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Nolan recently spoke to IGN for an exclusive phone interview about The Prestige. In addition to discussing his expanding profile as a filmmaker of note, Nolan talked about tackling magic - movie or otherwise - on the silver screen, and described his own challenges meeting the expectations of a demanding public while keeping true to his own creative vision.
IGN DVD: After the movie was released there was a lot of discussion among viewers about how quickly people "figured out" the plot. How much did you design this film to be a mystery that unravels, and how much does it just play to the line in the film that the idea is not to deceive but make the audience complicit in an illusion?
Christopher Nolan: It's very much a film that is defined be the viewer's response to it, which I like material like that anyway, but it's really the extreme of that because different people figure things out at different times as they watch the movie. There isn't a unified response, and to me that was always an interesting thing because that is very much the way magic works - magic depends on the way people watch things, and this film highlights and deconstructs the way in which people watch movies. It's very sort of concerned with that. So it was always my intention to play with those ideas, and there are a lot of surprising things that happened in the movie that most people don't see coming or look at the first time around, but at the same time whenever you put something in front of people and tell them it's playing tricks, you're inviting close scrutiny, so for some people there are a lot of very obvious and clear clues to things in the movie. Certainly the movie is constructed so that if anyone is interested to watch it a second time, they realize we've played very very fair with the audience in terms of providing all of the necessary information to work out what's going on.
IGN: How tough was it to create illusions in the movie that would photograph well and yet not look like typical "special effects" you might see in any other movie?
Nolan: Well a lot of what we did in terms of presenting magic in the film was to get the actors up to speed with magic so they could do their own small-scale illusions, the little prestidigitation or the little moves they could do with their hands - things they could make appear or disappear and so forth. With anything bigger than that, we actually quite purposefully put cuts in all of the wrong places, if you will; we allowed people to dismiss as camera trickery what illusions are presented on stage because that's not really the concern of the film. The fun of the film is that we engage and involve the audience in how those things are done, and we give away plenty of our tricks in that regard. But at the same time, the actual elements of magic and trickery that are most important in the film are actually in the narrative of the movie itself, and the script therefore was always constructed according to the principles of the way a magic trick is constructed.
IGN: Does that carry over when you're considering what will be on the DVD - how much to show and how much to keep "secret"?
Nolan: It definitely did, and there were certain things that we considered putting on the DVD that at the last minute we changed our minds because there are things that you want to reveal. I believe actually there are certain aspects of filmmaking that should be hid from the audiences - that revealing too much of how illusion is put together I think damages the appeal of those illusions ultimately.
IGN: It seems like there is this mentality now that all of the movie magic must be deconstructed or explained. Is that something you're trying to counter in general?
Nolan: I think that for me there is generally a sense in which too much of filmmaking is demystified - we know too much about the movie stars in their life, we know too much about how movies are made to some degree. I have a fascinating book that someone gave me about matte paintings, glass paintings and the film history of that, and when you look back it's sort of extraordinary to realize that when those guys were first working on sets they worked inside tents so that no one could see what they were doing even among the crew. Their art was as with magicians considered a mystery, something that people shouldn't know how it was done. I think there is a great appeal to that - there's a very important sense in which the way in which things are constructed should be left mysterious.
IGN: Is that at all why you decided not to do a commentary track for the DVD, or was that a matter of timing?
Nolan: It's both, really. There are two things behind the [recording] of a commentary: because of the lead times on producing elements, you are often asked to do a commentary before the film has been released, and particularly with this film, the film is all about audience response and you're not really qualified on what the film is until the audience has contributed to that. Also, from a point of view of not wanting to demystify the story we created too much, I really didn't feel it was appropriate to do one on this movie. I've done them sometimes and I've not done them sometimes and it's always for different reasons.
IGN: How involved are you in the production of the special features? Do they bring you ideas to approve, or are you involved from the conception stage?
Nolan: It's different on different projects, and on this I very much liked the direction they were going in and I let them kind of do their thing and then looked at stuff for approval. I was involved with various decisions related to what went on and what didn't, but it was interesting to watch someone kind of have fun with what we'd done. There are other DVDs where I've been intensely involved with it, and some less so; it's different in every situation and in the case of this film I was certainly involved, but a lot of other people's imaginations went into what it would be and that was actually very exciting to be a part of.


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Is Caterpillar a Good Investment?CAT) announced first quarter ended March 31, 2016 total revenue of $643 million, down 7 percent year-over-year from $689 million during the same period last year. Going forward, Caterpillar has provided sales and revenue guidance for the complete fiscal year 2016 and estimates it to be in $40 billion to $42 billion range.
Suffering weakness
Caterpillar declared first quarter of 2016 profit of $100, down 25 percent year-over-year from $133 in first quarter of 2015. Moving ahead, adjusted profit outlook for 2016 is estimated to be about $3.70 per share.
The farm and construction machinery manufacturer and distributor reported continued year-over-year decline in both its top and bottom lines mainly due to nearly $23 million of unfavorable effects from weaker average returning assets and about $13 million of unfavorable effects from weaker financing rates on an average.
Caterpillar declared $9.461 billion of net sales and revenue for first quarter of 2016, down 26 percent year-over-year from $12.702 billion during the same period last year and mainly due to weaker sales volume comprising of lower sales for both aftermarket parts and new equipment operating segments along with unfavorable currency translations and price realization.
The key mining equipment manufacturing company reported first quarter of 2016 operating profit of $494 million, down 71 percent year-over-year from $1.702 billion of operating profit during the same period last year and primarily driven by weaker sales volume that includes poor products mix, arising from ongoing weaker global commodity demand and pricing environment coupled with unfavorable restructuring costs and weak price realizations.
Caterpillar continued to deliver weaker year-over-year top line and bottom line results for the quarter primarily due to unfavorable foreign currency translations and weaker global commodity demand and pricing environment, eating into the company's key margins and forcing it to adopt strategic restructuring operations.
What next?
The planned acquisition of Bucyrus in 2016 converged well with Caterpillar's global expansion strategy coupled with its aggressive addition of manufacturing plants all through the international markets to seize the expanding construction machinery demand. However, these growth plans suffered a setback with the return of international slowdown in commodity demand and pricing environment, negatively impacting the company's key margins and forcing it to seize all growth operations while adopting key restructuring plans.
Moving ahead, the global weakness in oil prices are believed to poorly effect reciprocating engine sales in construction, transportation and energy industries' key sales across oil-producing nations all through the globe. The unfavorable impact of the strengthening US dollar on sales external to the US, poor mining sales and weaker sales in Caterpillar's rail business, particularly for locomotives along with weaker sales across China, mainly for construction kits.
Caterpillar is expected to have made significant growth investments at an accelerated pace including, both inorganic expansion efforts and through continuing operations which is believed to put downward pressure on the company finances while restricting it to offer shareholder returns.
The key mining equipment manufacturer has contributed approximately $367 million of smaller period expenses during the first quarter of 2016 by strategically executing restructuring efforts declared last September which has primarily allowed Caterpillar to uniquely invest into research and product development activities.
Overall, the investors are advised to "Hold" their position in Caterpillar Inc. considering the company's satisfactory long-term growth prospects but, currently weaker financial position with notable total debt of $38.37 billion against weaker total cash position of $4.74 billion only, restricting the company to continue with its daily operations profitably. The profit margin of 2.58% seems satisfactory. However, the PEG ratio of -17.31 is disappointing and indicates no growth but decline compared to somewhat healthier industry's growth average of 0.60.
Published on Jun 9, 2016By Vinay Singh
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This fourth gallery of images from the Steampunk Chicago Stroll through Graceland captures a number of notable monuments.
- The tombstone of architect Louis Sullivan. A relatively modest monument marks "Father of Modern Skyscrapers" and the man behind "Form ever follows function" grave.
- The Tomb of William O. Goodman. Goodman hired Howard Van Doren Shaw to design this tomb and the Goodman Theater, both in honor of his son, Kenneth Sawyer Goodman.
- The Tomb of Potter and Bertha Palmer rises like a Greek Temple on the edge of the cemetery's pond. Potter Palmer pioneered the idea of customer satisfaction in retail before turning his attention to real estate and hotels.


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State Journal
Report Distribution
A disagreement over how a $500,000, state-financed education audit
was—or was not—distributed is creating a brouhaha in
In its Sept. 15 edition, the Indianapolis Star quotes a former education adviser to Democratic Gov. Frank L. O'Bannon as saying the state department of education tried to bury the 2001 audit's findings and recommendations.
Larry Grau, who made the accusation, repeated the assertion in an interview last week. "There was no apparent effort to get the report out there," he said. But he acknowledged that anyone could request copies from the education department.
Still, he criticizes Suellen K. Reed, the state's Republican elected superintendent of schools, for failing to promote the findings of the report.
The report recommended, among other ideas, that Indiana establish education goals and move from an elected state schools chief to an appointed one.
Normally, Mr. Grau said, such reports get posted electronically and an ample number of copies are sent to the governor's office for distribution. He said neither happened with the study, titled "Efficiency & Excellence," prepared by the National Association of State Boards of Education, the National Governors Association, and an Indiana public accounting and consulting firm, Crowe Chizek and Company, LLP.
Terry Spradlin, the legislative liaison for the department of education, disagrees. "The concept that this was a hidden report and buried is inaccurate," he said. The Indianapolis Star and Education Week published articles about it in 2001, he noted.
Education Week's Feb. 14, 2001, article ("Indiana Urged to Switch to Appointed State Schools Chief,"), was based on a draft of the report's executive summary.
The department distributed the report to the state board of education and the Education Roundtable, an advisory group to the board that includes four legislators, Mr. Spradlin said.
Mr. Spradlin said the report contained inaccuracies and "didn't recognize many things that we were in the process of doing."
He says the department met its obligation to make the report available.
—Mary Ann Zehr
Vol. 22, Issue 4, Page 17Published in Print: September 25, 2002, as State Journal


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Opened 9 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#1577 closed bug (fixed (in master))
Movement delay breaks movement
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Description (last modified by myshkin)
Reported by macang on IRC: when movement delay is nonzero and the roguelike keyset is on, the hjkl movement keys only work every other keypress, and the yubn movement keys don't move at all. He reported this with 3.3.2 on OS X 10.6.6; I can reproduce it with v4 on OS X 10.6.8 with both the roguelike and standard keysets. I suspect it is not port-specific.
Change History (7)
comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by myshkin
- Description modified (diff)
- Keywords prefs added; keyset removed
- Summary changed from Movement delay breaks the roguelike keyset to Movement delay breaks movement
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by myshkin
On IRC, BreathesFire? confirms that it also occurs on 3.3.0 Windows:
Oh that's odd. Adding a movement delay disables num-keypad input, but the standard arrow keys work Working off a windows 10-3-2011 compile Actually, it forces you to hold down the key and wait for effect I'm thinking movement delay should only apply to auto-run with '.' It also stores the last movement key and waits for input after x-milliseconds, then uses the old direction so if you are holding down a movement key, release, then press a new direction, you will continue once more in the old direction Using the run command also requires holding down the key to get a running direction prompt Then the game delays for each space ran, but the screen is not updated between each sqaure movement The result is a long delay until @ appears at the end of his run. So yeah, movement delay is unplayable on 3.3.0 for windows
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by myshkin
See also this oook thread. The bug is not as old as 3.2.0.
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by magnate
- Status changed from new to confirmed
comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by fizzix
- Owner changed from myshkin to david3x3x3
- Status changed from confirmed to assigned
comment:6 Changed 9 years ago by david3x3x3
I ran a git bisect and I think the problem was introduced with commit 9ca1731.
comment:7 Changed 8 years ago by magnate
- Resolution set to fixed (in master)
- Status changed from assigned to closed
[b346826] in master and [807b29f] in v4-master - thanks David!
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Keeping kosher can be tricky sometimes – especially when traveling abroad. "Making kosher food accessible anywhere in Europe is the ultimate achievement of my dreams. I believe that keeping kosher is not a compromise, it is a zechut*. You don't have to lose quality of life because you keep kosher." Her Shabbeskitchen allows every customer to either order out kosher food (delivery service) or have a full-fledged Shabbat dinner at Shabbeskitchen Restaurant in Vienna's 3rd district. Furthermore, Shabbeskitchen offers a catering service for events and private parties.
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Addison Coleman's life is one big "What if?" As a Searcher, a special type of clairvoyant, whenever Addie is faced with a choice, she is able to look into the future and see both outcomes. So when her parents tell her they are getting a divorce and she has to pick who she wants to live with, a Search has never been more important.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
The End of an Era
The few of you who read this blog probably know that I don't frequently post about film or music, and almost never post about TV shows (probably owing to the fact that I have only really watched 2 in my entire life).
Tonight however, I make an exception. The final episode of 24, the show said to have, along with Lost (which I didn't watch) to have defined TV during the 00's.
It is finally over, and TV will once again be a nearly empty world for me.
As for my thoughts on this last episode [mild spoiler alert] I appreciated the fact that Jack ended up making the decision not to kill some people. His ramboesque antics throughout the past few weeks were fun, but I was starting to feel a little morally bleak about the whole thing.
I also thought it was cool how they had Chloe play such a big part. She was always a great part of the show.
I'm glad President Taylor came clean in the end... even if it seemed a bit unrealistic, it was good twist. I also liked the little IR realist school-of-thought jab at the UN and "peace".
And... finally, Jack. At first I was disappointed that they didn't provide some more closure (it being the last episode ever and all), but I soon decided that it was the only really appropriate way to end it. Jack being in trouble and on the run after all is basically one of the fundamental constants of the universe, not unlike the laws of chemistry or orbit of the planets.
All in all, this last episode was very good, and left me feeling quite positive, which is unusual for 24.
So hears to 24, Jack Bauer, and all of the other awesomeness!
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Gaga also has plans to release the song at midnight.
Lady Gaga has plans to release a new song off Joanne tonight titled "Million Reasons."
Mother Monster shared a taste of "Just Another Day" during her interview with Ryan Seacrest on KISS FM on Tuesday (Oct. 4), and the new tunes keep on coming.
Ahead of her first performance at a dive bar in Nashville tonight, Gaga is teasing one of the songs she's expected to perform: "Million Reasons," a track she describes as "a country song mixed with funk and rock 'n' roll."
"You would never imagine it would sound that way… the feeling underneath the record is it's almost got like a little bit of a hip-hop feeling," she recently said, "but at the same time, it's not a hip-hop song. It's kind of like I just had no boundaries making music — and neither do any of the other people we were working with. It was kind of like what feels right, what hits the best, what's going to get everybody in their stomach and their heart."
According to a Lady Gaga fan account on Twitter, following her performance, the "Perfect Illusion" singer will release the track on Vevo at 12 a.m. EST.
#MillionReasons is set to be released on Lady Gaga's VEVO at 12 am EST. It's 3:35 long. Produced by Gaga, Mark, BloodPop & Hillary Lindsey.
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Yusop, Ismail and Alwi, Hakim Akmal and Mohd Bakri, Ahmad Afzan and Abdullah, Ahmad Syamil and Abd Rahman, Mohammad Ikram (2003) Photoshop Sdn. Bhd. / Ismail Yusop ... [et al.]. [Entrepreneurship Project] (Unpublished)
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How did you feel about being nominated for the Rita award?
Absolutely ecstatic, it's a huge honour. I've finalled once before, but that was for my second book, and I really had no clue how much it meant then. This time I do and am suitably humbled and over the moon… It also gave me an excellent excuse to buy a new posh frock and go to the RWA conference in NYC in July, which is never a bad thing IMHO. I'm also super proud of my Cosmo novellas so it's nice to get a nod for one of them.
What's your favourite part about writing romances?
Those rare moments when the words are flowing and my characters are talking to me and not being deliberately obtuse and annoying. Which isn't all that often TBH. Writing that final line on my first draft is also nice. Even if I do have loads of editing and revising in my future. By the time I finish the story proper I'm so sick of it, it's more a feeling of relief than achievement.
What's your least favourite part?
When my characters aren't talking to me or are being deliberately obtuse and annoying (which is often, I seem to create really bloody arsey characters for some unknown reason!)
I believe you are widening your horizons to writing longer books – can you tell us if you found it easier or harder than your Mills and Boon books?
My first women's fiction book is out next Feb – it is being published by M&B actually – but was it harder to write than my series books? YES!!! That's for a number of reasons though. Without the strictures of series guidelines I was able to broadened my horizons in terms of story structure, cast of characters, etc. And of course like a glutton let lose at an all-you-can-eat buffet I totally stuffed myself and ended up with a bloated, exceptionally complex story with way too many conflicts and characters to handle and sort out. Refining that back down to a manageable amount and turning it into a compelling story with believable characters before I puked was where the difficulty came in. I also had to resist the temptation to give the heroine an accidentally pregnancy in the epilogue for no good reason – the fact that my hero had had a vasectomy in his twenties helped!
Do you ever worry about writing those 'sexed up' scenes and do you ever think you will run out of ideas?
Worry? No, I love writing sex scenes, but I view them as mostly action scenes – if I am finding one boring to write it's usually a sign that something is wrong (and I'm not talking erectile dysfunction here!). The important thing to remember is that a sex scene like any scene should be changing the dynamic between your characters in some appreciable way, or it's not going to be engaging for the reader or engaging to write. Once you have that conflict going on, then you just go with the flow – what ever your characters want really. And, um, do I ever run out of ideas for the sex scenes??? *blushes* um no, not if the conflict is there, my characters are usually pretty good at coming up with ideas as they're usually extremely into each other.
How many books do you write a year?
I was aiming for 3 series books a year. With ST books I hope to do at least one of those a year, plus another shorter book. Which is why I took time out to do a series-length book for Tule publishing this year, before launching into my second ST book.
Do you always write for the same HMB line?
I've written for several (even if they are all variations on a theme): Modern Heat, Modern Extra and then RIVA, then Modern Tempted!! Now Modern Tempted (aka Harlequin KISS) is no more I am no longer under contract to write series books. I do hope to do more of them as I love writing them, but I haven't come up with a viable idea for Modern yet. Which is probably what I'd target if I did. That said, I have been busy with other stuff… So watch this space.
Do you stick to the romance tropes in your plotting (hope I've spelt that right) and do you have a favourite of her own?
I've done tons of accidental pregnancies, because I just love the instant, insanely intense conflict that comes with it. But I don't think in tropes. My ideas usually start with either an opening scene or hook which I then have to figure out a character and plot for. Or one or other of the main characters, which I then have to figure out a plot and a hero/heroine for… The tropes tend to come naturally when you ask the question: Now what's the worse possible thing that could happen to these two to bring them together? Or completely screw them up?
Do you ever want to write something other than romance or will your longer length books always have romance in them?
No! I love romance, and my longer books will always essentially be romances. The one that's out next Feb is basically about a London celebrity chef (think Nigella Lawson meets Jack Monroe) with an 18 year old daughter who is forced to go on an extreme 'couples retreat' in Tennessee with the father of her daughter (an award winning journalist) who she has refused to speak to ever since he walked out on her 16 years ago…. It's actually a two-tiered story with the main romance being a reunion one between those two – as they work through a cargo-hold full of baggage while in Tennessee – and then a subtler, sweeter story of the teenage daughter and the gorgeous au pair who has been hired to look after her little brother while mum's away. So basically – it's two romances for the price of one! [Here endeth the completely shameless plug!!]
Heidi has a book coming out at the end of June with Tule Publishing as part of a quartet called Fairy Tales of New York – with Kelly Hunter, Lucy King and Amy Andrews. It's about a runaway supermodel, a hard-working legal aid attorney and the very hot Labor Day Weekend they spend together on a house-barge in Brooklyn.
You can check it out on Pinterest here: https://www.pinterest.com/hlric/fairytale-of-ny-tempting-the-knight/
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SlimDoggy Jack's Mischievious Week!
It started out like any other week, but ended up being Jack's most mischievous week ever. I often say that he and Maggie don't get into to much trouble, being seniors and all. Well, not this week.
It started with Jack's discovery of a ground squirrel nest in our backyard right next to our deck. That led to our Wordless Wednesday post last week.
Our 'real' gardener came the next day and filled in the holes and we thought we were done with it. But, Jack didn't and he spent Friday evening doing more excavation. You can see the previous holes behind him, filled in…and the new one in front. He's so proud of himself.
In addition to the gardening work, Thursday morning, after our run he went out back to do his usual morning circuit, checking the perimeter (do your dogs do that too)? He didn't come back in within the normal amount of time (usually a ten minute job), but I was on the phone for work and distracted…but then started to get suspicious. You know how it is when you don't hear the dogs, you know they are up to no good.
I walked out on the deck and see him over in the far corner, near the shed where the rabbits live and sure enough…he has a full bunny in his mouth chomping away. I guess he was getting a post-run protein fix. I freak of course, but I'm on a conference call for work, complete with clients. I tell the people on the phone that my dog is eating a bunny and put them on hold. Then I run to get Steve to deal with Jack and the bunny. I'm actually relieved that I don't have to deal with it because I have in the past, and believe me, it's not pretty.
Luckily, the clients on my conference call were dog owners and familiar with the dog meets appetizing wildlife problem we all face sometimes. And sorry, no pictures…be grateful I spared you.
But, to be honest, in the midst of all this mischief, Jack was also a super-star during several eHow videos that we taped at the house. Jack can sometimes be a challenge with strangers (check our post in the WOOF Support Blog Hop last month), but he was a perfect gentleman, did all of the running and balancing and posing he was asked to do, even with all the tempting treats and food bowls involved in the shoot. I was really proud of him.
All in all it was a busy, crazy week for Jack and I'm sure hoping he chills on the weekend because I really need it too.
We are joining up with the Monday Mischief Blog Hop, hosted by Snoopy's Dog Blog, Alfie's Blog and My Brown Newfies
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Now that's super mischief, wish I had mud and grass to dig 🙂 xxoxxx
If you had an overweight unfit dog, you wouldn't have these problems. Luckily, none of us are diggers, and I catch wabbits a lot but I just like the catch/kill part, then I dump them off with someone and move on. I do agree with Jack, though. The best time to do those things is when the parents are really busy and can't come and get you 😉
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LOL – with you, not at you. Rosie is our resident digger 🙁 I keep trying to tell her she would not like China. And you already know about Rudy, our serial bunny killer. Wouldn't you think the rabbits would pass the word?
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The Boys want to say on Jacks behalf that digging holes is not "mischievous" it's just one of those things he was put here to do!
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He was aerating your yard for you. Thank goodness for understanding dog owners!
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I know I shouldn't laugh at the "bunny pick-me-up" being eaten while you were on the phone but…hahahaha! Poor Jack looks as if he is saying "What do you mean the "real" gardener? Thanks for the Monday morning laughs! Bark More, Growl Less Barking from the Bayou!
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Hey! I'm with Emma here. If Jack were fat he probably couldn't catch the things. However, being slim and still acting like a puppy is MUCH more entertaining. For those that have successful "hunting" dogs though, it's necessary to remember that rabbits carry Tularemia http://www.petmd.com/dog/conditions/infectious-parasitic/c_dg_tularemia And if Jack ever becomes sick after catching a rabbit, get him to the vet pronto & tell the vet he caught one.
I'd make sure I washed all the parts of the dog that touched the wild rabbit after a kill too. Its human mortality rate is 30%, and I wouldn't want to be a statistic from petting my dog. The CDC has plenty of human-info at its site. You just never can be too careful with things like this. (Weird survival lesson from our USAF son after he came home from survival school in some snowy mountains.) If the rabbit's liver has white spots and the spleen is swollen, or you see ulcers on the inside or outside of the body, be VERY careful & call the vet immediately. To be on the safer side, always wear disposable gloves to touch any dead, wild rabbit.
Can you dig it? Oh, poor bunny. Leo and Mia's last fight was over a rabbit that Leo caught. He dropped it during the scuffle, and after we separated the dogs, I couldn't find it. It must have survived and hopped on off.
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Luckily my Shelties never caught (or showed much interest in) rabbits. Just checking blogs from the A to Z list.
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Too funny about being on the conference call. Glad you were able to get it away from him. Ick! didn't know that about the disease rabbits carry! Good to know – but luckily we don't have bunnies in our new yard like we did at our last place.
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I think Jack takes the winner of this week's Mischief!! So glad you didn't have to deal with the bunny. And he sure does look proud of himself with his gardening skills.
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Silly bunny…don't get too close to a retriever. 🙂
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Well now that he's had his protein fix he'll probably be on his best behavior! Love Dolly
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Wow! Jack's been a busy boy! I sure wish he could come decrease my rabbit population. Really hoping our new dog can do that.
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I also ran and called the boyfriend when I discovered a dead rat in the common area outside. Luckily, neither of the dogs got too close to it.
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Yes, perimeter checks are a requirement. We have one dog who would spend most of his time just doing his route by the fence in our yard. Jack seemed quite proud his handiwork (pawdiwork?), and in that, he's no different from any of the dogs I've ever known.
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lol Jack your cracking me up, your a senior now and your suppose to not be getting into mischief. It's the pred man it's all the pred's faught. I hope you didn't get any little flea hitch hikers from that rabbit. Glad your photo shoot went well. Have a great night.
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Hehe. It sounds like Jack is becoming a master mischief maker 🙂
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Oh, I know you're not thrilled with this mischief, but glad to hear that the old guy has still got it in him! 🙂
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Wow he caught a bunny?? I chased one this weekend but was too fast for me!
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He caught a bunny! Wow! We have lots of hares in our neighbourhood but neither Moses nor Alma could get one if they tried. Well, maybe Alma, but that would still be natural selection at work.
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OMG I'd freak out too!! Poor bunny. That sounds like something Delilah would do, I know she's got her eye on the chipmunks in our yard. 😉
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That sure was quite a lot of mischief buddy! I'm wondering if you've been keeping up your run of mischief? It sure sounds like you're keeping your Mom on her toes! Tee Hee
I hope you're having a fun day,
Your pal Snoopy 🙂
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Political Elite Is Schizophrenic
If there has ever been a crowd that is never satisfied, it's Washington's political pros. In his latest Against the Grain commentary, CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer chatters about the contradictions of the chattering class.
We want a fresh face. And then when one comes along, we morph "fresh" into "inexperienced and untested."
We crave candidates who are even mildly unscripted, who dare to toss the odd sprinkle of spontaneity into the processed pablum of politics. And then when one comes along, we jump on the inevitable gaffes and tongue-slips with arsenic-laced keyboards and soundbites. They're damned if they do, damned if they don't.
The "we" here is not "We the people" but we the political elite (and I use the term very loosely): the political press, the punditocracy, the talking heads, the consultants.
The political elites devour the young we lure into campaigns like whiny, gluttonous cannibals. And today's specials are Wesley Clark and Howard Dean.
"Not Ready for Prime Time" proclaims the headline of a recent column by The Washington Post's Richard Cohen, and it captures the ethos of much punditry about the Democrats' two freshest faces. "This game of politics is complicated," writes Cohen, and Clark and Dean just don't get it. Never mind that Clark is leading in two national polls in the first week of his campaign. Disregard the fact that Dean is leading the money race and has an inspired grassroots network. They are amateurs and outsiders and the law of electoral gravity will bring them down.
(A thought: if politics is so complicated, how did Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush get to be president? I think politics is pretty simple. If people like a candidate, they have a tendency to vote for him, or her.)
If John Edwards' campaign were hot right new, he would be the too-fresh-boy. There would be even more citations of the political elite's pseudo-favorite cautionary tale, "The Candidate," where the newly-elected Robert Redford pathetically asks, "What do we do now?"
And if Lieberman, Gephardt or Kerry was on fire, we'd be wondering when this tired, programmed old pro would go down the Gore-drain.
I freely admit and openly declare that I am a sucker for two of these vocational character flaws.
I like outsiders and non-politicians in campaigns. I like them for their entertainment value, because they spruce up a stale story and because they sometimes speak English or, in the case of H. Ross Perot, a funny dialect. So I vow never to complain about Clark and Dean's lack of political plasticity.
I also like politicians who go "off message." Candidates like John McCain, Bob Dole and Howard Dean are gaffe-prone because they are willing to engage in unrehearsed, human-like conversation. They have senses of humor, wit, irreverence, and sometimes they get mad and cranky. They misuse buzzwords and then get buzz-sawed by the rhetoric police. So I vow never to be a gaffe predator.
Other politicians like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush are gaffe-prone even though they are highly scripted because they are less articulate and have trouble with words and syntax. These bloopers delight intellectuals and opponents, but rarely become news stories.
Voters, in my experience, are sympathetic to both sorts of gaffes. The political elite isn't.
Clark's first week was allegedly marred by a gaffe on what one reporter called his "signature issue" – his opposition, as a former four-star general, to the war in Iraq. Soon after he tossed his helmet into the ring, Clark, asked about the congressional resolution that authorized use of force in Iraq, said, "At the time, I probably would have voted for it, but I think that's too simple a question." GAFFE: flip-flop flap to follow.
I am underwhelmed by that flap. What Clark was saying was that at the time of the vote, the U.S. was trying to pressure Saddam into major concessions on weapons inspections and congressional backing for the president's threat may have been expedient, though Clark was and remained against the unilateral war. That's not a sound bite, it's a tad complicated, and it's not very close to what actually came out of his mouth. But a flap? I don't see it. President Bush's routinely utters more mangled policy locutions that are translated charitably.
But for Clark, the political elite immediately pounced with the "not ready for prime time" theory. Clark had the last laugh in the form of terrific poll numbers.
Ironically, one of the pouncers was fellow outsider and gaffe-meister, Howard Dean. "I was shocked," Dean said. Yeah right, shocked my... asterisk.
Just two weeks earlier, Dean was fighting his own gaffe-flap. Talking to a few reporters about the Middle East at a coffeehouse in Santa Fe, Dean said "it's not our place to take sides" in the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians. GAFFE: flap to follow.
Again, I am underwhelmed by the flap. If Dean had been more precise and said, "The U.S. is an unwavering ally of Israel and opponent of Palestinian terror and extremism, but will continue to try to facilitate reconciliation between these historic enemies" there would have been no flap.
Joe Lieberman flayed Dean over this in the next debate. And Dean, in turn said Lieberman was trying to "demagogue" this issue. Just as Dean, who reminds us that he's a truth-telling shoot-from-the-hip kind of a guy, is now trying to "demagogue" Clark's remark.
So voters shopping in the Clark and Dean aisles beware. Since LBJ and Tricky Dick, voters have preferred presidents who run far outside the Beltway – outsiders, but only superficially and geographically. The finicky aesthetic of the political elite has also prevailed; none of so-called outsiders were mavericks and they weren't new to political campaigning.
Wes Clark better still have his flak jacket. And Howard Dean too, though he won't be getting one of Clark's extras now.
Dick Meyer, the Editorial Director of CBSNews.com, is based in Washington. For many years, he was a political and investigative producer for The CBS News Evening News With Dan Rather.
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As I stand in the hardware store getting keys made for my house-sitter, the cell phone blasts its obnoxious ring into the air. People turn to stare, somewhat disapprovingly. I push my glasses higher on my nose and walk away from the counter to answer. Penny says, "Can you come get me?" and I respond that sure, I will, and end the call with apologies to the manager who had been asking me about my plans for Christmas.
He's a happy guy, the hardware store manager. He told me about his perfect marriage one time, with a twinkle in his eye and a radiant smile on his lean face. He raised his hand to smooth the little snow-white pony-tail he wears. I gathered that they had married late in life, but I didn't ask. I just congratulated him.
Ever since I listened to him thank Heaven for sending him an angel, he's fancied we're friends. I don't know his name nor does he remember mine. But as I wait for my keys, he asks about my travel plans and warns me to take a blanket in the car. "It's cold out there," he says, and gestures to the windows. The kid brings my keys and I walk over to the counter again, shoving my phone back into my purse and putting a five-dollar bill in the hands of the waiting cashier. "And 89 cents," he says, gently, and I give him another dollar.
They all tell me "Merry Christmas" and I respond the same, and throw in a Happy Holidays as the door closes. Then I drive into Kansas, past the Starbucks at which Penny works, where we're scheduled to have coffee. I continue north, to her house. When she's settled in the car we double back and park in the same spot where I parked when I brought my favorite curmudgeon here for coffee more than two years ago, a few months before he became too tired to go anywhere.
I can't move for a minute. My hands grip the wheel and I tell Penny, I used to come here with Jay. It's a slight exaggeration. We went there two or three times and I can't remember why anymore. It wasn't near his house or mine. But we did. And later, when he stayed at Brighton Gardens, I brought him carry-out soup from a Panera's just up the street.
I shake off the memories and get out of the car, moving slowly in the frigid air. In a minute we are inside and Penny introduces me to her co-workers. Then I have a chai latte, with soy milk, sitting beside me, and Penny opens the gift that I've brought for her. I'm breathing easier. I can smile. I blink back the tears and tell a silly story about purple socks. Penny and I scrap a little bit over what it means, but good-naturedly. She sparkles, and I laugh, and we talk about her jobs, the kids to whom she teaches art, and how her friend Tina is handling her first Christmas as a widow.
Before I know it, a couple of hours have passed and it's time to go home.
It's the nineteenth day of the thirty-sixth month of My Year Without Complaining. It's four degrees below zero in Kansas City. But life continues.


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Barbara L. Nichols, PhD (hon), MS, RN, FAAN
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Her impressive career spans four decades of leadership and policy-making in professional associations, academic institutions, and governmental agencies at state and national levels.
Dr. Nichols is a United States Navy Veteran and the former Chief Executive Officer of the Commission for Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) International. She has been a consultant on nursing workforce and diversity issues to the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Office of Minority Health.
Dr. Nichols holds a Baccalaureate in Nursing from Case Western University, a master's from the UW-Madison and five honorary doctoral degrees for leadership contributions to the delivery of healthcare in urban and rural settings. She is a dedicated member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (AKA).
Born in Waterville, Maine, Nichols has called Madison home since she moved here with her husband Larry in 1966. Together they have identical twin sons, Kent and Karl, a daughter, Nichelle, and ten grandchildren.
Nichols is a vociferous reader and world traveler. She has been to every continent except Antarctica.
United Way Involvement: Barbara has been on the Board of Directors since 2014 and is currently Chair of Vision Council. She is also the former Chair of the Self-Reliance & Independence Community Solutions Team and participated in the Strategic Collaboration Capacity Building Team and the Task Force for Transformation.


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3D IC integration is taking the semiconductor industry by storm. It has been: (a) impacting chip suppliers, fab-less design houses, foundries, integrated device manufacturers, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test, substrates, electronic manufacturing service, original design manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, material and equipment suppliers, universities, and research institutes; (b) attracting researchers and engineers from all over the world to go to conferences, lectures, workshops, panels, and forums to present their findings, exchange information, look for solutions, learn the latest technologies, and plan for their futures; and (c) pushing the industry to build standards, infrastructures, and ecosystems for 3D IC integration.
This is a perfect storm! People think that Moore's law is going to roll off soon, and 3D IC integration can be the solution. In order to prepare for the future and get competitive edges, companies and research institutes have been investing heavily on both human and physical resources for 3D IC integration.
Meanwhile, 3D IC packaging such as stacking chips with wirebondings, package-on-package (PoP), chip-to-chip interconnects, embedded passives and actives, and fan-out embedded WLP have been used by mobile products, such as smartphones and tablets, and will be the main driver for materials consumption and new materials development for the wearable products like smartwatch.
On Monday, February 23, 2015, from 9:00 to 12:00 pm, I will give a professional development course (PD14) at IPC APEX EXPO to be held at the San Diego Conference Center. Course contents are shown below. Please join me.
1. 3D IC Packaging
(a) Stack Chips by Wire Bonding
(b) Package-on-Package (PoP)
(c) Chip-to-Chip Interconnect
(d) Fan-Out Embedded Wafer Level Package
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(a) Potential Applications of TSV
(b) Via Formation
(c) Dielectric Layer Deposition
(d) Barrier Layer and Seed Deposition
(e) Cu Plating
(f) Chemical-Mechanical Polishing
3. Micro Bumping, Assembly, and Reliability
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(a) Memory-Chip Stacking
(b) Wide I/O DRAM and Wide I/O 2
(c) Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC)
(d) HMC Examples: Intel, Fujitsu, Altera, Pico Computing, etc.
(d) High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
(e) Wide I/O Memory (or Logic-on-Logic)
(f) Samsung's Widcon
5. 2.5D IC Integration
(a) Design for Cost, Performance, Power, and Reliability
(b) Interposers
(c) Low-Cost Interposers
(d) Re-Distribution Layers; Polymer and Cu Damascene Methods
(e) Thin-Wafer Handling and Cu Revealing
(f) Conventional Integration Process Flow
(g) TI Stacked TSV-WCSP Integration Process Flow
(h) TSMC's Integration Process Flow with Molding
(i) TSMC's Integration Process Flow with Molding and heat sink
(j) ITRI's Integration Process Flow with a Heat Spreader Wafer
(k) Next Generation of Package Substrates
6. Supply Chains and Ownerships for 2.5D/3D IC Integration
7. Thermal Management of 2.5D/3D IC Integration
8. 3D MEMS/IC Integration
9. 3D LED/IC Integration
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I'll be Your Mirror (2005).
Not quite finished with the Moon since it's visible in the background of Juliet Jacobson's beautiful drawing, together with some other items of recurrent {feuilleton} concern: masturbating males, peacock feathers and human skulls. Pam at Phantasmaphile has a larger copy of this work while Ms Jacobson's site has a number of equally luscious pencil drawings.


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