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Sometimes, life requires embracing impositions. Like when I blew my tire out a few weeks ago, and in the spirit of exercising my capacities as a strong, independent, capable woman, I strongly, independently, and capably got out my cell and called Dad.
Dad had, like he always is, been up already since about 5:30 that morning, and, after getting home around 5:30 p.m., he had been fixing our sprinkler system. He drove out to a friend's to get a car jack, came over, and helped me get my car tire changed around 8 p.m. And honestly, I hated to impose on him like that. But, he's my dad.
So, as he always does in those moments when something breaks, or it's tax season, or I need a way to stretch out my leg after running, or I want to talk about "this guy," or I want to know his advice, or my sister calls him up to make weird faces on face time, he accepts the impositions of adulting daughters without ever making us feel like we are imposing on his life. In fact, much of my dad's life, at least ever since he realized that questions like are you going to kill Bambi? meant he could no longer go deer hunting until we were out of the house, has been life imposing on him.
It's not just my dad, either. Priests who stay to hear one more confession. Priests who console the you that "it's ok he broke up with you: you're sixteen, trust in God." Friends who go out of their way to walk a friend home so she gets in safe. Who talk you down after watching Criminal Minds too late at night. Who send you books to make adulting better. The boyfriend who sets aside time for his work to read another draft of your grad school applications. Friends and husbands of friends who have loaded and unloaded more boxes than you should have ever dared to ask. Grandfathers who pick you up from school or go to your thesis defense/theater performance/ballet recital/recorder choir concert. Husbands who stay in when you are eight months pregnant and just can't go to the game, even after you insisted that he go. Husbands who move their personal time to 5:00 a.m. so they can play tea party when they get home from work and you can take a shower. Husbands who roll up their sleeves and do the laundry because all four of you are out of underwear, everyone is sick, and you haven't slept since your baby was born four months ago.
Not to say women don't accept impositions (here's to you, Mom, for 9 months of being couch bound to keep me from miscarrying: I can literally never repay that), because women definitely do. But, today, I want to acknowledge the role accepting impositions play in the masculine vocation of fatherhood.
St. Joseph and the vocation of men
Most of us are aware of the apostolic letter Mulieris Dignitatem by St. John Paul II, in which he notes, through reflecting on Mary that all women, whether married or single, are called to motherhood as a result of spousal love: either physical motherhood in having and/or raising children, or spiritual motherhood, through religious life, secular institutes, communities of consecrated persons, and even in non-communal forms.
So it makes sense that, in turning to St. John Paul II's Apostolic Exhortation Redemptoris Custos on St. Joseph, we would be able to more deeply approach the fatherhood he exemplified as the foster-father of Jesus and gain a deeper understanding of masculine vocation of fatherhood as a result of spousal love both in its physical and spiritual dimensions.* In particular, it is worth exploring how St. Joseph particularly reveals the connection of the masculine vocation to fatherhood is particularly connected to an acceptance of impositions.
When he discovers his intended wife Mary is pregnant, Joseph is described, in the Gospel of St. Matthew, as "a just man," "unwilling" to put Mary to shame and as "considering" slowly what to do with this inexplicable circumstance. The imposition of his wife's pregnancy with a child that wasn't his certainly concerns him, and yet, he approaches this imposition on the life he likely had planned on with patience. He considers instead of giving into emotions and hastily reacting until he is sure what is right in this circumstance.
In the time he took to pause and reflect, God provides him with an answer in the form of a further imposition on the life he likely had planned: an angel reveals that his spouse Mary is pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit and will give birth to a son, whom Joseph will name Jesus "for he will save his people from their sins" (Mt. 1:21). After waking from this dream in which God revealed His will to him, Joseph "did what the angel of the Lord commanded him" (Mt. 1:24) with no hesitation. He accepted the imposition, and allowed that to guide his vocation: he would serve God by being foster-father to God-Incarnate, by protecting and providing for Mary and Jesus.
He took his vocation as father seriously
When it required that he flee with Mary to protect Jesus from Herod, he fled in the dead of night on what Google maps suggests would be a six day walking journey from Jerusalem. He doesn't hesitate to accept the imposition of his vocation: when he is required to act in the best interests of his wife and son, he doesn't hesitate to let go of what he may have wanted to do. Instead, he embraces the impositions of being foster-father to the Son of God, and does what is best for his family.
Though he was not the natural father of Christ, Joseph was his foster-father: he was, as St. John Paul II wrote, quoting Pope Paul VI, called to make
his life a service, a sacrifice to the mystery of the Incarnation and to the redemptive mission connected with it; in having used the legal authority which was his over the Holy Family in order to make a total gift of self, of his life and work; in having turned his human vocation to domestic love into a superhuman oblation of self, an oblation of his heart and all his abilities into love placed at the service of the Messiah growing up in his house.
See, with awe-inspiring reality of the Word's Incarnation, with the redemptive narrative, it is hard to remember that much of Jesus' life prior to His public ministry is hidden from us. Yet, He was a child: he lived a life in Nazareth with Mary and Joseph. Joseph worked to provide for his family; he accepted the imposition of work as a facet of his vocation.
In doing the ordinary, everyday work of his life, likely with Jesus beside him, Joseph shows us how the normal impositions demanded by our state in life are brought into God's plan of redemption. St. Thomas Aquinas, in his Commentary on Matthew, quotes St. John Chrysostom giving one of the coolest parallels between Joseph's work as a carpenter and Christ's ultimate work in redeeming humanity:
Joseph was a wood-worker and he signifies Christ, who restored all things through the wood of the cross in heaven and on the earth.
Joseph's daily work was a daily sign pointing towards the coming salvation Jesus would accomplish for us.
Joseph's silence speaks volumes
We hear about what Joseph did in the Gospels: even when he and Mary find Jesus in the Temple, it is Mary who speaks to Christ. This silence on his part in the Gospels indicates to us the contemplation that infused Joseph's interior life. John Paul II notes that:
The total sacrifice, whereby Joseph surrendered his whole existence to the demands of the Messiah's coming into his home, becomes understandable only in the light of his profound interior life. It was from this interior life that [quoting Paul VI] "very singular commands and consolations came, bringing him also the logic and strength that belong to simple and clear souls, and giving him the power of making great decisions—such as the decision to put his liberty immediately at the disposition of the divine designs, to make over to them also his legitimate human calling, his conjugal happiness, to accept the conditions, the responsibility and the burden of a family, but, through an incomparable virginal love, to renounce that natural conjugal love that is the foundation and nourishment of the family. [Emphasis added].
Joseph didn't make his vocation about himself. As a father, he did what was needed to serve those in his house, to provide for them, to protect them, to go far out of his way for them, to place their good above his own momentary good. In short, he chose to live his life vocationally. And then, before he could see the fruit of that work, he died.
He did not live to see his foster-son die on the Cross, but he also did not see Jesus ascend to the Father in Heaven from this earth. Perhaps that was a mercy God granted: I know it would only be over his dead body that my dad would ever let someone do to me what was done to Christ during the crucifixion. His life was devoted to a plan he would not see fully revealed in this life, yet he trusted, obeyed, did what God asked of him, and died with Jesus and Mary as the last faces he saw on earth. I suspect it's not a stretch to say Joseph never saw his son as an imposition in his life.
Fatherhood as the masculine vocation
All men are called to be fathers, to imitate the fatherhood of God; St. Joseph provides an exemplary model of that imitation. I would love to hear men in particular speak up in the comments, but I will venture to offer a few suggestion as to what this vocation of fatherhood looks like in practice.
If you are a father, remember to make time for your children, whether it's reading Fox in Socks or Madeline for the nine billionth time or taking your adulting kids on a hike (or to dinner or camping or working on taxes together). As much as you can, go to the baseball game (or coach it), help build sets for plays, or teach them to ski race. Make time for them—do not make them feel like an imposition in your life. Teach your kids to pray, always. Pray with your kids. Teach them to be patient and gentle and kind through your own example. Teach them to love God, to love Jesus, to go to adoration with you, to love the Church, to love Mary. Talk to them about their faith, and live your faith as best you can. Practice humility and apologize when you go wrong. Never give up on them. Love them, so that they can know how much more God loves them.
If you aren't a dad in the physical sense, you can still do many of these things. Meet up with your younger (or even older) siblings or cousins—or even get involved in teaching CCD at your parish. Coach sports, teach music, teach painting, whatever it is, work to become a spiritual father for those who maybe haven't had a good father in their lives. Allow your friends to impose on you. Pray for your friends, pray for your students, your athletes, your families. Talk to younger people about your faith, and live a life that models it, even when you fall, by turning to Confession. Forgive people, and give them a chance to try again, just like God does with us in the Sacrament of Confession. Reach out to those who need love and hope, just like God did when He sent His Son, like Joseph did when he accepted the responsibility of caring for God-made-Man.
And pray to St. Joseph. Take him as a model of masculinity, and follow him in his love and devotion to Jesus and to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Ask him to teach you to love the impositions in your life and to serve God through those moments. Ask him to show you how to love God deeply, and how to devote your life more and more to growing in that love. Pray for the men in your own life: priests, dads, brothers, cousins, friends, co-workers, teammates, that they will also better follow this example of St. Joseph in their own vocations.
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*Now, perhaps someone could object here and suggest we look instead to Christ as an exemplar of the masculine vocation, to that I say: by all means! Christ is not just our model, He is the literal cause of our holiness through His redemptive activity which allows us the grace of receiving the Holy Spirit in our souls. However, today the Church celebrates the Feast of Saint Joseph (normally March 19th, but moved this year because it fell on a Sunday), and what's more, of all the men who ever were, are or will be, St. Joseph is the man whom God chose to be the foster-father of His Son.


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Obama Sells Race to Top, Early-Childhood Education in State of the Union
President Barack Obama placed education at the center of a broad strategy to bolster economic mobility and combat poverty—calling on Congress in his State of the Union speech to approve previously unveiled initiatives to expand preschool to more 4-year-olds, beef up job-training programs, and make post-secondary education more effective and accessible.
"Last year, I asked this Congress to help states make high-quality pre-K available to every 4-year-old," said Obama, whose education agenda in his second term has shifted away from K-12 toward prekindergarten and college affordability. "As a parent as well as a president, I repeat that request tonight. But in the meantime, 30 states have raised pre-K funding on their own. They know we can't wait."
Obama used his speech to mount an indirect defense of the common-core standards and a more spirited, direct defense of the program that spurred states to adopt them: Race to the Top. This, too, from an administration that has been blamed for threatening the future of the Common Core State Standards by supporting them—and from a president who hasn't talked much at all about Race to the Top in recent major speeches. He credits his Race to the Top competitive-grant program with helping raise standards—and performance (which many may argue it's too soon to tell).
"Race to the Top, with the help of governors from both parties, has helped states raise expectations and performance. Teachers and principals in schools from Tennessee to Washington, D.C., are making big strides in preparing students with skills for the new economy—problem solving, critical thinking, science, technology, engineering, and math. Some of this change is hard. It requires everything from more challenging curriculums and more demanding parents to better support for teachers and new ways to measure how well our kids think, not how well they can fill in a bubble on a test. But it's worth it—and it's working," he said.
In short, however, Obama proposed nothing substantially new for K-12. In fact, he has given many of these policy priorities a nod in previous State of the Union speeches. But so far, a deeply divided Congress hasn't enabled him to bring any of the proposals over the legislative finish line. Obama made it clear he plans to use his executive muscle—and the power of the bully pulpit—to get moving on his agenda when he can't find bipartisan support for his wish list in Congress.
"America does not stand still—and neither will I. So wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that's what I'm going to do," he said.
Bypassing Congress is not a new strategy for the administration, which has pushed through sweeping K-12 policy without congressional approval. When movement on reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act stalled, the administration took matters into its own hands, offering more than 40 states waivers from the mandates of the current version of the law, the No Child Left Behind Act.
And the administration has said it may go further. The U.S. Department of Education is contemplating issuing new rules that could prod states to ensure that poor and minority children get access to as many high-quality teachers as their more-advantaged peers. The department promised a new "50-state strategy" would be launched in earnest by the end of January.
Early Childhood Education:
Obama renewed his sales pitch—kicked off in last year's State-of the Union speech—for Congress to enact a major, early- childhood education initiative that would entice states to expand pre-kindergarten to more 4-year-olds, improve program quality, and bolster access to Head Start. Lawmakers have already put a down payment on that plan, funneling more than $1 billion in additional money to existing early-childhood education programs—primarily Head Start.
But, so far, lawmakers have been much cooler to the core piece of Obama's early-childhood initiative—matching grants to help states begin expanding their own programs. The two top Democrats in Congress—Rep. George Miller of California, and Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa—introduced legislation that would make much of the proposal a reality. But the legislation has attracted only a couple of Republican co-sponsors, in part because of its price tag: more than $30 billion over the first five years.
In the meantime, however, Obama said he would pull together a coalition of business leaders, philanthropists, and elected officials to help expand pre-K for the neediest children.
Job Training:
Obama gave a high-profile shout-out to the need to bolster job-training programs, and to do more to help high schools and post-secondary institutions prepare students for in-demand careers, particularly in the STEM (science, math, engineering, and technology) fields—a theme he hit on in last year's address to Congress.
The administration already has sketched out a plan for bolstering connections among K-12 schools, post-secondary institutions, and employers in its 2012 blueprint for revising the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. But the proposal hasn't advanced very far on Capitol Hill yet. Lawmakers on the House education committee have just begun holding hearings on Perkins reauthorization.
And last year, lawmakers rejected Obama's plea to create a Race-to-the-Top style grant program to help high schools partner with businesses and non-profits to bolster their STEM offerings and career-training. Instead, the administration directed $100 million in U.S. Department of Labor funds to the initiative. It's unclear, however, if the program can last for more than a year without a new infusion of funds. Obama, however, used his speech to point out that this year, the awards will be made. Yesterday was the deadline for schools to apply; however, earlier today the Department of Labor couldn't say how many applied or what their timetable is for awards.
College Access:
Obama revived his push to help students and their families get a handle on the rising cost of college by making more information about different institutions available to prospective students, and tying up to $150 billion in federal financial aid to student outcomes, such as graduation rates. The president has also called for bolstering and expanding income-based loan repayment plans.
"We're shaking up our system of higher education to give parents more information, and colleges more incentives to offer better value, so that no middle-class kid is priced out of a college education," he said. "We're offering millions the opportunity to cap their monthly student loan payments to 10 percent of their income, and I want to work with Congress to see how we can help even more Americans who feel trapped by student loan debt."
So far, Congress hasn't taken the administration up on those proposals—although college affordability has been a major theme in bipartisan hearings in both chambers on revising the Higher Education Act, which governs federal financial aid.
Education Technology:
One existing proposal that got a mention from the president wouldn't require any action on the part of Congress: a plan to remake the E-rate, the federal program created in 1996 to support technology improvements in schools and libraries, particularly those in disadvantaged communities.
Last June, the president, echoing the views of technology advocates, said the program is not doing enough to meet schools' burgeoning digital demands. He made a pitch for restructuring the program to ensure that 99 percent of the nation's schools have access to high-speed broadband access within five years.
And in July, the Federal Communications Commission, the agency that oversees the E-rate, released a broadly worded proposal that reflected many of Obama's goals. That blueprint called for improving schools' overall connectivity, encouraging wise purchasing, and reducing the bureaucratic tangle schools face in applying for help through the program.
The FCC has not yet announced a firm timeline for releasing final rules on changes to the E-rate, though the commission's chairman, Tom Wheeler, who was appointed by Obama, said in an online statement posted last week that he expected more specific details to emerge soon.
And in fact, according to the White House, in the coming weeks Obama plans to announce new philanthropic partnerships to advance this goal, including with companies like Apple, Microsoft, Sprint, and Verizon.
School Safety:
Obama again asked Congress to curb violence through new gun restrictions.
"Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook," he said.
Gun control proposals got a lot of play in last year's State of the Union speech, which was delivered in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. At the time, the Obama administration called for a ban on military-assault-style weapons and more stringent background checks for would-be gun buyers, as well as new resources for mental health in schools, and school safety.
Congress ultimately rejected the gun-control measures, but provided some new resources in its recent spending bills for school-based programs. They include $75 million to the U.S. Department of Justice for a comprehensive school safety initiative, and $15 million for a mental health first-aid program in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
K-12 policy:
The speech was also notable for what the president didn't mention. In past State of the Union addresses, Obama has pushed lawmakers to renew the ESEA—but he didn't so much as mention the law in this speech. Many advocates suspect the administration has largely given up on renewing the law, for now.
Reaction roundup:
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the chairman of the Senate education committee, called Obama's speech a "10," in a quick interview after the speech.
"He was absolutely right on preschool," said Harkin. He said he plans to bring his preschool bill to the floor "soon, " but not before a bill to boost the minimum wage.
In the official Republican response to the speech, U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., predictably had another take. She said, "We have plans to improve our education and training systems so you have the choice to determine where your kids go to school ... so college is affordable ... and skills training is modernized."
Hours before the speech, Republicans on the Senate education committee released their own prescription for boosting equity in the nation's schools: major expansion of school choice.
The lack of any mention of ESEA was what irked Rep. Todd Rokita, the Indiana Republican who chairs the House education subcommittee on K-12 policy.
In a statement, he said: "The President's sincere and heartfelt commitment to education reform is always appreciated. Unfortunately, he failed to highlight the largest shortcoming in federal education policy today, and that is the need to reform and reauthorize No Child Left Behind. Last year the House passed the Student Success Act, a broad based reform of federal education policy that would maintain the high standards the President called for while giving state and local school districts back the money and authority they need to meet those standards. It is past time for the Senate to join us in this debate."
Rep. Robert Andrews, D-N.J., however, is one lawmaker who thinks ESEA could actually get reauthorized this year.
In an interview after the speech, Andrews said that Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., the chairman of the House education committee, really wants it to happen in what might be his last year at the helm of the panel.
Andrews is a senior member of the committee and could take over the top Democratic slot when Rep. George Miller retires after this Congress.
Is Andrews interested in the position? Of course, he said.
Perhaps one of the biggest question marks going into the speech was whether Obama would mention the common standards. Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute was one who wanted the president to stay far away from talking about the common core during his speech. So he wasn't entirely happy with Obama's remarks on Race to the Top raising expectations, and his mention of "curriculums."
"I'm glad the president didn't mention common core by name, and in alluding to it stressed the role of governors. But why, oh why, did his advisers think he should mention the need for stronger curricula?" he said.
But U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, in an interview after the speech, disagreed. "He was talking about raising standards. Raising standards is the right thing."
For his part, Dennis Van Roekel, the president of the National Education Association, wasn't disappointed by the lack of new education initiatives in the speech.
"I don't think there ought to be new programs every year," he said. "[The president] was saying 'This is still a priority to me, you really need to push to make things happen.'"
Associate Editors Michele McNeil and Sean Cavanagh contributed to this story.
Photo: President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, in Washington, as Vice President Joe Biden, and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, listen. --Larry Downing/Reuters

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New Zealand Archaeological Association 2012 Conference Field Trip
The conference this year is being held in Oamaru in New Zealand's South Island. Two bus loads of archaeologists went on the field trip today – coincidentally the Day of Archaeology – it is a feature of every annual conference run by the Association.
There is information about the Association and the conference including a programme here:
The conference programme and abstracts can be downloaded here.
Oamaru is renowned in New Zealand for its architecture. It had early wealth from its fine agricultural land, first in exporting grain but later from other crops, and pastoral farming. The wealth of the town in the late 1800s was reflected in its classical architecture. The buildings utilised a local white limestone – Oamaru stone, which was valued for building here and elsewhere in Australia and New Zealand
The area is also rich in prehistoric sites. Early Maori sites occur at river and estuary mouths. They commonly have the bones of New Zealand giant extinct birds, moa, but also other birds, marine mammals and fish exploited by the first residents.
The most notable prehistoric sites in the area are the rock art sites that occur in overhang shelters and caves along the valleys in, and at the margins of the limestone. These date from the whole of Maori occupation and into the contact period where settler items also appear.
Out field trip visited a number of these sites, on a cold clear day, where there was fresh snow on the adjacent hills. We were guided by Maori manawhenua (people of the land) Ngai Tahu who have an active programme in preserving and studying these sites. Brian Allingham who works with them and has long studied them talked at each of the five sites visited as did Amanda Symon, curator of the Ngai Tahu Maori Rock Art Trust. They requested that any website use of images has their approval. As a consequence it is only the social views that appear here, but there are many images on the web – see the links.
The images we saw in the sites we went to included a spiral carved into the rock and drawings of people, dogs and animal forms. At other sites there are pictures of birds, canoes and many decorative elements.
The Te Ana rock art museum in Timaru is a great place to start a visit to the area http://www.teana.co.nz/ It is run by the Maori manawhenua, Ngai Tahu.
Some more information on rock art can be found here and here and here and here.
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The New Zealand Historic Places Trust register entries for the house and the associated stables can be seen here:
There is more about the station history here.
A fuller set of pictures from the trip can be seen here on facebook.
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Note: This course was formerly titled, BMC Remedy AR System 8.0: Developer – Part 2
BMC Remedy Action Request System provides the foundation for BMC Remedy OnDemand and the BMC Remedy ITSM Suite. It enables you to automate business processes without learning a programming language or using complex development tools.
In this course, you learn how to create advanced application features in BMC Remedy AR System 8.0. Each of the features discussed in this course will add to the value that BMC Remedy AR System 8.0 can bring to you and your business, and will prepare you for BMC Certified Developer: BMC Remedy AR System 8.x certification.
All Assisted Self-paced courses can also be delivered as private, instructor-led courses dedicated to a single customer. Please contact your Education Sales Rep or email@example.com for information on this option.
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- Overlay Myths
Home Pages & Skins
- Application Lists
- AppSubset Field
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Table Fields
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- Currency Fields
- Purpose and Structure of Currency Fields
- Web Services
- Describing Guides
- Table Loop Active Link Guides
- Server-side Table Fields
Record Relationships
- Parent and Child Data Relationships
- GUID Field
Escalations & Data-Driven Approach
- Data-driven Approach
- Defining Escalation Levels
Advanced Features
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- Query Widget Builder, Rich Text Formatting, and Process Commands
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Cervelli error in 11th lets Twins top Yankees
MINNEAPOLIS >> New York Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli made sure of the important first out at home in the 11th inning. By the time he turned to try for a double play, his rushed attempt went awry.
Cervelli's throwing error allowed Josh Willingham to score from second base, giving the Minnesota Twins a 2-1 victory Saturday.
"We got to make one out first and then when I tried to turn the double play, I just have to eat the ball," Cervelli said. "If I dont have vision, I have to stop."
Cervelli had two hits and drove in the Yankees' lone run after being inserted into the lineup in a late change for Brian McCann, who complained of foot soreness following batting practice.
But Cervelli said the ball slipped from his hands as he tried to end the 11th inning following Trevor Plouffe's dribbler with the bases loaded. Reliever Matt Thornton (1-1) flipped it to Cervelli for the forceout at home.
As Cervelli turned to try for the double play, Plouffe obscured his line of sight and the New York catcher sailed a throw way over the head of first baseman Mark Teixeira and Willingham raced home with the winning run. Cervelli said he tried to hold back on his throw, but the ball slipped out of his hand.
"We don't want to end the games like that, especially myself," Cervelli said. "Next time I've got to make a little clear, talking about my vision to first base. If I don't have it, I have to just eat the ball."
McCann had X-rays before the game, which turned out negative, but Yankees manager Joe Girardi said McCann might be forced to miss Sunday's game against the Twins.
"The X-rays came back good, negative, so that's encouraging," Girardi said. "Obviously he may not play again tomorrow. We'll wait to see how he feels. It's not what you want, but the long-term aspect I don't think it's a big deal. But short term, he may be out a few days."
Cervelli who entered the series with five hits this season has five hits in the past two games. He put the Yankees ahead in the fifth with a single to left off Minnesota starter Yohan Pino, scoring Ichiro Suzuki.
Pino allowed just three hits, two walks and one run in six innings, though, after New York gave up six the previous game with eight extra-base hits. The Yankees had seven hits Saturday: all singles.
"I'm not really sure," Girardi said about the offense. "It's a guy that we've never seen before. He has that turn that can sometimes create deception. We didn't do much against him."
New York starter David Phelps went seven innings and allowed one run, three hits and two walks.
Phelps had retired 11 straight before Willingham snapped an 0-for-14 skid with a homer to left that tied the game at 1 in the seventh inning. Before Willingham's drive, Phelps had only allowed one runner to reach second base.
The victory snapped a seven-game home skid against the Yankees and was just Minnesota's fourth win against New York in 17 games at Target Field.
"Anytime we lose, they all sting the same," Phelps said. "We're out there grinding and there's going to be games where we don't score a lot of runs. That's why it's frustrating for me to go out and give up a leadoff home run in the seventh. Just put up a zero there and we can put that game away with our bullpen."
Pinch-hitter Chris Colabello doubled off the wall in right field to lead off the 11th, missing a game-ending homer by inches. Thornton then intentionally walked Willingham and hit Oswaldo Arcia with a pitch before the game-ending error.
NOTES: Despite the fact that Derek Jeter has helped knock Minnesota out of the playoffs four times, Twins fans gave the retiring Yankees shortstop a standing ovation during a pregame ceremony. The Twins presented Jeter with the second base bag used during the final game played at the Metrodome. ... Minnesota's Ricky Nolasco (5-6, 5.49 ERA) faces Hiroki Kuroda (5-6, 4.08) in Sunday's series finale.


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Sylvester J. Schieber, an independent consultant retired from Willis Towers Watson, and Steven A. Nyce, director of the research and innovation center at the firm, say that their analysis "shows how since the 1980s, the cost growth of employer-provided health benefits has been shrinking workers' wage growth, eroding their retirement benefits and becoming an increasingly important factor in growing income inequality."
Where the pay raises went: "U.S. employers' health care costs started small—in 1950, healthcare amounted to only 0.5 percent of total compensation," the authors write. "But premiums rose 3.1 times faster than total compensation in the 1950s and over twice as fast in the 1960s. Over the next 40 years, health plan costs grew 3.4 times faster than compensation in the 1970s, 2.1 times faster in the 1980s and 1.2 times faster in the 1990s. By the first decade of the new millennium, health care costs were again increasing 3.4 times faster than compensation. This analysis shows that the escalation of employers' health premiums is now consuming all compensation growth for many workers, leaving nothing to add to their paychecks ..."
The authors found that millions of employees paying for employer-provided health insurance saw what in effect were wage losses between 1999 and 2015 due to increases in the cost of coverage. "After paying their premiums, workers in the bottom 60 percent of the earnings distribution with family coverage registered losses in earnings over the 16-year period."
It's hurt some workers more than others: Lower-wage workers have been hit the hardest, since health care costs make up such a significant part of their total compensation. "The costs of employer-sponsored health benefits were sucking the lifeblood out of the potential economic gains for many, if not most, of these workers," the analysts wrote.
The table below from the report shows the net loss in pay experienced by the bottom 60 percent of workers in two-earner couples with employer-sponsored health plans:
A pessimistic conclusion: Addressing the report earlier this week, Robert J. Samuelson of The Washington Post wrote, "We'd all like both cheaper health insurance and higher wages, but the way the health-care system is operating today, we might get neither. As insurance premiums get more expensive, inflation-adjusted ('real') wages will continue to stagnate or decline."
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- Email: jreznik AT redhat DOT com
- IRC: jreznik AT freenode and redhat IRC
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Activities within Fedora
I'm responsible for this packages/projects:
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Dr. Barbara Prosser, CEO of the Effingham College and Career Academy, spoke to the Effingham Sunrise Rotary Club on the increasing competition for jobs in Effingham County from the global suppliers such as China and India.
She also announced a new course on welding that would be starting soon. She said that ECCA also was addressing the need for proper etiquette in the workplace, such as accountability, calling in when sick, showing up on time, and proper cell phone usage. Dr. Prosser also discussed the growing need for one-on-one personal communication skills that are needed for job interviews, and in the workplace.
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Sporting News: Honduras sure to give US national team 'a crazy experience'
Sporting News: Passing of the torch: As Landon Donovan burns out, Timmy Chandler lights US fire
SI.com: US seeks statement-making victory in Honduras
SI.com: US opens tricky final round of World Cup qualifying
SI.com: Resolute Bradley stays in Egypt through revolution
The Washington Post: US soccer arrives in Honduras hoping for fast start to final round of World Cup qualifying
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The Washington Post: Postcard from San Pedro Sula
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|(c) 2011 Daniel Fischer
|Daniel Fischer <firstname.lastname@example.com>
|Non-portable (GHC extensions)
|Safe Haskell
Prime generation using a sieve. Currently, an enhanced sieve of Eratosthenes is used, switching to an Atkin sieve is planned (if I get around to implementing it and it's not slower).
The sieve used is segmented, with a chunk size chosen to give good (enough)
cache locality while still getting something substantial done per chunk.
However, that means we must store data for primes up to the square root of
where sieving is done, thus sieving primes up to
n requires
O(sqrt n/log n) space.
- primes :: [Integer]
- sieveFrom :: Integer -> [Integer]
- data PrimeSieve
- primeSieve :: Integer -> PrimeSieve
- psieveList :: [PrimeSieve]
- psieveFrom :: Integer -> [PrimeSieve]
- primeList :: PrimeSieve -> [Integer]
There are three factors limiting the range of these sieves.
- Memory
- Overflow
- The internal representation of the state
An Eratosthenes type sieve needs to store the primes up to the square root of
the currently sieved region, thus requires
O(sqrt n/log n) space.We store
16 bytes
of information per prime, thus a Gigabyte of memory takes you to about
log doesn't change much in that range, so as a first approximation, doubling
the storage increases the sieve range by a factor of four.
On a 64-bit system, this is (currently) the only limitation to be concerned with, but
with more than four Terabyte of memory, the fact that the internal representation
currently limits the sieve range to about
6.8*10^25 could become relevant.
Overflow in array indexing doesn't become a concern before memory and internal
representation would allow to sieve past
On a 32-bit system, the internal representation imposes no additional limits,
but overflow has to be reckoned with. On the one hand, the fact that arrays are
Int-indexed restricts the size of the prime store, on the other hand, overflow
in calculating the indices to cross off multiples is possible before running out
of memory. The former limits the upper bound of the monolithic
primeSieve to
shortly above
8*10^9, the latter limits the range of the segmented sieves to
Sieves and lists
List of primes.
Since the sieve uses unboxed arrays, overflow occurs at some point.
On 64-bit systems, that point is beyond the memory limits, on
32-bit systems, it is at about
data PrimeSieve Source #
Compact store of primality flags.
primeSieve :: Integer -> PrimeSieve Source #
Sieve primes up to (and including) a bound (or 7, if bound is smaller). For small enough bounds, this is more efficient than using the segmented sieve.
Since arrays are
Int-indexed, overflow occurs when the sieve
size comes near
, that corresponds to an
upper bound near
maxBound ::
15/8*. On
32-bit systems, that
is often within memory limits, so don't give bounds larger than
8*10^9 there.
psieveList :: [PrimeSieve] Source #
List of primes in the form of a list of
PrimeSieves, more compact than
primes, thus it may be better to use
than keeping the list of primes alive during the entire run.
psieveList >>=
psieveFrom :: Integer -> [PrimeSieve] Source #
creates the list of
psieveFrom n
PrimeSieves starting roughly
n. Due to the organisation of the sieve, the list may contain
a few primes less than
This form uses less memory than
[, hence it may be preferable
to use this if it is to be reused.
primeList :: PrimeSieve -> [Integer] Source #
Generate a list of primes for consumption from a


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"So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about." ~MarilynMonroe
Myrtle the turtle says,"Chin up, Buttercup!"
Have a beautiful week.
"So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about." ~MarilynMonroe
Myrtle the turtle says,"Chin up, Buttercup!"
Have a beautiful week.
Myrtle is quite fetching in her fancy garb.
Yes, she looks well in her green 'pond scum jacket. 😀
I love turtles, Sylvia. That is a beautiful slider!
Thanks, Lavinia. Yes, it's always a treat to see a turtle out of the water. 🙂
Love Myrtle 🐢🐢🐢
Thanks, Lisa. She's very cute. 🙂
Chin up gorgeous! Happy Wednesday ❤ XOXO – Bacon
Thanks so much, dear Bacon. xx 🙂
Wonderful photo!!! Great capture.
Thanks so much, Peta. 🙂
ahhh – such a nice cheery vibe emitting from myrtle the turtle
Thanks, Yvette. 🙂 xx
Oh, my…a neck breaking position. I got a slipped disk in my neck last time I tried that on the yoga…
Sorry to hear that, Ann-Christine. I must warn Myrtle not to overdo things. 🙂
Awww – too adorable!
I thought so too, Fi. 🙂
Myrtle has a great attitude. 🙂
I agree. 😃
I've just come from Issy's place, she'd had a visit from a coral snake, I much prefer Myrtle.
Happy Tuesday Sylvia 🙂
Yes, I'll take turtles over snakes, any day. 👍
How cute is that! Great pose for your fitting quote! You have the most ingenious critters and all so talented!
Thanks, Gunta. Yes, they all have their own party tricks. 🙂
Pretty cute, but he may be carrying that chin up thing a bit too far! 🙂
Haha You really think so, Janet? 🙂
And to you (and Myrtle), Sylvia!
Thanks, Dries. 🙂
you too Sylvia- he is a beauty!
Thanks, Lisa. Myrtle is really stunning, especially in her green overcoat. 😀
Sunbathing it seems – head up, arms akimbo. Have a lovely week Sylvia 🙂
Thanks, Jude. Yes, been there, done that, wish I hadn't. 😯
Ha, nice show by Myrtle. A good way to start Monday!
Thanks, YC. So happy you enjoyed this. 🙂
I've never seen a turtle in that pose, she looks as if she is about to do a backflip!
You're so right, Gerrie. That would be quite some feat for a turtle. 😀
That's a lovely photo.
Thanks, Elaine. 🙂
Great photo, Sylvia … and Myrtle is smiling as well! 😀
Thanks, Tom. Yes, she does look happy. 🙂
Great shot!
Thanks, Nancy. 🙂
Such beautiful colours nature has provided her with!
He's gorgeous. (The bright green is pond scum.) 😀
Wonderful words and photo
Thanks, Marylou. 🙂
Pilates anyone? Cute photo!
Thanks, Ingrid. 😘
I wonder why they lie there with their head pointed to the sky?
No idea. Maybe they are just very positive creatures. 🙂
Aw…I love this, Sylvia! 🙂
Thanks, Jill. 🙂
Have a great week Sylvia with many smiles!
Thanks so much, Ute. 🙂
Wonderful quote Sylvia and love the turtle! 😌
Thanks so much, Nicole. 😘
Terrific shot – that will be my outlook on the week!
Thanks, John. I'm so glad you're inspired. 😃
Great photo
Thank you. 😃
So funny, Sylvia – a bit like a sun-tan fiend trying to ensure an even tan 🙂
Haha Yes, I see what you mean, Tish. 🙂
He's a cutie.
That's for sure, Carol. 🙂
Looks so proud, this turtle!
Yes, he's not shy. 🙂
Oh do I adore this photo. 😀
Thanks, Cee. It's very uplifting. 😀


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What type of fish is traditionally used to make fish and chips, and generally what type of characteristics in fish would make it a good candidate to be used as a fried fish?


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We've already taken a reasonably detailed deep dive into the PlayStation 4's internals based on Sony's specifications for the console, and we know it looks more like a PC than anything in the current generation of consoles, right down to the eight-core AMD-supplied x86 CPU. In a discussion with Gamasutra, PS4 Lead Architect Mark Cerny emphasized the extent to which these decisions were driven by game software and middleware developers.
"[C]learly we had had some issues with PlayStation 3, in that a very developer-centric approach to the design of the PlayStation 4 would just make things go more smoothly overall," Cerny said, a reference to the PlayStation 3's complicated Cell CPU. The developer outreach process began as early as 2007, when Cerny was put in charge of the new console's hardware, and was done before any work had commenced on the actual hardware design.
"The biggest thing was that we didn't want the hardware to be a puzzle that programmers would be needing to solve to make quality titles," said Cerny. Feedback from developers directly influenced several major specifications that we'll see in the finished console: a large pool of unified memory shared by both the CPU and GPU was a common request, and developers also asked that the hardware use no more than eight CPU cores because "the consensus was that any more than eight, and special techniques would be needed to use them, to get efficiency."
This developer-centric approach is quite a turn-around for Sony; Sony Corporation President Kaz Hirai once infamously said of the PlayStation 3 that Sony didn't aim to "provide the 'easy to program for' console that (developers) want" because the company wanted developers to be able to squeeze more out of the hardware as time went on and their familiarity with it increased. This viewpoint is more difficult to defend in an age of cross-platform games that must be ported to as many platforms as possible in the shortest amount of time possible. In contrast, this cross-platform porting is something that Cerny wanted to account for when designing the new console's hardware.
"It definitely was very helpful to have gone out and have done the outreach before sitting down to design the hardware," he said.


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About every time, scratch that–every time Jay Z steps on a stage and announces his presence with "Public Service Announcement," Just Blaze's omnipresence blares through the surround sound system guiding Hov, bar to bar, with a haunting piano sample. Anyone can pull a sound, but the art of crafting an anthem around it has been a staple for Just Blaze since 1999.
On the charts, Just Blaze has produced numerous hits like T.I.'s "Live Your Life," and Kanye West's "Touch The Sky," and for Hip Hop connoisseurs, those hits include The Diplomats' "I Really Mean It," and Fabolous' "Breathe." Justin Smith, known by his iconic drop, "Just Blaaaze," first popularized on Joe Budden's Grammy-nominated single, has fabricated emotional, nostalgic and/or gritty attitudes through the use of spontaneous samples within his beats. Ultimately, leaving it up for the listeners to consume and decide its fates. When HipHopDX caught up with him, the East Coast producer (turned executive producer for Slaughterhouse's upcoming album) was across the pond performing for international crowds, because you have to remember, music is its own universal language and he's quite the storyteller.
Why Just Blaze Says There's No Formula To Inspire His Production Choices
HipHopDX: In an interview I watched a few years ago, you said sometimes you can't let money dictate what's gonna be best for the record, and that's a great example.
Just Blaze: Definitely. Trying to go back and replay it and change it and whatnot, it wouldn't have been what's best for the record. Sometimes records cost money to make, and if you have to take a loss in one area, you realize you can always make up for it in another.
DX: You've used Rock samples in other tracks. What are some Rock tracks that caught your ear? Was it certain instruments or something you gravitate towards?
Just Blaze: No, there's no formula or rhyme or reason. It's one of those things that just happens. If you had a formula to it, you could put in a bottle and sell it and make a zillion dollars. It's never the same thing twice. I can get inspired by a guitar riff. I can get inspired by a vocal. I had a record with my friend Saigon called "Come on Baby," which samples The J. Geils Band—a song called "Southside Shuffle." And what drove me to sample that, was really the guy's vocal tones…the way he was screaming, it wasn't even the music. It just has to strike a chord, no pun intended. When you hear something that inspires you, that is when the creative process starts, at least for me. For example, my studio in New York is next to the Metro North train station, and every night, there's this alarm. I don't know what it's for, but every night there's an alarm that plays, and I'm like, "I wanna put that to a beat." So I need to go out there with a fucking field recorder and just sample that alarm. The inspiration could be anything, so long story short, there's no particular one thing that I look for, or one particular sound or instrument that I look for. I just look for things that inspire me and make me want to create something.
DX: So you just hear a noise and you build from there?
Just Blaze: I can hear anything. I can hear you talking to me right now and say, "You hear a noise," and five minutes later, I have a song about you hearing the noise. It's like any other art. Whether you're painting, whether you're writing and the more you get to know a person, the more you realize that sometimes they are creating things that may have been based on things that have been in their minds for years. Look at Star Wars. George Lucas wrote Star Wars. You think it's any coincidence that Luke Skywalker's name is Luke when George Lucas's last name is Lucas? That probably came about from him having a childhood fantasy about him being some kind of hero of some sort. And the idea developed in his head over the years, and he found a way to make Luke Skywalker out of George Lucas. Same thing with me, musically. I'll hear something, I can marinate on the idea for days, months, sometimes it strikes you right away. A beat like "U Don't Know," that I did for Jay Z on The Blueprint, I made that beat four times before I figured out the right way to do it. The same way that George Lucas probably wrote Star Wars 30 times. "Hovi Baby," on The Blueprint 2, I made that beat seven times before it became what we all know. Sometimes it works like that, where it takes time. Whereas say, a record like "Breathe," I nailed in one take, in 20 minutes, and turned off the computers and forgot about it. You never know where the inspiration is gonna strike. You never know where it's gonna come from. You can hear a sound, a song, a piece of dialogue. You can just be upset, or happy or feeling any… I'm sure Pharrell was super happy when he wrote "Happy."
Just Blaze Revisits T.I.'s "Live Your Life" & Joe Budden's "Pump It Up"
DX: Yeah!
Just Blaze: When I wrote "Live Your Life" for T.I. and Rihanna, I was very upset. And that record came about because I was upset because I had a huge fight with my ex-girlfriend. Everybody thinks that record is about empowerment and upliftment, and positive things and inspiration, and no it's not. That record was me telling my girlfriend, "F you. Go live your life. Do you wanna be a shining star in fancy clothes and fancy cars, do you wanna go far? Go live your life." But nobody on the outside would know that because they don't know what's going on in my personal [life]. She knew it, because as soon as she heard it, she called me like, "Oh, so you're writing records about me?" or "You're sending shots at me?" And she wasn't angry, but she picked up on it right away because we knew what we were dealing with. We were at a rocky point in our relationship. So again, inspiration can come from anywhere.
DX: You listen to hooks, and sometimes you don't think about a back story, and every piece of art has a back story. Whether it comes from writing, making music, lyrics…
Just Blaze: Any creative expression comes from somewhere that strikes a chord emotionally. Again, whether it's happy, sad, angry, remorseful, resentful, whatever. There's always something, because art is just an expression of where we are mentally at the time that we create it. But the public, again, are the ones who will determine what that song represents. When I wrote the record, T.I. didn't know the back story, and Rihanna didn't know the backstory. The public didn't know it, and it wasn't for them to know. I didn't tell that story until six years later, but that's where my head was at the time. So I say that all to say that inspiration can come from anywhere, anything, and any emotional state whether it's positive or negative. And it's also a great way to turn a negative into a positive, because that song did represent inspiration and empowerment, and aspiration to do better for a lot of people. Even though that's not the place where it came from, it came from the exact opposite place, but ultimately what is important is how the public receives it, and what it means for them.
DX: So I wanted to go from your work as a producer to your work as an executive producer. You're working with Slaughterhouse on their upcoming album, Glass House. Wasn't Joe Budden one of the first to push you to use your tag, "Just Blaze?"
Just Blaze: Yeah, he didn't actually push me. It was kinda like a running joke where I didn't have a tag yet. Rappers just used to shout me out on records. And he didn't do it on "Pump it Up," and I knew that was gonna be a huge record. So when he didn't do it, I asked him if he could, and he was like, "No, you do it." And I'm like, "Dude I don't talk on records. That's not what I do. I don't like the sound of my voice. Uhhh, no." But that whole day we had been making jokes in the studio, because his previous single, "Focus," he has this one part in the third verse where he goes, "Mondaaays, Fridaaays, Saturdaaays." He tells you the days of the week. So, we were cracking that joke all day, and I couldn't think of a way to say my name on the record that sounded good, so I just thought about going, "Just Blaaaze." And it worked, so I just kept it. And that kind of became the signature.
DX: So that was on "Pump it Up," but you said before that, rappers had been saying your name for you.
Just Blaze: Yeah, they would just say it, but I had never done it myself. "Pump it Up" was the first one.
How Just Blaze Separately Built Relationships With Slaughterhouse Members
DX: How have things come full circle, now working with Slaughterhouse and executive producing their album?
Just Blaze: Well it kind of happened organically. I was one of the first, or probably the first, if you wanna call it "big name producer" that he had worked with. Same with Royce. When Royce first came into the game, Pharrell and I were the first big producers he worked with. So I had a long standing history with both of them. And then me and Joell—when I opened my new studio in New York about four years ago—I randomly heard this Joell Ortiz record that I thought was amazing, but it sounded horrible. So I tweeted, and this was before there was Slaughterhouse or anything, I tweeted, "Yo, I just heard the most amazing Joell Ortiz record, but it sounds terrible. I will mix this record for free." And his manager, who I didn't know, but I knew of, tweeted me back, like, "We'll send you the files right now." And I had just opened up the new studio. I was actually just about to open it; we hadn't opened it yet. So that Joell Ortiz record was a guinea pig basically. I was testing my studio to make sure everything worked, and we used that record as a guinea pig to make sure that everything was working and in working order in the studio. So that was the start of my history with Joell. And Crooked I, I always had a lot of respect for, but we never knew each other. We had friends in common like Sway, but we never actually had a personal relationship until right before Slaughterhouse happened. We got into a huge argument at a studio one night, but it was a studio argument, not a real argument. Actually we were arguing, it was a debate about Rap music, and it got really heated. But we had a lot of fun in the process. So I grew to have a lot of love for Crooked I just in that one night. And we always stayed in touch after that, just arguing about Rap.
I had these four interactions, these four different histories with all these guys together, so it was cool to see them come together later on and form this group. And it was never intended for me to executive produce their album. When they first formed, we had a couple of meetings during the first album, which I actually didn't even work on. Actually, not the first album, the second one, where they signed to Shady. I was sitting with them, and their management and everybody, and just tossing ideas back and forth about what they could do for the album creatively. And we had a bunch of good conversations that ultimately didn't amount to anything, but one of the key points in that conversation was forming a Slaughterhouse of producers, the same way they formed a Slaughterhouse of rappers. And the idea was to helm a supergroup of producers, and bring them all together and work collectively. And it didn't happen with the first album on Shady, but when the second album came around, Mike, who was Joell's manager, was now working at Shady, and he wanted to revisit the idea. So he eventually said, "Hey, we don't have a lot of money, but would you mind producing four songs for us?" So I said, "Sure, no problem." And in the process of working on those four songs, ideas started flowing and it became a dialogue. I kinda just inadvertently ended up helping guide them on song construction, structure and concepts—even on records that weren't mine. Even if I had nothing to do with the song, I would be like, "Dude, you shouldn't do it this way, you should do it this way."
And it was genuinely just because I think it was easy, genuinely because I had a little bit of history with all the guys already, so there were no egos involved. We were all comfortable because we all knew each other, so it was really just me being like, "Hey, that beat is wack; you're tripping. This is the one to rap on, and this is what your concept should be." And that's just me telling them that as a homie. And the more and more that camaraderie developed, it became apparent that an executive producer role was forming without even trying to form it. You know, they weren't looking at me in that capacity, and I wasn't looking at them in that capacity. It just kind of happened organically. And then I got officially approached by Shady like, "Hey, we hear what's been happening in the studio, and we'd like for you to executive produce the album officially." So I was like, "Alright, fine." And we just went in and did it.
How The "Glass House" Team Developed Chemistry Working Together
DX: You said something earlier about a Slaughterhouse production team.
Just Blaze: We had the idea to bring in a few other producers and have everyone work together collectively under the guidance of one. So we basically put you onto a team where it's myself, Cardiak, !llmind, araabMUZIK, and J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, and it worked out great. We're not 100 percent done, but the majority of the body is there. And it's not just people coming with beats, it's like, I may have an idea for a sample, pass the sample off to J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, who may play the keys. And then I'll give it to Cardiak to do drums. Or maybe I have a beat, and I say to Cardiak, "Hey, I want to go from this tempo to this tempo, but when it switches, I want you to take my beat and treat it like a sample and change it around and do this and that with it." So I'm guiding the ship, but I'm also giving these guys the freedom to work on my stuff as well as me working on theirs. The collaborative effort I want first.
DX: I'm looking at the list of producers, and they don't make the same kind of beats. It's all kind of different. So working together, it's like a different sound that you guys are going to make?
Just Blaze: I don't like to make grand claims about how good something is or how great something is going to be. Some people like to say, "Oh, the album's phenomenal. It's this, and it's that." No. When it comes out, I hope the people love it. I hope they appreciate what we did, and what we were able to put together, because ultimately, like I always say, it's the people who decide whether or not something is good.
DX: Did you have a choice in putting the team together?
Just Blaze: Yeah. At the time is was just gonna be me and maybe araabMUZIK, because he worked with them previously. And then from there we brainstormed and I said, "Alright I'm going to bring in Cardiak. I'm going to bring in J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, and etcetera etcetera." And that's the job of the executive producer; you get to pick your personnel.
DX: So how is an average day in the studio with Slaughterhouse, with all four of them?
Just Blaze: Everybody has their own times that they come in. It's kinda hard to get them all in the same room at the once, because one lives in Detroit, one lives in L.A., one lives in Jersey and one lives in New York. But my main thing for the album was, "I want all you guys to be in the same room in the same space." There's not gonna be any mailing verses in via e-mail because then there's a lack of synergy and a lack of connection when you do things that way. You think about the early Wu-Tang albums versus the later Wu-Tang albums. The later ones, people had found their success, and had their own houses and their own families and their own agendas. And the synergy wasn't as there anymore, because they weren't nine hungry dudes sitting in the projects rapping. They're now guys who live all over the country. With Slaughterhouse, that was one thing I wanted them to have—that synergy as a group. So even if the group consists of four lyricists, it's not four individual rappers trying to outrap each other. It's four artists coming together as a group.
DX: I think being in the studio creates a different type of energy, like you said. And you don't get that kind of camaraderie when you're apart. You could play off each other more on a song.
Just Blaze: You build off of each other. You inspire each other. You share your day-to-day experiences with each other, which creates a whole different kind of energy. That's part of the reason why Roc-A-Fella was at its height when you had myself and Kanye, State Property, Cam'ron, Jay and Bleek—everybody all in the studio together. As opposed to before that or after that. There's a reason why Bad Boy in its prime, aside from other artists, you also had Chucky Thompson, Deric Angelettie, Ron Lawrence, Nashiem Myrick, and Stevie J, and all those guys in the studio collectively. You trace it back to Motown, the same thing where they had The Funk Brothers and all those musicians and songwriters in that one room in Detroit all day, riding with each other. As opposed to later when that synergy wasn't there, and it reflects in the product.
DX: And then it won't sound like they're trying to outrap each other, because no one really knows what the other one's saying, and then it's kind of like a surprise in a sense.
Just Blaze: Right. So we did a pretty good job with this album of just creating a certain synergy, and we still have some work to do, but I'm looking forward to it being finished.
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Story highlights
Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Australian Open
The 11-time grand slam winner had hoped to make his return from injury in Melbourne
Nadal has been laid low with a stomach virus following six months out with a knee problem
Novak Djokovic opened season with semifinal win over David Ferrer in Abu Dhabi
Rafael Nadal has sent shockwaves throughout the tennis world after withdrawing from the Australian Open.
The 11-times grand slam champion, who reached the final in Melbourne last year, had been expected to make his comeback from injury next month.
Nadal's withdrawal means he will slip out of the top four for the first time in over seven years.
After pulling out of an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi this week with a stomach infection, Nadal was still expected to compete at the ATP event in Doha before making his way to Australia.
The 26-year-old, who has not played since his shock second round defeat by world number 100 Lukas Rosol at Wimbledon, had hoped to make a return to action following a six-month absence with a knee injury.
But a virus has forced Nadal to pull out of both Doha and the Australian Open following discussions with doctors.
He said: "My knee is much better and the rehabilitation process has gone well as predicted by the doctors, but this virus didn't allow me to practice this past week and therefore I am sorry to announce that I will not play in Doha and the Australian Open, as we had initially scheduled.
"As my team and doctors say, the safest thing to do is to do things well and this virus has delayed my plans of playing these weeks.
"I will have to wait until the Acapulco tournament to compete again, although I could consider to play before at any other ATP event.
"I always said that my return to competition will be when I am in the right conditions to play and after all this time away from the courts I'd rather not accelerate the comeback and prefer to do things well."
Nadal has endured an injury-ravaged year, missing out on defending his Olympic title at London 2012 as well as sitting out the U.S. Open and Spain's Davis Cup final defeat in November.
Coach and uncle Toni Nadal believes his nephew was left with little choice but to cancel his plans to compete in Melbourne after contracting the virus.
Nadal to make long-awaited tennis return
He said: "We consider not appropriate to play the Australian Open since we will not have enough preparation for a greater competition which is a Grand Slam tournament.
"It is simply not conceivable that his first event is a best of five sets event, he wouldn't be ready for that.
"It is true we have been quite unlucky with this but there is nothing we can do.
"After all this time it is better to do things well and the most professional thing to do is to start when we are ready."
While the Nadal camp is understandably saddened by the news, it will also leave his fellow professionals disappointed.
World number one, Novak Djokovic, who beat Nadal in Melbourne last year, was looking forward to facing his old adversary once again.
"I was eager to see him play," said Djokovic.
"He has been off the tour for the past seven months and I am sure that all tennis fans and all sports fans want to see him back on the court, healthy and fit.
"I wish him, as a colleague, a fast recovery.
"It's unfortunate and I'm sure he feels the biggest need to play tennis out of everybody and hopefully he can bit for the Australian Open which is the most important experience."
Djokovic wins ATP World Tour Finals title
Meanwhile, Djokovic started his own season in style with a 6-0 6-3 win over Ferrer.
The Serbia star, who won the tournament last year, cruised through the first set before Ferrer began to offer resistance in the second.
Ferrer, ranked five in the world, led 3-1 in the second before Djokovic roared back to take the set.
"I love this court and the conditions here. I wish all the tournaments in the world were played here," Djokovic told ESPN.
"It's definitely a great surface. It's not too warm here, not too cold, it's ideal to prepare on.
"I am surprised with my game considering it's the first match of the official season. Hopefully I can play another good one tomorrow."
Djokovic will meet Nicolas Almagro in the final after the Spaniard came from a set down to defeat Janko Tipsarevic 2-6, 7-6, 6-2.


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I am new to the tea world, i used to be a coffee person (still drink it once in a while), but I have quickly fallen in love with various kinds of teas. Good tea is hard to find where i love, so if i am lucky a good Republic of tea, tea will be in stock in the local coffee and gift shop. but other than that i am confined to the internet ( and i cant stand shipping ).
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Ankur Jain is an entrepreneur, with a focus on leveraging innovation and entrepreneurship as a means to solve global problems.
Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Humin, a technology company in San Francisco that developed a contextual contact management system designed to think the way you naturally do. In March of 2016, Humin was acquired by Tinder. Jain is also the founder and chairman of the Kairos Society, an organization of young entrepreneurs working to create billion-dollar solutions to the world challenges. Over the years, the Kairos Society has helped launch and grow over 100 innovative technology companies tackling problems in mobile healthcare, education, clean water, and more.
Over the years Jain has been recognized for a variety of achievements. In 2010, Jain was selected as one of 80 students worldwide to participate in the Singularity University Graduate Studies Program, an interdisciplinary program based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley. Singularity University brings together leaders in business, science, and technology to facilitate the development of technologies that address humanity's greatest challenges. He has been recognized as a Leader del Futuro by the Ambrosetti Forum and as a Young Leader by both the World Foresight Forum and the St. Petersberg International Economic Forum. Jain also currently serves as a member of the Pacific Council on Foreign Relations. In 2011, Inc. magazine named Ankur Jain the "Best Connected 21-Year-Old in the World" and awarded Jain "30 Under 30". In 2012, Jain was named "30 under 30: Solution Broker" by the Christian Science Monitor. In 2013, Jain was elected to the Innovation Board for the X-Prize Foundation. And in 2015, Forbes also named Jain to their "30 under 30" list.
Jain graduated from the Wharton School of Business in May, 2011.


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