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The NTSB has released its preliminary report from a helicopter accident which occurred February 10 in Acton, CA, resulting in the fatal injury of all three people on board the aircraft. The report indicates that the weather was "Night VFR" when the Bell 206B JetRanger went down about a minute after takeoff. The pilot reportedly had to remove frost from the aircraft's main rotor blades just before the accident flight.
NTSB Identification: WPR13FA119
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Sunday, February 10, 2013 in Acton, CA
Aircraft: BELL 206B, registration: N59518
Injuries: 3 Fatal.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed.
On February 10, about 0330 Pacific standard time, a Bell Helicopter 206B JetRanger, N59518, collided with terrain shortly after departing from a landing zone on a movie ranch near Acton, California. Orbic Air LLC, was operating the helicopter under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91. The commercial pilot and two passengers sustained fatal injuries; the helicopter sustained substantial damage. The local flight departed the landing zone (LZ) about 1 minute prior to the accident for the purpose of shooting an aerial video sequence. Dark night visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan had been filed.
Eyeworks USA LLC, also doing business as Bongo LLC, production company had contracted Orbic Air to provide helicopter services for a reality television show they were producing. The pilot and several members of the production crew had scouted the movie ranch location a few weeks prior; at which time they discussed the helicopter's maneuver possibilities, equipment needed, and film planning. Following that meeting, the pilot filed a Plan of Action (POA) waiver with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under his company, Crossbow Helicopters, Inc., and the filming day was scheduled for the evening of February 09.
The tentative plan was for an actor to drop a backpack to the ground while the helicopter was in a hover enabling the cameras to film the airborne actor, the backpack receiver on the ground, and the helicopter executing the mission. There were two shots needed of the backpack being dropped, done by two different actors, at two separate locations.
The pilot departed on February 09 about 1645 from the helicopter's base at Van Nuys Airport, Van Nuys, California, with about 55 gallons of fuel onboard and an additional 10 gallons of fuel in plastic containers. The helicopter arrived at the LZ, and about 1730, the pilot conducted a safety meeting with the production crewmembers briefing them of the potential hazards of having the helicopter on-site. The pilot removed the fuel containers and took off the left-side doors.
The first bag-drop mission occurred around 2100 and the pilot departed with an actor in the left-front seat and a camera operator behind him in the left-rear seat. The flight lasted about an hour and consisted of the pilot performing several passes and then circling numerous times around a predetermined drop zone (an open clearing surrounded by trees) located a few hundred yards away from the LZ. After circling and dropping the backpack, the pilot returned back to the LZ to retrieve the backpack and discuss the necessary changes in the flight to capture the correct shot. This occurred several times until the production team was satisfied with the footage attained. The production crew and pilot had a catered meal break at 2300 and the pilot slept in a trailer for about 1.5-2 hours.
The next filming location was a plateau about 1,500 feet southeast of the LZ. The plateau had a dirt road that paralleled the north-south ridgeline and was where the edge of the west-facing valley wall sloped down about 70 feet mean sea level (msl) to another dirt road. The terrain gradually sloped down from that road in to a north-south oriented valley and dry riverbed that stretched about 1,000 feet to the west. There were no lights in the valley.
After his rest, the pilot went to the plateau to view the lighting situation and discuss with the director and other production crewmembers the second, and final, backpacking dropping mission. There were two cranes set up with light directed toward an area of the plateau where the bag was to be dropped. The pilot requested that another smaller light be erected to illuminate the sloping terrain just below the dirt road. He additionally requested that glow sticks be placed in line on the ridge to lead up to the drop zone. Both of the lighting requests were granted and the director and pilot agreed on the scene and maneuvers to be performed. The helicopter would hover at the west side of the valley and then maneuver east toward the plateau. The helicopter would then ascend from below the ridgeline with the left side in view for the actor to be filmed dropping the backpack onto the plateau.
After removing frost from the main rotor blades and windshield, the pilot departed the LZ on February 10 about 0330 with the same camera operator in the left-rear seat and a different actor in the left-front seat. The camera crew additionally set up a GoPro camera on the windshield to film the actor and a Flexit LED light pad was placed behind it to aid in illuminating him. Witnesses observed the helicopter depart normally and fly toward the plateau from the west. While maneuvering about 60 miles per hour, the helicopter suddenly pitched down and collided with the terrain below the valley's wall. The production crew had expected the helicopter to perform high passes prior to maneuvering around near the plateau for the action shot and did not have the cameras on the ground set up or filming.
The accident site was located in the soft sloping dirt area at the base of the valley wall with a portion of the left skid tow being the first identified point of impact. Scattered about 170 feet, the helicopter's debris field was oriented on a 105-degree magnetic bearing. The main wreckage, which consisted of a majority of the airframe and engine, was located about 70 feet west of the edge of the plateau's ridgeline.
The helicopter was recovered for further examination and the visual/audio recording devices were retained and sent to NTSB headquarters.
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The richest became richer in 2012
World's top 100 moguls added $241B to net worth
NEW YORK -- The richest people on the planet got even richer in 2012, adding $241 billion to their collective net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world's 100 wealthiest individuals.
The aggregate net worth of the world's top moguls stood at $1.9 trillion at the market close on Dec. 31, according to the index. Retail and telecommunications fortunes surged about 20 per cent on average during the year. Of the 100 people who appeared on the final ranking of 2012, only 16 registered a net loss for the 12-month period.
"Last year was a great one for the world's billionaires," said John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of Red Apple Group, in an email written poolside on his BlackBerry in the Bahamas. "In 2013, they will continue looking for investments around the world -- and not necessarily in U.S. -- that will give them an advantage."
Amancio Ortega, the Spaniard who founded retailer Inditex SA, was the year's biggest gainer. The 76-year-old tycoon's fortune increased $22.2 billion to $57.5 billion, as shares of Inditex, operator of the Zara clothing chain, rose 66.7 per cent.
"It's an amazing company that has done great and the gains are quite justified given its performance," said Christodoulos Chaviaras, an analyst at Barclays PLC in London. "Can they repeat that? It will be harder. A lot of the positive news is already reflected in the share price."
Global stocks soared in 2012. The MSCI World Index gained 13.2 per cent during the year to close at 1,338.50 on Dec. 31. The Standard and Poor's 500 Index rose 13.4 per cent to close at 1,426.19.
European stocks surged in the second half of the year. The Stoxx Europe 600 is up 19.6 per cent since June 4, advancing as the European Central Bank introduced bond-buying programs, S&P upgraded Greece's debt and German business confidence rose more than forecast. The benchmark gauge's 14.4 per cent advance for the year was the best annual return since 2009.
Carlos Slim, the telecommunications magnate who controls Mexico's America Movil SAB, maintained his title as the richest person on Earth for the entire year. The 72-year-old's net worth rose $13.4 billion -- or 21.6 per cent -- through Dec. 31, making him the second-biggest gainer by dollars.
Gains by Slim's industrial conglomerate, Grupo Carso, and Grupo Financiero Inbursa, his banking and insurance operation, more than offset the decline posted by America Movil, his biggest holding. The largest mobile phone operator in the Americas by subscribers fell 5.8 per cent to close at 14.9 pesos at the end of the year.
"America Movil is no longer the growth story that it has been, given the increase in Latin American wireless penetration over the last five years," said Chris King, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Co. in Baltimore, Md. "It continues to generate a very high amount of cash flow and has the best set of telecom assets across Latin America."
According to King, one of Slim's biggest challenges will be dealing with regulation in Mexico and Colombia designed to punish or even-out the market share between America Movil and its competitors.
U.S. software mogul Bill Gates, 57, ranks second on the list, trailing Slim by $12.5 billion. The Microsoft co-founder added $7 billion to his net worth as shares of the Redmond, Wash.-based company rose 2.9 per cent. Microsoft stock accounts for less than 20 per cent of the billionaire's fortune.
Warren Buffett, 82, lost his title as the world's third-richest man to Ortega on Aug. 6. The Berkshire Hathaway chairman gained $5.1 billion during the year, even after donating 22.3 million Berkshire Class B shares in July to charity. The billionaire, who has pledged to give away most of his fortune, spent much of the year pressing for higher taxes on the wealthy.
"On incomes of over $1 million, the excess $1 million should have a minimum tax of 30 per cent. And then over $10 million, 35 per cent," Buffett said in an interview with Charlie Rose in November. "Tax law should be progressive. And I think that when people make $15 million or $20 million or $200 million and pay a 10 per cent rate, something should be done about it."
IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad, 86, is the world's fifth-richest person with a $42.9 billion fortune. The complex ownership structure behind IKEA, the world's largest furniture retailer, became more transparent in August after IKEA's franchisor published its financial performance publicly for the first time. His net worth rose 16.6 per cent in 2012.
Brazil's Eike Batista, 56, was the year's biggest loser by dollars, falling $10.1 billion. The commodities maven, who vowed a year ago that he'd become the world's wealthiest man by 2015, sold a 5.63 per cent stake in his EBX Group in March to Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development.
As part of the deal, he pledged an unspecified additional stake in 2019 if he fails to meet a five per cent annual return on the sovereign wealth fund's $2 billion investment, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. Batista now ranks 75th in the world with a $12.4 billion net worth. On March 27, he was worth $34.5 billion (eighth on the Bloomberg index).
"Next year is going to be a lot of work for Eike," said Lucas Brendler, a manager at Banco Geracao Futuro de Investimentos in Porto Alegre, Brazil. "It's going to be a year for him to recover investors' confidence and to leave the realm of theory and start delivering results. The EBX companies have great growth potential."
Batista's former title as the richest Brazilian is now held by 73-year-old banker Jorge Paulo Lemann, who ranks 37th on the index with an $18.8 billion fortune. The country's second- richest person is Dirce Camargo, the matriarch behind Camargo Correa SA, the Sao Paulo-based conglomerate that has interests in cement, electricity and Havaianas flip-flops. Her net worth is $13.4 billion.
Camargo, who doesn't appear on any other major international wealth ranking, is one of 54 billionaires the index uncovered during the year. Among the others: Hamdi Ulukaya, the 40-year-old Turkish immigrant owner of Chobani, the best-selling yogurt brand in the U.S.; South Africa's Nathan "Natie" Kirsh, 80, who amassed a $5.4 billion fortune in retail and real estate; and Elaine Marshall, 70, whose 14.6 per cent ownership of Koch Industries makes her the fourth-richest woman in America. She is worth $14.1 billion.
Koch Industries' two other shareholders, brothers Charles and David Koch, are each worth $40.9 billion, up 20.9 per cent -- $7.1 billion -- for the year.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison rose $6.4 billion in 2012 as shares of the world's largest database company jumped 31.7 per cent. Ellison, 68, who has more than tripled the amount of Oracle stock he has pledged against lines of credit in the last year, agreed to buy 98 per cent of Hawaii's Lanai island. The 365-square-kilometre parcel with no traffic lights was purchased from billionaire David Murdock, 89, chairman of Dole Food, the world's largest producer of fresh fruit and vegetables.
The bulk of Ellison's fortune comes from his 23.5 per cent stake in Oracle. He also has interests in software makers NetSuite and LeapFrog Enterprises, as well as property holdings, including estates in California and Newport, R.I.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg lost $5.2 billion during the year after the company's shares fell 30 per cent following its May initial public offering. He is worth $12.3 billion.
-- Bloomberg
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The generally accepted standard for expertise is 26, which is the soft cap for dps. This prevents a level 83 boss from dodging attacks.
Expertise does two things for a tank:
The actual expertise cap for tanks is 56. But no tank will ever stack to that amount because the rest of your avoidance stats decrease your chance to be parried already significantly. 26 is a good number to shoot for to ensure your doing maximum threat and reducing your chance to be parry hasted to a very low percentage.
- It allows your melee attacks to hit more often, because of the above reason. Successful melee attacks for a Frost DK is roughly the 2nd highest provider of threat, behind Rune Strike.
- It decreases a boss or mobs chance to parry your attacks. This actually provides some damage mitigation for a tank. In WoW there is a boss mechanic called "parry haste" or aka "parry gibbing." When most bosses parry an attack their swing timer is reduced by roughly 40% and they get to attack you again much faster. Obviously when this happens you get spikes of damage. Depending on what attacks hit you (maybe a boss high damage special attack is one) you may get killed because your healer doesn't expect it and can't keep up.
And acclimation is generally understood to be useful for very few boss fights and therefore a waste of points.


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The other Republican candidate was viewed as moderate and had a substantial history with the people of Delaware. The problem was that his voting record was extremely liberal in a time when the country is decidedly more conservative.
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This week, as the six recipients of Nobel Prizes in science take the podium, some might wonder what the absence of women among the awardees says about the state of women in science. It will be a fitting occasion for such reflections as the Nobel ceremonies will coincide with the 99th anniversary of Marie Curie's award in chemistry. For her contributions to the theory of radioactivity and her studies on the therapeutic properties of radium, Curie became the first woman to be honored by the Nobel committee, which gave her the Prize in Physics in 1903, and the only woman to receive the honor twice. Her place in history is made more special by the fact that these accomplishments came at a time when few women were able to enter the scientific profession.
If, in the early 20th century, there was a general belief that women were less capable of doing valuable scientific work than men, the quantity and impact of Marie Curie's research provided a strong counterargument. Some feminist historians have seen Curie's accomplishments as a symptom of the excessive demands women scientists faced throughout history; her extraordinary contributions, they argue, demonstrate that female scientists have generally been held to a higher standard than their male colleagues; women scientists have gained general acceptance only after above-average performance (McGrayne 2001, Wyer 2001). To support these claims, historians often return to the Nobel and highlight statistics suggestive of gender disparities in how the committee has recognized scientific achievement in the past. Over the 109 years of the Nobel's history, only 16 women have been acknowledged in the science categories (2 in Physics, 4 in Chemistry, and 10 in Medicine). Of these 16, 9 (56%) received the honor after 1980. Feminist readings of these figures conclude that the Nobel committee has largely neglected the contributions of women in science during the 20th century, with the gender gap narrowing only in recent decades.
Having raised the issue of gender politics, statistically-minded readers might recall that it was 40 years after Curie's second Nobel that Simpson published a paper describing a curious phenomenon in association analysis. The phenomenon, which came to be known as Simpson's paradox, occurs when an overall association between two categorical variables, female gender and Nobel recipient, for example, have no, or even a reverse, association when assessed within subgroups defined by a third factor. This statistical artifact was famously demonstrated in a case of suspected gender discrimination against female students applying to graduate school. The case study is relevant to the present discussion in more than its subject matter because it reveals a fundamental flaw in standard feminist readings of the Nobel data.
In the 1970s, an investigation of the admission rates to graduate programs at the University of California Berkeley (UCB) showed an overall significantly lower probability of admission for female applicants than male applicants. This led to the suspicion of pervasive bias in the admissions process whereby qualified female candidates were being systematically excluded from graduate study on the basis of their sex. Further analysis revealed a more complex story. When the association between gender and application acceptance was analyzed by department, it was found that the overall association in favor of males was, for the most part, an artifact of Simpson's paradox. The department-by-department assessment was not a story of gender bias but of an ambitious pool of female applicants who, in contrast to their more laid-back male peers, were disproportionally vying for spots in the most competitive programs. Had the interplay between gender, program preference and selectivity been overlooked, it might have resulted in an erroneous accusation of University-wide sex discrimination.
Judgments about the Nobel data that look only at the award counts make a similar mistake as the initial analysis of the Berkeley admissions data. The overall low acceptance rate for the female applicants to UCB would have only been evidence of bias if an equal proportion of male and female applicants were applying to each department. Similarly, the paucity of Nobel awardees would only be surprising if it was inconsistent with the proportion of women among eligible candidates, in this case, professional scientists.
To accurately address the hypothesis that science done by women has been persistently devalued in the past century, we need to consider trends in the representation of women among active scientists. To do this, I randomly sampled general science articles from the JSTOR database and determined the proportion of male contributing authors for each decade of the past 110 years. Taking into account the gender distribution of professional scientists with this method, the Nobel data tell a quite different story than the simple counts would suggest. For a selection process that is not influenced by a candidate's gender, the proportion of female Nobel winners should be comparable to the proportion of working women scientists. This was the case up to the 1970s (Figure 1), with a possible discrepancy in the decade following WWII, which could reflect a voting committee heavily influenced by the political climate of the time (for more on this topic, see Danny Dorling's article in the September 2010 issue (7.3) of Significance).
More recently, a gender gap has emerged as the number of female recipients has declined while the growth of women in the scientific profession has risen. The evidence suggests that, in the first half of the 20th century, qualified women were struggling to enter the scientific profession but those who broke through were as valued as their male colleagues. In more recent decades, the increasing rate of entry into the professional field reflects the victories won in combating barriers to a career in science (For a recent popular text on these changes see The Madame Curie Complex). Yet the widening gender gap for Nobel nods suggests that the average professional impact among the growing segment of women scientists, as a consequence of discriminatory or other factors, might not be keeping pace.
Interestingly, the standard feminist reading of the Nobel awards in science is a better description of the trends for the Literature category (Figure 2). Based on the ratio of female to male bestselling novelists, as tabulated by Publisher's Weekly, women have held a nearly even place (40%) among professional writers in the 20th century. Despite this, the decennial proportion of female Nobel recipients has only begun to approach this level in the past two decades. Before the 1990s the percentage of female prize winners in literature was 7%, an astonishing difference of over 30%. Women writers have good reason to protest against the Nobel foundation for routinely neglecting the merits of their work.
Of course, what Nobel Prize trends say about the general opinion of the prize's respective fields is as mysterious as the foundation's voting process. But the even greater mystery, in the admittedly prejudiced opinion of this author, is why the Nobel committee, in its near-110 year history, has yet to name a Laureate in statistics.
Hello, what are the names of the scientists who won the nobel prize for their work.
You are correct that the interpretation of the Berkeley admissions data by department is complex. Simpson's paradox manifested in inconsistent associations within department. It was not simply that no gender association was found across departments. The self-selection of applicants makes it difficult to assess the presence of a within-department gender bias, still the heterogeneity of the sex and application acceptance associations would seem to rule out a campus-wide bias disfavoring females.
Nobel Prize winners in science have traditionally been researchers that have made a path-breaking discovery: radioactivity, the double helix of DNA, the catalytic properties of RNA, etc. Compared to the physical sciences, defining "discovery" for analytical sciences such as economics, mathematics and statistics is complicated. Perhaps this is why we can still debate whether Gauss or Laplace discovered the normal distribution. What does finding a probability distribution actually mean when it is pure abstraction? It cannot been seen by a microscope or inferred with X-ray diffraction. Leading thinkers in the analytical sciences have really been inventors and the Nobel committee has historically been less impressed by invention than discovery. Somewhat ironic considering that, aside from the foundation bearing his name, Alfred Nobel is best known as the inventor of dynamite.
HI Stephanie,
There is a contentious situation since the recent financial crisis whether the "Nobel" for economics ought to be withdrawn. This is not the position of the Nobel committee but critics of economists. In my view, the critics may be onto something.
But to get to the innards of your post, as you rightly note, the Bickel study has been criticized. While the results could be for the reasons you state, competitiveness, it could also be due to easier entrance requirements, which some critics have claimed as the reason for the disparity, although this would not be my position. The data is ambiguous on this.
If you look across all departments, one department could be interpreted as primarily contributing to the paradox though the number of female applicants was small compared to the number of males. And in one department, more than twice the number of females than males applied, and although the percentage of males admitted was greater than the number of females, the number of females admitted outnumbered the males by two to one. So, while one department may have been biased in one direction, another could have been biased in another with the biases canceling out overall, almost. Which is what Freedman showed in his critique of the study.
As for whether there ought to be a Nobel for statistics, one could argue that this would be inconsistent with the spirit of the other science Nobels, although they now give one for economics, recently a highly contentious issue. One also mustn't forget that the Nobel committee awarded Kissinger the Peace Prize. Mathematics has the Field medal which is just as prestigious as the Nobel. Should statisticians want a Nobel?
Yes, defining the real candidate pool for the Nobel is tricky. I have considered actively publishing scientists to try to determine the ratio of male to female among the population of individuals competing for the Nobel, that is, those who, without a gender bias, would have a shot at getting a Nobel nod. But really it is a small portion of this group, those whose work has the highest impact. So maybe looking at the gender ratio among authors of high-impact papers? What measure of recognition would you suggest for defining the Nobel candidate pool?
In any case, any refinement of this kind will likely result in a more skewed distribution, favoring males, making the Nobel awards more consistent with the prospective awardees. Again, suggesting, that any bias that might be present in the prize winners is occurring at some earlier stage of the multistage process--from education, professional work, acclaim--that leads to the pool of Nobel hopefuls.
Since there is still a debate among some about whether Statistics is even a science in its own right, it would be hasty to make a short list for a Nobel prize in statistics. Still, I can state, with confidence, that women have had an important role in the advance of the field and the promotion of statistical thinking. Early examples: Ada Byron, Gertrude Cox, Florence Nightingale. More recently, female statisticians whose work has influenced my own education and research include Nan Laird, Rebecca DerSimonian, Annette Dobson, and Deborah Nolan.
Thanks Stephanie for your very interesting post. As you say, it is important to define the pool from which Nobel prizewinners are drawn. The Nobel names are not drawn from the total pool of professional scientists, but only from those who achieve something outstanding (as nominated by their peers). This pool may not be representative because:
- some people (men and women) may have made significant advances which are not yet recognised or understood, or are deemed politically incorrect
- some people - and women in particular I would say fall into this category - have all the potential to reach the top of their scientific profession but do not realise this because of domestic responsibilities and the way scientific careers are structured
More women are entering science careers, but few make it to the top, and it is saddening that women seem to be under-represented with regard to the Nobel prize.
Which woman statistican would you nominate?
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How archaic that now seems to those of us who use online banking. Bills come by email and with a click or two are paid — no checkbook, no stamps and no hassle. Other bills are paid automatically each month — an innovation so simple that the danger is that you might lose track of who you are paying and why.
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EHRs have received considerable press and most certainly hold the promise to make our lives simpler and healthier. But, despite the billions spent on them, and their central role in the federal health care overhaul, they have not yet clearly delivered on their promise. They are expensive and can be glitchy. And I speak from experience here.
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Reed and her team examined the staggered implementation of the EHR across Kaiser Permanente in Northern California between 2005 and 2008. They compared "negative" outcomes, such as visits to the emergency room and hospitalizations, in 169,000 diabetic patients whose care was administered through either an EHR or a traditional paper chart. The study found that among these diabetic patients, annual emergency room visits declined 5.5 percent and annual hospitalizations declined 5.2 percent. There was no significant change in the number of doctor's office visits for patients with diabetes before and after the EHR was implemented.
"Since our study finds EHR-related improvement in care quality and outcomes without changes in office visit rates, this may reflect greater efficiency during visits or care delivery between visits," Reed wrote in the JAMA article.
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shihad-home again listen to the song for strumming patterns with a * next to chord use intro strumming (ps i duno bout the lyrics everywhere on the net is different) Chords... F:xx3211 Fmaj7:xx3210 Dm7:x57565 Dm9:x57555 dm/f:100231 (you can actually jus play F here) Intro: F Fmaj7 Dm7 Dm9 intro riff u can play instead of chords: e|-----------------------------------R------------------------------R-------| B|-----------------------------------E--6-6-xx-6-6-xx-5-5-xx-5-5-xx-E-------| G|-10-10-xx-10-10-xx-9--9--xx-9--9---P--5-5-xx-5-5-xx-5-5-xx-5-5-xx-P-------| D|-10-10-xx-10-10-xx-10-10-xx-10-10--E--7-7-xx-7-7-xx-7-7-xx-7-7-xx-E-------| A|-8--8--xx-8--8--xx-8--8--xx-8--8---A--5-5-xx-5-5-xx-5-5-xx-5-5-xx-A-------| E|-----------------------------------T------------------------------T-------| verse: Dm7 Dm9 F* Fmaj7* (C) put your clock back for the winter Dm7 Dm9 F* Fmaj7* (C) she asks when i'll be home again Dm7 Dm9 F* (C) if i could see those eyes i know they'd cut me down in size Dm7 Dm9 F* Fmaj7* (C) cos you're not here when i need you Chorus Dm Dm/F so stay, awake, don't take a break, and rise, and fall, just till it's Dm Dm/F solved im here your there dont leave dont care im so sorry i was Dm7(into next verse) miles away Verse 2: its been a day of tiny triumphs its been a week in despair you cant send down the phone line i do my best but im not there other chorus: so slave away, dream of your fate and rise and fall, but you dont solve im here your there but you should know i still love you when im miles away and thats about it i think. peace
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|Fri, 01-18-2013 - 4:13am
hoping you all have a nice weekend what ever you are planning (or not)
We are still battling snow here,,, it 's a fine snow, coming down lightly but never stops,,, have to take dil & Mike to the pediatrician today, (first time for me and the car seat etc, hope dil knows how to get that thing in and out as I have no clue. LOL (anyway, I can lift him and the car seat together: just too heavy for me.)
No other plans this weekend. (other than shoveling snow LOL) Parking is really difficult right now with all the snow, the streets in Munich (Europe) are really tiny and when the plow goes thru (WHEN they do,,, hahahah), parking is nilch. Which leaves the mall, but those are crowded on snowy or rainy day for sure. We'll see.
Ann, I know you like Harrison Ford. I watched patriot games last night... that was exciting. (on TV so had to endure the commericals ugh) . A couple weeks ago the showed him in Witness, I like that film too....
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|Sat, 01-19-2013 - 4:44pm
Suzan..About car seats. This is bringing back fond memories of when my youngest grandlove was old enough that I felt comfortable taking all four grands with me about town. By then, the oldest met the requirements to where she could sit in the front seat without a childs seat. In the back seat of my car, I had three car seats, one for each child and they were so darned cute sitting there together!!
I took all of them to a Dollar Store one time so they could shop with the little bit of cash I had given each of them to buy whatever they wanted. I had them use the "buddy system" as they two and two held hands. So cute in the store!! Of course my boys (now ages 11 & 12) would never ever hold hands like that today..LOL!! Wish I had taken their pictures in the store back then. When we were getting back into my car and I was strapping the last one back into the car seat, I heard a woman passing by say to her companion, "Boy, she's brave!!" LOL! They were good kids, I never had a problem with them.
I always had my own car seats for my grands. It was so much easier that way than remembering to move the seats from one car to another. I had grands almost every day, so kept my car seats in my car all the time unless I was going to take adult people with me somewhere. In fact, I just recently gave away my remaining two booster seats to a friend who still has younger grands. Sad to see them go as none of my grands need them anymore.
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Ann...I hope something has come up to make your weekend less boring. We're glad we didn't have much going on today. I just got my nails done and picked up my alterations and when I got home dh ran to the grocery store for me as I was out of eggs and he put gas in my car. That's it! Tonight we'll fix dinner and then watch a movie. Nice to just relax.
|Sat, 01-19-2013 - 4:51pm
Hugs...Marketing, errands and chores..oh my! Bet your dh just wanted to relax?! Stuff has to get done though.
So, did your son come "home" today? When will the home that he lives in become his home? lol! Did you shop for a new car for him? Find one?
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Hi everyone! Megan here.
Getting used to daily life in NYC again. Crazy cold up here, and getting used to wearing boots, skinny jeans, and large coats again. Gotta take it easy on some other articles of clothing, though. I wore a pair of six-inch heels to a meeting earlier this week. My poor piggies got so sore, my heels were off halfway during the meeting, and I walked barefoot back to my apartment (I'm used to walking barefoot in cold temps, so it's not out of the ordinary). I'm kinda wishing that guy from the beach that gave me that foot rub came back to NY with me, because I needed one so badly.
Accidentally pulled a muscle while I was weight training a few days ago, hurt so bad. Gonna take a break off of that, I was moaning like a baby all day that day.
Lost a few pounds from my "Florida splurge" haha. My jeans still take an extra effort to fit (still have to lie down on my bed to button up). But, I'm getting back to my usual, healthy figure.
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Well, we didn't do much today, and I'm feeling a little out of sorts, but trying not to infect dh with my mood. Hopefully tomorrow will bring something fun to help shift my mood to something more upbeat.
|Sun, 01-20-2013 - 5:57pm
Well, the weekend is almost over - so I can tell you what we did rather than our plans! It was a quiet weekend thank goodness. DH and I are still recovering from the flu - we feel okay, just kind of dragging . . .
Friday night we did nothing except eat a light dinner. I feel asleep for over an hour right after dinner and still was able to go to bed on time and fall asleep.
Saturday I tended to some paperwork and did a computer back up for DH and did some housework. That evening DH and I watched basketball.
This morning we went to church and then went out to breakfast with a friend whose DH is out of the country. We had a great breakfast and a nice visit. This afternoon, I put a new label on a baby quilt - can you believe I put the wrong name on it? The baby's father emailed me - I felt so bad! Then I did a bit of cooking and a lot of football and basketball watching.
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Acting against illiteracy: 'Book Thief' play raises funds for Gary Literacy Coalition
By Lisa DeNeal Post-Tribune correspondent November 27, 2012 1:24PM
Actor Lucius Rouser IV (left), along with cast members Erynn Mackenzie (center) and Rose Marie Simmons perform a scene from the stage play "The Book Thief" during The Gary Literacy Coalition's 2012 dinner-theater. | Jeff Addison~For Sun-Times Media
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The Gary Literacy Coalition, in partnership with Methodist Hospitals, hosted its annual philanthropic thrust fundraiser Nov. 8 with the dinner-theater presentation of "The Book Thief."
In its third year, the coalition collaborated with local playwright and author Ben Clement, who is also a member of the GLC board of directors, and producer, director Mark Spencer of MAS Media Seven, and the West Side Theatre Guild.
"The Book Thief" is an original piece about an illiterate student and basketball player who is partnered with a retired teacher, who has to tutor him so that his reading and academic skills improve. The unlikely pair, along with the student's pregnant girlfriend, bump heads until an epiphany changes everything.
Era Twyman, executive director of the Gary Literacy Coalition, said the purpose of the dinner and play is continued support of literacy in Gary.
"If you are unable to read, you are unable to be successful in life," Twyman said. "The plays always have a theme regarding literacy so that the community is educated on the importance of reading and to make the city of Gary a reading city."
Clement welcomed the opportunity to partner with Spencer again for an original production, as well as give local citizens a chance to enjoy a live dinner theater without having to go to Chicago.
"You did not have to go to Chicago, pay for parking, fighting traffic or any other inconveniences. You can arrive minutes from your home, free parking and have a great time," Clement said.
Attendees enjoyed a holiday themed dinner of salad, turkey and dressing, ham, yams, rolls and bite-sized desserts before the production began.
Carolyn Sims of Gary said this was her second year attending the Gary Literacy Coalition fundraiser. She attended last year's production, "A Figment of Reality."
"I really enjoyed this year's production, 'The Book Thief.' It takes you back to a time when learning to read was a death sentence for blacks. I lived in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era. This is a production that should be shown in classrooms to the youth because they do not understand the sacrifices made for them," she said.
GLC treasurer Denise Dillard said reading is a gift.
"We cannot afford to lose a generation of youth to illiteracy," she said. Twyman added that 70 percent of Gary's population is functionally illiterate.


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BROOKLYN, New York – May 2007 — Located in the south side of Brooklyn's artistic Williamsburg neighborhood is a small club with a very big sound. Partners Jason Radich, Dave Rosen and James Tadic opened the doors to Savalas (think "who loves ya, baby?") in 2004 and its loyal and eclectic clientele have made it the area's benchmark ever since.
More than just a bar, but less pretentious than a big city club, Savalas has an edgy, inviting lounge feel. Patrons cite plenty of reasons for the club's success, be it the diverse crowd, the cool and comfy decor, the friendly and attentive staff, unique cocktails featuring homemade infused vodka, or conversation and people-watching from the awning-covered front porch, but the real draw of Savalas is the sound.
There is no official dance floor per se, but the uninhibited crowd fills the club's open floor space nightly, energized by the area's hippest DJs spinning organic tracks from a fusion of any number of musical styles. Widely regarded as one of the best places for New York DJs, Savalas has an independent, progressive sound where the DJs freely rule.
Last summer, a Urei 1603 club mixer was installed as part of the Savalas house system. Dave Rosen, who is a DJ himself, has a special appreciation for the mixer, "As a club owner I really appreciate the fact that this unit is so solidly built and can handle a lot of abuse, and as a DJ I think it has a really intelligent design. It's a simple mixer without the onboard effects and other controls, which I think are unnecessary and ultimately complicate some mixers. The knobs and controls for the booth monitoring system are laid out well, and I also really like the effects routing."
Another design feature that impressed Rosen was the location of the effects input on the front panel instead of the back. "Urei really took into consideration the needs of the DJ, not only from a sound perspective but from a practical usability and layout perspective," he says. "Allowing DJs to plug in to the front without having to touch any of the house lines saves a lot of headaches." Also adding to its versatility is the fact that the 1603 has a rear connector panel that can be rotated to allow for tabletop or rackmount installation.
"In my opinion," Rosen offers, "one of the best and most unique features of the 1603 is the layout of the EQ knobs. The zero position for EQ is at 2:00 on the knob, whereas most mixers have it at 12:00, which isn't practical because the curve for minus dB level is from zero to -80 while the plus is from zero to six. Urei has laid it out so you have much more room for the minus section of your turn. They really put a lot of thought into it and we get a lot of positive feedback from our DJs on that feature."
In addition to the Urei 1603, the Savalas house system includes four Technics 1200 turntables, a Rane Empath mixer, equalizers and crossovers, four Crown amps and a variety of custom handmade speakers.
Rosen sums it up well, "Of course in the end it all comes down to the sound and I think that the sound of our system is enormous and we are very proud of it. Urei is known worldwide for its great sound quality and they certainly live up to it in this mixer."
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Charcutier Jean Lepage believes strongly in traditional methods. A real farmer from the Argoat region, he is proud of his carefully tended milk-fed pigs and of his charcuterie.
For the past 40 years he has reared cows on his farm whose milk is skimmed and the buttermilk given to piglets from the farm whose mothers are of the big, round Large White breed.
From one end to the other of the chain that he has created, he wants to master everything. For his pigs, he grows barley and oats on soil which is enriched without chemical fertilisers thanks to lime and manure from the farm animals (cows, pigs, horses). Charcutier Jean Lepage St-Servan market on Tuesdays and Fridays, Paramé market on Wednesdays, Dinard market on Saturdays.
Feeding the pigs grains and whey contributes, he thinks, to producing firm and flavourful pork meat. "No meal and no medicine!" he likes to say. After having slaughtered his animals, Jean Lepage doesn't leave it to anyone else to produce the sausages and hams, black pudding and rillettes that are so delicious in the morning for breakfast.
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