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I am looking for a parametrized equation (i.e. a class of equations), which has the following properties:
- It has the form of $f(x) = 0$, where $f(x)$ is an increasing or decreasing (i.e. monotone) function
- It has a solution
- It has a single solution
- Boundaries for the solution can be easily calculated from the parameters
- The solution can be obtained easily only by numericalal methods, in particular, binary search.
I need it to set up a problem for a programming contest for first-year students, in which they must find the solution for an equation, given its parameters. The first three requirements make things simpler. The requirement about the boundaries will enable them to set up the boundaries for their binary search (they don't know any more sophisticated numerical methods yet). The last requirement is to ensure that they cannot analytically find a solution, so they will have to use binary search.
If, in addition, the equation makes physical sense, that would be perfect (I could invent a background story for the problem). Hope the question is on topic.


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CSHCN: Conditions and Functional Impact
HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau defines children with special health care needs (CSHCN) as "those who have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally." The 2005–2006 National Survey of CSHCN provides information about the prevalence and impact of special health care needs among children in the United States. Children were considered to have special health care needs if their parents answered "yes" to at least one question in each of three categories. Based on this series of questions, 13.9 percent of children under 18 years of age in the United States, or approximately 10.2 million children, were estimated to have special health care needs. Overall, 21.8 percent of U.S. households with children have at least one CSHCN.
The survey asked parents of CSHCN whether their children had any of a list of 16 conditions (the list was not exhaustive and did not include all conditions that CSHCN might have). Overall, 91 percent of CSHCN were reported to have at least one condition on the list, and 57 percent had two or more conditions. Allergies (53 percent) were the health condition most commonly reported by parents of CSHCN. Other commonly reported conditions were asthma (39 percent), attention deficit disorder (30 percent), and emotional problems (21 percent).
One important aspect of special health care needs is how those needs impact the child. Based on parents' reports, nearly 38 percent of CSHCN were never affected in their ability to do things other children do because of the nature of their health condition or the treatment they receive to manage their conditions. Another 39 percent were moderately affected some of the time. Nearly one quarter (24 percent) are affected usually, always, or a great deal by their conditions.


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Trying to access my Mac from a Windows 7 computer, I fail with the infamous error 86 incorrect password.
Now this appears to be a well-known problem with countless threads on the internet giving as many "solutions" as there are discussion threads about it (mostly ranging from installing third-party commercial samba servers, to switching to some other protocol, to compiling a plain-vanilla Samba installation - the latter which I will probably do when I give up this :) )
I am stubborn, and I believe there must be some problem here that can be solved or worked around, but there is surprisingly little detail about this problem. It appears to have something to do with a mismatch of authentication methods. Trying to run samba in debug mode:
sudo /usr/sbin/smbd -debug -stdout
gets me this output when trying to access it from Win 7
smb1_dispatch_one [smb_dispatch.cpp:377] dispatching SMB_COM_SESSION_SETUP_ANDX
smb1_dispatch_session_setup [session_setup.cpp:261] FIXME erase existing sessions
log_gss_error [gssapi_mechanism.cpp:97] gssapi: gss-code: Miscellaneous failure (see text)
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|The process by which progeny derive a combination of linked genes different from that of either parent. In higher organisms, this can occur by crossing over between their loci during meiosis. Recombination may come about through random orientation of non-homologous chromosome pairs on the meiotic spindles, from crossing-over between homologous chromosomes, from gene conversion, or by other means. See homologous recombination.
|The term coined by Johannsen (1909) for the fundamental physical and functional unit of heredity. The word gene was derived from De Vries' term pangen, itself a derivative of the word pangenesis which Darwin (1868) had coined. A gene is an ordered sequence of nucleotides located in a particular position (locus) on a particular chromosome that encodes a specific functional product (the gene product, i.e. a protein or RNA molecule). It includes regions involved in regulation of expression and regions that code for a specific functional product. See gene expression, allele.
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|The term coined by Morgan and Cattell (1912) for the occurrence of new combinations of linked characters. With the acceptance of the chromosome theory, the term is applied to the breaking during meiosis of one maternal and one paternal chromosome, the exchange of corresponding sections of DNA, and the rejoining of the chromosomes. This process can result in an exchange of alleles between chromosomes and gives rise to new character combinations. Compare recombination.
|The position of a gene on a chromosome or other chromosome markers; also, the DNA at that position. The use of the term locus is sometimes restricted to main regions of DNA that are expressed. Plural: loci. See gene expression.
|The term coined by Farmer and Moore (1905) for the process of two consecutive cell divisions in the diploid progenitors of sex cells. Meiosis results in four rather than two daughter cells (gametes), each with a haploid set of each chromosome pair. In meiosis I the prophase is more complex than that of mitosis. Five different stages can be differentiated: leptotene, zygotene, pachytene, diplotene and diakinesis. Prophase is followed by metaphase I, anaphase I, telophase I and interkinesis. Meiosis II could be described as a haploid mitosis resulting in four haploid gametes.
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|A pair of chromosomes containing the same linear gene sequences, each derived from one parent. Humans normally have 22 pairs of homologous chromosomes and 2 X chromosomes (female) or 1 X and 1 Y chromosome (male). Compare sex chromosomes.
|The term proposed by Winkler (1930) for a process of interaction between alleles at meiosis. The term was re-introduced by Lindegren (1953) to account for aberrant ratios in the products of meiosis, apparently arising from such interaction. Whitehouse and Hastings (1965) have suggested that if gene conversion is due to the correction of mispairing of bases in DNA, it may give rise to reciprocal as well ac nonreciprocal recombination.
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|Substitution of a segment of DNA by another that is identical (homologous) or nearly so. Occurs naturally during meiotic recombination; also used in the laboratory for gene targeting to modify the sequence of a gene. See recombination.
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Stronger UnitedSubmitted by Toque on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 09:31
Stronger United is a think-tank highlighting the benefits and making the positive case for a New United Kingdom, a partnership of equals.
The Case for a New United Kingdom
The sweeping victory of the Scottish Nationalists in the Holyrood elections has put a question mark over the future of the United Kingdom.
In the past speculation of Scottish independence has been met with robust opposition both north and south of the border. However this time a resurgent nationalism and a growing number of people in England who appear to be quite happy for Scotland to go its own way, is seriously threatening the 300 year old Union.
Those in England often reduce the argument to one of cost, but this ignores the fact that Scotland is the one of the wealthiest parts of the United Kingdom outside the South East of England. Furthermore, if we take the cost argument to its logical conclusion, why stop at Hadrian's Wall, why not the Watford Gap?
For many of us who believe in the UK, however, it is about more than economics. There is a deperate need for a New Unionism, a positive narrative to deploy against the separtists on both sides of the debate. The United Kingdom is an historic political union that has brought together the expertise of both countries and at some of the darkest periods in world history.
On the English side of the debate there is a misguided complacency. If the United Kingdom ceases to exist, it does not follow that England would simply take Britain's seat on the UN Security Council. If the UK ceases to exist, Westminster need not waste its time deciding whether or not England should renew its nuclear deterrent: without Scotland there is nowhere to put it. Without Scotland, the British military will be a much diminished force, since around one-third of the British Army's fighting force is Scottish. England without Scotland will count for a lot less in the European Union and NATO. It will also be without North Sea oil and gas. England would be the loser too, in prestige, importance and power.
Scotland without England risks being a diminished state on the margins of Europe, a country of five million trying in vain to be heard in an European Union of over 500 million – losing its seat at the top international tables – from the G8 to the UN. As part of the United Kingdom, Scotland shapes the world. Further, as the banking crisis and the bail out of RBS show there is much in the argument that the nations of the UK are stronger united, stronger to face the challenges of a changed world – together.
We are much stronger together, and if you believe in a United Kingdom please support 'Stronger United' by emailing 'Yes to Britain', and we will add your name to our supporter's database.
Much food for thought there, I think you'll agree. So I urge you all to engage in this initiative. Get involved and make the case for a 'New United Kingdom', a 'partnership of equals' in which each nation enjoys the same degree of autonomy (political and financial) from the United Kingdom.
I notice that from their media page they've linked to David Mitchell's article in the Guardian. What a shame that they haven't also linked to my response on Our Kingdom that challenges them to imagine a New United Kingdom.
Peter Hain: Inferior and Second ClassSubmitted by Toque on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 12:17
"Devolution has strengthened the United Kingdom, not weakened it, as opponents once claimed." - Peter Hain, Better Governance for Wales, June 2005
Asymmetric devolution, by which three nations gained national parliaments to shout for them while a fourth did not, was never going to strengthen the United Kingdom.
So, according to Peter Hain, what are the prospects for our strengthened Union now that the Tories are intent on restoring a semblance of symmetry?
"The implications of this cannot be overestimated. I think it would hobble the Union, and possibly destroy it.
"This is a blatant fix by the English Tories. They know the only hope they have of winning consistently is to separate Wales and Scotland from England.
"The whole principle that underpins the Parliamentary system in the UK is that all MPs have equal status. If Welsh and Scottish MPs were not allowed to vote on matters that superficially seem only to relate to England, that principle would no longer apply and MPs representing seats in Wales and Scotland would have an inferior, second class status.
"If that happened, there would be no question of any MP from Wales or Scotland ever becoming Prime Minister again. There would be no more Lloyd Georges or Jim Callaghans. This wouldn't just affect Labour politicians – if the brightest and best Conservative MP happened to represent a seat in Wales, they would never be acceptable as a leader of their party."
You're already inferior and second class, Peter, it's just that your voting privileges haven't yet been altered to reflect that fact.
Dear David MundellSubmitted by Toque on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 11:58
Dear Mr Mundell,
As an Englishman I do not usually write to foreign politicians, but given your recent outburst I felt that it would be remiss of me not to.
"I have always expressed the view that there is no desire for an English Parliament—and the same two people have always written to me afterwards to say that I am wrong" - David Mundell, House of Commons debates, 22 June 2011
You're wrong, as the polls demonstrate. And might I add that you, as a Scottish politician, might do better to concentrate on keeping your own nation in the Union rather than spreading lies to prevent my nation from achieving the same level of national democracy and representation as yours. An unfair union of nations is a union not worth having: so enjoy that £4.5bn extra you receive while it lasts because you'll lose your seat - and possibly the Union - when the Barnett Formula is scrapped.
English FA backs British teamSubmitted by Toque on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 10:12
The headline says it all: "English FA backs British team".
How pathetic, how humiliating, how very typical. How the entire footballing World must be laughing. Little wonder that they're called "The Football Association" rather than the "The English Football Association".
I stand with the football associations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on this issue, and with any self-respecting England fan, in saying...
Please support No Team GB.
Well said FrankSubmitted by Toque on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 13:43
Just when you thought all politicians were mendacious unprincipled shits, Frank Field speaks:
This is the first time I have wanted to join in a debate on Scottish matters in the House. That is my fault, though, and I assure my hon. Friends that I will not let it happen again—I now wish to pursue Scottish matters whenever they arise. I have been struck today, listening to a Scottish debate for the first time, by how many of us—myself included, perhaps—failed to think through what devolution meant, and now we have almost hit an invisible brick wall past which we cannot get our arguments.
It seemed to me from observing the recent Scottish elections—obviously my sympathies lay with the party I have the honour to represent in Parliament—even from the language used by English politicians contributing to the Scottish debate that we had not thought through what the limited measure of devolution would mean. We got a pretty good hiding for our trouble on that score. I plead with the Labour Front-Bench team—this is meant as an encouragement, because I know that, as part of our policy review, they are thinking through what should necessarily follow from a defeat on the scale of the one we suffered at the last general election—not to go into the next general election without seriously thinking about the consequences of devolution, not just for Scotland but for the other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly England, where my seat is situated.
I have also been struck by the fact that although people try to mystify us by using various formulas and by saying, "What was given with one hand is taken by another", I cannot answer, in the light of this debate and the work I have done, the charge put to me by a constituent of mine during the half-term break, when I visited the Scottish Parliament, which is a magnificent building—the extraordinary scale of the domestic architecture was incredibly grand. A constituent of mine greeted me as I went in and asked, "Why is it, Frank, that if I lived in Scotland, I would have free medicines, free long-term care and my children would go to university without paying the fees they pay in England?" Despite all the talk about grants and how we might review them, there is no reply yet to our English constituents on those points. If the explanation is not an unfair distribution of Exchequer grants, I want to know what we have in England that Scotland does not have that might pay for those extraordinary benefits.
He doesn't stop there, read the rest here.
Conservative u-turns are all the rageSubmitted by Toque on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 11:49
The Guardian has questioned David Davis over his stance on an English Parliament.
Q: On the blog that I posted inviting readers to suggest questions, some people asked about an English parliament. Someone who may be a constituent of yours [tyke1] said that you made a speech in favour of one in 1997, but that you haven't spoken about it since.
A: He's quite right. I did make a speech in 1997, and dear old William Hague has probably never forgiven me for it because it took over the Tory conference that year, virtually.
What I was saying at the time is that we were going through all this process of creating Scottish and Welsh autonomy, the Irish have their level of autonomy, and the people forgotten in all this are the English.
There is a real serious issue when you have got ministers – the home secretary, for example – in charge of policing in England whose actions do not have any impact in his own constituency. For example, retaining DNA. When John Reid was home secretary, this was done to English people, but not to Scots people. So I think there's a quirk there.
Q: Do you still think there's a case for an English parliament?
A: I'm moderately comfortable. This is a very difficult constitutional area because of the problems of federalism in a state when you've got a huge state and a number of smaller states. What happened immediately after that speech, and largely as a result of that speech, was a Tory policy on English votes, English votes for English business.
Q: Which has now disappeared into the long grass ... [The government is setting up a commission on the West Lothian question later this year]
A: I would certainly try that first. I'm not a radical when it comes to constitutional reform, with one exception. Generally I'm an incrementalist because it's so easy to get it wrong and get unintended consequences.
It's quite some way from his principled and unequivocable stance in 2001.
The people of England deserve no less than the same choice as the peoples of Wales and Scotland last September: a referendum on whether they want a parliament of their own. In their own words, Labour should trust the people - in this case the people of England. An English parliament, on the same basis as the Scottish one, will be the minimum that the English people are likely to be satisfied with.
Which is why people don't like or trust politicians.
Stiff Upper LipSubmitted by Toque on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 09:06
Question: what defines "Englishness"? A nice cuppa tea? Royal Ascot? Henley Regatta? Fish 'n' chips?
A thousand examples spring to mind, but a listener came up with the ultimate story that separates this island race from Johnny Foreigner.
Some years ago, the great English cricket captain Ted Dexter was interviewed on a gantry at Lord's during a break in play, caused by a thunderstorm cracking overhead.
Ted was holding a black umbrella which was touching the steel roof above. Peter West, of blessed memory, asked: "What do you make of the game, Ted?"
Ted was strangely stiff and made no reply. Then, after a moment, he said: "I must apologise, Peter, but I've just been struck by lightning."
Tell me they're still making them like that.
I think that Shearer, Owen or Rooney, in such circumstances, would throw themselves to the ground screaming and keep writhing in agony until they were absolutely sure that everyone had seen them.
Unionist Politics from the Last DitchSubmitted by Toque on Fri, 06/17/2011 - 08:51
Oh dear. Jacob Rees-Mogg MP has tabeled an amendment to the Scotland Bill which would mean that there must be a referendum on Scottish independence before the Scotland Bill can come into force, thereby forcing the Scottish people to choose between the inadequate and flawed Calman proposals or independence.
Britishness: A cultural imperialism in practice, by Peter BottomleySubmitted by Toque on Thu, 06/16/2011 - 11:38
Peter Bottomley MP on
Englishness Britishness.
Dorothy Sayers, in her book "Unpopular Opinions", distinguishes between the English—by which she meant the British—and, say, the French by saying that whereas they believe in equality, we believe in fairness.
I'm not so sure about that, Peter. Dorothy Sayers seemed well able to distinguish between the English and other nations.
A direct result of the mongrel nature of the English, and a thing very noticeable about them, is that they have never in their lives been what the Germans still are, that is, a Volk. From the first beginnings of their Englishry they have been, not a race, but a nation. The comparative absence of folk-music and folk-customs from England is remarkable, compared with their energetic survival in, say, the Highlands of Scotland; and the English have never had a folk-costume at all. The thing that ties them together is not a consciousness of common blood so much as a common law, a common culture and a very long memory of national consciousness. The law, generally speaking, is Saxon; the culture, generally speaking, is continental.
Dorothy Sayers, Unpopular Opinions.
It is well, then, to know what we mean and to learn how to say it in English. And by English I mean English, not any other tongue. In a day when the British Broadcasting Corporation imports its language committee from Ireland and Scotland, and when Fleet Street swarms with Scots, Irish and Americans, it is well to remember that all these persons are foreigners; that the Scots and the Irish were so from the beginning and that the Americans have become so; that they speak our language as foreigners; and that while it is childlike and charming in us to enjoy their sing-song speech and their quaint foreign barbarisms, to imitate these things is childishness and folly. It is true that a language thrives by piracy: it will do us no harm to adopt a striking word of slang or a vivid turn of expression. We must not, however, give our pure gold for cowrie-shells or abandon our beautiful and useful grammatical tools because these barbarians do not know how to handle them.
Dorothy Sayers, Unpopular Opinions
Michael Forsyth on the Barnett FormulaSubmitted by Toque on Thu, 06/16/2011 - 11:11
It's a rare day that I agree entirely with Michael Forsyth, but I can't see much wrong with this statement:
My Lords, I believe that we are heading for a real constitutional crisis. The Scotland Bill, which is still in the other place and heading for this Chamber, introduces powers for a separate rate of Scottish income tax. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Barnett, on securing this debate, and the Select Committee on which I sat.
As the noble Lord pointed out, the effect of the Barnett formula has been to give Scotland much more than it would have received on a needs basis. The needs basis is firmly established because it is the basis on which the Scottish Parliament distributes money to health authorities and local authorities. There is no magic about this. Professor David Bell of Stirling University has done some work on the size of that amount. Scotland gets around £4.5 billion extra. You cannot change that overnight. It would need to be phased in over a period of years, as the Select Committee indicated.
We need to get on with this. It is the height of stupidity to give a Parliament the power to set income tax rates, but at the same time not deal with the basis on which the baseline funding is achieved. Baseline funding would alter according to policy decisions taken in Westminster rather than in Scotland. That would create opportunities for conflict. Trying to raise £4.5 billion as a Scottish income tax would involve doubling the basic rate of income tax after you allowed for a loss of yield. It is a huge sum of money.
It is therefore imperative that we have a stable, well established basis on which the Scottish Parliament is funded. It should not be open to criticism, and must be seen to be fair to the rest of the United Kingdom for this policy to work. Otherwise, if the Government down here change their policy on health, education or law and order, that will in turn result in a change to the revenue gain to the Scottish Parliament. We now have-contrary to what we were assured would not happen when we had devolution-a nationalist Administration determined to break up the United Kingdom, which will use this as an issue. The noble Lord is right; we cannot have the Treasury deciding how the formula is created; we need to have an independent commission along the lines of the Australian system, which phases its results over a period of time.
I find it extraordinary that the present Government, whom I support, and the previous Government have both taken the same line in saying that it is too difficult to tackle this issue. It should never be too difficult to do what is necessary to maintain the unity of the United Kingdom and to end the resentment which has been created on both sides of the border because of these anomalies. This marriage that was created, the union between Scotland and England, is the most successful the world has ever seen. It is being put under strain because of a failure to address the policy consequences of constitutional change. Parliaments are about raising resources and voting means of supply. It is essential that this is addressed in the Scotland Bill before it has completed its passage through Parliament.
Except, of course, that there should be no phasing in of changes. Any new formula designed to eliminate unfairness should be introduced immediately, irrespective of the consequences for any part of the UK that has been for years over-funded. After all, we "must be seen to be fair to the rest of the United Kingdom".


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DEKALB, Ill. - The Northern Illinois University softball team will face Northwestern and UIC in a pair of midweek games this week.
The Huskies (13-25, 3-7) travel to Northwestern Tuesday and plays host to UIC Wednesday at Mary M. Bell Field. First pitch for Tuesday's game is set for 4 p.m., while Wednesday's game begins at 5 p.m. Both times are Central. Fans can follow all the action live via Gametracker on NIUHuskies.com.
"We're competing to be one of the best teams in Illinois," said NIU head coach Christina Sutcliffe. "Hopefully we can ride this past weekend's success into Northwestern. They're having a great year. It's always a challenge."
Northern Illinois enters play this week looking to build on a series sweep of conference foe Eastern Michigan over the weekend. NIU came from behind in both games, winning Saturday, 6-3, and posting an 8-7 walk-off win Sunday.
Erika Oswald led the way for the Huskies in their weekend games with Eastern and Central Michigan batting .545 in four games for the Huskies this week, well above her season batting average of .260. Oswald went 6-for-11 on the week, including a double and a home run, driving in five runs and scoring five. She also tallied two stolen bases on the week.
The Glenview, Ill. native played a key role in NIU's 6-3 victory over Eastern Michigan to snap an eight-game losing streak. She gave NIU a 4-3 lead on a two-RBI single. She went 1-for-2 with a walk, two RBIs and two runs scored in the Huskies first win of the Eagles series. Oswald went 3-for-3 with two RBIs and a run scored in the Huskies' 8-7 win over Eastern Michigan in the series finale.
"The amount of fight we showed this weekend shows we can be down but never out," Sutcliffe said. "We're going to continue to push no matter how our season is going and we're going to fight to the end."


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Author: angel of blood
Date: Jan 18, 10 at 10:17pm (PST)
Subject: hardest boss
except for leveanthan in armaggedon, who do you think is the hardest boss. i'd have to say the beast of darkova.
Author: Star112
Date: Jan 31, 10 at 8:56pm (PST)
Subject: re: hardest boss
I think it depends on what character you use, but I would say the hardest boss is belial and beldor (playing as velvet), I had a hard time defeating that boss lol.
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Scottie Football Camp Signals Season Is Near
July 9, 2014 | Volume 101 / Number 28
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Tuff Harris (center) gives instruction to Scottie football players on how to read the body language and properly defend a wide receiver during a game.
With the first day of fall sports practice just over a month away, Glasgow head football coach Greg Liebelt and others conducted the Scottie Football Camp to help players improve their fundamentals and prepare for the new season.
"I was very pleased with the turnout of kids and their eagerness and effort to learn and improve," said Liebelt.
The camp saw 45 athletes and 18 coaches and volunteers take part in the three-day camp.
The player to coach ratio allowed for a lot more of individual coaching and smaller group sizes. The camp also brought in Tuff Harris on the final day to assist in t...
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As the central ritual of this ceremony, the mother tosses a sweet-smelling flower into a body of running water. Tossing the flower in the water was, for me, my final breaking with nursing. It was as if I tossed my milk into the stream, and then I could move on.
Within the ceremony, I suggest a place where a husband or partner may be formally included. For myself, I chose to perform the ceremony with two women friends, one of whom was marking the weaning of her own child. We invited neither husbands nor children. We performed the ceremony on the bridge where, on Rosh Hashanah, we perform tashlich, and afterwards we celebrated with apricots and cupcakes.
I wrote the ceremony in Hebrew, but I provide translations and I think it works well in either language. This version contains only transliterations. For the full Hebrew text, please download the PDF version.
The ceremony
A poem (for the mother to recite):
[Child's name], my sweet boy/my sweet girl,
My breasts are filled with milk
And several days yet they will be full.
I will carry the weight that you will not drink.
My sweet child,
My heart is filled with love
And it will always be full.
I will carry the weight.
You will not see it
But from it you will grow.
For a boy:
[Ploni] sheli, yeled matok sheli
Shadai m'layim khalav
v'od kamah yamim y'hiyu m'layim
Ani akhzik et hakhvaydut
she'atah lo tishteh
yeled sheli,
libi malay ahavah
ul'olam y'hiyeh malay
ani akhzik et hakhvaydut
atah lo takir otah
akh mimenah tigdal
For a girl:
[plonit] sheli, yaldah m'tukah sheli
Shadai m'layim khalav
v'od kamah yamim y'hiyu m'layim
Ani akhzik et hakhvaydut
she'at lo tishti
yaldah sheli,
libi malay ahavah
ul'olam y'hiyeh malay
ani akhzik et hakhvaydut
at lo takiri otah
akh mimenah tigd'li
A verse (for the mother's partner or a friend to recite) Isaiah 66:13:
As a man's mother comforts him, so God will comfort you and in Jerusalem you will be comforted.
K'ish asher imo t'nakhamenu kayn anokhi anakhemkhem uviyrushalayim t'nukhamu
The mother recites the traditional blessing for sweet-smelling plants:
Blessed are You, our God, Sovereign of the world, who creates fragrant plants.
Barukh Atah Adona-i E-lohaynu Melekh ha'olam, Boray isvay b'samim.
After reciting the blessing, the mother smells a flower, then tosses the flower into a body of running water. She or a friend recites the following prayers:
Blessed are You, God, well spring of life. You created the land and the seas. In ancient times You fashioned man, and you fashioned Eve, mother of all life. You commanded: Be fruitful and multiply and fill the land. Blessed are You, Creator of Adam and Eve.
Brukhah at Y-ah, ayn hakhayim. At barat et ha'aretz v'et hayamim. At ya'tsart et ha'adam v'et Khavah aym kol khai, v'tsivit p'ru urvu umilu et ha'aretz. Bruchah at, yotseret Adam v'Khavah.
You protect the fetus in the womb, and You bring him out amidst birth blood and breathe in his nostrils the soul of life. You protect the newborn from harm and disease. You nurture her from her mother's milk, and You protect the mother and the father. Blessed are You, God, who protects the newborn and her parents.
At shomeret ubar b'rekhem umotsiyato b'tokh d'may laydah v'nofakhat b'apav nishmat khayim. At shomeret et harakh minega umakhalah, v'at mashkah oto maykhalav imo v'at shomeret et ha'aym v'et ha'av. B'rukhah at Y-ah, shomeret et harakh v'et horav.
A verse (for the mother's partner or a friend to recite) Genesis 21:8:
And the boy grew and he was weaned and Abraham made a big party on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Vayigdal hayeled vayigamal vaya'as Avraham mishteh gadol b'yom higamayl et Yitskhak.
A rabbi or friend offers the mother the following blessing, a variation on the mishebayrakh traditionally recited for a birth. The mother should make a silent promise to give some amount to charity.
The one who blessed our mothers Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah, will bless [mother's name] and her son/daughter who is weaned, [child's name], because the mother will give to charity. For this may she merit to raise him/her to Torah, khupah and good deeds. And let us say Amen.
Mi she'bayrakh imotaynu Sarah, Rivkah, Rakhel v'Layah, hu y'varaykh et [plonit] v'et b'nah/bitah hanigmal/nigmelet [ploni], b'avur shenoderet ts'dakah. B'skhar zeh tigd'lo/tigd'lah l'torah, l'khupah ul'ma'asim tovim. V'nomar Amen.
Mazel Tov!
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Gardens of the Moon
- In Gardens of the Moon when the freed Jaghut tyrant is trapped inside Kruppe's dream and despite his immense power can't do anything about this, he asks "What kind of game is it?". Answer: "Why, of course, Kruppe's game." is awesome.
- Before that Raest, the Jaghut tyrant in question, fights against five dragons on his way to the city of Darujistan, including an Elder Dragon. The battle is interrupted by Kruppe, though it's clear Raest would have won regardless.
- Ganoes Paran summoning, manhandling, then using a freaking God as bait to free two Hounds of Shadow from within Anomander Rake's sword. Doubly awesome since said God had been using him as a pawn throughout the book.
- Anomander Rake not fighting the Jaghut tyrant was very much a letdown, considering how much their confrontation had been built up. His subsequent curb stomping of a greater demon during the citywide battle at the end of the book almost made up for it.
Deadhouse Gates
- Roach, just Roach. This is the pampered Noble LAP DOG first seen in Dead House gates that not only survived Coltaine's march and became the Alpha dog of the starving mutts on said march, but the little rat JUST WON'T DIE.
- The demon Apt rescuing 1,300 crucified Malazan children in the space of a single night without anyone noticing they were gone until morning. Okay, so Shadowthrone plans to turn them all into Tyke Bombs, but still...
- Coltaine's shepherding of 30,000 Malazan refugees across the Holy Desert Raraku is one long string of CMOA's for everyone involved. However, one particular example springs to mind.
- The refugee's path is blocked by a river and an enemy army is closing in on them swiftly from behind. Eventually they find a place to ford it but the water is so deep it'll slow them down enough for the enemy to catch up. In addition, another enemy army is approaching on the other side of the river to cut them off. What do Coltaine's sappers do? They build an underwater road, allowing the refugees to pass over quickly enough to escape certain death.
- And when the enemy army tries to cross over after them, it turns out the sappers rigged the road with explosives. Cue massive explosion destroying a large amount of enemy fighters.
- One of the most badass lines in the series comes in the first chapter. When Fiddler, Kalam, Crokus and Apsalar are crossing the Kansu Sea, they run into a Soletaken dhenrabi...
- Soletaken: Another fishing boat lost at sea. Alas.*Fiddler blows it up with a cusser*Fiddler: You picked the wrong fisherman.
Memories of Ice
- The opening of the book. Three gods show up to curse Kallor, for being the kind of monster who destroyed an entire continent. And what does our all-too human psychopath do? He curses them back. And it works! And that's following his survival of a continent catching on fire. Why did it catch on fire? Because he was so evil his people summoned a foreign god and dropped it on the continent in an attempt to kill him. They ended up killing everyone but him. Kallor is a monster, there's no doubt about that, but damn.
- Gruntle ascending to the position of Trake's Mortal Sword, gathering together a ramshackle militia, then proceeding to absolutely serve the elite Pannion infantry invading Capustan. When forced to retreat into a nearby building, they kill so many invaders whilst retreating floor-by-floor that from the outside it looks as if the building itself is bleeding.
- To put in proper perspective, Trake's Legion kills so many Pannion soldiers that the building is approaching collapse because the bodies are starting to bloat and the pressure from them is weakening the brickwork.
- The siege of Coral. Pannion's soldiers, Bridgeburners, undead K'chain Che'malle, Lady Envy and her Seguleh, Tiste Andii and their awesome flying fortress, The First Sword of Imass, Shield Anvil Itkovian... Probably the most awesome chapters of the entire series.
- One of the greatest moments was the revelation of where Anomander Rake had hidden Moon's Spawn, his flying fortress. When the battle seems lost, the massive basalt construction rises out of the sea, then crushes the Pannion Seer's keep by literally bulldozing its way through Coral.
- The death of Itkovian deserves mention as well. Moment of Awesome and Tear Jerker combined.
"You are in pain. I will embrace you."
- Quick Ben breaking into Korbal Broach and Bauchelain's estate and sharing a cup of tea with the latter. Despite the encounter quickly turning hostile, common courtesy stays present the whole time. The snappy dialogue stands as one of the most entertaining yet kick-ass exchanges in the series.
Bauchelain: I find myself appreciating your company, Quick Ben. I am not easily entertained, but you have indeed proved a worthy diversion this night, and for that I thank you.Quick: You're quite welcome.Bauchelain: My companion, Korbal Broach, alas, would like to kill you.Quick: Can't please everyone.
House of Chains
- Karsa Orlong (a giant Boisterous Bruiser/ Blood Knight) beats a Hound of Darkness (bear-sized Hounds that were the precursors to the Hounds of Shadow) to death with his bare-hands. He then chases a second one down and attacks and kills the other one, getting mad when Leoman of the Flails helps kill the Hound. For reference, two Hounds of Darkness were able to easily fight off and possibly kill five demons capable of killing hundreds of humans in a matter of minutes.
- Karsa gets a second one for his Pay Evil unto Evil moment against Bidithal, one of the series' rare utter villains, and the incredibly karmic way in which he does so. This effectively solidifies Karsa's transition from a Villain Protagonist to an Anti-Villain/dark Anti-Hero. Hood follows this up with one of his own, thanks to what he does to Bidithal after his death.
Midnight Tides
- Towards the end, when the Edur have mostly won, their emperor meets the king's magician:
- The Edur in the centre of the row spoke. 'Ceda Kuru Qan. The kingdom you serve has fallen. Step aside. The emperor wishes to claim his throne.''Fallen?' The Ceda's voice was thin in comparison, almost quavering. 'Relevant? Not in the least.'
- Numerous earlier actions of the Ceda are also impressive, including but not limited to when we meet him for the first time and he works out who Brys has been talking to and what about with no prior knowledge the conversation using only his sense of smell, to the moment when the (kind of) Emperor of Lether himself is forced to step round him during a regal procession on pain of being blasted to ashes.
- Brys vs. Rhulad. Seriously, it wasn't sword duel - it was surgical operation.
- The Last Dance at the climax in which Iron Bars faces off against five Toblakai gods in a fight strangely reminiscent of a Hong Kong kung fu movie.
- The very end of the book, where Bugg, shown to be Mael, god of the Sea, stomps up the beach, breaks apart the Crippled God's moody tent, and drags him out into the sun, beating him like a railroad guard bucking a hobo.
The Bonehunters
- Kalam, Tavore and T'amber fighting their way out of the Malaz City with SIX HUNDRED Claws on their tail the whole time. Probably some of the best fight scenes Erikson has ever written. And Kalam and Tavore survive.
Toll the Hounds
- The two duels at the climax of Toll the Hounds. Annomander Rake vs Dassem Ultor is awesome enough although diluted somewhat by Rake letting himself lose, but the truly impressive match is the sideshow: Kallor vs Spinnock Durav, one of Rake's Tiste Andii. Rake has ordered Durav to prevent Kallor from entering the city no matter what the cost, and Durav, with nothing but his stubborness and sense of obligation to his master manages to hold Kallor back for an entire night, despite getting cut to pieces in the process. He doesn't even manage to scratch Kallor, yet his sheer determination is awe-inspiring. Kallor himself gets his shortly afterwards, when Orfantal, a freakin' dragon, swoops in and carries him off in revenge for the death of his sister's lover. Kallor's response? He stabs Orfantal in the head, causing them both to crash. And survives. That chain of events alone made Toll the Hounds worth buying for me.
- A third duel in the book included Spite dropping a gargantuan ball of lava onto Envy's dwelling.
- Rake sacrificing himself to force his mother, an Elder God, to stop ignoring her people, and in the process also saves the entire world. At the same time he asks his mortal enemy for forgiveness for trapping him in his sword for thousands of years:
- "'You ask my forgiveness? When you unravel what I have done, what I did so long ago? When you heal what I wounded, when you mend what I broke?' He raised his voice to a shout. 'Rake! There is no forgiveness you must seek - not from me, gods below, not from any of us'"
The Crippled God
- Hood showing up out of nowhere and taking a bite out of a Forkrul Assail's face.
- Black humour from the Malazans:
- "Who are we fighting for again?""Everyone.""No wonder we're losing."
- Fener's death, resulting in a blood rain over the fighting Kolansii, Bonehunters, undead Jaghut, T'lan Imass, Forkrul Assail, k'chain Che'malle, etc.
- Hood killing Sister Reverence by smashing her around like the Hulk with Loki


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I woke up this morning feeling so FRUSTRATED..........! My mind kept going back to yesterday (Christmas day). I kept thinking about the people in my life who gave me a "HAVE TO" Christmas present. My sister for example gave me used torn yard sale stuff. You might say well that is all that she can afford. Well I do know better as I use to be her money manager as she wanted me to do that until she got married. I do know that she can afford a nice inexpensive gift. Something that comes from her heart and not from a big price tag. So when I thought about this it hurt me to think she did this. So in my morning chat with God I told him how I felt about this. I also told him that I was not in a good head space. That I just wanted to eat junk, not do the right things today but I needed his help not to do this. I had plans after my chat with God, to have breakfast and then to use my treadmill. So after I ate my pancake with peanut butter and applesauce I keep thinking about how much I did not want to get on my treadmill. I just could not make myself do that. I kept looking out the window. We have snow and I just wanted to go for a nice long walk. I did not want to slip and fall down either. Then I remembered how Dennis just puts on his warm clothes and goes walking anyway. I thought "why can't I do that........"! So I got ready and went for that nice long walk. It felt good to be out in God's amazing creation walking. I had asked God to keep me safe as I walked. So I knew He would do that for me. As I walked along I knew that I needed to do what I call "Date myself". I know it's important to be my own best friend. I knew that today I needed to have a date with myself. To do something positive for me. So as I walked along I thought about going up to Big R and look at clothes. So after I met with my job counselor I headed up to Big R. When I got there I looked at clothes. I tried on a pair of jeans that fit so nice. I still can't imagine I wear a size 1. I also tried on a cool forest green blouse. I loved the blouse the moment I put it on. I also knew I had to be realistic about my income so I knew I could not buy the jeans. I just could not afford 40 bucks for a pair. So I bought the blouse with a cool pair of earrings and left the store and headed on home. I knew this was what I needed to do for me. As I walked on home I felt a little better about my day so far. I got a phone call from my friend Geri. It was nice that she was checking in on me. I told her I was so thankful that she included me in her Christmas meal. When I got home I saw a missed call from Dennis so I called him. He was checking in with me. I was able to tell him about my today. He's such a good friend and listener. He told me that is what friends are for someone to vent your frustrations to. He was glad to hear that I had bought myself something special as he has told me before that it is important to take care of yourself...to love yourself and to treat yourself with the respect you deserve. He was just the phone call that I needed at that moment. I do know that today has been a challenging day. But it also has been a good day. God took care of me. I had 2 friends call and check up on me. I also got my cardio workout in inspite of not wanting to be on my treadmill. And I had a good date with myself. All in all a good day...........just depends on how you look at things. I just choose to turn the negative into a postive.
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The citation is for interference, a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment up to a year and a fine up to $1,000.
"Subject admitted to making a controversial post on UW Crushes webpage and then lied about not doing it," according to the citation.
She is scheduled to appear at 9 a.m. May 13 in Circuit Court.
The post was made to the UW Crushes page April 24 on Facebook and described Lanker-Simons as "that chick that runs her liberal mouth all the time and doesn't care who knows it."
The post also referenced a graphic, sexual act against Lanker-Simons.
"One night with me and shes gonna be a good Republican (expletive)," the post read.
The post created a stir on social media and at the university, with school officials issuing statements denouncing the post against Lanker-Simons and campus police opening an investigation.
Lanker-Simons could not be reached for comment.
UW released a statement Tuesday afternoon regarding the citation.
"This episode has sparked an important discussion reaffirming that the UW community has no tolerance for sexual violence or violence of any type," UW spokesman Chad Baldwin said. "The fact that the Facebook post apparently was a fabrication does not change the necessity for continued vigilance in reassuring that we have a campus where everyone feels safe.
via UW Police: Facebook post was a hoax — UPDATED – Laramie Boomerang Online.
I will not make snide remarks about her weight, like I have seen on twitter about her. As I am quite the hefty man myself. Those of you who have, will rot in the devil's hell, I assure you of that. 😡 I just do not understand what this stupid woman was trying to accomplish. I mean, did she not know that the police would have the ability to see who posted that? Has this brain-dead feminist-Nazi ever heard of IP addresses before? I mean, to call this dumb broad anything remotely related to Nazism is an insult to Adolf Hitler himself! 😯 I mean, Adolf might have been evil, but at least he was not this stupid! 😛
You know, I have always believed that this new generation of kids coming up today, lack a good deal of common sense. This here, proves that well beyond reasonable doubt. I am 40 years old by the way, going on 41 in June; I can say stuff like that — you're welcome.
- Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: The Dreaded Wyoming GOP Facebook 'Hatef-k' Rapist Has Been Apprehended
- Katherine Timpf / Campus Reform the #1 Source …: Police say liberal student activist threatened herself with rape in Facebook hoax, framed conservatives
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Fed Hopes Spur Stock Rally
The whole "bad news is good news" mantra is back in the market.
This morning's round of economic data was less than inspiring, yet stocks are charging ahead, with the Dow up more than 100 points. What gives?
For one, hopes surrounding the upcoming Greek elections are helping matters. Additionally, traders say poor domestic economic reports are spurring more calls for the Federal Reserve to keep stimulating the economy.
"The only reason you could possibly be trading higher, based off of the morning economic data, is the odds of [further stimulus]," Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at New York brokerage BTIG, told WSJ's Matt Jarzemsky. "There's nothing in the morning data that's 'good.'"
Jobless claims rose again last week, and are edging closer to the key 400,000, typically considered the dividing line between job gains and losses.
Worries about slowing growth and troubles in Europe haven't prompted companies to ramp up hiring at a significant pace. Claims have been trending up since early May, and the government has reported three consecutive months of weak job growth.
And as this morning's report on consumer prices showed, inflation still remains modest, which gives the Fed more room to make a move.
Credit Suisse says the Fed is likely to extend "Operation Twist" next week when it convenes at its Fed meeting. Our colleague Min Zeng has the details:
Economists at Credit Suisse place 80% odds on the Fed taking fresh easing measures next week, with 60% odds of an extension of Operation Twist. They expect $50 billion to $300 billion per month through year-end by selling short-term Treasurys up to and including part of the four-year maturity sector. The proceeds will be used to buy $100 billion in longer-dated Treasurys and $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities. The economists say Fed officials probably will choose to lean against the downside risks to economic activity that have been intensifying since the April meeting. Taking note that the FOMC meeting will come after the Greek elections, they say that unless the elections lead to a severe disruption in the markets, the economists' base case on the Fed calls will hold.
The Dow is up 123 points, or 1%, at 12620. The S&P 500 rises 0.9% and the Nasdaq Comp moves 0.7% higher.


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Seth Rogen
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
"I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on Saturday Night Live, and I remember thinking, man, that guy is the funniest guy ever."
- Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen is best-known as the stoned process server/hero of Pineapple Express (2007) and the slacker, father-to-be in Knocked Up(2008). He was also one of Steve Carell's smartass pals in The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005).
Off-screen, Seth Rogen really is a regular guy who just happens to be very funny. Despite his fame, he still hangs out with his old pals, like his Vancouver-born writing partner Evan Goldberg. He's also far from a washout when it comes to dating in his personal life. He's maintained a steady relationship with his current squeeze, girlfriend Lauren Miller.
Not just an actor, Seth Rogen has established himself as a screenwriter too. He's served as a cowriter on TV shows like Da Ali G Show and movies such as Pineapple Express, Superbad (2007) and the Owen Wilson comedy Drillbit Taylor (2008).
Seth Rogen BiographySeth Rogen was born on April 15, 1982, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He developed an early interest in comedy, particularly that of the stand-up variety, and started performing professionally at 13. His first live show was a gig at a Vancouver lesbian bar. Three years later, Seth Rogen was the runner-up at a city-wide comedy competition and, after dropping out of high school, he went to L.A. to pursue a comedy career.
Seth Rogen continued doing stand-up in L.A., but in 1999, he got his first break as Ken Miller, one of the Chippewa Valley High School "freaks" on the TV series Freaks and Geeks. The show only lasted for 18 episodes, but it gained a cult following and Seth Rogen teamed up with the show's producer, Judd Apatow, for 2001's Undeclared, another short-lived TV series, this time set in college. Although his TV experience lacked longevity, Seth Rogen had found a valuable ally in Judd Apatow and even got his feet wet as a writer by penning some episodes of Undeclared.
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Sept. 25, 1999
Washington Head Coach Rick Neuheisel:
GENERAL REMARKS: "This obviously is an emotional time. Given the state of what has taken place over the past several months. It was more difficult than I had imagined to be on the field with all those kids who I'd been in their living rooms with. Yet, once the competitive thing got stated, it was a joy to watch the University of Washington players, who were kind of obscured through all this, responded to the challenge and just wouldn't give up even though it got a little dicey.
"There was a lot going through my mind but the ultimate thing here is that it was a good day for college football in that two programs that now both have 600 wins, two programs that I am in an absolutely perfect position to tell you have a bunch of great young people, not just football players, but young people in their programs and they went out there and laid it on the line and did great things at the benefit of all the people to enjoy. I just happened to be a guy with a good seat.
"I want to say best of wishes to Colorado who played a hard fought game. I thought Moschetti was very courageous. It was obvious he was about half speed out there. That's not a kid who's healthy, he doesn't through like that on a normal day. He is a competitive son-of-a-gun, as is their entire team. It was nice to, legally, be able to say good luck to him and I wish him well.
"This is hopefully a turning point in our program, it is far from a finished product, we have lots of things to improve on. Who knows how we'll do in the Pac-10 conference but I promise you this, with this win and feeling good about ourselves, maybe for the first time in a long time, we have a chance, if we're smart, efficient and coach with that urgency that we try to set out to coach with. We can get ourselves off and make, hopefully, a little dent in the Pac-10 Conference. Someone's got to win it, it might as well be the Dawgs."
ON THE POST-GAME INTERACTION WITH COLORADO PLAYERS: "I didn't know what to expect and that was the one thing I was bracing myself for. When you spend as much time as I do with kids, you get attached. It's emotional and if you haven't been in that situation then you ought to try it because it really is a neat thing to have that kind of feeling towards people. I didn't know exactly how it would shake out after, I didn't know if there would be bitterness or how it would go, I just made up my mind I'd be able to handle it whatever came. It was very nice and very rewarding to spend time like that with those kids because they mean a lot to me."
ON THE POST-GAME EMBRACE WITH COLORADO'S BEN KELLY: "Ben Kelly and I are extremely close. Ben Kelly is a guy who came over to my house on more than one occasion when I was the head coach at Colorado. Ben Kelly is a guy that I made the determination, along with Bobby Hauck, that we were going to take when the only other school that was recruiting him was Eastern Michigan. Ben Kelly was a guy who had to mature and to go through a lot of things as a freshman and is going to graduate at the end of this year with a double major. He is a true success story about what intercollegiate athletics are all about, not to mention that he is impossible to tackle."
ON RUNNING THE BALL MORE TODAY: "We're trying to establish our identity as an offense. We tried in the first to weeks as well but as we're starting to evolve and get some game footage of ourselves we're trying to get to a place were we can be consistent and marry that philosophy with how we're going to play on defense. I thought our offensive coaches did a great job today, managing the game and didn't loose patience when all of a sudden a couple of turnovers happened and things got a little dicey."
ON THE HARRIS TOUCHDOWN CATCH: "I was certainly a big play. It was actually a play we had schemed for BYU and never get to it and really didn't practice it this week but Steve Axman talking to some of the skill players on offense at halftime said 'this might be there'."
ON THE ATTITUDE OF THE TEAM: "I'm thankful that we have a bunch of guys who, frankly, are a little put-off that none of them got asked for an interview this week. Not one interview request for a player from the University of Washington in a game of this magnitude. It was all about the coach. As a told them, I'm not playing, this is about you. We have an opportunity to say what the University of Washington is about. There has been 599 victories prior to this one, lets not take a back seat to anybody and those kids went out and played with everything they had. I told them that your the University of Washington and the media has got this to look like where 11 guys are going to come blow me up but I'm not playing, they've got to run through the University of Washington to get that accomplished and you ought to have something to say about that."
ON THE ADVANTAGE OF KNOWING : "The University of Washington showed up today and played like the great teams of the University of Washington. For me and our program today this has a great deal of significance in that we have know at least tasted victory and people can start believing and subscribing in the theories that are in place and we can go forward. We can put all this other stuff behind us and go forward and hopefully build one of the great programs in the country because that's why I came here, it is one of the great programs in the country.."
Washington Player Quotes
(On importance of win ): "We needed to get this win and just roll. We needed some confidence Last week we felt like we should have won, we didn't play to our ability so it was important to come out and get this one and feel like we can ride this a long way..."
(On hype about the game): "It definite was not just another game. You could feel how much it meant to Coach Neuheisel and he tried to take the attention off himself but after the game he just let it out and you could see how much it meant to him. We were all excited, but to see the coaches jumping up and down makes it that much greater "
(On no interviews during week): "It was just kind of weird because usually you have at least someone come and ask someone on our team but we didn't make anything of it we just focused on ourselves all week because last week we hurt ourselves too much to be successful so we didn't let any outside distractions get into our focus and preparations."
(On touchdown pass to Harris): "We'd been running the option all day long and they were bringing the safety up to take me so we saw that upstairs and they made a great call. It was a fake option Gerald did a great job selling the bluff on the safety and he just slipped by him, went down field and he was wide open and I just didn't want to miss him."
(On Neuheisel's emotion) : "He didn't show it until after the game. He took everything inside and didn't really get excited until after the game when we had our team meeting and you could see he was happy we won because he's a winner."
(On halftime adjustments): "We didn't really look around at each other and guess who was going to step up and do it. I think this was the most complete team win we've had in a long time, it took all 11 players. When we got behind and had a couple turnovers we had to look at ourselves and say we need to pick it up together and that's the only way well be able to get it done."
(On coming off the bench): "I must admit it was a change of pace. I started last season, and coming off the bench felt different but I knew I was going to get my shot. I didn't know that Braxton would go down but he did and that was my opportunity and I just ran hard."
(On touchdown catch): "We'd been running the option all day and it was a pass play that's derived off the option and my job is to run down and act like I'm blocking and they bit on it and Tui had time and made a nice throw. One of the things Coach Dorrell has emphasized with me is keeping ,hands high and it's something I worked on all summer and it paid off"
Colorado Head Coach Gary Barnett
General Remarks: "In the end we just didn't make the big plays. We had bad field position for the entire first half and our offense stalled. The defense was playing pretty well and we were not able to take advantage of it. We couldn't march the length of the field and we did not make a lot of big plays on offense, which we have been living off of the past couple of weeks. You take away the big plays and you have to be able to run the ball, which we obviously couldn't do. The difference in the game was that they ran the ball against us. When you get almost 300 yards rushing you should be able to win the game. We dropped some passes and were scrambling like crazy. They were difficult catches, but you have got to be able to make those if you are going to win in a hostile environment like this. Ben Kelly made an incredible play on special teams. In the end special teams and turnovers were the key. The bottom line was that we had very little offense. Give Washington some credit, they came right at our defense and did a good job."
On Colorado's Offense: "The lack of offense was both a lack of execution and a good Husky defense. Any time you have a game like this it is a combination of both. We knew we were in a war up front, but we just didn't make the big plays. We did not run the ball effectively, we weren't getting the extra yards. You have got to make somebody miss in order to make good plays, which we did not do."
On the Emotions of the Game: "It was just as everybody expected. After the opening kickoff, it became a football game between two teams that need to win. It was a hostile environment for one and a home field for another, and I think everyone got their money's worth."
Quotes from Colorado Players
QB Mike Moschetti
(On emotion of the game and the last play): "It definitely was. On the last play we were not on the same page. I thought one thing and he thought another. I was too bad that it had to end that way."
(On his knee injury): "I am not going to use that as an excuse. When you are hurt you have to find a way to win the game. You have to overcome adversity. I had a little bit of trouble doing that today."
(On Washington): "They are a good fooball team. Offensively they played well and they came after us. They never quit. They could have quit when we took the lead on them, but they didn't. They just kept coming out after us."
DB Ben Kelly
(general comments): "Big plays change the momentum of the game. We had the big play in our favor and we did not capitalize on it. All of the emotion was in the pre-game and post game. During the actual game it was Colorado players vs. Washington players. Coach Barnett and Coach Neuheisel never stepped on the field. It was just a game between us players. Washington did not trick us or surprise us. We knew what was coming at us. We just did not execute.
(On the emotion of the game): "I was most emotional coming out before the game. I saw a lot of the former staff. After I greeted them that was it. It was time to play."
ILB Ty Gregorak
(On importance of game): "I am not going to say that it meant everything, or that our season depended on it. However, I knew a lot of people from this state and I wanted to show them what I had learned. It is hard because our defense was not quite up to par in the second half."
(On losing two emotional games): "It opens our eyes because we came into the first one (Colorado St.) completely dead. No emotion. Maybe in this game our emotion was to high.
(On reunion wth Neuheisel): "He said have a great season and don't let the media come between us. It was important to talk to him because there had been so much stuff said. I personally have a lot of respect for Rick and his staff. Washington was the best 0-2 team in America."
ILB Jashon Sykes:
(On playing against Neuheisel): "When you are playing against your old coach you can not help but get excied. We lost so you have to learn from your mistakes. They have been hyping up this game all summer, and it's good to get it over with."
(On individual play): "Individually I had a great game. We still lost the game so I am still hurt inside. Washington threw a lot of different things against us offensively that kept us on our toes.


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In the internet and cellphone age, it's hard to remember that not too long ago, people made all of their calculations in their heads. Has mental arithmetic become a thing of the past? On this weeks Goldstein on Gelt show, Dr. Arthur Benjamin, a professor of mathematics proves that this really isn't the case, and that making calculations in your head is not beyond the reach of the ordinary person. On this week's podcast, you will find out how to play the numbers game and apply mathematics to everyday life.Doug Goldstein, CFP®
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