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The simple addition of a sibling to the nest is a boon to a plot as well as a family. Just as Beezus needs Ramona and Hansel needs Gretel, Rosemary Wells's Ruby would be nowhere without her baby brother Max. It's an equitable arrangement: Ruby needs someone to push around, Max needs someone to subvert. In their latest outing, Max's Bunny Business (3–5 years), Ruby won't let Max help with her lemonade stand, so he goes into business for himself. Who's the boss now?
Big sisters (and brothers) maintain the upper hand in Lynn Reiser's and Penny Gentieu's My Baby & Me, in which a series of older siblings tell Baby what's what: "You have a bottle! I have a cup! I pour juice in. I drink it up." Illustrated with lively and adept photographs by Gentieu, the book is perfect for those just exiting babyhood themselves (18 months–3 years).
Moving beyond humans (and bunnies), Steve Jenkins's and Robin Page's Sisters & Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World (6–9 years) informs readers that "nine-banded armadillos are always born as identical quadruplets"; peregrine falcons practice their hunting dives on their siblings; and Nile crocodile babies cry in unison to make sure their mother pays attention. Steve Jenkins (writing here with his wife Robin Page) is consistently a first-rate explainer of the natural world, and his bold collage pictures have both accurate detail and high drama.
Older kids (and adults) will enjoy the boost siblinghood gives to solving a disappearance in Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery (10 years and up). When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim comes to visit the sibs' family in London, they treat him to a whirl on the famed London Eye. They watch him go up . . . but he doesn't come down. Where is he? Ted's narration, limited but also extended by his Asperger's, is persuasive, and the unique insights enabled by his disability are well partnered by the daring (and deviousness) of his older sister.
Jazz might seem an unlikely subject for a picture book, but lately it's been flourishing. Why? It may have something to do with the freedom an artist can have while evoking the improvisational nature of the music.
In Robert Andrew Parker's Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum (5–8 years), we first meet Art when he's a toddler barely able to reach the keys on his family's piano. Nearly blind from birth, Art has a phenomenal memory for tunes and an ability to improvise music that matches his mood. Parker's watercolors are lush and evocative, depicting Art's playful music with color and loose, feathery brushwork.
Carole Boston Weatherford's short, alliterative text for Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane (5–8 years) explores the young John's ability to listen to his surroundings. Sean Qualls's painterly mixed-media art surrounds John with abstract shapes that provide a visual representation of his lively, angular music.
If your child enjoys these books, check out Chris Raschka's trio of jazz picture books: John Coltrane's Giant Steps (5–8 years), Mysterious Thelonious (5–8 years), and Charlie Parker Played Be Bop (3–6 years). Raschka was a pioneer in attempting the visual depiction of jazz in picture books, using line and color to translate Thelonious Monk's "Misterioso," for example, into visual form. This might sound brainy and intimidating, but all five books have a common goal: the promotion of stress-free enjoyment of jazz. Sit back, open your ears, eyes, and mind, and let the words, pictures, and sounds wash over you.
And there's no rule that says you can't read aloud to music. For Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, turn up Parker's and Dizzy Gillespie's rendition of "A Night in Tunisia" to hear just what be bop can be.
—Lolly Robinson
Mary Downing Hahn is the author of more than twenty novels for young readers. Winner of numerous "children's choice" awards, she works in a variety of genres including contemporary realistic fiction, historical fiction (her World War II novel Stepping on the Cracks won the Scott O'Dell Award), and supernatural suspense. Her latest novel, All the Lovely Bad Ones (10–14 years), is a spooky tale about two kids (yet another brother-sister pair) whose mischief inadvertently wakens the dead. Brrr!
1. What did being a children's librarian teach you about writing for children?
First of all, I must confess I was not a real librarian — merely an associate librarian, which means I was a college grad with a special knowledge of books — ideal qualifications for impractical people with degrees in English.
Back in the seventies and eighties, we reviewed every fiction purchase and sometimes I was asked to serve on the selection committee. My voluminous reading convinced me to write a book of my own. I knew I'd never come close to the writers I'd admired most, but I was positive I could write a better book than some of the ones I read. I suppose you could say I was inspired by badly written books.
At any rate, the library was a great setting for a beginning writer. Even my hours helped — I was scheduled to work two evening shifts a week and every other Saturday. With two kids in school, I wrote on my mornings off, and when I worked Saturday, I had Friday off — a whole day to write!
2. Why do you think people like to scare themselves?
Speaking for myself, I love to read scary stories in the safety of my own cozy house, preferably near the fireplace with a cat or two in my lap. I think most of us are haunted by fears and anxieties. When a character in a book defeats a malevolent spirit, we feel empowered to face our own demons. Or maybe it's Aristotle's idea of catharsis kind of watered down — a scary story arouses fear in the reader, but, in the end, the fear is purged and the reader sits back and says, "Ahhh, what a great ending."
3. What do you read when you want a good scary story?
I love subtle stories — James's "The Turn of the Screw" (my all-time favorite) and a host of others by Edith Wharton, Oliver Onions (especially "The Beckoning Fair One," guaranteed to haunt you forever), M. R. James, and many more. Among children's writers, I love Josephine Poole. I read Moon Eyes in a book discussion group and found it truly frightening. Helen Cresswell has a nice touch with ghost stories. I find writers like Stephen King over the top — except for one excellent ghost story I read years ago in the New Yorker. "The Man in the Black Suit" is proof King can write literary prose.
4. What do you say to people who feel that reading about ghosts or the supernatural is dangerous or otherwise bad for children?
Actually, I try to avoid those people. So far, I've succeeded. A psychology professor at the University of Kansas once branded Wait till Helen Comes as a book advocating suicide when things go wrong. He raised a huge fuss — even got on TV — because the school refused to ban the book. I saw his picture in the newspaper and kept an eye out — ready to run and hide if I saw him. Wimp that I am, I really don't know what I would have said to him. But I can tell you that Wait till Helen Comes sold very well while I was in Lawrence.
5. Have you ever seen a ghost?
I might have. Several years ago, I was the only guest in a large Victorian bed-and-breakfast in Kansas. On my last night there, I woke up and saw a man wearing nineteenth-century clothing standing with his back to me, emptying his pockets and placing the contents on a bureau — typical behavior of a man getting ready for bed. When I tried to speak, he turned, saw me, and ran from the room, obviously more frightened of me than I was of him. Yes, I could have been dreaming, but I later learned from the B&B owner that she had long believed the house was haunted by its original owners. She'd never seen them, but she sensed their presence. That ghost's fear gave me the idea for one of "the rules" in my book The Old Willis Place: a ghost should not be seen by the living.
Summer is almost around the corner . . . so make sure your tween or teen packs a few page-turners in that beach bag. In recent months, we've seen several excellent ghost stories, thrillers, and adventures, in addition to Mary Downing Hahn's All the Lovely Bad Ones. The prolific and popular author Avi's latest is The Seer of Shadows (10–14 years), a post–Civil War tale of unscrupulous spiritualists. Fourteen-year-old Horace, apprentice to a society photographer, unwittingly releases a ghost (and not a friendly one) when he helps his employer manipulate an image of a client's dead daughter into a photograph.
For contemporary, and even scarier, fare, check out The Missing Girl (12 years and up) by Norma Fox Mazer, in which a man obsessed with five sisters eventually abducts one. In alternating chapters, eleven-year-old Autumn struggles for sanity and escape as her family reacts to the trauma of her disappearance. Short chapters and the ripped-from-the-headlines plot will hold readers' interest, and impeccably composed interludes from the man's perspective up the creepiness factor.
Also generous with chills is Carol Plum-Ucci in Streams of Babel (14 years and up), a breakneck tale of a bioterrorist attack on a small town's water supply told through the eyes of the affected young adults. Plum-Ucci includes some timely issues with the action, but it's the vivid characters and expertly controlled tension that will keep readers' eyes glued to the page.
The Compound (12 years and up), by first-time novelist S. A. Bodeen, plumbs peril of a more intimate nature. Eli, his two sisters, and their parents have spent the last six years in an underground bunker, having barely escaped a nuclear attack — or did they? With only his autocratic billionaire father's word on the state of the outside world to go on, now-fifteen-year-old Eli starts to question the very foundations of his strange, isolated life. A claustrophobic atmosphere, gradual accumulation of clues, and truly terrifying villain keep action-seeking readers on their toes.
And for some old-fashioned, larger-than-life entertainment, pick up Will Hobbs's Go Big or Go Home (10–14 years), about two boys whose summer takes on astronomic proportions when one of them acquires superpowers from a meteorite that crashes through the ceiling of his bedroom. Bullies, beware!
—Claire E. Gross
Q: My fourth grader has become a voracious reader thanks to the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. Other suggestions? — L. Everett, Arlington, MA
A: Two direct corollaries to the Warriors series come to mind (for those of you without pre-teens, the series is a multi-volumed, multi-tiered fantasy drama about sentient, heroic cats). There's SF Said and Dave McKean's two Varjak Paw books, about a street cat gifted in martial arts. And in a few years (the target age is a little older), try Clare Bell's five-volumed Named series (beginning with Ratha's Creature), about the epic struggles of giant prehistoric cats. Moving beyond the feline subset, though, there's a rich array of animal fantasy out there. Brian Jacques's iconic Redwall books are a strong choice, but don't overlook more recent series such as M. I. McAllister's Mistmantle Chronicles (beginning with Urchin of the Riding Stars), which follow the exploits of a spunky squirrel page; Kenneth Oppel's bat quest-adventures (Silverwing, Sunwing, and Firewing); and Clem Martini's Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles (the world-changing journeys of a young outcast crow, beginning with The Mob). If your child is partial to the triumphant underdog theme, you might also try moving into the human realm with Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small Quartet, about the training and trials of a fantasy kingdom's first legally sanctioned female knight, or Suzanne Collins's Underland Chronicles, which, starting with Gregor the Overlander, tell the tale of an eleven-year-old boy who fulfills his destiny as the prophesied hero of a nightmarish underworld. All these titles offer plenty of action and intrigue, as well as the chance to return time and again to beloved characters and worlds. —Claire E. Gross
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May 12–18 is Children's Book Week, a tradition founded in 1919 through the allied enthusiasm of booksellers, librarians, and the Boy Scouts. It is now administered by the Children's Book Council, a nonprofit association of publishers for children and teens devoted to promoting books and reading. Schools, libraries, and bookstores throughout the country will be sponsoring activities to celebrate the Week, and the CBC's website offers an assortment of related projects and suggestions to honor Children's Book Week at home.
Parents may also be interested in several new articles from the latest Horn Book Magazine posted on the Horn Book website. Megan Lambert, an instructor at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, writes about bringing books home to her family: "I've yet to find a children's book that depicts a cast of characters that looks anything like our particular multiracial, foster-adoptive family constellation." Hewing to the theme of family reading, children's book editor Ginee Seo and her husband, writer Bruce Brooks, discuss the perils of Elmo; and Newbery Award–winner Christopher Paul Curtis describes the futility of trying to "micromanage" a child's reading life.
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1-Bed Bungalow on Coconut Island
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This wonderful tropical bungalow is located in a beachfront resort on Coconut Island, just off the east coast of Phuket.
Featuring an open-plan split-level studio layout, the bungalow has a living, dining and kitchen area on the lower level and a sleeping area on the upper level. There is also a good-sized bathroom and a storage room.
The property is located less than 100 metres from the beachfront in an eco-friendly resort that boasts a beach club with swimming pool, restaurant, bar and spa. The grounds of the development are beautifully landscaped with golf carts to provide transportation. The resort has its own pier which can be reached from Phuket in around 5 minutes by boat from Laem Hin.
An ideal holiday home, this island hideaway can be placed in the resort's rental pool to generate a significant return on investment.
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Coconut Island (Koh Maprao) is situated just off the east coast of Phuket and boasts palm-fringed beaches and a jungle interior. The island can be reached in 5 minutes by speedboat or longtail from Laem Hin Pier, just north of Phuket Town.
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Microsoft is preparing to make a potentially breaking change that deals with how Exchange Server 2007 handles named properties. This change is scheduled to be a part of Service Pack 2 and of Exchange Server 2010 at RTM.
This change involves the promotion (i.e., the visibility to non-MAPI clients) of X-* headers in incoming e-mail messages. This can potentially affect the operation of e-mail clients that depend on POP-3 and IMAP (and even Outlook, if you are using rules that look at headers).
Unlike certain earlier versions of Exchange, Exchange 2007 and above do not have a STM file - this means that incoming Internet e-mail is ALWAYS translated to MAPI format and that all headers are not necessarily retained - especially if they are X-* headers. This can cause a fidelity issue (i.e., you can't reproduce EXACTLY what you received). For probably 99.999% of customers - this isn't an issue. At least, that's the opinion.
So.... Microsoft is looking for input and they've asked for Exchange MVPs to help get the word out.
To express your opinion, see Named Properties, Round 2: What lies Ahead.
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Details released in probe of teen shot by officer
TUCSON -- Tucson police examining an officer's shooting of a 17-year-old boy accused of pulling a gun on the officer as he fled on foot haven't been able to determine whether the boy was involved in an incident that drew that attention of police in the first place.
Police say the 17-year-old and a 20-year-old man were spotted Sunday morning near a home where a woman complained about people who were ringing her door bell but wouldn't identify themselves.
Spokesman Chris Widmer says investigators haven't been able to determine whether the boy or 20-year-old were involved in the door ringing.
Widmer also says it appears that the two didn't know each other even though they were walking together.
The teen's injury wasn't life-threatening.
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This is going to be the toughest week so far. Will the real "Jimmy" please stand up.
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The home of good pub food in Newbury!
Find us in beautiful countryside near Wash Water, just off the A34 and only 3 miles from Newbury itself.
We serve our popular pub food 7-days-a-week at lunchtimes and evenings: 12-2.30pm & 6-9pm Monday to Saturday and a fabulous Sunday Lunch from 12-4pm on Sundays.
Our menu includes a fantastic choice of main meals & lite bites plus our daily specials, all of which can be enjoyed in our cosy restaurant room.
And if it's just a drink and a catch-up with friends or the football, our bar is the ideal place to enjoy live sports from SKY & BT Sport, or a game of darts.
But do get here early if you fancy a seat on our warm, comfy sofa or near the woodburner - they are both popular spots!
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Rietvlei Nature Reserve
The Rietvlei wetland, a freshwater lake in Milnerton, is both a birder's paradise and a fantastic place to take part in watersport. It features an abundance of flowers during the spring season.
The Rietvlei is about 560 hectares in size and in spring and summer is home to a huge variety of birds, many of them waders. A bird census has shown that 102 species can be found at Rietvlei, of which 70 are regularly there. A bird hide comfortably seats 20 enthusiasts.
There is a network of walking trails. Watersport enthusiasts love windsurfing and sailing on the vlei, and it is also a popular picnic area with places to braai (barbecue).
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- Physical Address: Rietvlei Wetland Reserve, Bloubergstrand
Cango Caves
29km from Oudtshoorn, at the head of the picturesque Cango Valley, lies the spectacular underground wonder of the Klein Karoo - the Cango Caves. Situated in a limestone ridge parallel to the well-known Swartberg Mountains, you will find the finest dripstone caverns, with their vast halls and towering formations.
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The Southern Suburbs are a tourist's delight. The area, which stretches from the slopes of the Table Mountain range to the False Bay coast, offers natural attractions and a vibrant nightlife.
St James
Just a little further on from Cape Town's well-known Muizenberg beach is St James. Home to a cluster of well-known and oft-photographed bathing boxes on the beach, St James is a picturesque area that offers beachgoers respite from the westerly wind.
Llandudno and Sandy Bay
Only 18km from the Cape Town city centre, an arc of fine white sand gives away the secluded location of one of Cape Town's most beautiful beaches, Llandudno.
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By Ralph De La Cruz
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
"Since time immemorial, the drawing of lines has been done to benefit those in power," the NAACP's Leon Russell said at a redistricting forum in Miami earlier this month.
In the United States, the drawing of lines is called redistricting. Using Census figures, redistricting happens every 10 years. The way the lines are drawn affects every political office from school board to Congress. And because the process is run by the very people — state politicians, no less — who are affected by it, it's been notorious for manipulation.
How is redistricting manipulated, and why should you care?
A sharp person with an up-to-date Census map could probably draw a district that would make liberal Armenian dentists a majority — which would then be more prone to elect a liberal Armenian dentist. That's fine, unless most of the people in the area are actually conservative Jamaican painters who end up feeling unrepresented and disempowered.
Florida has proven particularly fertile for manipulation. In 1972, the federal government determined that when it came to drawing political boundaries, Florida was not in compliance with the 1965 Voting Rights Act. And that, from then on, the feds would monitor and have to clear any changes to voting and election laws in five Florida counties — Hendry, Collier, Hardee, Hillsborough and Monroe (Gov. Rick Scott and Secretary of State Kurt Browning filed a petition just two weeks ago asking federal courts to do away with that provision of the law.)
Favorable line-drawing during redistricting has helped the Republican Party maintain super-majority control of both chambers of the statehouse despite the fact that a majority of registered voters statewide are Democrats.
All of which led Florida voters to pass Amendments 5 and 6 — the Fair Districts Amendments — last year, which forbid the drawing of districts to favor a party or individual, or to diminish the impact of racial and ethnic minorities.
Redistricting is complicated business made more so in Florida by the passage of the redistricting amendments and the expanding Hispanic population. That population increase is a major reason why Florida is expected to add two Congressional seats this year.
With such a complex and potentially contentious process, the last things you need are political hyperbole and racial controversy.
"Before we design a district anywhere in the state of Florida for Hispanic voters, we need to ascertain that they are citizens of the United States," state Sen. Alan Hays said Tuesday. "We all know there are many Hispanic-speaking people in Florida that are not legal. And I just don't think it's right that we try to draw a district that encompasses people that really have no business voting anyhow."
Bad enough that a state senator enters the redistricting process with an assumption that there are "many Hispanic-speaking people" that shouldn't be counted. Worse that he's on the Senate Reapportionment Committee, one the folks who's actually putting together redistricting maps. And even worse that Hays doesn't know the majority Hispanic group in the Central Florida area he was referencing are Puerto Ricans, who are, by definition, American citizens.
But perhaps Hays' worst offense is that he, a lawmaker, doesn't know the law.
As Juan Cartagena of the Puerto Rican political group LatinoJustice pointed out in an opinion piece, the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution requires representation of all people, not just registered voters.
If Hays is worried about "people that really have no business voting anyhow," he'd have to make sure that anyone under 18 wasn't included. And if it's about legal status, where exactly is the cutoff for Hays' you-don't-count line? Do resident aliens count? What about citizens who aren't registered?
It didn't take long for Hays' remarks to draw a sharp response from Hispanic lawmakers. Democratic Rep. Luis Garcia called for a public apology and Rep. Janet Cruz demanded he be removed from the reapportionment committee.
Sen. Rene Garcia, the head of the Hispanic Caucus gave Hays a pass by saying he was "comfortable" given Hays' response that he'd be willing to talk to any legislator who had an issue with what he said. But it was obvious not all Hispanic Republicans were as comfortable with Hays' words.
"I think that it is unfortunate that anyone would question whether or not Hispanic voters are American citizens," said Rep. Jose Diaz, a Miami Republican. "It is basic Government 101 that in our country only U.S. citizens can exercise the right to vote."
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'The Glades' Season 4: Kiele Sanchez likes having 'housewife' Zach Gilford aroundAdd to Favorites | The Glades
Kiele Sanchez knows if you're literally going to sweat out doing a series, it's good if your spouse is another actor who understands.
The former co-star of "Lost" and "Related" starts her fourth season as nurse Callie Cargill -- long-distance girlfriend and potential fiancee of Florida police detective Jim Longworth (Matt Passmore) -- on the A&E mystery series "The Glades" Monday, May 27. Sanchez married "Friday Night Lights" alum Zach Gilford at the very end of 2012, and she's grateful he knows the business ... and can handle hot temperatures.
"It absolutely helps," the pleasant Sanchez confirms to Zap2it. "Both of us have a very similar outlook. As passionate as we are about our jobs and as ambitious as we are about our careers, it's not going to change how we feel about ourselves. It goes so up-and-down, we don't like to drink the Kool-Aid, as I like to say."
His FOX series "The Mob Doctor" having been canceled last fall, Gilford has visited Florida often since Sanchez resumed location filming of "The Glades" in January. "He loves it," she says. "He's been here most of the time, but he'll go off on his own. He really likes being my 'housewife.' He's such a cold-climate person, his parents are shocked that I can get him to live with me down here."
Sanchez actually is amazed she's made it through nearly four rounds of "The Glades" herself, given the challenges posed by the environment. "We usually don't get down here until the end of March," she reports, "so we're usually here for June and July. That's the kind of heat where you feel like someone is baking you and is about to eat you.
"The skin just gets so toasty, and it's so humid. For me, the bugs are the worst part. And they love me. That is not a good combination."


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Hi All,
I've been wondering…While I do know a bit of plain vanilla HTML/CSS, I do not know some of the latest commands and cannot handcode vendor prefixes. But when I use the emmet plugin, Sass or less, I kick ass.
Does this make me any less of a developer?
If you understand what Emmet, SASS & LESS kick out at the end…then no.
If you don't then I would say yes. As a 'developer' you should understand what your code is for and doing.
BTW….a designer and a developer are not the same thing. You can be one or the other or both,
Same with JavaScript and jQuery I guess. I know JavaScript syntax (like do calculations, manipulate strings etc.), but without jQuery I'd have to Google a lot for the simplest DOM accessing and manipulation functions.
Anyway, vendor prefixes aren't that hard, though it gets more annoying if the syntax is different too… like border-radius and gradients. I copy paste most of that (from notes I have around).
Knowing more about coding can only make you better. :)
true. again.. are you a bad developer if you don't know to handcode?
@arachattack That's a crucial part of being a developer.
@arachattack developer? yes.
designer? maybe. ;)
If you don't understand what you're coding, is it even appropriate to refer to it as coding? Much in the same way as reading requires a basic facility with language, so coding requires an understanding of basic coding principles.
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Rayner, S; Beaconsfield, M; Collin, R; Kennedy, C; Murdoch, I; Taylor, P; (2001) Subspecialty adnexal ophthalmological examination using telemedicine. In: Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. (pp. 29 - 31).
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We studied the clinical outcome of examination of a group of patients with adnexal (eyelid and orbit) conditions. Seventeen patients with adnexal problems were assessed by an ophthalmologist at a distance using telemedicine, and then subsequently by an ophthalmologist in a face-to-face consultation. Measurements such as palpebral aperture, levator muscle function and eyelid skin crease position were recorded. The clinical outcomes from both consultations were recorded independently by the consultants and then compared. The study showed that certain adnexal conditions, such as congenital and involutional ptosis, could be accurately assessed using telemedicine, but that other conditions, such as socket problems in patients who had a previous enucleation or those with non-specific ocular pain with less clear-cut features, were better assessed in a face-to-face consultation. Overall, teleconsultations appeared to be suitable for the assessment of uncomplicated ptosis but not for less well defined conditions. Other factors, such as family dynamics and language problems, also limited the usefulness of the technique.
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The superstar with multiple Oscar nominations has everything: a brilliant career, a partner he wants to marry and, in "Moneyball," a seeming disaster he turned into a masterpiece. Still, Hollywood's producer-actor confesses to earlier bouts of depression and a relentless need to question just about everything (himself included): "This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated."
The idea of making a movie about math, as Pitt jokingly describes Moneyball, is one of them.
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The project began its long journey five years ago, when Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal showed Pitt Michael Lewis' 2003 nonfiction book about baseball team GM Billy Beane and the statistics wunderkind who helped him transform the Oakland Athletics. At the time, writer Stan Chervin and director David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) were developing it with a decidedly comedic touch. Pitt looked at the screenplay, and at Beane himself, and wanted to go in a different direction: "I read the book, and this idea of second chances and how we sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others -- we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says -- made me think, 'Oh my God, there's something much bigger here.' "
He offered to leave the film with Frankel, but the director graciously departed, allowing Pitt to develop the story as he saw fit. Not a baseball fan (though he says he loves sports, especially football and soccer), it was the nuances of Beane's character that intrigued him. And so, working with producers Michael De Luca and Rachael Horovitz, he brought on Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List) to script and asked his friend Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven) to direct.
Pitt comes alive recollecting the enthusiasm he felt at getting them all on board, literally rubbing his hands with glee, but after Soderbergh reworked Zaillian's screenplay, Sony had second thoughts. "We were supposed to leave on a Sunday to start shooting, and Steven handed it in on a Wednesday or Thursday, and the studio was not feeling good," says Pitt. "It's not that they didn't like the idea; they did not like the price" -- about $60 million.
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What happened next has been amply recounted: how Pascal pulled the plug; how she gave Soderbergh and Pitt several days to shop the project; how everybody passed. "Nobody wanted to buy disgraced goods," he adds. "It was dead."
But Pitt refused to let it die, calling Pascal and urging her to stick with the movie. "There would be no Moneyball without him," says producer Scott Rudin. "He saved it single-handedly, and he deserves the credit for its existing at all."
Pitt now approached Miller, the relatively untested director who had made only one feature, 2005's Capote (along with the 1998 documentary The Cruise), and who flew from New York to meet him, sitting with the star in a modernist house on his compound, surrounded by tools and models and outlines for his architectural ventures.
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Pitt was cautious, given that Miller had made nothing since Capote. "It's usually a warning sign when a director doesn't work for many years," he explains, "but it's because he's so choosy. The fact he had such an investment in the material -- which was apparent in our first meeting -- was a big green light for me."
Now he had to persuade the studio. "There was a lot of disagreement about where this should go," he admits.
With Aaron Sorkin brought in to rewrite while Zaillian moved on to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and with Rudin added as overseer, Pitt and Miller reworked every element during the following nine months.
"We talked a lot about documentarians and 1970s films and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- and how the character in that movie is the same beast at the end. That was relevant, because some people involved wanted to have a big epiphany and change, which wasn't true to life."
The filmmakers resisted attempts to reduce Beane's journey to the "arc" of a conventional Hollywood script. "I had some sleepless nights," says Pitt. "It was not without its pressure."
His determination to buck tradition continued even when he began preparing to shoot the film, having long conversations with Beane and hanging out to talk ball with the players. It carried into the shoot, when Pitt backed Miller's decision to use long shots rather than close-ups, letting them play without quick-cutting, an "elegance" Pitt admires.
None of this was accidental; none of it would have been possible without Pitt's willingness to challenge authority. "I do have a kind of knee-jerk reaction to go the other way than I'm supposed to," he notes slyly.
The result is a best picture nomination, along with the one for Tree of Life, which Pitt also made through Plan B Entertainment, the companyhe runs with Dede Gardner. Together, they showPitt the producer and Pitt the star workingspectacularly in tandem, with a boldness and depth nobody could have imagined when he started acting some 25 years ago.
Says one friend, "He's fully matured into a man."
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Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Madison, Wisconsin and/or Panama, Panama
Oddometer: 7,999
Orcas Island to Alaska and Home to Madison
A buddy of mine was getting married on Orcas Island. First thing I said when he said he was getting married- COOL! I'll RIDE MY MOTORCYCLE!
edit: as I was putting this ride report together, yesterday, Chuck called! Out of the blue like if he was sick with ESP or something. And just now I remembered the fire on Orcas and the beer and good conversation.
When I pulled up at Chuck's botherer-in-law-to-be's house, just before dark, Chuck goes, "Is that Max? Max!" and he was already almost toasted. Which was good because it was a bachelor party. He introduced me to his extended list of friends- all of them totaly capable of being lunatics. One olympic swimmer. Several triathletes. All of them with master's degrees or PhDs or JDs or something I can't pronounce. I was their novelty, the guy who only had a bachelor's. They argued like old friends drinking beer- things like "He'll never make it to Alaska." "I bet he will." "He'll never even make it to Canada." "Of course he will. He made it here, didn't he?" "Yeah, but he totally wimped out in Mexico. He only made it a thousand miles in Mexico." "I'll bet you $100 he makes it to Alaska." "I'll bet you $100 he doesn't even make it to Canada." "Who's a witness?" Chuck goes "I heard it." So Dave and Todd made a bet. I sat there laughing. "I'm going to Alaska," I said. Some of them believed me. Some didn't. Well, Todd and Dave- here's your proof. Pay up! :end of edit.
I planned on taking my brand-new-to-me '96 R1100GS. But before I left I wanted to add a few things. So I took the bike apart and then I couldn't get it back together again.
All I wanted to add was an aeroflow windshield, piaa driving lights, and an auxiliary power supply for the GPS. I did something to the gas tank/fuel line/something and could NOT get it started again.
I changed the plugs. I drained the battery down to nothing. I put in a new battery. I drained it down to nothing. I found the short and charged the battery and drained it down to nothing. I tried jumping it with my truck and almost blew everything up. Eventually I had it towed to the BMW dealer so that I could pay them $500 when I got back from Alaska. I'm too shy to say what I'd actually done that took them a week to diagnose.
In the end I took my '96 R1100RS. When I left I felt like a combination posseur/loser.
It was about 4 PM when I finally left, and I was running late by a day and a half. I had to get to Orcas Island by 6 on Thursday because Chuck was having a bachelor party.
The first night I made it from Madison to the border of Minnesota and South Dakota. I didn't ride anything special- just I90. But I ran into thunderstorms in Minnesotta and had to ride through them because out on the prairie there's no shelter. No overpasses. No exits with convenience stores. There was nothing to do but ride. The best part was when it started to hail.
Eventually I made it to Wall Drug, Wyoming, and Custer's Last Stand.
There were homicidal mule deer and elk on the road. I didn't get no photos of them but they were there.
Just inside Washington State coming up over a hill pulling away from everybody going about 90...
"Where are you headed in such a hurry? Do you know how fast you were going?" "I'm going to a bachelor party on Orcas Island and I need to make the ferry." So he said to hurry up and take a picture and make sure to stay in the commuter lanes. He even put his hand on his gun, gunslinger-style. I told him to smile for all the inmates on ADVrider.
Then I put my pretty black bike on the ferry.
I am Charlie.
bananaman screwed with this post 02-27-2008 at 06:07 AM
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Joined: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, ON
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Sounds like an adventure alright...
Keep it comin'
p.s. does Wall Drug still have billboards right across the entire state of South Dakota along the interstate?
ADV decals, patches & flag? Here
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Madison, Wisconsin and/or Panama, Panama
Oddometer: 7,999
There are Wall Drug signs everywhere. I had to go there to get a bumper sticker for my daughter. It went like this: Dad. IF you're going to be so stupid as to ride a motorcycle all the way to Washington, then you can get me a Wall Drug bumper sticker. So I did, and I had a grilled cheese sandwich, chocolate malt, and cup of coffee.
I am Charlie.
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Madison, Wisconsin and/or Panama, Panama
Oddometer: 7,999
My travel notebook has this entry: "6/26/07 5:33 PM 3.7 gal 57,295 Madison Shell Bound for Orcas Island"
And I was on my RS. I had been debating with myself and a few buddies about which bike to take. The problem, as we saw it, was "getting to the fight ready to fight." From Madison to the Casier was FAR. If I took the GS- well, the GS was (is) a pig compared to the RS. In the end the GS wasn't an option because I couldn't get it started. I have no regrets for taking the RS. Actually I'm super glad I took the RS. It's absolutely amazing on the roads, and it handled the gravel and mud of the Casier and the Alcan and the Haul Road just fine.
Back to the pictures and the travel notebook:
"8:00 PM-8:20 PM 3.6 gal 57,447 Dodine MN. Suzy Q, coke, water, put on goretix cut it looks like rain!"
"9:30 Rochester, MN 1.8 gal 57,507 miles. Holy FUCK the sky is ominous. And I just rode through a BAD IDEA. I've beenhere at a Quick Trip maybe 20 minutes. I'm shoving off. But the lightning is scary."
"10:44 pm. Albert Lee 1.1 gal @$3.36 next stop: Sioux Falls, 175 miles from here."
"1:30 Am 30 miles east of Sioux Falls. Tired. Luverne, MN.
"6/27/07 7:25 AM Departing to West. 57,712 3.5 gal @ $11.52"
there are a bunch of boring entries, notes about various cokes and snickers I bought to sustain myself, then- "5:08 PM Sheridan, WY 58,339 2.3 gal @ 7.56 1042 total (odometer) 1026 total (GPS) 1013 from here per GPS." And next to me on a brand-new 1200RT- this guy pulled up. So I said to him- Hey Mister, do you know anything about the Iron Butt Club?" "Sure," he said. "Those guys are nuts," he said. "I just rode 1000 miles in 24 hours," I said. So he signed my log, gave me his name and number and stuff. Then I rode up to the airport and got one of the guys who works there to sign my log. He looked at me like I was NUTS. But I haven't submitted that ride to the IBA because after riding all the way to Alaska, riding 1000 miles in 24 hours just seems kind of... amateurish.
After hitting that milestone I was tired and I started to slow down.
"7:10 PM Little Bighorn Nat'l Cemetary 58,417 8:03 leaving Little Bighorn. Custer was small. I liked the horse cemetary."
more entries, then, "11:20 PM Livingston Montana 58,600 1304 on the trip 3.13 gal @ 7.66 almost (just missed) 2 mule deer- first a velvet buck walking slowly toward a doe, the, 20 mi later, a panicked doe, FUCK!"
"2:00 AM Butte, Montanta. TIRED, But... 1000 Odometer Miles! IRON!" But I guess I was too tired to have recorded the mileage- but my memory says I'd ridden 1000 miles since I got up that morning.
"6/28/07 8:55 AM Cantral. Overslept. Departing w/2.3 gal @ $7.33"
later, "1:00 PM Cor d'Alene, Idaho in 4 hours 292 mi."
and later... "5:28 PM 59,315." This was 2020 odometer miles in 48 hours. I was in the parking lot of the Sunset Elementary School , Bellevue, WA. Two women signed my log book. I'd just done 2020 odometer miles in 48 hours! (But after double-checking, it didn't add up to 2000 real miles, so no Extra-iron butt for me. It was hard, but not close enough for a cigar.)
"7:20 PM Seattle 59,369 traffic Jam on I5 headed to Hwy 20 between Arlington and North Marysville."
After riding 2000 miles through the American West it totally sucked to be in a traffic jam.
There were times in the mountains when I was laughing inside my helmet. I felt like the entire US Interstate Highway System was my personal playground. And there was no way I would have felt that way if I'd been on my GS. I sat in traffic and thought- holy shit, I just rode 2000 miles and it was AWESOME!
"8:20 PM FERRY TERMINAL Anacortes, WA."
I am Charlie.
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Madison, Wisconsin and/or Panama, Panama
Oddometer: 7,999
Orcas Island to Vancouver
Basically the wedding on Orcas was a three-day drunk. I won't bore anybody with the "wedding pictures," except for this one of the moon and then only because it was so unlikely. What happened was, one of Chuck's old girlfriends came to the party with a guy and his yacht, and after the party we partied on the yacht, and then there was a moon and I was drunk and so was everybody else so they said, "take a picture of the moon," and I did.
If you're ever in the area, spend some time at Doe Bay, Orcas Island.
When it finally came time to leave, after the wedding, I was kind of melancholy. I was looking forward to the ride, but it was hard to leave old friends.
But before I could go, I needed to make one more stop. I'd heard of Reuben from far, far away. I needed new tires. I didn't really want to go anywhere. I still had a hangover. So I stopped to visit Reuben.
"5:47 PM Anacortes New Tires & oil. 59,569. Off to Alaska."
I don't know exactly what Rubien did but it was like magic. Before, when I would start the motor, it would go "tick-tick-tick" for a few seconds. "The torques aren't right. This is real mechanic's work. Nobody wants to do it. You have to get the torques right," he said. Pretty soon I had a wrench and I was getting the torques wrong and he was yelling at me. "NO! What the fuck kind of pansy are you?! I said ONE CLICK! You went TWO!" and then he'd mutter stuff, pansy gay boy wants to be a rider gonna fuckin' get himself KILLED then, "GET OUT!" then "What the fuck are you going to help me or not?!" and when he was done with me and my bike I felt like we could go anywhere. Last thing he said: "Now listen to me boy. Those tires are sticky but right now they're new so you be careful for a while until they get sticky or you gonna get yourself killed." After, as I was leaving, some guy came in on a brand-new RT that he'd laid down or something. This RT guy was mad because Rubien was telling him it was going to be a couple of weeks before he could get to it. So the RT guy started to get mad and say things like Yeah but you took care of THAT guy right away! with one of those whine-y voices, and I heard Rubien said, "He's a rider," just to shut the RT guy up, and I almost start to ... you know how it is. I won't say. That sure was a nice compliment but not the kind I can handle in public.
Next thing: CANADA!
Crossing the border was a total pain. They took me inside, asked me tons of questions, counted my money, took my bike apart- and then complained that it was "complicated." I don't know what they were looking for but all I had was bike stuff. They totally gave me a hard time and I was almost ready to tell them to fuck themselves and Canada and that I'd just take the ferry to Alaska. Eventually they let me go but they still kept looking at me like I was a terrorist or something. And they kept asking me what I planned to do if I saw a bear. WTF?
I am Charlie.
bananaman screwed with this post 10-25-2007 at 08:11 AM
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Madison, Wisconsin and/or Panama, Panama
Oddometer: 7,999
"59,666/2370 6:48 AM Vancouver. Looks like rain. I'm kind of freaked out now. Long distances ahead. Will I have enough gas? Can I get to Fairbanks in 3 days?"
"10:51 AM Hope, BC 59,753/2557 8.9l @C$10.41"
"2:24 PM 59,891/2595 lost my camel back in Hope."
Darn it. No camel back. Not only that, but when I stopped when I realized I'd lost my camel back, I dropped the bike. ouch. I put a nice gouge in the side of the fairing, broke the plastic cover on the cylinder head- it was a day when I probably shouldn't have been riding at all. I was scared- the way I've been scared a few time right before a deep and cold dive. But there were still people around and it wasn't THAT wild so I really had nothing to worry about, except huge trucks, deep ravines, snow-capped mountains that made me wonder if it might snow? Ach- just stupid worries.
So I stopped for cherries at a fruit stand. I was surprised that it was like a desert. I guess it's some kind of rain-shadow area.
"7:16 pm 60,185/2889 Prince George. 519 miles today. Blah. Lost my camel-back. Dropped the bike 50 miles later. Rode slow. Didn't get anywhere."
That night, in Prince George, I started to feel better. I went to a walmart and bought some goop. I had some in my tool kit but it was burried somewhere and I didn't feel like digging it out. Goop was like $1.50 or something. I put some tape on the broken cover and then filled it with goop. Good quick-fix. I also got a 2.5 gallon gas can.
Then I cruised the main drag looking for a hotel. One had three sport-bikes- wait a sec, I thought. What the heck? I thought. Two sport-bikes and something out of Mad Max. Cool. So I checked in.
In my hotel room I put teflon tape around the threads of the gas can, and I covered the vent hole- already lined with teflon tape- with duct tape. I didn't want any leaks at all, and everyone knows that the machining on plastic gastank nozzles isn't like the machining on a BMW motorcycle. But if you add teflon tape, then it's equal.
The next morning I met Dave, Siggy, and Scott. It went like this: "What the heck is that?" "That's mine," Siggy said. "What is it?" "I built it out of spare parts," Siggy said. A little while later we wer having breakfast and talking routes. I said I was going up the Al-Can. Dave said he had a better way. He pulled out his map and then started to argue with Scott about how much better their way would be. They were going to Fairbanks and they were totally excited. They were arguing even though they were agreeing. "See these towns? Each one has gas," Scott said. "Are you sure?" I said. "Of course," Dave said. Siggy showed me his aux-bottles, spun aluminum bolted to the sides of his- whatever it was.
"9:54 Am 60,196 Heading WEST."
"11:38 AM Fraser Lake 60,300/3004 8.06l @ $10.31"
"1:16 PM Houston, BC. 8.3l @ $10.65 60,399/3104"
"Kitsegueda, BS 3:17 PM 9.33l @ $11.28 60519/3219 mi"
"7:35 PM 11l plus 2.1 gal reserve strapped to the back 60,682/3386 Belle II, BC 3x bear so far! (i big one, 1 running across the road, 1 medium one eating at the side!)"
"9:10 PM 60,842/3547 NO GAS. That last was EPIC MUD. RAIN. SNOW. VERY NUTS."
I am Charlie.
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Madison, Wisconsin and/or Panama, Panama
Oddometer: 7,999
The Cassier
I did not know before we turned onto the Cassier that it even had a name. On my map it was 37 or 39 or something and I still think of it at "Hwy 37."
When I got the extra gas can I though it was overkill, extra, kind-of-silly. But it wasn't.
Somewhere before Belle II my gas light came on. Dave's and Siggy's and Scott's were on, too. There hadn't been any gas. It was more than 200 miles since we'd filled up. I knew I couldn't turn back and make it very far. We hadn't seen anybody else for at least an hour.
And me? I had the Deliverance song in my head. I was in the middle of nowhere with three complete strangers and I was going to run out of gas. I had two liters of white-gas, for my stove, but I'd never actually tried to run my motor with that stuff. Theoreticaly it would work, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that my stove-fuel was from a northern Wisconsin walmart, circa AD2000.
I have never felt so free.
There was nothing to do, but ride. We rode easy- no more 85mph. We went steady at 50 mph. Easy. Gas lights on. Bear looking at us. Rain. Ghost towns with defunct gas stations.
And then, Belle II. We got gas and coffee and chocolate cake and life was good again.
But then it got really, really epic. Mud and snow, baby! When we pulled over because Siggy had to pee, all I could do was yell, "YEAH, BABY!" because of all the things I've ever done, I've never felt so completely insane. "Whatever you guys do, DO NOT TELL MY MOTHER I DID THIS," I said. I constantly felt like I was in an old TV show where they say "do not attempt this at home." Because after we got gas Siggy seemed to become possessed and he lead us 80mph in the mud and there were times when the mud and gravel were up to our rims.
Dave goes, "Sport bikes aren't supposed to do this but my fat rear wheel just floats."
(Note: I don't know why my camera labled these photos "7/05/07" because it was still July 4.)
I didn't get any photos of the snow or the rain. I could hardly see through my fogged-up face shield. It was a muddy face-shield too. But Siggy was going and Scott and Dave were going, so I went. I was at the edge of my ability and I kept laughing at my bike- AN RS! What was an RS doing out there, with a bunch of sport bikes?
Eventually it started to get dark, we were running out of gas, and we came to a town and I still don't know where it was. The gas station was closed for the night and there were no hotels. Somehow we found one that was closed- as in, OUT OF BUSINESS, but someone was there and they opened up a couple of rooms for us. Mine was full of kid's toys and it looked like whoever had lived there had left in a hurry.
Here's the hotel:
There was frost on our bikes when we got up.
But the night before we relaxed in a bar and had a few beers and a few really good burgers and life was good.
There was something else. Back in the truck stop where we'd turned onto the Cassier we saw a First Nation guy with his arm all torn up and his face looking beat. Siggy asked him what happened. He said he'd wrecked his bike. Then, that night in the bar with no name, in he walked! Hundreds of mile later. And he got himself a case of beer. Scott was totally pissed because he'd been trying to buy some of the same kind- something Canadian that I don't remember, but the bartender said they were out. And every First Nation guy that came in bought a case! Scott started to get really mad, but what could he do- we were the only four non-First Nation people around. The guy with the torn-up arm goes, "You travel far." Then, "I still have two hundred miles, and it's 20 mph." He was going to Telegraph or somewhere I didn't want to go. And then he left. With his beer. Not even Scott could say anything.
I am Charlie.
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Madison, Wisconsin and/or Panama, Panama
Oddometer: 7,999
Cassier to Whitehorse
"Thursday- slept in a house last night. this morning- 7:21 AM- 13.45l @ $18.99"
"12:30 PM Watson Creek, Yukon 61013/3717 12.48l @ $16.21"
Between the town that I don't know and the end of the Cassier we had our first close call.
We'd cleared the mud and we were on an uphill paved but rolling from frost heaves. We took a sharp right, almost like a switch-back, and frost heaves were in exactly the wrong place. Scott went wide to the outside. I pushed and tried to stay in but the bike went up one of the frost heaves and kind of un-weighted and I couldn't hold the turn. Dave was right on my wheel- we usually rode with some space but suddenly he was there- and he went wide. I missed going off the road by maybe 6 inches and that last six almost killed me. Dave said he missed by 4. Siggy- Siggy had held the inside and didn't even notice. We were only going maybe 30 but if we'd lost the road, we'd have been fucked.
The day before, in the truck stop on the corner, someone said that they'd noticed a sign, "NOW LEAVING 911 SERVICE AREA." I told them about my EPIRB and showed them how to use it. Good idea, everyone said.
I am Charlie.
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Madison, Wisconsin and/or Panama, Panama
Oddometer: 7,999
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, to Fairbanks, Alaska
"7:00 PM Whtehorse 4002! 61298 8.65l @ $10.86" I was exhausted. Siggy wanted to buy a rain-suit. Dave and Scott kidded him about the rain being over. But it felt like it was going to get cold. Really cold. I wanted to keep going but Dave wanted a hotel with a hot tub. We stopped to make some phone calls and I fell asleep leaning on a garbage can. Nobody took a picture but if they had, I would have looked like a total bum, a drunk, some kind of mental case.
I tried to chat-up the receptionist at the hotel but she really wouldn't have anything to do with me. On the other hand, she gave some good advice. We asked her about the road to Dawson, and from there to Chicken. She said it was good. She said she does it every summer. She said she camps on it. "What about bears?" I asked. "Oh, I just take my shotgun," she said. Well, we didn't have shotguns, we said. "Oh," she said, and right there I lost. No shotgun? She looked at us like we were total idiots, loses, trouble-makers who would just need to get rescued. We decided not to ride to Dawson. It was an almost fatal mistake to NOT ride to Dawson. For Dave, anyway.
From Whitehorse to Fairbanks first we had cccccold. Siggy was glad for the rain suit. Construction along Lake Tulane (sp?) was brutal. Deep gravel. Guys on Harleys were hating it. I was hating it. All we could do was up-shift, shift our weight back, and hope.
I am Charlie.
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Madison, Wisconsin and/or Panama, Panama
Oddometer: 7,999
Fairbanks NORTH! and Dave almost DIED
We got to Fairbanks around 7 or 8 PM- I can't say for sure because I don't remember. And then we parted- Siggy, Dave, and Scott to the south, while I headed north to see how far I could go.
Back in Tok we'd run into some guys on big 1150 Adventures and they told us about the Haul road. One guy said he made it to Deadhorse in 10 hours from Fairbanks, but then flew a tire and had to wait a few days. That was all the Canadians needed to hear- no Deadhorse for their sport bikes. I wasn't set on Deadhorse, but I did want to take a good look at the road.
I ended up having to sleep on a loading dock while a thunderstorm washed the road away.
The next morning- as I heard the story first from Scott, then from Dave himself, a few weeks later- one tank south of Fairbanks, right after re-fueling, in a town- Dave was creamed by a kid in a truck. The kid didn't see him. Dave tried couldn't stop so he added power and turned away- tried to outrun the truck. And the kid never even slowed down, instead plowed right into him. Broke his femur, broke his right tib/fib, almost took his foot off, and broke his hand. Threw him into a sign, where he broke his other leg. Siggy and Scott right there. In a town- after the Cassier and thousands of miles, IN A TOWN. RVs stopped. An ambulance was there in minutes but they had no pain meds. Dave said he thought he'd die when they straightened his legs. Med-flight took off from Anchorage but had to turn back because of engine trouble. Dave in an ambulance back toward Fairbanks. Stopped at a town with a landing strip and put Dave on a turbo-prop. Dave with an embolism in his lung. Dave at the hospital in Fairbanks for a month. Dave at a hospital in Canada for two months. FUCK. Dave said he wished I was there with my beacon, but then he didn't need it because they were actually IN A TOWN!
Meanwhile, I was riding North. And it was raining worse than I've ever, ever seen it rain. Worse than Panama in the rainy season. People in the truck stop north of Fairbanks were saying, "there goes the road!"
The lack of night was messing with my internal clock. I knew I should rest, but all I wanted to do was RIDE. So after I woke up on the loading dock, I went, and a little while later, I met a lunatic. Gassing up his KTM on the side of the road. Looking like hell. Totally psyched.
"7/6/07 11:48 PM Fairbanks, AK 61,940/4644 2.64 gal @ $8.09 gonna eat, and shove-off at midnight, 7/7/07, for the Arctic Circle!"
"11:28 PM I didn't make it very far. It's a torrential down-pour- South American Style. Lightning and HOLY SHIT! And I'min a truck stop. If it's raining like this on the gravel road, then it's going to be gone."
And a little while later I met "AWOL." Very cool. We saluted you.
Then it got really hard. This is rain on the Dalton.
This next part I'm not real proud of. I started to fall asleep. But I couldn't stop on account of BEARs. I was tired and not thinking straight but I didn't want to stop. The road was shit and I couldn't ride faster than about 20mph anyway. I started to nod off. I was actually nodding off as I crossed the Yukon. I crawled up to the propane tank in front of the restaurant and I slept on the grass. When I woke up, I saw anothe lunatic- name unknown- on a Buell. He said he took a spill north of Wiseman and broke his shift lever, had to have it welded in Prudhoe Bay. I was surprised how similar his Buell was to my RS.
"1:16 PM Yukon River Camp. Got here at 6:30 local time. Place opens at 9 local. So I slept on the ground. 2 moose. 1 bobcat/lynx. Bad roads. FUN. But I kept falling asleep while riding. 62083/4787 2.6 gal @ $9.69?"
"2:57 PM a lunatic on a bike."
This guy asked me if there were any more big hills ahead... and he said he wanted to ride to Ushuaia? I said, "No, this is the last one." A couple of days later, at Yukon River, one of them- the swiss one- was lurking around the cafe. I asked him where his buddies were. "I don't know," he said. He'd last seen them not long after I took his picture here. Teamwork?
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I was surprised how stark it was. Here's that storm that made me wait.
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Coldfoot, Wiseman, and a kid from High School
"Sat 7/7/07 9:00 PM cental time Wiseman, AK www.boreallodge.com. proprietor: Scott Schoppenhorst, of BORTH!
So I rode into Wiseman, right? (Imagine I'm telling this story in a bar.) So I rode up to this cabin-place to ask someone about camping because I really wanted to camp up above the arctic circle. Out comes this guy. Tattoos, muscle shirt. I asked him about bear. "We had to shoot one that was old and there were two young ones fighting over a dead caribou but otherwise we haven't had any trouble," he goes. We kept talking and then I go, "Where are you from?" because I recognized his accent. Because he talks like me. "Wisconsin," he goes. So I looked at him a little closer. "Where in Wisconsin?" "West of Green Bay." "Not Poy Sippi?" "Borth." "BORTH?" and it turns out we went to school together! He goes, "Did you know John Rosenthal? You know he died." And I go, "Sure. His brother Gerald kept the front end of John's car in front of my barn for like two years." Which just goes to show you. And when I guessed Poy Sippi, I was close, because Scott went to middle school there. And we both went to high school in Berlin but then he moved. I remembered his name and he remembered mine but it wasn't like we were friends. But Borth- out in the country in Wisconsin, it goes Borth, Eureka, Berlin. I lived by Eureka. He lived by Borth. We didn't live more than 5 miles apart. And then, there we were, 5000 miles and 29 years later!
We're both pilots, we both have labs, and we both ride. Scott has a harley that he keeps by the plane he's building.
Eventualy I set up camp just south of there. Everyone walked around with their bear spray like if we were packing six-shooters. Scott- and everyone who lives there- actually does carry a gun all the time!
Also at this campground were a bunch of University of Alaska students who were studying permafrost. They invited me to go swimming (skinny dipping!) in the stream. Sorry- no pictures. The biggest problem was that this one girl wanted to sneak into my tent, but it never gets dark! No sneaking! We lamented this, and then we fell asleep in our own tents. Some people never went to sleep at all.
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Turning Home
"Sun 7/8/07 62,242/4942 11:31 AM Departing from camp in Wiseman/Coldfoot AK. Bound for home.
"62,332/5036 2:00 PM Finger Mountain. Added rain-suit, jacket. It's probably going to rain. Good riding. Moose! 42 miles to Yukon."
In Wiseman it had been close to 80 degrees. Between Fairbanks and
Wiseman the temps had varied from 40 to 80.
"3:20 PM 62,377/5081 Yukon. Got a little tired there... but not as bad as last time! 3.4 gal @ $12.65"
This is where I met two other lunatics. In the restaurant we shared a cup of coffee. They asked if I wanted to ride with them. I told them I was going slow. They were really energetic- still feeling the adrenaline from having made it to Deadhorse. They looked at my bike. I looked at theirs. We took a group picture with the Gophers I'd seen way back in Canada. (Sorry but I lost the original, accidentally copied over it. Oops.)
After a little while I took off, still heading south. A little while later, these guys passed me. I had to take a little break. I can't remember who took my photo.
Then I caught them again.
This bike had to spend a night in the woods. The rim was toast. The tire was junk. They took it to a turn-off, hid the valuables in the woods, and rode two-up the rest of the way out. Eventually they were able to get a truck and get back up there to fix the bike- with a tube. And then- lunatics proper- they rode the rest of the way to Texas with a tube and a bent rim! I'm glad I'm not them! And the moral to this part of Orcas to Alaska: if you're on a street bike, RIDE SLOW. Anyway- you get to see more than if you're bombing 85mph.
As for trying to fix this flat- first plugs, then off-with-the-tire, then getting the tire back on the rim... almost impossible, and it involved explosions and grease. Then, once the bead was set- the hole leaked. We all said FUCK!
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Gear and Supplies
The bike: '96 R1100RS, completely stock, with ABS, heated grips, PIAAs, and a GIVI 52l top case. Bungeed to the back seat was a waterproof duffle with my camping gear, and a 2.5 gallon gas can.
BMW Rallye suit
HJC flip-lid helmet
hardware-store leather gloves
alpinestars goretex boots
marmot rain pants
marmot rain jacket (I wore these under the rallye suit)
pearl izumi running shorts
2pr REI running shorts (instead of underwear)
REI polyester tights
REI fleece tights
Polo RLX fleece jacket
REI turtle neck
Mountain Hardware vest
extra gloves: Outdoor Research goretex
extra socks: acrylic hiking socks by wigwam
thin polyester face mask
and when it was cold, I wore all of it. There was a stretch in the Yukon when I was freezing, it was windy, and I rode for a while with a guy on a Harley. We stopped for gas and he goes, "It's cold, buddy."
Liesure clothes: jeans and a pair of running shoes.
Camping gear:
Sierra Designs tent
REI sleeping bag
camprest sleeping pad
MSR stove, cooking pot, fuel bottles
Fiskars hatchet
50 feet parachute cord
20 foot climbing rope
2 carabiners
3 liters water
i-pod and charger
cell phone and charger
garmin GPS
small 1st aid kit
faceshield cleaner
Riding jacket pockets:
emergency beacon
ear plugs
tool kit:
assorted wrenches
spare bulbs
spare fuses
spare shift lever and brake lever
hose clamps
duct tape
electrical tape, three colors
electrical wire
baling wire, two guages
clymers BMW manual
tire irons
two cans Fix-A-Flat
4 CO2 cartridges
bike pump
tire repair kit
misc personal:
both passports
drivers license
international drivers license
insurance cards
credit cards
emergency contact info (also written ON MY HELMET)
travel notebook
extra pens
a novel that I never read
US map
Canada map
and a few other things that I must have lived without.
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A Training Manual for Right-Sizing Government
Attempting to reduce the size of government program-by-program is almost certainly a fool's errand. With a trillion-dollar deficit looming every year, ending earmarks or finding even $60 billion of "wasteful" programs is not going to help much.
There needs to be an immediate and radical reduction in the size of government and its functions. Whole government departments need to be swept away.
Foremost among these should be the Department of Commerce, which is where Big Government started. Those agencies it supervises that have a genuine and/or constitutional role (like the Census Bureau) can be spun off as executive agencies. Its international trade functions should be transferred to the Treasury Department.
Also on the chopping block should be the departments of Energy, Labor, and Education. Energy should be provided and regulated by the free market -- perhaps the department's last function should be to abolish energy monopolies around the country.
The best way to find energy solutions that will actually work in a cost-effective, practical way is to let private businesses compete to find them.
Energy subsidies only retard our ability to become energy independent, because they divert taxpayer capital to inefficient, uneconomic, and politically favored projects, or simply bribe oil, gas, and coal companies to put up with burdensome regulations.
We don't need more wind farms ... and we don't need more biofuels that jack up the cost of food and waste more energy than they produce. All such energy subsidies should be abolished.
As for the Labor Department, its mission statement, which can be found on its webpage, is "to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights."
In other words, the department has no valid constitutional function. It ... spends $120 billion a year, which, if refunded to the taxpayer along with the abolition of the department would do more for labor and stimulating the creation of jobs than anything President Obama has yet done.
Meanwhile the Department of Education could better be titled the Department of Misallocating Education Dollars, as its real function appears to be that of a vacuum that sucks up taxpayer dollars to distribute to fellow education bureaucrats around the country -- who then put their own interests ahead of our children's interests.
Two decades ago, abolishing the department was part of the Republican platform. It should be front and center in the public square once again.
Writing in The Washington Examiner, columnist Mona Charen reminds us that abolishing the Department of Education isn't extreme, it is what any rational government reformer would do.
The Department of Education exists primarily, like other bureaucracies, continually to expand its reach.
Parents are the primary educators of their children -- that is their responsibility, and it is a responsibility they can be empowered to execute more fully the more the funding and management of the schools is entirely a local proposition. Hey, federal bureaucrats -- leave our kids alone!
Also on the chopping block should be the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Housing and urban development are the business of building contractors and local communities; it is not a rightful, or necessary, function of the federal government; and whatever is usefully done by the Department of Health and Human Services would certainly be better and more efficiently done at the state or even the local level -- closer to the people it is meant to serve.


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Guide to the Alice Craven Scrapbook, 1915-1924
Alice Craven attended Trinity College in Durham, NC from 1922-1924. She was the great-granddaughter of Braxton Craven.
Her scrapbook includes photos and memorabilia related to Black Mountain High School, the Athena Literary Society, the Women's Student Government Association, the Y.W.C.A., the Women's Athletic Association and general student life at Trinity College. The scrapbook contents range in date from 1915-1924.
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University Archives, Duke University
- Creator
- Craven, Alice Holman
- Title
- Alice Craven Scrapbook 1915-1924
- Language of Material
- English
- Extent
- 0.5 Linear Feet, 1 Item
- Location
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection Overview
The scrapbook contains photographs and article clippings from Chanticleer yearbook, calling cards, Drama Club ephemera, and event programs and memorabilia. Also includes 7th grade class photograph from January 1915 and a report card envelope from 11th grade at Black Mountain High School.
Craven attached these items in a patent "School Friendship Book" of 190 pages, published by the Reilly and Lee Co. Selected photographs and headings from Chanticleer have been pasted into the book, including campus literary societies, May Day celebration, signed letter from George Braxton Pegram (Trinity 1895). The contents range in date from 1915-1924.
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Access Restrictions
Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection.
Collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Contents of the Collection
This scrapbook contains memorabilia from Craven's extracurricular life at Trinity College as well as a couple of items from her youth in Black Mountain. Included are photographs, article clippings, envelopes, a party cap, event programs, and calling cards.
Historical Note
Originally from Ridgecrest, NC, Alice Craven attended Black Mountain High School and spent her first and second undergraduate years at Davenport College in Connecticut. In 1922, she entered Trinity College as a junior. She graduated in 1924. A member of the Athena Literary Society, the Women's Student Government Association, the Y.W.C.A. and the Women's Athletic Association, Craven also participated in the Trinity Theater, an organization in which her family had been heavily involved. She was the great-granddaughter of former Trinity College President Braxton Craven.
Subject Headings
Related Material
- Scrapbook collection, 1916-[ongoing] (Duke University Archives)
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Alice Craven Scrapbook, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The Alice Craven Scrapbook was received by the University Archives as a purchase in 2003.
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Encoded by Kimberly Sims, February 2007
Accession A2003-54 is described in this finding aid.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.


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Arrest Made In Wis. Gas Station Robbery
The Polk County Sheriff's Office has arrested one man and has a warrant for another in connection with the July 13 robbery of a Holiday Gas Station store in Cushing, Wis.
Polk County Sheriff's Office Search For Armed Robber
The Polk County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in tracking down an armed bank robber.
Police Look For Man Who Robbed Bank In Polk Co.
Police are looking for a man who robbed a bank in Cushing, Wis. on Saturday.
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Accolade Recognizes Company's Best in Breed Technology and Market Stance
San Mateo, Calif. – December 14, 2011 – Adap.tv, the company that provides a programmatic way to plan, buy, sell and measure television and video advertising, is proud to accept the Digiday Video Award for "Best Buying and Selling Platform."
The Digiday Video Awards (DVAs) honor overall excellence and breakthrough achievement in video media, marketing and advertising. Winners were announced during an awards ceremony last month in New York City.
"We received a record number of entries for our 2011 Video Awards Program. Selecting a finalist from so many great entries was a challenge," said Nick Friese, CEO of Digiday. "Adap.tv's buying and selling platform stood out for its trailblazing technology, which is bringing much‐needed efficiency and insight to the online video industry."
Adap.tv's platform provides buyers and sellers with the tools and insight they need to connect with each other intelligently. For example, Adap.tv introduced a suite of buy‐side filters, which allow buyers to select specific options like video content type and precise page placement, giving buyers complete control over online video buys.
"We are honored to have our team's efforts recognized by Digiday as the best buying and selling platform," said Toby Gabriner, president of Adap.tv. "We are energized and ready to take online video buying and selling solutions even further in the New Year."
Digiday also hosts the Digiday Video and Digiday Video Upfront conferences, which include hundreds of leading video media and marketing experts, journalists, industry insiders, brand executives, publishers and mobile technology visionaries.
In 2011 Adap.tv was also recognized in Streaming Media Magazine's inaugural top 100 companies list.
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Adap.tv builds technology that destroys the inefficiencies of television and video advertising. It delivers a programmatic way to plan, buy, sell and measure across multiple sources, screens and methods of transacting. Adap.tv is comprised of two operational units – the Adap.tv Platform and the Adap.tv Marketplace. The Adap.tv Platform provides advertisers, publishers and ad networks with automated buying and selling tools that are customized to meet any business goal. As the world's largest source of video advertising inventory, the Adap.tv Marketplace has thousands of sellers and hundreds of campaigns running daily. Headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., Adap.tv has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London and Sydney. Adap.tv is a privately held company backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Gemini Israel Funds, Redpoint Ventures and Spark Capital. For more information, please visit http://adap.tv/. Follow Adap.tv on Twitter @Adaptv.


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On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:54:26PM -0700, emily wrote:
> I need to be able to convert dates from a human readable format
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> starting from Jan 1 1601 as 0.
In C there's the ctime function and friends. Kind of a pain to use.
I'm betting PHP or Perl has something handy just for this.
(I know "time()" in PHP gives the current time in seconds since Unix epoch,
which was 1970, perhaps it's flexible about epoch and/or using an arbitrary
What environment, specifically, are you in? Writing Python? Perl?
Just sitting at a shell?
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Neff makes another power move today with the official launch of Neff Vision, their new eyewear division. Not content to simply launch the line, Neff paired the news with the announcement that they are the official eyewear sponsor of the US Open of Surf. Mufuckas are not playing around.
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