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Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced, the second part of the popular and comprehensive series, updated for CS5, follows internationally renowned Photoshop guru Deke McClelland as he dives into the workings of Photoshop. He explores such digital-age wonders as the Levels and Curves commands, edge-detection filters, advanced compositing techniques, vector-based text, the Liquify filter, and Camera Raw. Deke also teaches tried-and-true methods for sharpening details, smoothing over wrinkles and imperfections, and enhancing colors without harming the original image. Exercise files accompany the course.
Recommended prerequisite: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals.
I've saved my progress as The integrated logo.psd, and in the next exercise I'm going to show you how to create a little burst coming off of this woman's necklace, and let me show you what that looks like. If we switch to Pout magazine.psd, you can see this tiny little burst right here, and that's a really great Shape tool trick that I want to share with you. But first I want to show you when I was switching back and forth between these two documents bearing in mind that Pout magazine.psd is the version of the cover that I created before I began recording this chapter.
I noticed that there were a few changes, and so you'll see a few shifts when I change back to The integrated logo.psd for one thing, the top of my image is more extended inside the progress file, and that's because I exaggerated that stretch a little bit just for demonstrational purposes. That doesn't bother me at all. Also, if I switch to the other document, you'll see that that swash underscore changes a little bit. Well, that's bound to happen, because that was a hand draw. But what's bothering me more is the teaser text, Make Him Love You and New Miracle Diet! is spaced more generously inside of my progress file than it is inside of the final cover, and that's something I'd like to change because I like the tighter spacing better, and also in switching out the Kerning, which is what we're about to do here, I end up revealing something of a flaw, something goes wrong as you'll see, and I want to show you how to accommodate such problems.
So, let's go ahead and switch back to The integrated logo.psd, and I want to select the layers inside this teasers group. However, just clicking on the group is not enough because if I now bring up let's say the Character panel and I try to change the Kerning value, right now it's telling me that it's Optical, which is actually not true. Optical has nothing to do with this group here. Optical is now my default setting. So changing it to some other setting is not going to have any effect on the layers inside the group. What I need to do instead is go ahead and twirl the group open and then select the actual text layer.
So I'll click on one, and I'll Shift+Click on the other, and that ends up selecting that entire range of text layers inside the teaser's group, including the one that's currently turned off, and that doesn't matter. Now, I can change the Kerning setting, and I'll actually modify the kerning of my text here inside of the Image window. Now, I want to be able to see what I'm doing, currently I'm covering up this text on the right-hand side. So, I'll go ahead and scroll over a little bit so that we can see New Miracle Diet!, and notice I want you to keep your eye on this text because the text over here on the left-hand side of the screen is going to shift for the worse in just a moment.
So, watch the text that's going to shift for the better. I'll go ahead and change this setting from Metrics to Optical, and before I do, I have to relate something here. In my conversations with the typeface engineers, the guys who are in-charge of creating the huge library of Adobe fonts, these guys are very, very proud of the fact that they spent so much time on their kerning metrics among other things, but there's a lot of care and attention that goes into the design of these fonts. So these guys resent that there is this Optical setting right here because after all you're taking the Metrics, these kerning pair Metrics that have been designed by real human beings on a character by character basis.
They've spent all kinds of time on this process, and you're replacing it with Optical, which is basically robot kerning. You're just putting Adobe in charge of the entire process. So their take on it is Optical is for non-Adobe fonts. It's for those guys who aren't spending nearly as much time and attention on their fonts as the Adobe team is, so use Optical for non-Adobe fonts if you need it, and then use Metrics for the Adobe fonts, but here is the reason I bring this up, when I choose Optical, I think the spacing gets better. So watch New Miracle Diet! and Learn to Eat Without Swallowing, notice how it changes for the better, in my opinion, that text gets tighter.
It looks great for display purposes because it's nice and big. Anyway, totally up to you of course how you decide to approach it, but I just wanted you to see that Optical can make a positive difference for Adobe fonts as well. Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and close that panel because you can see we've got problems over here on the left side of the image. I'm going to go ahead and zoom in. What happened? I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac so we can see how things look before. We took Make, which was aligned with New over here on the right side of the magazine cover, and just to confirm that's true, I'm going to press Ctrl+R or Command+R on the Mac to bring in my rulers, and then I'm going to press Ctrl+; or Command+; on the Mac, in order to bring up my guidelines, and I can see that I've got a guide right here at the top of Make and at the top of New as well, but, just for the sake of demonstration here I'm going to bring another guideline in that's aligned to the baseline of New and Make.
So you can see that Make and New are definitely aligned with each other, which is important to me. That's why I want it to work. So I'll press Ctrl+R, Command+R in the Mac to get rid of those rulers again. Now, I'm going to have to reapply that Optical kerning option, so I'm going to bring up my Character panel again. I still have my text layers selected, and I'll change the Kerning value from Metrics to Optical, and notice Make jumps up like crazy, Him is now aligned to New, but that's not what I want. So what in the world's going on? Well, let's go ahead and select just the top layer here, Make Him Love You In Less than 5 Minutes, and you can see now that custom path container, and basically what happened is Make got tight enough to fit in this little top crevice up there.
So we need to get rid of that top crevice somehow, and the easiest way to do it is to grab the white arrow tools. So, switch from the Black Arrow tool AKA Path Selection tool, switch down here to the White Arrow tool which is the Direct Selection tool and the difference between these guys is the Black Arrow tool allows you to select entire path outlines at a time and the White Arrow tool allows you to select individual anchor points and control handles and so on, and that's what we want. So, I'm going to switch to the White Arrow tool. Click right there on that anchor point, and that doesn't quite select it, notice that.
So you have to click again and an anchor point is selected when it's filled like that, it's deselected when it's hollow. Then I want you to drop down to this anchor point and Shift+Click on it, so that we're selecting both the top anchor point, the top-left anchor point and the bottom-left anchor point, and now press Shift+Right Arrow just to move that in, and you can move it in farther if you want to. I can press Shift+Right Arrow three times in a row, which is what I ended up doing, and notice that goes ahead and forces Make down on to the next line, so it is now aligned to New, and you can see that that guideline is tracing just above the very base of the letters on both sides. So that's good.
The other thing is it shouldn't be In Less than 5 Minutes; it should be In Less than 5 Minutes. So let's go ahead and change that. I'm going to drop 5 down to the next line. Now, in another program, you would get rid of the space, just like I did, and then you would enter a Line Return, because you wouldn't want to enter a full Paragraph Return here, because it's all part of the same paragraph after all. You would just want to enter a Line Break and you create a Line Break typically by pressing Shift+Enter here on the PC or Shift+Return on the Mac, and it appears to work, but I have to tell you all Photoshop is done has thrown a standard Paragraph Return.
It's not Line Break savvy, and notice if I quadruple-click in this line right there, one, two, three, four. That's a paragraph. So, that's just something to bear in mind as you might as well just enter a return character if you want to break a couple of lines. All right, well that's it. I have now fixed my text issues, I'm going to go ahead and twirl-close my teasers group, and I'm going to press Ctrl+Semicolon or Command+Semicolon on the Mac in order to get rid of those guides. In the next exercise now, I'll switch back to Pout magazine.psd. I'm going to show you how to create this burst that's coming off of the necklace using, once again, a combination of two shape layers.
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Vancouver, BC, CAN (PRWEB) August 02, 2013
In an effort to give back and say thanks to the community, the popular Vancouver boot camp, Fit Body Boot Camp, celebrates its three year anniversary by hosting a Charity Boot Camp Family Fun Day on August 17 starting at 9am until 12 noon at its boot camp location at 1634 West 75th Avenue, Vancouver, BC.
Vancouver Fit Body Boot Camp is accepting $10 donations for adults and $5 for anyone 16 years and under. There is also an option to bring in 2 non-perishable food items instead of the $5 kid's donation minimum. 100% of the donations collected will go to the local charity PaperCup and Shelter program that helps to bring in at-risk youth and adults off the streets. They provide a much-needed service in downtown Vancouver where teens and adults who need it can take advantage of a warm bed, hot food, and a safe place to help them get through the night.
Owner and operator of Fit Body Boot Camp Vancouver, Jonathan Lerner, says that he chose this charity because he has seen firsthand how PaperCup can influence and change the lives of at-risk teens and adults for the better. He says, "Sometimes, we get so caught up on the problems in other countries that we forget about the ones in our own backyard."
Activities for the boot camp in Vancouver's three year anniversary celebration includes family fun games, give-aways, and contests for prizes donated by local businesses as well as boot camp sessions set up for locals to come out and give it a try.
Tiffany Jagger, a member of Fit Body Boot Camp, explains her excitement for the three year old Vancouver fitness boot camp, "The trainers at Vancouver Fit Body Boot Camp are so motivating and truly care abo
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JooJoo Gets Mac OS X Upgrade, Unofficially
The JooJoo is one of those tablets that may have been more suited for the past, instead of the present. While the CEO of Fusion Garage firmly believes that his tablet device, formerly known as the CrunchPad, is better than the competition, sales numbers, and reviews, would likely speak to the opposite effect. So, if you were one of the handful of people out there to actually order (and receive) your JooJoo, we've got some exciting news for you! You can now install OS X on it.


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Ultimate Ears Triple.fi 10 Pro Earphones Gun Metal Blue with Roadie Case
" Ok first of all I will be using my Sansa Clip as my source as I feel an iem should always be tested with portable sources. I paid $200AUD for them brand new, which is dirt-cheap by Australian standards. I do not believe in burn in, especially for armature drivers - owning and listening to many iems has shown me burn-in is just a mental phenomenon where the brain adjusts to a new sound..." --ProjectDenz
Ultimate Ears In-Ear Reference Monitors
"I wonder why UERM is often disregarded when picking from $1000 range. I'm guessing that it's due to "only" having 3 drivers, versus having 8 drivers per side. I can say with confidence that driver number does not equal sound quality(for the most part). Another reason I see why UERM might not be picked is its sound sig. It's perfectly flat. Personally, I love this. Reference sound with..." --kimvictor
Ultimate Ears 500
"I'm giving these a 4 based on sound quality alone. I'm a cheap headphone user; I've gone from cheap headphone to cheap headphone over the past decade or so. I started with the Skullcandy Ink'd headphones, moved onto the Sennheiser CX400s, then the Meelectronics M6 and M9, and finally, this. I've also tried the Klipsch S4's. I'm currently on my third pair of these because well, they're so damn..." --az060693
UE 11 Pro
" This is my very first pair of custom IEMs after trying almost all of the high end universal IEMs -- SE530, UE Super Fi 10, Etymotics etc. The sound of these UE11 Pros is superior in every way to all of the universal ones I had, but even more important they stay in my ear and provide a proper seal. Since my ear canals get very narrow, I found it very difficult to get any of my universals to..." --alyanm
UE 18 Pro
" I had owned the UE-10's before this for about 3 years. So upgrading to these was a huge improvement in my opinion. Very nice full sound, with improved frequency response from 20 Hz to 18,000 Hz. Bass is much more present on these but not too overly stated. Gorgeous build quality. Very happy with these In ear monitors, I also own the JH-16's and still love listening to these all the time on..." --Richard Devine
Final Audio Design Heaven IV
"Final Audio Design is a relatively new company to the IEM scene, with them releasing their first models in 2009. They are a Japanese company, with their roots extending back to 1974 where they first made high-end MC cartridges and booster transformers. The model that I will be reviewing today is their Heaven IV, which is the second cheapest model in their Heaven IEM series, the most basic one..." --lin0003
Final Audio Design FI-BA-SS
"We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They cursed us. Murderer they called us. They cursed us, and drove us away. And we wept, Precious, we wept to be so alone. And we only wish to catch fish so juicy sweet. And we forgot the taste of bread... the sound of trees... the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name. My Precious. " --tomscy2000
Ultimate Ears UE 5 Pro
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Ultimate Ears 400
"This is sort of a mini review. Overall the sound and build quality are pretty okay. I like the smooth and balanced sound signature these in-ears have. The soundstage isn't too wide or high but it's acceptable. There is sibilance on high notes but with lower volumes it's okay. Bass is not overly powerful but still leaves impact and the mids and trebles are smooth and clear. I..." --Slashfury99
Ultimate Ears Ue 7 Pro
" i was excited over my first custom IEM's ever, I was also excited because i've been a sucker for the Ultimate Ears sound for a long time. Now I know that Logitech is now in charge of UE, but I still felt like these would be very musical CIEM's, as the Ultimate Ears commercial line is so well known for their musicality factor. After a month of waiting due to having to get impressions, and then..." --IEMagnet01


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Dunn to Retire After 14-Year MLB Career
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Not long after watching from the bench as the Oakland Athletics were eliminated from the postseason, Adam Dunn has decided to retire... Read More »
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After logging 2,001 regular-season games, Oakland Athletics designated hitter Adam Dunn is finally set to make the first postseason appearance of his career in Tuesday's American League wild-card game... Read More »
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The short answer to this question is probably not, because the genetic mutations that increase breast cancer risk are very rare. But because it's the topic on many women's minds since Angelina Jolie published a New York Times op-ed piece today announcing her preventative double mastectomy – and because some women should get tested and don't know it – it's important to address.
The BRCA1 gene, the one Angelina Jolie carries, is the most dangerous of a number of genetic defects known to cause breast cancer. (There are two versions of this gene; BRCA2 also raises breast and ovarian cancer risk but not quite as much.) The BRCA genes are tumor suppressors; when damaged, they don't function as they should.
Carrying a BRCA1 mutation carries an average risk of 65 percent for breast cancer, and an accompanying 39 percent risk for ovarian cancer. But the risk is not uniform; there are a number of possible mutations in each of these genes, some more dangerous than others. Based on her specific genetic mutations, Jolie's doctors put her breast cancer risk at 87 percent.
The New York Times published an accompanying article by Denise Grady explaining that just 5 to 10 percent of all breast cancers are caused by BRCA mutations. According to the National Cancer Institute, 10 to 15 percent of ovarian cancer cases are due to BRCA mutations.
What's Your Genetic Risk?
BRCA genes are very rare, present in only 2 percent of the population. But certain populations have a much higher rate of BRCA genetic mutations, including Eastern European Jews (also called Ashkenazi Jews) and people of Dutch, Norwegian, and Icelandic heritage.
These aren't the only genetic mutations associated with reproductive cancers, though. There is a fairly long list of known genetic mutations that up breast and ovarian cancer risk. Those listed by the National Cancer Institute and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center are CHEK2, PALB2, TP53, PTEN, STK11/LKB1, CDH1, ATM, MLH1, and MSH2.
The best and clearest way to assess your genetic risk is to look at your family history, and count the number of first-degree relatives who've had cancer, particularly cancer that onset before the age of 50. Only your parents, siblings, and children are considered first-degree relatives; aunts, uncles and grandparents are second-degree relatives. Angelina Jolie's mother was only 56 when she died of ovarian cancer. Here's how the National Cancer Institute calculates your familial risk for BRCA testing:
If you're of Ashkenazi Jewish descent:
- Any first-degree relative diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer
Two second-degree relatives (same side of the family) with breast or ovarian cancer
If you're not of Ashkenazi Jewish descent:
- Two first-degree relatives diagnosed with breast cancer, one of whom age 50 or younger when diagnosedhree or more first-degree or second-degree relatives diagnosed with breast cancer at any age
- A first-degree relative with bilateral breast cancer (in both breasts)
- A combination of two or more first- or second-degree relatives diagnosed with ovarian cancer, no matter what their age
- A first- or second-degree relative diagnosed with both breast and ovarian cancer
- Breast cancer diagnosed in a male relative
How Do I Find Out About Testing?
The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has one of the best topic areas on genetic testing I've found. If you have a family member who's already been diagnosed with a reproductive cancer, that person should get tested first. If a genetic mutation is found, then the rest of the family may want to get tested too.
Genetic testing for cancer genes is extremely expensive, and often not covered by insurance. (It usually is covered in those already diagnosed with cancer.) The test was developed, and patented, by Myriad Genetics. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court began holding hearings to determine if Myriad's patents should stand, given the broad need for the test. Here, just as an example, is how Aetna Insurance makes coverage decisions regarding BRCA testing and prophylactic (preventative) mastectomy.


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FORT WAYNE — Columbia City's cross country teams, along with the rest of the Northeast Hoosier Conference, competed at The Plex in Fort Wayne for a second week in a row, this time for the conference meet.
Last week, hundreds of runners from all over Northern Indiana competed in the New Haven Classic, where Columbia City's Evan Harney and Samantha Roush had stand-out performances, placing second and fourth, respectively.
Both Harney and Roush made 1st-team All-Conference on Saturday's meet. Harney qualified with a time of 16.24, placing seventh overall and Roush with 18.58, placing third overall.
Many of the Eagles typical girls' varsity runners did not run due to injuries, allowing for several JV girls to step up and take their place.
"We gave them a chance to shine in a real varsity race," said Head Coach Bob Fahl, and they really stepped it up."
Columbia City's boys placed sixth as a team and the girls came in seventh.
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News | Tanner EDA
August 2013
"Tanner's Growth Made Possible by Standards" Brian Bailey on EETimes Asia
July 2013
"Beyond Electronics supports Tanner EDA tools in Israel" Daniel Payne of SemiWiki
June 2013
Full Flow and Product Video Demonstrations on Engineering TV
May 2013
Interview with Greg Lebsack, CEO by Daniel Nenni of Semiwiki
Gary Smith EDA: What to see @ DAC 2013
March 2013
"Tool offers mixed-signal design from HDL and Spice data" Richard Wilson of Electronics Weekly covers v16 release
"An Affordable AMS Tool Flow gets Integrated" Daniel Payne of SemiWiki
"Island Life Made Easier: Tanner Moves to OpenAccess, Integrates Digital More Tightly" by Bryon Moyer in Electronic Engineering Journal
Tanner EDA v16 OpenAccess is here! Dan Nenni at SemiWiki covers Tanner EDA's release of HiPer Silicon v16
"EDA/IP weekly roundup - March 6th 2013" Brian Bailey of EETimes covers Tanner EDA's release of HiPer Silicon v16
"Tanner backs OpenAccess to improve analogue and mixed signal design" by Graham Pitcher of New Electronics (UK)
"Image Sensor Design for IR at Senseeker" Daniel Payne of SemiWiki covers v16 use at Senseeker
January 2013
"IC Design at Analog Bits" Daniel Payne of SemiWiki interviews Mahesh Tirupattur about Analog Bits' use of Tanner EDA schematic capture and layout tools
Brian Bailey of EETimes covers the press release on Tanner EDA @ Analog Bits
December 2012
EEWeb PULSE: John Tanner interview & HiPer DevGen Technical article.
October 2012
"Learning about MEMS in Israel from: EDA companies, Foundry, University, Users" Daniel Payne, SemiWiki
September 2012
"Full-flow analog and mixed-signal design suite includes schematic capture, dual circuit simulators and waveform probing" Julien Happich, EETimes Europe
HiPer Silicon v15.23 announcement SOCcentral
"Schematic Capture, Analog FastSPICE, and Analysis Update" Daniel Payne, SemiWiki
August 2012
"Electromechanical Interlocutor SoftMEMS Facilitates IC/MEMS Co-design" Bryon Moyer, EEJournal
July 2012
"20 nm Chips, 3D ICs, Low Power and Fast Tools Are Themes Of DAC 2012" Joe Desposito, Electronic Times
"A Buttable X-Ray Detector" Bryon Moyer, EEJournal
"IC Design at Novocell Semiconductor" Daniel Payne, SemiWiki
June 2012
"Analog FastSPICE update at DAC" Daniel Payne, SemiWiki
"Designing a Wafer-Scale Image Sensor for use in X-Rays" Daniel Payne, SemiWiki
"Tanner EDA President Greg Lebsack speaking with Brian Fuller of EE Times @ DAC2012" EETimes
"VP Marketing & Business Strategy John Zuk with a video interview for EDA Cafe" EETimes
"EDA/IP Weekly Roundup - June 20th" EETimes
"New Digital Image Sensor Offers 3D, Not Flat, X-Rays, for Better Diagnosis" HealthTechZone.com, Deborah Hirsch
"Driving A/MS Innovation: An EDA Ecosystem Approach" SOCcentral
May 2012
"ASTC, Tanner EDA to deliver ASIC design services" Anne-Francoise PELE, EETimes
"2 Spicey?" Editors' Blog, Electronic Engineering Journal
"Tanner EDA Update 2012" Daniel Ninni, SemiWiki
"Analog FastSPICE added to TannerEDA" Daniel Payne, SemiWiki
"Aldec and TannerEDA at DAC" Daniel Payne, SemiWiki
April 2012
"AMS Design using Co-Simulation" Daniel Payne, SemiWiki
"MEMS and IC Co-design" Daniel Payne, SemiWiki
February 2012
"Lines blurring between digital, analog design worlds" Dylan McGrath, EETimes
"Panelists: Bridging the Gap Between Analog and Digital Design" Richard Goering, Cadence Industry Insights
January 2012
"Low-power IC design in Switzerland," on SemiWiki.com
Knowles' MEMS microphones (designed on Tanner EDA software) referenced in this news story about Apple overtaking Samsung as the primary consumer of these devices.
December 2011
"Electronics Surge" Dennis Spaeth in MICROmanufacturing magazine
October 2011
"Tanner and Dongbu HiTek release PDK for BCDMOS chips" Brian Bailey in EETimes
"AMS Design using Dongbu HiTek foundry and Tanner EDA Tools" on SemiWiki.com
"Choosing a design flow for mixed-signal asics" Paul Double in ElectronicsWeekly.com
"AMS Design at AnSem," Daniel Payne
September 2011
"Another Up Year in a Down Economy for Tanner EDA" on SemiWiki.com
June 2011
"Tanner EDA at DAC," on SemiWiki.com
John Zuk in EDACafe video interview
"An Affordable 3D Field Solver at DAC" on SemiWiki.com
May 2011
"High-productivity design tools for custom analog ICs," John Zuk in Electronic Products
"Full-flow Design Suite for Analog and Mixed-signal: Tanner EDA Provides In-depth On-demand Demo Online," in ChipEstimate.com Headline News
"Foundry-certified 0.18-micron analog CMOS PDK," Julien Happich in EE Times Technology New
March 2011
"EDA Industry Leaders Build a Case for Clouds, Explore Limitations," Nicole Hemsoth in HPC In The Cloud
January 2011
"Analog Insights: Is a New Paradigm for Nanoscale Analog CMOS Design Needed?," Lanny Lewyn of Lewyn Consulting Inc. and Nicolas Williams of Tanner EDA in IEEE, Vol. 99, No. 1, January 2011
November 2010
View our article on page 17 of Embedded Computing Design, "New paradigm speaks volumes for Knowles MEMS microphone design," by Pete Loeppert, PhD and Nicolas Williams.
September 30, 2010
"Tanner EDA reports double-digit growth," Anne-Françoise PELE in EE Times News and Analysis
September 29, 2010
HiPer DevGen nominated for Elektra 2010 Award - Category: Design Tools & Development Software
September 9, 2010
"Tanner EDA Tools Now on Linux," Daniel Payne in EDA Thoughts
September 8, 2010
"Tanner EDA rolls Linux version of analog IC design suite," Anne-Françoise PELEin EE Times Products
July 2010
"The new applications and technique of the era of post-Moore's law," Wang Ying in Electronic Engineering & Product World
June 11, 2010
"Business 101: Driving Connections," Peggy Aycenina in Gabe on EDA
May 25, 2010
Globalpress Electronics Summit 2010 coverage, Ying Li in China Electronics News
May 24, 2010
"HiPer Silicon reaches v15," in EE Times Digital Edge
May 19, 2010
"Tanner EDA Expands Presence in Southeast Asia," in IC Design and Verification Journal
May 2010
"Design Suite Update Highlights New Features," in Chip Designer Newsletter
April 28, 2010
Globalpress Electronics Summit 2010 coverage, Wang Ying in Electronic Engineering & Product World
April 27, 2010
"Tanner EDA a des clients sur deux planètes," Pascal Boulard in La Tribune
April 26, 2010
"Globalpress 2010, a Retreat in the Hills of Monterey Bay," Gabe Moretti in GabeonEDA
April 21, 2010
"Tanner EDA adds Analog IC Layout Automation," Daniel Payne in IC Layout Automation
April 2010
"New Ways of Looking at Old Things," John Zuk in Chip Design
February 2010
"New Tanner EDA," Interview with John Zuk, VP Marketing and Strategy at DesignCon 2010
January 31, 2010
"EDA 2010: The Year of 'Less is More'," John Zuk in TechGuri
January 2010
"Accelerometers at the forefront of new mixed signal applications," in EE Times Europe
June 15, 2009
"Hands-on: Get started in analog IC design and fab (Part 3 of 3)," Stephen H. Lafferty in Planet Analog
June 1, 2009
"Tanner EDA, 20 Years and Counting," Jack Horgan in EDACafé Weekly
"A World of Their Own," Bryon Moyer in IC Design and Verification Journal
"Analog's Little Helpers," Dick Selwood in IC Design and Verification Journal


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Thank you for your gift, it will benefit all festivites in the park for years to come. I'm sure it will be beautiful for this coming Memorial Day.
Tough decisions, your to be commmended for making them, for the long term sake of your kids.
1. If, you build a new jail what going to happen to the existing one? Is is going to be removed or renovated? If renovated why not just do it and add for the exsiting jail. One of the buildings being consider is already older than the existing one.
2 Has the county considered getting out of the nursing home business?
It's simple the best way to end hunger here is for there to be jobs, here in the US. They make huge profits by being the largest outsource company there is. I'm more than happy to spend a few precent more to shop anywhere else. They use you and the press to make it appear they are the good corporate citizens by apealling to our basic desire to help our neighbors. I for one can do that without Walmart
While it's commmendable to say you might donate to Muskegon or someone else who in need. Your purchasing practices has resulted in what would be the 5 th largest economy in the world if it was a country. The Walmart - China connectiion outsourcing jobs over the few decades is what has excerbarted the decline in jobs in this country. If the jobs were here manufacturing the goods you sell there would be no need to maybe to give to the foodbanks. Try insouring 10% a year until it's made in the USA
How about a fall color tour it would be beautiful to see the shoreline from a distance with the sun setting. Maybe it could be dinner / dance cruise.
Nia & DJ are exceptional, just like exceptional students in every district. They also have active family support and personal drive, supportive teachers etc.. Help, those students that have issues in one of these areas and many more will sucessful as well.
Amen, it's a start
Mr McKellar glad to hear your are going to be alright thanks to stop who person who stop to help! Your a asset to the Marquette neighborhood I seen you in passing most days on your rounds. Next time your out I plan to stop and give you a box of bags towards your daily walks. Looking forward to seeing out soon.
How about a lifetime license? say $ 75.00 per pet no refunds for both dogs and cats :-) I'm willing to pay it so would others and it would bring in the $ upfront I also had all my pets spayed and neutered
My question is what are the county officals planning to do with the current jail once it builds a new facility?
Are they going to then find the funds to renovate it to another purpose or demolish it?
A couple of things the group who want to operate the ship have worked hard to restore this ship and have Muskegon future in mind. However the boat dosn't belong at Heritage Landing, it needs to be kept opena nd clear for everyone. The Mart dock would be better with the LST and Princess it would be a single site.
Let Melching demo the site and profit from the materials and then he can work with others to obtain Fed grants to clean it up. Once remediated he then can sell it back to the first owners. The Little River Band of the Ottawa Indians who can work with the Melching and his developer to build a deepwater Casino. I at least trust they would be a good stewards of the land in the future. Melching profits x 4 and LRB has a awesome site
Thank you Mr Spencer for for military service and congratulations on being awarded the Dr Garrison recogntion for your efforts. Your in good company with the Vets that have already been awarded this.
I hope Mlive follows up with more info on you and your service history including your journey to Muskegon. The link to the Montford Marines Assn. gives more on the History of when Mr Spencer was one of the first to succeed.
This should be real easy this year, a group of men from all various schools came to the Heights schools with the selfless intention of helping children African American children. ( True Community Service) On Martin Luther King's day they came and without expectation, it showed the kids and Heights that people outside their community will help.
I hope the Heights can look at what Muskegon been doing on hard use sections like Sherman/Henry and Laketon by MHP Hackley Campus. One word Concrete and they will not have to go back in five that is a real bad area and heavy trucks have trashed it.
Dr Garrison was very campassionate ER Doc @ Hackley as well ,when he cared for my very ill wife in the early 80's. he set this young groom's mind at ease. Later, I was able to work on his home, I wish I could have heard him speak of his experinces. Many black men of his generation served during this time and dealt with alot I wished he could have been interivewed for the Veterans Project. Our local black vets come together every year aronud now to honor those that served. I 'mnsure he is on top of the list of Muskegon men.
Why not build a new refinery up north, away from the coastlines that are subject to hurricanes etc. The midwest and northeast fuel spikes during every event. They could then turn that pipe line to serve those markets.
United Way is a Army of volunteers and might be able to help corridindate a Mini - Day of Caring during the upcoming Spring Break to help with some of the minor issues. Muskegon teachers and school districts have been very supportive of United Ways efforts over the years both in $$ and time. It would be a great way to show the kids of the Heights they are a part of Greater Muskegon community. We all know it takes a village to raise a child. I can volunteer as I'm sure other's would as well.
It's MLK Day and Up from The Bottoms is relevant to the struggle of coming north during that time. Those who did and made it are part the greatest generation. Much to learn or be lost from there struggle. Our young people should listen and appricate their efforts to make a better life for the next generation.


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Spending an overall total of approximately $15,000 this year, the 2010 Shop With a Cop Program offered around 100 local kids of all ages a free McDonald's breakfast, a $125 Wal-Mart gift card shopping spree ($100 toward needed clothes and $25 for toys/games), a trip to see a children's movie at Capitol 8 Theatres (choice between Disney's "Tangled" or the latest "Narnia" film), a trip to Tumbleweed for ice cream, and a chance to hang out with many of our local police officers.
As the breakfast came to an end and shopping began, iSurf News took a minute to speak with the man responsible for organizing the Shop With a Cop Program for the last 17 years—13-year President of FOP Lodge 19, Jerry Robards.
"We've been growing it so much, and we have so much help now, that the program basically runs itself once all the paperwork is done," said Robards. "We invited 100 kids along with their families, and we've got at least 100 volunteers made up of members from the Madisonville Police Department, the Hopkins County Jail, the Citizen's Police Academy, the FOP, and their families. We try to make it a family-oriented event so that our kids can see what goes into the program firsthand."
"Around 1979 or 1980, our FOP Lodge hosted the first Shop With a Cop, and they only took 8-10 kids at the time," said Robards of the program's history. "I started running it in 1993 and we began trying to get more members involved as well as their families. Once we got the families involved—and after people came out and experienced the program at least one time—it just started growing and people started wanting to come back year after year. We made it up to 80 kids that we were able to invite last year and it was the smoothest one we've ever run. So this year we invited 100 and it's working out great. The guys are interested—they love it—and the kids love getting to hang out with the police. It's just one of the most fantastic days of the year for all of us."
As Robards added, fundraising for the Shop With a Cop Program is underway all year around, with most of the planning beginning sometime in September. In addition, Robards stated that the Shop With a Cop Program conducts their main fundraising drive during summer months, yet reminded local citizens that donations will be accepted for next year's program as early as this afternoon, December 11th. So if you would like to give the Shop With a Cop Program fund a "head start" for 2011, please send all donations to the following address: Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 19, PO Box 365 Madisonville, KY 42431. Donators should also include a note explaining that the gifts are for the Shop With a Cop Program.
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I Change My Mind
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 | Virtual Twinning | 2 Comments
More from the frontiers of virtual twinning:
Rory does something Wyatt hates. (Don't worry, Wyatt does PLENTY that Rory hates!) Whenever there is ice cream–and only when there is ice cream, and only, in fact, when there is a selection of popsicle ice cream stuff, like you find at a swimming pool or ice cream truck or, frankly, in our freezer, she chooses–and then, once he has chosed, frantically changes her mind and gets whatever he got.
I have no idea why.
She doesn't do it with snacks, or with dinner in a restaurant, or lunch things, or drinks, say, on one of those rare occasions when I'm letting them each choose a bottle of soda from a gas station or something. She doesn't have to have the same as him then. She doesn't do it with candy, if they bring their money to the pool and get to use it to buy something. She doesn't do it–well, I don't think she does–if I buy them each something in a store, although I can't actually remember the last time I did that. Probably the bookstore and they each got a book. She doesn't do it then. She doesn't even do it if we are somewhere where you choose a flavor of ice cream to have on a cone.
Only popsicle/ice cream truck ice cream.
It just clicked for me last night, although Wyatt's been complaining about it for a while. All through our last vacation, when that kind of ice cream happened probably five or six times in a week, she got the same thing he did EVERY TIME, even if he changed his mind after she asked for the same thing he had–she just changed her mind too. I was going through these crazy fantasias of ordering. "Are you sure? Are you sure?" with both of them switching so much, but even though, like I said, he kept pointing it out, I was just blowing him off. "She can have whatever she wants, Wyatt! It's ok if it's just like yours!"
But last night, when she tried to put her already unwrapped popsicle (the one she'd been gloating over, because it was the last one of a kind Lily particularly liked) back after he chose an ice cream bar (we don't have air conditioning, ok? We have popsicles.) so the SHE could have an ice cream bar, all those other times kept rushing back. I think I've mentioned this in passing, but it wasn't until now that I realized how pervasive it's become.
I have NO IDEA why.
I sympathize with Wyatt (I had a grandmother, oddly enough, who used to order the same thing I did in a restaurant every time and it made me crazy) but not really enough to make her stop–I mean, she really CAN have whatever she wants. Only, of course, she's not having what she wants. She's having what he wants. Which is what she wants. Which is fine.
This is just a random oddity, really. I don't think it means anything. I'm sure it will stop soon enough, too.
It's doubly funny because for years now, she's looked to Wyatt for her cue to how to behave in any new situation (even if it's new to him, too) but ice cream–now, that is so not new. In fact, I don't think she did this last summer at all.
Maybe she's doing it just to mess with him. I kind of love that.
Privileges and Responsibilities, Part 462 (or thereabouts)
Monday, May 30th, 2011 | Parenting on Track, Virtual Twinning | 4 Comments
In theory, our kids have responsibilities. And they do—they pack and unpack their own lunches, they each have a weekly chore, they're responsible for cleaning up their toys and getting their laundry in the bin. And, of course, they have privileges. We feed them, right? And take them places. And periodically buy them stuff.
We've been having some trouble, Rob and I, figuring out how those things were supposed to be tied together. Surely if you didn't do your responsibilities, something should happen—but what? We kept looking for consequences that were tied to the responsibility, rather than just a punishment. Fail to pack your lunch, and the consequence is obvious. But fail to put your breakfast dish in the dishwasher and—what? Mommy tells you do to it or does it for you, that's what. I though maybe it could mean I carried your dish upstairs and put it in your bed, but I'd still be the one who washed the sheets. Plus, mice. Then I thought, well, what if you always eat at the same place, and it's still there when you go to eat again? That seemed like a decent plan, but I'd have to live with a house full of messy dishes all day. And what if you don't care? Just like it's cool with you to leave Lego all over the living room, because, if you're five, why not? If you had your own living room that's exactly what it would look like.
Apparently we skipped a key moment in the manual. In most families, that's a joke, but yeah, we actually have a manual. When it comes to this stuff, we struggled for so long to get some rules and consistency going that we now rely completely on Parenting on Track to tell us what to do to teach the kids the things we already know we want to teach them. We know how to teach them a lot of things about become the adults we've become, but some things elude us. "Why you should clean up after yourself if failure to do so doesn't lead to a punishment" was one of them—until I read this blog post, from a fellow Parent on Track, and realized: all the privileges are tied to the most basic of responsibilities. The link doesn't have to be clear. It's more of a "you live in this house, you have responsibilities, and if you can't manage them, we're going to treat you like you're too young to do anything" sort of thing. You just have to tie in something the kid thinks he or she is old enough to do. I can't believe I missed this. I feel dumb.
(I also feel like I should be able to figure this out myself, but no. Left to my own devices, I either come up with dippy star charts and end up buying everyone cheap toys, or I just spend all my time yelling at them or punishing them. I can be a good parent on the upper level stuff, but this nitty gritty just eludes me.)
Here's the result:
Here are Wyatt and Rory's basic responsibilities:
If they can't do it, they can't play video games on the weekend. They love video games, and they've been allowed to play on Saturday and Sunday. I hate video games (well, not for me, but for 5-year-olds, although I owe this one a debt for being the first thing that every bonded the faux twins in cooperation rather than enmity). I take them away at every opportunity. They've lost them in the past for video game related transgressions (say "no" when it's time to turn it off or get caught playing it without asking, and the whole house loses it for a week) but I never thought to link it to the other stuff, and I can't imagine why not. It clearly makes sense to them. They didn't question this for a minute. I've been so blind.
Both Wy and Rory also have a special job this week. They need to stop making me crazy. But that's a little unclear (and hard to measure), so we put it a little differently. In essence, Wyatt needs to stop picking on Rory, and she has to stop reacting to him as though she's been shot. This is a huge and old problem. You could argue that as the initiator, he's to blame, but you'd be wrong. This is a game only two can play. If Wyatt brushes by Lily too close or pokes her in passing, she either tells on him or blows him off. Rory throws herself into a wailing, drama-filled explosion of emotion. You'll scarcely be surprised that he then does whatever he just did (call her poopyhead, blow a raspberry in her general direction, hit her stuffie) again, with even greater enthusiasm.
They initiated this show in the grocery store Sunday, and now they've lost the privilege of going to public places until they can go five days without engaging in this dynamic. For the board, I told them no fighting, screaming or crying in the car (which they'd stopped after losing the privilege of riding in other people's cars, but are on the border of starting again) AND they need to treat each other at home they way they do at school—but they know exactly what it is I really mean. And there is no way they are going to have the Wii back next weekend.
As for the older kids, Lily's dying to be allowed to sleep over at a friend's house, so if she can meet her responsibilities for seven days (because she's almost seven), she's good.
I think she'll probably lose the privilege of going to other people's houses at all by throwing a raging tantrum soon, but for now, this is her goal, and watching Rory and Wyatt wrestle with their demons will spur her to temporary good behavior.
That leaves Sam, and he's a problem, largely because Sam makes a point of never being the problem. The whole point of this is that the "privilege" isn't a "reward," it's something you've shown yourself to be old enough to do, and so you can do it. Lily isn't working for one sleepover, but for me to say "yes" to all sleepovers. Once the Wii is back, it's back, unless responsibilities go down the tube. These are your most basic jobs. Do them, and the real reward is more and harder jobs. The board is a reminder, no more—which it already is for Sam.
Sam does most of his stuff (it's the same stuff as Lily, for now, with way more homework). He doesn't necessarily do it without being reminded, but he does it. Cheerfully. Without complaint. And he's responsible, so responsible that many privileges, like that of being able to walk from the other kids' soccer practice to a friend's house and be trusted to come back on time, are already his. Neither he nor I could think of an age-appropriate privilege that isn't already given him, and so although I would like him to learn to meet his responsibilities without a reminder, I don't necessarily want to take any of those privileges away in order for him to earn them back to get there.
And I don't want to invent another privilege, like additional TV time, or any computer time, or (I considered this) the right to control the iPod in the car, that he hasn't asked for. I might consider letting him earn the right to download some new songs to the family iPod for the master family playlist (I know, in other families, at almost ten, you have your own iPod and playlist, but not in ours). But again, he hasn't asked. I did ask him: is there anything you want to work towards? Anything you want? I even offered to consider working for a reward for the more difficult task of completing responsibilities without a reminder. He said "No, I'm good. I think I'll just do them."
So I'm not quite sure how to push him to the next level, or whether, given that soon it will be summer and many responsibilities, although not all, will go by the wayside, I even should. Now Sam has no number chart, and no pushpin to move towards a goal. He's in the happy position of having everything he wants. It doesn't feel quite right to me, but I think that's because Sam has naturally achieved a state of zen that I still only dream of. Long may it last.
Blowing Off Birth Order: Great Result, Bad Plan
Monday, May 16th, 2011 | Adopting Devils, Virtual Twinning | 4 Comments
When we adopted Rory, almost two years ago now, she was 3 1/2, 6 months older than our youngest, Wyatt. All of our other kids were biological kids (Sam was 7 and Lily 5), and Rory was our first (and only) foray into adoption. We "adopted out of birth order," and as I remember it, the decision process went something like this: our social worker, Kathleen, a big, comfortable woman with shorn white hair and a confident, rolling walk, had begun to do what we were paying her to do, which was to pry enthusiastically into our personal lives and backgrounds to ensure that we were fit parents. She asked how old a child we planned to adopt. Wyatt was two then, so adopting a younger girl, as you no doubt know, was likely to be a slow process. We'd rejected it, pretty much for that reason, before we talked to any adoption professional. Although our adoption agency, always happy to be able to place even a slightly older child, sure didn't discourage us.
My husband was just a little hostile about Kathleen's intrusion, and by "little" you can infer that he resented the entire process of having a stranger—a less educated stranger, and someone who'd chosen a mighty fuzzy and not at all lucrative profession at that—come in and ask him questions about his childhood and judge his parenting skills. He was more than willing to contradict anything Kathleen thought she might know what he did not, and so he explained our position on adopting "out of birth order" very clearly. Lily, then three, would clearly care if her position as a "big kid" was usurped, but Wyatt was the baby. If we adopted someone in between Lily and Wyatt in age, he would still be the baby. Thus, birth order preserved.
Kathleen (a lovely woman who should consider a career in poker, so impassive was her face at this moment) surveyed Wyatt, who was beautiful and blond and capable of saying "Lily put bow my hair," but not yet "I no want 'nother sister." He sat on my lap. He looked at Kathleen, and she looked back at him. Wyatt chose this moment to slide a hand up under my shirt to grasp at my belly button, his favorite source of comfort. He jabbed a thumb in and began to knead, and I pulled my shirt down over his arm and smiled nervously. I was not yet as confident as Rob that he who signed the checks called the shots, and I thought she might press. But Kathleen just nodded and wrote something down on her pad before asking her next question.
And that was it. Had there been much debate before that? Nope. Much after? Not really. Our social worker is a pro, so I suspect she tried subtly to at least give us a heads up that there was more to this than we thought. But she didn't break through.
The fabulous Dawn Davenport, who, in a different world where I am doing my whole adoption over again (but, of course, getting the same fantastic kid), has posted a set of rules on her website, Creating a Family, for Success in Adopting Out of Birth Order. They can be summed up as "Please, people, think about what you're doing and how you're going to do it" and that's exactly what I wish we'd done.
Of course I'm glad we adopted out of birth order. Of course I'd do it again. Adopting out of birth order is the only way we could add this: to that ornery image above and get this: We had to adopt out of birth order. Call it fate, call it God, call it the universe ebbing and flowing behind the scenes, but our clueless assumption that we could handle anything led us to exactly where we want to be.
It was hard. To begin with, that "baby?" By the time we were heading to China, he was no baby any longer, and he'd seen enough friends get new members of their families to know that what you get is a LITTLE sister. He knew he wasn't getting a baby—they'd seen pictures—and that was fine with him. He didn't need a baby. But a "little" sister was just what he had in mind, and all of our assurances that he would be physically bigger didn't help one bit. For months after Rory came home, he still got angry every time fate conspired to point out her advanced age, and he wanted us to fix it (so badly that I had mad thoughts of messing around with her birth certificate). But there was nothing to be done. Rory is six months older than he is, so for half the year, they're twins, and for half the year, she's older, and he's relegated to "almost" whatever age comes next. He cared, indeed. It's rare for the "baby" of the family to see the benefits of being the "baby."
But harder still was the fact that having a child who was six months younger than Rory meant that I expected her to act her age, or at least his age. Every regressive behavior she seized on stood out in harsh contrast to the kid standing right next to her, not sucking his thumb, not having a tantrum, not begging to be carried, not asking to be fed or seeking out sippy cups and baby bottles. I knew, on some level, that those were natural things for a little girl in the middle of a harsh and sudden transition to turn to. I knew that she needed to be babied. But Wyatt made it hard for me to give her what she needed. I didn't want him to roll back to babyhood, but if either of them was going to—he was the baby! What's more, he was my baby. Rory was my almost-four-year-old. She'd never been my baby. I'm more than ashamed to admit how hard it was to let her take on that role, and if she'd really been the baby (always remembering that I would not change a thing about our adoption, because our family is perfect and she is perfect for our family) I think it would have been easier.
If Rory had really been the baby, I think it would have come more naturally for me to let her drop into that role. Now, almost two years later, I've changed my thinking. She's the baby in family years, and in family years, and family things, I let her remind me of a toddler, because in some ways she is a toddler. She gets to be more clingy when there are guests and more needy when other things seize my attention. She doesn't get the privileges of being the "youngest" when, say, a game's instructions call for the youngest to go first, but otherwise, she does the baby thing she she needs to, and I don't push her to act Wyatt's age, or, for that matter, her age.
But I know, in my heart, that we blew off birth order not because, as Dawn suggests, we really thought through what was right for our family, or who Wyatt was and what he could handle. What we thought about was little more than how long it was going to take to adopt. We didn't want to limit ourselves, in the eyes of China, to that small range of "ayap" girls who we knew were tops on many parents' list in the waiting child program. Partly that was selfish—as I said, we didn't want to wait. To the extent we did think about what was best for our family, we thought a child who fit right into the pack, rather than being three or four years younger, would fit right in. And less selfishly, we saw first-time parents, parents who a few years ago would have adopted babies, in line for those "ayap" girls, and wanted to be there for a child who maybe wasn't at the top of everyone's list. We did have our reasons for ignoring the birth order trope. But they weren't great ones. Worse, because I didn't think it mattered, I didn't give any thought to how birth order might affect us when Rory came home. If I had, I'd have eased her transition (and, less importantly, mine) in a big way.
So: just because I'd adopt out of birth order again in a heartbeat (because I'd cut off my own arm in heartbeat to make sure Rory was the child who joined our family) doesn't necessarily mean I think anyone else should do it. Anyone else in our situation—young parents with young children—I'd encourage to think harder, think twice, and at the very least to be ready. Because even if you DO adopt out of birth order, that's still your newest baby who's coming home.
Cross-posted to No Hands But Ours.
Monday, April 4th, 2011 | Virtual Twinning | 3 Comments
This month's Parents magazine has a piece on "How to Know If Your Child Is Gifted" (a newsstand headline if I ever saw one; my fellow writers will agree that the only thing better would be "10 Ways to Know If Your Child is Gifted").
I get it in the mail, and yeah, I flipped to that one. I have a weird history with the whole "gifted" idea; we moved a lot and I was "gifted" in some places, and thus allowed to do fun stuff like learn chess or run the school paper, but not in others. And, yeah, I want my kids to be "gifted." So shoot me. I mean, I'd rather they be happy—I'd love for them to all have Sam's natural resilience and outlook—but that appears unlikely, as anyone who's ever met Lily will agree. But gifted—that I think she's got, at least as far as "gifted" means "school will come easily to you and you will be good at taking tests" goes.
And then there's Wyatt, and this is a long-winded way of getting to him. He's something special in the academic sense; unusually verbal, reading early, already doing math at, I guess, about a second grade level or something like that. He's a smart kid. But "gifted" in a modern sense, as opposed to the one I grew up with, which just reflected your particular multiple choice test abilities? Maybe not. This article had all sorts of stuff on top of the ordinary academic stuff: unusually artistic, focused on particular interests, persistent in pursuing information or mastery and unusually empathetic. Has Wyatt got any of that? Eh, I don't know. Not that I've noticed, I thought when I read the article. Maybe he's just run-of-the-mill younger sibling bright (which would be fine. bear with me, I'm going somewhere with all of this).
And then, tonight. Rob and I are uniformly tired of children; we spent the past four days in a hotel with them at a hockey tournament. Today was a long day for a variety of reasons. We are mutually chock out of patience. So when Rory appeared (after Lily had already done a post-bedtime number) clutching her finger and insisting, with that little grin that says "ooh, I'm out of bed!" that it "weally weally huwt," I looked at it closely. No blood. Nothing even scratchy. It will feel better when you're sleeping, I snapped, go back to bed.
Oh, now she knew she was getting away with something before, but to not get what she wanted right at bedtime? Even if she didn't really want it? Wailing, horrible catastrophe! But in her own bed. I could hear her, for some time. Howling. "But it weally weally huwts! It huwts! I not gonna go sleep cause it huwts! I not gon' be able sleep!"
And so on. But I'm still in the middle of Sam's homework, and tired, and grumpy, and tired, and I go in my room (where he is working), and I can't actually hear her any more, and I forget about it until Wyatt appears.
"Why won't you give Rory a band-aid?"
"Because she's not bleeding."
"But she says it really really hurts."
"Yeah, but it's not bleeding," Sam interjects.
"A band-aid won't help if it's not bleeding," I say.
Wyatt thinks about it for a minute. He sees truth, but:
"I think it helps her."
He's right, of course. I sent him up with a band-aid. And—and this was the point of this whole thing—gifted or not, I know one thing. He's way smarter than I am.
Faux Twins: an Unintentional Side Effect
Friday, February 25th, 2011 | Virtual Twinning | 3 Comments
Yesterday I had just Wy and Rory in the car on an afternoon ride home (about 15 minutes) and, unusually, Wyatt fell asleep. Usually it is the other way around.
And Rory began to chatter. She told me a little about her day (Ava—I think—lost a tooth!). She had some commentary to offer on the snow (lots) and the day (warmer than usual) and our plans (can we go to the grocery store and buy … um … um … me: Popsicles? Yes!) and Daddy (home later) and babies (how do you make those again?) and even on the need to make a baby to have a kid (our babysitter just had a baby).
We even touched on her having a "birth mother" (often subject to some confusion around our house, because of her having a foster mother she remembers very clearly and who we know)—briefly, because Rory doesn't like to be too introspective about China. And we got home, and all was as merry as can be, in spite of my having lost patience with her at the end of ice skating and her holding a grudge over a small incident with her coat that's too dull and complex to explain here. Wyatt woke up (was I asleep? Where's Sam? We dropped him off?) and the rest of the day was smooth.
And I realized I almost never get to have a conversation with just Rory. Wyatt interprets for her a lot, and gets his words out quicker, so that in any three way conversation he dominates. Rory contributes, but less, and subjects are usually chosen by her siblings. And just because of the circumstances of their lives–same school, same activities (by choice) and relatively few playdates—they tend to be with me at the same time. I make efforts to do bonding things with Rory (and just Wyatt too), but they don't necessarily involve talking. Books, puzzles, cooking, stuff like that. And even if we go get a snack together or something like that, it's harder, I think, to talk when it's obvious you SHOULD be talking. And Rory doesn't like being asked questions–as in, how was your day, what did you have for snack, who did you sit by. She likes to lead, and she just doesn't get that many chances.
I think more one on one activities are in order, probably for everyone (I'm spending two nights with just Sam at a hockey tournament, so he's pretty taken care of for a while). I used to be very good at having a specific time every week when all the other kids were at an activity and just one was home with me, but as there are more of them and they spend more time at school, that's become a challenge. Anyone have any brilliant ideas for finding a way to just be together and, hopefully, talk?
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Composting creates Methane and Carbon Dioxide. If this is a green project, then it is a greenhouse gas producing project. Don't need it, don't want it. Bad move for Kalamazoo Township.
In the title of article, how exactly is that going to hurt America?
Pete Hoekstra just keeps making the hole bigger. He will not make it to November.
The Oak Street Market on Oak St. should be torn down. It look so rundown that no money could fix it.
You don't understand. there are a lot of unemployed people out there. With a glut of people, private businesses can hire anybody at any wage the market will accept. When you have an average of four applicants per job to fill, a private business pay a wage that they willing to pay, as long as they pay minimum wage. Restaurants and other business can be exempt of this because the employees receive tips.I'm for unions, when they work. When have the unions worked lately? Public sector unions have helped keep some jobs, but wages are being reduced. Get use to it. The unions almost killed the auto industry with all their demands. They had to make concessions or they would have more unemployed numbers than they have now. The unions are why majority of the manufacturing jobs that was here are now overseas. They were constant asking for outragous pay raises that were many times greater than inflation.
@rationalbasis, exactly. Making a statement based upon fear of may happen is not logical or rational. Its a waste of energy. @Captain Fall: what rights are you talking about? Everybody is freely throwing this statement out. Your rights are being taken away from you everyday. Freedom of speech is getting reduced. If you commit a Felony and are convicted, you lose your right to vote and the right to bare arms. So, your statement on losing your rights is totally meaningless.
@challenger04: prove it that what you are say will happen. And it seems that the union bosses are wanting the protests. Ever wondered what the union bosses wages are? If the unions folded, they wouldn't have a job. Sounds a little selfish to me. How much are the union dues? How much do they pay for their insurance? See, it is about the bottom line.
Where is congress going to get the money to fund the extension? If you say Defense Department, then it will add more people to the unemployment line.
That pledge doesn't mean a thing in the real world. Who is Grover Norquist? Has he really effected anybody's life positively?
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@RW, first of all, The Occupy Wall Street movement started in January-February time frame. Next, yes it is all over the world, but it proves that the focus is completely gone. Occupy Wall Street is a joke. Stop trying to justifying it.
I went by one of the Occupy encampments last week. There were homeless military veterens there. If you want to protest something worth while, how about helping the homeless vets.
Oh, by the way, your protesting something that is not going to happen.
The whole Occupy Wall Street movement has turned into a George Carlin joke. You started going after the bankers of Wall Street and other people joined in with their complaints. The focus is totally gone. Now you add more groups and your focus is a big mess. Do us a favor, you are do not represent the 99%. You represent yourselves and yourselves only. You started something great and have turned into disorganized KAOS. When I asked someone what they were protesting a while back here, they took a copy from website and put it on here. If you can't put it into your own words what your protesting, then you really don't know what your protesting. You have no grasp of what your doing and you're protesting because everybody else is protesting.
Parents need to stop giving their kids cell phones. That would cure alot of issues. Didn't need them in the past, don't need them now!!!!
How discriminatory of just pointing this out.
What do you expect from a channel owned by Chicken Little? Bill Maher, he's trying to open people's eye that are living a myth. I don't like some of his politics, but I like what he has to say. Wow, a democratic paper. So what is wrong with that?
@cyborg, your sad. Please grow up.
Wow,you can hear the fear in the comments. In general, people just don't like major changes in their lives, but they are happening. With the Internet, most people are getting their news there. That is why print is dying. Do you want to loose your papers all together? This sounds like it is the best way to keep the papers in print and keep majority of the people informed the old way. I will miss the daily paper, but it is not economical for either side. Need to be able to accept change and go with it, or life will pass up by. Paul, sounds like the news in the paper will be a little crispy on the edge when it is delivered. Some of the information will be 2-3 days old. And some of it will be about 7 days old.


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Calming benefits for youth with autism found in yoga
By Robin Gualtieri
Enzo Emmerson Gualtieri was born on Dec 30, 2005. We were blessed with a beautiful, healthy baby boy. Right around Enzo's first birthday I became pregnant with his brother Eli, and as a result the brothers are only 20 months apart in age. It was around the time Eli was born that I started to notice Enzo wasn't really talking and he didn't respond when spoken to. He often engaged in repetitive behavior such as opening and closing doors and gates. Transitioning from one activity to another was almost always accompanied by an emotional meltdown. By the time he was 2 years old, my husband, my mother and I all knew something was wrong. I talked to his doctor and she referred me to the Lehigh County (Pennsylvania) Early Intervention and a developmental pediatrician.
Enzo was tested by Early Intervention and qualified for Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy. We started therapy quickly and were blessed with wonderful compassionate professionals, who taught us a lot about how to interact with Enzo. But, it took more than a year to get an appointment with a developmental pediatrician. We were happy to continue with the speech and behavior therapy, but were impatient to find the cause of his peculiarities. When Enzo was 4 we finally had a diagnosis… autism. He still didn't respond when spoken to, and he often engaged in repetitive behaviors. When he did speak, it was mostly just "scripting" (quoting words or phrases from favorite TV shows and movies). We had the diagnosis, and although we were overwhelmed we weren't really surprised.
I knew for a long time that Enzo was not developing properly and the diagnosis really prompted me to do something. Enzo started taking speech therapy and occupational therapy at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation in Allentown, in addition to the therapy he was receiving through the Lehigh Valley Intermediate Unit.
My husband and I started researching autism and finding out as much as we possibly could. What we found is every case truly is like a puzzle and every autistic child is different. My mother-in-law gave me a book "The Soul of Autism," by William Stillman. The first chapter is called "The world needs autism," and the premise of the book is that children with autism are here to teach the world compassion, trust, acceptance and patience. I also turned to practicing yoga, first for myself and later for Enzo. I found the book "Yoga for the Special Child," by Sonia Sumar, that helped me develop a "bed yoga" routine for Enzo that helps calm both of us down at bedtime.
Shortly after Enzo was born, I completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training program. Over the years my yoga practice has been my refuge from the stresses of parenting an autistic child. The best way, and sometimes the only way, to teach a child yoga is to simply let them watch and learn and eventually they will imitate. My children also benefit from my practice because it keeps me calm and helps me cultivate patience.
In addition to all the therapy and yoga, we decided to try a dairy- and gluten-free diet for Enzo because we had read many autistic kids do very well on this diet. At that time, Enzo and Eli were in preschool. Every day when I picked them up, I asked them about their day. Eli, who was 3, was more than happy to tell me about his day, but I still got no response from Enzo, who was 4 ½. Two months after we started the diet, he started answering my questions. A year later he no longer needed speech therapy.
Enzo's therapists taught us about deep pressure stimulation, another helpful coping activity. This is a practice in which you give a child a pillow or stuffed toy when he is feeling anxiety. If you press the objects into him, roll it over him and "hug" him with it, it can sometimes alleviate stress and anxiety and bring him out of an excitable state.
Having two young boys (normal or on the autism spectrum) can be challenging. It was apparent very quickly that they both needed activity. We enrolled them in swimming lessons, which was also a necessity at the time as their grandmother had a pool at her house. We wondered if Enzo could follow directions in the class. We wondered if he would get frustrated and melt down. But he took to the water like a fish. He gained confidence in himself and his abilities. Awkward on land, he was soon doing backstrokes and retrieving toys from the bottom of the pool. In short order, he was swimming underwater, racing other kids and even learning to dive.
Enzo, with his new-found confidence, began to get interested in other activities. Not unlike other kids, sometimes he gets into a sport or activity very heavily at first, then after awhile loses interest. This is typical. What's not typical is his endless drive and singular focus on "getting it perfect." He gets frustrated and can lose his temper if he doesn't pick up skills quickly. He's a perfectionist, which in and of itself isn't bad, but it's a symptom of his condition. He gets frustrated, hyper and full of anxiety when he doesn't get it right. This is where yoga comes into play again. Yoga is known to calm the mind and body. It became part of our routine to practice poses, to breathe calmly and to sit or lie in silence.
As he grows and becomes more agile, he is getting interested in other activities. He's now moving from swimming to gymnastics. He likes tennis and baseball too. He is learning how to take turns and how to be part of a team. He is given challenges and obstacles to overcome and new sets of skills to perfect. And when he accomplishes something, he gains self assurance and confidence. He has even been known to coach his little brother on how to hold a bat, and has been seen cheering on and congratulating others on a good job. This is an amazing thing for us to see as parents of an autistic child.
And when the activity seems too large to accomplish, or the skill too complex to learn, and the self doubt and anxiety set in, we take him out of the situation, remind him to breathe and to close his eyes and calm himself and use the skills we learned from yoga. Yoga gives Enzo more than a workout. It gives him self confidence. It gives him a sense of accomplishment. It is a way to rid himself of his nervous energy, and, when he gets anxiety, we use a different form of activity to reset his mind and calm his heart. And, when he feels he's not able to do it right, and gets frustrated and mad at himself, he needs to breathe, calm down and reset. After all, don't we all?
Enzo is now 7 and he is a well-balanced, smart, happy and social kid. He is doing well academically and has very few meltdowns. What we've learned on this journey is that practice, patience and love will solve almost every problem. Through the combination of yoga, sports, therapies, diet and coping strategies, Enzo is enjoying a rich and happy childhood.
Robin Gualtieri has been studying and practicing yoga since 1998. Over the years she has studied a variety of styles. During July of 2006 she completed a 200-hour teacher training program at Yoga on Main in Philadelphia. There she studied under esteemed teachers Shiva Das, Ed Zadlo and David Newman. At Yoga on Main she was taught the Inner Fire Yoga method, a balanced practice of asana, mantra, mediation, yoga history and philosophy. In January 2006 she completed 15 hours of Child Light Yoga teacher training. Robin, a mother of two boys, practiced yoga during both pregnancies and has been teaching prenatal yoga for over 5 years. "Practicing yoga was essential during my pregnancy and labor. Yoga helped me be more comfortable and confident during pregnancy and delivery. A consistent yoga practice has also made me a more patient parent." Robin offers private yoga sessions for adults and children at an affordable price. Please email Robin at email@example.com for more information about yoga offerings in the Lehigh Valley and private sessions.