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Esquire Takes a Shot at Roger Ailes and Misses
Posted By Marion Maneker On January 18, 2011 @ 8:30 pm In Financial Press,Think Tank | Comments Disabled
Okay, so fewer than two weeks after the Arizona massacre, when America is still reeling from the look in the mirror the violence provoked, a look that caused even Roger Ailes to suggest his network tone down some of the invective, Esquire publishes a profile of Fox News's presiding genius. [1]
This should be good, right? Juicy subject; fraught moment. But what we get from Esquire's lead writer, Tom Junod, is such a mannered, over-written piece of nonsense that we're reminded again how much the world of writing and reporting has been changed by the internet.
I'd quote from Junod's piece to make my point, but I can't because you'll never finish reading the post. Let me describe an example of the problem: Junod takes nearly 700 convoluted words to tell us that Ailes doesn't have a Blackberry because he got into too many email fights with angry members of the public. That's great bit. But Junod buries it in so much vamping that you never get any of the good details.
Giving Junod some allowances for having written the story long before the shootings, it's still an inflated, rambling, backwards-talking attempt to cover the fact that magazine and writer have little to say about Ailes.
The best insight we get is a good summation of Ailes's strength as an uber-producer. He pays attention to every detail of the product and finds talent that can perform and fit his objectives: creating an idealized universe of pretty and pumped-up news readers who sell a seamless worldview.
Here's Junod quoting Columbia Journalism school's Dick Wald:
He used to be the president of NBC News. He likes Roger Ailes. And if you ask him the secret of Mr. Ailes's success, he'll say it's pretty simple: "Roger, in many ways, is just more competent. He just does it better. The anchors are better. The crispness of the reporting is better. The anchors don't interrupt, the shows move along, and the point of view is clear. It's just a good product. Roger found an area in which he could reach each audience member individually. That's the big difference between Fox and CNN."
Wald's points are fascinating. But Junod misses the big question. Ailes is the acknowledge master of making news fit a political point of view. He really is just better at making television news more entertaining than anyone who worries about journalistic neutrality.
So why then is his business channel the opposite of everything Wald describes about the Fox News? What works on Fox News undermines Fox Business. Why? Is it Ailes's lack of interest in the subject matter, he simply doesn't have enough to drive his competitive metabolism? Or is it that business is already inherently closer to Fox's world view and Ailes's version of the realm cannot gain contrast?
I'd say the problem lies in the nature of business news, especially a channel that follows the markets. Prices are too fact-based for Ailes's mastery of spin. One can argue about political remedies for the economy but the day-to-day news of the markets can't be re-written. In other words, business is immune to Ailes's alchemy and the constituency has to face reality. (You could add that CNBC has already done everything possible to make the markets seem like a conversation rather than numbers floating in space.)
Facing reality is the problem that bedevils Esquire too. Junod's piece is a classic bit of magazine writing. Lots of stylized writing and a hip tone. Isolated in an issue of Esquire, it might read well. (Yes, where something appears affects how it reads.) But on the internet, it just seems lazy and irrelevant. Worse, over-taken by events, it seems a wasted opportunity to ask better questions about Ailes's pugnacity. We're back at those emails again.
In our spin-saturated world, it's pretty hard to get a leg up with snark. The web, twitter, all flavors of cable news positioning make what Junod does with words here in Esquire not only redundant but boring.
Why Does Roger Aile Hate America? [1] (Esquire)
by TOM JUNOD
Esquire; January 18, 2011
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Longtime high school basketball coach Tim McNally is in charge of a program once again.
McNally was named the head boys coach at Socorro on Thursday in front of his players, administrators and friends in the school gym. He replaces Thomas Gamboa, who resigned to take a teaching job out of the country.
McNally has been an assistant at Socorro for the past three years and he expressed plenty of excitement and optimism about taking over the Bulldogs program.
"I've been with this group of kids for three years now and we have a strong bond together," he said. "I'm really excited about this opportunity and I believe we have a good group of kids that will do some good things this upcoming season. We have a strong group of seniors and they are already working hard for this season."
Gamboa, who played for McNally in the 1990s, said McNally was the perfect choice for the head coaching position.
"When I came to Socorro, one of the things I wanted was for coach McNally to join me on staff," Gamboa said. "He is very knowledgable about the game and he has a great relationship with the kids. The kids will play hard for him."
Socorro competes in District 1-6A with the likes of Montwood, Eastwood, El Dorado, Americas, Coronado and Franklin. McNally is no stranger to the competition in the district. He coached at Coronado prior to his current stint at Socorro.
Socorro senior and captain Jose Hernandez said he is looking forward to playing for the now head coach McNally.
"Coach McNally will give everything he has for us and that means a lot to us as a team," said Hernandez, who will play both guard and forward. "Coach McNally will bring a lot to the table for us. He's motivated and we think that we have a chance to do some good things this season and improve. Coach Gamboa is a good man and he had some opportunities to further his career. We're excited for coach McNally because we know he will give everything he has to help us get better."


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Bertrand's message inspires 1600 young pioneers
During this year's "Climate Pioneers" event, 1'600 presented the projects they've developed for a cleaner and more sustainable planet. The event took place in Zürich's new Umwelt Arena (Environment Arena), an exhibition space dedicated to topics ...
During this year's "Climate Pioneers" event, 1'600 presented the projects they've developed for a cleaner and more sustainable planet. The event took place in Zürich's new Umwelt Arena (Environment Arena), an exhibition space dedicated to topics related to sustainability, renewable energy, mobility, nature and living. André and Bertrand are both patrons of the Climate Pioneers program, using Solar Impulse as an inspiration.
Launched in 2010 by Swisscom in partnership with Solar Impulse and myclimate, Climate Pioneers is an initiative designed to engage students from preschool to High School in today's environmental issues while raising awareness about the potential risks of climate change. There are currently 6'330 young climate pioneers in Switzerland who have initiated 276 projects so far.
This year it was Bertrand that met with all the young pioneers between the ages of 7-16 encouraging them to strive to achieve the impossible – an objective he had set for himself at the tender age of 11. It was a moving and encouraging experience to see today's youth concerned about our future. The excitement was high and, after an inspirational presentation, hundreds of little hands were raised eager to have their questions answered.
"I always asked myself what it felt like to be a rock star. Now I know! 1'600 students were gathered by Swisscom to hear discussions about the environment during the Climate Pioneers event. They absorbed Solar Impulse's message with the same passion as if it were a rock concert! The way they welcomed me onstage could do nothing more than give me shivers of joy, but it especially offered me hope for the future…" Bertrand didn't miss the chance to share his enthusiasm: when the first rhythmic beats resounded throughout the hall, Solar Impulse's visionary and founder let loose into a few carefree dance moves surrounded by the swarm of little pioneers.
Perpetually inhuman: HB-SIA's flight cycle
Since I started working at Solar Impulse two months ago, a lot of people have asked me "but how does it fly at night?" It might seem like a miracle, but it's actually a simple game of physics and energy maximization.
When HB-SIA is on the runway ready for take-off, the batteries are typically charged ...
Since I started working at Solar Impulse two months ago, a lot of people have asked me "but how does it fly at night?" It might seem like a miracle, but it's actually a simple game of physics and energy maximization.
When HB-SIA is on the runway ready for take-off, the batteries are typically charged with solar power to minimum 50% for pilot safety. Aside from take-offs and landings where the aircraft speed is increased to 30 knots (approximately 55km/h) for maneuverability, the solar aircraft is always flown at 25 knots (approximately 45km/h), its design point for minimum energy consumption. The entire flight cycle revolves around energy savings and optimization. The aircraft essentially makes use of electric and potential energy. Electric energy or – to be physically correct, chemical energy is collected in the batteries. Potential energy is stored in the aircraft height. For example, a football on a hill has latent potential energy. As soon as it gets a slight push, it will roll down converting its potential energy in kinetic energy (speed) and eventually comes to stop because in real life, every motion is accompanied by losses.
So in order to fly with the utmost efficiency, the Solar Impulse airplane needs to juggle the energy storage between height and battery to find the best equilibrium.
But what really happens during the flight? You have already seen how the energy production cycle works in the previous article (From Sunlight to Flight), now I will show you what happens to HB-SIA day and night, also illustrated in the image.
During the day, the pilot slowly ascends to a higher altitude in thinner atmosphere to avoid turbulence and cloud formations. Interestingly, the solar generators also convert more energy at altitude. Sun radiation is partly absorbed by Earth´s atmosphere before reaching the ground. The higher Solar Impulse is climbing, the more sun power is available and can be stored in the batteries. In fact, for the highest possible solar power generation, HB-SIA should be in outer space; but that's a little too far for the time being.
As the sun begins to set on the horizon, solar power obviously decreases. Once the available solar power is not sufficient to support level flight anymore, the pilot reduces the motors and initiates a gentle descent (about 0,4 m/s) to a low night loitering altitude of 1000-1500m meters. Out of its maximum altitude of 28000ft (8000m), the prototype can glide for 4-5 hours consuming almost no electric energy. When the lowest altitude is reached, usually long after sunset, the motors, now powered by the batteries, are used to maintain a level flight at 25 knots until the morning. As the breathtaking tones of the sun on the horizon start filling the sky with warmth, the aircraft can once again begin its ascent, and the cycle begins.
What is most incredible is that this revolutionary aircraft could practically fly perpetually into infinity if it weren't for the human side of the pilots. So how do we make humankind perpetual? Well, I think that's another story.
From sunlight to flight
Some of you must be wondering how the HB-SIA actually flies with nothing but the power of the sun. Well, today is your lucky day because I'll be giving a little explanation on how sunlight is converted into energy allowing this unique airplane to glide through the skies.
The upper part of the ...
Some of you must be wondering how the HB-SIA actually flies with nothing but the power of the sun. Well, today is your lucky day because I'll be giving a little explanation on how sunlight is converted into energy allowing this unique airplane to glide through the skies.
The upper part of the solar airplane's wings is covered by solar panels. These are solar generators, meaning that they convert sunrays directly into electricity. The panels together are constituted of a total of 12'000 solar cells which, in turn, are all grouped into "strings" of 300 cells. At the extremities of each string, just like in a battery, there is the positive (+) and negative (-) pole. Each string has what's called a Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT) which is responsible for extracting the maximum amount of power from the panels at any given solar intensity.
The energy is then either stored in the batteries (there are 4 total) or immediately converted into mechanical energy, triggering the propellers to move. There are 4 motors on the HB-SIA.
Wondering how the energy is channeled? Well, when the motors are not running, the energy that is processed is directly stored in the batteries. However, if the airplane is in flight, sunlight is used to fuel the motors. When the energy produced is more than what is needed to fly, the remainder flows into the batteries. The Battery Management System (BMS) controls this process automatically reducing the electric current into the battery according to its charging status. The BMS also monitors the battery temperature during flights, ensuring they are not too cold (lowering their productivity) or overheating (which can be dangerous).
In simple words, the entire process is run through a chain of conversion. The cells convert sunlight into electricity; this electricity is channeled through the MPPT to get the maximum power output. The electricity can either be stored in the batteries or transmitted to the motors. The motors take the electricity and transform it into mechanical power, enabling the propellers to move and consequently the aircraft to fly. In flight, the pilot determines how much energy he needs depending on the speed of flight and how fast he wants to reach the desired altitude. Depending on the time of day, energy used is:
What is incredible in this process is that, while in flight, the HB-SIA can use direct sunlight to power the motors while simultaneously charging the batteries! It's as if you left your home in the morning with a half-empty tank of gas and came back in the evening with a full one! Wouldn't that be nice? Who knows, maybe one day it could become reality…


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A couple times a week
Spiritual but not religious
Goofy, Clever, Dry/Sarcastic
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I'm a non-smoker
Alcohol Consumption
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Potato, parsnip & horseradish baked rosti
Cooking timePrep: 20 mins Cook: 1 hr, 15 mins
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 4
A trio of winter vegetables that are the perfect accompaniment to a meal.
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegetarian
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 162
- protein
- 3g
- carbs
- 20g
- fat
- 8g
- saturates
- 4g
- fibre
- 4g
- sugar
- 0g
- salt
- 0.36g
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- Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Cut the potatoes and parsnips into matchsticks or grate them coarsely and place in a large bowl. Stir in the onion, creamed horseradish, chives and yogurt and mix until well combined. Season to taste.
- Arrange the vegetable mixture in a 20cm shallow metal tin, cover with foil and bake for 1 hr. Remove the foil, dot the top with the butter and bake, uncovered, for a further 15 mins until the vegetables are tender and the top is crispy and golden. Serve hot.
Recipe from Good Food Vegetarian Christmas magazine, December 2006
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Comments, questions and tips
This recipe is a keeper. We get parsnips from our CSA farm, and this rosti is the best thing we've made with parsnips so far.
I made it in the bottom part of my broiler pan (after brushing the bottom with olive oil). Since I didn't have foil, I just covered the top with the top slotted part of the broiler pan for the first hour. Then I uncovered it for the last 15 minutes. I also added a little cheese on top during the last two minutes of cooking.
We served our rosti with a fried egg on top.


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Former P-C-M Brandon Myers Starts Training for Oakland Raiders
Posted By adminknia On July 28, 2009 @ 7:31 am In Today's Local Sports | Comments Disabled
The Oakland Raiders open training camp tomorrow, and it will mark the next step in the career of former P-C-M stand out Brandon Myers. The former Iowa Hawkeye tight end was selected in the 6th round of this year's NFL Draft, and signed a four year, $1.841 million deal contract with a $91,000 signing bonus last week. Myers, who was the first draft pick for the Raiders to sign a contract, will compete in camp for the second tight end spot and on special teams
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[1567] Non-Classical MHC-1 Class 1b HLA-E Expression Levels Are Maintained in HIV-1 Infected CD4 Positive T Cells
Jason Wicker, Paul Goepfert, Steffanie Sabbaj. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background: HLA-E is a non-classical major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class 1b molecule that is expressed on virtually all cells. Binding of the HLA-E ligand to the natural killer (NK) cell inhibitory receptor CD94/NKG2A is sufficient to protect cells from NK cell mediated lysis. Infection of CD4 positive T lymphocytes with HIV-1 leads to significant downregulation of CD4 and classical MHC class 1a HLA-A and HLA-B expression. Although a few studies have reported increased HLA-E expression with HIV-1 infection, this effect is not well characterized. In this study, we sought to determine the effects of HIV-1 infection on HLA-E expression levels in CD4 positive T cells.
Design: Stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells from healthy volunteer donors were depleted of CD8 positive T cells and infected with the NL4-3 HIV-1 virus strain at varying multiplicities of infection. Cells were harvested at 2 days, 4 days, 7 days, and 10 days, and flow cytometry was utilized to determine expression levels of CD3, CD4, HIV-1 p24, HLA-A,B,C, and HLA-E. Expression of HLA-E in infected p24 positive cells was compared to levels in uninfected p24 negative cells at each timepoint.
Results: Following infection with HIV-1, significant p24 expression was identified in a subpopulation of CD3 positive T cells with low or negative expression of CD4 (mean peak infection of 9.5% of total T lymphocytes). This subpopulation of p24 positive T cells exhibited persistent downregulation of MHC-1 HLA-A and B beginning at the day 4 timepoint and continuing throughout the remainder of the experiment, relative to the p24 negative T cells (mean 72% downregulation). However, no persistent enhancement or downregulation of HLA-E expression was observed in p24 positive T cells compared to p24 negative T cells. HLA-E expression levels remained constant in HIV-1 infected CD4 positive T cells in contrast to the markedly decreased expression of HLA-A and B.
Conclusions: Review of the literature shows that various studies have come to different conclusions as to whether HLA-E expression is actively enhanced or remains stable in HIV-1 infected cells. In these experiments, our data suggest that HLA-E expression remains stable in CD4 positive T cells following infection with HIV-1 while HLA-A and B expression is markedly decreased. This selective downregulation of the classical MHC-1 class 1a molecules with maintenance of HLA-E expression allows infected cells to escape NK cell mediated lysis. Further studies seek to identify potential viral products that may be involved in the relative stabilization of HLA-E expression.
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About South Port Square
As soon as you enter the campus of South Port Square, you?ll instantly realize you?re in a very special place. Lush palms, flowers, and greenery sway in the breeze while aquatic birds take flight overhead. Combine that with sunshine shimmering on the lake?s waters and you?ll feel like you?ve just set foot in a tropical paradise.
Every day is a day to take notice of at South Port Square. The other thing you?ll notice? The smiling faces of all our neighbors and the warmth of their greetings. Here neighbors enjoy each other?s company, learn from each other, and support one another in an active, engaging environment.
South Port Square is truly the best of all worlds. You?ll experience the fulfillment of Living Wise and Well while surrounded by a unique atmosphere ? one that brings together the sundappled tranquility and coastal serenity of a tropical paradise with the energy and vitality of a vibrant community. Everything you need is here ? including a close-knit neighborhood of warm, friendly people you?ll feel like you?ve known forever.
Reviews of South Port Square
Average Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars based on 5 Reviews
I am a friend or relative of resident
My father was admitted to Harbour Health for rehab after his hip surgery. The therapist were excellent, he was up and walking that day and went back home after a week. Much stronger than when he arrived and happier too. The nursing staff members were attentive to his needs. All in all a very pleasent experience for Dad and me.
I am a friend or relative of a resident
My husband was in South Port Square in rehab. It has everything. It's real nice, but we couldn't afford it. If you went there to live, they have apartments. They have a dining room. You go there and eat in the dining room. The food was good there, even in the rehab. The staff was very good. The women who are interested do craft work there. They get together and do things, and they have entertainment. We like it being close to our home here where we live. We know people in this community, so that part was good.
I am a friend or relative of a resident
The rooms are beautiful at South Port. The whole place is very nice. The nursing staff cares very much. They do as much as they can for getting patients in and out of appointments with doctors. They're able to take the patients out to go somewhere if they want to take them out to dinner. They do the laundry. The food seems very good. They're overall an A+ place.
I am a friend or relative of a resident
The grounds and buildings are well maintained. When you drive up to the complex, it looks like a resort. There are nice places for the residents to walk and sit outside. They have good activities for the residents. My parents seem to enjoy all the activities, especially the musical programs. The elderly seem to like listening to music from when they were young. After residents expressed problems with the dining room/food, the facility addressed the concerns and things seem to have improved.I do have concerns with communication between the medical staff, aides, residents, residents' doctors, and residents' family. I don't think everyone at the facility is kept current of the residents' problems and concerns and what needs to be done for them. We have experienced things falling between the cracks when not followed up by the family. Some of this maybe due to my parents being fairly new residents, but I think some of it is due to the staff not being experienced or they are understaffed, or people not taking the initiative to resolve issues. I'm not really sure. However, overall we are happy with the facility and my parents are settling in ok.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Latest Attempts to Help Kids Avoid Overuse of the Computer (Part 2)
I should have said that while the computer guy was here my older son talked with him a lot. My son said he didn't want the program installed. My son said that he would hack through it and the tech issued him a challenge to just try. While the program was being installed, my son was researching on the Internet and shooting out ideas and the tech was knocking done each idea one after the other and chuckling. My son continued to be annoyed at the idea of the parental controls so my husband and I explained that if he would only do the work as required by law then he would have free time to do as he pleased. Goofing off during the school day and not doing the assignments completely then wanting the night off for fun also is just not going to continue to happen.
We had our first homeschool day as I explained in yesterday's post. After dropping the kids off at practice I came home and started wondering if my son did something he should not have as he was no longer acting angry and almost was acting a bit smug. Knowing him, he would have been tense and angry at the new restrictions if the restrictions were working. I called my husband to say hello and he told me that our son phoned him to say he found a way to hack through. I was not happy.
A little while later I received the batch of emails from KidsWatch reporting to me the usage on my younger son's computer. Users can select to receive any number of reports. One that we see is the list of websites frequented, how many times and at what time of day. Another shows all the computer programs used (such as PC based video games). I did not get a report for my older son which was a red flag that something had been tampered with.
When my husband walked in the door he said that our son said on the car ride home, that not only had he hacked through the program but he uninstalled it from his laptop. This was accomplished by finding a program that was free online to get all the computer's passwords (a program which will remain unamed). The system had been set up as usual through Windows so he cracked it by getting the admin Windows password then uninstalling with with permission as the admin.
I lost it at that point. I didn't yell or scream. I simply exited the room, shut my bedroom door and locked it, went into the walk-in closet with a box of tissues and the portable phone. I broke down and cried. Then I phoned a friend who has a child who was every bit as obstinate and oppositional as my son. I poured my heart out. After perhaps an hour I asked my husband to come in and speak with me.
I explained that I felt we had a breach of trust which went above and beyond anything that had ever happened before. I said that I felt that my son was showing that he was unwilling to do the schoolwork by his own choosing, because he refused by spending his time on YouTube entertainment videos, sneaking entertainment videos on NetFlix instead of watching the educational documentary he was assigned. He was also not abiding by our authority to do either the assigned work or to work within the constraints of the parental control software. He also had not been meeting deadlines for his live local chemistry class so the teacher's authority was being defied as well. I felt that he was exploiting and misuing the privileges with the systems that we put in place to be used for academic pursuits (provided a laptop for homeschool work and it was mainly being used for entertainment).
I felt that not only did I have no control but I was unable to guide or facilitate and also that my son showing by his actions and inactions that he was unable to lead himself. I decided at that point in time that perhaps it was time to stop homeschooling because it felt like it was something I was trying to do "to him" not "with him". Homeschooling was also something he was refusing to do to and for himself also.
And so my investigation into what school to enroll my son began. I'll share the next part of the story in another blog post.
KidsWatch update: I should also report here though that in a survey I received from KidsWatch asking if we were satisfied with the free trial I used the free text area to tell about how easy it was to hack. The program had been installed through Windows. An employee contacted me with directions on how to install the program linked to the root of the operating system that was virtually unhackable. When my husband gets time he is going to reinstall that software.
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- Ahermitt said...
I really feel for you.
When my daughter went through a period of homeschool-computer rebellion, I got a laptop lock (with the metal cord), and bolted the thing to a table in the family room... for six months. I also took the lock plate from her bedroom door. ... the whole door was next. I didn't stand over her, but she had ZER0 PRIVACY.
I told her, act like a criminal, get treated like a criminal. When people came in the house and asked why a laptop was chained to the table, I told them the truth. Yes, she was mocked by her friends.
Not saying you should do this, just giving the solution I used.
- Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 9:34:00 AM CDT
- Xa Lynn said...
Christine you are killing me with the suspense!
I'm really sorry about the awful stress this has put on you. I wish I had any good suggestions, but I have only daughters, and they're younger than yours. I do really appreciate the honesty of your posts, because there are more than enough blogs with "Look how wonderful we're doing!" all through them, and none of the daily trials we all know everyone actually faces. Reading about trials that are like mine help me think about them from other perspectives and try other solutions. Reading about trials that are different remind me to be compassionate in my responses, which isn't a strong point of mine. Thank you!
- Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 10:55:00 AM CDT
- Maureen Sklaroff said...
Well, the silver lining in this whole experience is that your son has some awesome computer skills! Seriously, he will probably be a really good programmer or something one day (assuming he can complete high school that is).
- Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 11:42:00 AM CDT
- Deborah said...
Deja vu here...when my kid was 15, he hacked into the administrative account in the computer lab in high school, changed privileges, installed annoying software (like an icon that looked like a regular program but instead went "ding ding ding" and could not be stopped), and taught his friends how to do this stuff. Needless to say, he lost his computer access there for two months...
- Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 3:55:00 PM CDT
- Laura A said...
Christine, I've been reading your blog a while now (usually through Google reader), and I really hesitate to post because I don't know you, and because I only have one teenage girl instead of two boys.
But I really hurt for your situation, so I thought hard about it, and I even asked my daughter what she thought. And I kept thinking the same thing: If I found myself in the situation you are in, at this point I wouldn't even be thinking, "How can I get them to do their work?" anymore, but instead "What can we do to save the relationships in our family?" This isn't about schoolwork anymore.
Can you ask your boys (in a non-accusatory way) when it was that they first thought that sneaking might be a good idea, and why?
I gather that you are a very frank family, but I also have to ask myself, do your boys read your blog?
My daughter, who just started school because she had to for bureaucratic reasons, was blunt about the school part. She said, "School's not going to change anything much. He's just going to find lots of other people who cheat."
Anyway, I apologize for butting in when I don't know you personally. I can see that this situation has sneaked up on you gradually and you're just now realizing the extent of it. I just felt that you were being so frank that if I wrote something, maybe it would help you recognize something you were already thinking to yourself (this has happened to me before), and perhaps even help you find a solution. But you certainly don't have to publish my comment! I hesitate to even post it and in fact would prefer to send a private e-mail, but I don't see one. So, my prayers are with you as you try to figure out what to do. It's tough!
- Friday, October 26, 2012 at 12:44:00 PM CDT
- scimum said...
Christine, just like Xa Lynn I really appreciate you posting the ups and downs of your homeschooling life. My sons are younger than yours but we have very similar battles over computer use and 'screen time'. I have tried physically hiding the computers in various places and the boys are very good at finding where I have hidden them. I even started locking them in the car and, guess what, they took the car keys when I was asleep and smuggled the computers out. And each time the computers have disappeared the boys swear indignantly that it isn't them. I feel so sad that we have descended into having this battle, and also that 'screen time' has become more important to them than being honest. I try to parent along attachment parenting principles to but nevertheless I feel that it is down to us as adults to show children the boundaries of appropriate behaviour. I don't have the answer to our situation - yet. I am interested to find out what solution you end up with.
- Friday, October 26, 2012 at 5:35:00 PM CDT
- Amy @ Hope Is the Word said...
I am so sorry things have been difficult for you. Since my children are still very young (oldest dd is 8 1/2), I have yet to experience anything like this. Just know that you have my sympathies.
- Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 9:36:00 AM CDT
- Sara said...
I ditto everything Xa Lynn said!
- Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 5:46:00 PM CDT


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A Canadian franchise last won the Stanley Cup on June 9, 1993, when the Montreal Canadiens defeated Wayne Gretzky's L.A. Kings 4-1 at the old Montreal Forum. Exactly how long ago was that? It's the NHL season that was bookended by the Eric Lindros trade and by Teemu Sel?nne setting the rookie scoring record in Winnipeg. Brian Mulroney was prime minister of Canada, the Unabomber was still abusing the mails, River Phoenix was still alive, and David Letterman was on NBC. And let's recall that Montreal's championship season began in a strange way--with a 5-3 defeat at the hands of a brand new expansion team, the Ottawa Senators.
By the time you read this, those Senators will have either broken Canada's Stanley Cup jinx or become the third Canadian team in as many NHL seasons to have reached the final only to be liquidated within sight of the Grail. Either way, the outcome is likely to be bittersweet for western fans. The playoffs take on more of the character of a patriotic mass movement every season as Canadians grow ever more desperate to retrieve the Cup. But we'd surely each like our own team to be the one that captures those lucrative bragging rights. And Lord knows Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton have had their chances.
Let's be frank, though. Edmonton's 2005-06 Stanley Cup finalist was, as the subsequent season proved, a mediocre team upon which one supremely talented but secretly disgruntled defenceman, Chris Pronger, was covering for a multitude of weaknesses. Fan energy took those Oilers as far down the playoff road as it ever can, or ever will, in professional sports. Calgary's '03-'04 club, which captured the country's imagination, made the happy discovery that the third-string goalie it had purchased from San Jose for a handful of beans was actually the lightning-fast genius that the team's moat-building style required in net to prosper. But Miikka Kiprusoff, like most brilliant goaltenders who come out of nowhere to take over the league and who aren't named Dominik Hasek, looks just a little bit more human with each passing month. The moment is ebbing away for the Flames.
Whether they win or lose this time around, Ottawa's karmic credentials seem much stronger after years of playoff struggle against the Maple Leaf b?te noire. No other Canadian NHL city, aside from Toronto, has any established historic beef with the Senators the way they do with each other; because all these cities are unified in loathing for Toronto, an Ottawa victory seems like a relatively satisfying outcome according to a crude Benthamite fan calculus. Yonge Street and North York would never, ever live down a Senators victory. And the Sens' roster is deep with Westerners like Chris Phillips, nephew of the Oilers' beloved radio voice Rod Phillips, or Wade Redden, who packs up his hockey bag every summer and returns to the oil-rich knolls of Hillmond, Sask., to see how the calving has come along.
It's surprising how little attention is paid to the organizational quality of the Senators, who just keep coming up with solid NHLers in the draft, year after year. Since the Alexandre Daigle disaster, which probably still haunts their reputation somewhat, their record in talent assessment can be matched only by Detroit and New Jersey. They grabbed Daniel Alfredsson in the 6th round in 1994; he may be remembered as the greatest player in that draft class. They took Bryan Berard first overall in '95, and when Berard held out, they actually improved on their position by trading him for Redden. In the deep 1997 draft, they snagged Mari?n Hossa 12th, after other teams had bet the farm on players like Daniel Tkaczuk and Jason Ward. In 2001 they selected Jason Spezza and Ray Emery, two crucial elements of the current roster. Useful NHLers like Sami Salo, Pavol Demitra, and Andreas Dackell began their careers as late-round Sens picks.
In other words, this is not a franchise trying to capture lightning in a bottle; it's one that has laboriously manufactured its own power over a long period of good judgment. If merit means anything, there is bound to be a reward--sooner or later--for what is, in some ways, Canada's strongest pro hockey organization.


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A Modern PC Shmup
As a long time fan of PC games, shoot 'em ups, and indie games, this game was made for me. I'm not everyone; I'm willing to practice a level over and over, and I'm used to finding the secrets in shmups. I find all the little tricks, all the secrets that most people who play the game will never find, etc. But I'm not writing a review for me, because I already love this damn game. I'm writing it for you!
Most fans of bullet hell games will have heard of Touhou, games which are boring and laughably easy on their easiest settings, and stupidly difficult on their most difficult. Jamestown is a bullet hell game for normal people; the main structure of the game is designed to be very hard, but you will progress through to the end even as a normal player. You get nine lives per level, unless you're playing the special "gauntlet mode," where you get a cat's nine lives for the entire games' worth of stages. It's also got a charming and short story; for a game with only five stages total, I didn't expect any sort of epic retelling of the next greatest story ever, and it's a cool take on alternate colonial times.
The gameplay is very crisp and responsive and contains some really interesting mechanics. Unlike other shooters, there is no screen-clearing bomb, and there are no charge shots (the two common ones people may know from Raiden or Viper Phase One). Instead, there are two modes of fire, and a "vaunt meter" which you build and drain to make yourself invulnerable to bullets. You'll pick from up to four ships (seven with the DLC) to fly in the game, each with their own benefits and deficits. Also, I never saw any lag, a problem that has sometimes crippled other shmups.
The art is amazing, although if you aren't a fan of pixels, you may disagree. It's clear that this game was meant to live in an arcade cabinet somewhere in a past life; everything from the text, the art, the bullets, it's all reminiscent of a fantastic arcade shooter from the yesteryear. It is that retro-shmup vibe, resurrected for a modern audience. I also really like the music and sounds, although I don't know exactly how it stands out. One moment that stood out for me in the music was when it lines up with a stage, actually doing a "story reveal" in the middle of a level.
The last amazing part about Jamestown is the local co-op play (no online, lag sux). Of course, most 1CCers or score-attackers won't be bringing their buddies along, but at least they can play alongside you when you aren't trying to perfect the stages. The levels are very wide, with more than enough space for four characters on it at a time. In other games, other players feel like they are getting in the way, attacking enemies you are already attacking, or filling the screen with extra bullets. In Jamestown, there is less getting in the way and more contributing to progressing to the end of the level.
One word on playing Co-op on a PC. It uses an awesome way to detect any device; when you want to add new players, you simply hold down a button on the controller you want to use. That means any USB device that has some way of measuring axes (mouse, joystick, arcade stick, keyboard) can be used, and any number of them as well. When I played with four people, I had a mouse, a keyboard, a 360 controller, and an arcade stick being used.
Overall, this is one of my new favorite shoot 'em ups. I have a select few that get installed anywhere that they'll run; My old one was CRS88, but Jamestown is its new replacement. It is just a complete package of everything that makes my retro shoot 'em up soul tingle, and even if you aren't a fan of the genre, it will likely be this game that turns you into one. Give it a try!


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They call the sound "outlaw country." It comes off like a modern take on classic Hank Williams and Johnny Cash played by tattoo-sleeved graduates of punk and hardcore bands—cranked-up tempo, gritty, soaked in cheap beer.
It's not exactly the kind of sound you'd expect from two guys who met a few years ago at church and decided to start a band. Of course, when it comes to reflecting on the consequences of sinning, who better to sing about it than a pair of religious types? Meet Alex Coulter and Zach Mishler, the guitar-plucking front men of Angel and the Badman. They pen songs about hard drinkin' ("Blackout"), giving up hard drinkin' ("15 Days"), robbing banks ("The Robbery"), chasing the wrong women ("Tattooed Woman") and, for good measure, redemption ("Better Man").
"A lot of our songs are about our vices and things we struggle with," Coulter says. "We have a fair amount of songs that aren't based on vices, though, such as 'Homeward Bound,' which is about being stuck at sea and missing your loved one back home. . . . However, most of our songs are about drinking."
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There's nothing wrong with drinking songs, especially for a band who play regular gigs at some of OC's classic juke-joint dives: 2J's Lounge in Fullerton and 2nd Floor in Huntington Beach. In places such as these, aggressively strummed cowboy chords, tobacco spit and slurred lines such as "Won't get no sleep till I'm passed out on the floor" tend to go over pretty well.
The band's moniker comes from the 1947 John Wayne film of the same name, in which the Duke plays notorious dueling gunman Quirt Evans, who collapses in the remote backcountry while on the lam and is nursed back to fighting form by a sweet Quaker girl. It's this type of good-evil dichotomy that Coulter and Mishler played up during their first gigs as a guitar duo.
"We liked that we could play off the whole 'Which one is the angel, and which one is the bad man?'" Coulter says. "We liked the idea that all of us have both inside of us, to some extent. . . . John Wayne is an outlaw who gets his life turned around by a woman who ends up saving him, and that's something we can relate to, especially with Zach's recent marriage."
For the band's first couple years, they were just a guitar duo—a dynamic that worked well right off the bat, Coulter says.
"It started as sort of just a jam between Zach and me. We were showing each other some songs we had written and talking about ideas. . . . Everything happened so easily and naturally," he says. "Our voices meshed well, so we ran with it. We played an open-mic night to see if it was interesting to people, and it was. So, we started writing songs together."
To fill out their sound, the duo recruited a pair of Musicians Institute grads: Willy Blesener on upright bass and backing vocals, and Ryan Morales on drums. And they enlisted fellow church pal David Sorenson to play banjo. Now they have hard-hitting jams to accompany their narratives.
While there currently isn't a set-in-stone release date for their debut EP, Coulter indicates it'll be out "real soon." Until then, there are plenty of opportunities to catch these guys at a hard-drinkin' dive near you.
This column appeared in print as "Saintly Devils."
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I honestly do not understand this continued media beating of the drum on this issue. This is now a complete non-issue within the team, as you can see from their comments. Mark is not quitting, never said he was going to. Seb is not going to be sanctioned or punished, and owes no-one outside his team any apology - if that. Horner is still in charge. In fact, there are a few of us who feel that what Seb did is good for the sport - as it has made team orders look even more stupid than ever. Red Bull is making the right call being rid of them. If anyone is going to see an implication it will be any team who believes that this will slow RBR in any way, or weaken them in the championship - as Seb said, all this noise covered the reality that they did quite well in the race - on tires and fuel. Missing that point is going to cost someone, and it ain't Red Bull.


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This exceptionally fine work exemplifies the early sixteenth-century Antwerp Mannerist drawing style. Possibly by Jan de Beer, one of the greatest practitioners of this school, the drawing depicts the Lamentation, with Christ's body laid out on a linen cloth in the foreground and figures around him expressing various stages of mourning and despair. The Virgin Mary kneels above her son's body in the center of the composition, Saint John the Evangelist stands directly behind her, and Mary Magdalene, with a vase of ointment, kneels at Christ's feet. Characteristic of Antwerp Mannerism are the dramatic gestures and postures, the fluttering draperies, the exotic costumes, and the heightened emotional atmosphere of the scene. Adding to the vibrancy of the composition are the drawing techniquethe short, energetic strokes in the hatching, in particularand the tightly packed arrangement of figures. Both of these traits are found in the works of Jan de Beer, whose painted version of the Lamentation (Turin, Galleria Sabauda) also has a richly expressionistic character. This sheet may have been intended as a study for an unknown or never completed painting of the subject.


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just checked the institutional ownership of TCM.
I thought it was a conflict of interest to own a company's stock and lend them $350 million ?
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Stiff bristles point forward from the base of the bird's wide beak. These make it hard for an insect to escape the flycatcher's attack. The enormous numbers of harmful insects they kill make flycatchers of great value to fruit growers and farmers.The Acadian flycatcher has olive plumage that is darker on the wings and tail.
Flycatchers are divided into two great families, one native to the Old World, the other to the New. The New World flycatchers include 365 or more species. Most of them spend their lives in the American tropics, but more than 40 species nest in the United States and Canada during the summer. Kingbirds, pewees, and phoebes belong to the flycatcher family.
The scissor-tailed flycatcher is common in the chaparral country of the Southwest. It grows to 15 inches (38 cm) in length, including the 10-inch (25-cm) deeply forked tail it opens and closes in flight. It is the state bird of Oklahoma.
The vermilion flycatcher, which is slightly larger than the least flycatcher, is found from Utah, Arizona, and California south to Argentina.
The Western flycatcher is about the same size as the vermilion flycatcher. It ranges from southern Alaska south to Mexico, and east to the Black Hills of South Dakota. Its nest of moss is lined with bark.
The great crested flycatcher, of eastern North America, feeds from the tops of tall trees. It grows to about nine inches (23 cm) in length. It usually lines its nest with a piece of shed snakeskin.
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Channel 4 Goes Mad (and maddens)
Channel 4's Mental Health season, the controversially titled '4 Goes Mad' kicked off last night with 'Ruby Wax's Mad Confessions'.
Juggling replying to work emails (leave early on Mondays for therapy), munching down my dinner whilst watching the programme, scribbling notes and keeping track of several Twitter feeds could, I would argue, be described as 'mad'.
My A-level psychology teacher was one of those annoying, but lovely people who would describe far too many things as 'random' and, on our first day of sixth form, introduced herself as "Mad Ruth". She would go on to teach us about Bandura's Bobo Doll experiment and invite us to act it out using spinning desk chairs as props, laughing hysterically and saying, "I'm mad, me!" We cringed.
Mad, as I'm sure you're all aware, can mean a plethora of different things in different situations:
- mentally deranged; insane
- senseless; foolish ⇒ a mad idea
- often foll by at (informal) angry; resentful
- foll by about, on, or over; often postpositive wildly enthusiastic (about) or fond (of) ⇒ mad about football, football-mad
- extremely excited or confused; frantic ⇒ a mad rush
- temporarily overpowered by violent reactions, emotions, etc ⇒ mad with grief
- (of animals)
- unusually ferocious ⇒ a mad buffalo
- afflicted with rabies
- See like mad
- See mad as a hatter
When Channel 4, alongside Time to Change, a campaign run by Mind Charity and Rethink Mental Illness announced that they has commissioned a series with the aim to tackle mental health stigma, you could almost sense a collective applause amongst its would-be audience. About time, people thought. We all know that an enormous part of the way in which Mental Health issues are perceived by people is influenced by the way they are portrayed in the media. Charities put out guidelines and are always there to assist in production, with scripts, storylines and outcomes – but it feels too often that they are ignored or sidelined and themes become sensationalised and/or simplified. With this announcement came a timely reminder that TV channels and the production companies providing the documentaries and series' need to take responsibility and reflect reality.
The decision to take action was positive; challenging stereotypes and encouraging people to tackle stigma. It felt powerful and proud. The problem, however, came with the title, '4 Goes Mad'. Immediately, people were split; there were those who thought the title was a fun play on words, a catchy and well-thought out PR move, and there were those who saw that 'mad' word as a descriptor for people with mental illness as offensive, degrading and downright wrong. A couple of examples:
"If Channel 4 were to do a feature on developmental neurological disorders, I'm reasonably confident they wouldn't call it 4GoesSpastic."
"I love the title. Surely the word 'mad' is only offensive with the connotations behind it; isn't that just as ignorant? The wording is genius."
I did notice early in last night's programme that the wife of Johnny, one of the case studies, described their son as 'mad', endearingly.
I can see both sides. As someone who has experienced mental illness, I'm not personally offended whatsoever, but I'm also not easily offended in the slightest; a title would have to be censored before I found it upsetting – but I'm not everyone. I can see how people thought this title went the opposite direction from the intention and actually added to the stigma. But to me, in this context, the word 'mad' quite appropriately sums up the utter chaos, the illogical thinking and the constant contradictions that make up mental illness; it IS madness.
Either way, it certainly got people talking weeks before the first instalment was screened. The title – sexy or sadistic – worked.
'Ruby Wax's Mad Confessions' took the comedian and self-confessed poster girl for mental illness on two separate journeys; 1) Back to the Priory, a magnificent building where she met and interviewed the experts who treated her own depression and 2) Tackling stigma in the workplace – 1 in 5 people lose their job when their boss discovers they have MH problems. Ruby encouraged three rather well-to-do people to 'come out' and disclose their mental illnesses to their employers and colleagues – a stunt which at times begged the question 'What if the cameras weren't there?'
Again the audience was split (at least on Twitter) – pretty much straight down the middle. On one side, pleased, relieved and encouraged that this was finally being spoken about. This group saw Ruby as a role model, a brave woman doing a great job of letting people know that mental illness is nothing to be ashamed about. They praised her and everyone involved for tackling a subject that is too often not spoken about, even to our nearest and dearest. On the other side, viewers felt that the whole thing was not gritty enough, didn't portray the full, raw picture of the inner turmoil that goes hand in hand with mental illness and only scratched the surface of the true reality. One suggested Ruby was "self-indulgent", whilst others squirmed at the lack of even a nod to those people who end up sectioned on insufficiently staffed NHS psychiatric wards, or worse, with no access to mental health services at all (apart from a mention that according to Mind, 75% of people with a mental illness go untreated) – but that's a whole other season.
A few examples of reactions on Twitter:
YoungMindsUK "Seems to be a general agreement that Ruby's experience is totally atypical because of her private treatment."
"Are they gonna delve into less accepted, *far* more demonised conditions such as schizophrenia on here? Or just tiptoe around 'em?"
"Can't help but feel that the programme romanticised living with mental health somewhat."
At first glance, I was one of those having a bit of a moan about Ruby taking us on a Cribs style tour of the stunning backdrop that is the Priory – but again, scrape under the surface, the pristine bedrooms and serene landscapes, and those patients (or service users, or mad people; whatever you want to call them) are suffering from the same desperate thoughts and feelings as anyone else with depression or schizophrenia, eating disorder or bipolar. Stripped down, this was about people on personal journeys, not their bank balances, material possessions or private health insurance. Sometimes, we're too quick to judge.
Another issue that many people voiced concern about was that in both tone and content, the impact that mental illness can have on people was skimmed over or not addressed at all. They felt that it was oversimplified and overlooked the fact that many people with mental health issues can't function to an employable degree. If this was a more general documentary about mental illness, then I too would be aggrieved that we only saw the stories of those who were functioning in full or part time employment, but this programme set out to tackle stigma in the workplace, and that's what it did (a bit too softly for my liking, but there you go.) It did do its job.
The opening night of '4 Goes Mad' was always going to be one which would be met with some degree of criticism. I think it is a huge step forward for the channel and I hope that other channels follow suit. It has got people talking, it did get people opening up about their own experiences and pledging to help spread awareness themselves. Like it or not, it dealt with mental health issues in the workplace on a simple scale – and that is sometimes what a general audience wants and needs. Personally, I had hoped that Channel 4 would have had the balls to be a bit more gutsy, challenging and really knuckled down into the nitty gritty – but this wasn't a Cutting Edge film, so perhaps wanting it to be something it's not is just a waste of time; we should applaud it for what it was.
I'm sure Mad Ruth will have loved it.Tagged in: 4 goes mad, depression, mental health, Mind Charity, Priory, Rethink Mental Illness, ruby wax, Ruby Wax's Mad Confessions, stereotype, stigma, time to change
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Jarod Cager, 22, and Terrel Noaks, 19, of the Hill District, were accused of killing Antwan Leake, 19, on Aug. 14, 2011, during a home invasion in Knoxville.
Mr. Cager was found guilty of first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory prison term of life without parole. Mr. Noaks was found guilty of third-degree murder, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 to 40 years.
Both men were found not guilty of conspiracy.
They will be sentenced by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jill E. Rangos in about 90 days.