It was obtained through Wikimedia Commons and appears here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License.] *William M. Meredith, Basic Mathematical and Statistical Tables for Psychology and Education (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967), p. 187, calculated from figures regarding z equal to ± 5.00. Copyright 2011 Mark E. Koltko-Rivera. All Rights Reserved.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 The Arts, and not The Arts First, though everyone would want to know that the Historic Chicago Bungalow and Green Home Expo 2009 is taking place this Saturday, October, 17, 2009, from 10 am to 4 pm. It is taking place at the Merchandise Mart, located at the Chicago River and Wells Street, in Chicago for those that are geographically challenged. Free admission, raffle prizes, 20 workshops, more than 100 exhibitors, artisans, lenders and tradespeople. Grants and loans for energy improvements. I have gone in the past and even though I do not own a bungalow, it was a good time. The 16th Street Theater is gearing up for our third season(I am President of the Board), to begin in January, 2010, just around the corner. Join the one hundred club now to get in on the season for an incredible value. You can order online, via credit card, and slowly pay off your bill so it will not even affect you. Go to www.16thstreettheatre.org for all the details. The season looks to be very fun, thought-provoking and cool. Engaging. Intimate. Professional theater. Join us for Season Three 2010. WHAT IS HOME? A place. A city. A house. A beginning. Is home something we take with us when we leave it? Does it move with us, or is it something we leave behind? What are the boundaries of home? Is our home big enough for others? How does the meaning of home change as we age? Can we ever go back? These are some of the questions six, great Chicago writers will be posing throughout 2010 as we ask you to explore with us: What is Home? Joel Drake Johnson's The End of the Tour, Our Lady of the Underpass by Tanya Saracho, a remount of Rohina's Unveiled at Victory Gardens (told you it would be back!), a 2-week limited engagement of Tony Fitzpatrick with musical guests, Michael Fosberg's Incognito, and the world premiere of Rob Koon's Menorca. Join the 100 Club to take it all in, or become a 3-play subscriber. I look forward to seeing you at 16the Street at the Berwyn Cultural Center, a part of the North Berwyn Park District. And, if the above is not enough, POEfest is coming at you from Saturday, October 24th through Friday, October 30, 2009. There will be something different each night. The events are sponsored by the Berwyn Arts Council. Some great stuff will be happening from the first Tortured Tuesday to a kids' costume parade. Join in the fun as Berwyn celebrates Edgar Allen Poe's 200th birthday with storytelling, poetry reading, movies, music, art and beer. Yep. Check out the events at http://berwynartscouncil.org/poefest2009.html Gotta love it!
Thank you, Town Hallers, for your coming together here to fight the good fight this past one and half years. The cause of liberty is never finished; the forces to control mankind will continue. Win or lose today we learn our fate. Either we must fight the crippling dependence of socialism/fascism or, we fight to kee reigning-in the erosion of our Constitution to moderation in foolish one-way bipartisanship for being nice to those who wish to control us. Tomorrow win or lose, be graceful in defeat and humble in victory. Do keep the late Senator Barry Goldwater’s word near to your heart that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, either is moderation in pursuit of justice a virtue. God bless you my friends and fellow Conservatives. We shall reach the shining city upon the hill. Liberty and Justice for all.
Every year before students return to campus, Marquette’s Department of Public Safety reaches out to alternative agencies in hope of receiving additional force. This year, the Milwaukee Sheriff’s Department offered its extra services to the university. “We were pleasantly surprised when the sheriff’s office actually responded,” said Cpt. Russell Shaw. “I know (the Milwaukee Police Department) is certainly going to try and help us as much as they possibly can. It’s not something I would say is so out of the ordinary; it just so happens that county sheriffs are probably able to help us more than they have been able to in the past.” Shaw said that the extra presence was needed once students started arriving back on campus. MPD and Sheriff David Clarke provided help during move-in and other activities over the course of the week. During the first weekend, DPS wrote up 40 incident reports. Of the of 40, 27 pertained to an alcohol-related incident. “That’s a very large number, a very concerning number,” Shaw said. “I think our goal has always been to keep the students safe and students have to realize that when they are walking out on the streets with open intoxicants they are breaking the law.” Marquette’s LIMO system also works with DPS to make campus a safer place. The help from the Milwaukee sheriff adds a new element for LIMO drivers. Liz Heinrich, a LIMO driver and a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said in order to do her job more effectively, she will have to be in closer contact with the patrolling officers. “We have to work together a lot more because there are so many more officers,” Heinrich said. “I can understand why they are doing it, but it can sometimes make it more difficult, and I don’t think we are actually seeing a change yet because it is so early in the year.” Though there were more citations than average this past weekend, some students have not noticed much of a difference in enforcement on campus, Lindsay Bartel, a senior in the College of Education said. Now that classes have started, whether the university will need the extra presence is still unknown. Ultimately, the additional aid from the county sheriff and MPD will depend on scheduling. “We will always take any support we can,” Shaw said. “Do I expect them to be in force like they were this past weekend? That would be fantastic if they were, but in reality it is probably not going to happen.” The Milwaukee sheriff’s department and MPD will continue to have a presence on campus, but that presence will vary throughout the year. DPS still has a strong presence every weekend with 12 to 14 squad cars on campus Fridays and Saturdays from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. Correction: The print version of this article, “Milwaukee sheriff offers to aid campus security,” featured a photo of Milwaukee Police Sargeant Todd Smolen. This may have made the article’s subject unclear; while both the Milwaukee Police Department and the Milwaukee Sheriff’s Department have aided the Department of Public Safety this year, the article focused on the Milwaukee Sheriff’s Department.
Apparently, Mom’s been keeping secrets from me. I never knew until a few years ago, when Mom gave me a few of his carbon-steel knives, that her grandfather, my Great-grandpa Vivaldelli, had been a chef. And, although I knew that Mom’s mom, my Grandma Anne, was a dedicated cook, I never knew a thing about Angel Pie. Mom and I were sitting around after Thanksgiving, talking about pies in general, and old-fashioned pies specifically, when she first mentioned it. “Auntie Pat makes it all the time,” she said. “I need to get the recipe from her.” And then, almost as an afterthought: “I have a newspaper clipping somewhere with a picture of Grandma and that pie. It was her specialty.” Sure enough, the next morning, a yellowed clipping from the Glendale News-Press appeared at my place at the breakfast table. And there’s Grams, in a shirtwaist dress, cutting a slice of her popular — but, one must admit, rather homely — Angel Pie. The iron trivets now in my mom’s kitchen (and my own) are hanging on the wall behind her, and familiar glass canisters line the counter. November 14, 1959 No Weighty Problems for Reiks Imagine a family with no weight problems that can eat all the dessert it wants. This is the case of the Robert C. Reiks and their four children, Nancy, 18; Toni, 15; Bob, 13; and Patty, 12. Mrs. Reik (Anne), whose father was a chef for leading hotels in Chicago, has taught her three daughters to cook … any one of them can prepare a meal. Mr. Reik, an amateur chef, confines his art to the backyard barbecue. Mrs. Reik’s current hobby is making braided woolen rugs. She has always collected recipes, and says her Chocolate Nut Angel Pie hits the jack pot [sic]. She keeps copies to offer friends because once a person tastes this dessert, he wants the recipe. I have to suspect the author took a few liberties. I can’t imagine that Grandma never taught my Uncle Bugs to cook. And — at least by the time I was around — Gramps certainly never confined himself to the barbecue… he was quite an accomplished cook! But, at least she got the recipe right: Chocolate Nut Angel Pie 1/2 cup sugar 1/8 tsp. cream of tartar 2 egg whites 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (or pecans) 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 3 T hot water 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1 cup heavy cream, whipped Butter a 9-inch pie plate, and set aside. Sift sugar and cream of tartar together. Beat egg whites until stiff, but not dry. Add sugar gradually, while continuing to beat until smooth and glossy. Line the prepared pie plate with this mixture. Keep center hollowed out to 1/2-inch thickness, and do not spread meringue on rim of plate. Sprinkle with nuts. Bake in slow oven, 275º F, about 1 hour, or until delicately browned and crisp to touch. Cool thoroughly. Melt chocolate in a large bowl over a pan of simmering water. Add 3 T hot water to the chocolate, and stir; cook until thickened. Remove from heat and cool slightly. Add vanilla, then fold in whipped cream. Turn into meringue shell. Chill 2 to 3 hours, or until set. Not quite five years ago, my mom and dad retired to Henderson, just outside Las Vegas. Their neighborhood — a megasized age-restricted community — is one of those places where you can get hopelessly lost among all the similar-looking houses as you whiz past the golf course, the gigantic rec center, the three-story waterfall… You’re miles from the nearest grocery store or restaurant, or anything else other than a few thousand houses that look pretty much like your own. But — as much as it’s the kind of development where I’d never choose to live — it’s a pretty cool place in one important respect. Since all the houses in their section were built to order around the same time, everybody moved in pretty much at the same time. Many of my parents’ neighbors had left behind friends and relatives in their old hometowns, and were anxious to make new friends. My mom found her place among a great group of ladies who live on her street and beyond. They moved to Henderson from all over the country (and, originally, all over the world), so there’s a nice assortment of interests and personalities. In various combinations, they shop together, line-dance together, play Pickleball together. One of the other things that Mom and her friends like to do is cook, so they formed a Recipe Exchange Club: They each take turns hosting a potluck, and everyone brings their dish’s recipe to share. Or, at least that was the original idea… apparently nobody’s brought recipes since the first “meeting”, because they all cook dishes that they know by heart. It’s evolved into an excuse for a casual meal together where the women sit in the dining room and talk about mahjong and their part-time jobs, and the men sit outside on the porch, admiring the view of The Strip in the distance and talking about poker and football. Mom and I were in charge of dessert for tonight’s gathering. Since most of Mom’s friends aren’t big dessert-eating types, we decided that something fruity, and not too sweet, would fit the bill. Mom tinkered with a recipe she found on All Recipes, and came up with a great dessert that I bet also makes a tasty coffee cake. After the amazing spread of dishes these ladies made, I wasn’t sure that any of us would have room for cake. But we sat and talked after dinner, and — lo and behold — everyone found space for a slice. 4 apples – peeled, cored and diced (approx. 4 cups) 1 T sugar 2 tsp. ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp. nutmeg 3 cups all-purpose flour 3 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 2/3 cup vegetable oil 1/3 cup applesauce 1/4 cup apple juice 2 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract 1 cup chopped walnuts Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt or angel-food cake pan. In a medium mixing bowl, combine the apples with the 1T sugar and the spices; set aside. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; set aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine the remaining sugars with oil, applesauce, juice, vanilla and eggs. Beat at high speed until smooth. Fold in flour mixture, then add in chopped walnuts and apples. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly touched. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely. Serve slices with homemade caramel sauce. Ack, I hate it when I look up and realize that (a) it’s almost the weekend and (b) I haven’t written anything since the previous weekend. Chalk it up to a busy week, I suppose. Which is not to say that we haven’t been cooking — and eating — quite a lot. Saturday we did our usual trek to the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in the morning. Although the light wasn’t as gorgeous as it was the week before, there were still plenty of gorgeous specimens to photograph… many of which you’ll see in the week’s menus. Saturday evening, we roasted a little chicken from Hoffman, which made us realize — duh! — that yes, Virgina, there is a huge difference between these coddled birds and even the Rosies and Rockys at Whole Paycheck. Just like the pork and beef from Prather, I’d much rather spend the same money to have a little of this kind of chicken than a lot of the commercial stuff. Anyway, sermon over… I’d also bought a bagful of broccoli di ciccio and turned it into a tasty side dish with orecchiete and sauteed chickpeas. For such a simple recipe, it was incredibly satisfying — and even better the next day for lunch, with some of the leftover chicken meat shredded into it. The next morning, I got up early and baked a Red Velvet cake from the Lee Bros. cookbook, in preparation for a dinner that evening with friends. Just like every other recipe I’ve tried from that book, it required a bit of interpolation to make it work, but the end result was pretty good… and definitely red! I realized in the process that I hadn’t done much baking at all, in a very long time. That’s going to change — I really miss it! There’s nothing we like better than puttering around the house, tidying and cooking and getting things ready for a dinner party. In this case, an impromptu meal with our friends Sean and DPaul, who we hadn’t seen for dinner in far too long. They’d spent the afternoon putting up a truckload of preserves, so by the time they hit our living room, they were well ready for a drink… and to sit down! We drank our Manhattans and ate a plate of radishes with Irish butter and fleur de sel, and listened enviously to their tales of pear butter and other seasonal spreads. Ah, another thing I haven’t done this year — not even a batch of pickles. Sigh. Dinner was a salad of marinated roasted beets served with bleu cheese crumbles and rosemary-roasted walnuts; the Zuni Cafe cookbook’s mock porchetta — our old standby — with roasted teeeensy potatoes and chunks of fennel; and, of course, that Red Velvet cake. Monday night brought a soup-and-sandwich supper: The triumphant return of the cauliflower and Stilton soup from a Soup of the Fortnight of yore, paired with BAT (bacon, avocado, and tomato) sandwiches. Yum! So much fun to take good bacon — this time from Prather Ranch — and pair it with pain de mie and one of the last superripe heirloom tomatoes of the season. And then Tuesday, we ate a very simple dinner of chorizo tacos and soupy beans. Man, those Fatted Calf boys know how to make tasty sausage — I think theirs is even better than my own! Paired with Rancho Gordo ojo de cabro beans and fresh-masa tortillas, I can’t imagine a better quick-weeknight dinner. Or breakfast! We smashed up some of the beans, tossed in some leftover chorizo, doused it all with good salsa roja, and stirred in some of RG’s chips, and sprinkled with queso… chilaquiles on a weekday, be still my beating heart! More food later… must go pay the bills. When I was a kid, my mom made bread. There were years when she only made it once in a while and years when she made it every week. Her baking rhythm was inversely proportional to the sophistication of our surroundings. There was a solid year or two when we lived on a 16-acre farm in rural New Hampshire. During that time, we ate home-churned butter on home-baked bread and washed it down with whole, unpasteurized, unhomogenized milk (from whence came the cream that spawned the butter). Mom’s bread was rustic, and not in any big-bubbled, artisanal, sourdough fashionista sort of way. She used whole grains and honey and god knows what else, and one slice would see you clear through marching up the hill and back down again, especially if that slice was carrying a load of cheddar cheese and had just spent some quality time in the toaster oven. Serious stuff, my friends. Serious, and for a young lad exposed to all the temptations of a modern industrialized society, all too easy to take for granted. You have no idea how I longed for white bread in those days. I dreamed of Wonder bread, layered with Oscar Meyer bologna and processed American cheese, dressed with Heinz ketchup and yellow mustard. I never really had a chance at being a baker. One summer, while working at a bistro in Portsmouth, NH, one of the part-owners began to teach me how to make croissants. I stuck with him for a while, but I was soon distracted by being a teenage boy in a seasonal vacation town. Hell, Guns ‘n’ Roses Appetite for Destruction went huge that year, and I could never square getting up at oh-dark-thirty to fold dough with late-night dart games fueled by weed and beer. These days, we buy our bread. The closest thing that we have to a house loaf is the pain de mie that Acme Bread sells at the Ferry Plaza farmers’ market in SF. Despite the pretentious surroundings and occasional bursts of hipper-than-thou attitude from the purveyors, it’s damn good bread. It’s the sort of white bread that I’d imagine my mom would have made if she’d put her mind to it: a tight, even crumb balanced by a crust that’s chewy without being overbearing. Note: This post is in honor of World Bread Day 2006 I’ll see your meat cake …and raise you a Treo. The only inanimate thing I love as much as food is my Treo 650. So imagine my amusement when a coworker sent me a link to Engadget’s Birthday Cake Contest. All of the cakes were pretty cool, but the winning entry — a “working” Treo 650 cake, complete with video screen, SD card, functional buttons, and sound — is pretty amazing, both as a pastry project and as geek fetish. Don’t miss the video. Until today, Bill Watterson’s Calvin was the only person who I believed when they called themselves a genius. Or, to properly quote Calvin, a “Super-Genius”. But now, Vashti Ross, I genuflect before your greatness. Let’s listen to the artist’s moment of inspiration in her own words: He went on to describe his ultimate wedding cake. “I hate that wedding cakes are all girly. There should be like a groom cake to go with the traditional wedding cake. A guy’s cake. Like..made out of meat.” A lightbulb went off in my mind. “I could TOTALLY do that,” I exclaimed. “A meatloaf! With mashed potato frosting! OH MY GOD!” Go and be amazed. Props to Don Carne for the tip. Every time I open my pantry, I get a huge kick out of this. It cost me almost $150 (for the containers — the shelf is three levels deep), but my dry goods are now bug-proof, spill-proof, and organized. I swear, nothing has made me this happy in months.
Olde Main’s Sodbuster Stout is now available in bottles! We reckon this calls for a hoedown complete with straw hats, overalls, and of course a beer or two. Join us at Mars Cafe starting at 6pm for a bottle release celebration! Arrive early for a free bottle of Sodbuster Stout (one per person, while supplies last). Then grab a bottle of Sodbuster for $2 or any Olde Main brew for $3. Talk with our brewers and enjoy a free piece of Sodbuster Chocolate Cake and pair it with a Coffee Stout (rich cold-brewed coffee infused with Sodbuster Stout) for $2. Come in your best hoedown apparel for a chance to win some prizes! Drinks, food, and good ole’ fun. About the Sodbuster: Hearty ale with color and flavors derived from roast, chocolate, and caramel malts. This ale has a complex taste with a rich creamy mouthfeel. The pronounced hop presence balances the deep malt flavors. Alcohol by Volume – 6% International Bitterness Units – 29.6 Hops – Chinook, East Kent Goldings Grain – 2 Row, Crystal 40, Chocolate Special B, Roast - Food: hearty dishes, steak, meat pies, stews - Cheese: Dubliner cheddar, brie - Dessert: anything with chocolate, apple pie, ice cream, cheesecake Facebook event: here
MARS SURVEYOR 98 MISSION STATUS March 11, 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) Mars Climate Orbiter was successfully commanded into its new baseline attitude control mode and configuration late in the evening of Tuesday, Mar. 9. The spacecraft has now assumed the original planned (pre-launch) attitude and configuration for cruise, the only exception being an operational simplification in with the solar array orientation is fixed relative to the spacecraft bus (power analysis of the rest of cruise identified a suitable fixed orientation, alleviating the need to periodically reposition the array for sufficient power output). Subsequent observation of the vehicle shows it to be healthy and operating nominally in all respects. Due to the difficulties experienced by the STARDUST spacecraft during its in-flight checkout of the "all-stellar" attitude determination and control mode, also intended for use by MCO, the all-stellar checkout and transition for MCO has been delayed pending further troubleshooting of STARDUST. Mars Polar Lander (MPL) The first of two command sets for MPL's transition into its long-range attitude control mode was successfully transmitted to the spacecraft early this morning. These commands updated the fault protection software configuration so that it is now consistent with the new operational strategy. The second set of comamnds which will complete this transition will be uplinked next week, following the execution of Trajectory Correction Maneuver (TCM-2) of Monday, Mar. 15. As with the orbiter, once these activities are accomplished MPL will be operating essentially acccording to the flight team's original pre-launch plan for cruise. Home Mars Polar Lander Deep Space 2 Microprobes Mars Climate Orbiter Welcome Mailing List Links Credits For questions or comments on this website please refer to our list of contacts.
HOW OFTEN DO YOU REPLACE YOUR STRINGS/CABLES? i have heard that a rule of thumb is , if u shoot alot , once a year, but i have gone as far as 3 years , i think it depends how much u wax them , the quality of the strings is a big factor as well , the best way to know if its time is look for fraying , and the best thing to do is measure the ata, if it is longer than the spec its time to get new ones , hope this helps I've gone as much as some 15,000 shots. That's about a year. My hunting bow, not shot near as much, has went 3 years. Hey Hutch, hows that remodel coming ? When are you going to have your new string jig set up? Martin 06 Slayer, Nitrous C, shoot thru, 63lb, Quiktune 3000, HAA OL 5519, Beman ICS Hunter Martin 06 Slayer, Nitrous C, Shoot thru, 55lb, Quiktune 3000, HHA OL 5519 2X, Easton A/C/C Ben Pearson 1968 'Cougar' 62" 45#s @ 28" recurve, tapered POC, Zwickey 'Eskimo' 2 blade I normally reccomend once a year if a person shoots year round and practices several times a week. For the guy that just hunts and dosen't pull his bow out untill a few weeks prior to season and then hangs it up after season, every 2-years. I do know of 1 guy thats retired and he has 2 practice sessions a day, shoots every 3D event he can get to and shoots leagues during the winter, he wears out 2 sets a year. Advantage Custom Strings I change it around ... 3 to 4 times a year. Just because i tinker with my bows alot and i want to try out new ideas or colors. In my opinion it is not necessary to replace them more often than once a year as long there is no exessive wear. (2) Martin ShadowCat 2010 I would replace mine, but about the time it's necessary I have a new bow. If You're Not Living on the Edge You're Taking Up Too Much Space Martin/Rytera Staff Shooter PSAA Life member, UBP Life member PADI AOW Diver Every 2,I have a couple bows that all get shot.I rarely shoot in the winter and shoot a fair amount in the summer. 2011 Firecat 400 2013 PSE Drive 2012 PSE Brute X i like Barrys idea new bow yep yep werks fer me only when they start looking like its needed. I keep the bow in tune.. Now if I made my own strings ..It would be a lot more often It's all fun an games till you put that big boy on the ground.. now its time to get to work Martin cougarIII elite nitros B x system & HHA Darton Fury recurve
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DORS operates two programs: 1. The public vocational rehabilitation program provides direct, personalized services such as career assessment, vocational training, assistive technologies and job placement. In the Office of Field Services, rehabilitation counselors located in over 20 offices around the state assist eligible individuals with disabilities to identify their career and independent living goals and work with them to reach those goals. DORS offers specialized programs for people who are blind/visually impaired through the Office for Blindness and Vision Services. DORS also operates the Workforce & Technology Center (WTC), a comprehensive rehabilitation facility. 2. The Maryland Disability Determination Services (DDS) employs disability examiners, staff physicians, psychologists and other support staff who determine the eligibility of Maryland applicants for Social Security Administration's (SSA) two disability programs.
NOTE FROM THE SECRETARIAT OF STATE VATICAN CITY, 5 FEB 2009 (VIS) - The Secretariat of State of the Holy See, published the following note yesterday afternoon: "In the wake of reactions provoked by the recent Decree from the Congregation for Bishops lifting the excommunication on the four prelates of the Society of St. Pius X, and with reference to declarations denying and reducing the Shoah pronounced by Bishop Williamson, a member of that society, it is felt appropriate to clarify certain aspects of the issue: 1. Remission of the excommunication "As has previously been explained, the Decree from the Congregation for Bishops, dated 21 January 2009, was an act by which the Holy Father benignly responded to repeated requests from the superior general of the Society of St. Pius X. "His Holiness wished to remove an impediment that hindered the opening of a door to dialogue, and he now awaits a similar readiness to be expressed by the four bishops, in complete adherence to the doctrine and discipline of the Church. "The extremely serious penalty of excommunication 'latae sententiae', which these bishops incurred on 30 June 1988, formally announced on 1 July of the same year, was a consequence of their illegitimate ordination by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. "The remission of the excommunication has freed the four bishops from a serious canonical penalty, but it has not altered the juridical position of the Society of St. Pius X which, at the present time, enjoys no canonical recognition within the Catholic Church. Even the four bishops, though released from excommunication, have no canonical function in the Church and cannot legally exercise a ministry within her". 2. Tradition, doctrine and Vatican Council II "An indispensable condition for any future recognition of the Society of St. Pius X is their full recognition of Vatican Council II and of the Magisterium of Popes John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI. "As already affirmed in the Decree of 21 January 2009, the Holy See will not fail, in ways considered most appropriate, to join the parties concerned in a profound examination of outstanding issues, so as to be able to reach a full and satisfactory solution to the problems that gave rise to this painful split". 3. Declarations concerning the Shoah "Msgr. Williamson's views on the Shoah are absolutely unacceptable, and firmly rejected by the Holy Father as he himself said on 28 January when, referring to that brutal genocide, he reiterated his complete and indisputable solidarity with our Brothers and Sisters who received the First Covenant, affirming that the memory of that terrible event must 'induce humankind to reflect upon the unpredictable power of evil when it conquers the heart of man', adding that the Shoah remains 'an admonition for everyone against oblivion, negation and reductionism, because violence against a single human being is violence against all'. "In order to be readmitted to episcopal functions within the Church, Bishop Williamson must absolutely, unequivocally and publicly distance himself from his views concerning the Shoah, which were unknown to the Holy Father at the moment he lifted the excommunication."The Holy Father asks all the faithful to accompany him in prayer, that the Lord may illuminate the path of the Church. May all pastors and faithful increase their commitment in support of the delicate and onerous mission of the Successor of the Apostle Peter, the 'custodian of unity' within the Church". Thursday, February 5, 2009 Pope, Bishop Williamson, and SSPX From the Vatican, trying to explain the issues surrounding the lifting of the excommunications of the four SSPX Bishops.
Sci-fi flick Oblivion roared into theaters this month, quickly securing the top spot on the box office charts with a $38.2 million debut. The post-apocalyptic world in which Tom Cruise's character explores on the big screen began years ago as artwork. 4 Recent Stories Oblivion, the sci-fi mind-bender topping the box office charts this week, is the first big popcorn movie of the season. Set in the year 2077, the film stars Tom Cruise and is notable for being an original story by director Joseph Kosinski – not a franchise reboot or adaptation. Original sci-fi movies are something of a commodity these days, even though it's almost impossible anymore to come up with a truly original sci-fi story. In the trailer for Oblivion, we see actor Tom Cruise as Jack Harper, a drone repairman inhabiting a war-torn, post-apocalyptic Earth. His routine existence is interrupted, leading him into the hands of Malcolm Beech, played by Morgan Freeman, who leads an underground and previously unknown colony of humans. This sets off a chain of events in which he begins to question what he thinks is his reality.
We all know BioWare is acclaimed for the presentation of its games. Single-player games like Knights of the Old Republic , Mass Effect , and DragonAge have a way of capturing a player and immersing him in the world. How many of you have ever wondered what it would be like to invite your friends along for a ride on a BioWare game, too? This could be the key reason BioWare decided to make Flashpoints in Star Wars: The Old Republic is a world designer at BioWare Austin. In the most resent developers blog , he details what it takes to build a Flashpoint. He explains that it's not all about getting to the next boss fight: "Fighting through legions of enemies is part of what makes the cooperative gameplay feel heroic, but we find it helps if your enemies do more than just stand around waiting to be attacked. " According to Sky, many players have run dungeons that have them wondering why they are there, with no sense of purpose. "We want you to feel like you are the heroes in a Star Wars action sequence, but we also want to give you opportunities to roleplay with your friends ." Sky indicates again that SWTOR 's emphasis is not only making a great game but also making a great story. Be sure to read the whole developers blog on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic
Final 2006 Wakeboard World Cup Stop - Singapore September 22, 2006 Located just off the Pan-Island Expressway and within easy reach of the city’s immediate population of 3.5 million, the 2006 Wakeboard Finals of the IWSF World Cup series will be held September 30th thru October 1st on Singapore’s magnificent downtown Bedok Reservoir. The enormous success of the past two Wakeboard World Cup Stops at this site has proved this to be one of the best stops on the tour. As in past years, over 17,000 spectators are again expected to crowd the landscaped banks in perfect 86F/30C temperatures in expectation for a perfect ending to the World Cup series. The prestige of the season’s 2006 World Cup Wakeboard title plus the stop cash prize of US$60,000 will ensure that the World’s top ranked IWSF Riders will compete. MasterCraft athletes Rusty Malinoski, Andrew Adkison and Maeghan Major are just a few that are expected to compete for podium positions and titles. In addition, four ski jumpers have been invited to put on a demonstration including the current world record holder and 2006 U.S. Open of Waterskiing jump title champion – Freddy Krueger. MasterCraft will again supply the boats and technical crew for this phenomenal event. Events ScheduleSaturday, 30th September 2006 11:00 AM HSBC Junior Riders Challenge - Girls Qualification 11:45 AM HSBC Junior Riders Challenge - Boys Qualification 12:30 PM Pro Waterski Jump Demonstration featuring Freddy Krueger 1:00 PM Pro Women Qualification 2:15 PM Pro Men Qualification 5:00 PM Pro Waterski Jump Contest – Seeding Sunday, 1st October 2006 9:30 AM - HSBC Junior Riders Challenge - Girls Finals 10:00 AM - HSBC Junior Riders Challenge - Boys Finals 10:30 AM - Pro Men's Semi-Final 12:00 PM - Pro Women's Semi-Final 12:45 PM - Pro Waterski Jump Contest - Qualification Round 1:00 PM - Pro Men's Head-to-Head Quarter-Finals 2:00 PM - Pro Men's Head-to-Head Semi-Finals 2:30 PM - Pro Women's Final 3:00 PM Pro Men's 3rd & 4th Head-to-Head Placing 3:15 PM Pro Men's Head-to-Head Final 3:30 PM Pro Waterski Jump Contest - 3rd & 4th Placing 3:45 PM Pro Waterski Jump Contest - Finals 4:00 PM Zero Gravity Wakeboard Challenge 5:00 PM Prize Giving Ceremony To Learn More, click on the link below: 2006 Wakeboard World Cup - Singapore
I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have...– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via larmoyante) Grades are getting low, the teens are getting... WE DID OUR DRAMA PLAY AND OMG IT WAS FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC! I’ve been apart of a production play before but it was a small show and so was our audience. My drama class is a grade 12/11 mixed but we learn different things. So when the 12s needed a few actors, they chose me and two of my other friends (who are incredibly talented and omg thank god they were there cause i had the best time... Anonymous asked: GOOD LUCK GOOD LUCK GOODLUCK! Guuuuuuuuuuyys!! Tomorrow we are performing our class play and it’ll be wonderful if you send your prayers our way! Inbox me stuff!! I’m excited!! I’ll post pics soon AAAAAAHHHH!! populardad: there is a difference between people who are smart and people who get good grades Enjoy the music. That is all.– Wise words from Ed Sheeran (via teamedsheeranftw) hungarian: takes a nap who am i pricksatmywindow: i hate how people just expect that you’re going to finish school and get an office job and meet someone and settle down and have children and a dog and drive a mazda because i don’t want any of those things especially a mazda Fuck psychology class and then fuck guitar class and then fuck english class and then….drama is okay but still…fuck it all. I’m ready for summer but i don’t not want to see everyone everyday. Like i love my friends but classes are so annoying. Ugh… tyronneasaurus: what the actual fuck man? My friend had just told all of us she’s been diagnose with cancer a month ago. Please keep her in your prayers. She (and all of her friends) need the support.
The order of the smallest possible non trivial group containing elements $x$ and $y$ such that $x^7 = y^2 = e $ and $ yx = x^4 y$ is I am stuck on this problem. Can anyone help me please? \|show 5 more comments\| \|show 10 more comments\| First solution - $x=y=e$ satisfies the relations. The smallest non-trivial group has order 2, and the relations can be satisfied within that group. Now suppose we want $x$ and $y$ distinct (not stated in the question). If $x$ and $y$ are both non-trivial (i.e. $\neq e$) then the first relation shows that the group must contain non-trivial elements of orders 2 and 7, and then Lagrange means that the order of such a group must be divisible by 14. [note we have not used the second relation or shown it is compatible with this conclusion] So to get a non-trivial group of order less than 14, one of $x$ or $y$ must be the identity. If we set $y=e$ we see that $x^7=x^3=1$ so that $x=e$, which is not what we want. If we set $x=e$ then $y^2=e$ and this can be done in a group of order 2. Up to isomorphism, there is only one group of order 1, one group of order 2, one group of order 7, and two groups of order 14. Figure out (or look up) what those groups are. Which ones are non-trivial? Look for suitable elements $x$ and $y$ in those groups. You may want to start from the smallest group and work your way up.
Math in the News Mural Project Would Splash Pi on a Brooklyn Side Street Artist Ellie Balk and students at the Green School in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn hope to raise $4,300 to fund creation of a mural depicting the relationship between the golden ratio and the irrational number pi. Balk has worked with Green School mathematics teacher Nathan Affield for the last four years to involve high school students in data visualization projects. The Kickstarter page for the pi project explains how the undertaking will square with the Common Core's emphasis on depth over breadth in the school math curriculum: By focusing on the single, transcendental concept of pi across courses, the mathematics department plans to not only deepen student understanding of shape and irrational number, but more importantly, connect these concepts with ideas of neighborhood beautification which can in turn improve quality of life. Read a full description of the project.
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The - sign is directly under the - Point Equidistant from 3 Other Points [04/11/1999] How do you find a point that is equidistant from three other points? - Point on a Line [03/23/2001] Can you please tell me a formula to find if a point exists on a line? Both are in x,y form. - Polynomial Brain-Twisters [12/4/1995] I'm stumped on some similar polynomial problems... - Polynomial Degrees and Definition of a Field [03/02/1998] The degree of polynomials added together, and definition of a field. - Polynomial Factoring Rules [04/02/1997] How do I apply the polynomial factoring rules to t^21+1 and 25y^2-144 = - Polynomial Problem [3/11/1995] A remainder of 9 results when the polynomial p(x) is divided by x-2, a remainder of -3 when p(x) is divided by x+2, and a remainder of 3 when divided by x-1. Find the remainder when p(x) is divided by (x-2)(x+2)(x- - Population and Percentage [03/07/1999] Given population data, find the number of women in two different years. - Positive Unit Fractions [10/02/2002] Find five different positive unit fractions whose sum is 1. (A unit fraction is a fraction whose numerator is 1. All denominators must also be natural numbers.) - Precedence of Unary Operators [09/01/99] The PEMDAS rule for order of operations ignores unary operators. Can you explain the proper precedence for them, and give an example showing how not knowing the rule can cause an incorrect result? - Preparing for an Algebra Test [11/1/1995] A 9th grade math student asks for help preparing for final exams. What is the difference between the terms: solve and simplify? How do you find the gradient in a graph? - Prize Money [09/04/1997] If first prize wins $1,000 out of $6,000 and twentieth prize wins $100, how much money do second through nineteenth place win? Is this a - Probability of a Function Having Complex Roots [05/11/2000] What is the probability that the function f(x) = x^2 + px + q = 0 will have complex roots when p and q lie between 0 and 1? ...when p and q lie between 0 and 5? ...when p and q are greater than 0?
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A group of 10 is going to be selected from a pool of 8 men and 8 women... In how many ways ways can the selection be carried out if: a) we choose 10 people at random? b) there must be 5 men and 5 women? c) there must be more women than men? Also, if you have time, can you answer: - How many strings of 6 decimaal digit.s have exactly three digits that are 4's? I suck at this problems and help would be great! Thank you!
This should be a trivial question for mathematicians but not for typical physicists. I know that the spectrum of a linear operator on a Banach space splits into the so-called "point," "continuous" and "residual" parts [I gather that no boundedness assumption is needed but I could be wrong]. I further know that the point spectrum coincides with the set of eigenvalues of the operator. It seems from the terminology that the point spectrum is a discrete set of isolated point and that the eigenvalues cannot form a continuum. But I haven't been able to find a clear statement in a math reference about this. Actually, I'm mostly interested in self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space; so a simpler version of my question would be: Can a self-adjoint operator have a continuous set of eigenvalues? And if yes, under what conditions do the eigenvalues have to be discrete? I appreciate any help.
I am curious if the setup for (co)homology theory appears outside the realm of pure mathematics. The idea of a family of groups linked by a series of arrows such that the composition of consecutive arrows is zero seems like a fairly general notion, but I have not come across it in fields like biology, economics, etc. Are there examples of non-trivial (co)homology appearing outside of pure mathematics? I think Hatcher has a couple illustrations of homology in his textbook involving electric circuits. This is the type of thing I'm looking for, but it still feels like topology since it is about closed loops. Since the relation $d^2=0$ seems so simple to state, I would imagine this setup to be ubiquitous. Is it? And if not, why is it so special to topology and related fields?
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After weeks of endless rain the sun is at last coming out and the forecast is for summer to at last arrive. And tomorrow there will be a Brit standing on the top of the podium in the Champs Elysees. Britain is slowly waking up to cycling. It has not historically played a large part in our sporting culture, but a combination of British cycling success at the Olympics, the ‘Lance Armstrong effect’, and an increase in people cycling to work in order to beat traffic and high transport costs means that cycling is cool in a way it has never been before. But probably a majority of Brits still do not get the scale of what is going to happen tomorrow. For Bradley Wiggins to win the Tour (which he will, barring some extraordinary accident) is a much bigger deal than it would have been for Andy Murray to win Wimbledon. It is a bigger deal than it would have been for England to win the Euros. For non-cycling Brits the scale of the Tour simply isn’t understood. A million people will line the Champs Elysees tomorrow, and millions more have stood at the side of Belgian, Swiss and French roads these past three weeks waiting for the blur of colour as the peleton screams past. The Tour is the largest annual sporting event in the world. It is carnival and national icon and physical test sans parallel. And I love it. The bike is a very simple machine. A small child often gets their first real sense of freedom wobbling along on a bike. A rusty old jalopy can be a helpful way of nipping to the shops. Or thousands of pounds can be spent on a race ready carbon beauty. But it is all basically two wheels suspended from a frame of two triangles. I think it is this very simplicity that makes competitive cycling what it is – that something so basic can create (in David Millar’s words), “beauty, suffering, grandeur and panache.” When Wiggins wins the Tour it will be a moment of incredible individual achievement. It will also be a result of phenomenal teamwork. This is perhaps the least understood aspect of cycling by non-cyclists – that it is teams that compete in the Tour, and an individual can no more win the race that a lone footballer can win a game. This means that there is a psychological appeal about cycling which other sports often lack – and perhaps that is why the French are so drawn to it, whereas we more black and white Anglo-Saxons prefer more straightforward games. The politics of the peloton, with deals struck, friends and enemies made; the significance of aerodynamics; the different specialisations of domestique and climber and sprinter – all spread out over three weeks of torture and beauty make the Tour uniquely compelling. It is because of this psychological depth that cycling has generated a rich seem of profound and painful and beautiful writing. The peculiarities of cycling seem to lend themselves to an artistry of description. (Try The Escape Artist by Matt Seaton or The Death of Marco Pantani by Matt Rendell.) And then there is France. Probably the most beautiful country in the world – an unfolding tapestry of mountain and coastline and vineyard and sunflowers. It’s the sunflowers of course. That defining image of the Tour de France, as the peleton pours through field after field of sun-turned yellow. Everything is turning yellow.
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I recently got the chance to talk to Eileen Grubba about her role in ‘The Five-Year Engagement’. Here, Eileen talks about how she got involved in the project in the first place and which three guests she would invite to dinner… Hey Eileen. Thanks for taking the time out to talk to me about your new film, ‘The Five-Year Engagement’. Thank you, Matt! What’s the general plotline surrounding the film? ‘The Five-Year Engagement’ is about a happy couple who get engaged only to find it takes them FIVE YEARS to get past all the obstacles that threaten their relationship and keep them from the altar. So, it’s about all the things that can go wrong and keep people from taking the leap into matrimony. Tell us a bit about the character you play in the movie… I am the manager of a Botanical Gardens location that Emily Blunt’s character is considering for her wedding. I try to talk her into having her wedding on September 11th, because it is the only date available in the next three years. We goofed around a lot of set and they let us try many things. The director tells me that all our improvising is in the DVD, so I can’t wait to see that. How did you get involved in the project in the first place? The director, Nicholas Stoller, came to see a play I was in with a friend of his, Dayton Knoll. Then I was called in a few months later for an audition and Dayton reminded him that he saw us in this play. Dayton and I both got roles in the film. How would you say this film is different and unique? It’s a very funny film. At the cast and crew screening, we were laughing until our stomachs hurt. The cast is very, very strong, just hysterical. The leads are endearing. The writer/director, Nicholas Stoller, takes a lot of risks and has a great sense of humor. The film stars Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie, Lauren Weedman, Mimi Kennedy, David Paymer and Jacki Weaver – with Nicholas Stoller onboard as director – what was it like working with the cast and crew on-set? Any good anecdotes? Emily is the only one I worked with directly. She was as easy-going, friendly, and fun as anyone can possibly be. We had a lot of laughs improving through our scene. I wish I had been around to work with the other actors! Let’s talk a bit about you Eileen. What made you want to get into the industry in the first place? Oh gosh, I don’t remember! When I was very young, this industry really came to me. I was getting approached to do modeling and acting in Atlanta, and so I decided to start studying acting at The Alliance Theater School in Atlanta. I did a lot of musicals and films and commercials in Atlanta. I also worked in casting to learn the industry inside and out. Then I moved to NYC, studied at HB Studios and my career took off from there. After going through the audition process, I was awarded a Lifetime Membership in The Actors Studio, and have trained there ever since. What advice would you give to anyone wanting to pursue a career in the industry? Honestly, this has to be the strongest desire in your heart. If there is anything else you can be happy doing, then I would suggest that you go do that instead. They say it is cruel to encourage anyone to become an actor, and after 22 years of fighting the good fight, I certainly understand why. Every pretty person in the entire WORLD comes to Los Angeles to be an actor, but pretty is simply not enough. It takes an incredible amount of talent, drive, determination, hard work and risk taking. You have to have rhinoceros skin to endure the many years of rejection, and the insensitive ways it is often delivered in this industry. There is no real rhyme or reason to it. The industry is inundated with new faces every single year. You have to be the VERY BEST at what you do, be relentless in your pursuit, be willing to sacrifice many things in life to survive in this industry, and then you still have to get LUCKY! Most people fail out in about 2 years. The ones who work, endure, or they got lucky early on in life, or they were born into the industry. The best actors TRAIN, constantly. They continue to train 10, 20, 30, even 40 years into the careers, always honing their craft. It is not an industry for the faint of heart. I am a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio, where some of the most skilled actors in the industry train. Many of them have put 40 – 50 years into this industry and are still working hard to keep their skills sharp for the next opportunity. You’ve been in a number of different film and TV projects – which actors/actresses have been your favourites to work with and why? Any good stories? My favourite actors to work with…a few years ago, I worked opposite Russell Crowe in ‘State Of Play’. My scenes did not make the final cut, but Russell certainly did make an impression on me that I will never forget. He was kind, open, interested in others, and extremely professional. When I saw him go to work: his laser focus and attention to detail within a scene, his ability to affect another actor in seconds, then it was clear why this man is a superstar. He is very talented and an extremely subtle, efficient, effective actor. Emily Blunt was an absolute joy to work with on ‘The Five-Year Engagement’. She was just REAL, very cool, nice and fun. Ron Perlman is one of my favourite actors also. We worked together for a few weeks in another country on a film called ‘Rats’. We used to go to the gym and work out there. We became friends, and then ended up both working on ‘Sons Of Anarchy’. He is a good man, honest, strong, kind and welcoming. I keep hoping my “recurring” character, “Precious Ryan” will come back and get to work with Ron’s character “Clay” directly one day soon. We always have a lot of fun together. On that note, ALL the actors I worked with on ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ were incredible people! Mark Boone Jr., Charlie Hunnam, Theo Rossi, Kim Coates. Great guys! All of them. Mark and I had a lot of fun because he is my ex-husband “Bobby” on the show, so I got to punch him in the face. When I first came on set, I think he was concerned that I would be afraid to come right at him in a fight scene. However, he then soon became afraid that I might hurt him! I grew up with six brothers, so I do know how to throw a punch. We had a great time working together. Jane Adams was really good to me on HBO’s ‘Hung’. We really enjoyed playing off each other in scenes. My character “Missy” was very cruel and threatening to her. She was instrumental in getting my character written in more on the show. I loved working on this show and was SO BUMMED when it was cancelled. The producers, cast and crew were all very good to me. Lennie James played my guy in this show and he and I had a lot of laughs as well as very good conversations about writing and projects. Right now I am working with a fellow Actors Studio member, Ralph Guzzo on a film called ‘City Of Fools’. We have incredible chemistry together which is needed for this challenging thriller. It is an intense piece, character driven, so the energy that flies between us just lights up the screen. We started this piece on the stage and now it has expanded to a film, which we wrote together, we are producing together and Ralph is directing. He is a talented artist, and yet is very gentle in his approach. It is a pleasure working with him. Carmen Argenziano – one of my all time favourites! We have worked together on stage and on-screen in multiple projects. He is a dream to work with: easy, fun, talented. We light up each other’s work. We once did ‘After The Fall’ at The Actors Studio, for Ellen Burstyn and the LA studio membership. We both look back fondly on the risks we took on the stage that day and how much fun it was to have a stage partner we could completely trust, no matter what happened. We recently made a festival indie called ‘Sleeping With The Bear’. It is in a few festivals now, and being highly acclaimed by acting veterans like Martin Landau, Sondra Currie and Lou Antonio. Carmen and I work very well together. What is currently on your I-Pod right now? Ha ha A THOUSAND songs! Many uplifting songs, I would say. Many ANGEL songs. I love angels, and anything about angels. I love songs that remind you to get back up and keep going. I have every kind of music you can imagine, but most of my choices are inspiring, uplifting, or at least sassy and loaded with spirit. If you could have dinner with three guests – (living or dead), who would you choose and why? God! Because I have a lot of questions to ask him about life. I want to ask him what he wants exactly, so we can be sure we’re on the right path and doing what we were meant to do here. I believe we ALL have a great purpose and so many people spend most of their youth trying to figure out the purpose of their life. I think it would be a lot easier if we could just ask him! And I’d like to know why all the worst stuff happens, and why those things often happen to the best people. What was the true reason for each and every challenge. Oh, the many questions I have for God! And my Mom and my Dad. Because they were some of the best people I ever knew and I miss them. Would love to have dinner with them and see how they are and ask them a lot of questions, too! On your off-days, how do you like to kick back and relax? Ha ha ha ha days off??? Kick back and relax??? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha LOL. As an actor, you never get to relax, since you always have to have ten irons in the fire to make sure something works out. I don’t think I ever kick back and relax unless I leave town! On slower days, I write. I have a bunch of film projects in development, and a few TV series, too. I love writing characters and stories. I also hike and have a gym partner for mornings. Occasionally I go out sailing with some of my friends here. I love to travel! I love going to new places, and seeing new things. It feeds me creatively. What’s coming up for you in 2012? Just shot another episode of ‘Enlightened’ opposite Laura Dern. Laura is a dear friend and I always love working with her and hope for more challenging scenes together soon. I’m now shooting ‘City Of Fools’ with Ralph Guzzo, Carmen Argenziano and a few other actors we all know and love. I am in a GE Healthcare commercial that is airing nationwide, and hopefully through the Olympics. I also am finishing writing two features, one of which I am planning to set up to shoot just outside of New Orleans. I have a scripted medical drama we are trying to set up in Houston, Texas, with some of the top innovators in medicine on board. In addition to creating and producing, I will be acting in all of these, by the way! I am working on a staged musical with studio member and opera singer, Marc Cervania, which we hope to set up for early next year. A few of my friends and I are also setting up a deal with an investment fund which would fund a slate of our projects next year. We have a dozen projects in this pool. So, we are busy! AND… episodic season is starting, so I hope to be reporting some new episodes for everyone to watch SOON! Thanks for the interview!
1 We start with 30 second-1 minute warm up poses. 2 Simply looking for the flow and rhythm of the pose . . . 3 Always pushing the pose while maintaining clarity 7 Too much emphasis on anatomy in these- 8 Starting to get some acting in here . . . 9 . . . and now some fun stuff! 10 All these were made from the same male model, using his pose as a springboard for character and story. Two minute poses.
hanging off my arm?I am sitting here trying to think how I can type something that will come remotely close to the sound of the screaming that was going on in my head at that moment.Nope.....got nothing.Trust me, in my head it was so lou... hanging off my arm?I am sitting here trying to think how I can type something that will come remotely close to the sound of the screaming that was going on in my head at that moment.Nope.....got nothing.Trust me, in my head it was so loud I am deaf now.Welcome my blog friends to another Frog Queen spider story....you are welcome.This journey is going to be long....so grab a bottle of rum and join the frog queen in her throne room while she tells you a new horror story........When I was smaller - both in age and definitely in size. We bought an old house. Cool old farm house, run down as shit....but as a kid you are more inclined to see the possibilities rather than the real picture.And trust me, my "possibility" version did not have spiders in it.I was thinking this might be where I learned to hate spiders.....but, no, there is an older story....I will tell it to you someday....if you are nice, and I can get some therapy.No, today we are talking the old house on Esplanade....in a shit-hole town called San Jacinto......for those of you who have been there, or know of it....thank you for your condolences....they are much appreciated.I affectionately called it "hell". Because I am almost certain it was/is.While in Hell, we were cleaning an old barn"ish" building.....I would remember more about this story if it was not for this one memory of leaning up against a post in the garage and then seeing something in my hair moving.I was too young to immediately understand how much actual danger I was in.(I mean, I was living in hell....how much worse could it be?)Well, the moving....which was quite fast and happening on both sides of my head, was, in fact, a bunch of baby spiders.....Yeah, give me a moment here.............I am not sure how many baby spiders there are in a new nest....but I would guess, around a billion.....maybe two....billion.Too fucking many that is the real answer.So imagine too fucking many spiders crawling on my head.Actually don't, it happened to me and I have never recovered....so take it from me. It is a very, very, very, very, very, very bad experience.It changed my life......I think I burned the clothes I was wearing......and shaved my head......no, I did not shave my head. But in retrospect....should have shaved my head......and then I should have burned that barn"ish" building to the ground.So today, when two tiny...actually I was not wearing my glasses and I could see them, so they were in fact not so tiny, spiders were hanging from my arm.I freaked the fuck out.....of course.There might have only been the two.......but I am not taking any chances.and...I went straight into the shower, clothes on and turned the hot water on full blast to make spider/shampoo soup.......now that I am sitting here typing I realize that I did not spend much time outside today.....so those spiders likely came from inside the house.OMFG!(Oh fuck....does anyone remember that Night Gallery episode with the spider that she washed down the sink and it came back bigger each time?! - What have I done!!!!????)If I am dead in the morning.....you will all know why. about 23 hours ago
I've always had a genuine interest in ostensibly "non-religious" films that evoke Christian imagery and yet tell a conventional story. Often, these are more insightful and less melodramatic than movies specifically about Jesus. One of the most obvious examples is The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). Klautu, the alien visitor with an important message for humanity, takes on the name of "Carpenter" while on earth. After being killed by soldiers, he is literally brought back to life amidst a flash of light. Both Hombre (1967) and Cool Hand Luke (1967) feature Christ-like anti-establishment title characters. Likewise, the grandfather (Alan Arkin) in 2006's Little Miss Sunshine is a sort of savior. Sure, he's a heroin-dealing, cocaine-using, porn fan. But his life and death function to guide the main characters out of their nihilistic Hell. After the events surrounding the cathartically chaotic beauty contest, the family returns to their van and ponders an empty linen bed sheet (shroud) which had formerly covered Arkin's corpse. Films like those listed above perform a tricky balancing act that incorporates, to varying degrees, symbolic elements from the New Testament, such as the Resurrection (a tricky thing in real life too), while retaining a story that stands on its own. Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966) is an another example of such a film. Loaded with Christian imagery, it still holds up as a traditional Western. ...Full Post at Basket of Kisses.
What You Will Need : : - Five 1/4 yard cuts of your most favorite 44" fabric. I know, I know...it's so hard to choose! I am using Loulouthi by Anna Maria Horner. Each 1/4 yard cut should measure 9" x 44". You can find the fabrics I chose available in the shop of my sponsor Pink Castle Fabrics. - Cut (1) from fabric 1 at 6" x 44" for the very top fabric of the skirt body - Cut (1) from fabric 2 at 6" x 44" for the middle fabric of the skirt body - Cut (1) from fabric 3 at 9" x 44" for the very bottom fabric of the skirt body - Cut (1) from fabric 4 at 6" x 24" for the fabric for the waistband - Cut (2) from fabric 5 at 3" x 44" for the fabric for the tie straps Piecing : : Note Before sewing your fabric together, make certain they are running in the proper direction -- you don't want upside-down butterflies and flowers! First, using a 1/4" seam allowance, sew together the 6" x 44" top and middle piece to the apron skirt body. Serge or use a zigzag stitch to finish off that seam to prevent fraying when washed. Press that seam down with your iron, pressing the front of the skirt body, as well. Next, sew together this piece with the 9" x 44" bottom skirt body piece. Repeat finishing off and pressing this seam as well. Once finished piecing the apron skirt body, all seams should be finished off and ironed so the seams are pressed down in the same direction. Hemming : : Next it's time to hem the edges of the apron skirt body. Taking one side at a time, press the edge over by 1/4" towards the wrong side of the fabric and again by another 1/4". For a double seam finish, sew close to the folded edge and then again along the straight edge. Do this for both sides of the apron skirt body. Now it's time to hem the bottom of the skirt body. Fold in corners and repeat the same double seam process of hemming the sides, making sure to sew ironed hem down as close to the inside and outer edge as possible and to sew folds at corners down completely. Gathering : : It's time to create those cute, flirty pleats in the apron. To create a gathering seam you simply adjust the stitch length of your machine to a wide stitch. On my machine I set the stitch length at a number 5. Some machines have a basting stitch, as well. This will give a loose stitch and make it easy to pull the threads that will create the gather. Be sure to leave a tail when you begin to sew your gathering seams. Sew 3 separate gathering seams, making sure there is a gap in between each one (you don't want to overlap these.) Once finished, separate the top thread from the bottom. Carefully take your ending thread on the top of the fabric and gently pull to create the gathers. Stop once you have gathered enough until the width of your apron skirt reaches 22." Tie top and bottom threads together, knotting them securely. The Waistband : : The waistband is simple. Using the 6" x 24" piece of fabric, create a long rectangle by turning each edge in a 1/4" facing the wrong side and pressing, the entire way around. Fold the rectangle in half keeping the length and press well. It's time to attach the waistband to the apron skirt body. Without disturbing those pretty pressed edges, open the waistband and slip in the apron skirt body, with about an inch (and more importantly, those gathering stitches) hidden in the waistband. Close and get your pins ready! Make certain when you pin that you have each piece -- the top(front) of the waistband, the apron skirt body, and the bottom(back) of the waistband all pinned neatly together. Here's the pinned front and the back... Once pinned, sew and go slow. Make sure you sew this straight, removing the pins as you go. Be sure to stay fairly close to that folded edge. Here's the finished sewn front and back... Finally, finish off the waistband. Add one final stitch along the top, close to the edge. This will keep that waistband fold when you wash the apron. Note Be sure you leave both sides of the waistband open, this is where the straps will go. Now your apron is just waiting for straps! The Straps : : The straps are made with the two 3" x 44" pieces of fabric. This amount of fabric will make extra looong straps that can be brought around and tied in front for a sweet detail. If you prefer your apron to tie in the back, simply shorten the length of the strap to fit your preference. The first few steps in creating the strap is very similar to the first waistband steps. Fold in all edges of the cut strap piece and press well. Fold strap in half, keeping the length, and press well. Hem the strap edges. Start with the width, pivot at the edge, and stitch down the entire length of the strap. Repeat these steps to create the second strap. Your straps are done! Time to attach the straps to the waistband. In the opening edges of the waistband, insert the unfinished edge of your strap about a 1/2." Pin in place and sew. I added two seams here to ensure that the straps are super secure. Repeat with the second strap. Now you have your very own, one of a kind, custom-made apron in your favorite fabric! Please let me know your thoughts, if you use this apron tutorial, and if you share that on your own blog! Sharing tutorials is something I would love to make a regular part of this blog. The only way I will know that you like them is if you let me know -- so, pretty please do!
Some photos just call for a story. The sun dips towards the trees, the water still, the insects not yet biting. I've had my best success whitetail hunting right at dusk, often after being in a blind since before dawn, only venturing down for nature's call and a peanut butter sandwich during the time of the day that the deer are hunkering down. It's a time not suited for the impatient. A small window of opportunity that might arise after a day of chattering squirrels and small deer too little to be disturbed in their growth. Minutes it seems, in which you sit upon a plank of coldness, waiting to stumble upon the chance of a shot, carefully calculating in the settling of the dark, the rapid and imminent shortening of the allotted span in which we find the treasures hidden in the woods. Nothing good comes easily, or quickly. You learn it tending the land. Watching the seasons pop up like a wheel spring, corn rising like the tide, then being swept away in a tsunami of combines, leaving the land laid clean. Rain and drought come and go, as you are unable to do much more than sit against the fence rail and watch. Like much in our life, there are times we can only sit, knowing what we wanted to do, and couldn't and knowing what we could have done, but didn't, nature pressing on regardless of our choice. Such things are reinforced in the blind,where you have been all day, hunting buried secrets, within yourself and there in your surroundings. Watching, inwardly and out for those minute changes in life that tell you when to sit quietly and watch and when to release the safety and act. Changes that most people miss, lost in the sound of a television set, a video game, the rush of traffic. Lost because they simply failed to look. The wind shifts imperceptibly, the woods grow quiet as the sun sets down. Small creatures hop into grassy fields, risking a meeting with a predator for one last chance to put food in their belly before the darkness blankets them for the night. There along the tree line, a blur of soft movement, a whitetail buck. I hope he doesn't scent me, the smell of warm flesh, flame of hair and that odor of gunpowder and glory which seems to me to be the mark of the hunters garb. He moves from behind a small ridge of earth, seemingly rising out of the earth itself as my Browning rises from my lap, a synchronization of fate. A 10 point buck, emboldened by the late hour as well, believing he has the woods to himself and a shy little doe, the rest of the hunters all having long retired to a television set and a cold beer. But I am still here, waiting. He moves on down a slope of earth that dips like a hard swallow, seeking. He stops, sniffing the air for the one that he seeks, leaving the familiarity of woods and bed, to wander after love, no sense of reason, walking willfully into hope and doom. With the last drops of the sun leeching from the sky I have only this one hesitation, this moment, this one shot. As he moves away, quickly sensing perhaps a darkness that is final, I squeeze the trigger, a sound of profound meaning and fatal touch. The buck bounds up and forward, flinging the dirt as he darts away, quivering upright, in labored heave and surge of form. Dead, but not willing yet to quit the earth though in this moment his flesh has already been returned to it. It was a fatal shot, one through the heart, and I found him yards away, down, the light having passed below the horizon of his iris, stare fixed into eternity. I take my hat off, and give thanks, for the day, for the bounty, for food for the table for a long winter. I mouth that prayer of thanks, as I look down on his still form. My breath assumes the air that his body had vacated, my eyes seeing the objects, fence and field and trees, that his eyes had lost, a glimpse of thanks for life and the ability to sustain it through the coming days.The light is all but gone as if the dark had slipped up behind me, my back exposed to the creep of time, so enmeshed by the sound of the rifle that I scarcely heard its whisper. The moon is out, the shadows diminishing to its curve, until even the shadows are drenched in black. For a moment, there was no movement, the deer's still form barely visible, its outline growing weightless and faint, the night itself mesmerizing me with it's own primal inertia. Too soon it will be my time to leave. A light comes through the trees, a neighbor, hearing the shot, coming to help me bring in the game, for which I will share with his family."I'm over here", I shout, but my words are still, my small voice already lost in the woods infinitude. I can only stand still, my shadow long departed, running free somewhere with a whitetail buck, into the darkness, seeking the sun.
We are practically snowed in today. No chance of going grocery shopping! It's beautiful; the view from all our windows is breathtaking. Kiki seems to understand that there won't be any more running around outside today and decided to at least inspect the deep snow on the balcony. I am trying to compensate for the lack of outdoor fun by throwing her toys around for her.
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Fans Howl After Weather Site Buys Out Rival By JOHN SCHWARTZ and BRIAN STELTER Published: July 3, 2012 It’s stormy out there. Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Jonathan Saruk/The Weather Channel, via Getty Images The announcement on Monday that the Weather Channel Companies, owners of television’s Weather Channel and weather.com, would buy one of its rivals, Weather Underground, set off howls of displeasure on social media platforms and around water coolers across the nation. The purchase price was not disclosed. In the eyes of Weather Underground’s ardent fans, the Weather Channel appears to represent the wrong kind of weather information: personality-driven sunniness and hype, they say, rather than the pure science of data. As Mike Tucker, a computer professional in New Hampshire, put it on Facebook, reacting to news of the deal: “Nooooooooooooooooo! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!” The controversy illustrates the deep national divide between those people who just want to know if it’s going to rain, and people who really, really, care about the data underlying the weather. Christopher Maxwell, a manager at a solar energy company in Richmond, Va., is in the really-really-cares-about-the-weather camp. He said he saw the Weather Channel deal as a sad sellout for Weather Underground. “It seems to happen all the time,” he said. “Something great gets invented and sold in the United States, and it gets bought up and destroyed.” Weather Underground was founded in 1995 in Ann Arbor, where it grew out of the University of Michigan’s online weather database. The name was a winking reference to the radical group that also had its roots in Ann Arbor. Mr. Maxwell said he appreciated Weather Underground’s fanatical devotion to data, and how it drew information from so many thousands of weather stations run by users that he is able to determine “microclimates” of variation that can prove important in getting the most out of a new solar installation. In other words, as he put it on Facebook, “I liked that Wunderground was indy and for weather geeks and not so much ‘normies.’ ” For Mr. Tucker, the “Nooooooooooooooooo!” response was a reaction to what he sees as the Weather Channel’s penchant for the commercialization of weather. In a telephone interview, he said: “I’m looking at the site right now, and it’s laden with ads, and promotional things for their shows. I don’t really care about all that stuff. I only care what the weather is.” Mr. Tucker called the Weather Underground site “simple and somewhat elegant” by comparison. Paul Baginski, a visiting assistant professor of mathematics at Smith College, said that when he assigned his students to run their hometown temperature data through a series of calculus functions, he pointed them toward Weather Underground instead of Weather.com because it was so much easier to track down historical data on the independent site. “It seemed with every update to their Web site, weather.com added another obstacle” with advertisements and extra tabs and clicks, he said. Weather Underground’s devotion to weather data has brought the site about 10 million unique visitors a month, according to the measurement firm ComScore, and has helped it to remain an independent company for the better part of two decades. A similar site, WeatherBug, draws 21 million visitors a month. (WeatherBug is owned by Earth Networks.) Both sites, however, are dwarfed by Weather.com and the other properties owned by the Weather Channel, which is owned by a consortium that includes Comcast, Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group. The Weather Channel sites draw almost 50 million visitors a month. But only half of Weather Underground’s users also use Weather.com in a given month, which might be considered a silent protest of sorts. Every so often one of the bosses of the Weather Channel had tried to buy Weather Underground, company officials said, and every so often the site politely declined. But this time was different. “In the past three years, we’ve gotten our act together and become a mature company,” Weather Underground’s president, Alan Steremberg, said in a telephone interview. “We’ve had amazing growth.” Now, he said, it was time to get help from a bigger company. Which very well may be. But why would the Weather Channel want to acquire a site loved by people who hate the Weather Channel? When a reporter asked this very question on Monday, the newly acquired Mr. Steremberg, on a conference call interview with David Kenny, the chairman and chief executive of the Weather Channel Companies, tried to be a good corporate citizen. In what might best be described as aspirational thinking, he began to say, “I don’t know if anyone hates the Weather Channel.” Mr. Kenny brightly contradicted him. “Oh, they do!” he said. Mr. Kenny explained that he and his colleagues had been reading the angry online reactions to the acquisition. But, he added, “I think that once they see that we’re only investing in the product, not changing it or dumbing it down or altering it in some way, then I think that will go away.” Mr. Steremberg insisted, “This will be a better change, a good change.” Weather Underground will have more money to build weather models and to invest in Web design improvements. It will stay online as its own brand, he said, one that will be complementary to the Weather Channel’s. A small but vocal minority of people, he said glumly, are “resistant to change in general.” They should know, he said, that “change is inevitable.” If nothing else, the weather teaches us that much. - As Weather Channel Buys Weather Underground, Fans Fear Change (nytimes.com) - Wunderground.com sold to The Weather Channel Companies (wunderground.com) - The Weather Channel buying Weather Underground (bizjournals.com) - Weather Underground Bought By The Weather Channel (njwo.wordpress.com) - Nice Move: Weather Channel Buys Weather Underground To Sharpen Focus On Digital (techcrunch.com) - Weather Channel buys Weather Underground (nextlevelofnews.com) - The Weather Channel Buys Up the Crowdsourced Weather Underground (gizmodo.co.uk) - The Weather Channel Buys Up the Crowdsourced Weather Underground [Weather] (gizmodo.com) - Weather Channel buys Weather Underground; brand stays (paidcontent.org) - Make it rain cash: The Weather Channel snags Weather Underground for an undisclosed sum (venturebeat.com)
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McFARLANE'S POP CULTURE MASTERWORKS LAUNCHES NEW ERA IN COLLECTIBLES Led Zeppelin 1 First Product in New Line Friday, November 18, 2005 Everyone remembers the first album that changed their life. You can still feel the excitement of that opening guitar lick or drum beat, and those lyrics that speak directly to you -- comforting you, energizing you, reminding you. This is the music that has provided the soundtrack for countless numbers of your best memories. Everyone has a favorite film and can recall with vivid clarity the movie moments that made them laugh, cry or scream with fright. Horror. Fantasy. Drama. Comedy. And more. There is a genre of film for every taste, and every weekend for the past century theaters around the globe have been packed with audiences eager for the next thrill. The next unforgettable memory, created to deliver the viewer into the fantastic world of storytelling. Music and film are two of the key ingredients that make up our collective memory of daily life and entertainment -- in short, this is popular culture. With all of that in mind, McFarlane Toys ushers in a new era in collectibles and brings well-known imagery to new levels of sculpted realism with McFarlane's Pop Culture Masterworks. Classic Rock'n'Roll album covers and iconic movie posters are transformed from two-dimensional pictures into modern three-dimensional sculptures. Thus, bringing those seminal pop culture elements to life in a wholly original fashion that allows fans and enthusiasts a new way to celebrate some of their most cherished memories. First in the series is LED ZEPPELIN 1. All of the eye-popping detail of the original cover artwork is captured in this re-creation of Led Zeppelin's incendiary debut album. Considered by many to be the band's best, this landmark in rock history should be part of every fan's collection. McFarlane Toys' artists have crafted this exquisitely detailed re-creation using both modern sculpting methods and the ancient techniques of forced perspective in order to pull the flat imagery in a new direction that is both visually stunning and original, while remaining true to the source material. Led Zeppelin 1 comes to life in a 7-inch by 7-inch by 2 3/4-inch format that can be wall mounted or -- using the retractable easel-back -- displayed on a desk, table or in a display case as a tribute to one of the world's greatest Rock'n'Roll bands. The first movie poster scheduled to get the McFarlane touch will be Steven Spielberg's 1975 mega-blockbuster Jaws. One of the biggest moneymakers of the last 30 years, the poster's image of an enormous shark racing up underwater toward an unsuspecting swimmer is one of the most recognizable images in American cinema. The film scared a generation of beachgoers right out of the water, and gave sharks a bad name the world over for decades to come. The fan interest in McFarlane's Pop Culture Masterworks is enormous, as McFarlane brings some of pop culture's most enduring images to collectors in a new format, opening up a world of collectibles with a virtually unlimited resource of music and movies from all genres. With an eye on affordability, McFarlane Toys proves once again that it has its finger on the pulse of pop culture. Visit Spawn.com for the latest information on McFarlane's Pop Culture Masterworks, as we have a wide range of items slated for this all-new category of products. To see images and a QuickTime VR movie giving you a 360-degree view of McFarlane's Led Zeppelin I, go here. >> LED ZEPPELIN 1
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Thoughts From The Publisher's Desk It’s the only way the town is going to be cleansed of all the nastiness that persists between the members of the Mayor and Council as well as the citizens and some council members. In the newspaper business, tension, name calling and controversy in government make the work much more enjoyable, but the state of affairs in Ocean City has become despicable, and there’s plenty of blame to go around. It’s not in the bitter and dysfunctional realm that dominates Salisbury, but it’s getting disturbingly close. That much is certain after the boisterous discourse that took place during Monday’s Ocean City Mayor and Council meeting regarding changing the town’s election date. The endless interruptions, unprofessional rounds of applause, seemingly constant state of confusion on what is and is not being voted on, the open acts of disrespect, private conversations taking place while others are speaking (and being picked up by the microphone, nonetheless) and utter ignorance shown at times have got to go. It’s counterproductive and embarrassing. A point that seemed to raise the most ire at Monday’s meeting was the alleged motivation behind the “flip-flopping” of some Mayor and Council members. The fact is Doug Cymek, Mary Knight and Lloyd Martin changed their minds last month and advocated for merging the city’s election with the national election after previously voting to retain the city’s municipal election in October. After the issue of a two-ballot system was proposed, resident Jeff Thaler seemed to touch a nerve when he asked Joe Hall, who opposed the concept, why he had changed his mind and would not be voting in favor of changing the election date. “I was at this meeting a year ago when this failed by a 6-1 vote and it wasn’t the money that Joe Hall brought up, it was the fact how embarrassing it was that we had 1,500 people vote. I don’t hear that coming up tonight. Fifteen hundred people voting in a town election, I agree with Joe, embarrassing,” Thaler said. “Where the flip-flop is coming, I’m not quite sure.” Joe Hall’s response called out Cymek, Knight and Martin as being the actual “flip-floppers” and intimated they changed their minds after reading the political tea leaves. “Everybody knows, Jeff, I’m not a flip-flopper. The fact is the last time this was discussed in this group there’s three people in here, and this audience was not as passionate and the same information was in the last presentation, so what’s changed is somebody else has figured out that they feel favored by this change, and that’s clear and it’s been discussed in here. There’s several motivating factors in why somebody now might want to support this change compared to what it was a few months ago. I haven’t changed, I haven’t flip-flopped. I still think it should be a consolidated election, all on one ballot … the three people who have changed their minds since that 6-1 vote have determined that it’s in their favor to make that change,” Joe Hall said. “Now it’s up to the voters to decide why those three people that moved this to this night and this discussion and why they’ve changed, but the facts haven’t changed since the last time this was discussed. I’m not the flip-flopper, the other three are the flip-floppers.”While not taking kindly to the term, Knight admitted to changing her mind. “I’ve never been called a flip-flopper, but the reason I flip-flopped was because of you guys,” she said, referring to the largely pro-minority voting block audience. “I have no other motivation. It’s all the people who have stopped me. I have to admit I was selfish before with the two prior votes because I had it in my mind it was my day, but it’s not my day. It’s your day. Call me a flip-flopper, say that I go back on things, that’s fine. But I’m representing you all and that’s what I’m doing tonight, and I apologize Joe to you for the two votes that I sat through here … because it would have been 5-2.” This council and community are beyond the point of ever working together. There is a palpable resentment among many of the council members and several are so stubborn it’s disrupting their effectiveness. The same can be said for some residents as well. No matter the outcome of this fall’s election or when it’s held or how many rooms or ballots it involves, it can’t get here soon enough for me. It’s no secret segments of society in Ocean City want the four who voted to terminate former City Manager Dennis Dare voted out of office. Dare was pushed out last September, but it’s going to be the major election issue this fall. Votes and discussions are going to be rehashed. The ridiculously extreme financial cost of the move will be tabulated and advertised. Cell phone conversations are going to be recounted. Insubordination by Dare will be alleged, and other accusations will be hurled. The bottom line is Ashley and Pillas are safe, as their terms are not up, but Joe Hall and Jim Hall are up for re-election. Joe Hall is running, but it’s unknown about Jim Hall at this point and he often waits till close to the filing deadline to decide. Four years ago, he decided to run again because of a weak candidate pool. That’s not likely to be the case this year, as several political newcomers are planning to seek seats, including Dare most likely. Although the former city manager has not made it official yet, I am confident he will run for a seat, and he is as close to a certainty as anyone. My advice to voters is just get out there and express yourself -- re-elect them all or vote them all out. Just vote so we can move on and hopefully return this town to the professional stability it needs.
This is probably my daughters favourite glimpse that she’s participated in. Last week was her first visit to a theme park; Vancouver’s Playland. To say she enjoyed herself would be an understatement. SHE LOVED every moment of it. In fact, Gwenneth spent most of the time bouncing from ride to ride. I wish I could bottle up some of her energy sometimes. It’s a great place to spend a few hours with kids. Once inside, there are a number of different rides and other games for them to play. We arrived when the park opened which meant no line-ups and happy kids! Of course I brought my camera to snap a few child photos of her and her buddies. Here’s a glimpse into our visit for the Chic Critique Forum’s 52 week project. My favourite is the ones of her riding the motorcycles… loves it just like her dad. - Sneak Peek \| Family Photography Vancouver, Langley Family Photographer - Wednesday’s Style \| Lovely Layers \| West Vancouver Family Photographer - Sunday Showcase \| Wall Art \| Vancouver Family Photographer - Friday with Gwenneth \| Vancouver Child Photographer - X Family \| Port Moody, Coquitlam Family Photographer
The end and another beginning Posted on 4 Nov ’11 by Earl Final photos have been selected so I’m officially finished with my part of doing the photography of local churches for next years Rowan Helping Ministries Calendar. The photo above was among the non-seclected. When I first began this project I’d planned doing many of the photos with a wide-angle lens for a more unusual and dramatic effect. However, while I personally liked the results I came to realize many of the target audience might not and since the goal of the calendar was to sell, with proceeds going to those in need, I decided to shift my photographic style to a more conventional angle. This didn’t remove all the challenge. As I mentioned in a previous post, many of the city churches had intruding power lines, signs or traffic signals directly in front of them so a clear shot was impossible. This led to hours of painstakingly removing these distractions pixel by pixel. The up side is this makes for unique photos of many of the churches that can’t be replicated by just anyone with a point-and-shoot. Now this ends the formal project but I’m beginning a personal follow-on project of putting the series of final shots together in what will hopefully be a folio or book. Have a great weekend!
a Meaningful Life with Simon Jacobson Radio Show Transcript - April 16, 2000 Rabbi Simon Jacobson: Good evening and welcome back to Toward a Meaningful Life with yours truly, Simon Jacobson. Its always great to see the dynamic of an interactive experience, where you dont really know in which direction its going to head. I often start with a script or with some ideas that I want to share, but then the calls take it to another level entirely. I really want to thank the listeners; its just a demonstration of what a collaborative communication can truly be like. If we open up our hearts and speak openly, spiritually, about things that really matter and are meaningful, all kinds of surprises can take place. I invite you to call in at 212-244-1050. But, as emcee, Ill try to define the context of the show and that is, since its holiday season, the holiday of freedom, particularly Passover, a season that is celebrated by many people of different backgrounds and different religions, I thought it would be appropriate to take a unique angle on this issue of freedom: what really makes us free and how does one experience freedom? first thought of titling the show, Emotions: Are they our greatest enemy? It reminds me of someone who recently came to me to consult about certain personal issues and, of course, whenever were dealing with a personal issue we get involved in it and it becomes something that were invested in. Because we have feelings about it, when we get emotional, our emotions have the ability to entangle us and we were speaking, I was trying to point out to him that there are different ways of looking at thisthis may be your view, there may be another perspectiveand it became very obvious (there are those moments when things become very clear, very crystallized) even to him, and he said, you know, this thing called emotions; I wish we could get rid of them. It would just make life so much simpler, so much clearer. emotions, on one hand, are very much a part of our experience (not only a part, but an intrinsic element of human experience). We feel things. We like something, we dont like it. Love. Pain. We have sensations. If we were just minds, intellects, computers, we wouldnt be able to experience life. the other hand, because of the subjective nature of emotions, they can entrap or blind us. The Bible puts it very clearly. It says that bias, which is shochad in Hebrew, a bribe, blinds the eyes of the wise and distorts the tongue of the tzaddik, the righteous person. we know the power that the emotions have, in a moment of obsession where you get totally consumed with something. And I thought it would be appropriate to discuss this at Passover time, because its the holiday of freedom and many of you may be at a Passover seder, which is supposed to be a I always ask myself the question that I ask people whom I speak to, which is, do you really feel free during the seder or free after the holiday? Do you really feel free of your psychological demons, of scars that you carry? As a matter of fact, someone just told me that she feels more enslaved by Passover than any other holiday. The cleaning thats done before the holiday; following the letter of the law with such precision can sometimes seem to be an unfreeing type I thought it would be important to address, on a very personal level, what is freedom and how can we really use the holiday as an opportunity to become free. angle Im taking here is that I believe that freedom is very much connected to human experience and to human emotions. The fact that we experience things also means that we become enslaved to them. We become attached to them, for good or for bad, in healthy and unhealthy ways; the biases and denial that it creates. the first question that I pose to myself and to the listening audience, and as I like to do is to open this question up to all of your comments as well as to share my thoughts: What kind of role do emotions play in human freedom? How would you define freedom? How do we balance the two? Can we create a situation where we take advantage of the benefits of an emotional experience and at the same time minimize the risks of being blinded to the point of self-destructive behavior or destructive behavior toward others? And ultimately, how does one really learn to become free? course this comes down to the definition of what freedom is. We live in a country today, a democratic country, where freedom is considered to be the epitome and highest objectivethe land of the free and the bravebut are we truly free? We live in highly prosperous times, with technology, development. Civilization is getting more cultivated and more evolved and advanced. Are we freer people because of that? Can we say that were freer today than we were 100-200 years ago? And how do emotions play into this, psychologically? me give you my definition of freedom, and I invite your rebuttals or opinions on the matter. If you ask most people what the word free means, their knee-jerk reaction is, Freedom? I can do what I like. I can go where I like, I can read what I like, I can meet whom I like. Thats sound good initially, but if you think about it, thats really a superficial and meaningless, hollow response because, as youll† see in a moment, I know people wholl do anything they feel they like and theyre more enslaved than anyone Ive the other hand, there are people who can sit in a disciplined way and for 3-4 hours concentrating, meditating, studying, reading, busy at workseemingly, they are completely controlled by their environment, but its their choice, and they are there willingly. I would define freedom, and of course the antithesis being the opposite of freedom, slavery, as the following: that when you do something, you do it by no imposition from outside. No one imposes upon you to do something. Its a true free expression from within, which basically means, if a five-year-old child is allowed to do anything he or she desires, like cross the street, thats not freedom. Because in their ignorance, they may choose something thats completely not healthy or self-actualizing. They need to be disciplined; they need to be instructed, educated. freedom is learning how to access your own inner self. How to be able to make a choice that is not affected by, or imposed upon by society, educators, community, peer pressure. A choice thats truly yours and yours alone. is how I would define freedom. So when you look at it that way, can we really achieve freedom in a world like ours? Remember, we do live in a very great media age, where were exposed and inundated by media all the timeimages, identity, labeling, and all the branding that they try to impose upon us. So how does one really find and discover him or herself? this touches very much on the element of emotions, because when someone comes to you, or theres peer pressure (people dress a certain way, you want to feel accepted), thats an emotional reaction to becoming part of a group, which clearly biases you from being able to stand up and take a position. sad to say, but when you look at statistics, what people will do when theres a group pressure, a mass mentality, its freedom means discovering who you are, which immediately implies that freedom requires some type of education, knowledge. Knowledge makes us free; knowledge is power, because it gives you options. first thing that any Fascist government does when it establishes power and control, is to control minds. They cannot give people the ability to have a free-flow of information because information allows people options; they see there are other ways, alternatives, and alternatives creates open ideas in their mind, which is a threat to a Fascist totalitarian regime. the other hand, in a country that we consider to be free, as Thomas Jefferson once said, If you had to choose between a free press and a free government, you would choose a free press, because without a free press, free expression, theres no free government, theres no accountability. freedom is very much connected to what you know, the perspectives that you have. It reminds me of one of my favorite stories from the city of Chelm (Ive recently been telling you some Chelm stories). If you listen to the show weekly, youll soon be Chelm experts. So Chelm stories have these unique insights into the human psyche. Theyre somewhat outrageous, even farcical, but they have quite interesting insights into was a small town in Poland that they say was inhabited by very wise people, but the neighbors were resentful so they created this whole folklore and parables of the foolish people you hear a lot of stupid jokes about the people from Chelm. In one, there was a farmer in Chelm who had a small farm, but this farm was special to the farmer because it was his baby. He inherited from his parents and grandparents, and he catered to it, cared for it, knew every grain of soil on day he gets a letter from his cousin from a big-town farm in lets say Texas whos coming to visit. Hes very proud that his cousin is coming to visit him, and the day his cousin comes, he shows him around, showing him every part of the farm. They finally sit down to dinner and the small-town, Chelm farmer says to this big-town cousin: So what do you think of my farm? big-town farmer thinks to himself, What should I say? So he says, Well, its nice and cute, but its Chelm farmer is taken aback, insulted, and asks, How big is your farm back in Texas that you call this small? the Texan farmer is looking for some point of reference and he tells him, Well, it takes me all day to travel with my tractor from one end of the farm to the other. the Chelm farmer, with deep empathy and compassion, says to his cousin, Ah, cousin, I once had a tractor like that if you ask this question to yourselfwell do an on-air surveycheck this box: are you close-minded (narrow-minded) or open-minded? Are you subjective or objective? dont know if theres a person out there who would check off: Im close-minded, narrow-minded, and subjectivethe reason being that part of being subjective is that it makes you think youre objective. Thats what subjectivity means; it doesnt let you see clearly. this Chelm farmer was also objective. He wasnt malicious. He just never could envision a farm larger than his own. When he heard that it took an entire day to travel from one end to the other, he thought to himself, it must be the vehicle. He remembers that he once had a jalopy like that too, once upon a time, that took him all day to crank up to go from one corner to the next. that was his subjectivity. He couldnt even see a broader horizon. This is an example of subjectivity that is not malicious; however, its clearly subjective and limited based on we are as objective as our perspectives allow us. And thats where freedom comes into play. Thats why any true free state, free government, has to provide equal opportunity in education, situations where people can access the knowledge necessary to be able to see broader horizons, or else they end up with a perspective that this farm is the only farm in town. And we all have our little farms. I believe, is what the true celebration of freedom is about. How do we get beyond that perspective? How can we see broader horizons? How do we get out of the tentacles, the trap of our own emotional view on things? Because interestingly, of all traps, of all enemiespeer pressure, social pressure, parents, community, media, even real criminals and enemies outside of usnothing cannot compare to your own enemy within, the enemy of subjectivity. I must say, as a disclaimer, subjectivity per se is not an enemy. Its what protects us. Protects our young. We protect ourselves because we are subjective. Thats fine. Self interest per se is not a crime. it becomes an enemy is when thats all there is. When youre so invested in being right, in winning, that you dont care what the truth is: Dont bother me with the facts, type of thing. Dont distract me. Where your own subjectivity biases you from being able to see clearly. Accountability. Many businesses fail because the owners pride doesnt allow him or her to live up to the fact that he had a mistake that year, and maybe wasted some money. true freedom requires accountability, and accountability requires one to step back and look at oneself, explore, assess, to be able to look at ones life and see if theres another way of looking at it. That requires stepping back, it requires knowledge, and it requires objectivity, the key to freedom. Thats why emotions play such an important today is a special day for me because its the birthday of the Rebbe, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who besides being my great teacher, was also a major forming force in my personal life, and as a result inspired me to write the book Toward a Meaningful Life which in turn has inspired this show. Interestingly, the Rebbe is a man dedicated to freedom, to finding truth, and paying whatever price it takes to become free. And that, as I said, requires being able to look at ourselves from the outside and not ever feeding into our own little comfort zone and insecurities or maintaining our positions just because theyre our position. a major lesson that the Rebbe inspired me with, who himself was a selfless person like that, and inspired so many in that going back to the topic of emotions, I think the first step is to be aware of the traps in our lives, and the single greatest trap is our own narrow view of things, being invested in a certain way we look at things. If you take any particular situation, if you get into a fight with your spouse, or youre having difficulties with your children or you cant get along with people at work, or just in general, rest assured, theres always an emotional issue involved. Emotions are always right there being part of the culprit. problem is that we dont want to eliminate emotions, we dont want to eliminate human reactions: emotions play a critical role in our lives. We dont want to be machines. Yet, at the same time, we have to be able to look at ourselves and really be able to assess wheres this is coming from. me say this. When we talk about emotional subjectivity, as I said, being subjective makes you think that you are being objective, but it requires looking at ourselves, and examining our motives when it comes to any particular situation. isnt an easy thing to do because it requires a certain dedication to truth. Theres a statement made about Abraham; Maimonides writes something that has always moved me deeply. When he writes about Abrahams dedication to truth, his dedication to G-d, to freedom, he writes that Abraham is called which means Abraham, My beloved. Why is he My beloved? G-d says, because Abraham was dedicated to truth because it was true (Avrohom oseh es haemes mipnei shehu emes). was dedicated to truth because it was true; not because he gained from it, not because he benefited either spiritually or materially. It wasnt even an issue of gratification. It was really an issue of loving truth, being committed to truth because it is true. requires deep selflessness, and as Maimonides puts it, this isnt something we all can achieve quickly. But just to know that theres a person like that out there, that there were people in history with such dedication, puts things in perspective. Many times I see that we sometimes justify our own subjectivity by saying, Hey, everybodys subjective and everybodys doing the same thing. just tends to make us feel less guilty, but to know that there were people were really committed, who were ready to pay the price, is very inspiring. we go to Kathy on the air. Hi. Its Kathy from Stanford. Its a pleasure listening to you. The four glasses of wine at the seder. Usually when youre at a party and they give you a glass, you try to find a potted plant and dispose of the alcohol. Thats called cheating! Well, if youre driving. Would you discuss the wine in the seder and how much can you sip without going below the Okay, thank you for the call. Although Kathys question doesnt seem directly connected to what Im speaking about, I will connect it. Kathys asking, for those who may not be familiar with it, on Passover, theres a seder. A seder means a traditional meal, but its more than a meal, its an entire experience with a large focus on children and education, of recreating the Exodus experience, the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt 3,312 years ago. During the seder (upcoming Wednesday and Thursday nights this year) there are many traditions, including eating matzah which is unleavened bread, like crackers, that are not allowed to rise, and drinking four cups of wine, which is what Kathy is referring question is a technical one, which really requires speaking to a local rabbi, but I will respond. Of course, barring health considerations and other issues, four cups of wine are required to be drunk, but if you drink three-quarters, youre doing pretty well. However, if someone has health issues, that clearly changes things. the significance of the wine, in the context of what were speaking about here, and the matzah (the bread that we eat throughout the year represents the inflated ego, while matzah represents humility), is the key element I was addressing here, I just wasnt using the traditional language, that the first step to freedom is ceasing to see the farm in the way that youre so accustomed to, and that requires humility. It requires searching out people or books that can teach you that there are broader horizons. It requires getting out of your own subjectivity. So matzah represents the experience the other hand, humility on its own, as I mentioned earlier, is insufficient because you can become so subjugated that your personality is missing. So the drinking of the wine represents that. Coupled with humility, wine represents the drink of the wealthy. Wine is a rich drink, so it represents the idea that we also taste, and we dont completely annihilate does not mean self-annihilation, it means focusing your emotions, recognizing theres subjectivity with humility, and then channeling them in the right direction. As I stated, emotions happen to be a necessary driving force in our lives. that type of passion, commitment, your subjective belief in something, we would all be blasť and very complacent and indifferent. So emotional experience is something that is to be encouraged. What we need to take care of is to make sure that we dont get trapped by emotions, that we dont allow it to consume us, that we allow it to be a tool for true freedom. And that requires the humility of the matzah. going back to the subject at hand, discovering that type of opening requires two things, and this is across the board. If youre having an argument with a friend or a spouse or a child or someone at work, or youre just stuck in a particular situationpatterns that you cant get out ofhow often are we inspired to make a move (Im not going to make this mistake again), and then we go back and go back to the same old pattern. an example of an emotional habit that you just cant get out of. You get accustomed to the way you deal with things. People who may have short fuses, get angry quickly, thats an emotional reaction. These are all examples of emotional traps that hold us hostage. So how does a person truly free himself? Thats what I call freedom. I cant tell you how often I hear people who sit at a seder table with children and guests and friends and strangers, and they see that the people who host it are the same obnoxious people they know all year round. And they dont experience freedom. They see the same old people doing things by habit, by roteand my intention here is not to be critical, but to make a point, that you can do many things traditionally, and not necessarily be a freer human being. Passover experience has to be one of freedom. Two things are required and necessary if one is to achieve a freedom outside of ones own subjective self. The first thing is knowledge. Knowledge comes in two forms. It can come in the form of a book, information; it can come in the form of a teachersomeone who exposes you to something outside of yourself. long as its an extension of yourself, its you. Its like that doctor who once told the patient, Ill tell you when you need a second opinion. Thats not a second opinion. When the doctor tells you, Ill tell you when you need a second opinion, youd better find yourself another doctor. Because if hell tell you when you need a second opinion, it means its his opinion. The whole point is that you want to have another view. number one is a teacher or a body of knowledge, a book that opens you up to another perspective. It may be different from yours, it may enhance yours. But dont be afraid of truth. Thats what growth is all about. second thing thats required is being able to examine your emotional side. Am I subjective in a particular area? Is there a way that I can get beyond it? And you may need that body of knowledge or that teacher to help you get to briefly, those of the two elements, and Ill try to elaborate more as we go along. have Mary on the air. Hi. I wanted to say that I enjoy your program very, very much and just one little quick point. I so agree with you that you need your emotions. I agree with you that you need to have knowledge, you need to learn. But the most important thing, I think, is to apply that knowledge. So many people have a lot of information but they dont apply it to their lives. Its always separate. They have their studies, they have their knowledge, and then they have how they really think the most important thing is to incorporate that into your life. And make it real in a way that makes sense to you. I completely appreciate that point, Mary, and my question to you is, how do you go about doing that? As an example, there are people who are intelligent; they understand a certain situation very intellectually, but they just cant bring themselves to do it. How do you get over that hurdle? Thats the challenge. I was having a conversation with someone the other day about that and I said, You know, theres this prayer Love G-d with all thy heart and all thy soul. Can you imagine how it would change your life if somebody really lived it for a week? I dont know a lot but the little bit that I know, I put into use. In other words, when I have a problem, the challenge is for me to see how would the information that I have, the knowledge that Ive studied, how would I then make it work for me in solving my problem. Its not a separate thing. If you love G-d with all your heart and soul every day, youre a different person. So Im saying I think its so important to just live it. You dont have to know so much, but whatever you know at every point make it work for you. Personalize it. People think that ideas are very lofty and they sound wonderful, but they dont know how to bring them into their lives. But Mary, heres the problem. Sometimes a person is invested in something for healthy or unhealthy reasons. And even if they understand that theyre doing the wrong things, theyre just locked. How do they get beyond that emotional Well, you said it. Its ego. You have to realize that you have to let go of that inflated ego that made me all puffed up with my own pride and thinking I was right. You have to eat matzah, in the sense that you have to reduce yourself and see what else is available. So you really gave that answer. Okay, thank you, Mary. We have Bill on the line. Good afternoon Rabbi. Im reading from a book here and I have a question that sounds like what youre talking about. Can I read it? Whats the name of the book? Its by Aryeh Kaplan. Meditations in Kabbalah. You must be alone when you do this. Meditation, a state of rapture so as to receive the Divine influx which will bring your mind from potential to action. Isnt that what youve been trying to say? Its very appropriate and very well put and I think its an important element. Actually, its a point I had not made and Im glad you brought it up, and that is a need to be able to create a space and just silently look at yourself. Sometimes when we get so caught up in the merry-go-round of life, the emotions really take over because were on the move. When you have to pause and take that step back, it allows you to really see yourself in a more objective way: Do I really like what I see? Do I really like how Im behaving? Is this the best I can be? Is it what makes me proud, my family proud, my children proud? I think thats a very important point. Like refreshing yourself spiritually. Exactly. And creating that space. Where did you pick up the book if I may ask? I picked it up at a New Age store in Nyack, down in Rockland County. I was very fascinated over the years. Im trying to find an instructor now. Do you live in Nyack? No, I live in Spring Valley. Well, when you get off the line, if you leave your phone number with Steve (our engineer), well try to put you in contact with someone who can help you, if you like. So Bill, thank you for the call and thank you for bringing that insight into point is really well taken, and I particularly want to mention what Mary had said, because it brings to mind the story of Bertrand Russell, who was once behaving unethically. He was a professor of ethics at Cambridge, or whatever university he was at, and someone asked him, How can you behave in such an unethical way when you teach ethics? And he answered very simply, I also teach mathematics and Im not a triangle. means, essentially, though some academics are very proud of that statement, you can teach something, be knowledgeable, be an expert in it, erudite, and yet not be it. You can be expert, know it, but not be it. for me, captures the trap of emotions, because you might think that that sounds like a very objective teacher; hes knowledgeable but he doesnt act on it because he remains objective. But no, thats an emotional choice. have spoken to many people who have difficulty with faith, with G-d, not for intellectual reasons but for emotional ones. They may have been hurt by a religious establishment or religious experiences, or, which is even more common, they are afraid of personal responsibility. is not a simple matter. If you accept G-d, it means that you accept a certain personal responsibility. But no one is ready to get up there publicly and say, Hey, I dont want to be responsible! we have all kinds of reasons. We say, Well, who says theres a G-d? Maybe its survival of the fittest. You see the wicked prosper. Theres no justice. And that basically gives us the license to do what we like. And I speak to myself as well. If most of us are able to weasel out of a situation, and you have good excuses, and if youre intelligent enough you always come up with brilliant excuses, were invested in that, because basically, you can do what you like. Youre not accountable, you dont have to answer to anyone. And that is, in a very interesting way, perhaps the most powerful statement of subjectivity. what stops a person from having an attitude like that? Thats what I was referring to when I asked Mary the question. Why would someone not have an attitude like that? Thats a very difficult question. Ive struggled with it and Ive asked many people. youre alone in a room, theres no one around, no one will honor you for your altruism, why would you really behave in an ethical way or in a truthful way if you can get away with it and theres no fear of law enforcement, cops, or shame? it comes down to internal integrity. Your own inner integrity and your own being true to yourself. Honesty is something that cant be taught to someone. Its what I mentioned earlier with Abraham, when you just have that sense Abraham was committed to truth because it was true. Why some people can have that commitment and others are completely obliviousthey dont really care whats true, whats rightthey will just forge ahead and step on anyone they can step on. Thats how powerful subjectivity controls you to the point that everything else doesnt matter. Intellectually, you can sit that person down and hell admit, No, we need to be kind to each other. I mean, most people believe in some form of justice. But when it comes to behavior, our own personal choices, we dont want to be told what to do. We dont want to have that type of accountability. that is, as I said, a powerful form of subjectivity, and humility, and the matzah we described, is the key to being able to get out of it. to sum up what I was saying earlier about reviewing our own emotions requires a teacher, an objective person whom you trust, that is also sensitive to you, not judgmental, but sensitive, who can help you look at yourself in a different way. Its what we do anyway, in business, before you make a decision: you usually consult with one or two people if you want to make a correct decision. In business the stakes our personal life, one of the beautiful key things that the Torah recommends, is that each of us has someone whom we can talk to: a mashpia, a rav (assei lecha rav) someone who you can talk to objectively about your particularly situation that helps you get beyond your own way of looking at it; it gets you beyond your own farm, and we all have our farm. go to Mimi on the air. Hi Rabbi. Im not Jewish, but I love your program. Youre so wise and Im having a tremendous problem with emotions and with G-d. Those are the two top issues. My husband died about three years ago and one of the things thats making me really crazy lately is older men, especially one I know, who is very cruel to his wife, and then his wife died. And I say to G-d, why did You do this? You take my lovely, lovely husband and leave this man here? This man who is so wicked! And I get very angry at G-d and that scares me. Mimi, I share your feeling and sometimes we dont understand the mysterious ways of G-d. But I dont think anger necessarily will help. They key is to look at yourself and see whats productive, what productive results come out of your anger. I mean, your husband I assume was a very fine man. He was the love of my life. He was like my twin. That is beautiful to hear. That itself is worth the call. I think its important that you focus on how to share with others the inspiration and the message that your husband, your twin, experienced, because we need more of that in this world. You know, the way to combat evil and cruelty, I believe is always through light. if you have a direct influence on that gentleman, its one thing. But to focus your energies, instead of directing your anger at G-d or to others, how do you bring that message that your husband was so dedicated to, to other people, whether its family or friends? you have children? So theres the next generation, and Im sure you have other friends and people you associate with. Thats the key. Ive always believed that when people are angry about something, theres always a way to channel angry energy into something thats positive and constructive. It may be difficult, because its easier in a way to say, How could that person be alive when he or she is so cruel, when my husband isnt, but theres no benefit in that. And I think you want to do things that have to think of it this way. How would your husband have behaved had he seen a person like that? Would he have gotten He didnt like him either! Great. Well, thats what twins are like! So I guess your husband would have liked this radio show. Maybe he hears it somewhere up there. Oh I hope so. I kind of believe that and I certainly hope Well, I thank you for the call and thank you for your kind words about the show. Youre welcome. Its lovely. I just love listening Thats very nice of you; you sound lovely yourself and I hope this show brings some comfort to you in your situation. Really, our goal has to be to bring light into the world in every way possible. So thank you for that, Mimi. have Matthew on the line. I saw in a seder book that the Lubavitcher Rebbe seemed to say that ultimately there was never any kind of exile. That ultimately freedom is inherent in us in some way, and I wonder how this plays out in a religious life. I mean, is it like a secret that you cant tell as youre mourning Okay, let me explain your question. Matthew is reading in a Haggadah, which is a commentary on the prayer and the traditional service said on Passover, from the name of the Lubavitcher Rebbe whose birthday is today, by the way, that freedom has become an inherent thing. the exodus from EgyptIll just elaborate on what you saidthe Maharal of Prague actually writes (if you look up the source, the Maharal of Prague, a scholar in the 17th century) that the freedom from Egypt wasnt just a one-time event, but it actually infused the human race (the Jewish race) with inherent freedom; that they no longer would ever be enslaved to another people. that of course is an inherent quality that needs to be accessed. We can still choose to be enslaved. I see people who are enslaved to money, people who are enslaved to employers and people who are enslaved to other passions and drives and lusts and what the Maharal of Prague is stating, and what is cited by the Rebbe, is that there is a power in each of us to truly be free, and we have to cut away the impediments and allow that freedom to emerge. Thats part of what were discussing on this show here, how one gets away from emotional subjectivity and the things that lock us and allow that freedom to be accessed. the message of hope is that everyone has the power to be free. All men are created equal. All of us have an image or an aspect of G-d within us. And that allows us to experience complete Well, I read it as ultimately that there never was any kind of exile, that ultimately reality is freedom, like this radical freedom. Is that true? Well, I would explain it as being that internally we truly are free people, but the fact is that we celebrate Passover every year to access that freedom. So even though its inherent, there are many things that are inherent, Matthew, in you and me, but we still need to dig for it. We need to get rid of the impediments. But the word inherent means that its in there somewhere. Its not something that we need to acquire. We dont need to go buy freedom. Its in your power to be free. Its in your power not to worship any force outside of yourself and G-d. thank you Matthew for the call. announcement about the book The Spiritual Guide to the Counting of the Omer here including information on how to contact Rabbi Jacobson: email@example.com, or his website at www.meaningfullife.com, 1-800-363-2646 (1-800-3-MEANING) or at the Meaningful Life Center, 788 Eastern Parkway, Suite 303, Brooklyn, NY 11213.) a follow up to the freedom of Passover, comes 49 days of personal refinement, which is really the original 49-step program. Before there were any of our contemporary 12-Step programs, there is a 49-step system that allows people to take each day and look at our emotions, something I will address more at length on next weeks show, and that is, its one thing to say, Okay, I have emotional subjectivity. Thats a very general statement. The real question is, how do we look at our particular emotions, whether its anger, jealousy, love? How do we balance it in a way that taps and excavates the powerful, positive forces of the emotion and eliminates or discards the negative subjectivity that may bias or blind us. really requires a more detailed examination of who you are and what your emotion is in a particular situation. traditionally, theres a 49-step process that begins the second night of Passover and concludes, interestingly, 50 days later with the holiday of Shavuot, which is the revelation at Sinai. And these 49 days are a traditional 49-step program of looking at different elements of your emotions. The Kabbalah, which documents the DNA and the framework of the human psyche and of the cosmos, spells out that a human being has seven we say were emotional, it can take on many different forms. Theres the emotion called love, theres an opposite emotion called fear. Theres an emotion called compassion, theres an emotion called fortitude, ambition. Theres humility and theres bonding, and finally discuss those seven emotions next week in detail, and I welcome your calls and e-mails regarding that show because in that show I would like to address, what do you actually do in a particular emotion situation. You can even call it an anatomy of our emotional psyche and how we can look at ourselves in a particular situation, and see which areas are strong, where we are weak. Some of us love too much. Some of us love too little. Some of us are too ambitious and we dont know how to temper that. Emotions can be very positive but if theyre in excess, they become unbalanced and then they become subjective and can become destructive. its a question of really looking at that whole spectrum, and Ill do that next week in detail. Passover is right around the corner and its message is a universal one, to Jews and non-Jews, and that is the ability and the power for us to be free; how we free ourselves from our emotional tentacles. Its not just a question of going through the emotions, its also an issue of introspection. To use the seder as an opportunity for discussion, where we speak to each other and discuss this. you eat the matzah, dont just eat the matzah. Think about it. Say, this is the food of humility. How can I implement humility into my life? Where am I subjective? How can I free myself of subjectivity? How do I free myself of the farm that we are so often held entrapped by? are things that each of us can think about, and Passover is a perfect opportunity to do so what better example to set for our children, our families and friends, when we do that. I also would encourage everyone who does not have a seder to go to a Passover seder, to find a friend, and if you have a difficulty, please call me. Ill be happy to help connect you with a seder in the area where you may well go to Robert on the line. Hello Rabbi. Im from the Bronx and Im interested in some guidance. I am a candidate for conversion to Judaism and I have difficulty with letting go of some of my past, including friends and many of the things I used to do, which werent necessarily bad. Where would I find guidance on that, besides from the Rabbi whos sponsoring me at If you leave me your number, Ill speak to you afterwards, because I think it would be wiser to do that, so I can hear more about your situation. Okay, Robert? we go to Shani. Hello. I was wondering how much emotions play a role in relationships in finding your beshert. Well, its probably the number one force in our lives. Is it more important to be rational or is it more important to be emotional? Well, Shani, Ill repeat your question for those who dont know what beshert means. In finding your soulmate, Shani is asking the question, how important a role do emotions play and how important is it to be rational? would say that in the initial stages of dating, being rational is more important than emotions because sometimes we can get swept away by externals; we can be desperate or we can feel nurtured or affirmed. But I think its important to have a rational, sober view, however, at the same time, to lock ourselves up and become too rational about things can also stop you from being spontaneous. think its really a question of balance. Its a perfect example of how important it is to use a friend or a wise person whom you can consult with that helps you see, Am I being too emotional? Am I being too rational? hard to answer. I dont think its one or the other. Its really a combination and finding the right chemistry, the right balance between the two. lets go to Ruth. First of all, happy birthday to the Rabbi. Yes, Rabbi Schneerson. I visited his grave and you mentioned it on the radio and I just turned on the radio I want to wish you a happy and kosher Passover. Thank you Ruth. Youve been listening to Toward a Meaningful Life with Simon Jacobson. Well be on next week continuing the discussion on emotions, its trap, how we look at particular specific emotions and I want to wish everyone true freedom, internal and external freedom, this Passover for all of our listeners of all backgrounds and all faiths. Thank you very much.
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“Male surgeons are taller and more handsome than male physicians, according to a study in this week's (traditionally lighthearted) Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal. Doctors at the University of Barcelona Hospital in Spain noticed that the tallest and most handsome male medical students were more likely to become surgeons, and that the shortest (and perhaps not so good looking) ones were more likely to become physicians. Observers used the "good looking score" to classify each participant (ranging from 1, ugly to 7, very good looking). The results show that, on average, senior male surgeons are significantly taller and better looking than senior male physicians.” See BMJ-British Medical Journal, Dec 2006; 333: 1291 – 1293. I’ve already admitted I’m the researching type, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that when I saw this article, I immediately decided this was an important issue that needed further investigation. Are surgeons more good looking than other doctors? I have really only known four doctors: my family doctor, my gyno, my former family doctor, and my eye doctor. In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that, despite going to him for years, I’ve never actually seen Dr. Gyno. During my visits with him, 80% of the visit is spent with my eyes tightly squeezed shut, and the other 20% of the visit is spent with me looking awkwardly down at my hands while mumbling unintelligible answers to his questions. But I’m still going to include him in my study. I definitely needed more data, i.e. I needed to check out more doctors. As much as I would have liked to have done this in person, I just couldn’t see myself hanging around a hospital oogling men. Even for an important research project such as this one. Who am I kidding? Of course I could see myself doing that, and enjoying it immensely. Nevertheless, I just went to the website of a local hospital that provides photos of their doctors. (I only know about this because I was researching BF’s orthopedic surgeon for him.) I saw the website as a kind of online sales catalogue listing each doctor’s specialty, medical school, and special interests: “Hi, my name is Dr. Jekyll. I am a general surgeon. I attended UTMB-Galveston. I enjoy Hernias, Gallbladders, and long walks along the beach” (ok, I added that last one). I noted that in some of the pictures, the doctors had placed their left hand on their chin, conveniently displaying their ring finger. Nice to know because I immediately deducted points for being married. I clicked on five specialties, and started picking names at random. Three of the secretaries at work also acted as judges. I swear, I am not making this up, one surgeon’s picture looked like a DWI mugshot. The cutest guy we saw was an ENT doctor. Therefore, I’m not sure I can agree with the BMJ’s findings. I think that if someone did a study like this in the medblog world, where doctors are read and not seen, you’d find ER doctors, not surgeons, at the top of the survey. They just seem like the bad boys of medicine. And I don’t need a survey to tell me that good girls are drawn to bad boys, or, in this case, their blogs. Happy Holidays.
New Freightliner Cascadia Evolution: Up to 7 percent less fuel consumption Daimler’s US truck brand Freightliner is leading in terms of Greenhouse Gas 2014 (GHG14) regulations A glimpse of the future: Cascadia technology platform reaches outstanding fuel consumption of 10.67 miles per gallon (22 l/100 km) Successful long-distance test run with natural gas truck Stuttgart / Washington D.C., U.S. – Daimler’s U.S. commercial vehicle subsidiary Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) once again demonstrates its innovative strength in the field of environmentally friendly technologies: In Washington D.C. – in the presence of U.S. government representatives and the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood – DTNA CEO Martin Daum presented the new heavy-duty truck Freightliner Cascadia Evolution, which will become available on the U.S. market starting next year. When compared to the current model (EPA 10 Cascadia), the new truck consumes up to 7 percent less fuel. These fuel savings were confirmed by an independent agency (Automotive Testing and Development Services) in the course of a one-week drive across the U.S. under real-life conditions. The 2,400-mile (almost 4,000 km) route led from San Diego, California, to Gastonia, North Carolina. During the test, the two heavy-duty semitrailer trucks – weighing approximately 34 tons or 76,000 lbs. each – traveled at an average speed of 62 mph (around 100 km/h). According to Martin Daum, two key factors led to the positive result of this Evolution of Efficiency Tour: “The tremendous fuel savings of the new Freightliner Cascadia are primarily due to the new Detroit DD15 engine as well as the aerodynamic measures. The fuel efficiency drive was a unique opportunity for us to conduct a test under real-life conditions of our latest technologies and the tremendous fuel saving potential they offer to our customers.” The DD15 engine of the Detroit brand, which is part of Daimler, is a turbocharged inline six-cylinder engine with 14.6 liters of displacement. As with all Detroit engines, it is equipped with Daimler BlueTec technology, which reduces emissions to near-zero levels and even falls below the EPA 10 emissions standard for the NAFTA region (comparable to Euro VI). Freightliner trucks comply with Greenhouse Gas 2014 regulations Already at the beginning of this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certified the Daimler commercial vehicles subsidiary’s complete portfolio of long-distance trucks, medium-duty trucks, and vocational vehicles of the Freightliner and Western Star brands as fully compliant with the Greenhouse Gas 2014 (GHG14) regulations. This means that DTNA is leading in the U.S. commercial vehicles industry. The company already meets the standards set by the EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which will not go into effect until the beginning of 2014. These regulations aim to permanently reduce the green-house gas emissions of heavy- and medium-duty trucks. The EPA believes that through the new GHG14 regulations, trucks and buses of the model years 2014 through 2018 are projected to reduce oil consumption by 530 million barrels and greenhouse gas emissions by 270 million metric tons. A glimpse of the future: Freightliner Cascadia technology carrier measured with 10.67 miles per gallon During a test drive with a technology carrier at the proving grounds in Uvalde, Texas, DTNA demonstrated that the fuel consumption of a heavy-duty semitrailer truck can be reduced even further through ideal airflow and additional technical fine-tuning. For the test drive, the new Freightliner Cascadia Evolution was equipped with a Detroit DT12 automated transmission, low rolling-resistance wide-base tires, and a trailer specifically designed by DTNA with aerodynamic aspects in mind. This technically and aerodynamically optimized combination of a tractor and a trailer (total weight: approximately 34 tons) traveled exactly 1,000 miles at an average speed of 60 mph (97 km/h). The resulting fuel consumption was 10.67 miles per gallon, or approximately 22 liters per 100 km. Shaping Future Transportation: 2,700-mile test run with CNG truck DTNA presented another impressive test result in the area of alternative drive systems. For the first time, a natural gas-fueled Freightliner Cascadia completed a tour from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. (approximately 2,700 miles), interrupted only by refueling stops every 350 to 500 miles. The CNG truck (CNG = compressed natural gas) only used public gas stations to refuel, thus impressively demonstrating that alternative drive technologies represent a real alternative even today. In light of this success, Daum promised that DTNA will keep pushing forward in the field of alternative drive systems and continue to cooperate closely with government agencies and form strategic alliances with other economic sectors. “We want to live up to our leadership position by promoting environmentally friendly, resource-conserving, and sustainable transportation solutions,” he said. Daimler Trucks and Daimler Buses have been pressing ahead with the development of environmentally friendly technologies since 2007. The leading commercial vehicle manufacturer consolidates these activities in its worldwide “Shaping Future Transportation” initiative, which aims to turn the zero-emission commercial vehicle of tomorrow into reality through efficient and clean drive systems and alternative fuels. The initiative involves the sparing use of resources and the reduction of emissions of every kind, while guaranteeing maximum traffic safety. About Daimler Trucks North America Daimler Trucks North America LLC, with headquarters in Portland, Oregon, is the leading medium- and heavy-duty truck manufacturer in North America. Daimler Trucks North America – a Daimler company – produces and markets Class 4 - 8 vehicles under the Freightliner, Western Star, and Thomas Built Buses nameplates.
Hydrocele Operation: aka Hydroceles, Hydrocele Sac, Swollen Testicle, Hydrocelectomy What is it? Hydrocele operations or hydrocele surgery is to release fluid that forms in a sac within the scrotum. Typically hydroceles develop when the testicle passes into the scrotum but the passage through which this occur fails to close properly. Fluid can accumulate in this passage from the abdomen, and then enters the scrotum causing it to swell. This can cause one or both sides of the scrotum to swell and the testicle itself to swell or become damage and inflamed. Fluid can also block the tube where sperm typically flow from. Hydroceles are more common in newborn boys but are not exclusive to newborn boys. To diagnose a hydrocele typically a doctor will look for swelling in the scrotum caused primarily by fluid build up or will look for something solid like a fluid-filled sac in the scrotum. Typically fluid is removed from the hydrocele sac during a procedure called a hydrocelectomy. For the most part this is a straightforward and uncomplicated procedure that may produce a moderate amount of soreness for a few days following the procedure. The long-term benefits far outweigh any short-term soreness. Many times the patient is a young patient under the age of 10 or in many cases a newborn baby that is born with a hydrocele defect. Usually a surgery takes placed under general anesthesia. A surgeon will make a small incision in the scrotum that will allow fluid to be drained from the scrotum and then seal the passage from the scrotum to the abdomen. Usually the incision is then closed with stitches that will dissolve on their own so they do not have to be removed later. Alternatives to Surgery There are no known alternatives to this surgery currently. Before the Operation Prior to the operation the doctor will confirm a fluid filled sac exists by placing a light to the scrotum which will light up the testicles, veins in the scrotum and the fluid filled sac which will appear clear to the light. A doctor will also perform a comprehensive medical history and check any medications the patient is currently taking. Patients are advised not to eat or drink anything up to 12 hours before the procedure because it is performed under general anesthesia. After the Operation- At Home Once the operation is complete the patient will recover usually for a few hours in a day bed. The procedure is usually performed on an outpatient basis meaning the patient can usually go home on the same day. Most of the time it is best to wear looser fitting close that will prevent irritation and discomfort on leaving. There are some risks associated with this procedure as there are with any procedure including a small risk of infection. Other risks including the risk of bleeding during or after the procedure, and a risk of a blood clot forming in the area of the procedure. The doctor may accidentally damage the scrotum or the tissues surrounding this area too. Anytime a patient undergoes general anesthesia there are risks associated with this too including a risk of pneumonia following surgery. The nurse or doctor will encourage the patient to take deep breaths to clear the lungs following surgery. Many people especially younger children undergoing this operation may report feeling nauseous or dizzy following the procedure, a side effect largely associated with the general anesthesia. These complications are usually temporary however and resolve within a couple of days of treatment. A hydrocele procedure is generally performed to relieve fluid build up around the testicle or within the scrotum. This procedure is relatively simple with few complications. The primary risks include a risk of infection and risk of rupture or nicks to nearby tissues or structures. If you work with a competent health professional you reduce your odds of complications. Because these surgeries are often performed on younger individuals it pays to ask someone if they have experience working on youths or pediatric patients. You may need to pay a small amount extra to work with someone that specializes in pediatrics or even geriatrics if you are over 50 or 60 and have a fluid-filled sac in the scrotum that you require surgery for. Regardless of where you go or who you see make sure they practice safe hygiene practices to ensure your safety and wellness. Estimated Costs for Hydrocele Operation The cost of surgery varies widely and may depend partly on the patient’s age and overall health and wellness. Patients that do not require extensive health accommodations or hospital stays are likely to have to pay the least in adjunctive healthcare therapy. That said you should always be prepared to foot the bill for extra expenses including any complications that may rise from treatment. Health insurance may offset some of these costs. Keep in mind there may be separate fees associated with anesthesia. The hospital and anesthesia fees are usually separate from the fees charged for the procedure itself, although some medical tourism companies tend to provide all-inclusive packages for their patients. This may be the best option for individuals that plan to travel abroad already and want to fit in a little health care while traveling for pleasure. \|Country\|\|Costs Hydrocele Operation\|
So many of you out in the emergiblogosphere have prob seen this dandy of an article from CNN. It documents “Five Surprising Salaries” from surprisingly high to surprisingly low–well only one remarkably low salary: Paramedics What they do: Paramedics respond to emergency situations and attempt to provide the necessary medical care, whether it involves transporting participants to a hospital or treating them on the scene. Surprising salary: $27,070. Seeing as paramedics have high stress jobs that require them to be on call and ready to save lives at a moment’s notice, you might expect their mean annual salary to be higher. Don’t worry though guys… Court Reporters make double what we do and astronomers–they triple our salaries. Thanks Digg for depressing me yet again…
The Centre is associated with several major research projects (especially the Dictionary of Old English), six publication series (Toronto Medieval Latin Texts, Toronto Medieval Bibliographies, Toronto Texts and Translations, Toronto Old English Series, Publications of the Dictionary of Old English—in addition to seven publication series and a prestigious journal published by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS), a medieval drama group, and a medieval music group. The result is a large interactive community of professionals working in many areas of medieval studies. Individual research projects have all thrived in this environment. Dictionary of Old English The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (AD 600–1150) of the English language, using today’s most advanced technology. The DOE is based on a computerized Corpus comprising at least one copy of each text surviving in Old English. The total size is about six times the collected works of Shakespeare. The body of surviving Old English texts encompasses a rich diversity of records written on parchment, carved in stone and inscribed in jewellery.
Adult Stem Cell Company Publishes With Canadian Scientists on Finding That Could Lead to Improved Transplantation Results SAN DIEGO CA–(Marketwire – Oct 20, 2011) – Medistem Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MEDS), a clinical stage adult stem cell company, reported today on a publication of a novel method of preventing transplant-associated ischemic liver injury using a nanotechnology delivery system that selectively targets hepatocytes. In collaboration with Dr. Wei-Ping Min from the University of Western Ontario, the group demonstrated that nanoparticle administration of targeted short interfering RNA (siRNA) was effective at protecting livers from damage caused by oxygen and nutrient deprivation. “During transplantation, since organs are transported across great distances, the cells undergo what is called ‘ischemic injury’ as a result of being outside of the body,” said Thomas Ichim, CEO of Medistem. “The company is currently using its Endometrial Regenerative Cell (ERC) universal donor stem cell product to treat ischemia in legs and hearts. Through the collaboration with Dr. Wei-Ping Min’s lab, Medistem is trying to elucidate molecular mechanisms of ischemic injury as well as develop additional pipeline candidates.” The peer-reviewed paper describing the discovery, titled, “Targeted gene silencing of TLR4 using liposomal nanoparticles for preventing liver ischemia reperfusion injury,” was published in the American Journal of Transplantation (link http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21794086). The technology described in the publication can theoretically be applied to ischemic conditions including stroke, heart attack, and bypass-associated kidney failure. “Medistem is one of the few companies that not only has clinically developed stem cell products, but also has a strong academic interest in understanding the biological mechanisms by which conditions like ischemic injury are manifested,” said Dr. Wei-Ping Min, Senior Author of the publication. “The fact that Medistem received FDA approval to begin clinical trials using their stem cells attests to the fact that the company possesses substantial scientific depth while still pursuing an aggressive commercialization program.”
Welcome to MedLibrary.org. For best results, we recommend beginning with the navigation links at the top of the page, which can guide you through our collection of over 14,000 medication labels and package inserts. For additional information on other topics which are not covered by our database of medications, just enter your topic in the search box below: Chromatography [\|krəʊmə\|tɒgrəfi] (from Greek χρῶμα chroma "color" and γράφειν graphein "to write") is the collective term for a set of laboratory techniques for the separation of mixtures. The mixture is dissolved in a fluid called the mobile phase, which carries it through a structure holding another material called the stationary phase. The various constituents of the mixture travel at different speeds, causing them to separate. The separation is based on differential partitioning between the mobile and stationary phases. Subtle differences in a compound's partition coefficient result in differential retention on the stationary phase and thus changing the separation. Chromatography may be preparative or analytical. The purpose of preparative chromatography is to separate the components of a mixture for more advanced use (and is thus a form of purification). Analytical chromatography is done normally with smaller amounts of material and is for measuring the relative proportions of analytes in a mixture. The two are not mutually exclusive. Chromatography, literally "color writing", was first employed by Russian-Italian scientist Mikhail Tsvet in 1900. He continued to work with chromatography in the first decade of the 20th century, primarily for the separation of plant pigments such as chlorophyll, carotenes, and xanthophylls. Since these components have different colors (green, orange, and yellow, respectively) they gave the technique its name. New types of chromatography developed during the 1930s and 1940s made the technique useful for many separation processes. Chromatography technique developed substantially as a result of the work of Archer John Porter Martin and Richard Laurence Millington Synge during the 1940s and 1950s. They established the principles and basic techniques of partition chromatography, and their work encouraged the rapid development of several chromatographic methods: paper chromatography, gas chromatography, and what would become known as high performance liquid chromatography. Since then, the technology has advanced rapidly. Researchers found that the main principles of Tsvet's chromatography could be applied in many different ways, resulting in the different varieties of chromatography described below. Advances are continually improving the technical performance of chromatography, allowing the separation of increasingly similar molecules. Chromatography terms - The analyte is the substance to be separated during chromatography. - Analytical chromatography is used to determine the existence and possibly also the concentration of analyte(s) in a sample. - A bonded phase is a stationary phase that is covalently bonded to the support particles or to the inside wall of the column tubing. - A chromatogram is the visual output of the chromatograph. In the case of an optimal separation, different peaks or patterns on the chromatogram correspond to different components of the separated mixture. - Plotted on the x-axis is the retention time and plotted on the y-axis a signal (for example obtained by a spectrophotometer, mass spectrometer or a variety of other detectors) corresponding to the response created by the analytes exiting the system. In the case of an optimal system the signal is proportional to the concentration of the specific analyte separated. - A chromatograph is equipment that enables a sophisticated separation e.g. gas chromatographic or liquid chromatographic separation. - Chromatography is a physical method of separation that distributes components to separate between two phases, one stationary (stationary phase), while the other (the mobile phase) moves in a definite direction. - The eluate is the mobile phase leaving the column. - The eluent is the solvent that carries the analyte. - An eluotropic series is a list of solvents ranked according to their eluting power. - An immobilized phase is a stationary phase that is immobilized on the support particles, or on the inner wall of the column tubing. - The mobile phase is the phase that moves in a definite direction. It may be a liquid (LC and Capillary Electrochromatography (CEC)), a gas (GC), or a supercritical fluid (supercritical-fluid chromatography, SFC). The mobile phase consists of the sample being separated/analyzed and the solvent that moves the sample through the column. In the case of HPLC the mobile phase consists of a non-polar solvent(s) such as hexane in normal phase or polar solvents in reverse phase chromotagraphy and the sample being separated. The mobile phase moves through the chromatography column (the stationary phase) where the sample interacts with the stationary phase and is separated. - Preparative chromatography is used to purify sufficient quantities of a substance for further use, rather than analysis. - The retention time is the characteristic time it takes for a particular analyte to pass through the system (from the column inlet to the detector) under set conditions. See also: Kovats' retention index - The sample is the matter analyzed in chromatography. It may consist of a single component or it may be a mixture of components. When the sample is treated in the course of an analysis, the phase or the phases containing the analytes of interest is/are referred to as the sample whereas everything out of interest separated from the sample before or in the course of the analysis is referred to as waste. - The solute refers to the sample components in partition chromatography. - The solvent refers to any substance capable of solubilizing another substance, and especially the liquid mobile phase in liquid chromatography. - The stationary phase is the substance fixed in place for the chromatography procedure. Examples include the silica layer in thin layer chromatography Chromatography is based on the concept of partition coefficient. Any solute partitions between two immiscible solvents. When we make one solvent immobile (by adsorption on a solid support matrix) and another mobile it results in most common applications of chromatography. If matrix support is polar (e.g. paper, silica etc.) it is forward phase chromatography, and if it is non polar (C-18) it is reverse phase. Techniques by chromatographic bed shape Column chromatography Column chromatography is a separation technique in which the stationary bed is within a tube. The particles of the solid stationary phase or the support coated with a liquid stationary phase may fill the whole inside volume of the tube (packed column) or be concentrated on or along the inside tube wall leaving an open, unrestricted path for the mobile phase in the middle part of the tube (open tubular column). Differences in rates of movement through the medium are calculated to different retention times of the sample. In 1978, W. C. Still introduced a modified version of column chromatography called flash column chromatography (flash). The technique is very similar to the traditional column chromatography, except for that the solvent is driven through the column by applying positive pressure. This allowed most separations to be performed in less than 20 minutes, with improved separations compared to the old method. Modern flash chromatography systems are sold as pre-packed plastic cartridges, and the solvent is pumped through the cartridge. Systems may also be linked with detectors and fraction collectors providing automation. The introduction of gradient pumps resulted in quicker separations and less solvent usage. In expanded bed adsorption, a fluidized bed is used, rather than a solid phase made by a packed bed. This allows omission of initial clearing steps such as centrifugation and filtration, for culture broths or slurries of broken cells. Phosphocellulose chromatography utilizes the binding affinity of many DNA-binding proteins for phosphocellulose. The stronger a protein's interaction with DNA, the higher the salt concentration needed to elute that protein. Planar chromatography Planar chromatography is a separation technique in which the stationary phase is present as or on a plane. The plane can be a paper, serving as such or impregnated by a substance as the stationary bed (paper chromatography) or a layer of solid particles spread on a support such as a glass plate (thin layer chromatography). Different compounds in the sample mixture travel different distances according to how strongly they interact with the stationary phase as compared to the mobile phase. The specific Retention factor (Rf) of each chemical can be used to aid in the identification of an unknown substance. Paper chromatography Paper chromatography is a technique that involves placing a small dot or line of sample solution onto a strip of chromatography paper. The paper is placed in a jar containing a shallow layer of solvent and sealed. As the solvent rises through the paper, it meets the sample mixture, which starts to travel up the paper with the solvent. This paper is made of cellulose, a polar substance, and the compounds within the mixture travel farther if they are non-polar. More polar substances bond with the cellulose paper more quickly, and therefore do not travel as far. Thin layer chromatography Thin layer chromatography (TLC) is a widely employed laboratory technique and is similar to paper chromatography. However, instead of using a stationary phase of paper, it involves a stationary phase of a thin layer of adsorbent like silica gel, alumina, or cellulose on a flat, inert substrate. Compared to paper, it has the advantage of faster runs, better separations, and the choice between different adsorbents. For even better resolution and to allow for quantification, high-performance TLC can be used. Displacement chromatography The basic principle of displacement chromatography is: A molecule with a high affinity for the chromatography matrix (the displacer) competes effectively for binding sites, and thus displace all molecules with lesser affinities. There are distinct differences between displacement and elution chromatography. In elution mode, substances typically emerge from a column in narrow, Gaussian peaks. Wide separation of peaks, preferably to baseline, is desired for maximum purification. The speed at which any component of a mixture travels down the column in elution mode depends on many factors. But for two substances to travel at different speeds, and thereby be resolved, there must be substantial differences in some interaction between the biomolecules and the chromatography matrix. Operating parameters are adjusted to maximize the effect of this difference. In many cases, baseline separation of the peaks can be achieved only with gradient elution and low column loadings. Thus, two drawbacks to elution mode chromatography, especially at the preparative scale, are operational complexity, due to gradient solvent pumping, and low throughput, due to low column loadings. Displacement chromatography has advantages over elution chromatography in that components are resolved into consecutive zones of pure substances rather than “peaks”. Because the process takes advantage of the nonlinearity of the isotherms, a larger column feed can be separated on a given column with the purified components recovered at significantly higher concentrations. Techniques by physical state of mobile phase Gas chromatography Gas chromatography (GC), also sometimes known as gas-liquid chromatography, (GLC), is a separation technique in which the mobile phase is a gas. Gas chromatography is always carried out in a column, which is typically "packed" or "capillary" (see below). Gas chromatography is based on a partition equilibrium of analyte between a solid stationary phase (often a liquid silicone-based material) and a mobile gas (most often helium). The stationary phase is adhered to the inside of a small-diameter glass tube (a capillary column) or a solid matrix inside a larger metal tube (a packed column). It is widely used in analytical chemistry; though the high temperatures used in GC make it unsuitable for high molecular weight biopolymers or proteins (heat denatures them), frequently encountered in biochemistry, it is well suited for use in the petrochemical, environmental monitoring and remediation, and industrial chemical fields. It is also used extensively in chemistry research. Liquid chromatography Liquid chromatography (LC) is a separation technique in which the mobile phase is a liquid. Liquid chromatography can be carried out either in a column or a plane. Present day liquid chromatography that generally utilizes very small packing particles and a relatively high pressure is referred to as high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). In HPLC the sample is forced by a liquid at high pressure (the mobile phase) through a column that is packed with a stationary phase composed of irregularly or spherically shaped particles, a porous monolithic layer, or a porous membrane. HPLC is historically divided into two different sub-classes based on the polarity of the mobile and stationary phases. Methods in which the stationary phase is more polar than the mobile phase (e.g., toluene as the mobile phase, silica as the stationary phase) are termed normal phase liquid chromatography (NPLC) and the opposite (e.g., water-methanol mixture as the mobile phase and C18 = octadecylsilyl as the stationary phase) is termed reversed phase liquid chromatography (RPLC). Ironically the "normal phase" has fewer applications and RPLC is therefore used considerably more. Specific techniques under this broad heading are listed below. Affinity chromatography Affinity chromatography is based on selective non-covalent interaction between an analyte and specific molecules. It is very specific, but not very robust. It is often used in biochemistry in the purification of proteins bound to tags. These fusion proteins are labeled with compounds such as His-tags, biotin or antigens, which bind to the stationary phase specifically. After purification, some of these tags are usually removed and the pure protein is obtained. Affinity chromatography often utilizes a biomolecule's affinity for a metal (Zn, Cu, Fe, etc.). Columns are often manually prepared. Traditional affinity columns are used as a preparative step to flush out unwanted biomolecules. However, HPLC techniques exist that do utilize affinity chromatogaphy properties. Immobilized Metal Affinity Chromatography (IMAC) is useful to separate aforementioned molecules based on the relative affinity for the metal (I.e. Dionex IMAC). Often these columns can be loaded with different metals to create a column with a targeted affinity. Supercritical fluid chromatography Supercritical fluid chromatography is a separation technique in which the mobile phase is a fluid above and relatively close to its critical temperature and pressure. Techniques by separation mechanism Ion exchange chromatography Ion exchange chromatography (usually referred to as ion chromatography) uses an ion exchange mechanism to separate analytes based on their respective charges. It is usually performed in columns but can also be useful in planar mode. Ion exchange chromatography uses a charged stationary phase to separate charged compounds including anions, cations, amino acids, peptides, and proteins. In conventional methods the stationary phase is an ion exchange resin that carries charged functional groups that interact with oppositely charged groups of the compound to retain. Ion exchange chromatography is commonly used to purify proteins using FPLC. Size-exclusion chromatography Size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) is also known as gel permeation chromatography (GPC) or gel filtration chromatography and separates molecules according to their size (or more accurately according to their hydrodynamic diameter or hydrodynamic volume). Smaller molecules are able to enter the pores of the media and, therefore, molecules are trapped and removed from the flow of the mobile phase. The average residence time in the pores depends upon the effective size of the analyte molecules. However, molecules that are larger than the average pore size of the packing are excluded and thus suffer essentially no retention; such species are the first to be eluted. It is generally a low-resolution chromatography technique and thus it is often reserved for the final, "polishing" step of a purification. It is also useful for determining the tertiary structure and quaternary structure of purified proteins, especially since it can be carried out under native solution conditions. Expanded Bed Adsorption (EBA) Chromatographic Separation Expanded Bed Adsorption (EBA) Chromatographic Separation captures a target protein from a crude feed stream when it passes through a chromatography column system containing adsorbent beads. With this technique the crude feedstock can be treated directly in the chromatographic column, avoiding the traditional clarification and pre-treatment steps. EBA Chromatographic Separation is highly scalable, from laboratory-based 1 cm diameter columns to large production columns up to 2 meter in diameter. These columns can typically handle feed stock throughput of more than 1,000,000 liter per day with a production capacity of 1000 MT protein per year. Special techniques Reversed-phase chromatography Reversed-phase chromatography (RPC) is any liquid chromatography procedure in which the mobile phase is significantly more polar than the stationary phase. It is so named because in normal-phase liquid chromatography, the mobile phase is significantly less polar than the stationary phase. Hydrophobic molecules in the mobile phase tend to adsorb to the relatively hydrophobic stationary phase. Hydrophilic molecules in the mobile phase will tend to elute first. Two-dimensional chromatography In some cases, the chemistry within a given column can be insufficient to separate some analytes. It is possible to direct a series of unresolved peaks onto a second column with different physico-chemical (Chemical classification) properties. Since the mechanism of retention on this new solid support is different from the first dimensional separation, it can be possible to separate compounds that are indistinguishable by one-dimensional chromatography. The sample is spotted at one corner of a square plate,developed, air-dried, then rotated by 90° and usually redeveloped in a second solvent system. Simulated moving-bed chromatography Pyrolysis gas chromatography Pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry is a method of chemical analysis in which the sample is heated to decomposition to produce smaller molecules that are separated by gas chromatography and detected using mass spectrometry. Pyrolysis is the thermal decomposition of materials in an inert atmosphere or a vacuum. The sample is put into direct contact with a platinum wire, or placed in a quartz sample tube, and rapidly heated to 600–1000 °C. Depending on the application even higher temperatures are used. Three different heating techniques are used in actual pyrolyzers: Isothermal furnace, inductive heating (Curie Point filament), and resistive heating using platinum filaments. Large molecules cleave at their weakest points and produce smaller, more volatile fragments. These fragments can be separated by gas chromatography. Pyrolysis GC chromatograms are typically complex because a wide range of different decomposition products is formed. The data can either be used as fingerprint to prove material identity or the GC/MS data is used to identify individual fragments to obtain structural information. To increase the volatility of polar fragments, various methylating reagents can be added to a sample before pyrolysis. Besides the usage of dedicated pyrolyzers, pyrolysis GC of solid and liquid samples can be performed directly inside Programmable Temperature Vaporizer (PTV) injectors that provide quick heating (up to 30 °C/s) and high maximum temperatures of 600–650 °C. This is sufficient for some pyrolysis applications. The main advantage is that no dedicated instrument has to be purchased and pyrolysis can be performed as part of routine GC analysis. In this case quartz GC inlet liners have to be used. Quantitative data can be acquired, and good results of derivatization inside the PTV injector are published as well. Fast protein liquid chromatography Fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) is a term applied to several chromatography techniques which are used to purify proteins. Many of these techniques are identical to those carried out under high performance liquid chromatography, however use of FPLC techniques are typically for preparing large scale batches of a purified product. Countercurrent chromatography Countercurrent chromatography (CCC) is a type of liquid-liquid chromatography, where both the stationary and mobile phases are liquids. The operating principle of CCC equipment requires a column consisting of an open tube coiled around a bobbin. The bobbin is rotated in a double-axis gyratory motion (a cardioid), which causes a variable gravity (G) field to act on the column during each rotation. This motion causes the column to see one partitioning step per revolution and components of the sample separate in the column due to their partitioning coefficient between the two immiscible liquid phases used. There are many types of CCC available today. These include HSCCC (High Speed CCC) and HPCCC (High Performance CCC). HPCCC is the latest and best performing version of the instrumentation available currently. Chiral chromatography Chiral chromatography involves the separation of stereoisomers. In the case of enantiomers, these have no chemical or physical differences apart from being three-dimensional mirror images. Conventional chromatography or other separation processes are incapable of separating them. To enable chiral separations to take place, either the mobile phase or the stationary phase must themselves be made chiral, giving differing affinities between the analytes. Chiral chromatography HPLC columns (with a chiral stationary phase) in both normal and reversed phase are commercially available. See also - IUPAC Nomenclature for Chromatography IUPAC Recommendations 1993, Pure & Appl. Chem., Vol. 65, No. 4, pp.819–872, 1993. - Still, W. C.; Kahn, M.; Mitra, A. J. Org. Chem. 1978, 43(14), 2923–2925. doi:10.1021/jo00408a041 - Laurence M. Harwood, Christopher J. Moody (13 June 1989). Experimental organic chemistry: Principles and Practice (Illustrated ed.). WileyBlackwell. pp. 180–185. ISBN 978-0-632-02017-1 [Amazon-US \| Amazon-UK]. - Christian B. Anfinsen, John Tileston Edsall, Frederic Middlebrook Richards Advances in Protein Chemistry. Science 1976, 6-7. - Displacement Chromatography 101. Sachem, Inc. Austin, TX 78737 - Pascal Bailon, George K. Ehrlich, Wen-Jian Fung and Wolfgang Berthold, An Overview of Affinity Chromatography, Humana Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-89603-694-9 [Amazon-US \| Amazon-UK], ISBN 978-1-60327-261-2 [Amazon-US \| Amazon-UK]. - IUPAC Nomenclature for Chromatography - Chromedia On line database and community for chromatography practitioners (paid subscription required) - Library 4 Science: Chrom-Ed Series - Overlapping Peaks Program – Learning by Simulations - Chromatography Videos – MIT OCW – Digital Lab Techniques Manual - Chromatography Equations Calculators – MicroSolv Technology Corporation
Welcome to MedLibrary.org. For best results, we recommend beginning with the navigation links at the top of the page, which can guide you through our collection of over 14,000 medication labels and package inserts. For additional information on other topics which are not covered by our database of medications, just enter your topic in the search box below: United States President Barack Obama, a member of the Democratic Party, was endorsed or supported by some members of the Republican Party and by some political figures holding conservative views in the 2008 election. Republican and conservative Obama supporters were often referred to as "Obama Republicans", "Obamacans" or "Obamacons". Republican and conservative supporters of Obama included elected officials, former elected officials, academics, commentators, and retired military officers. According to exit polls on Election Day, 9% of those who identified themselves as Republicans voted for Barack Obama, up slightly from the 6% of self-identified Republicans who voted for John Kerry in 2004. Etymology of "Obama Republican" On February 12, 2008, Barack Obama mentioned Obama Republicans in his Potomac primary victory speech: "We are bringing together Democrats and independents, and yes, some Republicans. I know there's — I meet them when I'm shaking hands afterwards. There's one right there. An Obamacan, that's what we call them." In another speech, he said, "We, as Democrats right now, should tap into the discontent of Republicans. I want some Obama Republicans!" In his call for Republican votes, Obama referred to Ronald Reagan, who he says "was able to tap into the discontent of the American people...to get Democrats to vote Republican— they were called Reagan Democrats." RepublicansforObama.org was founded in December 2006 by John Martin, a US Navy reservist. The organization grew to include over 2,500 registered members from across the United States, and was featured in USA Today, The New Yorker and other media throughout the 2008 Presidential Campaign. Commentary and events Conservative praise for Obama was highlighted in the conservative Insight Magazine in July 2007. Insight's story focused on Obama's character as contrasted with the then Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. In January 2008, Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic also praised Obama's character and personality. In March 2008, Andrew Bacevich, writing in The American Conservative, said that "principled conservatives" should consider voting for Obama since he promised a quick end to the Iraq war; which Bacevich said had contributed to the growth of federal and presidential power. Bruce Bartlett, writing in the New Republic, cited Obama's opposition to the Iraq war as the main issue which appealed to conservatives. Also mentioned were his opposition to some parts of the PATRIOT Act and his possible support for school vouchers. In June 2008, Republican Douglas Kmiec was denied Roman Catholic communion for his support of Obama, due to an interpretation of church policy and Obama's pro-choice stance. In June 2008, Washington Post commentator Robert Novak blamed the policies of President George W. Bush for Republican defections to the Obama camp and suggested that Republicans Colin Powell and Chuck Hagel might soon declare their support for Obama. In July 2008, African-American libertarian-conservative columnist Thomas Sowell criticized "Obamacons" and advised them to more seriously consider Obama's liberal positions on many issues before supporting him over Republican candidate John McCain—despite Sowell's previous strident criticism of McCain. On October 19, 2008, Colin Powell, who served as President George W. Bush's first Secretary of State, endorsed Obama in an appearance on Meet the Press. Calling Obama a "transformational figure," Powell cited John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin (who Powell believed is not "ready to be president"), Republican personal attacks on Obama, and Obama's ability to improve strained relations between the U.S. and its allies as reasons for his choice. The Republican party reported a total of 700 Republican voters in Iowa who voted for Obama during the January 2008 caucuses, and 500 in Colorado during their February 2008 caucuses. Polls in late February 2008, the height of the Democratic primaries and the point at which the Republicans had virtually decided on John McCain, showed that up to 14% of Republicans supported Obama. Some disenchanted or moderate Republican donors who contributed to the George Bush campaign in 2004 have donated to the Obama campaign. Following General Powell's endorsement, other prominent republicans continued to join the ranks of Republicans who had decided to vote for Senator Obama, including: Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld, former Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson, former spokesman for President George W. Bush, Scott McClellan, and prominent conservatives Ken Adelman and Charles Fried. This wave of endorsements led The Economist to publish an in-depth examination of "The Rise of the Obamacons" and their influence: The biggest brigade in the Obamacon army consists of libertarians, furious with Mr Bush’s big-government conservatism, worried about his commitment to an open-ended “war on terror”, and disgusted by his cavalier way with civil rights. ... For many conservatives, Mr Obama embodies qualities that their party has abandoned: pragmatism, competence and respect for the head rather than the heart. Mr Obama’s calm and collected response to the turmoil on Wall Street contrasted sharply with Mr. McCain’s grandstanding. ... How much do these Obamacons matter? More than Mr McCain would like to think. The Obamacons are manifestations of a deeper turmoil in the Republican rank-and-file, as the old coalition of small-government activists, social conservatives and business Republicans falls apart. They also influence opinion. ... The more tantalising question is whether the rise of the Obamacons signals a lasting political realignment. ... If the Republican Party continues to think that the problem lies with the rats, rather than the seaworthiness of the ship, then the Obamacons are here to stay. The rush of Republicans and other conservatives openly endorsing Barack Obama was the subject of satire on the television show The Colbert Report on October 29, 2008, which drew record ratings with a self-serving endorsement by the conservative host character played by comedian Stephen Colbert. The final election Gallup Poll, from October 27 to November 2, indicated 10% of Republicans supported Obama instead of McCain, compared to 7% of "McCain Democrats." Gallup also indicated his support among self-described conservatives, although stronger than John Kerry's, was weaker than what Al Gore received. In August, Andrew Romano of Newsweek stated that the polls he had read indicate the cross-over voters "cancel each other out." However The Economist cited a poll in late October 2008 that indicated Obama was "winning 22% of self-described conservatives, a higher proportion than any Democratic nominee since 1980." February 2012 polls conducted that 20% of Republicans may vote for Obama. Republican elected officials who endorsed Obama - Former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson - Former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee. Two years later, he was elected Governor of Rhode Island as an Independent - Obama's avowed neutrality in the race was viewed by some, including the Democratic nominee, as a tacit endorsement of Chafee. - Former Minnesota Senator David Durenberger supported John Kerry in the 2004 election, leaving the Republican Party. He now supports Obama. - Former Oklahoma Congressman Mickey Edwards voted for Obama; announced one day after the election. - Former Kansas Congressman, Nixon Administration Deputy Secretary of Defense and United States Permanent Representative to NATO Robert F. Ellsworth - Former Maryland Congressman Wayne Gilchrest (who was an outgoing incumbent at the time) told WBAL-TV that he voted for Obama in a January interview. - Former Virginia Governor Linwood Holton, father-in-law of former Governor Tim Kaine (D-VA) - Former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach - Former Maryland Senator Charles Mathias, Jr. Mathias was a liberal Republican who was often at odds with the conservative wing of the party as a senator. - Former South Dakota Senator Larry Pressler - Former Connecticut Governor and Senator Lowell Weicker. Weicker left the Republican Party in 1988 after a campaign in which prominent Republicans endorsed his opponent, Joe Lieberman. He supported Democrat Bill Bradley in 2000 and Howard Dean in 2004 for the presidency. - Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld - Mayor Lou Thieblemont of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Thieblemont switched his party registration from Republican to Democrat so that he could vote for Obama in the Pennsylvania primary. - Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Jim Whitaker endorsed Obama and delivered a speech on the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Other national Republican figures who endorsed Obama - Ken Adelman, former diplomat, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board - Wick Allison, former publisher of National Review, - Jack Antaramian, Florida real estate developer and Bush fundraiser - William Donaldson, former Chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission under George W. Bush (2003–05) - Ken Duberstein, former Reagan chief of staff - Julie Nixon Eisenhower, daughter of former President Richard Nixon, granddaughter-in law of Dwight D. Eisenhower - Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower and president of the Eisenhower Institute. After endorsing Obama, Eisenhower announced on August 21, 2008 that she was leaving the Republican Party. - Charles Fried, former U.S. Solicitor General and former McCain advisor. - CC Goldwater, granddaughter of former Arizona Senator and Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater (endorsing Barack Obama on behalf of herself, her sibling, and some of her cousins) - Lilibet Hagel, wife of Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) - Rita E. Hauser, Former White House intelligence advisor for George W. Bush - Actor and former Bush supporter Dennis Hopper voted for Obama, citing his admiration of the Democratic nominee and particularly his dislike of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. - Larry Hunter, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Policy Innovation and Chief Economist for the Free Enterprise Fund, former Reagan policy advisor - Rear Admiral John Hutson, USN (ret.), former Judge Advocate General of the Navy and the current dean and president of Franklin Pierce Law Center. - Legal scholar Douglas Kmiec - Scott McClellan, White House Press Secretary under George W. Bush from 2003–2006. Author of controversial book, What Happened. - Tricia Mosley, former staffer to Senator Strom Thurmond - Paul O'Neill, United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2001–02 under George W. Bush - Colin Powell, former Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. - David Ruder, Chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission under President Ronald Reagan - Radio Host Michael Smerconish Later switched to Independent. - Tag Tognalli, former Reagan White House Staff, 1981–1989 and Connecticut McCain Delegate to 2000 Republican National Convention. Support for Obama from conservative writers - Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations at Boston University. - Christopher Buckley, author, son of conservative figure William F. Buckley, Jr. - Francis Fukuyama, author, key figure in the rise of neoconservatism and loosely affiliated with conservatism. Fukuyama left the neoconservative movement following the Iraq War and supported John Kerry in the 2004 election. - Jeffrey Hart, senior editor of National Review magazine. - Dorothy King, archeologist, author, and conservative blogger. - Scott McConnell, editor of the American Conservative, a magazine associated with Patrick Buchanan. (McConnell had also endorsed John Kerry in 2004.) - John Patrick Diggins, distinguished professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Writing in the American Conservative, Diggins wrote "I prefer the professor to the warrior." - Andrew Sullivan, commentator and author of The Conservative Soul, who had also endorsed John Kerry in 2004. - CNN.com CNN Transcripts, McCain, Obama Sweep Potomac Primaries - Pew Research Center Publications (Nov. 5, 2008) "Inside Obama's Sweeping Victory" - CNN Exit Poll - U.S. President, 2004 - Republicans Defect to the Obama Camp The Sunday Times, May 6, 2007. "Disagreements on the war have not stopped John Martin, a Navy reservist and founder of the website Republicans for Obama, from supporting the antiwar senator. He joined the military after the Iraq war and is about to be deployed to Afghanistan." - About Republicans for Obama "Founded in late 2006 as part of the nationwide effort to encourage Senator Obama to run for the Presidency, our volunteer-run, grassroots group now includes over 2200 registered members from across the nation." - A New Political Breed: Obamacans USA Today, March 19, 2008. "Founded in 2006, Campbell's organization might well be leading the charge among mutinous Republicans in the online world. He says it has 800 members in 19 states and is growing. On Super Tuesday, Campbell says, the site had 22,000 hits. Now, it gets 1,200 to 1,500 hits a day." - The Conciliator The New Yorker, May 7, 2007."In his election to the U.S. Senate, Obama won forty per cent of the Republican vote; now there is a group called Republicans for Obama, founded by John Martin, a law student and Navy reservist shortly to be posted to Afghanistan, which has chapters in six states." - Washington Watch: Obama's fund-raising record reveals weakness of Hillary's campaign Insight, July 7, 2007."Will the Democratic Party soon awaken to the growing American consensus? The nation will not be governed by the white-trash Hill-Billies of yesteryear and much prefers candidates with class and true grace—regardless of their race, religion or even political stripes." - The Daily Dish The Atlantic January 2008. "Obama's legislative record, speeches, and the way he has run his campaign reveal, I think, a very even temperament, a very sound judgment, and an intelligent pragmatism. Prudence is a word that is not inappropriate to him. " - Right Choice? The conservative case for Barack Obama Andrew J. Bacevich, The American Conservative, March 24, 2008. "Yet if Obama does become the nation’s 44th president, his election will constitute something approaching a definitive judgment of the Iraq War. As such, his ascent to the presidency will implicitly call into question the habits and expectations that propelled the United States into that war in the first place. Matters hitherto consigned to the political margin will become subject to close examination. Here, rather than in Obama’s age or race, lies the possibility of his being a truly transformative presidency." - For an 'Obamacon,' Communion Denied Washington Post June 3, 2008. - The Obamacons Who Worry McCain Washington Post, June 6, 2008. - Conservatives should rethink their support of Obama Thomas Sowell, Deseret News July 10, 2008. "Back in the 18th century, Helvetius said, "When I speak I put on a mask. When I act, I am forced to take it off." Too many voters still have not learned that lesson. They need to look at the track record of Obama's actions. Back in the days of "The Lone Ranger" program, someone would ask, "Who is that masked man?" People need to start asking that question about Obama." - Powell endorses Obama for president - Meet the Press- msnbc.com - Barack + GOP = "Obamacans", Newsweek - 'Obamacans' and 'McCainacrats' Will Help Decide Presidency, Crosswalk.com - Former Bush donors now giving to Obama, McClatchy.dc.com - Susan Davis, Obamacans: Prominent Republicans Line-Up Behind Obama, Wall Street Journal (October 24, 2008), at http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/24/obamacans-prominent-republicans-line-up-behind-obama/. - The Economist: The Rise of the Obamacons - WSJ: "Powell Endorses Obama, Reflecting Fractures in GOP" - Election Polls: Group Voting - Chasing the Mythical 'Obamacan' Masses - Minneapolis Star-Tribune - Chafee for Obama - Condon, Stephanie (October 25, 2010). "Frank Caprio: Obama Can Take His Endorsement and "Shove It"". CBS News. - Minneapolis Star Tribune, 21 October 2008 (letter) - Ellsworth, Robert F.; Dimitri K. Simes (October 31, 2008). "TNI Publishers Split on Endorsement". The National Interest. Retrieved November 2, 2008. - Gilchrest 'Happy' To Retire (WBAL-TV) - In Virginia, Obama surrogates continue push for win - Republicans cross over for Obama - "My Choice: Obama". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 22, 2010. - Former GOP senator, vet backs Obama - Alexander Burns - Politico.com - "Former Gov. William Weld endorses Obama" - Lifelong Republican Mayor of Camp Hill, PA Switches Parties to Vote Obama - The New Yorker - National Review endorses Obama -- NOT Washington Times October 1, 2008. "Today it is conservatives, not liberals, who talk with alarming bellicosity about making the world 'safe for democracy,'" Mr. Allison wrote in the September 27 issue of D Magazine. "It is John McCain who says America's job is to 'defeat evil,' a theological expansion of the nation's mission that would make George Washington cough out his wooden teeth. This kind of conservatism, which is not conservative at all, has produced financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral authority, and the wreckage of our economy that McCain now threatens to make worse." - L.A. Times - Three former U.S. SEC chairmen endorse Obama - Former Reagan adviser endorses Obama - Why I'm Backing Obama Washington Post - Ike's Granddaughter Calls Obama 'Future of America' The Washington Independent - Reflections on Leaving the Party. – The National Interest - Reuters: More GOP Defections - The Washington Post http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/07/mrs_hagel_to_endorse_obama.html \|url=missing title (help). - Hunter, Larry (2008-07-16). "I'm a lifelong conservative activist and I'm backing Barack Obama". Race for the White House 2008 (New York Daily News). Retrieved 2009-12-11. - John DiStaso's Granite Status: VFW backs Shea-Porter - Dean John Hutson Endorses Obama - For an 'Obamacon,' Communion Denied "Word spread like wildfire in Catholic circles: Douglas Kmiec, a staunch Republican, firm foe of abortion and veteran of the Reagan Justice Department, had been denied Communion. His sin? Kmiec, a Catholic who can cite papal pronouncements with the facility of a theological scholar, shocked old friends and adversaries alike earlier this year by endorsing Barack Obama for president. For at least one priest, Kmiec's support for a pro-choice politician made him a willing participant in a grave moral evil." - When Republicans Endorse Obama Newsweek "They include lifelong Republican Tricia Moseley, a former staffer for the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, the one-time segregationist from South Carolina. Now a high-school teacher, Moseley says she was attracted to Obama's positions on education and the economy." - Two former Bush Advisers Now Advising Obama, Will Appear at Economic Meeting Today - Tapper, Jake (October 17, 2008). "In Philly, Conservative Radio Host Backs Obama". Political Punch (ABC News). Retrieved October 28, 2008. - Republicans for Obama: From Reagan to Obama - The Right Choice? The Conservative Case for Barack Obama - Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama - Former neocon supports Obama - Andrew Billen (2004-07-14). "Why I won't vote for George Bush". The Times (London). Retrieved 2007-05-13. - "The Great Conservative Crackup" by Jacob Heilbrunn - PhDiva: On Being an Obamacon - Scott McConnell - Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters - "Who's Getting Your Vote?". Reason. 2004-11. Retrieved 2008-10-27.
Raymond K. Cross, Jr., M.D.,M.S. is a board certified Gastroenterologist and Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He also serves as Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and is the Chief of the GI section at the Veterans Affairs, Maryland Health Care System Baltimore. Dr. Cross received his undergraduate degree from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, and his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He completed his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at the University of Maryland and Baltimore VA Medical Centers in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was chosen as Chief Resident. He performed his Gastroenterology fellowship also at the University of Maryland and Baltimore VA Medical Centers in Baltimore. In addition, Dr. Cross has obtained a Master of Science degree in Clinical Research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, in Baltimore. Dr. Cross has several research interests within the field of inflammatory bowel disease. First, he is testing a home telemanagement system for patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). Telemanagement is a home telemedicine system that assists providers in implementing practice guidelines and in monitoring their patients. Additionally, telemanagement systems assist patients in following action plans and in delivering patients focused education. Dr. Cross has previously tested the system in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, and was able to demonstrate that telemanagement was feasible in this population and that patients accepted the technology. The 12-month study will compare the telemanagement system to best available care in patients with ulcerative colitis. He is planning a separate trial to examine telemanagement in patients with Crohn's disease (CD). Dr. Cross has evaluated the differences in disparities in outcomes both UC and CD by race at the University of Maryland and VA. He has published his findings in CD in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, treatment disparities in CD and UC in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and in Digestive Diseases and Sciences. A follow up study is being conducted to evaluated disparities in disease activity and quality of life in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Cross completed a health survey of physician practicing patterns and knowledge of infliximab side effects among gastroenterologists in Maryland and Washington D.C. The results have been published in Digestive Diseases and Sciences. He has completed a follow up national e-mail survey of American Gastroenterological Association members; the findings have been published in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. In addition, Dr. Cross recently completed a study of the impact of medication side effects on the quality of life and disease activity in patients with IBD. To evaluate medication side effects, he used a new questionnaire that had been used in patients with asthma and depression. The findings have been published in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. Inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, microscopic colitis) Infectious colitis Chronic diarrhea Short bowel syndrome Cross, RK, Longhitano, JP, Rapoport, AP, Cadogan, MA, Brown, LA and Mackowiak, PA. A 78-year-old man with pancytopenia and abnormal lymphocytes. The American Journal of Medical Sciences. 2001;322:151-155. Cross, RK, Longhitano, JP, Oursler, KA, Saladino, AJ, and Mackowiak, PA. A 75-year-old man with right upper quadrant pain and gallstones. The American Journal of Medical Sciences. 2002;323:146-150. Cross RK, Jr., Howell C. Two cases of spontaneous epidural abscess in patients with cirrhosis. South Med J. 2003;96:291-293. Gobert, AP, Cheng, Y., Akhtar, M., Mersey, BD, Blumberg, DR, Cross, RK, Chaturvedi, R., Drachenberg, CB, Boucher, JL, Hacker, A., Casero, RA, Jr., Wilson, KT. Protective role of arginase in a mouse model of colitis. J Immunol. 2004;173:2109-17. Cross RK, Wilson KT, Binion DG. Polypharmacy and Crohn's disease. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2005;21:1211-6 Cross RK, Wilson KT, Binion DG. Narcotic use in patients with Crohn's disease. Am J Gastroenterol 2005;100(10):2225-9. Cross RK, Binion DG. Narcotic use in patients with Crohn's disease: reply form Drs. Cross and Binion. Am J Gastroenterol 2006;101(6): 1397-8. Cross RK, Arora M, Finkelstein J. Acceptance of telemanagement is high in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. J Clin Gastroenterol 2006;40(3):200-8. Cross RK, Jung C, Wasan S, Joshi G, Sawyer R, Roghmann MC. Racial Differences in Disease Phenotypes in Patients With Crohn's Disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2006;12(3):192-198. Castro, HK, Cross, RK, and Finkelstein, J. Using a Home Automated Telemanagement System (HAT): Experiences and Perceptions in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2006; 872. Cross, RK, and Finkelstein, J. Feasibility and Acceptance of a Home Telemanagement System in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A 6-Month Pilot Study. Dig Dis Sci 2007;52(2):357-364. Donovan, M, Lunney, K, Carter-Pokras, O, and Cross, RK. Prescribing Patterns and Awareness of Adverse Effects of Infliximab: A Health Survey of Gastroenterologists. Dig Dis Sci. Aug 2007;52(8):1798-1805. Dunnigan, M, Yfantis, H, Rapoport, AP, Hosseinzadeh, K, Gocke, CD, and Cross, RK. Large cell lymphoma presenting as a flare of colitis in a patient with common variable immune deficiency. Dig Dis Sci. 2007;52(3):830-4. Cross, RK, Lapshin, O, and Finkelstein, J. Patient Subjective Assessment of Drug Side Effects in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2008;42(3):244-51 Flasar MH, Johnson T, Roghmann MC, Cross RK. Disparities in the use of immunomodulators and biologics for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease: A retrospective cohort study. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2008;14(1):13-9 Flasar, M, Quezada, S, Bijpuria, P, Wu, Roger, and Cross, RK. Racial Differences in Extent, Severity, and Extraintestinal Manifestations in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Dig Dis Sci. Feb 20 2008. Greenberg, R, Greenwald, B, Ioffe, O, Roth, S, and Cross, RK. Squamous Dysplasia of the Rectum in a Patient with Ulcerative Colitis Treated with 6-Mercaptopurine. Dig Dis Sci. 2008;53(3):760-4. Flasar, M, Roghmann, MC, and Cross, RK. Disparities in IBD Care: Time to Correct a Problem: reply from Drs. Flasar, Roghmann, and Cross. Gastroenterology. 2008;134(5):1618-1619. Warren, JW, Howard, FM, Cross, RK, Good, J, Weissman, M, Wesselmann, U, Langenberg, P, Greenberg, P, and Clauw, D. Antecedent non-bladder syndromes in a case control study of interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome. Urology. 2009;73(1):52-7. Quezada, S, Turner, P, Alexiev, B, Daly, B, and Cross, RK. Severe Refractory Orofacial Crohn's Disease: Report of a Case. Dig Dis Sci. 2008. Cross RK, Cheevers N, Finkelstein J. Home Telemanagement for Patients with Ulcerative Colitis (UC HAT). Dig Dis Sci 2008. St. Charles, M, Weiss Smith, SR, Beardsley, R, Fedder, DO, Carter-Pokras, O, and Cross, RK. Gastroenterologists Prescribing of Infliximab: A National Survey. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2009. Links of InterestThe Foundation for Clinical Research in IBD UMMC Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program
Thursday, June 25, 2009 Hearing Dogs For Deaf People To Hold Unique Fundraiser At Winsford Flashes (Jun 24 2009 by Dave Goodban, Mid Cheshire Chronicle) "Volunteers are being asked to jump into the Winsford Flashes for charity – and get rescued by a 14-stone Newfoundland dog! "Hearing Dogs for Deaf People (HDDP) has teamed up with Canis Major Newfoundland Dog Training Group. Animal lovers can embark on the fundraising fun day on Saturday July 25. "HDDP spokeswoman Nicky Litchfield said: “Participants will be taken out by boat into the middle of the lake before jumping into the water, and being rescued by a hairy, but gentle, giant!” "To take part, call Nicky on 01257 260988." Saturday, June 20, 2009 Lewis and Clark Officials Announce Casting and Sale of Last Halko Bronze, Lewis' Newfoundland Dog Seaman "Great Falls is going to the dogs, but in a good way. "A new statue of a famous dog will be placed during the next year or two outside the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Great Falls, officials announced Friday night at the sixth annual Lewis and Clark Outdoor Gala in Elks Riverside Park. "The new project calls for erecting a life-size statue of Seaman, Meriwether Lewis' dog that accompanied the expedition as it traveled across the West. Sales of smaller versions of the statue will pay for the large bronze figure. "Artist Joe Halko of Choteau created the clay model prior to his death a few months ago. It was Halko's last sculpting project before he died. 'Joe was a regular artist in our Outdoor Art Gala shows, ever since our beginning six years ago, so it really is quite fitting that he created the sculpture for the project', said Jay Russell, executive director of the center's foundation. "Halko was well-known for creating the Heritage Honkers geese sculpture at the Region 4 Headquarters for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks across the road from the center, and for the his work on the C.M. Russell Museum's Buffalo Hunt project. The project was the brainchild of Dr. James and Carol Mungas, whose Newfoundland dog Windsor was a popular fixture with tourists during the early years of the center. "Photos of Windsor served as the model for the sculpture. Russell noted the life-size version of Seaman won't be tiny. 'Those are big dogs', he said. The foundation plans to sell Halko's smaller Seaman version, which measures 10 inches high and 11 inches long. The limited edition of 100 will sell for $895, but it is available for $750 for a limited time. "Sales of the smaller bronzes will pay for the large statue. Russell said the large statue probably will be installed outside, just east of the Interpretive Center, in 2010. He said about a third of the bronzes will need to sell before the statue is erected. "Seaman was a Newfoundland, a huge, shaggy black dog bought by Lewis for $20, which was a large sum of money 200 years ago. He served as a good hunter and guard dog during the expedition." Thursday, June 11, 2009 (westernmorningnews.co.uk - June 11, 2009) "Watersports enthusiast Dave Stewart is used to turning a few heads when he goes out on his kayak. But it's not the sight of the Royal Marine commando, against the backdrop of the Royal William Yard, Plymouth, who grabs most people's attention, so much as the 55kg dog at the bow. Shadow, Mr Stewart's one-year-old shaggy black Newfoundland, is as happy on the water as he is on dry land. But he admits the sight of the giant dog at the front of the kayak is a little incongruous. 'We usually go out and potter round Torpoint or go down as far as Mount Edgecumb', said Mr Stewart. 'If we go anywhere near the Torpoint ferry we do get a lot of people looking at us sideways. Some people nearly drive off the road when they see us.' Despite their size, Newfoundland dogs are a breed used to working on the water's edge and were originally trained to haul nets in for fishermen. Mr. Stewart, a father-of-four, decided to see whether Shadow would take to the water by ferrying him around shallow areas of the Tamar. 'I wanted to make sure that he would be okay if he fell in and that I could rescue him. But he loved it. If he's on the kayak and he wants to go in, he just goes in. Normally he just likes to sit up at the front and look like he's in control of the boat.'" Sunday, June 7, 2009 (Thickish Newfoundland Baciami Stupido - - Buffy) SOCIETA' AMATORI TERRANOVA 20° RADUNO - 14° GOLD CUP CLASSIFICHE SABATO 16 MAGGIO 2009 1 NOW AND FOREVER FOR SHADOW'S ETERNITY 1 NEVER ENDING STORY FOR SHADOW'S ETERNITY 2 LOVELY TOM VOM KANINCHENBERG 2 COME FROM STARS DREAMBLACK 3 FAVORITE STYLE GIANT'S ISLAND 3 CHARLOTTE DREAMBLACK 4 ALBERMASS TEE SHOT TIGER THE BEST TEOBALDO 4 THICKISH NEWFOUNDLAND HIGH SOCIETY 1 DES MOIS D'EMOI DES OURSON DU VENT 1 INDIAN BAY TINKER BELL 2 INDIAN BAY THE LOOK OF LOVE 2 INDIAN BAY UNE FEMME COMME TOI 3 FOREVER BLACK'S ANTAGONIST 3 PROVIDENCELAND FASHION GIRL 4 ORACLE JIG OF LOVE 4 1CQ STARRY TOWN DISFA DI CRISTIAN 1CQ KYRA KEEP THE PROMISE FOR SHADOW'S ETERNITY 2CQ EXPECTING IRONSIDE THE BRAVE 2CQ BLACK CLOUDS VANITY FAIR AT STEALBEARS 3CQ BLACK CLOUDS VINCENT VAN GOGH AT STEALBEARS 3CQ MIDNIGHT LADY'S ARE YOU DEVIL OR ANGEL 4CQ HIGH SECRET CHRISTMAS TIME 4CQ JAM JAM DEL PULCHERIMUS CQ THICKISH NEWFOUNDLAND DARK COFFEY 1CQ KING OF HELLULAND DUKE OF HEAVEN 1CQ THICKISH NEWFOUNDLAND BACIAMI STUPIDO 2 JUST LIKE GRANDPA FOR SHADOW'S ETERNITY 2CQ KING OF HELLULAND DRAM UP GLORY 3 TIMBERLANDS BEST REGARDS TO ITALY 3CQ VVARDENFELL EAGLE'S FLIGHT 4CQ STARRY TOWN CAIUT DI MAR CQ SKIPPER'S READY SET GO 1 BLUEJEANSTARDST AGO 1 DUSTIN IN THE STAR WORLD 2 ALICE JUNIOR FOR FANTASTIC STAR 3 FATA DEGLI ORSI DELLA LAGUNA 4 GRETA DEGLI ORSI DELLA LAGUNA 1CQ ORACLE HEARTH BREAKERS 1CQ MIDNIGHT LADY'S PIECE OF MY HEART 2CQ STARRY TOWN CORI A ROTE DI CUEL 2CQ THICKISH NEWFOUNDLAND QUI QUO QUA 3CQ USTINOV SIR PETER BAR VOM GELDERLAND 3CQ KING OF HELLULAND THE ONE I LOVE AT CHATEAUNEWF 4CQ STARRY TOWN BON AL PRIN 4CQ ROSE'S WANTED CALAMITY J'AIME CQ FOLLY FOLLIE DEL PULCHERRIMUS 1CQ KING OF HELLULEND THE DEEP BLUE AT CHATEAUNEWF 1CQ ROSE' WANTED A DEESSE ELLE 2CQ TWILLING GATE FULLBLACK 2CQ KING OF HELLULAND ANGEL WINGS 3CQ POISON OR HONEY KING OF HELLULAND 3CQ WOOD NEWFS FLYING BEAUTY 4CQ TWILLIN GATE KING OF HELLULAND 4CQ ISLAND PRINCE FLYDOVE TO URSINUS VELUTUS CQ ISLAND PRINCE LIONHEART OF MIDNIGHT LADY VETERANI 7-9 ANNI 1CQ THICKISH NEWFOUNDLAND JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 1 FARAH DIVA BAR VOM GELDERLAND 2CQ FEARLESS BEAR'S ZABOR ALWAYS IN YOUR MIND VETERANI OLTRE I 9 ANNI MASCHI 1 BIG MAPLE DINKY DROOWZEE 2 OWASCO NEW SUNRISE 3 RIVER CREEK FAITHNOMORE ORACLE HEARTH BREAKERS KING OF HELLULAND THE DEEP BLUE AT CHATEAUNEWF USTINOV SIR PETER BAR VOM GELDERLAND EXPECTING IRONSIDE THE BRAVE KING OF HELLULAND ANGEL WINGS ROSE'S WANTED A DEESEE ELLE THICKISH NEWFOUNDLAND BACIAMI STUPIDO MIDNIGHT LADY'S PIECE OF MY HEART BOB ORACLE HEART BREAKERS BOS KING OF HELLULAND ANGEL WINGS ISLAND PRINCE LIONHEART OF MIDNIGHT LADY'S THICKISH NEWFOUNDLAND QUI QUO QUA 1. ALL. THICKISH NEWFOUNDLAND 2. ALL. STARRY TOWN 3. ALL. MIDNIGHT LADY 4. ALL. SHADOWS ETERNITY Wednesday, June 3, 2009 "Archie takes his celebrity in stride. "Already a star of the Internet, the printed page and the small screen, Casa Pacifica’s 165-pound therapy dog appeared before the Ventura County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to receive a proclamation in his honor. It was a media event, with Archie fans inside the board room and camera crews in the aisles. The guest of honor sat at attention at first, but before long he lay on the floor as his human admirers sang his praises and declared it to be 'Archie Day'. Archie lives with a Casa Pacifica employee and works every day at the home for abused, neglected and emotionally disturbed children. The staff members and the residents of Casa Pacifica rave about Archie’s knack for comforting and calming children. It’s not unusual for the kids to talk to the dog before they’ll ever talk to the other people at the home. 'The one thing that most of these kids have in common is trauma, and Archie is an expert in trauma therapy', said Steven Elson, Casa Pacifica’s executive director. 'He really is a gentle soul', Supervisor Kathy Long said. 'It’s amazing the way he lets the children climb on him'. Archie gained a bit of fame two years ago, when he needed surgery and his story was picked up by newspapers and television outlets around the world. Today, he is more celebrity spokesdog than a pet; he has a Web site, http://www.archiethedog.com, and a Facebook group, and he receives regular fan mail. He’s also one of Casa Pacifica’s top fundraisers, with his story attracting thousands of dollars in donations. And there’s another Archie on the way, in a sense. A member of Casa Pacifica’s board has commissioned a bronze statute of the massive Newfoundland dog, which will be unveiled on Sunday at Casa Pacifica’s annual Wine & Food Festival at CSU Channel Islands. The bronze Archie will stay for a while at Gardens of the World in Thousand Oaks, and after that he’ll roam around the county. At every stop, he’ll be soliciting money for Casa Pacifica, with a spot for people to drop donations into." Tuesday, June 2, 2009 Newfoundland: The Gentle Giant of the Canine World (By Teddy Coleman) "If you chance upon a Newfoundland in many ships in Canada, this indicates that sailors want additional safety. For those people who know the capacity of the Newfoundland, this information is agreeable. For those who are not quite familiar with the breed, be ready to agree. "The Newfoundland breed is a native of Canada and it came from the northern place of the same name. The descendant of the Newfoundland is said to be the St. John dog, another local breed which is, up to this day, famous for admirable characteristics. In the 1400’s, accounts that told the existence of a superb water dog in the Great Banks of Newfoundland have been recorded so it means that the breed had been in existence for centuries now. "Water rescue is the Newfoundlands forte and when it comes to swimming, it remains the champion. There are several records that prove of the Newfoundland’s supremacy in the water and it is further proven by many rescue events of today. One account shares a girl named Anne Harvey from Isle de Morts, her father and her Newfoundland Hairyman who altogether helped rescue 180 Irish immigrants from a ship wreck. "During the early 1900s, a Newfoundland single-handedly saved 92 people from a sinking ship during a blizzard. Famous people are also recorded to be helped by the Newfoundland and this includes the famed Napoleon Bonaparte when he nearly drowned in his escape from the island of Elba. A Newfoundland of a fisherman jumped in to the sea and helped Bonaparte safety. "The Wild West discoverers Lewis and Clark also brought with them during the quest a Newfoundland named Seaman. The Royal Rifles of Canada also have the Newfoundland as a hero and it is named Sgt. Gander. Sgt. Gander’s heroic deed happened in the Battle of Hong Kong when he sacrificed himself by means of carrying away the grenade that’s meant for the wounded soldiers. "Some see the Newfoundland to look like the St. Bernard but it is actually the other way around. What separates the Newfoundland, however, is the fact that its feet are webbed and this helps him swim accurately and with great speed in the waters. Its lung can also endure severe long distances of swimming and this has helped him be successful in many rescue missions. "Its coat is dense, oily and resistant to water that’s why he is able to stay in the freezing water even for hours on end. Other dogs swim in a “doggy paddle” but the Newfoundland swims in a breast stroke motion and this gives his swim more power and speed. Its lips and flews are droopy and it gives him the tendency to drool overly during hot days but in swimming, it allows him to breathe even if his mouth is full of water. "Even though this dog’s size is enormous, its heart is full of benevolence, gentleness and kindness that people call him the 'Gentle Giant'. Towards its owner, it is very protective but never aggressive to any kind of human and animals. As quoted by Henry David Thoreau in Walden, 'A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Newfoundland dog that will do as much.'"
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When I saw the below *graphic photos last week from UK news sites, I was not surprised -- and considered sharing them to the blog -- but I did not. However they have made them here to the good old US of A and it appears that this is what Mr. Paul Mason of England would desire - is publicity. Mr. Mason was A Man Of Very Large Size. :) He nearly reached 1000 pounds at his highest weight, and with the assistance of bariatric surgery he is now down an amazing 644 pounds and left with a massive amount of excess skin. This is obviously quite a feat -- and as a WLS patient yourself -- I am sure you can imagine the skin issues are inexplicably awful. If you recall, (as maybe one or two of you out there in the interweb do...or not?) I started blogging (... in 2005) hoping to save any pennies I earned doing so for "plastic surgery fund!" (No, I never had any plastics.) Reconstructive surgery after massive weight loss is not inexpensive, nor easy. I completely understand Mr. Mason's reasoning for throwing his photos out there. And, I'm throwing them here. Maybe someone will take him on.
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"Small Town USA" Wisconsin Rapids by glasscat Wisconsin Rapids Travel Guide: 5 reviews and 5 photos Wisconsin Rapids is where I grew up. It is a paper mill town with 20,000 people and is not remarkable in any way. There is no reason for anyone to visit this town unless, like me, your family lives there. It's a good place to grow up, but there isn't much to do. Driving to Rapids means running a gauntlet of suicidal white-tail deer. Every year thousands of deer end their pathetic... more travel advice This hotel is located in down town Rapids. It is actually a really nice place to stay. The paper mill owners needed a... more travel advice Wisconsin Rapids Travel Guide - Hotels in Wisconsin Rapids - Nightlife in Wisconsin Rapids - Warnings and Dangers in Wisconsin Rapids - See All... Badges & Stats in Wisconsin Rapids - 5 Reviews - 1 Photos - 0 Forum posts - 0 Comments - See All Stats - See All Badges (1) Have you been to Wisconsin Rapids?Share Your Travels Latest Activity in Wisconsin Rapids No friends yet. Latest Wisconsin Rapids hotel reviews
"Federation weatherboard" Moree Things to Do Tip by iandsmith Moree Things to Do: 16 reviews and 30 photos These three shops with residence attached are one of the few buildings to survive the great floods of 1910. Some of the fronts are original and are over 100 years old. This is one of 14 points listed in a town walk brochure called "Moree's Heritage Trail" that you can obtain from most accommodation houses or the Tourist Information Centre. Address: 75 Heber Street Directions: One block west of the main street iandsmith's Related Pages Have you been to Moree?Share Your Travels
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Other Proposed Treatments It is one of the cardinal principles of natural medicine that treatment should aim not only to treat illness but also to enhance wellness. According to this ideal, a proper course of treatment should improve your sense of general well-being, enhance your immunity to illness, raise your physical stamina, and increase mental alertness, as well as resolve the specific condition you took it for. Unfortunately, while there can be little doubt that this is a laudable goal, it is easier to laud it than to achieve it. Conventional medicine tends to focus on treating diseases rather than increasing wellness, not as a matter of philosophical principle, but because it is easier to accomplish. Probably the strongest force affecting wellness is genetics. Beyond that, common sense steps endorsed by all physicians include increasing exercise, reducing stress, improving diet, getting enough sleep, and living a life of moderation without bad habits, such as smoking or overeating. Beyond this, however, it is difficult to make strong affirmations, and the optimum forms of diet and exercise and other aspects of lifestyle remain unclear. In fact, they may always remain unclear, as it is impossible to perform double-blind, placebo-controlled studies on most lifestyle habits. (For information on why such studies are irreplaceable see "Why Does This Database Depend on Double-blind Studies?" ) Principal Proposed Natural Treatments In order to function at our best, we need good nutrition. However, the modern diet often fails to provide people with sufficient amounts of all the necessary nutrients. For this reason, use of a multivitamin/multimineral supplement might be expected to enhance overall health and well-being, and preliminary double-blind trials generally support this view. For more information, see the article on General Nutritional Support . The herb Panax ginseng has an ancient reputation as a healthful “tonic.” According to a more modern concept developed in the former USSR, ginseng functions as an “adaptogen.” This term is defined as follows: An adaptogen helps the body adapt to stresses of various kinds, whether heat, cold, exertion, trauma, sleep deprivation, toxic exposure, radiation, infection, or psychologic stress. In addition, an adaptogen causes no side effects, is effective in treating a wide variety of illnesses, and helps return an organism toward balance no matter what may have gone wrong. From a modern scientific perspective, it is not truly clear that such things as adaptogens actually exist. However, there is some evidence that ginseng may satisfy some of the definition’s requirements. In addition, ginseng has also shown some potential for enhancing immunity , mental function , and sports performance , all effects consistent with the adaptogen concept. For more information on these possibilities, as well as dosage and safety issues, see the full Ginseng article . Other Proposed Natural Treatments Numerous other alternative therapies are claimed by their proponents to improve overall wellness, including acupuncture , Ayurveda , chiropractic , detoxification , homeopathy , massage , naturopathy , osteopathic manipulation , Reiki , Tai Chi , Therapeutic Touch , traditional Chinese herbal medicine , and yoga . However, there is as yet little meaningful evidence to support these claims. For a discussion of homeopathic approaches to general wellness, see the Homeopathy database . - Reviewer: EBSCO CAM Review Board - Review Date: 07/2012 - - Update Date: 07/25/2012 -
Who's watching 'The War'? Hey, is anybody watching Ken Burns' new 14-hour documentary, The War? So far as I can tell, exactly zero of my film school friends are, even though it's ostensibly the best (or one of the best) works by the best (or one of our best) documentary filmmakers. (That may have something to do with the time commitment involved, but that's what Tivos are for, right?) I'm just one episode behind so far, and am loving it: it's a history of the war from the soldier's perspective, not the generals' or the politicians', and Burns' overarching thesis -- that there are "no good wars, only necessary ones," as one of his interviewees muses -- really shines through. I'm also probably a little biased: my friend Sarah produced the film, so for a few years now I've been hearing about the tribulations they underwent to get their hands on all this rarely- or never-seen footage: digging deep inside military archives; spending weeks at the Library of Congress; negotiating with German archivists for the use of their war footage (and getting royally overcharged for it). Needless to say, the result is World War II as you've never seen it, and I can say for my part, at least, that I've come to realize just how alien the concept of "total war" is to me and probably many people my age: to paraphrase one War veteran, it's a profound and lonely feeling you get when, as a soldier coming from a society that emphasizes individual rights and freedoms as ours does, to realize in your icy foxhole in the dark of night, that your life is expendable. How many non-veterans can say they've felt that? In case you've missed the whole darn thing (the series ends this week but will be re-run forever, I'm sure), here's a 27-minute preview. See if it doesn't hook you right away.
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I had recently purchased a 1 1/4" button maker to make little buttons to sell in the shop and had been having some fun with it when I thought, "hey, we could make monogram buttons for all the kids in Little A's Kindergarten class this year for Valentines!". And well...that is just what we did. The button maker I purchased was a little too complicated for Little A so I had to do the button making part for him. (But if you want to do this yourself, and want to get your kids more involved, there are several button makers geared for kids that are much more affordable and would work great for this craft. Here are just a few I've found online: 1. 2. & 3.). I did have him help with punching the holes in the cards and adhering the buttons once they were finished. He loved doing this...in fact when he was struggling he wouldn't let me help him. He just kept on working at it until he got that hole punched into that card. I love his determination. He then of course addressed all the cards out to his class mates. He was quite particular about it actually. I had a few monogram circles cut out, ready to be made into buttons, that had letters that didn't correspond to any of his classmates names and he was quick to let me know that they were of no use. I loved his little "mom, get it together" sigh whenever this happened. For the girls we went with the traditional heart motif on the buttons and a mint and red color scheme. And for the boys we opted for a bit more universal route and went with a star motif (which Little A is completely into). And for the color scheme: indigo and red. And the cards still have a heart to keep with the Valentines theme. We opted for an out-of-the-ordinary color scheme this Valentines. Last year we had so much fun delving into the traditional vibrant hues of season that we thought it would be fun to mix it up a bit this year. Little A loved the new look, and so do I. And I do so hope that the recipients in Little A's class enjoy the the buttons as well. Don't you think they would be so cute sported on backpacks and book bags? I mean, wouldn't that be so perfect? I would have loved to get a little "M" button to wear around when I was in grade school (OK maybe I just want one now). (Oh and I had Little O step in as a model as Little A was away at school...so if you are thinking...he doesn't look like a 5/6 yr old, you'd be right. He's 3...but was totally into the buttons. I want to have a little preschool Valentines card exchange party for him...don't you think that would be fun?). You can download the various PDF files individually here: Red Valentine Heart Cards Mint Valentine Heart Cards Indigo Valentine Heart Cards Red and Mint Heart Alphabet Button Templates Red and Indigo Star Alphabet Button Templates *and if you are interested in doing this project but don't want to purchase a button maker, then I would suggest downloading the alphabet hearts and stars and then printing them onto sticker paper. You could then punch them out and adhere them preexisting buttons (lots of places give them away for free) or just hand them out as stickers. You could still go with the "I'm Stuck On You" verbiage and everything.
Kotipelto - Tartarean Desire Webzine Already looking forward to the Epica/Kotipelto/Kamelot tour anyway, I got the chance to pump Timo Kotipelto himself for information, who is one of my absolute Melodic Metal heroes. Even though I was nervous like hell - especially because I wasn't allowed to ask any question concerning Stratovarius and of course I didn't want to ask or say anything wrong. But in the end Timo emerged as being one of the nicest "metal guys" I ever got the chance to talk to and we had a very nice chat in the little café of the Zeche Bochum. I saw your show in Paris, two weeks ago, was there on holidays and so… Ah really? Very good audience there! I didn't expect that from Paris. Of course I knew it's gonna be quite many people but it was a very big surprise. Some of the people even knew my songs – not many, but some! Paris audience is great – been there last year to another concert and that was the reason that I wanted to go to another. Here in Germany Power Metal isn't that big since most people listen to the harder stuff… Yeah, trends come and go. Indeed. I'm curious of how many people will come today… Today it's gonna be the worst gig probably on the tour. The sales were really bad, I heard. Probably there won't be that many people, but that doesn't bother me, you know, because especially at Finland we played for so many people… but also the other gigs were very good on this tour. It's worse here in Germany, like you said. Everywhere else is going good! Germany used to be a heavy metal country, but I don't know… it's not any more, except for black and death metal. But then again… I mean in a few years it will change again. And power metal will be bigger again? Well, I don't know, but maybe there will come another trend… I don't know what will be next. Maybe something from the sixties, like the Beatles! Hehe, better than this techno and rap stuff. I agree completely! Some more melodic metal bands are really big here in Germany at the moment, especially Nightwish. Don't know why, but that's a totally different audience – not the normal metal guys with long hair and black clothes… Yeah, it's the crossover. How do you choose your songs for your setlist? I had a poll on my webpage where people could take a vote for the songs and also I just chose you know some songs. I've done two albums so basically I'm doing more songs from Coldness than from the first one. I don't know… it's hard to choose! How do you choose your… let's say favourite 10 metal albums? It's not that easy! You just choose some songs by intuition like "aha, okay, I'll take this one". And of course we have some faster songs but also quite many lower middle-tempo songs because all the songs can't have the same rhythm. I don't know, could be better, could be worse, let's see! We'll play this set and you could tell me if I should change the songs!! (smirks) So how do you enjoy being on tour in general? In general? Whew, especially on this tour it has been, to be honest, a kind of holiday for me. It might sound weird, of course, because singing is a physical job, but then basically the whole day you're waiting for these 50 minutes that we play on this tour but before the tour I was so completely stressed out and had lots of things to do. I was singing the next Stratovarius stuff and then I was composing melody and lyrics for two songs for Janne Wirman (Children Of Bodom) and his project Warmen. But was just two days before I had to leave for this tour and then we had to rehearse the last 3 days for it - and then also back to work for the new band that signed my label, called Wingdom. So there was so much work before the actual tour and when I was on the airplane from Helsinki to Frankfurt and from Frankfurt to Madrid, I couldn't do anything for the other things, I was already on the tour, on a holiday. And then my stress level went down immediately; especially after the first gig in Madrid when I noticed "FUCK, this is a good band that I have!" I really think they are very good players so it's good to be on this tour. And I haven't been supporting - the last tours I did with Stratovarius were headlining tours since 1999 or something, that's the last 6 years, so it's nice to be a support, I think. Of course you can't use all this stage-space et cetera but then the good thing is when you have finished you open your first beer and the main band is about to start, so… it's much less stress. It's fun! Much more fun! How did you choose your live band? Oh, the live band… it all actually started from the bass player (Lauri Porra; Warmen, Sinergy, Stratovarius), maybe one year ago. We're like this last year anyway because I knew there's gonna be some shows and I knew that Mirka (Rantanen; Thunderstone) would be on the drums - not on this tour but on those gigs. I knew Lauri from the past, so I stopped him and he was very interested to go on the tour and then I said "okay, that's a good start." Then I already had two players. I knew that maybe Janne would play the gigs and he did the summer festivals, but then he was busy with Bodom and the US and I had to get Jens Johansson in and now… Janne is in the studio, Jens is doing something in the studio, they couldn't do this tour and so I got Robert, I'll come back to him later. But before that Lauri suggested Tuomas (Wäinölä). In fact I knew Tuomas from the past because we've been at the same school – I was studying vocals and Tuomas was studying guitars about 7 years ago and I knew he's a good guitar player. But then I asked Lauri that we'd need a very good guitar player so I wanted to hear his opinion because a band is just as good as everybody together. He suggested Tuomas and we played these festivals with Tuomas and then… that was it! But for this tour as I said Janne couldn't do it, so then I asked Tuomas and Lauri if they knew a good keyboard player because my songs are quite simple but the solos are very difficult, so that not all the keyboard players can play them. That's why we needed to get a guy who has the ability to play the solos and also he had to be a nice guy. I was once again quite lucky that Tuomas knew Robert and then he came to me and Tuomas in a bar and I asked him: "Are you religious; do you drink?" And he answered: "I'm not that religious and I do drink" and then I said: "alright, you'll be fine!" (clears throat) and then we listened to some of his songs… Well, nothing against religion, but… (laughter) Ah well. Then we got Mikko because I heard Mikko play the drums, but different kind of music. He was playing in Lauris band when Lauri did some other kinds of music, from rock to Indie and stuff and everything. And I knew he was a good drummer but I wasn't sure if he could play metal so I asked Lauri, who answered that they have been playing together some Pantera songs in the past and some harder stuff, so I said: "oh, when you guarantee me that he's a good drummer, then I'll take him! But he looks like he's a metal drummer and he's a very nice guy… and can drink too much alcohol! (laughs) Wow, that was a fucking long explanation! I never answered this long. Wow. I don't know if I answered your question, but something like that. Sure! How does it feel to answer questions like this again, again and again? Oh, I didn't answer this question this long before. Of course I'm trying to vary my answers a bit so that they wouldn't be every time the same, but of course that happens very often especially when you're promoting an album; I mean it's normal that journalists ask some questions that are the same. That doesn't bore me, but of course on your own attitude, if I feel every interviewer is boring, of course it shows! That's just a hobby for me, so I usually think that nobody is really interested in what I'm asking, even if they never show that. It's weird! It really depends on how the journalist is or better say, how he or she is prepared for this. Because I've been doing so many interviews and I've been interviewing people myself when I was working at a radio station before I was making an album, so I interviewed a couple of big Finnish rock stars and I prepared myself so well that the guy noticed "aha! This guy knows about my history like little details!" and then he was talking like one hour. And I was like: "okay?" So… it depends. If that’s somebody that the magazines have sent to make the story because they have to do the story but he or she doesn't give a fuck about the music - if the journalist looks down on it – or the other way round, it doesn't work that way! I'm here because of you and you're here because of the musician and the music, that's quite simple if you understand it so. It's the same thing for example bands in the beginning, when they want to play and some lucky ones might and some other ones later. Maybe you learn something from that! Do you have another profession? Yeah, I'm a student, I study German and English. I'm gonna be a teacher some day… Well, but then you are practising your English! About your album – I think your first album sounds quite different to the second one! What will be the next step? I don't know. I don't plan it! You're right in a way because the second one is more like dark and sad, but it's also because I was not feeling that good when I composed the songs and lyrics et cetera, and all the album or at least the songs I have been doing reflect a time and emotions which were dark and if I'm happy it might be a happy hippie album, but now it wasn't, so… I don't know what will be the next album, let's see! I'm planning that probably I'll compose some songs with Tuomas and Lauri. That might be something new to me because since today I've been composing all the songs myself because there was nobody who was interested to compose with me. Stratovarius specialist Tolkki would do his own things and I did just something in one song of the album. I was co-composing some songs with my own guitar player, my friend, and I liked this metal as well, because it's nice if you have your own ideas you can take them - but then again it's not so good because there might be something good coming out of your jamming with someone, some person who has some ideas. I think Lauri and Tuomas have really good ideas and it's easy to arrange with those guys. We actually did one song on this tour, just on the backstage in Barcelona. It's not completely ready but I sang the chorus for the guys and then they made a better chorus for it and also a good verse, so I think we easily can make a couple of songs in a day together! Did I answer your question? Yes, you did, hehehehe… Hehe, okay. I'm getting carried away! No problem! About the cover artworks, they're quite dark, too! I had to get my hands at the Take Me Away-single because I loved the artwork so much, it's absolutely great!! It's a Finland-only single, right? It was really hard to get it! I only pressed 1000 copies and I guess only 850 were sold in Finland. Well, the first single did so well in Finland, it went to #1 directly, so I sold this second single only ltd edition as thank for the people and it cost like 2 or 2 ½ Euros, so I lost some money but I thought it was a good idea as gift for the people who really wanna have it, I didn’t wanna sell it as big selling, you know. Oh, mine was much more expensive because of the shipping costs and stuff. Well, you should live in Finland! Sure, but Finland's too cold! No, it's not!! So you couldn't imagine living somewhere else? I could, but… maybe not! I'm used to it, you know? The winter actually is a bit too long, but in the dark winters you have a hell lot of time to compose and practise because there's nothing else to do! So back to the single. Did you come up with the cover artwork concept? I didn't, but for the album I did, because I wanted to have this kind of thing. I wanted to have it dark, but I also wanted to have this lake and the boat and et cetera. I didn't want to have the shoes but the artist wanted to have the shoes, and I said: "okay, if you choose the shoes, then it's fine with me!" because he wanted to describe the leaving and the potential suicide and I said "I don't wanna do any suicide!! I just wanna leave everything fucking behind!!" I think it's much better this way! Okay… but he did the singles himself and he did a pretty good job! Yeah, I love it, too! I noticed that the motives are almost the same! At least the shoes are on it! Well, do you enjoy being a front man or would you like to stay behind sometimes? Oh, when I was younger, I wanted to be a drummer and actually I played the drums for 3 years, so I know how to play them, but I'm not a good drummer. And then I remember I had this vision that I'd be playing in a stadium as a drummer behind everything but THEN probably it was actually an accident, I don't know - well, shit happens, let us put it that way. I started to be a singer and I enjoy being a singer. I like to be on the stage and to sing the songs that I love to sing. But I'm kind of a shy person, which means off the stage sometimes I'm not that open that I can talk to strange people unlike the American way. They have this culture with small talk and in Finland we don't have that! We're shy, and we wanna keep everything to ourselves. Actually I think that probably I am a singer because on stage I subconsciously want to fight my fear of meeting people; a shyness that especially very many other musicians and actors have. They are shy people but they're like trying to fight their shyness. But I like to be singer! It's nice to have some attention, while in my private live, I don't know, I really don’t wanna have any of that. Sometimes it's boring especially if you go to a bar. If you want to talk to people, to other musicians, and there're only 10 people around you staring at you and you're like what the fuck am I doing now? Really… it's not that nice. And then you're on stage and 2000 people are watching you? That's different, because I know what I'm doing there. I don't know what the fuck I am doing in a parking lot and talking to strange people because I don't know what to say. But of course I have learned; I was much shyer when I was younger. The more you travel, even though it's cliché, you learn. So of course now giving interview is easy and meeting new people in a way it's much easier but I can't say that I like attention that much. I don't want to be in a way a hell lot of known; I don’t wanna be a big star because I wanna have my private life! So you don't feel like a big star? I'm not!! With these record sales you can't be a big star (laughs). But indeed there are bands who sell much fewer bands and feel bigger than they are. Yeah well, some people like it, but I don't. Any places you haven't been playing live and you'd like to? Yeah, there are! I have never played in Africa. Of course it's not metal, it’s not that big. I've been to Egypt once then I never played in Australia but we might get there with Stratovarius next tour. And also there are some other countries like in Middle- and South America so I've never been to Venezuela, Columbia and other countries… also probably South Korea, Singapore, I've never been there. I've been to Japan, seven or nine times. Or actually I've never been to Canada before and I played, or better say sung half of a song with Edguy at Prog Power festival, but I can't say I've been really singing there, only half a song, so… What are the differences between different countries, the metal people? Yeah, of course there are differences. But it's also related to the culture, like in Japan fans they enjoy the shows a lot but they're not like crazy, load, compared to let's say Spanish, Greek or South American people. I think German people are somewhere in the middle not like Finnish audience, like they drink sometimes a lot of alcohol. Finns do drink much more, but you know… Germans can cope with that! Yeah exactly, Finns can't! but as I said it's related to the culture and, you know, Latin people they are just more like they have more temper [imitates them] hands are waving, when Italians are speaking [some weird sounds here]… of course that's different to for example the Japanese people[imitates Japanese people] (laughter). We're all different, but music combines people. It's nice because you can have something to talk about immediately even though sometimes of course for a musician it might be not that interesting, but if someone comes to you and talks about music, then you put down your shields and then talk about something else - not politics, but sports or cars or whatever. Yeah, for example we're talking for a while now but I hardly asked questions about your last album since it's so long ago that it was out! Yeah, we can talk about something else! I was like "you have to ask something about this album, damnit!!" No, you don't have to. Nobody's telling you that you have to ask about the album. On promoting this album or my present band I told my manager I don't wanna do too many interviews and also I didn't want to do any Stratovarius interviews. It doesn't make any sense because in the past somebody said something about the band and now we agreed that there won't be any interviews before the actual time was come and it's not now! Yeah, it was said in the E-mail I got and I was a bit puzzled, hehe… Yeah, but it doesn't make any sense because people tend to ask "Ah, please tell me about the album!" and now I say "No, I won't" because we agreed that we won't tell it. It's funny because my manager also complained that it won't be that many interviews and then I was like [BIG SMILE] because I just want to sing. I'm not here to do interviews like the whole day, but on this tour there haven't been many interviews. Of course she was also complaining about the Spanish promoter who said: "Some journalists, big metal magazines cancelled interviews because you said you don't wanna talk about Stratovarius" and I said "Yes, that's fine" because that shows that they're not interested in me; they just wanted to have the news first, they always want to have the news first. But what the fuck…? When I don't want to talk about something I don't have to talk about that, then I can talk about that later! But of course I can tell YOU… because you didn't ask for Stratovarius, so I could tell you a lot of things! (laughter) How's the atmosphere of the tour with the other guys? Very good. These guys are so nice! Of course we're just a support but for example today we had some problems with the drums because normally the headliner use their own drum kit, and we were using Epica's drum kit, too, so we were building it in front of them - here there was too little space, but we could use Kamelot's drum kit then. It's cool, one of the best tours; we don't have any problems with anybody on this tour I could recall but it's hard if you're living with…don't know how many people we are, Epica are 6 and my band, that's 11, so I think we're like 15 people in one bus and then Kamelot, who have their own bus. The smell isn't that good in the bus, to be honest, smells like old socks. The feeling is very good, but it's not a very long tour, only 3 ½ weeks, so… pretty okay. That's another thing I usually wonder: what does it feel like to live in a bus for a month or even longer? You should try it one day, then you'll know! (smiles) If I get the opportunity… Oh, it's different, of course. I'm one of those guys who're always spreading his stuff and I probably have the most space of the bus because I put my shoes there, dirty clothes somewhere else, stage clothes… But you have this one bed you crawl into and close the curtains and try to sleep. No private space… Well, you have this bed and close the curtains. But sometimes there's some drunken guy coming when you're sleeping like [imitates opening the curtains] "WAAAAAAH" so… this morning one of the roadies was speaking on the fucking telephone at six o'clock in the morning and all us Finns woke up and we were so pissed that were shouting like "SHUT UP!!" If you're a person who doesn't like other people; who wants to have his own private space then you can't be on a tour, it's simple. If you're an asshole of course you start to think that all the other guys are assholes. But you have to be nice and of course there's tension, there's some problems but… it works somehow. I also noticed that most of you guys wear the same clothes again and again, how do you wash them – do you wash them at all? I do wash them because I'm actually quite addicted to washing, it's part of the ritual. I hand wash some of my clothes, but then I try to find a laundry, I mean if you wash let's say once a week, that should be enough, cause of course you get more clothes than for one day. That's from me – I know that some guys, they don't wash at all. But you can see… It's one of the weird questions that comes up to my mind. No, it's a good question because it's kind of my routine and I hate it when I open my suitcase I can't find any clean clothes and then I'm like "aaaargh", even though it's rock'n roll and I like it, but then it has to be a liveable life, you know. Sometimes it's not that easy like I lost my stage pants in Paris, I wasn't drunk, but I just forgot them! So I have to wear my old jeans again, so… but then I thought "okay, it was meant that I'm gonna do the rest of the gigs with these pants. Checking for the last question… What's the worst thing about music business and what would you change if you could? (long silence) worst thing? I don't know what's the worst thing because there are a lot of things which could be better, but of course it's not that good for bands, especially those who start in making albums, when the albums are in the internet two months before, so that immediately kills those bands, they don't have any chance to live and also that causes effects on everybody. But what I don't like is some big criminal components like pirate copies and they're making money from the bands. To me if somebody's copying my album because he or she doesn't have enough money to buy it, then it's okay, but if there's some fucking company which makes money in - I don't wanna say in which countries but there are some certain countries - pressing this, that's like giving money to those people who sell drugs; that's probably the worst thing that I come up with. Yeah, well, so any last words or anything I didn't ask you but you wanted to say? Well, I shouldn't say any last words because then you know that would be my last words! (laughter) but by the way, thanx for the interview and all the best to your studies! (laugh) Thank you very much! I did the mistake with the last words the second time now… and every time I'm like "NO, you shouldn't say something like that!" Because… you can reply this way if you're doing face to face interviews. But if someone is asking per email, it's a little bit more boring to answer like "I don't wanna do any last words" because you're already doing your last words! 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09:23 - Daggon Hey, it only rains everyday only on the middle of the year, the rest of the time it's quite sunny if you ask (I'm talking about Mexico City) 08:22 - scapeplan Weather is pretty freaking arbitrary in my region. The sky has been overcast today, yesterday it was about 85F without a single cloud. 07:23 - Egigantea @Jaeryd17 I stayed in Mexico City for a month, rained there every day. It really sucks trust me 05:47 - Jaeryd17 @Boxcar - I live in the middle of the Arizona desert... I would also be happy if it rained every day. All I have is searing heat and blinding sunshine for the vast majority of the year.
\|It all began in the summer of 2001, when drummer John Alfredsson joined forces with vocalist Christian Rimmi and formed the first reincarnation of Avatar. In those days the name was Lost Soul. Guitarists Viktor Ekström and Daniel Johansson teamed up with the band together with bass player John Isacsson in an early phase. The band got their first rehearsal room and everybody was happy… but not for long. Drummer John had to face the facts. Viktor actually wanted to play funk. John Isacsson (who also preferred funk) HATED metal and didn't have any idea of what he was doing in the band in the first place. Daniel didn't seem to have any idea either of what he was doing there since he barely showed up to any rehearsals. Furthermore the rehearsal room sucked ass! The change of members had begun. The first one to be fed to the fishes was Daniel whose place quickly was taken by John's old tennis 'pal Jonas Jarlsby, a true metal head. They made the strategic move to disband Lost Soul since it had all fallen apart anyway. Lost Soul was killed with an axe and buried in Jonas garden. At the very same time Avatar was born (although Lost Soul also was called that for a while). After some searching guitarist Kim Egerbo was found. Together with bass player Niklas Green and vocalist Johannes Eckerström (who sang in former members John and Viktor's band Classic Molly) they were the second reincarnation of Avatar. The quintet found a new place to rehearse in Gothenburg and started immediately. The band had a complete line up, at least for a while… Niklas soon turned out to be way too lazy and was kicked out of the band. The vacant place was taken by musical prodigy Björn Risberg (also in Seminarium) and Avatar kept on playing for a few months when the band had a major setback when Johannes leaved the band. He had some troubles with things like talking, drinking and even breathing because if his lack of singing technique. Without Johannes in the band Björn decided to jump off the sinking ship too. It seemed like the whole world had turned against the band. Once again they stood without singer, bass player but with Kim, who despised the music almost as much as John Isacsson did back in the days Despite of all the setbacks there never was any doubt when it came to continuing the band. Kim quitted but John and Jonas carried on. They tested about a million members of which only a few stayed more than a few weeks. But the suddenly it all started to work out. Johannes had explored and developed his voice and was able to return to the job. With him came Björn, this time on guitar. It all started to look brighter. But like history has told us, nothing gold can stay. October 2003, Björn told the band that he wouldn't be able to stay in the band. There simply was no time for all of his projects. Luckily, Jonas starts on a new school and finds the perfect members. First it was Henrik Sandelin, just the kind of bass player and person John had had wet dreams about for years. A few weeks later they found Simon Andersson, shredding wiz kid just the way God meant them to be. During this period the kids had a major breakthrough in their song writing. The tunes came out the way they were supposed to and with time they were finally played properly. It didn't take long before the first demo was recorded in Studio Gain. It was named 'Personal Observations' and the cover was made by Johannes' cousin Phillip von Preuschen. Two long term cooperations had started, but by then no one knew... Avatar sent out the demo for review and entered their first live contests. They didn't make too much of a success among jurys and critics, but everyone could agree on that there were no band having as much fun as these kids. And that became their signum. Passion, energy and pure love for their music. This was the start of building a fanbase. About one year later the confidence had grown and the band decided to take next step. A little more time in the studio and a little more thought and cash behind their production made them decide that the next recording wouldn't be a demo. What they would do this time was a full scale E.P! Once again they entered Studio Gain and once again Phillip was put on the job to make a cover. Stronger material and greater musical ability and determination was the corner stone in creating an underground classic that became kown as '4 Reasons to Die' . The E.P. recieved amazing reviews and more and more people came to their live shows which got stronger and more intense than ever before. If there was an underground show in town Avatar would be there, banging their heads like crazy! Even more fans joined the force and larger parts of Sweden was invaded week by week. And the party had just started. After a great year of growth and success the band had to decide what would be their next step. The talk was about doing another E.P. but after some reasoning back and forth they said "Fuck it! We got the material and we're to hungry to do otherwise! We're doing an album!". Said and done. They carried the drum kit to Gain for the third time with intensions to start a war. This was going to be big! During the recording process, owner of the studio, who also was the owner of the record label Gain got a copy of the half done album from the engineer and they were blown away! The deal was written and the album was released in Sweden on January 25th, 2006. The album made great chart positions and the phenomena grew like crazy. The band then toured Sweden like possessed opening for Hardcore Superstar and Dismember and hit the road for Europe with Imapled Nazarene. The touring peaked in Gothenburg in August where they played for 2500 crazy fans, headlining just before Arch Enemy on 'EM-festen', the party of the year for any west coaster. On September 15th the ablum hit the shelves in Europe. Avatar joined Evergrey on a highly succesful tour through the old world and are now looking forward on bringing the world to its knees. It isn't too far away now.
Back in June everyone was invited to cover a song from Radiohead's OK Computer for the July '12 MeFi Music Challenge #58 . (Music Talk thread ) Over the past 2 months—the challenge was extended at the end of July —48 songs were recorded covering the entire album and even one excellent B-side . So much about this challenge excited me, like recording and submitting my first (second, and sort-of third!) Music tracks. And I love Radiohead, so. But this part, where I pick my favorite cover version of each song on the album and build my perfect MeFi Music tribute, OK MetaFilter , that's the part I've really been looking forward to. Come inside for links to playlists for each track of the album so you can build yours too. posted by carsonb to MetaFilter-Related at 2:32 PM (24 comments total) 39 users marked this as a favorite
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Alderson Gets High Grades From Mets Ownership I have been hearing how Sandy Alderson will be held accountable for the Mets’ performance this summer and I don’t believe that to be the case, regardless of what happens with David Wright and R.A. Dickey. Alderson is getting A’s across the board, because those handing out the grades aren’t the fans or the press, or even his colleagues. Grading Alderson are the Wilpons, who are passing him with gold stars because he is doing exactly what is expected of him. Alderson was brought in here at the urging of Wilpon’s friend, Commissioner Bud Selig, with the purpose of bringing some stability by slashing payroll for a floundering franchise. To that degree, he has done his job. Alderson acted to clean up the Mets’ toxic contracts by cutting Oliver Perez, Luis Castillo, and despite it being too late, finally Jason Bay. He also traded Carlos Beltran for prospect Zach Wheeler, and got rid of Francisco Rodriguez, who embarrassed the team by getting into a fight with his father-in-law outside the family lounge at Citi Field. Best of all for the Wilpons, is he took the Mets into the 2012 season with a $100 million payroll, some $43 million less than in 2011. A good part of that was because of the decision to let go of Jose Reyes, thereby shedding the Mets of another potentially burdensome contract for a player with an injury history. Doing so might help the Mets extend the contracts of Wright and Dickey, that is, if the team wants to make that call. As of now, talks seem stagnant. The Mets have a myriad of holes and issues, with few immediate answers. On the plus side are young pitchers Jon Niese, Matt Harvey and Wheeler to give them a promising rotation from which to build. Losing Wright and Dickey would be damaging to the Mets on the field, but they will benefit from compensatory draft picks. At worst, the Mets restart their rebuilding program, but they would further reduce payroll. There are voids in the bullpen and outfield, and also questions in the rotation and at catcher. Clearly, they are several years away, and based on that Alderson should be strongly judged. However, the criteria the Wilpons are using to evaluate Alderson is in reducing payroll and toward that end, he is passing the test. Alderson has already been evaluated by the people whose opinion of him matter most. About the Author: John Delcos I am an active member of the BBWAA and have covered Major League Baseball in several capacities for over 20 years, including ten in New York working the Mets' and Yankees' beat. I covered the Baltimore Orioles for eight years and the Cleveland Indians before that. I currently serve as an editor and senior staff writer for Mets Merized Online. Follow me on Twitter @jdelcos. 136 Comments + Add Comment NL East Standings Last updated: 05/17/2013 - Scott Rice's Arm: on Matt Harvey Does It All In Mets 3-2 Win Over Cubs: Since Terry Collins doesn't believe a right-handed... - Poconos: on Matt Harvey Does It All In Mets 3-2 Win Over Cubs: I know. It's so friggin annoying isn't... - Philip: on Valdespin Would Have Fit Right In With The 1986 Mets: The 1986 Mets didn't have a cat... - Sydney: on The Mets Were Built To Fail, They Really Have No Plan Says One NL Official: I believe in Sandy Alderson. I support... - Metsie: on Matt Harvey Does It All In Mets 3-2 Win Over Cubs: You know it is not like Harvey... MMO Mets Chat Check Out These Great MLB Links! Mets Autograph Signings Mets Fan Apparel Mets Autographed Baseballs Baseball Card Supplies For the best seats and lowest MLB ticket prices, go to PurchaseSeats.com. Get your Mets Tickets now and follow them on the road with Yankees Tickets, Phillies Tickets, Nationals Tickets and Braves Tickets!
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the just released schedules were a flat-out statement that the B10 doesn't believe SOS will matter in playoff selection Buckeye memories - the snakepit in the 70s and 80s The 1978 game set up as another in the Ten Year War with the winner going to the Rose Bowl. Bo lost to MSC for the first time since his rookie season, and the first time in A2, as QB Eddie Smith and Kirk Gibson rode roughshod over us. MSC lost their conference opener to Purdue, and ran the table after that, but, were on probation for some irregularities under Denny Stoltz, so ineligible for the Rose Bowl. It was said that when Stoltz MSC assistants went into the lockerroom after the Ohio high school football all star game, some of the players started singing “Here Comes Santa Claus.” Having had enough of Friday nights on High Street, another scalper friend and I decide to make the trip, but leave the morning of the game. We arrive in plenty of time to hustle tickets, make some money, and get in for the kickoff. I have also moved to wearing neutral colors. Our defense, incredibly, holds the Buckeyes without a touchdown, in their own stadium, against their archrival, for the third consecutive time. Newt Loken, the legendary UM gymnastics coach, had a son who was on the cheerleading squad. My scalper friend, Jimmy, was friends with him. Holding a 14 – 3 lead with about 6 minutes left in the game, Jimmy says, let's go down on the field and say hi to Newt's son. I was skeptical, but, went along. Times being what they were, pre 9-11, and all, we just drew his attention, and jumped on the field, in the corner by the visiting section at the closed end of the horseshoe. Jimmy had a camera, and imposed upon junior to take our picture. He suggested that we back off the sideline, onto the field. I mean, literally, on the field of play. The teams were around the 20 yard line at the other end of the field. We moved about ten yards out from the sideline, and the picture was taken of us with the scoreboard in the background. I lost the damn picture years ago. (If anyone knows Jimmy Chu, see if he can get me a copy) This road trip thing seems to be working fairly well, two trips, two wins, so I go again in 1980. Again, the Rose Bowl on the line. Woody is gone, allegedly fired for punching that Clemson player in the Rose Bowl. But the real reason is, he lost to us three years in a row. Earl Bruce had taken over and gone undefeated in the 1979 regular season, before adopting conference tradition and choking in the Rose Bowl. 1980 was not a good game for Ali Hadji Sheikh, our excellent kicker. He missed an extra point, and at least one field goal, but, again, incredibly, our defense held them without a touchdown, and we won 9 – 3. In 1982, the conference schedule was supposed to be round robin, but the Suckeyes said they would not back out of any of their non-conference contracts, and so skipped playing a weak Minnesota squad. Wisconsin came into the snakepit in the rain and stunned them, 6 – 0. So, we came in at 8 and 0 in the conference, with Ohio at 6 – 1. The Rose Bowl was already clinched. Had the Buckeyes played and beaten the Gophers, would not have been so, but, their decision. And you know what they have for brains. It rained most of the game, and we could not get a touchdown this time, losing 14 – 9. But Big Ten champs regardless. We lose, but our 8 - 1 record puts us ahead of the 7 - 1 Buckeyes. So, I now have four trips, and four Rose Bowls. The 1984 season being what it was, I skipped the trip that year, not wanting to endanger that perfect record. 1986, we are unbeaten, untied, and #2 in the nation for our last home game. Not worried about retaining the Jug, I am deer hunting in the Upper Peninsula when Ricky Foggie breaks lose for a 4th quarter 25 yard plus run leading to the winning score as the Gophers upset us. That was the only run of longer than 25 yards that the defense alowed all season. Undeterred by the loss, QB Jim Harbaugh guarantees a win over Ohio. I go with a rookie, a friend from freshman year at West Quad Wenley House. As we hit the border, I put the cruise control on 54. He protests loudly about how long it will take to get their at that speed. I advise him it will take much longer if we go 56, because we will get a ticket. Does he think all those stories are fiction? He says, the Ohio plated cars are all going 80 or 85 or 90, whizzing past us. I say yes, they know they have immunity today. Sure enough, he counts. Seven vehicles pulled over, all Michigan plates. Being the pro, I make one trip around the stadium, checking the market, and tell him we can get a single for $50. He says that is too much, he will watch at a bar. I suggest that may be a more dangerous environment than the snakepit, but, he says he can buy beer there. OK. I pick up a single, and stand at the top of the lower deck around the 40 yard line. It is a gorgeous day, around 70 degrees. I think Jamie Morris has 26 carries, and Spielman has 24 tackles; they are bumping into each other all afternoon. McMurtry loses a TD pass in the sun on our first possession, or I think we would have smoked them. With a 26-24 lead, the Suckeyes line up for a game winning field goal attempt, about 43 yards. I do not have a good feeling about this, but, all the Buckeye fans are screaming to go for it on 4th and long, with absolutely no confidence their guy can make the kick. Fortunately, they are correct. Harbaugh is right, we win, I am now 4 – 1 with 5 Rose Bowls in five trips to Columbus. We go on to lose the Rose Bowl to Arizona State, coached by one John Cooper. The only blemishes on their record, one loss, and a season ending tie with arch-rival Arizona which put them out of the national championship picture. In another year, tired of losing to Wisconsin, which is a quote from the Ohio AD, and thinking Cooper is a coach who can beat us, they eventually fire Bruce and hire Cooper. They should have checked his record in season ending rivalry games, as he never beat Arizona. And let us all be grateful: we are not Buckeyes.
With all the HD Jumbo screen talk(and with my boring 3rd shift) I figured I would draw it using my awesome skills. Now every one can see it. The future of the Big House. Around 2025 I am guessing. I did remove the one press box so you could see the field, so just pretend it's there. I also added seats above the HD screens and on top of the press box. Bringing the total seating to 125,000. In the year 2025 we will have be playing night games and using Maize jersey's. Welcome to the future! Great Scott! Feel free to use it as a background for your desktop.
In 2012 I quit my job and founded a startup, built a team, wrote and published a startup book, produced an indie nature documentary and moved between countries twice. It was a productive year. Here’s what I wrote about my productivity planning exactly a year ago. New Year forces you to stop and think about what you’ve done, what you haven’t done, and what you want to do. A year ago I chose to put more work into things that matter and less into things that don’t matter. I chose to drop quite a few things altogether. I’ve also chosen to reverse the planning process. Here’s how. I work with and think about startups most of my waking hours and a few of the non-waking ones, so ‘lean’ and ‘agile’ and ‘iterative’ are thoughts that I’ve applied in my personal routines as well. Two years ago I was even creating an iteration-driven personal productivity system, but I realized soon that it doesn’t work for me anymore. I’ve encouraged and followed the idea of ‘efficient drifting’, where you head onwards with the flow and steer as new channels are revealed (not too far from evidence-based management, or lean principles). The problem with iterative models both in life and in product development is that it is too easy to bend and change direction. In pivoting a startup, you bend rather than break, and this is good. You get a new direction that is more sustainable, and you head there as long as the evidence and customer adoption is there. Say, a social news service can’t find sustainable revenues, and pivots into a vertical ad network that makes money and is profitable. But what if you don’t like vertical ad networks? This is where life differs from startups (though, maybe startups shouldn’t differ from life in that – another topic for later). You may not like your direction, or at least all the directions that your various projects are taking. Reverse planning is one answer. In reverse planning, you set your goal first, and chart your path from that goal to the present moment, in reverse order. I find there are hard and soft versions of reverse planning. Hard reverse planning – this style has its roots in military theory. There is an exact end state that needs to be reached, and a careful plan is constructed to get to that point. This works on some level. Soft reverse planning – this is an NLP or self-suggestive practice, where you vividly imagine the goal you want to reach, and equally vividly imagine the steps required to get you there. Visualization, repetition and linguistic enforcement is key here. I use elements of both without putting either force or blind faith into the process. In setting a long-term goal with reverse planning, you always have to make sure you are dealing with things that have as few immutables as possible. Medium-term goals can have more environmental factors in them, and short-term planning can better take into account contingencies. Here’s how I follow a reverse planning process for meaningful productivity. 1. Goals: Decide on your long-term goal. Here, we’re talking the the very basics. Happiness? Money? Fame? Expertise in a certain field? Pick it and write it down. Avoid using anything external in this goal – it must come from yourself, and only include yourself. That way, only you are responsible. This is your goal, your decision. This is what is valuable to you. Long-term, here, can mean anything from a few months to a few years, depending what you are applying it to. Give it a deadline. 2. Stages: Break it down into medium-term stages. These are goals, too, but they have instrumental value. They help you towards your long-term goal. They are stages, because they allow you to stop and realize you’ve made your progress towards the end-goal. They all have deadlines. Between stages, you can have anything from a couple of weeks to a few months. 3. Steps: Chart the short-term steps that will take you to the first medium-term stage. These are the exact things you need to do, the actions you have to take, the people you have to convince, the sales you have to make that take you to the end of this medium-term stage. These must be exact, and for these you can use whatever process and productivity method you find works for you (calendar, Kanban, GTD, Agile, Superfocus + Pomodoro…). During the steps, you will steer your course towards the stage. 4. Breather: Once you reach a Stage (a medium-term goal), stop. Look what you did, what worked, what didn’t. Did you reach the stage by the deadline? If not, maybe you are a bit further down the mountain still, but you are heading up (or are you?). Evaluate your next Steps to the next Stage. Chart your path, make sure it leads in the right direction, and that the Stage is still relevant. If you ended up on a different Stage because things have changed, maybe you will have to change your next couple of Stages too, before you get back on track with your planned Stages. Then keep going. That’s all there is to reverse planning, the way I do it. It seems to work pretty well, and being able to set your own value is powerful. With the advent of lean, agile and evidence-based fly-by-wire management, planning has been getting a bad rap. But efficient planning - making a plan, sticking to it, and hitting your goal - is both powerful and empowering.
Hello and Greetings my name is Brendan Melling and I am a junior here at Miami from Cleveland, Ohio. I am an Economics major and a Statistics and Actuarial Science minor. I swim distance free and IM and like to dabble in the 50 free as well. As John said in his last post we have just come off two duel meet victories to start off the New Year and the team couldn’t be more pumped up. It is exciting to see my teammates swimming so fast despite being broken down from winter training. The last two weeks, however, we have been preparing ourselves for our next duel meet this weekend against Eastern Michigan. For those of you that don’t know, there is a long rivalry between Miami and Easterns’ swim programs and quite frankly… well… we really don’t like them. Though it can be intimidating facing off against last years MAC champions, the team has been using this as motivation and I feel that we are the most prepared to face them than we have been throughout my previous 2 years here. The team has trained extremely hard and has the mental edge that will be required to travel up north to beat them. So apart from our determination to take down that school up north, we have also had the (dis)pleasure of starting up classes for the second semester. It is always tricky starting the second semester because we must immediately juggle swimming and school work, as opposed to the first semester where practices don’t start until the second week and meets aren’t until October. From what I have heard my teammates have made the transition and are already spending there nights at King Library and not playing Call of Duty… Anyway, the end of the season will be here before any of us know it and our team has our goal and we haven’t lost sight of it. The meet this weekend will be a good test of our skill and a good precursor to what the energy at the MAC meet will be like. Make sure to check out the results this weekend. Love and Honor,
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From The Comics Reporter, December 3, 2012, Arnoldo Franchioni, 1928 – 2012 A prolific cartoonist, whose work appeared in Mad, The New York Times and many many other newspapers and magazines, both here and abroad. He contributed two cartoons to The New Yorker (April 4, 1994 & May 27, 1996) From Forbes.com, December 5, 2012, “What’s Almost as Good as a New Puppy?” Liza Donnelly reviews The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs (Random House). Two books of interest coming this year: The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker by Janet Groth (Algonquin Books, June 26, 2012) and Francoise Mouly’s Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See (Abrams, April 30, 2012). For more details go to your favorite online book dealer’s site. From newyorker.com, January 23, 2012, “Cover Story: George Booth Remembers Mawmaw” From The Comics Journal, January 23, 2012, “Seriously Funny” which includes a must read appreciation of Harvey Kurtzman by Drew Friedman. From the blog, Lame Adventures, October 31, 2011, “An Hour with Roz Chast”
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The Michio Takayama Estate is represented by the David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe. (505) 982-0318 or (855) 983-9555. Wako Takayama, Michio’s granddaughter, researched the life and art of her grandfather. She presented a paper titled Michio Takayama: Tokyo to Taos at the Southwest Art History Conference (SWAHC) on October 14, 1999 and wrote an essay in the Retrospective Catalog. Thank you to everyone who participated in the project. Wako can be reached at mtaka (at) wakotakayama.com

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