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Lester D. Campbell was a member of the City Council from 2000 through 2007. He has also been a charter member of the Orem Decency Committee, Orem Arts Council and Orem Heritage Commission and was a member of the city's Planning Commission.
"I'm retired and have whatever time is necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of mayor," he said. "I also don't have any major outside obligations or interests that would create a conflict with my time and ability to represent the interests of Orem citizens. I strongly believe the mayor and Council should seek input from all concerned Orem residents and make every effort to promote transparency in city government."
Keven J. Stratton has lived in Orem since 1962 and holds a bachelor's degree in business finance and a law degree, both from Brigham Young University. He has owned the Cascade Golf Center since 1989 and is a lawyer specializing in real estate, business and estate planning.
Stratton said his community involvement over the past 15 years includes being chairman and board member of Kids on the Move, the Orem/Provo Chamber of Commerce, Alpine Foundation and Healthy Utah Valley; and being a board member of the Utah Consumer Protection Agency, Orem Summerfest Committee, Mali Raising Foundation, Provo Freedom Festival Event Committee and the Cougar Club.
Richard F. Brunst, Jr., is president and CEO of Western Pipe Coaters and Engineers, Inc. in Vineyard. The Arizona native was a Senate page for Barry Goldwater and graduated from Brigham Young University in 1974 with a degree in political science. He is a former president of the National Association of Pipe Coating Applicators and is on the board of directors for the Utah Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired. He and his wife, Tammy, have four children.
"I believe that my education, work and service all give me a background of experience of starting, owning and running various organizations that would allow me to bring a large depth of knowledge and judgement to help work with the City Council and serve the residents of the city of Orem successfully," Brunst said.
Steven C. Golieb said he has worked in the mayor's office in Salt Lake City, worked at the Utah Clean Cities Coalition and with the Utah Clean Cities Coalition.
"I have had experience working on local, county and state levels both in Utah and in New York. I have executive experience as the CEO of Golieb Global, and I am co-owner of JAG Realty, a real estate company located in Quebec. I have also worked as the project manager for the YMCA in the public school system."
Philip Hornberger describes himself as a 31-year-old Orem native who graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in exercise science. He ran for mayor in Orem two years ago. He said he has been a swimming instructor, ski instructor and has been involved in real estate, learning apartment management and maintenance skills. He holds an active real estate license with Fairway RealTee.
"I believe private property rights are of utmost importance and should be guarded and protected; and that the city has a responsibility to be fair and reasonable in this public trust," he said. "In running for mayor, I learned how much the citizens want a mayor who will listen to and be responsive to their concerns.
Skyler M. Jeppson works at Utah Valley University and has worked for the mayor's office in Provo and for the U.S. Postal Service.
"I was raised to respect the diversity of others and value the contribution each can make to society," he said. "I feel I can understand the concerns and needs of Orem from the elderly neighborhood I live in to the youth of UVU that I work with.
Kyler Ludwig is a lifelong Orem resident, 2008 graduate of Mountain View High School and current Brigham Young University student studying political science.
"My desire is to bring this academic knowledge and preserve, grow and engage the community," he said. "I have given hundreds of community service hours and has shown leadership as president of the Utah Valley Youth Council."
Chris Nichols said he fell in love with Orem while attending Brigham Young University and has lived in Orem for more than a decade. "As a Realtor, I have had the unique opportunity to help others see the greatness of our city and make it their home as well," he said.
His experience includes being the current President of the Utah County Association of Realtors and Federal Political Coordinator for Real Estate assigned to Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. He is a Utah County Republican Party Precinct Chair and state delegate and is the Utah County Coordinator for the Jason Chaffetz for Congress campaign.
Robert L. (Bob) Wright is a retired Union Pacific Railroad station agent and was the treasure and manager of the Railroad Employees Credit Union for 16 years in Milford, Utah. He is a World War II veteran.
"I have been interested in government politics most of my life," he said. "I have been a candidate for just about every political position available. My platform has always been restrict tax increases, be more accountable and responsible, try harder to live within your budget. As a result I was never successful."
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Approved and licensed by the Malta Tourism Authority. A fantastic self catering one double bedroom duplex maisonette with own entrance which is luxuriously finished and fully furnished to high standards. This maisonette is located less than 1 minute walk from the Upper Barakka Gardens and 5 minutes walk to the best retail shops in the Island. This property is fully equipped with all necessary amenities and modern day luxuries. Wide spacious hall on the lower floor leading to a modern bathroom with shower.On the upper level one can find an open plan kitchen/living dining and a modern bedroom with a double bed. A cosy living area with a leather sofa and a flat screen TV. On the upper level all rooms have a Maltese wooden balcony over looking one of the most popular street in Valletta i.e St Paul's Street.Lovely mixture of traditional Maltese townhouse with modern features. Must be seen.
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Situated in the centre of the Capital City of Malta. Very near shops, restaurants and cafeteries.
Within walking distance from Upper Barrakka where one can enjoy the scenery of The Grand Harbour and the three cities.
1 minute walk from The ''Auberge de Castille'', the office of the Prime Minister and the Valletta open air market which is a small market that is open all year long and sells mostly clothes, accessories, souvenirs, religious icons, music cassettes, CDs, DVDs and videos. The market can be found in Merchant Street, in the heart of Valletta within walking distance.
Just further down the street where this maisonette is found one can find The Collegiate Parish Church of St Paul's Shipwreck, also known as simply the Church of St Paul's Shipwreck, is a Roman Catholic parish church in Valletta, Malta. It is one of Valletta's oldest churches.

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That's not the only thing fuelling the split gossip, Miley was spotted without her engagement ring last week - uh oh! Although this COULD mean the couple's upcoming nuptials are no more, surely a media-savvy celeb like Miles would know better than to tip off the press to a cancelled wedding with such an obvious signal?
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For Myrna Krogman, the low-back pain became so severe she could barely sit, stand, walk or even sleep. Unrelenting, the pain affected her everyday life. "It was the worst burning ache," says the 68-year-old from Ottertail, Minn. "I couldn't do anything around the house anymore - cleaning, cooking, even pushing a vacuum cleaner."
Myrna's long-standing pain stemmed from arthritis and spinal stenosis (a narrowing of an area of the spine that can cause painful compressions.) Surgery several years ago had helped, but in recent years, after trying various approaches and going to several doctors, nothing worked well. And she disliked the drowsiness caused by the pain pills.
A year and a half ago, thanks to her husband, Jack, she decided to try one more option – and it was the option that worked. Researching the Internet for back-pain remedies, Jack came across information about a new type of implantable pain-control pump called "intrathecal drug delivery." The system automatically delivers a small dose of medication to the precise area of the spinal cord where it's needed. MeritCare Pain Management in Fargo was the closest location to offer it. "That was a place we hadn't yet tried - we're really glad we did," says Myrna.
Under the care of Dr. Majid Ghazi, a board-certified, fellowship-trained specialist in pain management, Myrna underwent a thorough evaluation, including tests confirming she was a candidate for the treatment. Dr. Ghazi proceeded with the minor surgical procedure to implant the pain-control pump. About half the size of a fist, it's located under Myrna's skin on the left side of her abdominal area. A thin flexible tube - also located under the skin - carries medication from the pump to the site where it's needed. To this day, Myrna continues to get much-appreciated relief, returning to MeritCare in Fargo every three months to get the pump refilled with medication. "I can walk better, sit better, even stand long enough at the stove to brown a roast," she says. "It's wonderful to be without back pain."
It's worth seeking help
Myrna is grateful for the help she received, but many people with chronic pain never get to that point, as Dr. Michael Gonzales knows well. A board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist, he has more than 25 years' experience in chronic-pain management and now serves as the managing physician partner of Pain Management.
He and Dr. Ghazi devote their full-time practices to helping patients with chronic pain, working closely with a multidisciplinary team. The team combines the expertise of anesthesiologists, psychologists, nurse practitioners, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, exercise physiologists, social workers, nutritionists and other professionals as needed.
"Many times patients with chronic pain get frustrated and give up on finding help. Believing they just have to live with the pain, they get discouraged and stop seeking medical care," says Dr. Gonzales. "In the meantime, the pain continues to damage their quality of life, slowly eroding their ability to function. This can lead to depression, anxiety, changes in personality and shifts in family roles. A person who was the breadwinner, for example, may become disabled by chronic pain and unable to work. Chronic pain can have devastating effects, but it doesn't have to be this way. Our goal is to help people restore their function and improve day-to-day life."
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At MeritCare Pain Management, the goal of restoring function begins with the simple act of listening. "The most important step in treating chronic pain is to listen carefully to what the patient is telling us," says Dr. Gonzales. "Yes, the pain may be associated with an objective finding such as a spinal fracture, but what that person is experiencing is completely subjective. We listen carefully to the patient to better understand the pain, and we continue to listen in order to assess how the course of treatment is working."
MeritCare offers several types of pain management treatments. Examples of interventional treatments include the implantable pain pump, nerve blocks and spinal cord stimulators; examples of non-interventional treatments include physical or occupational therapy. Each treatment or combination of treatments is tailored to meet individual needs.
"One of the newer interventional options we're particularly excited about is radiofrequency treatment," says Dr. Gonzales. "In carefully selected patients whose neck or back pain has been resistant to other treatments, we have successfully reduced patients' pain by 50 percent or more, with relief lasting several months, even a year. It's been a very gratifying treatment, and one that can be repeated as needed." Available as an outpatient treatment at the Pain Clinic, radiofrequency involves the injection of an electrical field to inactivate a nerve. A mild sedative may be used during the treatment, and patients can typically resume their normal activities the next day.
For some patients, the only help that's needed is to get them started on the appropriate medication. "The newer medications, including some good non-narcotic options, have been very effective in controlling certain types of chronic pain, but often patients aren't aware of them," says Dr. Gonzales. "There's also the misconception that it's somehow wrong to rely on medication. In fact, the use of appropriate medication can be very helpful."
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If you have pain that occurs on a regular basis (either continuously or nearly every day), and if the pain has lasted longer than the normal healing period for your particular disease or injury, consider MeritCare Pain Management. The specialized, dedicated team welcomes patients with any kind of chronic pain, including constant pain caused by arthritis or pain caused by diseases such as cancer. "No matter what the situation, we can help," says Dr. Gonzales. "We want our patients to get on with enjoying their lives rather than struggling with pain every day."
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Shirley D. (Barnett) Gillen, 72, died Friday, Nov. 15, 2013, at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. She was a resident of Franklin.
Survivors include her husband, Edward Gillen of Franklin; three children, Jeff (Cindy) Richards of Greenwood, and Mike Richards and Marlene (Richard) Frazier, both of Franklin; five siblings, Rosie Warner, Susie York, Justine Johnson, and Gene and Arlo Barnett, all of Russell Springs, Ky.; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Norma Mink; her parents, Ben and Josie (Simpson) Barnett; and three siblings, James and Leon Barnett and Earlene Richardson.
A service will be conducted at 6 p.m. Friday at Swartz Family Community Mortuary and Memorial Center, 300 S. Morton St. (U.S. 31 South) in Franklin. Visitation will be from 3 p.m. until service time Friday at the mortuary. Burial will be at Greenlawn Cemetery in Franklin.
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Bruce Shapiro, a contributing editor to The Nation, is executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a global resource center and think tank for journalists covering violence, conflict and tragedy.
He has been described as one of the most "sharp and thoughtful" (Washington Post), "perceptive" (Slate) and "nuanced" (Village Voice) analysts on the contemporary American scene.
Shapiro began his career on the fertile journalistic and political terrain of Chicago in the 1970s, where he was a founding editor of the radical magazine Haymarket. He was later co-founder and editor of the New Haven Independent, a weekly newspaper devoted to innovative grassroots muckraking. From 1991-1995 Shapiro was director of The Nation Institute's Supreme Court Watch, a civil liberties watchdog.
Shapiro has written extensively on civil liberties and human rights. For The Nation, Shapiro has reported since 1981 on subjects ranging from the psychopolitics of cults to the privatization of public schools, and dissected national events from the nomination of Clarence Thomas to Bush Administration war crimes.
Shapiro is co-author of Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future, with Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (New Press), praised by Washington Post Book World for "intellectual clarity" which "might convince even the strongest supporters that the machinery of death has run its course." His most recent book is Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books), called "vibrant and pertinent" by Columbia Journalism Review.
Since 1994 Shapiro has taught investigative journalism at Yale University. He contributes a weekly report on American politics and culture to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Late Night Live.
"Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error," Illinois Governor George Ryan said on January 11, clearing his state's death row as his final act of office.
Annals of Higher Education: If recent events at Stanford and Harvard are any indication, the past decade's earnest debates over "political correctness" are over, replaced by roughshod policing
It's safe to assume that the 150 or so Al Qaeda and Taliban militiamen now occupying those 6-by-8-foot cages in Guantánamo Bay are not sympathetic characters. It's also reasonable, and important, to say that they are in less danger to life and limb than their comrades handed over by the United States to the Northern Alliance. While the Western press has focused almost exclusively on Camp X-Ray, Amnesty International reported on February 1 that "the lives of thousands of prisoners in Afghanistan are at risk" from hunger and "rampant" dysentery, pneumonia and hepatitis, in overcrowded prison camps where inmates suffer shortages of food and medical supplies and "are not sheltered from severe winter conditions."
The fact that Camp X-Ray comes out ahead of the dreadful prevailing POW standard in postwar Afghanistan does the United States no credit. The image of prisoners shipped hooded, shackled and sedated to an unknown location was a foreign-policy disaster: in Europe, the Mideast and Asia alike, conjuring raw memories of the most vicious hostage-takings. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's insistence that X-Ray's prisoners fall outside the protections of the Geneva Conventions and the US Constitution only furthered the impression of an Administration descending to the brutal law-enforcement benchmark of an authoritarian regime like Saudi Arabia. (Evidently the Administration just wants its guests to feel at home: Saudis count for at least 100 of the Guantánamo prisoners.) The White House's February 7 turnabout, declaring that Geneva Convention rules apply to Taliban captives but not Al Qaeda, amounts to a fig leaf satisfying neither the specific requirements of the accords nor the broader sense of alarm worldwide.
In part the shock expressed by US allies at the method of transport and incarceration at Guantánamo shows the huge gap between Europe and the United States on prisons and punishment. Western European prisons, for the most part, come nowhere near the degrading and isolating inmate-control regimens in many US facilities. Camp X-Ray is a close cousin to supermax penitentiaries with their psychically debilitating twenty-three-hour-a-day solitary confinement and twenty-four-hour cell lighting.
But comparing X-Ray to conventional prisons, and Afghanistan militia to conventional prisoners, only forces the questions Rumsfeld and the White House have tried so hard to obfuscate: Are the prisoners POWs or criminals? Just what rights should these international brigades of clerical fascism retain, as the losing side in a war backed by the United States but fought largely by proxy forces? Rumsfeld and the White House insist that neither Taliban nor Al Qaeda are prisoners of war but instead "unlawful combatants," suggesting that they don't deserve the numerous protections afforded POWs, most famously the right to respond to questions with name, rank and serial number but also including rights to representation, repatriation and due process. The Administration is now willing to admit that Taliban militia, as the former army of Afghanistan, are at least covered by the accords' broader humanitarian provisions; but the majority of Guantánamo prisoners--those Al Qaeda "Arab Afghans" who fought as allies of the Taliban regime--the White House still casts completely outside the protection of the Geneva Conventions.
A press outspun by Rumsfeld's daily patter has missed the simple fact that, as law, this argument has more holes than a Tora Bora cave after US bombardment. "Unlawful combatants" is a phrase found nowhere in the Geneva accords. Here is how Human Rights Watch summarizes it: "Under international humanitarian law, combatants captured during an international armed conflict should be presumed to be POWs until determined otherwise." Only a court or other "competent tribunal"--not the Defense Secretary or the President--can make that determination. In fact, the Pentagon's own Judge Advocate General Handbook declares that "when doubt exists" about a prisoner's status, "tribunals must be convened"--as they were for Iraqi prisoners in the Gulf War.
The United States has good reason to care about these procedures. During the Vietnam War, Hanoi declared captured US fliers "unlawful combatants." It was Washington that insisted otherwise; in 1977 the United States made sure that the Geneva protocols were revised to insure that anyone captured in war is protected by the treaty whether civilian, military or in between, whether or not they technically meet the POW definition. Simply put, when President Bush unilaterally declares the majority of its prisoners outside the penumbra of the Geneva convention, he is still flouting both international law and international sensibility.
The trouble with placing Guantánamo's prisoners in a legal no man's land doesn't end there. If captured militia are not POWs then they can continue to be held only if they're individually charged with war crimes or other specific offenses. If that should happen to the Guantánamo prisoners, they're entitled to a "fair and regular trial" (a standard that almost certainly cannot be met by the drumhead courts authorized by Bush).
Bush's latest policy turn amounts to internment without trial for alleged Al Qaeda. It's entirely appropriate to want to question the Al Qaeda mafia's foot soldiers, and there are plenty of legitimate claims on the prosecution of Al Qaeda, from citizens in Kabul and New York and points between. But the way to go about both is through existing criminal and international laws--an approach that gets results, as the victims of Gen. Augusto Pinochet proved in courts on two continents. The Rumsfeld-Bush strategy, on the other hand, undermines the idea of cooperative transnational prosecution and representation of victims, replacing evolving international law with an autocratic extension of this Administration's foreign-policy unilateralism: If we can live without the ABM treaty, why not pitch those troublesome Geneva accords over the side as well?
In the Administration only Colin Powell understands how profoundly this shortsighted approach runs counter to the national interest. Powell is no friend of human rights. But he pushed so hard--winning the compromise of Geneva Convention recongition for Taliban prisoners--because as a former military man he knows that the United States, the world's number-one projector of force, has its own reasons to seek universal respect for the Geneva Conventions--conventions we instantly invoked when American pilots were shot down in the Persian Gulf, and again in the Balkans. Powell knows, too, that the whole logic of the Geneva accords--those special POW protections--is to entice losing combatants into pragmatic and dignified surrender. By making a transnational mockery of the Geneva protocols, Rumsfeld and Bush are inviting future enemies to conclude that suicidal escalation, rather than surrender, is the only sensible closing chapter of their jihad.
Rumsfeld is hell-bent on turning the prisoners of Camp X-Ray into legal nonpersons--essentially stateless, without the safe harbor of either international law or the US Constitution, granted status and rights only at the whim of the Defense Secretary. That may seem to serve the short-term goals of Al Qaeda interrogation, but the picture it presents to the world--a superpower playing semantic games with the most basic wartime covenants, setting back the evolving machinery for transnational justice--will generate its own unhappy blowback.
The FAA, which had long ignored airlines' requests for help with unruly passengers, is now relying on those same airlines' apparent racial profiling when deciding who gets to fly.
The Bush administration's insistence on secrecy in the Whitey Bulger case raises some unsettling questions.
The US Supreme Court's stunning 5-4 stay Saturday of the Florida undervote count--less than 24 hours after the equally stunning Florida Supreme Court decision ordering that same count--illuminat
Noncitizens in the United States face an increasingly harsh Ashcroft-run Justice Department.


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I actually found this episode perfect. Full of twists and turns, and not at all what I was expecting... I honestly never expected Lois to take Mike's side in the end (I was so sure he was going to go through with stabbing everyone in the back!) I was kept on the edge of my seat during his trial, and still felt he was going to get away with it in the end! I love the way they portrayed Mike - the decision of the plea, the calling of the wedding because it wasn't right, and not turning in his friends. Loved this episode :)
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1Warm up your muscles by jogging, doing jumping jacks or running on the spot for at least 10 minutes.
2Stand up and stretch for 15 seconds.
3Sit down and extend your right leg straight out and stretch for 10 seconds and then the same with your left leg.
4Put both your legs straight out and stretch for 10 seconds.
5Put both of your hands on your toes and stretch for 15 seconds.
6Separate both legs as wide as you can, put both hands in the middle of your legs, and lean down and stretch for 15 seconds.
7Bring both of your legs together and your legs should form a butterfly!
8Bounce both of your legs up and down for 20 seconds.
9Bring both legs out straight and lean to the right for 20 seconds, then lean to the left for 20 seconds.
10Point your legs straight up in the air and keep them up for 30 seconds.
11Try your right leg and bring it over your head and then your left leg!
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- Always stretch in the morning to increase flexibility.
- Be sure to stretch everyday so you won't lose the flexibility you have gained!
- The second foot is harder to do than the first, because you have to get it beyond the first. Whichever leg is less flexible, do first.
- If you know someone who does gymnastics, maybe ask them for pointers.
- Don't let someone force it for you either or it can cause injury!
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- If you don't get it the first two times, stop!
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Under cooling, a liquid can undergo a transition to the glassy state either as a result of a continuous slowing down or by a first-order polyamorphous phase transition. The second scenario has so far always been observed in a metastable liquid domain below the melting point where crystalline nucleation interfered with the glass formation. We report the first observation of the liquid-glasstransition by a first-order polyamorphous phase transition from the equilibrium stable liquid phase. The observation was made in a molecular dynamics simulation of a one-component system with a model metallic pair potential. In this way, the model, demonstrating the thermodynamic glass transition from a stable liquid phase, may be regarded as a candidate for a simple monatomic ideal glass former. This observation is of conceptual importance in the context of continuing attempts to resolve the long-standing Kauzmann paradox. The possibility of a thermodynamic glass transition from an equilibrium melt in a metallic system also indicates a new strategy for the development of bulk metallic glass-forming alloys.
Communication: Rotational -factor and spin-rotation constant of133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3497309View Description Hide Description
The rotational -factor and spin-rotation constants of the methylidynium ion have been calculated for the first time with a large multiconfigurational self-consistent field wave function and at the coupled-cluster singles and doubles level augmented by a perturbative triples correction. The results for an equilibrium internuclear distance as well as for the , vibration-rotational state are presented.
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On Koopmans' theorem in density functional theory133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3491272View Description Hide Description
This paper clarifies why long-range corrected (LC) density functional theory gives orbital energies quantitatively. First, the highest occupied molecular orbital and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energies of typical molecules are compared with the minus vertical ionization potentials (IPs) and electron affinities (EAs), respectively. Consequently, only LC exchange functionals are found to give the orbital energies close to the minus IPs and EAs, while other functionals considerably underestimate them. The reproducibility of orbital energies is hardly affected by the difference in the short-range part of LC functionals. Fractional occupation calculations are then carried out to clarify the reason for the accurate orbital energies of LC functionals. As a result, only LC functionals are found to keep the orbital energies almost constant for fractional occupied orbitals. The direct orbital energy dependence on the fractional occupation is expressed by the exchange self-interaction (SI) energy through the potential derivative of the exchange functional plus the Coulomb SI energy. On the basis of this, the exchange SI energies through the potential derivatives are compared with the minus Coulomb SI energy. Consequently, these are revealed to be cancelled out only by LC functionals except for H, He, and Ne atoms.
Segmented contracted basis sets for one- and two-component Dirac–Fock effective core potentials133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3495681View Description Hide Description
Segmented contracted basis sets for 4d, 5d, 5s, and 6s elements of split (double zeta) valence to quadruple zeta valence quality optimized for Dirac–Fock effective core potentials (ECPs) are presented. They were obtained from previous bases optimized for Wood–Boring ECPs by comparably small modifications and reoptimizations. Additionally extensions for two-component self-consistent-field treatments accounting for spin-orbit (SO) coupling were designed and optimized. Reliability for chemical applications was assessed by comparing results to those obtained with a very large (19s16p17d7f6g) reference basis for a set of more than 80 representatively chosen 5s-5d compounds. Moreover, the effect of different types of ECPs and that of the SO-coupling at the basis set limit of density functional theory is documented for the above set of molecules extended by 40 5p-6p compounds.
Design of an infrared laser pulse to control the multiphoton dissociation of the Fe–CO bond in CO-heme compounds133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3494543View Description Hide Description
Optimal control theory is used to design a laser pulse for the multiphoton dissociation of the Fe–CO bond in the CO-heme compounds. The study uses a hexacoordinated iron–porphyrin–imidazole–CO complex in its ground electronic state as a model for CO liganded to the heme group. The potential energy and dipole moment surfaces for the interaction of the CO ligand with the heme group are calculated using density functional theory. Optimal control theory, combined with a time-dependent quantum dynamical treatment of the laser-molecule interaction, is then used to design a laser pulse capable of efficiently dissociating the CO-heme complex model. The genetic algorithm method is used within the mathematical framework of optimal control theory to perform the optimization process. This method provides good control over the parameters of the laser pulse, allowing optimized pulses with simple time and frequency structures to be designed. The dependence of photodissociation yield on the choice of initial vibrational state and of initial laser field parameters is also investigated. The current work uses a reduced dimensionality model in which only the Fe–C and C–O stretching coordinates are explicitly taken into account in the time-dependent quantum dynamical calculations. The limitations arising from this are discussed in Sec. IV.
Structure of poly(ethylene glycol)–water mixture studied by polymer reference interaction site model theory133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3502108View Description Hide Description
In this work, the polymer reference interaction site model is applied to investigate the structure of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) aqueous solution with the strong hydrogen-bond interactions. In the theoretical model, the renormalized technique of electrostatic potentials is combined with our recently proposed multisite semiflexible chain model to describe the inter- and intramolecular correlations. To test the model for the description of hydrogen bonding, the intermolecular correlation functions of water, ethylene glycol (EG), and EG-water binary mixture are calculated. The results are in good agreement with the corresponding simulation or experimental data. The validated model is then employed to predict the intermolecular correlation functions of different sites of the PEG and its aqueous solution. Another priority of the model is that it can obtain the corresponding direct correlation functions directly.
Simulations of high-dielectric Stockmayer fluids in hyperspherical geometry133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3495975View Description Hide Description
The static dielectric properties of Stockmayer fluids are investigated in the hyperspherical geometry, . Different methods of obtaining the static dielectric constant are compared. Tested methods include the evaluation of the Kirkwood factor, fluctuations of the total dipole moment, and a two-center potential correlation formula to obtain the dielectric constant through effective interactions. With no coupling to the "surrounding," the different methods give consistent estimates of the dielectric constant. Adding a coupling to the surrounding gives large size dependencies and the two-center potential correlation formula breaks down. For low dipole moments, there is a good agreement in the dielectric constant with previous studies.
State-dependent biasing method for importance sampling in the weighted stochastic simulation algorithm133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3493460View Description Hide Description
The weighted stochastic simulation algorithm (wSSA) was developed by Kuwahara and Mura [J. Chem. Phys.129, 165101 (2008)] to efficiently estimate the probabilities of rare events in discrete stochastic systems. The wSSA uses importance sampling to enhance the statistical accuracy in the estimation of the probability of the rare event. The original algorithm biases the reaction selection step with a fixed importance sampling parameter. In this paper, we introduce a novel method where the biasing parameter is state-dependent. The new method features improved accuracy, efficiency, and robustness.
Computation of nucleation at a nonequilibrium first-order phase transition using a rare-event algorithm133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3499321View Description Hide Description
We introduce a new forward flux sampling in time algorithm to efficiently measuretransition times in rare-event processes in nonequilibrium systems and apply it to study the first-order (discontinuous) kinetic transition in the Ziff–Gulari–Barshad model of catalytic surface reaction. The average time for the transition to take place, as well as both the spinodal and transition points, is efficiently found by this method.
Classical photodissociation dynamics with Bohr quantization133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3502492View Description Hide Description
The standard classical expression of the state-resolved photodissociation cross section is not consistent with an efficient Bohr quantization of product internal motions. A new and strictly equivalent expression not suffering from this drawback is proposed. This expression opens the way to more realistic classical simulations of direct polyatomic photodissociations in the quantum regime where only a few states are available to the products.
The reweighted path ensemble133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3491817View Description Hide Description
We introduce a reweighting scheme for the path ensembles in the transition interface sampling framework. The reweighting allows for the analysis of free energy landscapes and committor projections in any collective variable space. We illustrate the reweighting scheme on a two dimensional potential with a nonlinear reaction coordinate and on a more realistic simulation of the Trp-cage folding process. We suggest that the reweighted path ensemble can be used to optimize possible nonlinear reaction coordinates.
Nonlinear reaction coordinate analysis in the reweighted path ensemble133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3491818View Description Hide Description
We present a flexible nonlinear reaction coordinate analysis method for the transition path ensemble based on the likelihood maximization approach developed by Peters and Trout [J. Chem. Phys.125, 054108 (2006)]. By parametrizing the reaction coordinate by a string of images in a collective variable space, we can optimize the likelihood that the string correctly models the committor data obtained from a path sampling simulation. The collective variable space with the maximum likelihood is considered to contain the best description of the reaction. The use of the reweighted path ensemble [J. Rogal et al., J. Chem. Phys.133, 174109 (2010)] allows a complete reaction coordinate description from the initial to the final state. We illustrate the method on a z-shaped two-dimensional potential. While developed for use with path sampling, this analysis method can also be applied to regular molecular dynamics trajectories.
Time-dependent density functional approach for the calculation of inelastic x-ray scattering spectra of molecules133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3503594View Description Hide Description
We apply time-dependent density functional theory to study the valence electron excitations of molecules and generalize the typically used time-propagation scheme and Casida's method to calculate the full wavevector dependent response function. This allows the computational study of dipole-forbidden valence electron transitions and the dispersion of spectral weight as a function of the wavevector. The method provides a novel analysis tool for spectroscopic methods such as inelastic x-ray scattering and electron energy loss spectroscopy. We present results for benzene and and make a comparison with experimental results.
Tetrahydrides of third-row transition elements: Spin-orbit coupling effects on the stability of rhenium tetrahydride133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3495680View Description Hide Description
The potential energy surfaces of low-lying states in rhenium tetrahydride were explored by using the multiconfiguration self-consistent field (MCSCF) method together with the SBKJC effective core potentials and the associated basis sets augmented by a set of functions on rhenium atom and by a set of functions on hydrogen atoms, followed by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) calculations to incorporate nonscalar relativistic effects. The most stable structure of was found to have a symmetry and its ground state is . It is found that this is lower in energy than the dissociation limit, , after dynamic correlation effects are taken into account by using second-order multireference Møller–Plesset perturbation (MRMP2) calculations. This reasonably agrees with previous results reported by Andrews et al. [J. Phys. Chem.107, 4081 (2003)]. The present investigation further revealed that the dissociationreaction of cannot occur without electronic transition from the lowest quartet state to the lowest sextet state. This spin-forbidden transition can easily occur because of large SOCeffects among low-lying states in such heavy metal-containing compounds. The minimum-energy crossing (MEX) point between the lowest quartet and sextet states is proved to be energetically and geometrically close to the transition state for the dissociationreaction on the potential energy surface of the lowest spin-mixed state. The MEX point ( symmetry) was estimated to be (26.3 kcal/mol) higher than the state in symmetry at the MRMP2 level of theory. After inclusion of SOCeffects, an energy maximum on the lowest spin-mixed state appears near the MEX point and is recognized as the transition state for the dissociationreaction to . The energy barrier for the dissociation, evaluated to be MEX in the adiabatic picture, was calculated to be (16.1 kcal/mol) on the lowest spin-mixed state when SOCeffects were estimated at the MCSCF level of theory.
Spin-component-scaled Møller–Plesset (SCS-MP) perturbation theory: A generalization of the MP approach with improved properties133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3503041View Description Hide Description
A rigorous perturbation theory is proposed, which has the same second order energy as the spin-component-scaled Møller–Plesset second order (SCS-MP2) method of Grimme [J. Chem. Phys.118, 9095 (2003)]. This upgrades SCS-MP2 to a systematically improvable, true wave-function-based method. The perturbation theory is defined by an unperturbed Hamiltonian, , that contains the ordinary Fock operator and spin operators that act either on the occupied or the virtual orbital spaces. Two choices for are discussed and the importance of a spin-pure is underlined. Like the SCS-MP2 approach, the theory contains two parameters ( and ) that scale the opposite-spin and the same-spin contributions to the second order perturbationenergy. It is shown that these parameters can be determined from theoretical considerations by a Feenberg scaling approach or a fit of the wave functions from the perturbation theory to the exact one from a full configuration interaction calculation. The parameters and are found to be optimal for a reasonable test set of molecules. The meaning of these parameters and the consequences following from a well defined improved MP method are discussed.
State-selective optimization of local excited electronic states in extended systems133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3488230View Description Hide Description
Standard implementations of time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) for the calculation of excitation energies give access to a number of the lowest-lying electronic excitations of a molecule under study. For extended systems, this can become cumbersome if a particular excited state is sought-after because many electronic transitions may be present. This often means that even for systems of moderate size, a multitude of excited states needs to be calculated to cover a certain energy range. Here, we present an algorithm for the selective determination of predefined excited electronic states in an extended system. A guess transition density in terms of orbital transitions has to be provided for the excitation that shall be optimized. The approach employs root-homing techniques together with iterative subspace diagonalization methods to optimize the electronic transition. We illustrate the advantages of this method for solvated molecules, core-excitations of metal complexes, and adsorbates at cluster surfaces. In particular, we study the local excitation of a pyridine molecule adsorbed at a silver cluster. It is shown that the method works very efficiently even for high-lying excited states. We demonstrate that the assumption of a single, well-defined local excitation is, in general, not justified for extended systems, which can lead to root-switching during optimization. In those cases, the method can give important information about the spectral distribution of the orbital transition employed as a guess.
Correcting for dispersion interaction and beyond in density functional theory through force matching133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3503656View Description Hide Description
The force matching method is used to improve density functional theory(DFT) by designing a supplemental potential to capture the difference in atomic forces between a DFT functional and a high-quality post Hartree–Fock method. The supplemental potential has two-body terms designed to correct for dispersion and hydrogen bond interactions. The potential also has one-body terms to improve the description of the intramolecular potential energy surface. Our procedure is tested by providing corrections to the Becke–Lee–Yang–Parr exchange-correlation functional for water and is found to perform significantly better than the standard DFT-D approach, giving QCISD quality predictions for relative clusterenergies, atomic forces, and molecular structures. It is found that a simple Lennard-Jones term does a good job at correcting for van der Waals interactions and possibly also providing corrections to exchange repulsion. The one-body corrections, while contributing only slightly to improving relative clusterenergies, significantly reduce the errors in binding energies and atomic forces for the systems studied.
Molecular core-valence correlation effects involving the post- elements Ga–Rn: Benchmarks and new pseudopotential-based correlation consistent basis sets133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3503659View Description Hide Description
Correlation consistent basis sets that are suitable for the correlation of the outer-core electrons of the post- elements Ga–Rn have been developed. These new sets, denoted by cc-pwCVXZ-PP , are based on the previously reported cc-pVXZ-PP sets that were built in conjunction with accurate small-core relativistic pseudopotentials (PPs) and designed only for valence correlation. These new basis sets have been utilized in benchmark coupled cluster calculations of the core-valence correlation effects on the dissociation energies and spectroscopicproperties of several small molecules. As expected, the most important contribution is the correlation of the electrons. For example, in the case of the group 13 homonuclear diatomics , this leads to a dissociation energy increase compared to a valence-only treatment from 1.5 to 3.2 kcal/mol, bond length shortenings from −0.076 to −0.125 Å, and harmonic frequency increases of . Even in the group 15 cases , the analogous effects of electroncorrelation are certainly not insignificant, the largest values being , −0.049 Å, and for the effects on , , and , respectively. In general, the effects increase in magnitude down a group from to . Correlation of the outer-core electrons is about an order of magnitude less important than but larger than that of the . The effect of additional tight functions for Hartree–Fock and valence correlation was found to be surprisingly large, especially for the post- and post- elements. The pseudopotential results for the molecules containing post- elements are also compared to the analogous all-electron calculations employing the Douglas–Kroll–Hess Hamiltonian. The errors attributed to the PP approximation are found to be very small.
Explicitly correlated coupled-cluster theory using cusp conditions. I. Perturbation analysis of coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CCSD-F12)133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3496372View Description Hide Description
Geminal functions based on Slater-type correlation factors and fixed expansion coefficients, determined by cusp conditions, have in recent years been forwarded as an efficient and numerically stable method for introducing explicit electron correlation into coupled-cluster theory. In this work, we analyze the equations of explicitly correlated coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CCSD-F12) theory and introduce an ordering scheme based on perturbation theory which can be used to characterize and understand the various approximations found in the literature. Numerical results for a test set of 29 molecules support our analysis and give additional insight. In particular, our results help rationalize the success of the CCSD(F12) approximation which is based on a very systematic cancellation of the neglected, otherwise individually large third-order geminal-geminal coupling terms. Further approximations to CCSD(F12) can be introduced without sacrificing the accuracy if the entire set of third-order coupling terms between the conventional doubles cluster amplitudes and the geminal doubles amplitudes is retained, leading to the recently proposed CCSD[F12] and models, which have negligible overhead compared to conventional CCSD calculations. Particularly, the importance of the ring-term type contribution is pointed out which may be used to improve on other existing approximations such as CCSD-F12b. For small basis sets, it might be advantageous to keep certain higher-order terms leading to , which, for the case of the SP ansatz, merely involves a noniterative correction to .
Explicitly correlated coupled-cluster theory using cusp conditions. II. Treatment of connected triple excitations133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3496373View Description Hide Description
The coupled-cluster singles and doubles method augmented with single Slater-type correlation factors (CCSD-F12) determined by the cusp conditions (also denoted as SP ansatz) yields results close to the basis set limit with only small overhead compared to conventional CCSD. Quantitative calculations on many-electron systems, however, require to include the effect of connected triple excitations at least. In this contribution, the recently proposed [A. Köhn, J. Chem. Phys.130, 131101 (2009)] extended SP ansatz and its application to the noniterative triples correction CCSD(T) is reviewed. The approach allows to include explicit correlation into connected triple excitations without introducing additional unknown parameters. The explicit expressions are presented and analyzed, and possible simplifications to arrive at a computationally efficient scheme are suggested. Numerical tests based on an implementation obtained by an automated approach are presented. Using a partial wave expansion for the neon atom, we can show that the proposed ansatz indeed leads to the expected convergence of the noniterative triples correction, where is the maximum angular momentum in the orbital expansion. Further results are reported for a test set of 29 molecules, employing Peterson's F12-optimized basis sets. We find that the customary approach of using the conventional noniterative triples correction on top of a CCSD-F12 calculation leads to significant basis set errors. This, however, is not always directly visible for total CCSD(T) energies due to fortuitous error compensation. The new approach offers a thoroughly explicitly correlated CCSD(T)-F12 method with improved basis set convergence of the triples contributions to both total and relative energies.
Optimum and efficient sampling for variational quantum Monte Carlo133(2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3488651View Description Hide Description
Quantum mechanics for many-body systems may be reduced to the evaluation of integrals in dimensions using Monte Carlo, providing the Quantum Monte Carloab initio methods. Here we limit ourselves to expectation values for trial wave functions, that is to variational quantum Monte Carlo. Almost all previous implementations employ samples distributed as the physical probability density of the trial wave function, and assume the central limit theorem to be valid. In this paper we provide an analysis of random error in estimation and optimization that leads naturally to new sampling strategies with improved computational and statistical properties. A rigorous lower limit to the random error is derived, and an efficient sampling strategy presented that significantly increases computational efficiency. In addition the infinite variance heavy tailed random errors of optimum parameters in conventional methods are replaced with a Normal random error, strengthening the theoretical basis of optimization. The method is applied to a number of first row systems and compared with previously published results.


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Writer-director Zoya Akhtar, who won accolades for her last project "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara", is now busy scripting a family drama.
"I am writing a family drama now. I have not finished the script yet, so it is too premature to talk about it. But all I can say is that it is my kind of family drama," Zoya told IANS.
Her first directorial, "Luck By Chance" in 2009, was about a struggler's rise in Bollywood. The second, "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara", was a light-hearted entertainer on love and friendship.
Daughter of veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar, Zoya says she wants to continue experimenting with different stories.
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As a writer, Zoya has worked on the script of the soon-to-be-released "Talaash", a suspense thriller, a genre she loves.
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Skip to comments.When Putin Met Reagan
Posted on 03/05/2014 5:55:48 PM PST by smoothsailing
Written by Alex Selwyn-Holmes
December 7, 2009
In May 1988, President Ronald Reagan travelled to Moscow for his 4th summit with Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviets prepared a grand welcome; buildings across from the Kremlin were repainted, streets repaved and trees and flowers planted along the boulevards. The president's schedule included attending the Bolshoi Ballet, speaking to students at Moscow's State University and visiting Danilov Monastery, while First Lady would tour Leningrad.
The visit was not without its own share of diplomatic incidents. The First Couple took an unscheduled walk through the Arbat, a Moscow shopping pedestrian street, when security police rushed in and roughed up a throng of onlookers, including children. "It's still a police state," Reagan was heard to say. When the president's advance team asked the Russian Orthodox Church to pave the way to the Danilov Monastery so that the president could arrive in the limousine, a clergyman retorted that "One does not ride to see God. One walks either upon his feet or upon his knees." Because he wore no ID badge, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater was pursued by security personnel on his way to a Kremlin dinner. The president dozed off during the performance at the Bolshoi and Secretary Gorbachev had to wake him with a tap on the shoulder as the curtains were coming down.
The most telling incident was only revealed 20 years later. In the above photo, the man with the camera around his neck standing behind the boy was the current Russian Prime Minister (and former president) Vladimir Putin. He was pretending to be a tourist on his capacity as a KGB agent. On that day, on the Red Square, Gorbachev introduced Reagan to various tourists, who asked the American president pointed questions about subjects such as human rights in the United States. The photographer of this picture, Pete Souza, turned to the Secret Service and commented, "I can't believe these tourists in the Soviet Union are asking these pointed questions." The agent replied, "Oh, these are all KGB families."
Pete Souza is the official chief White House photographer for Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama administrations. The Kremlin, however, had denied that it was Putin.
Pretty amazing, and utterly plausible.
Just as it is utterly implausible that Bill Clinton, as a Rhodes Scholar visiting Moscow during the Cold War, would not have been seduced in a honey trap and recruited.
From that view it doesn't really look like him.
Look again just above. I'm looking for a better profile shot.
Looks like McCauley Caukin after a weekend bender.
I don't know, but that shirt Putin is wearing sure isn't.
That's Putin with a different nose. But then, if Jacko could do it, then why not Putin.
Old KGB trick!
Yet Reagan still exposed the Soviet Union for what it was and brought it to its knees. Funny how everyone misses that, but remembers every other detail.
Excellent point.
I'm not so sure. It's possible, but I think there are some differences.
Another version puts it this way:
"An apparently younger looking Putin is dressed as a tourist in this photo below, taken in 1988 at Red Square. At the time the Reagan administrations relationship with Russia was warming as the US courted the leadership of what nobody would have thought at the time would soon become the former USSR."
Nobody but Reagan, that is.
In the above photo, the man with the camera around his neck standing behind the boy was the current Russian Prime Minister (and former president) Vladimir Putin.
LOL, Putin is the guy with the camera standing behind the kid. Putin was 36 at the time the picture was taken. B^)
That pic was taken in 1988 and the boy looks to be 11 or 12 years old. In 2008 he'd have been 20 years older, 31 or 32. Add another 6 years and that makes him 37 or 38, a lot younger than Putin.
Also, he's not wearing a belt on his trousers. Quite plausible these aren't his regular clothes - KGB went shopping at The Gap and forgot to get belts.
He's got a pen!
(Wonder if O-mama knows...)
I re read the article and apparently it is the man with the camera who is said to be putin.
form the looks him in that photo I cannot make a postivie ID.
LMAO! Yeah, Putin is extremely "Russian" looking. I bet he could find a 100 body doubles just in New York.
A stoic character.
There's a critical vacuum of leadership in the United States.
And a phone! Uh-Oh.
yes...and I cant really tell from that version of the photo.
Well that settles it. He has all it takes to be, um, _resident...
Different person IMO.
You gotta be kidding. That is definitely Ronald Reagan!
the angle ...i.e. perpective of the fae in that photo makes it difficult to tell
the build is about right...the nose....not likely .
if that had been shot with one of todays high resolution cameras it would have made it a lot easier to "read"
Oh yeah? And who is this?
That's my barber!
Putin is (in terms used in Cleveland in my youth) a "Slavic slopehead"
Camera guy has a lot of hair, but his skull looks more vertical. Perspective may vary though...
Even accounting for the pin-cushion distortion effect of the camera, the general aspect of the jaw and chin with respect to the nose makes it very questionable, IMO.
Rod Serling?
Shorter neck on the Putin we know. In the other photo, the head shape seems more elliptical despite the lens distortion.
Nice work at #18!
LOL!!! Nailed!
"but remembers every other detail."
Like Poland and Pope John Paul?
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Björk has always seemed to be a few steps ahead of most musical trends -- so much so that it typically takes a while for her listeners to catch up to her radical shifts in direction and style. But when they do, it often inspires a devotion to her work -- spanning the fringes of pop, electronica, jazz, folk, and more -- that makes any live experience an essential event.
The Icelandic pop chanteuse is set to headline night one of the upcoming Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago on Friday, and many Twin Cities fans are heading down. In celebration of this rare show in the region we take a look back at just a few of the ways that Björk has harnessed modern technology and the music industry itself to share her vibrant artistic vision.
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4. She understood how important remixes would become early on
Björk brought plenty of her experimental tendencies to the Sugarcubes, and those adventurous musical qualities were captured exquisitely in not only the band's studio efforts, but in remixes by electronic musicians and club DJs at the time (Tony Humphries, Justin Robertson, Todd Terry, and Mark Saunders, to name just a few). That limitless, untamed creative spirit continues to inform and influence Björk's innovative music to this day.
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By the time Björk left the Sugarcubes behind to pursue her solo career, she had a imaginative artistic vision in mind for both her sound and her style. She quickly found a creative soulmate in the emerging director Michel Gondry. After Gondry directed a few videos for his French pop group, Oui Oui, Björk and Michel first collaborated on the groundbreaking music video for "Human Behavior," a standout track on Björk's sublime Debut. The enterprising duo have gone on to work together seven more times, with Gondry's brilliant, pioneering videos for "Army of Me," "Hyperballad," "Bachelorette," "Crystalline," and others all helping to shape the interpretation and emotional weight of Björk's songs itself as well as redefine what a music video could (and should) be. While many of her contemporaries were giving up on the legitimacy and increasing costs of music videos, Björk embraced the medium, a prescient move which not only helped enhance her idiosyncratic persona and ingenious musical creativity, but also helped establish Michel Gondry as a avant-garde, experimental filmmaker whose talents continue to amaze us to this very day.
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My 2.5 year old doesn't want me in the room when he goes potty anymore. I wasn't expecting that lol. Anyone else's Marchie doing this?
Btw: we still take showers together and I change his night time diapers in the mornings.
My 2.5 year old doesn't want me in the room when he goes potty anymore. I wasn't expecting that lol. Anyone else's Marchie doing this?
Btw: we still take showers together and I change his night time diapers in the mornings.
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Yes. Sophie's been doing this for months now (she's been potty trained since January). She asks us to leave, and it's when she's going potty and "dirty" (her words). She yells when she's done and one of us checks her and helps her get the soap for her hands.
She's very independent. We have her scrub herself in the bathtub, mostly because she wants to do everything without our help, and we're fine with that, and obviously are there with her to make sure she gets clean.
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Yup! Cruz does this ALL THE TIME! I always ask him if he wants or needs help but he always YELLS at me "No thank you, i do it on my own self"!!! He pulls off his pants, his underwear, climbs up on the toilet, does his business (if he poops he calls me to wipe), climbs down, and runs out with his underwear and pants and asks if he's putting it on the right way!!! Even in the morning, when i take off his night time diaper, he goes to the bathroom on his own, takes off his Pj's, rips off his diaper, does his business, takes his diaper to his bedroom and puts it in the diaper genie then grabs a pair of undies out of his drawer. He is hugely independent now which is great, but when we're in a hurry, man i just want to strangle him ;-) LOL
oh yes and she wants to wipe herself and I have to tell her we dont want no farts stains in our underwear...lol
the other day she had to show me her toilet paper to show me she can wipe and it had poop on it.
and when we are in public restroom I have to stand outside of the door.
I didn't expect it at such an early age either but one of my boys has to have privacy to when he is pooping and the other one could care less who is in there!
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