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Kids & Money
Why college is not one big 'scam'
Let's say you're a college freshman who took out thousands of dollars in student loans to help pay for tuition, textbooks and room and board.
Let's also say you just earned a 4.0 GPA in your first semester but decided to chuck college because it's just one big rip-off that loads graduates down with debt and unpromising job prospects.
A young man claiming to be a Kansas State University student made those comments and much more in a Facebook meltdown that went viral shortly before Christmas.
Put aside whether the online author was real or not. The "student" articulated what a lot of students and parents feel about the high cost of a college education and whether the end justifies the means.
While I disagree with some of the points — and will rebut them in this column — the Facebook writer's opinions are still worth chewing on.
Here are some of the points made in the online post, with points of my own.
Let's start with the writer's frustration over the high cost of college and "paying $200 for a $6 textbook." There's no argument from me on both of these points.
It's no secret that college tuition is rising faster than family incomes are growing and faster than the rate of inflation, though recently those gaps have narrowed. Many schools have bloated administrative budgets, with many jobs created to deal with government red tape.
It's also a fact that many schools are not hurting for money, and that endowments could be pried open further to provide more scholarships and grants.
As for textbooks, prices are outrageous, though many schools offer online options to keep costs down.
That said, if you wind up borrowing tens of thousands of dollars a year to attend your dream school, there may be trade-offs. That's especially true if you're pursuing a degree in a historically low-paying profession.
The web author also was convinced that college students "are being scammed" because "you are being put thousands into debt to learn things you will never even use."
I'm with the "student" halfway here. Generally students are required to take classes that teach very little practical day-to-day skills. For me, it was geology my freshman year. Was I interested in being a rock jock? No, but I enjoyed the class nevertheless. A lot depends on your attitude about learning.
And that brings me to the writer's larger point about being scammed by the system. At the end of the day, the onus is on the student borrowing the money to understand how much debt is being taken on, and what the payoff will be in terms of a job and a paycheck.
Parents also bear some responsibility for making sure their teen understands what a college education costs. And frankly, many parents don't want to say "no" to a school that's a financial reach.
Students graduating from high school do have options. Many schools you've probably never heard of provide great and affordable education. In addition, the college experience isn't for everyone, which is one reason why trade schools that offer specialized educations and placements in well-paid jobs have become so popular.
You can have a healthy debate over the online writer's claim that college is not all that useful for getting a job. Some research shows just the opposite — that of the 11.6 million jobs created after the last recession, 8.4 million went to students with at least a bachelor's degree, according to a 2016 report from the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University.
When it's all said and done, there's no question there are fundamental problems with our system of higher education. Whether you agree with the web poster or my take, college affordability needs to be an important part of the national conversation.
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I'm a senior lecturer in Humanities computing at the University of Lausanne (Faculty of Arts, department of language and information sciences, SLI). My background is in linguistics, computer science and mathematical methods.
My research on language and text data analysis has led me to collaborate with colleagues in Vienna (in Wolfgang Dressler's "pre- and protomorphology" group), Antwerp (Steven Gillis), and Chicago (in John Goldsmith's Linguistica group).
At Unil, I'm collaborating with Marianne Kilani-Schoch and François Bavaud (SLI), as well as other colleagues from the Faculty of Arts.
My main ongoing project is Orange Textable, an open source text analysis program based on a visual programming interface. More information on my research, publications and teaching can be found on my academic web page.
Outside of Academia, I'm the founder and manager of LangTech Sàrl, a start-up specializing in software development for language and text data analysis.
On these pages, I write about Humanities computing ("type I Digital Humanities"), and text analysis in particular.


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A River Hawk in a Black Bear's den
I moved to Lowell, Massachusetts in the summer of 2011 after spend a few years in Haverhill. Little did I know what moving to Lowell would do to my sports fandom.
The apartment I moved into was a stones throw for the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell, home of the UMass Lowell River Hawks. It was the former home of the Lowell Lock Monsters and Lowell Devils of the American Hockey League (AHL) before the University purchase the building from the City and the Devils opted to move to Albany, New York.
After looking out my window for a few weeks, I decided that I needed to attend UMass Lowell hockey games and purchased a 5-game pass. However, after I thought a bit harder I realized I wanted more and upgraded to season tickets. My first seat was row two, seat one of section 123.
In my first season I saw the River Hawks lead my new head coach Norm Bazin turn around a team that went only 5-25-4 in the previous season to a 24-13-2 team, a trip to the NCAA Tournament and Coach of the Year award for Bazin.
I was absolutely hooked.
The team had this aura surrounding them that made it intoxicating and addicting to watch and root for. I wanted more.
I moved on from solely owning season tickets to writing about the team, researching recruits, following alumni and hosting a radio pre-game show online. I launched a new website to cover a wider-range UMass Lowell sports and mixed martial arts. I was addicted.
Over the years I became friends with fellow season ticket holders, new and longtime, I met new journalists, school athletic departments and even parents/family of the players. They all became a family to me.
It was easy to find love in a team with a story like UMass Lowell's. Rich history in Division II, but a up-and-down history in Division I with no titles that was finally making it to be considered as one of the best teams in the country.
My love continues for River Hawks, but things change in life. I moved away from Massachusetts and returned to Maine to start the next chapter in my life. Sometimes you don't realized how much of an impact the change has on you until time progresses.
I miss my River Hawks.
Tonight, October 7, is the first UMass Lowell hockey opening night I will miss since my first River Hawk opening night in 2011. Over the span of five seasons I only missed a single home game, tonight will be the second, tomorrow the third and so on.
As I said before, the River Hawk experience for me is more then missing a game, since I will be watching on GoRiverHawks.tv, its about missing the people you see, the sights and sounds of the Tsongas Center, the grabbing a beer at the Beer Works before or after the game. Its about writing about the team, talking to Norm and the players following the game.
Tonight will be tough for me, I feel like I am missing a family gathering.
The Bangor Area are fans of the Maine Black Bears. The fellow Hockey East foe of the River Hawks are located only minutes from Bangor and also has a rich history. However, I will remain a River Hawk fan for life and will proud display my red, white and blue River Hawk apparel without fear.
Have fun River Hawk fans, enjoy the season, add another regular season and champion title to the history books and show the world who UMass Lowell is.
Good Luck UMass Lowell, I miss you.


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Bür Gür is the LA based art / indie / electronic ambient / chill wave / pop outfit of Corbin Clarke and Makan Negahban. Sure that is a lot of descriptors but then their dreamy songs that blend the organic and synthetic are difficult to describe but so easy to experience. They released the vast debut Alligator Cheesecake (on How to be a Microwave Records) last year and are about to release their second sonic affair entitled Have You Lost Your Faith in God?
"Neighbors" is the first peak aurally and, thanks to Cosmic Shrug Productions, the first look into the upcoming album experience. The video as directed by Dustin Krapes is comically creepy. It stars Ryan Bergmann from the band RETOX who instantly made me think of Mac DeMarco. Maybe his cagey brother from another mother or something. Bergmann slowly becomes unhinged as a stranger played by Phill Miller begins to invade his personal spaces and psyche with dark consequences. Le'Lani Lan'caster who I had the pleasure of seeing a few times in the band Washing Machines (in an around LA) also makes a brief appearance. The video is truly awesome as is the song. If "Neighbors" is any indication of what direction Bür Gür is headed then Have You Lost Your Faith in God? portends to be a special album and possibly a bit more accessible than their far reaching debut. Only time will tell and I am waiting eagerly.
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Britain's Johnson on first Turkey trip since Brexit tensions
Johnson, who is of partly Turkish ancestry, began his trip with a visit to a camp for Syrian refugees in the southeast. He is due to head to Ankara on Tuesday for political talks.
The flamboyant former London mayor may find aspects of his visit awkward after he penned the winning entry in a competition on offensive poetry about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, published by the conservative British magazine The Spectator.
The trip is the highest-level visit to Turkey by a British official since the failed coup on July 15 in which a rogue military faction tried to overthrow the Turkish strongman.
"Turkey is a vital partner to the UK," Johnson wrote on Twitter.
"Pleased to visit for first time as Foreign Sec for talks with Govt, civil society & Syrian Opposition."
Johnson, one of the most prominent public faces of the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, previously made a strong case for Turkish membership of the bloc.
But the Brexit campaign repeatedly raised the spectre of millions of Turks being free to live in Britain as a reason to pull out of the 28-nation bloc.
David Cameron, who resigned as British prime minister after the Brexit vote, also said during the campaign that Turkish EU membership was not "remotely on the cards" and may not happen until the year 3000, further angering Ankara.
Johnson, never shy of controversy, won the competition calling for a rude verse about Erdogan, organised in solidarity with a German comedian facing prosecution for doing the same.
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Turkish officials have played down a possible setback in the two countries' relationship, saying British-Turkish ties are too important to be hostage to Johnson's statements.
Before the Brexit vote, Britain was always seen as one of the strongest supporters of Ankara's bid for EU membership.
A spokeswoman for the British embassy in Ankara told AFP that Johnson had arrived in Turkey, where he is to meet Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.
He is also due to visit the Turkish parliament in the capital Ankara which was extensively damaged by airstrikes on the night of the coup.
Johnson landed in Gaziantep in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border to visit a refugee camp, the private Dogan news agency reported.
Escorted by a convoy, Johnson first visited a site where UN aid trucks are stationed and then travelled to Nizip refugee camp near the Syrian border, it added.
Turkey, a fierce opponent of President Bashar al-Assad, is playing host to nearly three million Syrian refugees who have fled the war, and pressing for a safe zone on the Syrian side of the border to house refugees.
Johnson has also made headlines in Turkish media because of his Turkish great-grandfather Ali Kemal, who was a politician and a journalist in the early 20th century.
Turkey's relations with Europe have soured after the coup attempt due to concerns over Ankara's subsequent crackdown on alleged coup plotters.
Ankara has angrily rejected the criticism that the vast purge might breach rights norms that Ankara must meet for accession into the EU.
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In surprise move, Florida GOP opposes Supreme Court justices' retention in November
The Republican Party of Florida waded into a traditionally apolitical fight Friday, announcing it will oppose the retention of three state Supreme Court justices on the November ballot.
In a statement released by its spokeswoman, the party said its executive board voted unanimously this week to oppose Justices R. Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince in November's retention elections. The justices do not face opponents, but voters are asked every six years to vote yes or no on whether they should remain on the job.
The party statement singled out a 2003 case by the court as its main reason for its unprecedented decision to oppose the justices. In the case, Quince and Pariente voted with former Justices Harry Lee Anstead and Raoul Cantero to order a new trial for Joe Elton Nixon, who was sentenced to death for the 1984 murder of Jeanne Bickner in Leon County, because of unfair legal representation. Lewis concurred in the result but dissented in the reasoning.
Nixon, who was convicted of tying Bickner to a tree with jumper cables and setting her on fire, argued during a lengthy appeals process that he never gave his attorney the authority to admit his guilt to the jury, violating his right to a fair trial.
The high court agreed with him in the 5-2 ruling but, in 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court voted unanimously to overturn that decision, with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writing the majority opinion. She concluded that Nixon, whose behavior included verbal and physical outbursts in the courtroom, had several opportunities to object to his lawyer's strategy but never did. Nixon remains on death row.
Supporters of the justices accused the state GOP of using the merit-retention vote, and the case, as a subterfuge to try to seize control of the courts. If a majority of voters reject the justices, Republican Gov. Rick Scott will have an opportunity to appoint their replacements.
"The Republican Party has demonstrated with this decision that there are special interests in this state that not only want to control all three branches of government, they want to own all three branches of government," said Dick Batchelor, a former Democratic lawmaker now working with Defend Justice from Politics, an advocacy group. "The question for the public now is, do we want an independent judiciary or do we want to surrender the sovereignty of the court to a political Legislature?''
The three justices have expected an aggressive assault against them since a conservative group, Restore Justice 2012, emerged this year with the goal of pushing the justices off the court. The justices have raised a combined total of nearly $1 million in their defense but, until now, had expected most of the opposition to come from outside groups, not from the Republican Party.
Many prominent Republican lawyers have opposed politicizing the merit retention vote. The most outspoken Republican has been Cantero, the former justice who now practices law in Miami. He was appointed to the bench by former Gov. Jeb Bush and has said he believes the justices have done nothing to merit removal from office.
"My strong feeling is, if we start turning the merit retention process into a political vehicle, then we are turning the judiciary into another political branch of government, which the Founding Fathers of our country specifically intended to avoid," Cantero told reporters last week.
No sitting Supreme Court justice has ever lost a retention election.
The decision by the state GOP to enter the debate allows the party to use its fundraising heft to steer money into opposition campaigns. Party officials would not say how much money they are willing to devote to defeating the justices.
"We are not talking strategy," said Brian Burgess, a party spokesman.
Authors of the decades-old merit retention law said it was adopted in response to a system in which the Legislature became too cozy with the Supreme Court, forcing the impeachment and removal of corrupt judges.
"The announcement that the Republican Party is engaged in this effort would shock those wonderful Republican statesmen who helped create the merit selection and merit retention processes," said Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte, former president of the American Bar Association who, as a former legislator, helped to craft the law in the early 1970s. "Surely we do not want to go back to the broken past."
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You have to work hard, really hard, to get more business for your hotel. You can not simply put out the vacancy sign and expect a steady stream of guests to come walking through the front door. It can take years to build up a hotel's reputation, but only a few bad reviews to knock it back down.
A hotel manager needs to take a look at the big picture. First, he or she must focus on making everything right with the hotel itself. Next, it is important to know your competition. Finally, and most importantly, you must focus on attracting new guests and making sure that when they stay, they will want to come back and stay again.
Who is your target market?
No hotel can be all things to all people. Your hotel's mission statement and business plan can be broad and inclusive, but also needs to be narrow enough to create an identity for its core target audience. A four-star hotel in the financial district should focus on the business traveler, while a moderately priced hotel near Disneyland should focus on providing accommodations for families. You can bring in more business by knowing who your customers are and giving them the things they need and want most.
Las Vegas is a good example of where some hotels tried unsuccessfully to appeal to all demographic groups. A few years back, the city decided to promote itself as a place to bring the kids. Hotels started changing to cater to family based vacationers. While the message being sent out brought more families to Las Vegas, it also distracted Vegas hoteliers from its core identity as an adult playground for gamblers. Targeting your market works better than trying to appeal to everyone.
What makes your hotel different?
You always want to give a guest a reason why they should choose your hotel over another hotel in the area. Price can be a big reason, but certainly not the only reason to drive business to your hotel.
If your hotel happens to have lake and ocean views that is a selling point. Maybe you are the only hotel in the area that allows pets? You can differentiate your hotel by the level of service you provide, offering your guests freshly baked chocolate chip cookies or anything else that adds value to a guest's stay.
Develop a relationship with your guests before they arrive
When people have the chance to get to know you, they will be more apt to book a room with you rather than going to an unfamiliar place. Just as you are more likely to visit a friend than a perfect stranger, the same holds true for staying at a hotel.
Using all available means to build friendships and relationships can lead to more bookings. Start with a content-rich website that is constantly updated. Create a hotel newsletter. Have a Facebook and a Twitter presence. Allow people to ask questions and respond to all inquiries in a timely manner. Anything you can do to connect to people interested in your hotel will help attract more paying guests.
Are you getting the most out of your website?
You should look at your website as the central core of your online marketing strategy. All advertising material from brochures and print ads to television and blogs on the internet should have a link back to your website. Social media sites can encourage people to visit your website, but you need to make your website valuable to visitors when they arrive.
Professional design is almost mandatory. You want your website to function properly and be easy to navigate. A good website should not feel cluttered, but should provide all of the information a person might want or need to make a booking decision. Put any discounts or special offers in a prominent spot on your home page. Your website should allow a person to book a reservation or get in touch with someone to answer any questions he or she may have.
Keep your website fresh and full of interesting and valuable content. You can have an area that tells readers about upcoming local festivals and events. A guide to local restaurants, shopping and attractions, with links to those places, will be very useful for visitors to your city.
Build an email mailing list
Creating a big list of solid leads is a valuable asset in any kind of marketing campaign for your hotel. In the old days, businesses paid money to buy names and addresses from mailing list providers. It has been shown time-and-time-again that growing an email mailing list is the better approach.
Offering an incentive for people to give you their email address is the fastest and best way to build an email list. Among the ways to encourage people to furnish their email address is to offer them a free subscription to a monthly newsletter or give them access to special discounts that are sent to them through their email accounts.
When you develop a large list of people who have an interest in traveling and staying at hotels, you can target them in different ways. While you do not want to bombard people with too many messages, an occasional email will remind them of your hotel and may just get them to make a reservation.
Give your guests more value
When people return home from a vacation they like to share their experience with their friends. While they are more likely to talk about the fun they had at Disneyland rather than the hotel in which they stayed, if you do something special that impresses them, they will very likely rave about it to their friends.
It might cost you a little extra to provide a deluxe free breakfast instead of a continental breakfast, but the goodwill you build with guests will more than offset the additional cost. Instead of just offering cold cereal and toast, offer scrambled eggs and bacon.
First impressions matter
When guests pull up to your hotel, they immediately form an impression of the property. While you may not have fancy gardens and fountains to wow them, you should keep your grounds well maintained. You do not want cigarette butts outside your entrance or garbage blowing around in the parking lot. Your hotel should look clean inside and out.
When guests come to the front desk to check-in, they are probably tired from a long day of travel. Always make sure you greet them with a friendly smile and get them their room keys as quickly as possible. Offer them a cool drink or a cup of coffee. Don't keep them waiting and don't bog them down with too much information that they can read about in their room. When a guest is treated with courtesy from the start, he or she is likely to form a positive opinion of the hotel.
You always want to give your guests the same great experience on every day of their stay. If a guest loved your hotel so much when he stayed with you in May, don't disappoint him when he comes back in October to stay with you again. In order to maintain a consistently high standard with everything from clean rooms and fresh towels to the breakfast buffet and the front desk service, you need to have a quality control plan.
Everything that needs to be done in a given day should be clearly written down. You should set up a schedule with times when the hallways need to be vacuumed, the pool cleaned and the air conditioning filters changed. Organization is important as is communication and regular meetings with your staff. Guests, particularly those who stay with you frequently, have the right to expect the same level of service every time they visit.
Be flexible and accommodating
Following policy is fine in most situations, but you should also be willing to bend the rules a little to make the customer happy. Most hotels do not let you check-in until 3:00 pm and make you check-out by 11:00 am. They do this to have time to clean the rooms and get them ready for arriving guests.
If you have empty rooms and a guest wants to check-out at 1:00 pm because his flight does not leave until 5:00 pm, let the guest stay the extra few hours.
Learn from guest comments
The best way to see what you are doing right, or what you might be doing wrong, is to ask the people who stay at your hotel. Encourage guests to write online reviews or ask them to fill out a short comment card in their room. Your front desk people should always ask departing guests how they enjoyed their stay. Use complaints as an opportunity to fix problems and make your hotel an even better place to stay.
If you want to bring more business to your hotel, follow three simple steps. Treat every guest like you would treat a member of your own family. Constantly strive to improve the service and facilities of your hotel and always keep an eye on the competition.
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Auditions for this year's HS play are this Thursday, Aug. 15, at the Fine Arts Theatre (FAT) from 3-5 PM. There are about twenty characters up for grabs, with potential room for extra ensemble parts. Directed by Ms. Tami Monsod and assisted by Daniel Toze (Grade 12), the piece will be an adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's comedy, The Inspector General.
If you intend to audition, please sign up by noon of Wednesday,Aug. 14 on the Fine and Performing Arts Bulletin Board right outside the Fine Arts Office.
It helps to be familiar with the plot and characters beforehand. We look for people who are vocally and physically expressive, as well as creative, proactive, and easy to work with.
Auditionees will be given a scenario that they will improvise with a partner or two.
Callback list should be posted by the morning break of Friday, August 16. If you are on this list (meaning we need to see more of you and is not an indication of final results), further auditions will be held that afternoon from 3-5pm. In the end, we hope to find involvement for everyone.
Oh, and please bring a pencil to auditions! See you there!
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ATHENS, Ohio -- The Ohio baseball team (15-14, 3-2 MAC) suffered two tough losses to Mid-American Conference West Division foe Central Michigan (16-14, 5-0 MAC) in a Saturday (April 8) doubleheader at Bob Wren Stadium, falling in 12 innings by a score of 6-2 in game one and then losing game two, 10-8, despite battling back from a nine-run deficit to make it a two-run ballgame heading into the bottom of the ninth.
"It was unfortunate we had the games flip-flopped today," said fifth-year head coach Rob Smith. "We pitched extremely well in game one and couldn't score, and then in game two we certainly did not pitch well at all. That's how you get swept in a doubleheader, unfortunately."
Game 1 -- Central Michigan 6, Ohio 2 (12 innings)
The Bobcats erased a two-run deficit, but Ohio was unable to cash in on two bases-loaded opportunities as the Chippewas made them pay with a four-run top of the 12th to take game one.
Senior shortstop Alex Borglin led off the contest with a home run to right for Central Michigan. The Chippewas made it a 2-0 lead in the fourth when sophomore first baseman Evan Kratt singled down the left field line and scored one out later on a double down the left field line by senior catcher Robert Greenman.
Ohio tallied runs in the home half of both the fourth and fifth innings to even the score, though. Redshirt junior designated hitter Michael Klein (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) led off with a walk and scored on a triple to center by senior second baseman Ty Black (Waynesville, Ohio) to make it a one-run game in the fourth. The Bobcats tied the contest in the ensuing frame when senior left fielder Spencer Ibarra (Fort Collins, Colo.) sent a two-out triple to center and then scored on a double by sophomore first baseman Rudy Rott (Holmen, Wis.).
Redshirt southpaw starting pitcher Gerry Salisbury (Brunswick, Ohio) provided the Bobcats with seven strong innings, allowing just two earned runs on five hits and three walks while striking out three. Senior right-handed reliever Jake Rudnicki (Toledo, Ohio) entered from the bullpen in the top of the eighth and pitched into the 12th for Ohio. He struck out seven and gave up just two hits in his first four innings of work on the mound.
Unfortunately, Ohio stranded the go-ahead run on third in the seventh, then left the bases loaded in both the ninth and 11th with opportunities for a walk-off win.
The Chippewas made Ohio pay in the top of the 12th by scoring four runs on three hits. Freshman third baseman Reed Adams led off with an infield single, advanced to second on a pinch-hit sacrifice bunt by sophomore Ty Rollin, advanced to third on a passed ball and scored the go-ahead run on a safetly squeeze that allowed sophomore second baseman Jason Sullivan to reach safely on the fielder's choice. Borglin, who had drawn a walk, and Sullivan both scored on a single to center by junior left fielder Daniel Jipping, then Jipping scored Central Michigan's final insurance run on a two-out base hit to center by Kratt.
Junior righty Colton Bradley came on to pitch in the bottom of the 12th for Central Michigan and retired Ohio in order to end the game.
Greenman led the Chippewas at the plate with a pair of doubles and drove in a run while Kratt tallied two singles, drove in a run and scored another. Jipping finished 1-for-3 with two walks, two RBIs and a run scored. Borglin homered for the first time in 2017 and drew two walks and scored two runs. Sophomore right fielder Daniel Robinson coaxed three walks.
Sophomore right-handed starting pitcher Dazon Cole gave Central Michigan 8.2 strong innings on the mound, fanning two while permitting just two earned runs on six hits and three walks. Sophomore right-hander Michael Brettell improved to 4-1 on the season after throwing two scoreless frames of relief. He struck out four while surrendering just two hits and a walk.
Rudnicki was saddled with the pitching defeat for Ohio, dropping to 0-3 on the season. He gave up three earned runs on three hits and three walks over 4.1 innings.
The Bobcats fell despite a 4-for-5 effort by Ibarra that included a triple, a walk and a run scored. He has now totaled a team-high 10 multi-hit games for the Bobcats this season, and his four hits in game one set a new career high.
Game 2 -- Central Michigan 10, Ohio 8
The Chippewas jumped on the Bobcats early with seven runs over the first two frames. Borglin drew a leadoff walk and later scored on a passed ball to give Central Michigan a 1-0 lead in the top of the first. Greenman led off the second with a home run to left. Sophomore designated hitter David Cole drew a walk, then Dazon Cole coaxed a walk one out later. Borglin followed with a single through the right side to load the bases. Sullivan lifted a sacrifice fly to left to allow David Cole to tag up and score from third to make it 3-0 in favor of the visitors. After Robinson drew a walk to reload the bases for the Chippewas, Jipping delivered a two-out grand slam to left to break the contest wide open.
Ohio broke through in the fourth when Klein hit a leadoff single through the right side and later scored on an RBI groundout by junior right fielder Tony Giannini (Carmel, Ind.), but Central Michigan answered right back with three more runs in the fifth to take a 10-1 lead. Greenman and David Cole drew back-to-back two-out walks. With both in scoring position after a single by Adams, Dazon Cole delivered a two-RBI single to right center. Adams then scored what proved to be Central Michigan's final run of the game when Dazon Cole got caught in a rundown.
The Bobcats kept plugging away, though. Ohio scored two in the sixth. Redshirt junior catcher Nick Bredeson (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) led off with a double to right center, advanced to third on a single to right by Klein and then scored on a base hit to left by Black. Klein tagged up and scored Ohio's third run of the game when Giannini lifted a sacrifice fly to center.
Ohio then struck for five runs in the seventh to make it a two-run game. Senior shortstop Tyler Finkler (Olmsted Falls, Ohio) was hit by a pitch to lead the home half of the frame off, then junior Evan Bourn (Overland Park, Kan.) drew a pinch-hit walk. Ibarra then coaxed a walk to load the bases with Bobcats. Finkler and Bourn both scored on a Central Michigan error that allowed Bredeson to reach safely. Rott then delivered a three-run blast to right -- his first homer of the season -- to cut Central Michigan's lead to 10-8.
Unfortunately for the Bobcats, freshman left-handed reliever Jake Raether and Bradley kept Ohio off of the scoreboard in the eighth and ninth, respectively, to seal the win for the Chippewas.
Freshman left-handed starting pitcher Tyler Hankins earned the win on the mound for Central Michigan despite allowing six runs -- four of which were earned -- on six hits and four walks over six frames. He struck out one. Bradley pitched a perfect ninth inning, striking out two to pick up his fifth save.
Junior southpaw starting pitcher Butch Baird (Big Prairie, Ohio) suffered his first defeat of the year, falling to 4-1 on the season. He gave up seven earned runs on four hits and four walks. He struck out one. Senior lefty Matt Mikolajczak (New Lenox, Ill.), redshirt sophomore right-hander Nick Kamrada (Grand Ledge, Mich.), senior righty Tom Colletti (Wheaton, Ill.) and redshirt junior right-hander Cory Blessing (Mayfield, Ohio) combined to toss four scoreless innings of relief.
Bredeson and Klein each recorded multi-hit games for the Bobcats. Ibarra drew three walks.
Ohio will look to get back on track when it takes on Central Michigan on Sunday (April 9) in the series finale. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET. Klein will start on the mound for the Bobcats and oppose sophomore right-hander Pat Leatherman of the Chippewas.
'Voice of the Bobcats' Russ Eisenstein will have the call on WOUB 1340 AM and online on OhioBobcats.com via Stretch Internet.
The series finale will mark another 'Sunday Funday', with all fans receiving free admission courtesy of OhioHealth. Kids will also have the opportunity to run the bases at Bob Wren Stadium following the game.


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So happy together
How is the weather
So happy together
We're happy together
~The Turtles~
A roommate can be two things: your best friend or your worst enemy. When things go bad it's quite easy to blame everything on him or her and their behavior. But could it be that simple?
Following a few simple rules will ensure you a good relationship with the person you are living with even if you will not become best friends.
1. Try to get in touch with your roommate before school begins even if you don't know him or her and try to decide together what each of you should bring. It might be hard but try to adapt to your roommate's wishes and decisions as much as you can.
2. Remember the fact that appearance might deceive you so try not to jump to a decision as soon as you see him or her!
3. Decide together about the way you would like your room to be like and try to reach an agreement about it which will be satisfying for both of you.
4. Discuss about the cleaning and about paying the bills before getting to serious conflicts and problems!
5. Create a schedule which will include the time each of you uses the kitchen, study hours, the time for baths or parties that will be OK for both of you.
6. Decide what is yours and what is his or hers before finding yourself in the situation of using their cosmetics, groceries, CDs and so on by mistake. This way you will be able to avoid pointless conflicts!
7. Keep what happens in the room confidential! You would not like everyone to know that you snore, would you?
8. Be patient about your roommate's musical taste, friends, style and behavior! Not everyone has to be a fan of your favorite band!
9. Respect your roommate's family! This way you will gain his respect and friendship and will be treated in the same way.
If it seems like it doesn't work too well, remember that friendships rarely appear that fast so just leave your roommate some time!


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It starts with wood and ends with, well, more wood.
If you're thinking "rustic" and "farmhouse" are the same thing—hold up. They're not. The latter has lots of white, shutters, and shiplap, while the former is big on woods, minimalism, and a more raw, undone feel. It's what we imagine our future mountain chalet will look like, but while we continue to dream about that (extremely) far off day, these rooms will inspire you to incorporate rustic decor into your current house. All the cozy feels!
If you've got a lot of wood going on (like a wood ceiling/beams), contrast it with stone accents. The mix of textures keeps it from feeling too monochromatic, which means your space will feel larger, lighter, and airier.
See more at Nicole Davis Interiors.
Who needs a headboard? This wood-paneled wall adds a rustic vibe to a bedroom,
and you can DIY it yourself.
See more at Sugar & Cloth.
Two of our favorite decor styles combined, and we aren't mad about it. This dining room could just as easily be in a mountain retreat as it could in a chic, LA house.
See more at Tamara Magel Interiors.
This is how you get your kids to share a room and not complain about it. TBH, we'd trade in our beds for some sweet digs like this.
See more at Erin Gates Design.
No wood? No problem. You can add rustic vibes to your room without wood-paneled anything, exposed beams, or heavy, wooden furniture with some nature-inspired wallpaper, like these bare trees.
See more at Erin Gates Design.
Though wood beams, cabinets, and floors add to this kitchen's undone feel, a more contemporary marble island dresses it up a bit. It's elegant, but still totally relaxed.
Exposed wood beams and pale wood floors make this kitchen innately rustic. Play up architectural features by keeping the rest of the room simple, but add a pop of color (like this red door), or a statement piece of art or lighting so it doesn't feel too bland.
The contrast between the rustic stonework and streamlined stainless steel appliances give this French-inspired kitchen a serious wow-factor. To maximize entertaining space, downsize an island and add a trestle table with stools.
A pine mantel frames the cozy hearth in this farmhouse living room. Along with a wooden bookcase, Windsor chairs, and tin sconces, an assortment of wicker baskets ups the home's rural charm.
This custom plank dining table echoes the wood ceiling, but the industrial-style chandelier keeps the dining room feeling a bit more formal. And can we talk about that wall of windows!?


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Lovely neighborhood situated between Bellefonte and State College near Benner Elementary School. Mixed use neighborhood made of up Condos as well as single family homes which are set on acre size lots. OpeQuon Hill is just minutes to University Park Airport. And just 10 miles to Penn State. Bellefonte Area School District and mountain views.


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This is one of the teams we'll be cheering for this season. Curtis Products. Never heard of them before but they have a website. So if you need some tubes bent give them a call. Kade's first game is Saturday. He's looking forward to it.
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This week on The Geek I/O Show, the geek io brady bunch is in full force to help celebrate CJ's birthday with our annual CAH, aka thank god my roommates aren't home. Things get crazy!! GODDAMNIT JAPAN!
We also discuss; We now have boop focus!, Knitting ball sacks, D&D humor...waka waka, The puddin pack, Alabama connections?, Bottomless Budlong, Butt insertion cards, Aftermarket sex decks, Worst blind bag ever, Neville aka "The Longbottom Bitch", Bibling into out of space, The Tuna Casserole Gang, Failed sex melons, Who is Daleca?, Brushing your teeth on stream, Dickstarter, This one is the G-A-Y-S, Everything's flopped over in his paintings and lots and lots of fruit puns!
Join us on The Geek I/O Show, won't you? I'm all out of penis cards!


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It's week 9 of the Korg and Vox giveaways! Every week from now until the 19th December, Korg and Vox will be announcing a brand new deal that will run up until midnight, Christmas Eve! So, by the 19th December you will have 11 Korg and 11 Vox deals to take advantage of!
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Infographic: Tips for composing mobile-friendly emails
Use large fonts, compose concise subject lines, and don't bury the call to action.
Your workforce may be diverse and dispersed, but your colleagues probably have at least one thing in common: heavy smartphone use.
We are increasingly tethered to the little gadgets in our pockets and purses, which serve as high-tech communication Swiss Army knives. Many conduct business exclusively on small screens. Unfortunately, companies are still struggling to perfect a mobile-first email strategy.
This issue affects more than just readability or user experience. Not prioritizing mobile design could be hurting your bottom line and hampering employee engagement. Constant Contact says, "Seventy-five percent of smartphone users are likely to delete emails that are not easily read on their mobile devices."
An infographic created by WSI and published at Social Media Today offers tips to optimize email campaigns, including these:
- Compose a concise subject line. Keep it snappy and compelling.
- Put the most important information up top. Also, use subheads and bullet points to highlight crucial points.
- Use a responsive template. There are plenty to choose from; test and tinker to see which ones work for you.
- Have clean hierarchy and design, and include white space. The aesthetics are as important as the content.
- Use larger fonts. Squinting squelches user experience.
- Incorporate a strong, clearly visible call to action. What do you want people to do? Make your CTAs pop with prominent placement.
- Test on multiple devices. Not all smartphones are created equal. Whenever possible, send test emails to people with devices of different screen sizes.
As long as email remains the preferred corporate messaging medium, mobile issues will persist. To make sure your emails have the best chance of being read by the greatest number of people, review the rest of the infographic below.
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In Constellations, March 2009, I published an introduction to Leo Strauss's 1933 letter to Karl Loewith which defends a reactionary politics against the Nazis. The ideas in this letter I suggest in this and the following post are enormously influential among the neoconservatives, particularly Straussians. They are the origin of the idea of "commander in chief power"; they are the root of the formulations by former Vice-President Cheney in his reactionary interviews this past weekend. They are relevant for understanding how the Bush administration could throw aside the Constitution and embrace torture. This essay provides context; the next shows the connections between meanings Plato taught his students, the surface of his writings, and Strauss's interpretations.
Leo Strauss and the Principles of the Right:
an Introduction to Strauss' Letter
1. The Context of the Letter
In "Why We Remain Jews," Leo Strauss recounts that when he was six years old, his family
in rural Kirchhain in Germany hosted Jewish escapees from a Russian pogrom who were
journeying to Australia.1 Mirroring his parents, Strauss imagined that no such horror could
occur in Prussia. Morally driven – seeking to check persecution of "his own" – Strauss
revered Prussian authoritarian order.
Following Prussian defeat in World War I and the November Revolution, the Weimar
republic emerged. It was unstable, threatened by the Russian Revolution and the emergence
of communism; by the suppression of a workers' uprising and the murder of Rosa Luxemburg
and Karl Liebknecht; by the growth of the right; by the political force of the reactionary lie
that the Revolution had "stabbed" the German war effort "in the back"; by inflation and the
Great Depression. Strauss admired only the Weimar response to the assassination of Walter
Rathenau, the Jewish Foreign Minister, in 1922. With the election of General von Hindenburg
as President in 1925, however, Strauss averred, everyone "with eyes to see" knew that the
democracy would fail.2
In Kirchhain, Strauss had dreamed of reading Plato and Nietzsche and becoming a rural
postman. As a student in the 1920s, his work was advised by Carl Schmitt, a German
authoritarian lawyer who became a Nazi in 1933. Martin Heidegger, "the great philosopher
of our time," mesmerized him. Inspired by his friend Jacob Klein, he found his way back to
reading the Greeks through Heidegger's analysis of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Heidegger, too,
became a Nazi. Strauss later attributed Heidegger's fascism to his notion of "resoluteness" in
his masterwork, Being and Time.3 But the reactionary implications of that book are central
to the theme of authentic "Being toward Death" realized by sacrificing oneself, in response
to the call of one's generation, as a soldier for the Fatherland ("resoluteness" is part of
this). Many leftist theorists inspired by Heidegger – Marcuse, Arendt, Tillich, and Sartre, for
example – disregarded these implications, already visible in Heidegger's reactionary activity,
for instance, in his participation in rallies for the soldier Schlagater murdered by the French
occupiers of the Ruhr, in the 1920s.
As a Jew, Strauss was forbidden from following Schmitt and Heidegger. But he was a man
of the Right. Like some other Zionists, those who admired Mussolini for instance, Strauss'
principles, as the 1933 letter relates, were "fascist, authoritarian, imperial." His letter is also a
desperate, politically foolish wish to conjure some force among the powers-that-be and other
fascist groups which could counter anti-Jewish murderousness. Nietzsche despised ordinary
people. His scorn for "the last men" who are not warriors – a theme song of European
fascism – is echoed in Strauss's contempt for the "imprescriptible rights of man." With the
racism of some Prussian Jews, his friend Karl L ¨
owith would, nonetheless respond more
sensibly: "It speaks very strongly against the 'principles' of the Right that it will, in fact, not
tolerate the spirit of science and German Jews."4
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As the letter emphasizes, Strauss was an exile, and thought of himself as a medieval man
of philosophy and science: "May my soul die the death of philosophers." Those philosophers
were Platonists. "Philosophy" was tied to reaction. He would distinguish in these writers
"exoteric" as distinct from "esoteric" meanings: a message on the surface to gull superficial
readers and another message for "careful ones."
In the United States, Strauss affirmed "the universal Anglo-Saxon empire" led by the
statesman Winston Churchill, against the "resentful German empire." He admired Churchill's
dictatorship in crisis, omitting the latter's aim to restore the House of Commons and the rule
of law. Strauss had once idolized Max Weber and still believed, with Weber, in the centrality
of great power politics. He also favored English colonialism. In this context, he briefly
affirms liberal democracy. Does this make him a democrat?
2. Today's Debate
Strauss was always on the right in American politics. With his students Robert Goldwin and
Walter Berns, he organized public policy conferences that affirmed state's rights against the
Brown v. Board of Education decision. Despite a moving argument against value-freedom
in the abstract, Strauss's most pointed example of "ss" (social science) was Kenneth and
Mamie Phipps Clark's work against discrimination cited in that decision.5 Ironically for
Strauss, their studies of black children choosing to play with white dolls – explained as
a sign of a lack of self-respect – were admirably anti-racist and rightly did not claim to
be "value-free." With Berns and Allan Bloom, Strauss supported an American "patriotism"
which included McCarthyism. Strauss also allied with Willmoore Kendall, a political scientist
with strong interests in theory, but an outspoken admirer of Franco and McCarthy. An
opponent of persecution for some, Strauss was no opponent of persecution. Writing to
Strauss, Berns describes Yale faculty members who identify Kendall and Strauss as "agents
of black reaction."6 Advising Presidential candidate Senator Charles Percy of Illinois – a
mirror of the Athenian stranger counseling Klinias in Plato's Laws – Strauss recommended
that the US be as brutal as its Soviet enemy. Even after the Cuban missile crisis, he urged
that the US should conquer Cuba as the Russians had Hungary.7
Recent controversies unknowingly revive earlier ones. In the 1980s and 1990s, Shadia
Drury, Ann Norton and Stephen Holmes would condemn the anti-liberal political impact
of Leo Strauss's students in the Reagan and first Bush administrations. Given the 2003
American aggression against Iraq, a fierce, often uninformed wave of popular condemnation
of Strauss unfolded as the inspiration of neo-conservatives in and around the George W. Bush
administration. In 2006, four defenses of Strauss appeared: Michael and Catherine Zuckert's
The Truth about Leo Strauss, Steven Smith's Reading Leo Strauss, Thomas Pangle's Leo
Strauss, and Daniel Tanguay's, Leo Strauss: an Intellectual Biography. These defenses aver
that Strauss was (almost) a constitutional democrat, an admirer of American democracy ("the
best friend liberal democracy has ever had," in Smith's words) and, for Pangle, of classical
republicanism and Socrates (Strauss never uses the term classical republicanism and speaks
of himself as Platonist).
In that same year, however, Scott Horton published a translation of Strauss' May 19, 1933
letter to L ¨
owith on the Balkinization website which produced a controversy involving some
600 comments. Though Strauss had died 28 years before, the letter had only appeared in
2001 in the third volume of Strauss's Gesammelte Schriften in German. In talks on the young
Leo Strauss published as Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile (2006), the historian Eugene
Sheppard invoked it; Nicholas Xenos, "Leo Strauss and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror"
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commented critically on it (in Sheppard's translation) in an online publication, Logos, in
2003. Strauss' letter – which openly affirms "principles of the Right – fascist, authoritarian,
imperial" – is not the product of a conservative in any meaningful sense. Against Strauss's
principles, conservatives value the rule of law based on the principle of habeas corpus: that
the doors of a court must be open to an accused person and that a prisoner must not be
tortured to gain a "confession." They criticize imperial crusades.
3. Executive Power and Constitutional Crisis
Two further issues provide context for this letter and essay. First, why was the letter published
only in German some 27 years after Strauss death? In the 1980s, Stephen Holmes taught at
Chicago; critical of Strauss, he asked Joseph Cropsey, Strauss' literary executor, if he could
look in the archive of Strauss's papers at Regenstein Library. Cropsey responded, "No. Some
of the letters might be misunderstood." As the May 1933 letter shows, however, the issue
was rather that they might be understood. Such practices have fortunately been reversed as
Nathan Tarcov replaces Cropsey as Strauss' literary executor.
Still, some letters and essays are in Cropsey's private collection. Such censorship is
unusual in academia. Its parallel is a bequest of papers to Catholic University in Washington
by the ostensibly anti-racist United Steelworkers, which had destroyed the 1949–50 minutes
of the Birmingham local. That local had cooperated with the Ku Klux Klan in attacking
majority-black locals of the Mine, Mill and Smelterworkers Union.8
Unfortunately the suppression of access to Strauss' archives has already done much to
shape the scholarly reception of Strauss' work and politics.
Second, Michael and Catharine Zuckert have recently suggested that few followers of
Strauss serve in and around the Bush administration. Instead of emphasizing supporters of
aggression and torture such as William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz or Abram Shulsky, however,
I have explored the idea of "commander in chief power." This idea emerges initially in
Carl Schmitt's "state of the exception" in which an authoritarian sovereign – a tyrant –
decides in a state of emergency.9 In Natural Right and History, Strauss criticized Locke
whose views amounted, he says, to "a joyless quest for joy." This quasi-leftist position did
not translate Schmitt's and Strauss's idiom into American English. But Robert Goldwin,
Strauss's student and conservative politician, found a better approach. In an essay on John
Locke for Strauss and Cropsey's textbook on The History of Political Philosophy, Goldwin
exaggerates Locke's notion of "prerogative" – that a "king" may set aside the law for "a
publick good" – as if Locke had been an advocate not of revolution against tyranny, but was,
somehow, a precursor of Vice-President Cheney. In the 1970s, Goldwin described himself
as a "confidante" of Donald Rumsfeld, and became an advisor to President Gerald Ford and
Chief of Staff Cheney: in 1975 and 1976, Goldwin organized political theory and public
policy luncheons at the White House for Ford and Cheney with other leading Straussians.10
The Ford administration notoriously tried to refurbish "executive power."
In 1989, Michael Malbin, a student of Walter Berns and Strauss, wrote the House Minority
Report on Iran-Contra for then minority leader Cheney. Malbin invokes the ideas of Gary
Schmitt on unbridled "executive power" in crises who learned them from Herbert Storing,
his teacher and one of Strauss's first students. Using cases in constitutional law arising from
Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War and Roosevelt's confining of
Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during World War II, Storing translated Strauss
and Schmitt into the idiom of "executive power."11 Wolfowitz's student at Yale, I. Lewis
Libby was special assistant to Vice-President Cheney and a prime culprit in lying about
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Iraq before his recent conviction. Cheney has thus sought out Straussian counsel for the
past 35 years. The energy in tyrannical policies is Cheney's, but the ideas of "prerogative"
and "executive power" are Straussian. Schmitt and Strauss are no longer writing, but to
paraphrase John Maynard Keynes, the words of dead theorists are on the lips of today's neo-
conservative – more aptly, tyrannical – politicians and at the center of today's constitutional
1. Kenneth Green ed., Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity (New York: State Univeristy
of New York, 1997), 312–13.
2. Leo Strauss, Preface to Spinoza's Critique of Religion (New York: Schocken, 1965), 1.
3. Leo Strauss, "A Giving of Accounts" in Green, Jewish Philosophy, 461.
owith to Strauss, 28 May, 1933, Gesammelte Schriften, ed. (Heinrich and Wiebke Meier, Stuttgart:
Metzler, 2001), 626.
5. Strauss to Robert Goldwin, 24 Dec., 1960, 13 Feb., 1961, Box 5, Folder 10, Regenstein Library,
special collections, University of Chicago.
6. Walter Berns to Strauss, New Haven, CN, 25 Feb., 1957, Box 1, Folder 6, ibid. Strauss did support
George Anastaplo, his student, who refused to take a "Loyalty Oath" for the Illinois Bar.
7. Strauss to Percy, 12 Feb., 1963, Box 5, Folder 11, ibid.
8. I am endebted to Michael Goldfield for this comparison.
9. See Alan Gilbert, "Enmity and Tyranny," in American Conservatism, Nomos, Sanford Levinson
and Melissa Williams, eds. (New York: New York University Press, forthcoming 2009).
10. Goldwin, description of his papers, Gerald Ford Archive, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
11. Storing, "The Presidency and the Constitution," in Toward a More Perfect Union, ed. Herbert
Storing and Joseph Bessette, (American Enterprise Institute Press, 1995).
Alan Gilbert is John Evans Professor of International Studies at the University of Denver. He
is the author of Democratic Individuality (1990), Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy?
(1999) and Emancipation and Independence (2009 forthcoming).
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Fascia is a web-like system in our body that runs head to toe without interruption. It is a tough connective tissue that supports our entire being. Fascia restrictions can act as a "straight jacket" causing pain and limited range of motion.
Myofascial Release (MFR) is a highly effective, full body approach, with stretches and compressions, applied with gentle pressure, that are held until the restriction releases. Since MFR looks to the entire body for its answers, many physical and emotional ailments can be addressed. Many people have already experienced the benefits of reducing or eliminating:


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Tere . Olen Celine ehk Cällu .Sinu enda valik on mis sa paned mulle siia hindeks . Ma kkuulan neid ::
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Mika - Rain .
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[Chorus - Hayley Williams]
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
[Verse 1 - B.o.B]
I could use a dream or a genie or a wish
To go back to a place much simpler than this
Cause after all the partyin' and smashin' and crashin'
And all the glitz and the glam and the fashion
And all the pandemonium and all the madness
There comes a time where you fade to the blackness
And when you're staring at that phone in your lap
And you hoping but them people never call you back
But that's just how the story unfolds
You get another hand soon after you fold
And when your plans unravel
And they sayin' what would you wish for
If you had one chance
So airplane airplane sorry I'm late
I'm on my way so don't close that gate
If I don't make that then I'll switch my flight
And I'll be right back at it by the end of the night
[Chorus - Hayley Williams]
[Verse 2 - B.o.B]
Somebody take me back to the days
Before this was a job, before I got paid
Before it ever mattered what I had in my bank
Yeah back when I was tryin' to get a tip at subway
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And back when I was rappin' for the hell of it
But now a days we rappin' to stay relevant
I'm guessin that if we can make some wishes outta airplanes
Then maybe yo maybe I'll go back to the days
Before the politics that we call the rap game
And back when ain't nobody listened to my mix tape
And back before I tried to cover up my slang
But this is for Decatur, what's up Bobby Ray
So can I get a wish to end the politics
And get back to the music that started this sh-t
So here I stand and then again I say
I'm hopin' we can make some wishes outta airplanes
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Vegetative propagation or asexual propagation is the method of reproducing plants with the use of organs other than the seed and spore. In contrast to sexual propagation, the union of the male and female sexual gametes (fertilization) is not a requisite to the production of new plants. Hence the word "asexual", which means "without sex" or "not sexual".
The word 'vegetative' refers to plant organs with the exception of the reproductive parts. In conventional propagation without the employment of tissue culture techniques, asexual propagation is accomplished with the use of roots, stems, and leaves.
They consist of body or somatic cells which are formed through mitosis, the type of cell division which produces daughter cells with identical chromosomes as the parent cell. Consequently, the new plants develop directly from any of these parts without undergoing fertilization or union of male and female gametes. Other naturally formed plant organs which are considered vegetatively produced are likewise used.
Vegetative propagation allows the production of clones or plants which are considered "duplicates" of the parent plants genotypically, and desirably also phenotypically. It is also convenient where a plant does not produce seeds, the seeds are sterile, or whenever seeds are not available. Through marcotting, budding and grafting, new plants can be produced which are readily mature or with shortened maturity.
There are two methods of propagating plants vegetatively: natural and artificial. The natural method of vegetative propagation utilizes plant organs other than the seed and spore which, even without the involvement of man, serve as plants' means of perpetuating their species. These plant organs include the: bulbs and bulblets, cloves, corms and cormels, tubers and tubercles, tuberous roots, rhizomes, runners, stolons, slips, suckers, crown and plantlets.
These plant organs can be used deliberately as they are, without significant changes, in plant propagation as planting materials or propagules. To use them, they are separated from the parent plant in which case the propagation method is also called division or separation.
In contrast, the artificial method of vegetative propagation involves drastic manipulation of plant parts. Without man's active participation, they would not give rise naturally to new plants. This method includes the use of root, stem and leaf cuttings, layering (including marcotting) and the application of special techniques such as budding and grafting mainly to produce desirable clones with seed-grown rootstocks.
The use of vegetative parts in plant propagation has its basis in the concept of totipotency which means that cells are capable of regeneration and developing into entire plants.
Bulb and bulblet - onion (Allium cepa) and other members of the Lily family, tulip (Tulipa spp.)
Clove - garlic (Allium sativum)
Corm and cormel - Canna spp., gabi or taro (Colocasia esculentum), elephant's ear (Alocasia macorrhiza), gladiolus (Gladiolus sp.), tannia (Xanthosoma sagitifolium)
Plantlet or keiki - Anthurium spp., Phalaenopsis orchid, spider plant (Chlorophytum capense)
Rhizome - bamboo, begonia (Begonia spp.), calla lily (Zantedeschia sp), ginger (Zingiber officinale), turmeric (Curcuma longa)
Runner - spider plant (Chlorophytum capense), strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa)
Slip - pineapple (Ananas comosus) and other members of the Bromyliad family
Sucker - abaca (Musa textile), banana (Musa spp.), pineapple and other bromyliads
Stolon - bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon), mint (Mentha spp.), Stachys spp., strawberry geranium (Saxifraga stolonifera), zoysia grass (Zoysia spp.)
Tuber and Tubercle - Potato (Solanum tuberosum), Caladium spp., Calathea spp., Helianthus spp., yams (Dioscorea spp.)
Tuberous root - arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea), cassava (Manihot esculenta), sweet potato (Ipomea batatas), yam bean (Pacchirhizus erosus).
(Click here to read how the Starchy Root Crops, Tuber Crops and Corm Crops are distinguished)
HARTMANN HT, KESTER DE. 1975. Plant Propagation: Principles and Practices. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc. p. 469-474.
KAWAKAMI K. 1978. Physiology of yield of underground storage organs. In: Gupta US, ed. Crop Physiology. New Delhi, India: Oxford & IBH Pub. Co. p. 269-309.
(Ben G. Bareja 2010)
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I studied computer science, so now I apply it everywhere, even to this blog.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
When I met you, Cristina
Cover power is show on VH1 that plays the original version of a song and then a cover of it. Sometimes a cover is decent, sometimes is lame and rarely is very good. But what I discovered a few days ago starting from a song I heard on the radio is totally unexpected: two different covers of a song from a different league. Here it is the original style (I couldn't find the actual original which I understand is from Azur band, more than 20 years old):
and two covers:
and two covers:
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Domino... just a thought
Ok, I know that physics, computer science, economics are hard to digest even in blog posts, so I will postpone the post I planned to write today about mathematics in the economics science. I will also skip the analysis of the depressing theater play Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf? that I saw recently (it's a nice performance the one at Comedy Theater though, don't miss it if you are in Bucharest) and I'll go back to music for an easy week-end brunch. My main source of music is the radio, but there were some mutations in the waves recently. One morning I turned on the City FM frequency and I was in shock of the music I heard. It wasn't my sleepiness, there was another radio on this frequency, Click FM. I changed the frequency immediately, so I cannot tell you if they have a girl at five minutes past the hour like in the corresponding tabloid, but the result is that my selection of radio stations is reduced now to two (since the crisis is alive and well): Radio Guerrilla and Rock FM. And since some lame jokes in a morning on Guerrilla, I listened in the last couple of weeks only Rock FM. And that is just fine, but the downside is that they play mostly classic rock, so I don't get to know of any new music. But this morning I switched back to Guerrilla and in only a couple of minutes I heard two nice new songs which happen also to be from Romanian bands. Here they are Toulouse Lautrec with Domino:
and Luna Amara with Doar Gandul (there are some problems with the voice in this recording, but the I think the sound of this song is nice):
and Luna Amara with Doar Gandul (there are some problems with the voice in this recording, but the I think the sound of this song is nice):
Friday, October 21, 2011
Back to school
For the fall semester I enrolled in an online class of artificial intelligence taught in parallel with the live class offered at Stanford University. I have about 170.000 classmates and some 46.000 of them are even doing homework and taking exams. So far it's fine, as they don't just put online video recordings of the live class, but prepare special videos and quizzes in an effort to make it interactive and have you thinking into the subject even at late night hours. I'm doing all this effort mainly for my laptop, I expect that by the end of the class the machine will become much smarter and it will be able to answer the quizzes by itself :)
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Another type of marketing
In my opinion, consumerism is one of the main factors which took us in the double crisis where we stand today: economical and environmental. Did you ever hear about a company which told you that you should buy their stuff only if you really need it?! And that takes a pledge to design and manufacture their products so that they last for a long time (as opposed to those who design products so that in 2-3 years they feel out of fashion)? That encourages you so sell or donate their used products on eBay if you no longer need them (thus cannibalizing some of their sales)? That, although not forced by some law, takes back their products that cannot be used anymore for recycling? That donate 1% of their sales to environmental projects? How is that for a business plan? Do you think is doable? Well, here, at Common Threads Initiative (I wonder if they got the idea from the "thread pool" concept of efficiently utilizing system threads for computing :) ) they think they can. Let's wish them good luck!
Friday, October 14, 2011
Zero impartit la trei
Mi-a povestit ieri un coleg ca a auzit urmatorul concurs la Radio Zu.
Cat fac zero impartit la trei?
Primul ascultator: zero
B&M: gresit
Al doilea ascultator: zero
B&M: gresit
Al treilea ascultator: aceasta operatie e imposibil de facut!
B&M: corect, ai castigat!
Intr-adevar, zero nu se poate imparti la trei... prosti :)
Cat fac zero impartit la trei?
Primul ascultator: zero
B&M: gresit
Al doilea ascultator: zero
B&M: gresit
Al treilea ascultator: aceasta operatie e imposibil de facut!
B&M: corect, ai castigat!
Intr-adevar, zero nu se poate imparti la trei... prosti :)
Monday, October 10, 2011
Un alt fel de cover: asa e in tenis
Ca tot am vorbit in postarea anterioare de publicitate si cover-uri, iata un altfel de cover pe care l-am vazut recent la turneul de tenis Bucuresti Open:
Macar asta e ceva mai distractiv fata de "maximienii" cu care ne toaca Vodafone de luni si luni de zile. Aveti aici si originalul pentru comparatie si aducere aminte:
Nu ca m-am intersectat eu prea mult cu maestrul Toma (pot sa spun ca am fost contemporani doar pentru vreo doua luni...), dar am crescut cu o caseta cu scheciurile sale pe care le stiam pe de rost: Fabula, Mefisto, Un telefon discret, Petrecerea continua.
Macar asta e ceva mai distractiv fata de "maximienii" cu care ne toaca Vodafone de luni si luni de zile. Aveti aici si originalul pentru comparatie si aducere aminte:
Nu ca m-am intersectat eu prea mult cu maestrul Toma (pot sa spun ca am fost contemporani doar pentru vreo doua luni...), dar am crescut cu o caseta cu scheciurile sale pe care le stiam pe de rost: Fabula, Mefisto, Un telefon discret, Petrecerea continua.
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Another type of advertising
Movie trailers are just another type of advertising. Here's a nice one that I saw today, with an incredible cover of Immigrant Song of Led Zeppelin. I thought first that this was a teaser for the next Bond, since Daniel Craig is starring, but in the end it's another movie, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo:
P.S. Even with a good advertising, I won't necessarily buy the product, let's see the IMDB ratings first :)
P.S. Even with a good advertising, I won't necessarily buy the product, let's see the IMDB ratings first :)
Thursday, October 06, 2011
The beauty of computers
What can be beautiful in can of silicon and wires and which also usually contains lots of bugs? Knuth entitled his famous books "The Art of Computer Programming" because he considered that computer programming cannot be considered yet a science, but it's rather a craftsmanship. All software licensees have a part where it is stated that the particular software is not "fit for a particular purpose" (see for example Mozilla Public License, section 7 here). The best joke about software engineers is the one where all kind of engineers try to fix a car and the software guy proposes that all step out of the car, get back in and try to start it again. This is how much the programmers trust their work! So in this wonderful (i.e. full of unanswered questions) industry of computers there was a man who maybe thought: we may not be able to do it right, but at least let's make it beautiful. And he did it time and again: from the calligraphic fonts that he introduced on computers, the mouse and the careful researched user interfaces, to the overall design of all Apple products. Then Bill Gates copied some of his ideas and Google guys were probably inspired by him when they designed their user interface. If so many people still use these beasts called computers and don't totally hate us for it, it is in part due to the work of Steve Jobs, who for sure will be remembered for a long time.
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Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Why I'm not a physicist but I still read physiscs books
Although I participated in physics contests in secondary school, I was not really into it until I started high-school where, at physics, Mr. Bararu was the best professor I ever had. He was funny, but also inspiring and his teaching methods (e.g. open books exams, grading by the Gaussian curve) were revolutionary at that time. He tried hard to lure us into physics, as there was already a mathematics gang in the class (as the contests in math start much earlier, in the fourth grade as opposed to those in physics which start in seventh grade) and on the other hand we were a computer science intensive class. I still remember his arguments that we study math in order to apply it in physics and that chemistry it's just about mixing stuff and checking its color and smell. All went very well until one day he tried to solve a problem in front of us and he just failed. He put all the forces in the described situation, did the computation, but the result was different than the one in the book. Then he tried some different settings of forces until he found one that matched the expected result. That was really odd for me, as I was used to the way of solving problems logically, starting from premises and applying different logical techniques to reach the conclusion. That annoyed me so much that I gradually started loosing interest and by the eleventh grade I didn't even go to physics contests anymore. I was back to mathematics just in time for the highly abstract algebra with groups, rings and corps which I liked most. Only much later on when I read the Objective Knowledge of Sir Karl Popper I fully realized how physics works, how we are constantly make educated guesses (i.e. theories) so that they fit our observations of the surroundings as much as possible. On the other hand, the reality around us is so complex to describe that one needs to use highly simplified models to ever compute something about it. So if mathematics is the poetry of science, the physicists are the story tellers that describe what happens around us. And these stories of big bang, black holes, curved space-time, vibrating strings and quanta are always fascinating me. So here I am again, this time with a book that tells the story of quantum mechanics theory, the building blocks which led to it and its huge impact on our civilization: In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin. The story telling of this author is good, with the drama of various people involved and their struggle to get a grip on this weird phenomena they were unfolding. Quantum mechanics is still a mister as the given interpretations are far away from what we normally expect from the world to behave like, but that's all we have for now: a grand casino where at every point in space and time dice are rolled to determine the next step. You just have to play the game!
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Computer science on paper
Blogger changed its interface and templates and when I tried to migrate I lost some of the settings I had on the old one, so I decided to use a new template. The new one it's a tribute to the good old days when we did computer science on paper. You just had to think carefully on the algorithm, write it down on paper, run it in your head again and then eventually get your turn to work on a computer to implement it (punch card or even keyboard version cause we were kind of short on computers). I think that being able to write down the algorithm and run through it really makes one understand it better, so actually in the year when I was a teaching assistant at University of Bucharest I asked many of my students to explain a few steps of their basic algorithms (back-tracking, divide et impera and the like) on paper in order to make sure they understood them and didn't just copy the project from a coleague. Some of them even liked it :)
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Economic Downturn has the world in a buzz. Where are they buzzing? The numbers are clear, to keep the economy moving and engaged, they are returning to and joining new networks. LinkedIn experienced a 25% percent membership increase since September alone. The question of whether that is simply the cast offs resulting from financial markets failure or whether they suddenly hit their tipping point remains to be seen. Given that other networks (both virtual and face to face) seem to be experiencing similar gains. Facebook is increasing by over 10 million users a month.
What is drawing people in (connecting, job hunting, entertainment, reconnecting, building businesses, knowledge sharing,…)? Whatever the cause it is encouraging. I plan to explore the impact further. We must invest further both in time and money in networks. We know they build strength in communities through knowledge sharing and simplifying connection. But it is important to recognise the implications of obtaining new clients, build professional skills and personal skills, connecting to new distributors, channels and markets, creating a sense of community that increases satisfaction, exposing us to new ideas and approaches, and more.


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Three games, three very different outcomes. Let's take it chronologically.
Fulham 0 - 0 Tottenham Hotspur
Widely derided as a boring match in some circles, this FA Cup 6th round tie was in fact somewhat mesmerising to watch from the stands. It was like two boxers constantly testing each other without throwing a knockout punch. What stood out was how quiet the in-form Pavlechenko was kept by Fulham back line and how ineffective Spurs' long balls to Crouch were during this game. The stand out man of the match was Gareth Bale who was constantly rampaging down the left wing and causing all kinds of problems for Duff and Baird. His pushing forward somewhat cancelled out the attacking threat from both winger and full back on the right to impressive effect. Despite no real dangers for goalkeepers, Fulham nearly snatched it at the end when a Spurs player, possibly Corluka, shinned the ball out of play, but it could just of easily snuck in the goal via the inside of the post. A close shave for Spurs, who will be looking to press their home superiority tonight in the replay.
One thing I did learn from this game is that when someone manages to put the ball over the Riverside Stand, the scoreboard flickers with an animation of a ball hitting the river, which was quite amusing.
Fulham 4 - 1 Juventus
An early kick off means that there were a lot of late bodies coming in when Juventus scored. Col and I had only just sat down when the ball fell kindly for Trezeguet to stroke into the corner, although he only had so much room because he had tripped Hughes up earlier in the move after a failed attempt at a bicycle kick. The goal cancelled out Etuhu's away goal and meant the slightly possible 2-0 victory needed to take Fulham through had stretched to a need to score three just to stay in it.
I must say that the instant response from Fulham fans was one to be totally commended. They just said 'fuck it' and doubled the volume of their support for the home side, which continued throughout the 90 minutes, bolstered by the timing of Fulham's goals. Ish then appeared and although he'd only missed two minutes, he had been unaware of the Juve goal.
Despite the early setback, the whites were having some success against the gold livered Juve team and it wasn't long before Bobby Z expertly pulled down a cross from Konchesky and, with Cannavaro on the floor, took time to power it past the reserve reserve keeper. At this point if the game had finished 1-1, I think most Fulham fans would have been satisfied at holding the old lady to a respectable draw. Certainly none of them could have expected what happened next.
The 'agricultural' Italian way of defending had been glimpsed in the first leg with the Juve defenders each having two fists full of opposition shirt at every free kick and corner and it was this approach to defending which proved the team's downfall. Gera had struggled to shake off Cannavaro's WWE moves and when Bobby played a pass through for him, he went down pretty softly to emphasise that he was being held. From the Hammy End it looked like a straight red for a professional foul, but on TV it doesn't look so cut and dried. However the ref got out the red and Juve were down to ten. It was like the bad luck in the two games against Roma had finally been repaid. Chimenti's save from Bobby's resultant free kick looked like the save of the season from the Hammy End, but we couldn't see the little Italian keeper stood in the perfect position behind the defensive wall so when this arm shot up to stop the ball going into the top corner we were somewhat surprised.
It didn't matter. A lovely flowing move between Konchesky, Zamora and Davies saw Gera sidefoot the ball into the top of the net from a few yards out and pandemonium broke out in the Hammy End. Fans were running up and down the aisles and jumping up in glee. Fulham were beating Juventus! Who thought that would have happened.
It kept getting better. I didn't see the incident which the ref gave the penalty, but it was at the end of another nice flowing Fulham move (in fact the night was full of them). Gera confidently picked up the ball (despite the hovering Bobby Z) and dispatched it into the net, complete with somersault celebration, to bring the game level on aggregate. There was still 40 minutes left. Fulham kept going for it, but Juve were more or less a spent force.
Midway through the second half there was a bit of a lull and Hodgson made the masterstroke of bringing Dempsey on for the pretty solid Kelly. We all assumed that this meant that Baird would revert to right back, but the Irish man was having such a stellar game in the middle of the park that Hodgson instead switched Davies to right back with Gera moved to the left. As no Juventus players were attacking down the left, it essentially meant that Fulham had two right wingers who ripped up that side of the pitch. It was the runs from these guys that gave Dempsey a little room on the edge of the box to float one in. Initially I though what a terrible waste of a cross, then I started to appreciate the parabola the ball was on. Before we knew it the ball had dropped in and the whole surreal event went even crazier!
Then, for the first time, things got tense. A Juve goal would effectively put Fulham out, so things got a bit cautious and there were a few iffy moments down the other end of the pitch. But then the added time was announced at Juve had another player sent off and the rest of the game was quite comfortable after that.
I've been to some crazy matches in my life. Forest 1 - 8 Man United, the very last FA Cup semi final replay between United and Arsenal which had a sending off, last minute penalty save and 'that' Giggs goal and even this season's first Manchester derby, but this game was up there. Breathtaking and well deserved. I've never had quite so many texts from friends about Fulham as during that match. It certainly gripped the nation - just a shame that it was on ESPN rather than free to air.
Fulham 1 - 2 Manchester City
This was the fourth consecutive time I've seen this fixture and I've yet to see Fulham win. They only seem to beat City on their own turf, to spectacular effect. Anyway, this was one of the flattest games I've been to for a while. All the nervous energy from the Juve game had been exhausted and it felt like the fans and the players were going through the motions.
Another soft penalty was despatched by the underwhelming Danny Murphy (who in fairness had Barry shadowing him all over the pitch) and suddenly Fulham were back in it and had a chance to snatch a probably undeserved point. Okaka's energy almost saw him power home from a wide angle, but instead he shanked it wide and a better shout for a second penalty was turned down flat, but City had the better chances to score a third in fairness. Etuhu has finally played himself into some form and was the best Fulham player by a mile on the day, effectively countering all of teflon Patrick Viera's manoeuvres, but it was another shakey game at right back for Chris Baird. Perhaps it is time to give Kelly another bite and being first cover of Paintsil. Baird's fair better utilised in midfield these days.
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Saturday, 6 March 2010
Fulham 2 - 1 Birmingham City
They have been putting noses out of joint around the country and were strongly favoured to get something from the banks of the Thames, especially after Chris Baird's bizarre own goal. You could say he was slightly unsighted as the ball dropped past Hughes, but he really wasn't under any pressure. Certainly not enough to knock it emphatically past Schwarzer at any rate. At least he didn't let it affect the rest of his game - Baird had another stormer at right back.
At least if you're going to concede you may as well do it early, and Fulham had 87 minutes left to get into the game. The fact that they did in the second half is typical of the team this season. I was impressed by the Hammy End in this game. Hughes loses a boot and suddenly the Aaron Hughes chant (which I'd not heard before) becomes Aaron Shoes. Still bootless, he then clears a Birmingham attack for a corner, prompting a blast of 'one shoe - he only needs one shoe...' Great fun and exactly the sort of thing that the Hammy End has lacked in previous seasons.
Second half and the screw turns and some smart passing saw Duff run across the edge of the area and unleash a guided missile past Joe Hart's far post. Unexpected, but a wonderful goal to add to the Duffer's tally. Once again I had a correct 'first goalscorer' bet. Fortunately own goals do not count.
As time was running out, I mentioned how Fulham aren't really a team that scores late winners; the only late goal I remember off the top of my head was Dio's equaliser against Spurs. Anyway, once again Bobby Z shut me up with a free kick eerily reminiscent of his winner against Burnley. Up the football league they go.
The day before this game I was given free tickets to watch Arsenal v Sunderland. I've not been that bored during a match for some time. Give me the Cottage any day.
Today marks a remarkable month for Fulham after an unbeaten February. Spurs, Juventus, Man United, Juventus, Man City topped off with (hopefully) an away win at Hull City. Jarrod has chosen a bad time to return to Australia, even if it is his brother's wedding.
I'm not in London FA Cup Semi Final week, but I'm there today hoping they can stick it to the Spurs.
Attendance: Andy & Kat
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There's something always waiting to be created (AKA: what I learned when I went for a walk).
Emptiness is scary as hell. It's a seemingly endless void with nothing but room for doubt, criticism, overthinking, and one giant obstacle that we can't see. Emptiness can also be a sign of starting over — all of the grounding you've had with past projects was great until it catapulted you off a cliff which might be workable if you could even see the ground. It's terrifying.
There are going to be many many times in our lives where we feel this emptiness, this pit in our stomach reminding us that we're continuously in a countdown to our imminent deaths. At least that's how it feels to me. A little dramatic, yes, but real all the same. One thing that I have to face constantly is waiting too long to create something in fear that it's not perfect. Emptiness is the perfect canvas for everything that we don't attempt and I had time to think about this when I decided to go on a walk...It started with taking a picture...
I first saw these two blocks and I loved how they were predominant and stoic against a deserted background as if they were guarding a sacred space. The empty background started to have context. It just needed one element to fixate on. There was a start. I continued walking and took more pictures.
There's a lot beauty in unseen places and this applies to emptiness too. Space is still scary, but it's also a catalyst. And doing one thing can make all the difference in how you can view it. There's a fine balance of creating with intention and creating to create and it all comes down to being consistent. Creating something is one step closer to creating something you like. Use space and emptiness to your advantage, see it as an opportunity to take a risk. For me, it's this blog. I will be writing and posting every week. Creating something consistently takes time and practice, sometimes by kicking and screaming, but we get there. In the end, emptiness is always there, but it won't carry the same weight over us. It'll be nothing more than a canvas to paint with.


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After our first three months of traveling in Southeast Asia and working from the road, we're looking back on our experiences so far. Our travels have taken us to Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia, with highlights like housesitting, a yoga retreat, and a little-visited Thai island.
Becoming "Digital Nomads:" Why We Quit Our Jobs to Travel
We finally took the leap and left our jobs, apartment, and life in the U.S. to travel abroad and work as freelancers. Here's the story of why we made this lifestyle change and how we're starting our new lives as digital nomads in Thailand.
Travel Resolutions You'll Actually Keep
Make 2017 the year you stick to your New Year's resolutions! Instead of setting lofty, impossible goals, try one of these totally feasible travel resolutions that will actually be fun to keep.
The Top 6 New Travel Blogs + an Award for Us!
We're honored to accept a Liebster Award for Passions and Places! Read on to learn a bit more about us and discover some more great new travel blogs.
Deserts, Mountains, Islands: Our Dream Destinations (part 2)
We have a world map with ten pins for the places we most want to visit. Ryan's top countries range from somewhat conventional to not at all, but they all promise great adventure.
Adventure, Culture, Beaches: Our Dream Destinations (part 1)
The world map in our living room has pins for the top ten countries we want to visit. One thing Jen's top choices have in common? They're all off the beaten path.
What happens when two avid travelers buy a map together?
We just wanted to buy a map, but it opened up a bigger conversation about how we organize memories of past experiences & think about goals for the future.
Travel-Inspired Resolutions for 2016
Even if a round-the-world trip isn't in the cards this year, we hope you'll still be seeking adventure in 2016. Our New Year's resolutions are inspired by travel, but feasible for everyone.
Things We Did, Saw, Learned, & Loved in 2015 (part 2)
From kayaking to running to motorcycle riding and more, Ryan looks back on his most meaningful memories and top lessons learned in 2015.
Things We Did, Saw, Learned, & Loved in 2015 (part 1)
In looking back at 2015, Jen reflects on her favorite travel moments and other most meaningful experiences from the year, plus what she learned from them.