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"Us & Ours" The Genealogy Research of Erin NikitchyukUpdated November 13, 2006 |
Erin Kathleen (Pflaum) Nikitchyuk
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Welcome to the Family Tree Maker homepage version of "Us & Ours"! A more complete homepage can be referenced at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/8868/ (lost access to update it years ago!). I am currently researching lines from Ireland, Germany, and the former Soviet Union. Please e-mail me at email@example.com if you are researching any of the same surnames! I love to share information! From Ireland, my main maternal lines are MURPHY and CALNAN/CALLANAN, BRADLEY and ENGLISH; and from my paternal lines BLAKE, OTTERSON, and PALMER. The Callanans & Murphys ended up in South Boston; the Bradleys & Englishes ended up in Western Mass; and Palmer came from Northern Ireland through the midwest, eventually settling in Pittsburgh, PA area. As for points of origination, I know the Callanans came from the Old Head of Kinsale region of Co. Cork; The English/Sullivans came from Co. Kerry on the Dingle Peninsula through Connecticut; and the Palmers came from the North of Ireland. Some related Irish surnames include: Sullivan, Lawton, Rawley/Raleigh, O'Halloran, Brosnahan/Bresnahan, McArdle, Cuddihy, Fitzgerald, Crowley, Doyle, Leary, Leahy. Please note, if you are researching Callanan (or variations) you need to see my "one name study" page dedicated to all Callanans and variations (Calnan, Callinan, Culinan, Cullinane, etc..) at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/5585 (also sadly out of date). From Germany my main paternal lines are PFLAUM, ZINK, BECKER and OEHMLER. The Pflaums came from Bavaria to Dayton, OH where my branch left to settle in Pittsburgh; The Zinks hail from Baden City, immigrated through Pittsburgh, and ended up in Wapakoneta OH and other Miami Valley locations; The Beckers came to Pittsburgh from Alsace Lorraine; and I know nothing of the origin of the Oehmlers who settled in Pittsburgh. Related surnames include: Kuhn, Wahrer, Manger, Moran, Naylor, Braun, Berg, Bush, Metzger, Duell, Weimert, Kimball, Moyer, Werner, Nelson, Fleishmann, Schaeffer, and Henry. I am particularly interested in being in contact with any Pflaum to exchange information and research tips. My family oral history says two brothers came from Bavaria together and I have only been able to prove one. The former Soviet Union contingent is mostly from the Ukraine. Main surnames include NIKITCHYUK, ZHURBENKO, PISANYI/AYA, ZALIUBOVSKI/AYA, and CHUPRINA. Zhurbenko originates in the Kursk region of Russia; the Nikitchyuks come from Western Ukraine/Poland. Many of the current day relatives live in the Crimean region of the Ukraine. My husband, Andrei, is first generation American. We were lucky enough to visit his grandmother in Pochtovaya Ukraine and have her provide genealogical information as I have no idea how one would research in the countries of the former Soviet Union. |
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At the Animal Legal Defense Fund, we are often asked for statistics about animal cruelty crimes—which for too long have been unavailable: until now. Animal cruelty will now be tracked and recorded by the FBI in the National Incident Based Reporting System as a separate offense. This important development will allow the FBI to better allocate resources to solve animal cruelty cases and provide valuable insight into the scope of animal abuse nationally. With this new inclusion in the Uniform Crime Report—the most comprehensive source of crime statistics—law enforcement is given the tools to allocate resources to fight animal cruelty and an incentive to prosecute animal cruelty to the full extent of the law.
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Here's an interesting puzzle involving DNS. It's about Windows,
Linux, and OS X, and I don't have a complete answer yet, but I thought I'd
share what I've found so far.
Update: I found a fix. See the comments.
The other day I was working on my Mac and wanted to access my.calendars.net. I couldn't, and my browser told me that "Firefox can't find the server at my.calendars.net". I assumed the site was down, but later in the day I happened to be working at my wife's computer for a few minutes, and while I was there I tried again and the site worked. OK, so it happened to be down when I tried it earlier..
Well no. Back at my Mac, Firefox still said it was down. Time to drop to the command line:
$ dig my.calendars.net
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
;; Connection to 192.168.2.1#53(192.168.2.1) for my.calendars.net failed: connection refused.
Hmmm.. that's the Verizon router, but my wife's machine uses the same thing, so it's not at fault. Or is it? Let's try something different. dig will let you specify a server to use. I gave it something I know is in Boston:
$ dig @22.214.171.124 my.calendars.net
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> @126.96.36.199 my.calendars.net
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1020
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 37, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1
;my.calendars.net. IN A
my.calendars.net. 5239 IN A 184.108.40.206
my.calendars.net. 5239 IN A 184.108.40.206
.. (and so on)
That tells me that this machine indeed can resolve the address; it just doesn't like something about the Verizon router. Let's try something else:
$ dig +ignore my.calendars.net
; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> +ignore my.calendars.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25360
;; flags: qr tc rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 29, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;my.calendars.net. IN A
my.calendars.net. 4269 IN A 126.96.36.199
my.calendars.net. 4269 IN A 22.214.171.124
.. (and so on)
That "+ignore" tells dig to (from the man page) "Ignore truncation in UDP responses instead of retrying with TCP". If you look carefully, you'll notice that when I used the server in Boston, I got 37 addresses back, but with "+ignore", I only got 29. Is that the "truncation"? Looking at the "MSG SIZE rcvd" section, the Boston server has ";; MSG SIZE rcvd: 691", while the "+ignore" dig has ";; MSG SIZE rcvd: 498", making me very certain that there's a 512 byte packet involved.
Let's try Linux. I have a Linux server on the network, and several Linux machines inside Parallels. I tried all of them: they fail exactly as the Mac does..
Back to dig on the Mac again. You can tell dig not to use tcp with "dig +tcp". I tried that with a name dig could resolve, and the router refused me. Apparently this router doesn't want to give any tcp DNS replies.. I looked into that, but couldn't find any setting I could change. It did let me download a text config file, which told me that this router is actually an Actiontec model MI424WR, but I don't entirely understand the config file.. looks like it only accepts udp:
(name(DNS ALG))
(description(UDP Domain Name Server))
What do we know so far? The answer from UDP (the default) is larger than will fit in the UDP packet. My Verizon router apparently doesn't want to use TCP for DNS. Windows works.. does Windows use a different size? Let's try to find out..
My wife's machine wasn't available, but I have Windows XP running under Parallels, so I alt-tabbed over to that. Just to be compulsive, I tried it in a browser first - it works.
OK, so let's see what's really going on. In a command prompt, I ran "nslookup" and asked it to resolve my.calendars.net - it could not, though it took a long time trying. I did "set debug" and was able to observe that it tried twice, and got truncated answers both times. That's interesting: apparently "nslookup" doesn't use whatever dlls the rest of Windows uses.
That's as far as I've been able to get so far. It looks like Windows might use a different udp packet size (though not for nslookup). I found "dig" for Windows, but couldn't get it to work.. so I need better Windows tools to find out more..
I did find a fair amount of posts about this router at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/vzfiber so posted this there:
If a DNS lookup result is longer than 512 bytes, my Mac OS X and Linux machines can't get the resolved IP because they automatically retry DNS with TCP and (apparently) this router doesn't want to do that.
Windows NSLOOKUP can't resolve these either but Windows in general can - I assume it must be using a larger UDP packet size.
It's a very minor thing (very few sites return that much info), but now and then it is annoying.. I certainly don't see anything in the browser based router config, but I did look at the raw config file and I suspect I could do it there.. but would rather not experiment if someone has already been down that road..
I also found there that I can make this router bridge, so I *could* put back my old router, but that's yet another vampire tap: I'd rather fix this in software if I can..
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The Purloined Letter
"The Purloined Letter" | |
The Gift: A Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Present. Carey and Hart, Philadelphia, 1845.
Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Detective fiction Short story |
Publisher | The Gift for 1845 |
Media type | Print (periodical) |
Publication date | December 1844 |
"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt". These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story. It first appeared in the literary annual The Gift for 1845 (1844) and was soon reprinted in numerous journals and newspapers.
Plot summary[edit]
The unnamed narrator is discussing with the famous Parisian amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin some of his most celebrated cases when they are joined by the Prefect of the Police, a man known as G—. The Prefect has a case he would like to discuss with Dupin.
A letter has been stolen from the boudoir of an unnamed female by the unscrupulous Minister D—. It is said to contain compromising information. D— was in the room, saw the letter, and switched it for a letter of no importance. He has been blackmailing his victim.
The Prefect makes two deductions with which Dupin does not disagree:
- The contents of the letter have not been revealed, as this would have led to certain circumstances that have not arisen. Therefore Minister D— still has the letter in his possession.
- The ability to produce the letter at a moment's notice is almost as important as actual possession of the letter. Therefore, he must have the letter close at hand.
The Prefect says that he and his police detectives have searched the Ministerial hotel where D— stays and have found nothing. They checked behind the wallpaper and under the carpets. His men have examined the tables and chairs with magnifying glasses and then probed the cushions with needles but have found no sign of interference; the letter is not hidden in these places. Dupin asks the Prefect if he knows what he is seeking and the Prefect reads off a minute description of the letter, which Dupin memorizes. The Prefect then bids them good day.
A month later, the Prefect returns, still bewildered in his search for the missing letter. He is motivated to continue his fruitless search by the promise of a large reward, recently doubled, upon the letter's safe return, and he will pay 50,000 francs to anyone who can help him. Dupin asks him to write that check now and he will give him the letter. The Prefect is astonished, but knows that Dupin is not joking. He writes the check and Dupin produces the letter. The Prefect determines that it is genuine and races off to deliver it to the victim.
Alone together, the narrator asks Dupin how he found the letter. Dupin explains the Paris police are competent within their limitations, but have underestimated with whom they are dealing. The Prefect mistakes the Minister D— for a fool, because he is a poet. For example, Dupin explains how an eight-year old boy made a small fortune from his friends at a game called "Odds and Evens". The boy was able to determine the intelligence of his opponents and play upon that to interpret their next move. He explains that D— knew the police detectives would have assumed that the blackmailer would have concealed the letter in an elaborate hiding place, and thus hid it in plain sight.
Dupin says he had visited the minister at his hotel. Complaining of weak eyes he wore a pair of green spectacles, the true purpose of which was to disguise his eyes as he searched for the letter. In a cheap card rack hanging from a dirty ribbon, he saw a half-torn letter and recognized it as the letter of the story's title. Striking up a conversation with D— about a subject in which the minister is interested, Dupin examined the letter more closely. It did not resemble the letter the Prefect described so minutely; the writing was different and it was sealed not with the "ducal arms" of the S— family, but with D—'s monogram. Dupin noticed that the paper was chafed as if the stiff paper was first rolled one way and then another. Dupin concluded that D— wrote a new address on the reverse of the stolen one, re-folded it the opposite way and sealed it with his own seal.
Dupin left a snuff box behind as an excuse to return the next day. Striking up the same conversation they had begun the previous day, D— was startled by a gunshot in the street. While he went to investigate, Dupin switched D—'s letter for a duplicate.
Dupin explains that he left a duplicate to ensure his ability to leave the hotel without D— suspecting his actions. As a political supporter of the Queen and old enemy of the Minister, Dupin also hopes that D— will try to use the power he no longer has, to his political downfall, and at the end be presented with an insulting note that implies Dupin was the thief: Un dessein si funeste, S'il n'est digne d'Atrée, est digne de Thyeste (If such a sinister design isn't worthy of Atreus, it is worthy of Thyestes).
Publication history[edit]
This story first appeared in The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1845, published in December, 1844 in Philadelphia. Poe earned $12 for its first printing.[1] It was later included in the 1845 collection Tales By Edgar A. Poe.
The epigraph "Nihil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio" (Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness) attributed by Poe to Seneca was not found in Seneca's known work. It is from Petrarch's treatise "De Remediis utriusque Fortunae". Poe probably took the reference from Samuel Warren's novel, Ten Thousand A-Year.[2]
Dupin is not a professional detective. In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", Dupin takes up the case for amusement and refuses a financial reward. In "The Purloined Letter", however, Dupin undertakes the case for financial gain. He is not motivated by pursuing truth, emphasized by the lack of information about the contents of the purloined letter.[3] Dupin's innovative method to solve the mystery is by trying to identify with the criminal.[4] The Minister and Dupin have equally matched minds, combining skills of mathematician and poet,[5] and their battle of wits is threatened to end in stalemate. Dupin wins because of his moral strength: the Minister is "unprincipled", a blackmailer who obtains power by exploiting the weakness of others.[6]
"The Purloined Letter" completes Dupin's tour of different settings. In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" he travels through city streets; in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" he is in the wide outdoors; in "The Purloined Letter" he is in an enclosed private space.[7] French linguist Jean-Claude Milner offered in Détections fictives, Le Seuil, collection « Fictions & Cie », 1985, supporting evidence that Dupin and D— are brothers, based on the final reference to Atreus and his twin brother, Thyestes.
Literary significance and criticism[edit]
In May 1844 Poe wrote to James Russell Lowell that he considered it "perhaps the best of my tales of ratiocination" just before its first publication. Of Poe's three tales of ratiocination, "The Purloined Letter" is generally considered the best.[5][8] When it was republished in the 1845 edition of The Gift, the editor called it "one of the aptest illustrations which could well be conceived of that curious play of two minds in one person".[9]
Poe's story provoked an important debate among leading literary theorists in the 1960s and 1970s. French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan argued in Ecrits that the content of the Queen's letter is irrelevant to the story and that the proper "place" of the signifier (the letter itself) is determined by the symbolic structure in which it exists and is dis-placed (first by the Minister and then by Dupin).[10] Jacques Derrida responded to Lacan's reading of Poe in "The Purveyor of Truth" [Le Facteur de la Vérité] to point out what Lacan "missed", suggesting that it is not that the letter lacks meaning as Lacan claimed, but that Lacan made the lack the meaning. The truth, for Derrida, is that the letter is a castration (of the King by the Queen), which Lacan cannot see/abide/is blind to.[11] Lacan's structuralist and Derrida's deconstructive readings provoked a response by Barbara Johnson who mediated the debate by suggesting that the letter belonged all along to the Queen as a substitute for a phallus.[12]
Poe scholar Donald E. Pease suggests that Lacan "equates the possession of a letter — defined as a 'lack' of content — with 'literal' as opposed to 'symbolic' castration, hence the odor of the feminine. In other words the 'possession' of the lack otherwise displaced by language identifies the possessor with the lack 'she' thinks she possesses. So femininity exists as an 'effect' of the delusion of possession of a lack otherwise displaced (as a masculine effect?) by the endless purloining of the letter." [13] Derrida, for Pease, in order to "get one up on" his rival, Lacan, "reintroduces the role of the queen. And does so at the precise moment Derrida seems to wish to keep the quarrel most personal. Or rather, 'castration' introduces the role of the queen at the very moment Derrida, now speaking in the name not of Poe or literature but feminism, would like to keep her in the role of the figure whose honor he must defend." Barbara Johnson, for Pease, "By taking away their power positions ... manages to 'master' Lacan's and Derrida's delusions of mastery. But more interestingly, she turns them, as it were, into a pair of queens."
The debates up to the mid-1980s are collected in a helpful (though incomplete) volume: The Purloined Poe.[14] For instance, not included in the volume is Richard Hull's reading based on the work of Michel Foucault, which argues: "'The Purloined Letter' is a good text for questioning the metalinguistic claim that artists can't avoid doing surveillance, because it is a discourse on poetry's superiority over surveillance." [15] Slavoj Žižek asks "So why does a letter always arrive at its destination? Why could it not—sometimes at least—also fail to reach it?"[16] Hollis Robbins critiques Derrida for his own blindness to patriotism in prefacing his reading of The Purloined Letter with a reading of The Emperor's New Clothes: "In Derrida's view, both Poe's story and Andersen's feature a king whose manhood is imperiled, who is surrounded by habit-driven and ineffectual civil servants, and who is saved by an individual who sees what is obvious.... Both save the crown from further embarrassment.... There is never a question that a king could or should fall from grace." [17]
This was adapted in an episode of the 1950s television series Suspense, but the events were played out in a linear fashion.
In 1995 the story was adapted for an episode of the children's television program Wishbone. The episode was called "The Pawloined Paper".
- ^ Ostram 1987, p. 40
- ^ Butti de Lima 2007, pp. 83–125
- ^ Whalen 2001, p. 86
- ^ Meyers 1992, p. 155
- ^ a b Quinn 1998, p. 421
- ^ Garner 1990, p. 141
- ^ Rosenheim 1997, p. 69
- ^ Cornelius 2002, p. 33
- ^ Phillips 1926, pp. 930–931
- ^ Jacques Lacan, "Le seminaire sur 'La Lettre volee'" from Ecrits (Paris: editions du Seuil, 1966), pp. 11-61, trans. Jeffrey Mehlman as "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'" in "French Freud: Structural Studies in Psychoanalysis", Yale French Studies, No. 48 (1972)
- ^ Jacques Derrida, "Le Facteur de la verite", Poetics, 21 (1975), 96-147; trans. Willis Domingo, et al., as "The Purveyor of Truth", in "Graphesis: Perspectives in Literature and Philosophy", Yale French Studies, No. 52 (1975), pp. 31-113
- ^ Barbara Johnson, "The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida", from Literature and Psychoanalysis / The Question of Reading: Otherwise, Yale French Studies, No. 55-56 (1977)
- ^ D. Pease "Marginal Politics and 'The Purloined Letter': A Review Essay", Poe Studies, June 1983, Vol. XVI, No. 1, 16:18–23
- ^ The Purloined Poe Eds. John P. Muller and William J. Richardson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988
- ^ "The Purloined Letter": Poe's detective story vs. panoptic Foucauldian theory. Style, Summer 1990, Vol. 24 Issue 2, p. 201
- ^ Slavoj Žižek, Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out. Routledge, 1992
- ^ Hollis Robbins, "The Emperor's New Critique", New Literary History Volume 34, Number 4, Autumn 2003
- Butti de Lima, Paolo (2007). Quaderni di Storia (65): 83–125. Missing or empty
(help) - Cornelius, Kay (2002). "Biography of Edgar Allan Poe". In Harold Bloom. Bloom's BioCritiques: Edgar Allan Poe. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7910-6173-2.
- Derrida, Jacques (1987). The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond (Paperback ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-14322-4.
- Garner, Stanton (1990). "Emerson, Thoreau, and Poe's 'Double Dupin'". In Fisher, Benjamin Franklin IV. Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu. Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society. ISBN 978-0-9616449-2-5.
- Meyers, Jeffrey (1992). Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy (Paperback ed.). New York: Cooper Square Press. ISBN 978-0-8154-1038-6.
- Ostram, John Ward (1987). "Poe's Literary Labors and Rewards". In Fisher, Benjamin Franklin IV. Myths and Reality: The Mysterious Mr. Poe. Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society. pp. 37–47.
- Phillips, Mary E. (1926). Edgar Allan Poe: The Man. Volume II. Chicago: The John C. Winston Co.
- Quinn, Arthur Hobson (1998). Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-5730-0. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
- Rosenheim, Shawn James (1997). The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-5332-6.
- Whalen, Terance (2001). "Poe and the American Publishing Industry". In Kennedy, J. Gerald. A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512150-6.
External links[edit]
Wikisource has original text related to this article: |
- "The Purloined Letter", online at Ye Olde Library
- "The Purloined Letter" at American Literature
- Full text on PoeStories.com with hyperlinked vocabulary words
- Dept. of English, fju.edu analyzes the story with the help of diagrams
- Seminar on "The Purloined Letter", Écrits, transl. by Jeffrey Mehlman, "French Freud" in Yale French Studies 48, 1972.


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Previously, we found a transient imbalance between suppressed excitation and enhanced inhibition in the respiratory network of the rat around postnatal days (P) 12-13, a critical period when the hypoxic ventilatory response is at its weakest. The mechanism underlying the imbalance is poorly understood. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its tyrosine protein kinase B (TrkB) receptors are known to potentiate glutamatergic and attenuate gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic neurotransmission, and BDNF is essential for respiratory development. We hypothesized that the excitation-inhibition imbalance during the critical period stemmed from a reduced expression of BDNF and TrkB at that time within respiratory-related nuclei of the brain stem. An in-depth, semiquantitative immunohistochemical study was undertaken in seven respiratory-related brain stem nuclei and one nonrespiratory nucleus in P0-21 rats. The results indicate that the expressions of BDNF and TrkB: 1) in the pre-Bötzinger complex, nucleus ambiguus, commissural and ventrolateral subnuclei of solitary tract nucleus, and retrotrapezoid nucleus/parafacial respiratory group were significantly reduced at P12, but returned to P11 levels by P14; 2) in the lateral paragigantocellular nucleus and parapyramidal region were increased from P0 to P7, but were strikingly reduced at P10 and plateaued thereafter; and 3) in the nonrespiratory cuneate nucleus showed a gentle plateau throughout the first 3 postnatal weeks, with only a slight decline of BDNF expression after P11. Thus, the significant downregulation of both BDNF and TrkB in respiratory-related nuclei during the critical period may form the basis of, or at least contribute to, the inhibitory-excitatory imbalance within the respiratory network during this time.
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- 2 pounds lean ground beef, 25 slices of pepperoni (quartered), 1/2 to 3/4 jar of spaghetti sauce, generous cup of shredded mozarella cheese
- 1. Heat the oven to 425 degrees F. Press the wonton wrappers into 24 muffin cups (mini or standard).2. Cook the beef in a 10-inch skillet over medium/high heat with the Pepperoni slices, breaking up the beef. 3. Add the 1/2 to 3/4 jar of spaghetti sauce. 4. Spoon the meat mixture into the wonton cups. Top with a good pinch of the mozarella cheese.5. Bake for 5 minutes until the wontons are nicely browned and the cheese is melted.
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Why he lives in metro Detroit: Rubin enjoys Michigans parks and lakes, sports teams, art and cultural offerings. He also sees great possibilities for Detroits waterfront shops, marinas and restaurants could be a powerful lure for under-30 creatives.
Claim to Fame: Launched gamersaloon.com, an interactive gaming site with more than 45,000 members.
Next Step: Continue to build a larger console-based gaming community.
Sometimes, necessity is the mother of invention. Other times, its the PlayStation 2.
Two years ago, Gabe Rubin, now 28, and brother Ari were involved in a long-distance game of NHL 05 on the PS 2 with a third brother, California resident Josh.
We would go back and forth online, and the idea popped into my head wouldnt it be great to create an online secured site that allowed players such as myself to compete for real cash prizes, not just bragging rights? he said.
And Gamer Saloon was born.
Of course, it wasnt that easy. Gamer Saloon isnt considered gambling because players compete in games of skill, not games of chance. But according to the companys Web site, nine states bar competition for cash prizes in skill-based video games. Plus, Rubin, who had some success in real estate development, was confronted with another challenge convincing investors that his business model was not just viable, but profitable. It was hard for them to grasp how big this industry really is, he said.
But Rubins powers of persuasion and his well-researched information paid off, and he raised enough investment capital to get Gamer Saloon off the ground. All of the traditional growing pains of a startup followed, from cash flow problems to 18-hour days, all crammed into the Rubins basement.
In the year and a half that Gamer Saloon has been running, 45,000 console gamers players who use a game console like the Nintendo Wii, Sonys PlayStation 3 or Microsofts Xbox have logged onto the site to compete.
The company has grown to 23 employees and has dispensed almost a million dollars in prizes, Rubin said. And Gamer Saloon now has an office.
But Rubins not content to simply create a successful company.
My goal is really to revolutionize this industry, he said.
Nor is he your stereotypical video-game geek. Rubins happily married wife Tracy is also an avid gamer enjoys fishing, boating, and coaches a high school hockey team.
Despite his young age, Rubins earned raves from folks hes worked with, such as Howard Jacobson of Birminghams Jacobson Bros. Development Co., who met Rubin during a real estate deal and later invested in Gamer Saloon.
Hes creative and resourceful, Jacobson said. Detroit needs people like this to help strengthen and diversify our economy.
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My beautiful sister & her lost boys.
Well, God knows, I can't turn this into a post about "me" but I am sad & grieving & I have the shittiest cold in the world & a fever of 102 & I can barely breathe & I'm all snotty & disgusting & my chest feels like it's filled with rocks.
But that may just be grief.
My nephew died tonight. My sweet kind funny trusting nephew left on another journey, & we are all heartbroken. I thought the odds were on his side, seeing as how his younger brother, Todd, died over 30 years ago. I mean, what are the odds of losing TWO sons. My brother-in-law jokes that whenever he flies, he carries a bomb in his suitcase, because what are the odds that TWO people will be carrying a bomb.
That's kind of how I felt about Joe. My sister had already paid her dues in the Lost Child department. It seemed impossible that it would happen again.
Even when we stood by Joe's bed & heard stuff like "hospice" & "brain stem damage" & "so-small-a-chance-of-surviving-as-to-be-practically-nil" we still hoped for the Big Giant Miracle.
And it didn't happen.
And, just like when Todd died, we have no idea how to properly cope with it, except now we realize there IS no way to properly cope with losing a child. Doesn't exist. "Proper" & "grief" don't even belong in the same sentence. I think wailing is in order. Heavy drinking, maybe. Staring blankly into space for weeks. Asking Why Why Why over & over, even knowing there will be no Deep Voice answering your question, unless maybe it comes to you in a dream.
If you ever sleep again.
When Todd died, we all fell into our roles. His broken & grieving mom & dad took down all his pictures, his dad turned to drugs, his mom read Kubler-Ross & tried to cope with the chaos of their lives & the fact that she still had two small children to raise.
We siblings -- we cried, but only alone. We darkly joked, which is our way, about death & blindness & stuff that we couldn't talk seriously about without being scared shitless at all the potential disasters waiting around corners & in dark rooms & Ford Pintos.
Our mom -- Todd's Grandma -- told me (when she was falling into old age & trying to dodge senility) that the worst thing that ever happened in her whole life was Todd dying, that she never got over it, & never would.
And now I am sure that she is with Joey. Mom being impatient, she was probably standing in the corner of the hospital room when Mercy stepped in & took him away from his suffering. I am sure she held her arms out & pulled him close. Joe always was her favorite, being the oldest AND a boy. The first grandchild always holds a special place in the heart of the grandparents. And no, I did NOT read this off a bumpersticker, I know this because I'm a first grandchild and...hey...entire photo album of JUST me!
And of Joe. Tomorrow I'll put up Memorial Photos on Facebook. Maybe it will help us all feel better, seeing his life, from little blond kid thru acid-washed jeans teen thru Mullet-Wearing 20-something (& Joe did have the World's Best Mullet) thru happily-in-love-finally Almost 40.
I wish you'd made 40, Joe. And 50, damn it! 60, even! (I read a quote once that said "60 is just like 30 except with a case of really bad flu." I wish you'd had a chance to find out if that's true.)
I know you're at peace now & with your grandma who is gazing at you all adoringly, like she always did. Meanwhile, we're all left here, once again broken, seeing you in shaky 16mm & trying to figure out how to manage without you. (And if this sounds all Hallmark-y & maudlin, too bad, I'm grieving & have a fever.)
Mom -- give him a big hug from all of us & tell him we miss him so much already! Yeah, Mom...we miss you, too. NO, I didn't just add that as a last thought, we DO miss you...Granted, you were kind of annoying those last few years, but...Mom! I don't want to argue! Just love him, okay! Yeah...I KNOW you're good at that. I love you, Mom! I love you, Joe!
Oh...and P.S.: Joe, could you remind your grandma that we could use a little celestial help with our lottery picks...
ME TOO!! ME TOO!! Please? :)
~hugs to you both~
With love.
How lucky we to be allowed to listen in.
Know that however feelings are and come and go
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are held ... in the darkest night
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There are no words to help so I send love to lift you both through this horrible time.
(Hope your cold goes away too!)


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Mi sitio web | http://www.lahaciendaandotherstories.co.uk |
Ubicación | Liverpool, UK |
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Mi ocupación | Retired |
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Born in 1960 and brought up and educated in the Waterloo/Crosby and Thornton regions of Merseyside. I joined the Merchant Navy straight from school in 1977 and spent nearly five years going away to sea, leaving in 1981. After a brief spell unemployed I became an Assistant Cook within the Social Services Department of Liverpool City Council. I worked for them for 13 years attaining the position of Head Cook for for the last four. In 1989 I met the woman I knew was going to be my wife and we were married in 1991 and now have four children. In 1997 I left catering behind and became a courier for a mail order company. I loved this job but getting mugged two weeks before the Christmas of 1999 made me re-think things and I gave it up after my daughter was born in 2000. In 2002 I had kidney failure that nearly took my life, I've recovered now but not the same man I used to be, but still alive all the same. |
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City airport: Homes in line for insulation
• 3,500 new homes could be in line for sound insulation.
• Air quality standards have been maintained.
• LCY 'an integral part' of Royal Docks development.
• Noise campaigners should join consultative committee
More than 3,500 new homes neighbouring London City Airport could be in line for sound insulation.
Over the next few months, inspections will take place on properties built after 1998 which were previously excluded from the airport's noise mitigation schemes.
However, the decision to raise the cap on flights to 120,000 a year has triggered new noise and air quality stipulations - known as an S106 agreement - that make more stringent demands on the airport to be a good neighbour.
John East, divisional director for development services at the London Borough of Newham, said: "There are going to be about 3,500 properties to be inspected and depending on the results then go on to be treated but that gives an idea of the scale of the target as part of the S106 agreement."
He was speaking to the environment committee of the London Assembly which was assessing the measures set in place to cope with a doubling of air movements.
The trigger for sound insulation comes at 57dB, lower than Heathrow which offers work at 63dB. Noise monitors would be placed in Tower Hamlets and Greenwich as well.
Peter Henson, partner at noise specialists Bickerdike Allen, which works with LCY, said: "The threshold of eligibility for sound insulation the same since 1991 when permission was given to operate jet aircraft.
"We're also adding an enhanced second tier of works at 66dB where anybody exposed to higher levels of noise are now given extra protection."
A further measure is a purchase scheme for any home hit by 69dB, although it is unlikely to be triggered. The airport pays for all the work undertaken.
The committee heard that of 2010 of 55 environmental complaints, 36 relating to noise.
Mr East said: "The level of complaints is what you would expect. We're working with the airport and through the fleet operators on how the noise levels of their fleet can be reduced. What the S106 has enabled us is to have much more monitoring of noise than we previously had."
Airport chief executive Richard Gooding said the noise and air quality measures had been set in place to cope with 120,000 movements a year but that was a top-level cap and not a figure likely in the near future.
He said: "Nobody accurately forecast what the impact of the recession would be and we're in the short haul business travel market dominated by financial services and you don't need any comment from me about what's happened in the world of financial services so our core demand has reduced, we believe temporarily.
"Hence it's 63,000 movements currently. We've been in the mid and upper 80s in the past."
He added: "We sought to make sure these measures were comprehensive and would stand the test of things like judicial reviews to see if our response was adequate or not.
"In the end it's a matter of judgment but it's very wide ranging and exceeds what other airports actually do."
Campaigners 'should have a voice'
- The consultative forum for London City Airport should include campaigning groups and a representative of the London Assembly to take into account the views of people across the capital, the committee said.
Committee chairman said Murad Qureshi suggested that the organisation should include groups such as Hacan, which campaigns on behalf of residents affected by flight paths and airports.
Mr Gooding said he would be open to anything that would improve the work of the consultative body.
He said the airport aimed to be "a model of inclusivity" and that "megaphone diplomacy" never worked.
Air quality update
- London City Airport has reported no breaches of EU air quality guidelines so far this year.
But the London Assembly was also told there were two days when particulate levels were too high - although an official "exceedance" requires more than 30 such days.
Stephen Moorcroft, of Air Quality Consultants said much of the pollution was not related to the aircraft but was influenced by regional and even international pollution.
But assembly member Mike Tuffrey said: "I take no comfort from any explanation that says this is a regional factor. My view is we look for everybody in London to drive their numbers down."
The environment committee urged the airport to push forward with a plan to move more passengers from cars to public transport.
Currently just over 50 per cent use public transport, including the DLR and buses. Airport chief executive Richard Gooding said he aspired to hit 70 per cent.
He added: "New aircraft coming into operation are having a dramatically improved environmental performance. That is the strategic solution."
Future of Royal Docks
- Newham has shed more light on how it sees the Royal Docks emerging from years of decline.
Speaking at a meeting of the London Assembly environment committee, John East, divisional director for development services at the council, said London City Airport remained integral to the new enterprise zone.
"It brings jobs and economic benefits - and our thought process is how we can build on that."
He went on: "The London Development Agency is marketing key sites next to the airport and we would expect development to come forward in the next decade.
"We are also aware of the need to ensure new development is not put in locations where it would lead to unacceptable qualities of accommodation.
"We have clearly outlined where we see the balance between commercial and residential.
"We see the Royal Docks as being mixed use and creating employment opportunities.
"We don't see any conflict between where the airport is going and our aspirations and the key things we're taking a planned approach and where residential is being put in the Royal Docks - for example West Silvertown where Ballymore has significant developments - it is not impacted by the proposed expansion of the airport or how it operates at present."
Of the balance within the schemes he said West Silvertown would be "more residential"; Silvertown Quays "mixed use"; Royal Docks Business Park "predominantly commercial office developments" and Gallions Reach "mixed use with more employment".
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Fight the Flights has been campaigning for 4 years against the expansion of the airport. Yet Fight the Flights were never mentioned in the minutes of the LCACC nor were invited to come to the residents meetings.
One woman who said she represented the residents, had a family connection to the airport and was pro-airport expansion. So I feel let down by the LCACC.
I suffer from a lot from noise, I don't qualify for noise. Apparntly I am still outside the noise contour.
Personally, I wish the airport offers people the option to buy properties and pay compensation. Newham is a cheap area, so moving out means paying more or getting a smaller property.
It is the airport fault for building an airport in a residential area.


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A "Song of Praise" Celebrating the Yishuv's Welcome of Lew Wallace to Jerusalem
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This self-described "Song of Praise," to be sung by students of the Blumenholz Shul and the Lemel School "in honor of the great nobleman General Wallace, Consul of the United States of America" suggests that either the author of Ben-Hur, or the country in whose diplomatic service he served, was revered by the Yishuv. A "David" has come to "our ashen city" the text proclaims: "The Nobleman and Prince, General Wallace has entered… And set his palanquin within..."
The visit of the Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire to Jerusalem was, of course, an event of some moment in 1883. Perhaps the trip was timed to meet with the incoming Consul, Edwin Sherman Wallace, who would during his tenure frequently intervene with the Ottoman authorities on behalf of the Jewish community.
[Lew Wallace] Broadside, in Hebrew, 1 page, large folio, Jerusalem, November or December, 1883; being a song of welcome in celebration of Wallace's visit, as U.S. Minister at Constantinople, to Jerusalem.


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This is where it will happen, at Paradise Beach Hotel, Negombo.The private beach of Paradise Beach Hotel is the perfect venue for couples wanting to say "I do" in the most romantic setting anyone could imagine.
The Palms, Beruwela
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Saman Villas, Sri Lanka
Saman Villas One of the most luxurious small hotels in the west coast of Sri Lanka. With it's sweeping views of the Indian Ocean, is one of the best luxury small hotels you can find. Saman Villas is magnificently perched on a rocky headland and un-spoilt be
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Situated 63 kilometres away from the Katunayake International Airport, Serene Pavilions, Wadduwa is a truly luxurious and exclusive boutique hotel set amidst a beautifully landscaped 7-acre coconut grove on the beachfront of the southern coastal belt just 45 m
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Pegasus Reef is an elegantly designed beach Hotel located a mere ½ hour from both the Bandaranayake International Airport and Colombo city in Hendala, Wattala to the North of Colombo city.
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A Message For Adrienne LyricsArtist: UnderoathAlbum: The Changing of The Times but the night has already taken me away shedding dreams under the maple tree where i carved your name nothing left, not even time straight reads the line his life had reached the end wanting only to be loved by adrienne latters explained his grief but she would never read his wrists would bleed but she would never see so he took his life at the age of 23 and she had always loved him be he would never know for she covered her love like stars cover the sky hiding her heart fearing what he would find inside years took her away a widow she remained holding him deep inside wishing she too would die time favors no one and if we wait we too can fall in love a second too late
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J. Cole: Opening for Rihanna Tonight, Producer Extraordinaire Tomorrow?
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One aspect that we can expand up on here is his aspiration to become more than just a rapper and handle production for other artists. Even if he's never heard of English garage producer MJ Cole -- we asked -- the well-spoken St. John's University grad has clearly given his future a lot of thought.
What do you think about building your own stable of artists and a label?
That's what excites me the most, reaching out to my fans productionwise, finding new artists. On that route -- like on Kanye's route. Productionwise, I think I'm more going the route of Timbaland, because Kanye was an incredible producer; he crafted a lot of that Blueprint sound. Then he would do a lot of stuff for other people. He had a Janet Jackson single in there, a Ludacris single. I want to do that too. Then he did John Legend -- that whole project -- and he had heavy influence on that, but I always loved how Timbaland did it. How he would just find a young artist like Missy [Elliott] and Ginuwine and Magoo. He would just craft their songs through his production so it was like a whole new thing, like every song on Missy's album was a Timbaland beat. It was such an ill sound. I always wanted to do that. I'm currently looking. I've got my eyes peeled. It's not my highest concern right now; I'm just kind of planning for the future a little bit. I'm superexcited to be able to build a label, produce entire albums from the same group of artists, same group of writers.
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Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. has begun rolling out Zarah, a generic oral contraceptive.
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MORRISTOWN, N.J. – Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. has begun rolling out Zarah, a generic oral contraceptive.
The company said Tuesday that its subsidiary, Watson Laboratories Inc., received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for its abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for Zarah 3 mg/0.03 mg (drospirenone and ethinyl estradiol tablets), the generic equivalent to Bayer's Yasmin.
Watson reported that Bayer's lawsuit against the company, which alleges that Watson's product infringes on Bayer's patent, remains pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Yasmin and its generic equivalents had total U.S. sales of approximately $97 million for the 12 months ended June 30, according to IMS Health cited by Watson.
Zarah tablets are indicated for the prevention of pregnancy in women who elect to use an oral contraceptive. The drug also results in shorter, lighter periods along with reduced cramps and a regular menstrual cycle, and it helps with some symptoms of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).


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Dale Baskett specializes in speed. Football speed. Having worked with college powerhouses like Ohio State and Texas A & M and a number of NFL franchises, he's been making teams faster for 27 years. A former football coach, Baskett made the transition more than a quarter century ago and, in the process, has trained over 100 NFL players including 21 All-Pro's.
Baskett was interviewed on the subject of football speed and asked very specific questions about; football speed, how the industry has changed related to it, why it's different than just 'speed', what are the foundations of developing football speed and how do you improve football speed for specific positions on the field.
Q. You were the first football speed coach starting 27 years ago. How have you seen the industry change over the years?
When I first began coaching the only football speed training was conducted by track and field coaches. Football coaches had little knowledge of speed and to compound this problem, they were skeptical that speed could be developed. That's no longer an issue today. With the progression in the scientific world of training development it's pretty well accepted that speed can be improved. But when I started out, football coaches had no idea what to do and they really had to rely on their track coach to get information on the subject.
When I became a speed coach I had a lot of football background and it was natural for me to realize that the 100, 200 and 400 meters were not the same game as was played on the football field. I set out to establish a training plan that would service the football community specifically. As time went along, football coaches have gravitated towards getting more speed development information. Unfortunately, track fundamentals are still being applied from a technique standpoint.
Today, football programs throughout the country put more emphasis on speed training. Coaches realize you can win with speed. Technical movement applications for football speed vary greatly from sprinting speed for track.
Q. You use the term 'football speed' rather than just 'speed.' What is the difference between these terms?
Football speed is controlling acceleration and velocity displacement directionally. Sprinting is a linear movement. It's a matter of accelerating on a straight line. The 40's have brought about a lot of training in the sprinting world simply because the testing is pretty deep these days. The credence of the numbers that produce the 40's times have measurable value to coaches across the country at all levels. Therefore, it breeds itself and coaches will work a lot on speed and speed development in a linear manner. But the problem with that is that football is a game played in short distances and in short spaces with multiple acceleration changes. The difference between football speed and sprint speed is that football speed is continuous acceleration. It is always accelerating. Sprint speed, quite frankly, is maintaining velocity at maximum levels and that's a totally different thing than what's called for on the football field.
Therefore, if we are training for only linear speed, we're really missing the boat. To specifically develop the athletes for what they have to be very good at – accelerating in many different directions and many different angles – we have to realize that acceleration is a skill we are trying to perfect. That is the important skill. To boil it down, the difference between football and sprinting is quite simple: it's displacing momentum into various different angles and dealing with acceleration while changing directions and altering stride patterns. Sprinting is just straight forward accelerating and maintaining velocity. The difference is that one doesn't help the other. Sprinting speed alone is not servicing the football world and that's a problem for movement skills.
Q. You talk about football speed being short bursts with multi-directional changes as opposed to straight line linear speed. What are the foundations of developing that football speed?
One has to realize that football speed requires acceleration changes for all velocity factors athletically. Therefore, the coach must set up a system to develop those particular characteristics properly. I say properly because in order to do that one has to understand what makes a human being move mechanically in the most efficient way possible when all of these velocities and momentums are changing dynamically. If we understand the premise of human movement mechanically, then it takes a system in place to develop it. Any time we take forces and velocities of running and moving and start transferring them we'll have a lot of mechanical breakdown issues. When we talk foundational development for football speed we need to have a mechanical premise and a drill system to properly process acceleration and movement control. They should be designed for every position on the field.
Each position has its own variations but when the ball is snapped it's only six seconds until the whistle blows in most cases. That's not very much time but on the field there are 22 people moving extremely rapidly and aggressively. They are not always in the best position of control. The only way you can develop that control is to understand the technical, foundational applications and work with them on a daily, weekly basis. It's the same thing you would do in the weight room where there's technical teaching and a periodization system. In the weight room there's a system of development to build the athlete to be stronger in all of the areas needed for football play. That takes a design and the same is true for a foundation for football speed. We should have a systematic learning and teaching progression and then we can begin to maximize skills and have a solid speed result on the field of play. That's the difference between football speed and sprint speed that we need. Coaches have players do a lot of running as well as a lot of sprinting and football speed is not being addressed equally.
Q. How do you maximize football speed potential for the positions of O-Line, D-Line, linebackers, tight ends, quarterbacks, running backs, defensive backs and wide receivers?
Let's start by answering the questions about the O-Line and D-Line. Both are big guys and as coaches you have to realize that when you're dealing with big people they have a tremendous amount of weight to transfer whenever they move. We're talking about power, control and quickness. Power is what they get out of the weight room. They need movement skills, quickness processing and a belief system that they can be fast. For the lineman, quickness is probably the more important aspect to have as opposed to any other position on the field simply because they play in shorter areas and have to move quickly in short space. That being said, the way you do it is to break it down. Develop good mechanical skills in a good series of movement training that teaches you how to get better at those specific aspects that are required when the ball is snapped. Big kids don't understand quickness necessarily because they have never been quick. Coaches have to deal with that from a focus standpoint and what we call kinesics; that is, feeling your body go through motion and movement and feeling the movements. They've always felt slow. They've never felt fast. With designed drill work that can actually enhance their understanding mentally of how to move quickly, they will improve significantly.
Linebackers: For movement and speed and quickness, they are required to go through all kinds of different movements. They almost have to be a defensive lineman, running back, DB and everything else because athletically you need a guy that can move around. So for that particular position you train him to be a better athlete. Then again, you need the right drill system in place where it allows him to be successful and confident on his feet.
Tight ends: They are like the O-Linemen and a big wide receiver. A few years ago I had the opportunity to work with Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Tice. When he was playing in the league he was a very large man at about 6-8 and 275 pounds. He was a great blocker as a tight end but not a great receiver. For him, as with other tight ends, those are the two things you have to be. You have to be a good blocker as a tight end and you have to be skillful as a receiver. Receiving is the toughest part for those guys. Alluding to Mike Tice, he used to always indicate he was the best blocker in the league and no doubt he was. His weakness was that he was not well-rounded in doing both – blocking and receiving – and that's really the complete picture for a tight end. Again, you need quickness and speed enhancement for this position.
Defensive backs: The key for D-Backs is to have the ability to plant well and accelerate to new angles. The athlete must utilize good arm rotation and stay centered in relation to foot strike placement on all angle breaks.
Running backs: They must visualize ahead and control the pace of movement depending on the direction of the play. Two major characteristics needed are burst skills and change of pace control. They must work on drills that bring these skills to maximum levels. This is again why football speed is unique compared to sprint speed.
Quarterbacks: This is a position where we should definitely insert quickness drills and short space movement. The position doesn't require sprinting every play. However, there are moments in every game where the quarterback must move quickly and accelerate out of trouble.
Wide Receivers: This position calls for both linear sprint work and body control skill development. Working with drills that teach proper planting techniques will help minimize velocity loss. The result will help maximize separation speed. Quickness out of breaks due to planting skills and pure acceleration and sprint speed are the keys for the wide receiver.


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I spoke too soon about ds16 bd
Tomorrow my dh and I are going to a pretty big event. Our nephew who is 24 is watching ds11 and ds8. Ds16 is with bd.... going to the same event. Bd wanted us to meet south of the event to get ds16 back. We live north. If we drive south we will get caught up in HUGE traffic and not get home to the littler kids till way late. I told ds16 that we could just meet inside the event and he could leave his stuff there till next time. Ds16 wasn't happy with that cause he wants his stuff, so I asked if he could get a backpack and put it in there to carry with him. (He took a suitcase) He got mad at me and hung up on me. I called him back and yelled pretty good at him. He yelled back and told me that he can't enjoy himself tomorrow because I won't work with his dad and I always get my way. In between all this I offered to let him stay till Monday night or Tuesday morning. His dad has to work Monday 11-11 and same Tuesday. I asked if I could get him Tuesday morning before work. He said he doesn't get up in time. Apparently we are not parking anywhere close.... we park in free parking on the north side... they pay on the south side. (Same dad that can't pay his cell phone bill)
We yelled back and forth for a bit... me mostly telling him he is NOT to speak to me this way. He then said he'd get back to me. I got a text that said we would meet in the event, I asked if he would have his stuff, he said some of it. I said ok.
Then while I'm eating my phone rings. I don't recognize the number but know it's bd's area code. So I answered. He then proceeds to tell me that he has a bag that ds16 can put his stuff in and it's ok to meet at the event. I said ok, that's great. He then tells me that ds16 was upset because my dh said he HAD to go get a bag to put his stuff in. I stood up for dh and said that he never says anything about bd... and really, he doesn't. Especially never to ds16. It then went into some heated argument. I told him that my son should NEVER speak to me the way he did. He said my ds16 did that because he told him to. HA! Isn't that nice. Not only is he not helping me discipline him, he's starting it. He said it's because I never let him have him unless it's convenient for me and that, I don't even know. He said I never talk to him... his phone is turned off and I was never told he has a home phone. He says that's my fault because ds16 knew he did and I live with him. He only gets him when I say so. Which is BS! I was trying to let him keep him longer... oh and he asked to get him Thurs this week and I let him. I almost always say yes unless it's totally last minute. Then he went on to say he's taking me to court in his new city because neither of us live in old city. His new city is our capital. I'm NOT going to court there. I've already tried to get a change of venue for ds11 and couldn't... I tried to explain that to him.... he then yells at me that my dh knows nothing and I need to stop listening to him.... again, my dh isn't saying a word. I am actually the one who knows all the laws and am the one behind dh getting what he deserves from ss bm. I'M THE ONE... NOT DH! He continues to yell at me that we are going to court and it'll be in capital. I kept trying to get a word in edgewise and couldn't. He then hung up on me. I refused to call back.
At 9:30 I got a text from ds16 that he was sorry.
Here's the thing... My order is from 2000. I have NEVER asked for more money. I started a review once and backed out of it. I KNOW I could get more then $66 a week out of him but I just never went through with it. I'm way too nice. I'm going to call child support office Monday and talk to them. I'm sooooo over this.
He was sitting there talking about me badly to my son. I've never done that and now I can't even defend myself. I'm so so so so mad... plus sm's family was all there probably laughing that my son spoke to me like that.
First off, don't worry if SM or her family was laughing... if they were, they laugh at bad parenting? That makes her a bad parent for thinking it is okay. As much as I dislike my SD's BM, I would never encourage or allow SD to talk to her like that, nor would I enjoy hearing it. I certainly would not have much respect for my DH if he told her to talk to her mom like that.
Why is he changing venue? Is there a hearing on other issues? It seems pointless to move a case for no reason. The reason to move a case if for convenience because the old venue is too far & in your case, neither of you live there but if there are no hearings scheduled, it would be silly to waste the court's time with it.
If he is planning to file for a hearing at the time he asks the court to change venue, that makes more sense. At that point, you should also file:
1: an objection to dispute the change of venue if it is going to mean you have to go further for hearings. If the current venue is more convenient for you than moving it to where he lives, say so. Otherwise you will be driving even further if something comes up in court.
2: a motion to address all issues that need to be addressed, including support. He wants to address issues... address ALL issues. I would also include mentioning that he admitted encouraging your teenage son to talk to you like he did. Teens are hard enough to deal with sometimes & don't need extra encouragement, especially from a parent, to treat the other parent poorly. The judge should hear about that.
Forget what he accuses your DH of... that is probably because he is getting advice & help so he thinks you must be too. Or maybe it's a tactic to get you riled up... like telling you he's taking you to court. Maybe he wants a reaction... so give him one. React with calmness & work diligently to defend yourself in court. Do not defend yourself or your DH to him. He isn't going to listen anyway, that's why you can't a word in edgewise.
Really, you can complain to the court that he talks badly about you to your son. The court will tell him not to & may even hold him in contempt... but they still cannot MAKE him stop talking badly about you. But as your son gets older, he will make his own decision. He may, unfortunately, stick with his dad against you... or he may decide to have less (or nothing) to do with his dad. Especially after he becomes a parent himself... he will understand better how wrong his father is being now.
Wonder how that would work 'Judge, my son's mother won't work with me because when my son does not want to get out of bed earlier than usual to pick him up, son would rather sleep, isnt that terrible of her'.
Or 'Judge, my son's mother refuses to drive south after event, that woman just refuses to accomadate me'...'But Dad, why could you not drive north prior to event and drop kid's things off at his mother's car'....'But but Judge, Sir, that would put ME out instead of me putting HER out' blah blah blah.
I will assume that when Dad simmers down, he will decide just how foolish taking you to court over the north vs the south side of an event and other similar items is. I'll also assume that when kid gets home you will take a few perks temporarily away for kid's part in the 'show down' over the phone.
But if Dad insists, yeah, if going to court be sure to address all the issues as Ima recommended.
I think in the mean time for future visitations, I'd politely text Dad and tell him that you desire all future changes of plans and/or special request be done between the actual adults as putting kid in the middle of things that are decisions for the parents to make should not used as an opportunity to pit kid against one parent or the other.
let him take you to court over this, will see how judge is going to like it, wasting time on nonsense.
i wouldn't worry about SM laughing but i totally know how you feel. my DD was rude at me once in front of SM and i felt totally embarrassed thinking she probably thought DD ALWAYS talks like this to me especially since she was always polite to SM.
I really have NO idea why all of a sudden he is threatening me with going to court. He said that I never talk to him and I explained that I had tried texting him and got no response. He said that his cell was turned off because he has bills and no other money coming into his house from other people like I do.... he means cs. I told him that his support is the ONLY other money I have coming in and it's not much. (He's probably pissed because he knows my ds11 isn't dh's and that we have custody of ss... so now he knows he's the only one paying... I KNOW.... HUGE MISTAKE!) He then said that I could've taken him to court but I backed out... then he began threatening to take me. I'm honestly not sure why. He complained that I only let him have ds16 when it's convenient for me... but that's a lie and he knows it. I have said no when he asks last minute for a week or so because I have to make arrangements for my other kids..... or to get him there. Anytime he's let me know in advance it's been a yes. I know it's in the parenting time rules and guidelines that I'm supposed to get so much notice for extended times.
Also... this summer my ds11 had like 4 baseball tournaments in bd area.... I let him know this ahead of time so he didn't have to drive to the normal meeting spot to get ds16 to me. So I saved him a TON on gas this summer. BUT... now all of a sudden because I didn't want to go against traffic and spend 5 hours getting home to my other kids he was mad.
He's only ever paid support. He still owes me like $2000 for braces.... wait, he's paid $25 for one pair of cleats once that cost me $50. Ok, so he helped me with sports equipment once. That's it. Never helped with school supplies/clothes/shoes/book fees, NOTHING. I asked about contacts and he said he'd let me know. I went ahead and got them, he's never helped out. I took ds16 to Pensacola for arm surgery in Feb... this is a 14 hour drive.... he never helped out with that either. So really..... I don't think he has a leg to stand on with court.
Today after the event I went to the pick up location and he told us to have a safe trip home. I responded with "you too".... that was it. I don't know if that means he's over it or not. I'll still call child support office tomorrow.
When we got home I took ds16's IPOD away and told him no video games till school starts. (Aug 16) Then I made him do some cleaning. (He's doing that now) He knows why without me even explaining.


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You can find the 3.0 release with all it's sexiness and the overhauled Grid here: 'Bootstrap 3 Illustrator Template' This design template was created to help designers jumpstart their Bootstrap projects. Recently I've found myself relying on the many great features of Bootstrap when designing apps and have become growingly frustrated with having to create the default grid in Illustrator & Photoshop from scratch… I was very surprised to see that Bootstrap templates don't already exist, so I created this one and am sharing it with the world.
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U.S. 61 in St. Francisville has been shut down in front of McDonald's in the city limits due to an overturned 18-wheeler. The 18-wheeler is loaded with concentrated bleach and it is leaking.
West Feliciana Sheriff Austin Daniels says Hazmat and DEQ are on the scene and a few homes around the area have been evacuated due to the strong odor.
They are diverting traffic off of U.S. 61 onto some side streets until the leak can be cleaned up.
Daniels expects the overturned truck to be there for a good part of the afternoon until they can get it moved.


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Gmail totally bungled on the iPhone
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People have been waiting for a Gmail app for the iPhone for a long time. Heck, even the Facebook iPad app got here sooner. Google finally launched...
New Gmail starts showing up
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Google has been on a redesign jag lately. Reader got an overhaul and now the new Gmail is starting to roll out. This is going to make a much bigger...
Rogue Google certificate loose in the wild
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Yahoo! is reading your emails and still forcing me to type that stupid exclamation point at the end of its name*
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Review: Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE
Artist | Frank Ocean |
Album | Channel Orange |
Label | Def Jam |
Year | 2012 |
I don't think I was the only one floored by Frank Ocean's debut performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
At 24, Ocean has garnered a huge amount of buzz this month. He posted a letter describing his first love to another man on July 4th. The following week he affected waves of viewers with his stellar and incredibly moving television premiere of Bad Religion on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. And the week after that, channel ORANGE hit the marketplace. Much like this chain of events, Ocean's first studio album wows, compels, and astonishes in ways that few records seem to do these days.
Christopher Francis Ocean has a remarkable voice, and through the length of channel ORANGE, it's the centerpiece of each song. In an era where recording artists have access to a plethora of instruments, sound libraries, and digital effects, channel ORANGE shows restraint and never detracts from the presence and timbre of Ocean's vocal tracks. Songs like Pyramids and Monks have a bit more force, particularly in the drum tracks, but for the most part the accompanying sounds and instruments, while at times sparse and minimal (like on Pilot Jones), are warm and provide a solid platform for Ocean's voice to shine through.
And it isn't just the way Ocean sings; his lyrics are deep, intimate, and poetic, looking inward, dealing with sexuality, lust, pregnancy and the idea of creating a child, helplessness, addiction, over-privileged youths, and more, and the emotional content in his voice breathes life into every word. The topics themselves aren't anything groundbreaking, but the way Ocean muses over them is genuinely interesting, raising questions that don't always have specific answers. These words have evoked a variety of responses and interpretations, and for yours truly, gave pause and meditation on some not-so-great segments of my odd and somewhat disjointed life (I was also drinking a fairly large gin and tonic at the time). The way Ocean approaches these sometimes difficult, sometimes abstract, but often easily relatable issues is fascinating to say the least, and some of his metaphors, like 'Majin Buu' in Pink Matter, made me chuckle just a bit.
Speaking of Pink Matter, Andre 3000′s stream of consciousness guest verse is excellent. That's all I need to say about that.
The flow of the album from start to finish feels just right, with a couple small interludes and segues dotting the way. These short embellishments, like Fertilizer and Not Just Money, establish a theme that the following songs build upon. The song length ranges from 2:29 (Sierra Leone) to 9:53 (Pyramids, which is basically two songs in one with a shoegaze-y outro), and none of the songs feel excessive. Each minute of this album feels significant, and it builds you up to what I feel are the two best and most personal songs on the album, Bad Religion and Pink Matter. Both songs somberly address Ocean's sexuality, backed by smooth and sweeping orchestral arrangements.
It's been many months since I've been this engrossed in an album. channel ORANGE is simply a solid work of musical and lyrical artistry, warm-sounding and emotionally involving, and should promptly become part of your music collection.
- Frank Ocean has a remarkable voice, rich with character
- Excellently produced and arranged
- Lyrics and themes are compelling and thought-provoking
- I didn't pick up this album the day it released


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iPhones can fix flat tires
A friend who lives in Chicago got a flat tire over the weekend. As it was midnight and bitter cold (Chicago cold, mind you), the friend was ecstatic when he remembered that he subscribed to AAA. But after 12 minutes on hold with AAA, the line went dead. He tried again and got the same results in half the time.
Luckily, it was no ordinary cell phone he was holding. Twas an iPhone, with which he then used Google Maps to find a nearby towing service. Five minutes later the tow truck arrived, and five minutes after that, the tire was replaced, for just $40.
My friend's conclusion: "Thanks, iPhone and Google Maps. Boo, AAA."
AAA, which also has a mobile site, is more than 100 years old and has been a household name for at least half that time. But in the age of smartphones and Google, it's yet another endangered species.


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NO-710 Action Committee Warns Metro Against "Accelerating" 710 Big Dig
(As we speak, the Metro Board of Directors is deciding whether or not to seek the funds and support to "accelerate" the I-710 Big Dig. Earlier this year, the Board voted to seek acceleration for every highway project accept the Dig thanks to a motion by Glendale City Council Member and Metro Board Member Ara Najarian. The following is written testimony by Jan Soo-Hoo of the No-710 Action Committee. A copy of the testimony, with supporting letters from leaders in surrounding communities, can be found, here. – DN)
At the September 18th meeting of Metro's Planning and Programming Committee, Sergio Gonzalez, City Manager of the City of South Pasadena asked why Metro is actively promoting and shopping the SR-710 North Project tunnel as a Public- Private Partnership (PPP) despite the fact that the EIR/EIS has not been completed and no locally-preferred alternative has been chosen. The Chair of Metro's Board of Directors, Diane DuBois, asked Metro's CEO, Arthur Leahy, "Are we shopping it as a tunnel alternative?" CEO Leahy's obfuscated response to the Chair's question (see attached transcript) only served to reinforce the conclusion repeatedly expressed by the public and multiple elected officials, that Metro has already reached a decision about the locally-preferred alternative and route and that Metro is spending $40 million going through the motions of the EIR/EIS process because it is obligated to do so by CEQA and NEPA regulations. Documentation of these concerns, which began long before the EIR/EIS was begun, is abundant and verifiable.
As early as October of 2007, in the context of comments on the Scope of Work for the State Route 710 Tunnel Support Studies, Assemblymember Anthony Portantino wrote to Caltrans District 7 Director, Doug Failing "…Anything short of that and any attempt to use the prior report as a foundation for this study will continue to bolster claims that this project is a runaway train in a quest to be Los Angeles' version of Boston's 'Big Dig' fiasco."
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I use Better Comments Manager to easily manage comments from users on my blogs. But I found it quite inconvenient because I always have to go to "Comments" menu and then do another click to access the function so I modified the plugin to make the function accessible from the Dashboard page.
I planned to post the plugin but weeks ago, Jaypee announced the latest version of the plugin which enables the user to access the function straight from the Admin Panel. I thought my plan to blog about it was totally ruined but I noticed that there's something more I can add to make the plugin better.
Currently, the plugin adds a menu to access the function and the menu lies inline with other top level menus. IMO, the menu is placed not perfectly well so I make it a submenu on the Dashboard page. Here's how it looks now. For me, this is much a better look. I can't attach the file yet but if you want, I can send it to you.