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It's a disease that afflicts all teams these days - of too much cricket and too much travel
Ed Smith
August 1, 2012
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How quickly things change. Three weeks ago England reduced Australia to 96 for 6 in the ODI at Chester-le-Street, another blow in a crushing 4-0 demolition. England's problem in those happier times was not taking wickets, it was working out which of their battery of fast bowlers to leave out. England have gone from an embarrassment of riches to a crisis of confidence - all in under a month.
How can any team suffer such a rapid reversal of form and fortunes? The usual explanations will be offered - selection, tactics, over-confidence, under-confidence, and so on. But there is a fundamental underlying explanation for such huge fluctuations in the form and momentum of international teams, and it applies to every team in the modern era. Everyone plays too much cricket.
Today's players go on more tours, check into more hotels, catch more flights and play more cricket matches than any players in history. The IPL and new pop-up T20 leagues mean that top players often exploit commercial opportunities during gaps in the international calendar. Every international team, to a greater or lesser extent, is jaded and exhausted.
Here is the crucial point: systemic tiredness, spread across all international teams, leads to innate volatility. Imagine a cricket match as an arm-wrestle. Two perfectly fresh and well-prepared teams will compete somewhere near equilibrium point for a much longer period before one side gradually forces its opponent into submission. A contest between two tired teams, though they are trying just as hard, will end much more quickly and decisively.
When I played county cricket, I learnt that matches taking place at the end of the season were different. It wasn't that players didn't try as hard or care as much. The difference was more subtle. What really changed at the end of the season was the degree of resilience within teams. Suffering from the long-term tiredness that is inevitable at the end of a season, teams found it harder to mount a sustained comeback if they fell behind in the match. As a result, if you could gain a dominant lead in the match early on, your position quickly became impregnable. As a batsman, I learnt that there were opportunities for big scores at the end of the season: if you could get in, then the opposition quickly melted away. It wasn't that they stopped trying. They simply had depleted physical and psychological resources to draw upon.
The gruelling, drawn-out nature of a county season has repercussions for coaching and leadership. The most important skill for a successful county coach is not technical expertise or even tactical nous. It is knowing how to manage a team's workload. "I'm not really a coach at all," one county coach put it to me. "There is no time to coach in the English county season. I'm a manager."
It was once hoped that county cricket would evolve to be more like Test cricket - with long periods of rest and recuperation, sufficient preparation and then intense battle on the pitch. Instead, international cricket has evolved to be more like county cricket - a never-ending round of travelling, patching up injuries on the road and calling up replacements.
The "county treadmill" is defined by motorways and suburban hotels; modern international cricket is defined by airports and five-star luxury. But the underlying truth is the same. There is too much cricket, too much travel, insufficient time and space to "gather" - physically and psychologically - for the game ahead. In terms of atmosphere and physical exhaustion, modern Test cricket is played in an almost perpetual end of season.
Nor can teams simply take more time off. There is a base level of preparation that is essential to compete well. Australia were hampered in England by a wet spring and too little cricket. They were undercooked. But if they had extended their tour to guard against such pitfalls - given all the other commitments their players face - they would have become jaded.
When you play too much cricket, those are the recurrent facts of life: a constant search for a happy medium between underprepared and over-tired.
|There is too much cricket, too much travel, insufficient time and space to "gather" for the game ahead. In terms of atmosphere and physical exhaustion, modern Test cricket is played in an almost perpetual end of season
The result is wild lurches in form: England smashed by Pakistan in the Tests in UAE, Australia dismantled in England in the ODIs, England humiliated at The Oval.
Say what you like about today's Test cricket but it certainly isn't predictable.
What is Kevin Pietersen going to do next?
I have followed Pietersen's career closely. We were almost exact contemporaries, and I was a member of the 2003-04 England A team in which Pietersen played his first representative cricket. I'd just been dropped by England. He was on the way up, about to break into the Test team.
I've rarely seen anyone bat with such total self-belief and ambition. His own mind was clear. There was only one possible destination: greatness. Everything else was mere detail.
When I got back to England, English journalists were eager to find fault with his technique and his personality. "You'd surely agree," one leading cricket writer said to me, "that he won't be able to make Test runs with that leg-side technique?" I remember seeing it very differently and replied: "People who are waiting for Pietersen to fail will have a long wait ahead of them."
And they have certainly waited patiently. But Pietersen's departure from the England T20 team was interpreted as misjudged and ill-timed. And now, even though he is far from being in bad form with the bat, there is a general sense that he owes England something special.
He has been here before. Before the last Test of the 2005 Ashes, there was a sense that Pietersen had to back up his evident self-confidence with some on-field performances. He made 158 and secured the Ashes. In Sri Lanka last winter, when he needed a big score to salvage the tour, he won the second Test almost single-handed.
Pietersen has always lived perilously close to hubris. But where other players would think, "Ah, here comes the moment when I trip up", Pietersen covets boxing himself into a corner. Many players find the pressure of "having" to perform a terrible burden. But Pietersen often produces his very best when the options narrow to "score runs or else…"
Just as well. Because England need him now.
Former England, Kent and Middlesex batsman Ed Smith's new book, Luck - What It Means and Why It Matters, is out now. His Twitter feed is hereFeeds: Ed Smith
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ESPN's Mark May: Todd Graham was lobbying for Texas job
Originally published: Jan 7, 2014 - 5:09 pm
Graham's background warranted that after he left both Rice and Pittsburgh following one-year stays.
The coach's early success at ASU coupled with the season-long rumors about the future of Mack Brown as Texas' head coach led to much speculation that Graham could be a candidate for the Longhorns' post -- one of the most coveted jobs in all of college football.
Of course, that didn't happen. Former ASU athletic director Steve Patterson, now the boss at Texas, plucked Charlie Strong from Louisville to lead UT's program moving forward, effectively ending the seemingly ever-present "Graham to Austin" narrative.
But ESPN college football insider Mark May says despite Graham signing a contract extension with ASU, saying all the right things and an agreement being struck between Arizona State president Michael Crow and Patterson that Graham couldn't be hired, the coach very much wanted the UT job.
"I heard through the grapevine, not publicly, but privately, Todd Graham was lobbying like heck to get the Texas job," May told Burns and Gambo on Arizona Sports now on 98.7 FM Tuesday. "Chew on that one, Arizona State Sun Devils fans.
"I heard it from not one, but two of our reporters at ESPN, that he was lobbying to get that job. It was another one of his 'dream jobs.'"
When asked about the agreement reportedly struck between Patterson and Crow that would have prohibited the new UT athletic director from hiring anyone from ASU, May said he heard that there wasn't much to it.
"I'm just telling you what I was told by our reporters at ESPN, that is not the case," he said.
In all fairness, May has been long perceived as a "Graham-basher" due to the coach leaving Pittsburgh, May's alma mater, after just one season. That was addressed as well.
"We have Paul Chryst, who's probably a better guy for the program and is going to be there for the long-term."
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"That was a game that was supposed to be a blowout for Arizona State and they were the worst-prepared team throughout the bowl season."
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@FearTheFork_ASU Absolutely inaccurate. It's evident that @mark_may doesn't let the facts get in the way of a good story— Rocky Harris (@SunDevilRocky) January 8, 2014
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we will be moving to ny for only 18 months and my son is 4.5 now. we would homeschool a semester of preschool and then kindergarten. im wondering though if he is able to learn from me? he doesnt always listen to me and im not sure i would do a good job either:)
how do i make this a successful enjoyable experience for him? i also have a 4 month old at home. sorry this is so short, im one hand typing while nursing:)
p.s. i know very little of homeschooling thus far, all info is welcomed:)!
Reading advice -- read to your child often.
Art advice -- keep it relaxed -- that's a happy mistake, in this world a plant lives there (after green paint drips in the wrong place).
Science advice -- make it physical (we acted out the sun and Earth one year).
Math advice -- play games to count and add dice.
I'm sure you'll get much more, and more eloquently stated, too. Good luck.
Does he walk? Does he talk? Then he's learning from you just fine, don't worry. I know, you're thinking "but he's biologically programmed to learn those things; reading and math are different." No they're not. Kids are biologically programmed to learn from the people around them, especially their parents -- and that includes all sorts of things beyond walking and talking. The sort of academic learning that makes up KG through 3rd grade can be imparted just as informally as things like walking and talking were. Be a caring and reasonably attentive parent. He'll learn.
How do you determine if homeschooling is right for you? You don't. You wade in and simply trust that you can make it work. I firmly believe that in the pre-teen years any parent who wants to can make it work. After that some of it is up to the child. But really, it's not rocket science. The love and understanding you have for your own child, the ability you have to individualize and respond, to follow interests, to integrate living and learning, to seize the moment and so on more than make up for any lack of teaching expertise you might feel you suffer from. Have fun!
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I think prek/k are great years to try homeschooling. There are lots if states where kindergarten isnt mandatory so it can be all child led with very little guilt about being behind if he goes to first.
im getting a happy grin on my face reading your posts, feeling like i might have just opened a key to a secret garden:)....
some technical questions:
how do i incorporate my now 4 month baby into the mix and still give my kindergartener the attention and care he needs?
ive been googling ny state homeschooling info, and i cant seem to find the exact info for kindergarten. i know in june 2012, the governor passed a law stating that kindergarten was in fact mandatory. perhaps im not finding the right website yet? im trying to research all i would have to do as ive heard ny state is more strict...
Do you spend a lot of money on teaching tools and supplies?
and my personal concern, i really dont think my child can learn the school stuff from me because he is very rebellious against me. like, if i tell him to please do something, he says no, and i say ok, and then he says no! i want to! perhaps its a developmental thing or discipline:) but really, today i tried making reading fun cause he said he wanted to and he didnt want to do anything i suggested.
thanks again for all opf the replies:)!
To me, homeschooling your child sounds like a great opportunity to build a relationship where he does not oppose you in everything. If this were the relationship I had with my child, I would put the time and energy in to working on that relationship. The academics will come naturally.
Moominmama is right. I'm only up to 1st now, but the academics do come naturally. Kids want to learn. If they are fighting on it, I tend to find I am wanting them to learn something they are not ready to learn (it is too confusing/they just aren't ready to grasp the concept/etc.).
There are all sorts of curricula out there. I have enjoyed having a literature-based approach. Does your son like it when you read him books? Read about all sorts of things. There are put-together packages of books, lists of books, or you can choose your own (or let him choose).
You are moving somewhere new - does your child like to be out and about? Do lots of field trips.
As far as your younger child - you are living life as a family together. Just do things together. Spend one-on-one time with your older child during naps. I read books with a baby on my lap or playing with toys on the floor. Sometimes it works great, sometimes it doesn't. That's okay. I learn how to sense the mood and I don't pick a long book (or we just do a few pages) if baby can't handle it for now. We can (and do) read more later.
I remember my dd not liking to "learn" from me -- when I was trying to provide direct instruction. Here's the thing. No 4 or 5 yo's like receiving direct instruction. Learning is a natural process, and kids at that age learn best by play. They instinctively know this, and therefore resist sitting down and doing 2+2=4. In fact, perhaps kids are diagnosed with ADHD most often at age 5 and 6 because something inappropriate is being demanded of them. As the other posters have said you really don't need to teach anything.
When I went to kindie, I finder painted, had a snack, listened to a story, and played outside. These days, kindie is more instructional, but that is mostly motivated by politics. There is very little research that supports earlier instruction, and a lot of research that says it is a bad thing. Take a look at books like The Hurried Child or Your Brain on Childhood. Don't buy workbooks. Just go to the library and take walks.
And as for the baby, are you going to be in NYC? What a great place to homeschool! Get museum memberships, and go every week. When mine were little, we went on walks in parks and collected rocks. We went to the local science museums and the zoo just about weekly. I just brought the baby along in a sling or stroller.
One more thing. I was worried when I started about my daughter falling behind her schooled peers. (Now that is funny! She is so far ahead!) I found that what calmed my fears was to let her play on some educational websites. Starfall is free, but you can subscribe to some that are really in fact very robust curriculums. Look at dreambox.com. It is excellent. My 3rd grade son still uses it. Also, look at readingeggs.com. Also very good. These sites are generally pretty fun for kids. If, like me, you can't totally quiet your fears related to academics, you can let your dc play on those sites. I wouldn't force it. Just 10 or 15 minutes 3 or 4 times a week should be plenty to "make progress." But this is something your child can do independently. You are out of the instructional role, and free to care for the baby.
thank you thank you thank you!! i love hearing all of your personal stories and how you came to homeschooling:) looks like i have to spend some more time on this forum!
yes! we would be in nyc and my son loves to be busy! i cant wait for him to discover the city he was born in, we moved when he was 1... he only causes trouble when bored of course. the other day when i was internally brainstorming of our future homeschooling days, i became more attentive to "learning" opportunities and found us singing a song about the 50 states, making a subtraction and addition song up with his matchbox cars, and pretending to be different objects and animals. it was so much fun and sparked so much more creative ideas that i began to journal about for future. and of course the baby was with us for most of that time.
so, do you ever actually sit down at a table and say, "homeschool time" or "work time"? like i said, i cant find the specifics of what i have to turn in for ny state yet, and i guess im a little intimidated as ive read others say how ny can be stricter with its homeschool laws....
Go about your business, homeschooling, then put down what you did in terms of education. Singing the song about the 50states would be learning about the states in the U.S., and counting is math.
That song wouldn't happen to start "Fifty nifty united states from the thirteen original colonies...", would it?
Nope. At that age, I never sat down to "do school." We read about ancient Egypt, then mummified a chicken and wrote our names in hieroglyphics. We watched a documentary on ancient China and went to the Chinese New Year festival in town, and made our own dumplings. The only formal structured thing I did was with those computer curriculum programs I mentioned.
Now that they are older, we do sit down three mornings per week for an hour or two. My dd 10 is doing accelerated math online, she takes an on-line grammar and lit class, etc. but we have gotten here really slowly, and there is still a lot of down-time and opportunity for self-directed learning.
Btw, I am in Philly, and PA has some of the most stringent hs'ing regulations, but I still have pretty much unschooled. Take a look at the website askpauline dot com to see how us folks in PA manage. The year we studied China, I just said on our report that we studied China, and I listed the books we read, and the documentaries we watched, etc. it wasn't hard.
I highly recommend keeping a calendar/diary where you record every little schoolish thing he does. For example, my daughter would group her vast collection of animals into habitat, sometimes continent. That counts. If she played with her alphabet puzzle, putting it together, copying or tracing the letters, or occasionally making a string of letters she would ask me to pronounce (QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM!) I would write those down. When we watched a nature video, I recorded that.
Not that every kid does this, but I have not had to do any "school time" whatsoever with my girls (they are 6 and 8), and with very little direction from me they are learning what they need to know--math, reading, spelling. It can and does happen. Some of this I credit to the general enthusiasm about "learning stuff", some credit goes to the girls themselves--that's just how they are and I am "lucky". And much of the credit goes to that darned calendar, and the state of awareness I am in when I am using it actively.
The nice thing about the calendar in states where records are important is that if you are filling it with things they learn on their own, that takes the burden off you for having to cover all the ground in the form of parent-directed "school time". Take pictures, keep samples, put them in a big binder. The other advantage is that it is easy to do with a baby in the wrap.
Also, picture books are a great resource for learning. That's where we learn most about geography and history. Books like "Scrambled States of America" and "President Stuck in the Bathtub" and "George Washington's Teeth" are all wonderfully engaging stories that we borrow from the library over and over. Sitting on the couch reading is our version of "school time". (For my 8yo, watching Olympic gymnastics over and over again on the internet has taught her the world's flags and nations.)
Which brings me to one point I have learned over the last couple of years: writing answers down, like in workbooks, can make the fun into the boring, especially at this stage when writing is a brand new struggle all by itself. I have heard so many versions of this story: discovering that the problem with math was really a problem with *writing* the answers, and sitting down and saying the answers solved the problem. It allowed parents to see that their kid knows the math they've been covering and to separate it from the real struggle-- writing. For writing at that age, we did puzzle books, where the writing is not busy work, easily replaced by merely saying the answer.
Give me a few minutes while I caffeinate.
I never have for a child that age. There is so much to learn just by living life. Shopping together, doing the laundry, cooking. Visiting museums, taking walks, looking at animals. Enjoying every craft supply you can get your hands on. The most important thing at this age is to develop the emotional attributes that will serve your child in the years ahead.
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A small area in typical balinese style with meticulous well-kept garden, sparkling rooms (bungalows, restaurant, spa, and so on.) And a lot of handicrafts. You can tell, that a lot of effort and work it-puts - everywhere have, maintain and works the employees, around the plant in shot to be held. No matter where you can see - a delight to the eye. We enjoyed every day new and nice discovered. Frangipani, palm trees, water games, koiteiche or relief - at each corner a highlight admire. Us had the birds, lizards, crabs, frogs and geckos pleased - it was ... really nice, to observe and to be peaceful. read hotel review
Great, but not for divers less suitable!
- Recommended hotel
- Couples
- Translated
- Beach holiday
- August 2013
We stayed for 4 nights at alam anda and the resort is primarily because of the good quality selected. The hotel is very well-kept and the bungalows are beautiful and in good condition. Only improvements in the bathroom was perhaps a bit larger towels, shower gel and shampoo in the shower, and a hairdryer. Whereas the recéption us kindly a hairdryer has borrowed. The food in the restaurant was very delicious, varied and the staff was extremely friendly! Since my partner to not, and we actually both rather active may, it was for him rather boring. Because next to the ... spa, a swim in the pool and there were not many possibilities. But he daily in the spa. Furthermore he could as snorkeling beginners because of the harsh sea (difficult entrance, high waves) not go snorkeling. For divers but the resort is really great. The diving basis is great and the whole team is very friendly and helpful! Note: the driving directions from the south (airport) in the north to the hotel depending on the path already very long and arduous. read hotel review
Wohlfühl-& relaxation oasis
- Recommended hotel
- Couples
- Translated
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- Other stay
- July 2013
In eigentlichenm meaning this hotel was for us no hotel. For us it was more of a spa and relaxation oasis, away from the mass tourism and familiarity. Here one experiences Bali how it really is and like one it introduces itself! But we took a nearly 30-hour prior to purchase. From denpasar (airport) you can travel approximately 2a 3 hours Bali after sambirenteng -singaraja. The driver was very nice. We could well talk to him and, although it was dark he thought to certain places and showed us one or another reisterrasse. Although we after 11:00 p. m. ... arrived at the hotel, we were warmly welcomed and our seaview bungalow (no. 6) brought. We were totally settled and, although we only wanted to sleep, we were positive with a midnight snack/ willkommenssnack surprised. The nasi goreng was after the 30-hour prior for us again the first real food. We were like small children looking forward to it. But a thank you ☺ The first night we slept like little baby's. it was not only because of a long trip, but also the super comfy, enormous bed (by the smell of the bedlinen was i pleasantly surprised). The next morning was the best, the we have ever experienced. This moment if you wake up, the sound is responsible. Excited pushes the curtain to the side, the door opens and walking on the terrace The first time the feeling of Bali and experience = it was just only fantastic! Since we Germany and well organised, we went directly to the front desk to check in. There we met on Bettina (hotel manager) the us feel very welcomed and offered us, only once for breakfast. On the way from our bungalow, the reception and the restaurant, we saw the first time the resort in the bright. Everything was very good well maintained, clean and tidy. Each of us came, welcomed us with a friendly smile in the face. read hotel review
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James Whitcomb Riley
The Pathos Of Applause
The greeting of the company throughout
Was like a jubilee,--the children's shout
And fusillading hand-claps, with great guns
And detonations of the older ones,
Raged to such tumult of tempestuous joy,
It even more alarmed than pleased the boy;
Till, with a sudden twitching lip, he slid
Down to the floor and dodged across and hid
His face against his mother as she raised
Him to the shelter of her heart, and praised
His story in low whisperings, and smoothed
The 'amber-colored hair,' and kissed, and soothed
And lulled him back to sweet tranquillity--
'And 'ats a sign 'at you're the Ma fer me!'
He lisped, with gurgling ecstasy, and drew
Her closer, with shut eyes; and feeling, too,
If he could only _purr_ now like a cat,
He would undoubtedly be doing that!
'And now'--the serious host said, lifting there
A hand entreating silence;--'now, aware
Of the good promise of our Traveler guest
To add some story with and for the rest,
I think I favor you, and him as well,
Asking a story I have heard him tell,
And know its truth,in each minute detail:'
Then leaning on his guest's chair, with a hale
Hand-pat by way of full indorsement, he
Said, 'Yes--the Free-Slave story--certainly.'
The old man, with his waddy notebook out,
And glittering spectacles, glanced round about
The expectant circle, and still firmer drew
His hat on, with a nervous cough or two:
And, save at times the big hard words, and tone
Of gathering passion--all the speaker's own,--
The tale that set each childish heart astir
Was thus told by 'The Noted Traveler.'
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By NANCY WHITAKER • Progress Correspondent
The United States Postal System has been struggling with financial woes for quite some time. According to a notice sent to the Scott and Latty Post Offices, meetings are scheduled to access their situations and possible solutions. Can these long time post offices survive with shorter hours or should there be a discontinuance study done?
Postal customers received surveys with questions on them about the current situation and the options available. If any resident did not get one, they are still available at the post offices.
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• Option 2: Do a discontinuance study and offer roadside mailbox delivery and a rural carrier will handle the retail and delivery.
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In May 2012, plans were announced that would hopefully achieve significant cost savings to get the organization back to financial stability. At that time, following meetings and research, it was disclosed that offices in Paulding County would be affected by the cost savings. Receiving cuts were Grover Hill, Haviland, Melrose and Cecil. They had modified retail hours to match customer use.
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The postal system has been suffering from financial difficulties for a number of years. With online bill pay, online banking, email, online shopping, greeting cards and much more, customers do not use the postal service as often as they once did.
The U.S. Postal Service maintains a retail network of more than 31,000 post offices and is the only delivery system that reaches every address in the nation which is 151 million residences, businesses and post office boxes.
The Postmaster General and CEO Patrick Donahoe said, "The job of postmaster general was once one of the country's most politically powerful. It is also one of the oldest; a version of the position existed before the Declaration of Independence."
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Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Nearby Metro Stops: Friendship Heights
Price Range: Moderate
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Special Features: Wheelchair Accessible, Kid Friendly
Cuisine: For raw-fish fanciers, there are few better places to appreciate the subtleties of the genre than these restaurants, which trade on smart sourcing and eschew style points and overambitious menus in favor of careful execution. The nigiri in particular are models of purity and balance: small, well-seasoned pads of rice, atop which sit thin, delicately carved slices of fresh fish.
Mood: The original in Glover Park is the city's oldest sushi bar and remains a template for the sort of unstuffy dining rooms cropping up around the area (though some might find it austere); the sumptuous spinoff in Friendship Heights manages to ride the line between glamorous and accessible.
Best for: Sushi purists.
Best dishes: Spot-prawn nigiri; a presentation of scallop sashimi, alternately rich and clean; sashimi or nigiri of salmon, yellowtail, yellowtail belly, and mackerel; a light and crisp deep-fried soft-shell crab with ponzu sauce; salmon teriyaki.
Insider tips: Sushi, particularly sashimi, makes a surprisingly rewarding take-out dinner (unlike pizza, there's no chance of steaming), and both locations are attentive to the needs of diners looking to duck in and out.
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Church of the Assumption of the Virgin. The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin across the street from the ossuary at the former Sedlec Monastery exemplifies the work of Giovanni Santini (1667–1723). A master of expressive line and delicate proportion, this one-of-a-kind architect fathered a bravura hybrid of Gothic and baroque. Vítězná, 284 03. 327–561–143 parish. 30 Kč, prior booking needed.
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A significant number of Macintosh owners upgrading to Leopard on Friday reported that after installing the new operating system, their machines locked up, showing only an interminable -- and very Windows-like -- "blue screen of death."
Easily the heaviest-trafficked thread on the Leopard support forums as of late Friday, "Installation appears stuck on a plain blue screen" told how, after a successful Leopard install using the default "Upgrade" option and the required restart, some users' Macs refused to budge from the blue screen. Although many gave up after 30-60 minutes and rebooted, others were more patient and let their Macs be as long as six hours.
"Hmmmm. I feel like a windoze user now," said Doug Mcilvain. I have re-installed and it has been sitting there with a blue screen for 4 1/2 hours."
Almost everyone who added to the thread -- which included more than 200 messages and over 7,400 views by 10:30 p.m. Friday, Pacific time -- selected the Upgrade option. Set as the default, Upgrade is the least intrusive of the three install options. "Most of your existing settings and applications are left untouched during an upgrade," Apple Inc. stated in an online support document. In fact, some reports speculated that the glitch might be related to a third-party program that installs a base-level framework that modified Mac OS X.
Frustrated users who rebooted to the install DVD then upgraded a second time using the "Archive and Install" option reported success and no lingering blue screen after restart. "I grew impatient after the first hour and rebooted to DVD and then reinstalled choosing the Archive/Install option," said a user identified as Volksapple. "That worked just fine. Despite this small hiccup, it's far better than any Windows upgrade I've suffered through."
Other users, however, waited it out or were told to by Apple support personnel. One user, James Mitchell9, said the blue screen finally vanished at the 75-min. mark. Others claimed they had been told the long blue-screen-of-pause could last as long as two or even three hours.
Still others jumped in with instructions to manually uninstall APE (Application Enhancer), a framework created by Unsanity LLC for use with its Mac customizing haxies such as ShapeShifter. "Please note that this does involve manipulation of files from the root prompt," cautioned Chris Mcculloh, who first made the suggestion. "This is not for the faint of heart, or those who are unfamiliar with the Unix file system/command structure."
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TZIVIA SCHWARTZ-GETZUG leans forward, listening hard to a message from the U.S. government. On the screen in front of her, a man is walking his dog when the dog pulls away to investigate a lumpy parcel under a tree. "Leave it," his master tells him. "It's just an old double chin. Someone probably lost it playing here in the park with their kids."
"Oh my God, that is hysterical!" says the Sherman Oaks mother of three. "Very clever."
Schwartz-Getzug likes the "selling idea" of the government's new campaign to get Americans fit: that taking just a few small steps to improve diet and boost exercise can make people healthier, slimmer, even sexier. But will she — and millions of other Americans — buy the message?
This time, they might because the sellers have come prepared. Flushed with success from the anti-tobacco wars, they now know more about the American people — and how to influence them. And this time, the sellers are joining forces.
In the last 18 months, the federal government, health advocates and private companies have begun to merge their efforts against fat and inactivity. The Department of Health and Human Services has turned to a top Madison Avenue advertising firm and a leading Internet design company to create the Small Steps campaign. Media companies are rethinking their long-standing practice of marketing junk food to kids. And health advocacy organizations such as the American Heart Assn. are forming partnerships with companies willing to spread their message to a seen-it-all, heard-it-all American public.
"Very few behaviors change because someone saw an ad. You need social norms in place, environmental supports, the products, the placement, all the things that make the right decisions easy," says Carol Schechter, director of health communications for the Academy for Educational Development, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization.
Thus far, campaigns aimed at selling healthy behavior have persuaded Americans, in large part, to wear seat belts, quit smoking and refrain from drinking alcohol and driving.
But consider the 22.5% of Americans who smoke, the 18% who never wear seat belts and the 17,000 killed each year by drunk drivers, and one understands the limits of health campaigns. Listen to Americans like Schwartz-Getzug talk about the crush of demands upon them and the temptations they face daily, and one perceives a sobering truth: Marketing campaigns aimed at changing behavior face long odds.
A full-time community-relations specialist with the U.S. Jewish Federation and mother of three kids ages 5 to 13, Schwartz-Getzug can't fathom how she could find time to get to the park, much less play with her kids there. Besides, she says, "I'm not convinced that those little steps actually have an impact
. Taking the stairs certainly does something, but it doesn't replace what's really needed."
She's what New York advertising giant McCann-Erickson Worldwide calls a "jaded can't-doer" — a parent too busy to eat right and exercise and too discouraged to launch a lifestyle overhaul. Not all Americans have grown overweight or suffer the health consequences of inactivity, but many share Schwartz-Getzug's personal assessment. "I'm still relatively healthy," she says. "But I'm not in very good shape, and I don't feel very good."
A walk after dinner sounds nice, she says, but by then, it's time to get the kids to bed. The 30 minutes of exercise a day recommended as the minimum for a healthy lifestyle? "I'm always trying to figure out where to find that, and it always comes down to less sleep," she says.
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It's clear that the straightforward approach to changing Americans' behavior will no longer work. Simply gathering the evidence, donning the white coat, warning the public and recommending a course of action won't cut it.
Today, campaigns to prevent HIV and AIDS, discourage smoking, fight obesity and urge cancer screenings use humor, sex and sophisticated market research. Public health advocates segment their markets and tailor their pitches to the sensibilities and media consumption habits of particular groups — preschoolers, teens, Latinos, African Americans, parents of school-age kids. They push fitness and health using one of the advertising profession's oldest principles: Sell the sizzle, not the steak.
These new campaigns offer encouragement by instant message, downloadable cellphone games with disease-prevention ideas, reality shows, websites with attitude and information, and potty humor for kids.
In vintage newsreel style, the Nickelodeon channel details the not-so-fine points of flatulence as part of a new campaign aimed at getting kids to link what they eat to how their bodies perform. The federal government's Small Steps campaign features sexy soccer moms and a paunchy man whose healthy choices have transformed him into a buff daddy. An anti-smoking message that ran during the Super Bowl in 2005 poked mordant fun at the tobacco industry with a parody advertisement hawking Shards O' Glass freeze pops ("Mr. Winky says, 'Talk to your kids about not licking. They'll listen.' ")
John Riley, president of Metrix Inc., a Rochester, N.Y., marketing firm, says Americans respond to messages that emphasize social acceptance and status — not scare tactics or lectures.
"We need to push that emotional button that's going to get them to pay attention with their whole body and not just with their mind," says Riley, a former New York public health official. "That's an element of social marketing that more public health people are getting comfortable with. Ten years ago they thought that was cheap somehow; they thought that was tawdry."
The U.S. government is now betting on "social marketing," especially as it tackles obesity — a threat to the public's health that can lead to diabetes, heart disease and other serious conditions and that costs the nation an estimated $117 billion annually in healthcare costs.
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Gosh, the dryer is just super in every way! The washer is equally impressive.
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i went to Conns looking for a dryer and washer set not knowing what i was even looking forward but the salesman started with the lowest and we ended up with this product and it is awesome! cycle times are quick, its quiet enough to do and not wake a toddler! great price and warrenty
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I bought this about a year ago and I have no complaints so far.
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I've had the dryer for about 10 months now and it does a great job and the drying options are excellent. However, the steam dry always puts more water in the dryer than it should so everything comes out feeling quite damp.
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Bought as a companion piece to our matching washer. Excellent selection of functions. Like the washer, it runs very quietly. Loads are dry in much less time. Our next appliance purchase WILL BE A G.E.!!!!!
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My son Christopher cried himself to sleep tonight. No one was mean to him. His pet did not die. He was not hurt or in trouble, he was just sad. Sad because a part of his life that he loves is changing. He asked me before he went to bed, "Do you think he will forget about me? What if we never see him again?" I cried myself thinking about how sad this change is making my son. His heart has been touched by this person and he will never be the same again. In fact, he will be better for the experience, but it is difficult. There is fear, uncertainty, and sorrow for him. But for his friend, there is hope, challenge and growth. Christopher sees the good and bad parts of the situation, but for him, the change is not wanted so it is sad. CHANGE SUCKS!
I know. Change is inevitable. Sometimes we even seek change. A change of scenery, a new job, a new home, a new friend or the release of an old one. But for the most part, change requires adjustment. It is uncomfortable, scary, exciting, invigorating, nauseating….lots of things. Plus, sometimes seeing the good in change requires clarity, focus and empathy. All tools that are non-existent in most 10-year-old boys (and their 47-year-old mother!)
The Coppinger clan is going through a big ole' bunch of change lately. In addition to losing a beloved coach to the next step in his baseball career, my husband Jim has a newish job that now requires him to travel. The kids hate it. They are very attached to their routine. Heck, every night of the week one or two of them are still snuggled in Jim's lap after dinner watching TV. His leather recliner is overflowing with arms and legs while he smiles from ear-to-ear under it all. It can't possibly be comfortable, but each and every night, there they sit like a pile of puppies. On the nights that Jim is gone, things just do not feel right and we all struggle to find comfort in each other.
Add to that the fact that Jim's 90+ parents are in a rehab facility after making themselves sick. They can't see – or really even bend over enough – to clean their home properly so they got sick, It took me and a crew of professional cleaners 6 hours to get the townhouse ALMOST clean. It seems unreasonable to go back so we would like for them to move into an assisted living apartment. But they are very independent (in this case that is just another word for stubborn) and really want to go back to their very own filth where they are in control.
I understand! It can not be great to contemplate where you want to spend your final period of time on the planet and have it be filled with doctors, nurses, aids and about 50 other old people. They won't listen to us, after all we are their children, what could we possibly know? And yet, they do not see themselves clearly enough to make a reasonable decision about their life and their health. I feel like they are very much like Christopher. Sad about a change that is not wanted, but necessary. It is easy to see the circle of life here in the midst of change. Old or young or middle aged, it still feels sad or scary sometimes. But to not change or grow. What would that be like?
Ahhh change…if only I were talking about a penny or a dime! Oh well, I will strap in and ride along, because in the end it is all worth it!